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Issue Details

Issue #124
Published January 1961
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Pencil and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics, July 2008.

Cover Details - "The Face-Hunter from Saturn!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Pencil and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics, July 2008.

8 page story "The Face-Hunter From Saturn"

Characters Mount Rushmore; Jim Boone; Bob Colby; Klee Pan (from the planet Klaramar); Chan Yull (from the planet Klaramar)
Synopsis Faceless aliens from the atom-sized planet Klaramar, that exists on the surface of Saturn, travels to earth to find a giant stone head that will prevent the destruction of the solar system.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes First appearance of the Faceless Creature from Saturn. Originally not meant for a reappearance, just a one shot character, he later became a member of the Forgotten Villains. Cover story. Pencil and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics, July 2008.

1 page Science Say You're Wrong If You Believe That -- filler

Synopsis Facts about the Sun's face, Peanuts, Owls and Platinum.
Genre Fact

8 page story "Earth's One-Man Space Fleet!"

Characters Walt Franklin; Molly Franklin; Ed; Mac; The Vronn (alien race); Evrod Kull (Commander of the Fenn aliens)
Synopsis Walt Franklin finds himself alone on the Earth with all other Earthlings replaced by robots and the Vronn attacking.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Pencil and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics, July 2008.

1 page public service announcement "Get a Grip on your Gripes!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Bailey
Inks Bernard Bailey

1 page Amazing Ratios! filler

Synopsis Ratios between the brains of a man and a dog, the height vs the width of an ocean wave, the amount of raindrops in a cloud, and the difference between forest losses to insects vs. wildfires.
Genre Fact

1 page Spotlight on Science letters page

Letters Typeset

8 page Space Museum story "Earth Victory -- by a Hair!"

Characters The Wrecker (Space-Marine) [General Howard Parker]; Tommy Parker; Admiral Ann "Blondy" Gordon
Synopsis Tommy Parker finds out the story behind the single blonde hair kept in the space museum and also leans the secret of his parents marriage.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Carmine Infantino
Notes Pencil and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics, July 2008.
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #211 (April 1968)