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Issue: Strange Adventures #166
Publication Date: July 1964
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Issues: #166 of 244 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/28/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from ad in House of Mystery #144 and 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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Space Pets for Sale!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: The Earthling fool!
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First Line: Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!
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Pages: 1
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I Lived in Two Bodies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Feature(s): Split Man
Character(s): Cliff Battles
First Line: Go, big bird--go!
Synopsis: Explorer Cliff Battles is stranded in the jungle after a plane crash, and is given a golden belt by the natives that enables him to split into two men so that he can determine the safest way back to civilization.
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In Content Item: FlagMighty Comic #69 published February 1969
as I Lived in Two Bodies [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8.67
Disclose Notes: First Split Man story; see also Strange Adventures #203.
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Tootsie Roll Fudge

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First Line: I like chocolate fudge best!
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Pages: 0.33
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Learn from Your Hobbies!

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Genres: informational, opinion
First Line: Look what I've got, Jim-- a stamp from Nepal!
Synopsis: Jim learns that people's hobbies can help them in their school work and can be interesting, too.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The PSA is produced in sequential-arts comics format in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
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Watch for the First Superboy 80 Page Annual!

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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: house ad for Superboy Annual (DC, 1964 series) #1
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The Hermit Who Haunted Mt. Menace

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Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: That mountain looks so frightening--let's turn back!
Synopsis: Two thieves return to the mountain cave where they hid the loot from an old robbery and encounter a weird old hermit who claims that the mountain is alive.
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First Line: Tootsie Rolls go on and on after other candy is gone!
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Peter Puptent
First Line: These ancient gods control the destiny of my people.
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Feature(s): House of Secrets; House of Mystery
First Line: For the very best...
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First Line: Be first in your neighborhood...
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Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: In France, in the early 17th century, Louis Gaufridi...
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Space Pets for Sale!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: I can't escape!
Synopsis: Mike Barnaby finds a crashed spaceship with alien animals aboard. He sells them as pets but they are really disguised criminals who steal radioactive material.
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Pages: 7.67
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Tootsie Roll Pop

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First Line: What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?
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Pages: 0.33
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The Whole Batman Family!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: house ad for Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #7, on sale May 28
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Superman (cameo)
First Line: Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
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First Line: Brother, can you spare a dime 10ยข?
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
First Line: Boy and girls!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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