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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published May 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (29 January 2008)

Cover Details - "Battle of the Moon Monsters!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (29 January 2008)

8 page story "Battle of the Moon Monsters"

Synopsis After multiple expeditions to other worlds in our solar system, and multiple encounters with other forms of life, Earthmen find a new specimen on Saturn's moon, Titan.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (29 January 2008)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page Giants of the Telescope filler "Frederich Wilhelm Struve"

Genre Fact
Notes Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie, September 2008.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Showcase #20"

1 page public service announcement "Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp

7 page story The Man Who Discovered "Earth"

Synopsis An explorer finds a planet very similar to Earth except for some distinct differences. Attempting to bring its inhabitants technology from Earth, the explorer runs into roadblocks at every turn, until he sees the light.
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks John Giunta
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).
Reprinted in From Beyond the Unknown (DC, 1969 series) #16 (April-May 1972)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pop ad"

1 page Our Amazing Universe story

1 page Wonders of Space letters page

Letters typeset

7 page story "Lighthouse of Space"

Synopsis The Kull are a peaceful people who have discovered random "anti-matter blotches" throughout space. In order to warn travelers about the blotches, they've stationed "lighthouses" in their vicinity. One of the lighthouses loses its position and drifts into our solar system. Two earthmen investigate the lighthouse and become prisoners when the lighthouse is retrieved by the Kull. They find themselves caught up in a gambit between the Kull and their enemies, the Zarran.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (29 January 2008).

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Fudge ad"