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Issue: Strange Adventures #47
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #47 of 244 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/28/1954
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Man Who Sold the Earth!

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, science fiction
First Line: Saturn bids 100 billion for the planet Earth!
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In Content Item: FlagTitanes Planetarios #28 published February 1956
as El hombre que vendió el globo terráqueo [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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I Wanted to Be an Artist!

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First Line: After high school I had to take a job I hated.
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Man Who Sold the Earth!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): "Silky" Sloane
First Line: I bid 500 trillion for Earth!
Synopsis: The con-man "Silky" Sloane tries to sell the Earth to a group of aliens.
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In Content Item: FlagFrom beyond the Unknown #25 published November 1973
as The Man Who Sold the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5.67
Disclose Notes: Cover story. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Three Exciting New Adventures

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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for Batman (1939 series) #85.
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Gains Fame in Race with Flame

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bob
First Line: Bob was on his last afternoon delivery when...
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): Amazing Ratios!
First Line: The centrifugal force of the Earth...
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Hands Across the Universe!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Floyd Nelson; Thothoo; Harry
First Line: The kid scooted right in front of me! N-no time to stop!
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Pages: 6
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Adventures of the Dubble Bubble Kids

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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Pud
First Line: Attention! A leopard has broken loose from the zoo!
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Pages: 0.5
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Editorial Advisory Board

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First Line: Polio research will mean victory!
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Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for polio research.
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Peter Porkchops Gives Tips on Summer Fun!

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Genres: anthropomorphic, opinion
First Line: Have a good time swimming--but remember roughhousing doesn't pay off!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.
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The Super-Perfect Servant!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ken Sabin (unemployed chemist); Mrs. Sabin; robot (villain)
First Line: The robot servant can do anything around the house! It's perfect!
Synopsis: Unemployed chemist Ken Sabin receives a letter in the mail, offering him for $100 what is considered to be one of the finest robots ever built, to be used as a house servant. His wife suggests that he apply for a job there, and he soon has one of the robots to use around the house. However, something makes him very suspicious of the metal servants being produced...something sinister!
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Classroom of Stars!

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: If you imagine the sky to be a gigantic classroom and the stars attending students, it is possible to devise a method of "rating" each of the star-students according to "brightness."
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Two text articles with an illustrated masthead:
1. Classroom of Stars!
2. Split-second Timing!
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Join Congo Bill and Janu the Jungle Boy

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Genres: jungle
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for Congo Bill (1954 series) #1.
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Worlds Within Worlds!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: The crab warriors--poisoning our air with their deadly gas guns!
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Adventures #24 published August 1956
as Worlds Within Worlds! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

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First Line: Stop paying 89¢ for hit parade records!
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[untitled]

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First Line: Need extra spending money? Here's $50 to use as you please!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Boys! Girls! Enter the Big Tootsie Roll Contest-Now!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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