Strange Adventures, #159
Published: December 1963
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The Maze of Time!
Credits
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Inside front cover. Norton Products
The Maze of Time!
Storyline
An alien race decides to test the humans of Earth by sending three astronauts back in time and seeing how they deal with prehistoric menaces, and how they solve the problem of returning to their own time.
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
Now -- Together -- In One Great Magazine!
Credits
- Pencils: Howard Purcell
- Inks: Howard Purcell
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for The Brave and the Bold, (DC, 1955 series) #51
The Untold Stories of Superman!
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #8, on sale November 21
Batman and Robin's Most Thrilling Mystery Cases!
Credits
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #6, on sale November 14
Your Free Trip Around the World!
Storyline
After telling the boys some tales, the sea captain takes them to the library where they can travel anywhere just by reading.
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly. Later appears in DC comics cover-dated June 1966.
Yes Virginia-- There Is a Martian!
Storyline
Eddie Purvis and his parents help a stranded Martian return to his people.
Characters
- Eddie Purvis
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Carmine Infantino
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino (uncertain)
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
"For the very best..."
Featuring Amazing Ratios
"Although the life history of the moth and butterfly are quite similar..."
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz (uncertain)
Featuring Spotlight On... Strange Adventures
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
Story Notes
Letters submitted by Joseph Farrell; Don Stanwood; Robert Malisani; Jeff Sosnaud
Will the Star Rovers Abandon Earth?
"By inhaling the vapors of this misty sea, it’s become impossible for me to land on Earth!"
Storyline
Each of the Rovers suffers an accident on another world that makes it impossible to return to Earth.
Characters
- Homer Gint
- Rick Purvis
- Karel Sorensen
- Azalla
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Sid Greene
- Inks: Sid Greene
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Series continued from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series).
Featuring Mystery in Space; Justice League of America
"For the very best..."
"Get these favorite, exciting and entertaining comics magazines..."
126 World War II Fighting G.I.'s and Commandos
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.