Strange Adventures, #169

Published: October 1964

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Issue Contents:
Secret of Robot X-1!

"Good work, X-1!"

Credits
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
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
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

Story Featuring The Flash

"Stop! Treacherous traps!"

Story Notes

house ad for 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #4, on sale August 20

Story Featuring Strange but True

"In the late 1800s, an Oklahoma farmer buried a large quantity of gold..."

Credits

Story Featuring Moolah the Mystic

"I will now walk on these hot coals!"

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.

Story Notes

The inside front cover PSA is produced in sequential-arts comics format in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

Ad Featuring 100 Toy Soldiers

Story Notes

Back cover.

Ad Featuring Wallace Brown Greeting Cards

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Ad Featuring Revolutionary War Soldiers

Ad Featuring 104 Kings' Knights

Tootsie Roll Fudge

Ad Featuring Tootsie [all other candies]

"I like chocolate fudge best!"

Ad Featuring Palisades Amusement Park Admission

"Boys and girls!"

Ad Featuring Zenith Stamps

"207 stamps yours only for 25¢ plus 88 flags of the world..."

Ad Featuring 100 Magnets

Tootsie Roll Pop

Ad Featuring Tootsie [all other candies]

"What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?"

Ad Featuring Mike Marvel Scientific Isometric Dynaflex System

"My secret new Dynaflex method"

Ad Featuring Silly Putty

"I take up comics-in full color!"

"Be first in your neighborhood..."

Ad Featuring Tootsie Roll

"Tootsie Rolls go on and on after other candy is gone!"