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Issue: Strange Adventures #140
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 03/26/1962
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Prisoner of the Space-Patch!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
science fiction
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Inside front cover.
Prisoner of the Space Patch!

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Subject Matter
science fiction
Astronaut Bill Morton is teleported away by aliens who need his help to save their planet, but their plan is faulty, which leaves him stuck between dimensions.
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[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Letters submitted by Melvin Herbers; Andy Wickstrom; Paul Seydor
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Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction, science and technology
Water is composed of a mixture of hydrogen...
misconceptions about scientific fact
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FlagGreen Lantern #74 published January 1970
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Miscellaneous
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The Strange Adventure that Really Happened!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, science fiction
Gardner Fox; Julius Schwartz; Sid Greene; General Fred Herron [writer Ed "France" Herron]; Ed Eisenberg (DC production staffer)
An alien invasion begins, and DC writer Gardner Fox realizes that it is happening exactly as he just wrote it in a story for the Strange Adventures comic book, but now the pages of his story are blank and he can't remember how the aliens were defeated in the end.
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Miscellaneous
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More Startling than Tomorrow's Science Fiction!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
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house ad for Showcase (DC, 1856 series) #38 [second appearance of the Metal Men]; on sale March 29
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scientific inquiries from readers A.T., I.L., E.R., O.W., L. F.
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Subject Matter
informational, non-fiction, science and technology
Compared to the weight of the body, the hummingbird...
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Just One Second!

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superhero
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house ad for The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #128
Surprise Story of the Year!

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science fiction, superhero
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house ad for Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #75 [Adam Strange teams with the Justice League]
The Case of the Worn-Out Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery, science fiction
Star Hawkins; Ilda
Robot secretary Ilda is declared obsolete and must report to the junkyard for destruction, but there she stumbles on the kidbapped Mercurian diplomat that her boss, Star Hawkins, is searching for. She alerts him, the diplomat is rescued, and she receives a ten-year reprieve.
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Miscellaneous
8.67
[untitled]

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Justice League of America; Green Lantern
For the very best...
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Time-Out for Talk!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
opinion
Tim and Mike learn to talk out their disagreements instead of fighting.
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Miscellaneous
1
published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
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Inside back cover.
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Back cover.

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