Strange Adventures, #230
Published: May-June 1971
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Secret of the Moon Sphinx!
Credits
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Colors: Jack Adler
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Secret of the Moon Sphinx!
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Joe Giella
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Book mistakenly credits Bernard Sachs as inker.
Threat of the Witch-Woman
Characters
- Atomic Knights
Credits
- Script: John Broome
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Story in two parts of 9.67 and 5.67 pages.
Search for a Lost World!
Credits
- Script: Edmond Hamilton
- Pencils: Sid Greene
- Inks: Joe Giella
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
The Life Battery!
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Joe Giella
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Prisoner of Two Worlds!
Featuring Darwin Jones
Characters
- Darwin Jones
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Sy Barry
- Inks: Sy Barry
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Riddle of the Runaway Earth!
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: Sid Greene
- Inks: John Giunta
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Vengeance of the Dust Devil!
Storyline
Adam Strange returns to Rann, unknowingly carrying Jakarta, the last surviving Dust Devil. It found a way to avoid being turned into glass like the rest of his race and, seeking revenge, he attacks Ranangar. When the pair return to Earth near Melbourne, Australia, Adam accidentally discovers that static electricity can freeze Jakarta, traps him with a Wimshurst Machine (a machine that discharges electricity) and then turns the Dust Devil over to Australian authorities where he is immobilized and kept in a prison laboratory.
Characters
- Adam Strange
- Alanna
- Jakarta (a dust devil, name revealed in this story, last seen in Mystery in Space #68, next seen in Mystery In Space #84)
- unnamed citizens of Melbourne, Australia
- unnamed citizens of Ranagar
- a female hobby shop clerk in Melbourne
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Adam is given a replacement jet-rocket for the one he lost in Mystery in Space #69. It's revealed that Adam has a secret hideaway in the Australian Outback. Writer Fox took the name Jakarta from the capital and largest city of Indonesia.
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- Script:
Story Notes
Letters from: Jim Vlcko, Rudy Rankins and Gerard Triano.