Strange Adventures, #169
Published: October 1964
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Secret of Robot X-1!
"Good work, X-1!"
Credits
- Pencils: Dick Dillin
- Inks: Chuck Cuidera
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Smoking Is for Squares!
"C'mom, Bob--don't be chicken... take a but.. you'll feel cool!"
Storyline
Paulette Breen (winner of the Palisades Amusement Park's Miss American Teenager contest) tells Bob and his friends that girls don't like guys who smoke.
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
The inside front cover PSA is produced in sequential-arts comics format in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
The Prisoners of the Hour Glass
"Try to keep your footing, Tony!"
Storyline
Two shipwrecked fishermen find themselves on an island where a strange old man claims to have discovered the secret of immortality.
Credits
- Pencils: Howard Sherman
- Inks: Howard Sherman
"Tootsie Rolls go on and on after other candy is gone!"
"Be first in your neighborhood..."
"I will now walk on these hot coals!"
Characters
- Moolah the Mystic
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
"I take up comics-in full color!"
Characters
- Batman (cameo)
"My secret new Dynaflex method"
The Criminal Who Couldn't Do Evil!
"Can't get any traction..."
Storyline
Small-time crook Eddie Kearns steals a magic ring that gives him super-strength, but every time he tries to pull off a robbery, he ends up saving people from disaster.
Credits
- Pencils: Jack Sparling
- Inks: Jack Sparling
Tootsie Roll Pop (1)
"What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?"
"207 stamps yours only for 25¢ plus 88 flags of the world..."
"In the late 1800s, an Oklahoma farmer buried a large quantity of gold..."
Credits
- Script: Jack Miller (uncertain)
"Stop! Treacherous traps!"
Credits
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #4, on sale August 20
"Boys and girls!"
The Secret of Robot X-1!
"The robot detective... he's trying to kill me--not recapture me!"
Storyline
Scientist Charles Grayson secretly attempts to improve upon a newly-deployed robot policeman but his lab assistant uses the new robot to frame Grayson for theft.
Credits
- Pencils: Mort Meskin
- Inks: Mort Meskin
Tootsie Roll Fudge (1)
"I like chocolate fudge best!"
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.