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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published January 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Julius Schwartz (actual)

Cover Details - "Prisoner of the Parakeets!"

Genre science fiction; mystery
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #244

6 page story "Prisoner of the Parakeets"

Characters John Walden
Synopsis The combination of an atomic bomb test and an strange meteorite has caused a flock of parakeets to evolve into giant birds with intelligence rivaling humans but John Walden lures them to destruction before they can cause any harm.
Genre science fiction
Script John Broome
Pencils Henry Sharp
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (15 August 2007)
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #244 (September-October 1973)

6 page story "Twinkle Twinkle Deadly Star"

Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (15 August 2007)

6 page story "The Flying Saucer Boomerang"

Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Carmine Infantino
Notes Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (15 August 2007)
Reprinted in Super DC Giant (DC, 1970 series) #27 (Summer 1976); in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #14 (October 1981)

6 page story "Interplanetary Postcard"

Script Sid Gerson
Pencils Henry Sharp
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (15 August 2007)