Strange Adventures, #6

Published: March 1951

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Issue Contents:
The Vampire World!
The Confessions of a Martian!
Storyline

A Martian spy infiltrates an earth-based project to build a space ship for a trip to Mars.

Story Notes

Writer and art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Too Big for This World!
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A toddler accidentally drinks an accelerated growth formula.

Story Notes

Art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Time-Traveling Into the Past and Future!

Story Featuring Just Imagine

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Speculation about the benefits of time travel.

The Last Man and Woman!
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A scientist invents a method of suspended animation that results in him and his wife re-starting the human race on a distant world in the far, far future.

Story Notes

Writer and art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The Vampire World
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Astronomer Ned Harris discovers a tentacled planetoid that soon attacks Earth.

Credits
Story Notes

Writer and art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

"More babies are born in August than in any other month of the year!"

Storyline

Science trivia about sunlight, streamlining, and the human body's consumption of energy.

Story Notes

This filler is on the upper 2/3 of the page between the "Too Big for this World" story and the Columbia bicycle advertisement.

Buzzy Scores One for the Handicapped!

Story Featuring Buzzy

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Buzzy reminds his friends that handicapped people want to have fun, too.

Credits

"One Indian legend tells of the sun, moon, and stars..."

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American Indian legends about the stars and other celestial bodies.

Story Notes

This filler is on the upper 2/3 of the page between the last man and woman story and the Nestlé's advertisement.

Story Featuring Professor Eureka

"I'm doing a great thing for science..."

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The professor experiments with eating.

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A science trivia quiz.

Shoot Safe, Buddy!
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An advertisement for Daisy Manufacturing's air rifles.

Story Notes

back cover

Be a Success as a Radio-Television Technician
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An advertisement for National Radio Institute's radio repair lessons.

Story Notes

inside back cover

Wanted - Boys & Girls to Get These Swell Prizes
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An advertisement offering premiums for sale of seed packets from American Seed Company.

"A great radio show..."

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An in-house promotional advertisement for Big Town (DC, 1951 series) #3.

"Our bunch all munch Nestlé's Crunch"

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An advertisement for Nestle's Crunch candy bar.

Story Notes

This advertisement is on the lower 1/3 page between the Indian legends filler and the Professor Eureka feature.

"Be king of the road with this great bike!"

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An advertisement for Westfield Manufacturing Company's Columbia bicycle.

Story Notes

This advertisement is on the bottom 1/3 of the page between the science trivia filler and the Just Imagine feature.

Editorial Advisory Board
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An in-house promotional advertisement highlighting DC's board of advisers, including psychologists, law enforcement, and other experts on juvenile behavior.

Story Notes

This advertisement is on the bottom half of the page between the Dubble Bubble advertisement and the "Too Big for This World" story.

"We're holding her for ransom!"

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A sequential art advertisement for Fleer's Dubble Bubble chewing gum in which Pud "rescues" a girl being held for a ransom of bubble gum.

Credits
Story Notes

This advertisement appears on the upper half of the page between the Royal advertisement and the editorial advisory board promotional.

"Collect Royal stars of sports and movies!"

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An advertisement for Royal dessert mixes, featuring trading cards on the package.

Tops in Comics!
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An in-house promotional advertisement for DC-National Comics.

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inside front cover