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Issue: Showcase #18
Publication Date: January 1959
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Issues: #18 of 104 Issues (108 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/18/1958
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Most information indexed originates from Julius Schwartz' personal editorial records provided by DC Comics.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange!

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Adam Strange; Alanna
First Line: The instant Adam Strange tries to pull "Alanna" away from the Flaming Sea, he'll be blown sky-high!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Essential Showcase 1956-1959 #[nn] published February 1992
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Adam Strange Archives #1 published April 2004
as [Cover - Showcase #18]; The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Adam Strange #1 published October 2007
as Showcase #18 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as Showcase #18 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Invaders from the Atom Universe

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Adam Strange; Rann; Alanna; Vrenn chieftain; The Vrenn
First Line: I'm shrinking in size... becoming smaller and smaller!
Synopsis: Adam is zeta-beamed to Rann, but pop-eyed green aliens inhabit the city! Adam is thrown into an "Orkinomikron" to wake on a desolate atomic world, having been shrunk. The Rannians will perish. He finds the original transfer machine hanging over a bottomless pit. Color streaks tell him the fuel was phosphorous. Scraping matches, he transports himself and Alanna back home, except they're tiny spies. Back on the desolate world, he rallies the Rannians and teleports to Rann. Belt units make the Rannians giants who send the Vrenn packing. And Adam is zapped away to Earth.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Adam Strange Archives #1 published April 2004
as Invaders from the Atom Universe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Adam Strange #1 published October 2007
as Invaders from the Atom Universe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as Invaders from the Atom Universe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 14.33
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Formula for Success!

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Genres: opinion
Character(s): Jimmy; Mr. Lane
First Line: That boy's a born musician!
Synopsis: Jimmy is a natural-born musician, but his father demands he take Engineering courses. A kind teacher intervenes. "I think young people need a chance to develop all their talents!"
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Amalthea -- closest of Jupiter's satellites...
Synopsis: Facts about Jupiter's and Uranus's satellites.
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Synopsis: Tootsie Roll Pop
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Bernard Lyot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Character(s): Bernard Lyot
First Line: Bernard Lyot...
Synopsis: Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph to study the solar corona, and made observations of Mercury and Mars.
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In Content Item: FlagChallengers of the Unknown #4 published January 1960
as Giants of the Telescope [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Prize Stars!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Excluding our solar system's star-sun, the closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri - about 25 trillion miles away.
Synopsis: Facts about Proxima Centauri, Sirius, Beta Orionis, and other stars.
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In Content Item: FlagChallengers of the Unknown #4 published January 1960
as Prize Stars! [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Adam Strange; Alanna; Tak Vall (first appearance, villain); Moora (first appearance, villain)
First Line: Once again across the black void of space comes the siren call of Rann--summoning Adam Strange from Earth to the planet of...
Synopsis: Adam rockets over a cop to meet the zeta beam. The new rage in Ranagar is Adam Strange full-size dolls. Alanna wants to send 11 - plus Adam! - to isolationist Dys, who may be planning an invasion. Alanna fakes an emergency landing. Tak Vall, Chief Scientist, will plant "KLY" bombs in the dolls and destroy Ranagar. Adam sneaks to find Alanna. He jet-packs after a flier - as (wind-up doll) Alanna is pitched over the Flaming Sea. Alanna sees Adam blown up, but he rushes in. The doll didn't perspire. Adam sent the bomb-dolls into the ocean. At the honors dinner - he's zeta-beamed away!
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In Content Item: FlagChallengers of the Unknown #4 published January 1960
as The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Adam Strange Archives #1 published April 2004
as The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Adam Strange #1 published October 2007
as The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9.67
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Synopsis: Tootsie Roll Fudge
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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