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Issue: From beyond the Unknown #4
Publication Date: April 1970
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Issues: #4 of 25 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: 02/17/1970
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.

Reprints of various science fiction stories from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 Series) and Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 Series) fronted by a new cover.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Riddle of the Vanishing Earthmen!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kallabarans
First Line: What happened to the Earthmen aboard this spaceship?
Synopsis: Aliens from the planet Kallabar board an Earth spaceship, but find no humans aboard.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-371
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

New cover for an issue of reprints.
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Riddle of the Vanishing Earthmen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Earthmen; Kallabarans
First Line: The challenge to surrender the Earth came from deep space on April 29, 1986 -- coinciding with the periodic arrival of Halley's Comet!
Synopsis: Aliens from the planet Kallabar demand the Earth surender to them or face total destruction. In response, Earthmen construct a specially designed spaceship to travel to Kallabar and meet the challenge head on.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery in Space #32 published June 1956
was Riddle of the Vanishing Earthmen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: S-387
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Story takes place in what was then, for both the original printing and this reprint, the future year of 1986.

Halley's Comet is destroyed on-panel in this story.
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Our Home Is in the Stars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): David Haddon; Haddon's scientist father
First Line: Did the race of man originate on Earth -- or on a far-distant planet of our galaxy?
Synopsis: From the time he was a little boy, David Haddon's scientist father experimented on his son, developing an uncanny advanced "homing instinct" in him. By age twenty David's homing instinct is so finely developed that the elder Haddon medically awakens an "ancestral memory" in David so that he may find "mankind's original home -- somewhere in the stars!" His homing instinct leads David to a distant planet where man's scientific meddling caused evolution to take a different path than on Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery in Space #65 published February 1961
was Our Home Is in the Stars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
Job Number: S-386
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Takes place in the year 2120.
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For Sheer Suspense!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): DC Comics; Detective Comics
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]
First Line: On sale Feb. 26th
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: DC Comics house ad for Detective Comics. Reproduces the cover illustration for Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #398 (April 1970). "On sale Feb. 26 [1970]" Lower third of page.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: The Earth and Moon -- The Sun and all the planets are drifting toward the star Vega at a speed of more than 12 miles a second.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-392
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text article on various unusual aspects of astronomy.
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Messages from Beyond

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-389
Disclose Notes: Comments from readers Martin Pasko (future comics writer) and Gary Kuhlmann on issue #2, followed by an unusual turn... Julius Schwartz (or whoever may have ghost-written this column for him) offers the following: "While this department was in receipt of a few more comments on issue #2 of From Beyond the Unknown, none of these 'messages' was worthy of print. All of which give us timely opportunity to reprint a readers' column from the February, 1960 Mystery in Space Please keep that date in mind as you read it - plus that other memorable date - July 20, 1969 - mankind's first step on the Moon!"

A letter from "A.G." from New York, NY speculates about the date when Earthmen will set foot on the Moon. In response, Schwartz offers several paragraphs of comments by experts on the subject. All told, the introduction, letter, and provided comments comprise about 3/4 of the letter column.
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The Surprise Package Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Samuel Jenkins; Lieutenant (unnamed); other crew members
First Line: The planet Klygor was rich in the one mineral that the spaceship Columbus was out to find -- Albarundum!
Synopsis: Captain Jenkins and the crew of the Columbus land on the planet Klygor and discover a deserted city where a plaque says it was "built in the year 2558 by the officers and crew of the spaceship Columbus" and signed by Captain Jenkins... but no one has any memory of constructing such a city - or ever having been on the planet before. In addition, planetary conditions are breaking-down the spaceship element by element.
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From Content Item: FlagMystery in Space #47 published October 1958
was The Surprise Package Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8.67
Job Number: S-388
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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For Every Mood!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, superhero
Feature(s): DC Comics
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Phantom Stranger; Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: DC Comics house ad for The Witching Hour, The Brave and the Bold, Action Comics, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.

Reproduces the cover illustrations for The Witching Hour (DC, 1969 series) #8 (April-May 1970), The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #89 (April-May 1970), Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #387 (April 1970), and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #128 (April 1970). All issues on sale during February 1970.

Between pages 4 and 5 of previous story.
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For Suspense!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): DC Comics; Adventure Comics
Character(s): Supergirl
First Line: On sale Feb. 24th
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: DC Comics house ad for Adventure Comics. Reproduces the cover illustration for Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #392 (April 1970). "On sale Feb. 24 [1970]" Lower third of page.
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Simon Newcomb (1835-1909)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): Giants of the Telescope
First Line: While studying the Moon's motion, Newcomb was startled to discover that all previous calculations were in error.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery in Space #10 published October 1952
was Simon Newcomb [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-393
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text article on the work of astronomer Simon Newcomb.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Only human beings have true hands...
Synopsis: Discusses primates that have "hands", whether or not a spider's web material is dispensed in solid form, and that tomatoes and cucumbers are actually fruits and not vegetables.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Adventures #129 published June 1961
was [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-394
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text article.

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