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Issue Details

Issue #230
Published May-June 1971
Cover Price 0.25
Pages 64
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]

Cover Details

Genre science fiction
Pencils Murphy Anderson (wash)
Inks Murphy Anderson (wash)
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]

6 page story "Secret of the Moon-Sphinx"

Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Cover Story. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007] Book mistakenly credits Bernard Sachs as inker.
Reprinted From Mystery In Space #36 (February-March 1957)

16 page Atomic Knights story "Threat of the Witch Woman"

Genre science fiction
Script John Broome
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]
Reprinted From Strange Adventures #156 (September 1963)

6 page story "Search For A Lost World"

Genre science fiction
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]
Reprinted From Strange Adventures #67 (April 1956).

6 page story "The Life Battery"

Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]
Reprinted From Strange Adventures #78 (March 1957).

6 page Darwin Jones story "Prisoner of Two Worlds"

Genre science fiction
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Sy Barry
Inks Sy Barry
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]
Reprinted From Strange Adventures #58 (July 1955).

6 page story "Riddle of the Runaway Earth"

Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks John Giunta
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]
Reprinted From Mystery In Space #40 (October-November, 1957)

8 page Adam Strange story "Vengeance of the Dust Devil"

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
Synopsis Adam Strange intercepts the Zeta Beam at Lake Makadi, Tanganyica, Africa and returns to Rann, unknowingly carrying Jakarta, the last surviving Dust Devil, who had hidden in Adam's holster on the planet Rhynthar [see Mystery In Space #68]. It found a way to avoid being turned into glass like the rest of his race and, seeking revenge, he attacks Ranangar. The Zeta radiation wears off and returns the pair to Earth [which the dust devil also plans to conquer] 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 [as revealed in Mystery In Space #84] he is immobilized and kept in a prison laboratory.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes 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. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]
Reprinted From Mystery In Space #70 (September 1961).