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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published February 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Julius Schwartz (actual)

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane

8 page Captain Comet story "Beware the Synthetic Men"

Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Cover story
Reprinted in DC Super Stars (DC, 1976 series) #6 (August 1976)

8 page story "The Last Days of Earth"

Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella

8 page story "The Brain of Dr Royer"

Script Manny Rubin
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Bernard Sachs

1 page Science Facts filler "Why Summer is Hot and Winter is Cold"

Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker

Half page Giants of the Telescope filler "Frederick Bessel"

Genre Fact
Notes Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie, September 2008. Location of this sequence within this issue is unknown.
Reprinted in Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #49