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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published June 1952
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Julius Schwartz (actual)

Cover Details

Genre science fiction; mystery
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson

8 page Captain Comet story "Eyes of Other Worlds"

Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Sy Barry

6 page story "The Genius Epidemic"

Characters the 3 Herbert brothers; U.S. Army doctors; hermit; U.S. government investigators
Synopsis The Herbert brothers have absorbed radiation from a meteorite and become scientific geniuses, so the Army puts them to work solving problems and inventing until they vanish.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Irwin Hasen
Inks Joe Giella
Notes One of the Herbert brothers is named Jeb.
Reprinted In Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #223 (March-April 1970).

4 page story "The Monster that Fished For Men"

Genre science fiction
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Cover story. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).
Reprinted In From Beyond the Unknown #13 (DC, October-November 1971).

6 page story "The Boy Who Changed The Future"

Script John Osgood(Broome)
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bernard Sachs
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #153 (November 1965)

1 page Giants of the Telescope filler "Dr. Robert G. Aiken"

Genre Fact
Notes Some information for this sequence provided by Arthur Lortie, September 2008.
Reprinted in Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #42; in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #154 [uncertain]