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Issue Details

Issue #77
Published June-July 1963
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing George Kashdan

Cover Details - "The Beast Oracle of Uranus!"

Characters Space Ranger; Cryll
Genre science fiction; superhero
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

1 page public service announcement "Not Wanted: High School Dropouts!"

Synopsis Alvin thinks about leaving school until he talks to his dropout friend George, who has to go back to night school because he can't get a good job.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.

7 page Spaceman-at-Work story "Dateline--Outer Space"

Characters Tom Conroy
Synopsis War correspondent Tom Conroy involves himself too closely in his work by spying and becoming embroiled in interplanetary politics.
Genre science fiction
Script Jack Miller ?
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Notes writer identification by Bob Hughes

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Swing Is to DC!"

Characters Johnny DC
Pencils ? (illustrations)
Inks ? (illustrations)
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes House ad for DC Comics. Includes small cover reproductions of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #155, Challengers of the Unknown (DC, 1958 series) #32, The Adventures of Bob Hope (DC, 1950 series) #81, Atom (DC, 1962 series) #7.

1 page On the Planet Og story "We're landing on the planet now!"

Synopsis Two Earth astronauts get a speeding ticket on Og when they come in for a landing too fast.
Genre science fiction; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

7 page story "The Double Dimension Man"

Synopsis Scientist John Burke is told by a group of aliens that he is one of them, sent to spy on Earth, but he has no memory of this and refuses to believe it.
Genre science fiction
Script Jack Miller ?
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Notes writer identification by Bob Hughes

Half page filler "Strange Satellites!"

Synopsis Information about the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
Genre fact

1 page text article "The Giant Boom!"

Synopsis Article about the explosion of Krakatoa in 1883.
Genre fact
Letters typeset

8 page Space Ranger story "The Beast Oracle of Uranus"

Characters Space Ranger; Cryll; Sarob; Oracle of Bunyki; Olono; Kofa Ny
Synopsis Pursuing the Martian criminal Kofa Ny to the planet Uranus, Space Ranger and Cryll encounter a strange tribal oracle who forecasts doom.
Genre science fiction; superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Notes writer identification by Bob Hughes

Half page Quick Quiz activity

Genre fact
Pencils H. T. Elmo ?
Inks H. T. Elmo ?
Reprinted from ?