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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published August 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (2 February 2008)

Cover Details - "Menace of the Robot Raiders!"

Characters Adam Strange; Alanna
Genre Adventure; Science Fiction
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (2 February 2008)
Reprinted in Adam Strange Archives, The (DC, 2004 series) #1 (February 2004)

9 page Adam Strange story "Menace of the Robot Raiders!"

Characters Adam Strange; Alanna; Zagar (first appearance; a robot); Vor Kan (first appearance; villain); Kal Jat (first appearance)
Genre Adventure; Science Fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (2 February 2008)
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #219 (July-August 1969); in Adam Strange Archives, The (DC, 2004 series) #1 (February 2004)

5 page story "Prisoner of the Electric Eye"

Genre science fiction
Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes 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 (DC, 1969 series) #3 February - March 1970

7 page story "Earth's Secret Space War"

Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks John Giunta
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (2 February 2008)

1 page Giants of the Telescope filler "Sir David Gill"

Genre Fact
Notes Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie, September 2008. Location of this sequence within this issue is unknown.