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Strange Adventures 179

STRANGE ADVENTURES #179

Cover Date: August 1965
Cover Price: $.12
Publication Date: 1965-06-24

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Sparling


Story: "I Buried Myself Alive" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDave Wood
ArtGeorge Roussos
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Dr. Ketner (first appearance; a scientist working with plasma physics; accidentally irradiated, decides to live underground to spare Earth's surface from his mutating radiation)

Supporting Character(s):

Leafy (first appearance; a mutated plant creature; dies)

Villain(s):

a mutated fish creature (first appearance; dies)
a mutated mushroom creature (first appearance; dies)

Location(s):

an unidentified town in the United States

Comment(s):

This story is not part of DC Universe continuity.


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Second Story: "Wanted -- One Lost Memory" (8 Pages)
Star Hawkins

Credits:

StoryDave Wood
ArtGil Kane
LetteringGaspar Saladino
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Star Hawkins (in between issues #176 and #182)

Supporting Character(s):

Ilda (in between issues #176 and #182)

Villain(s):

The Nine Planets Gang (first appearance of all)
a fence posing as a flower shop clerk (first appearance)
two members of an underworld space-car rental racket (first appearance of both)

Other Character(s):

police officers
citizens of New City

Location(s):

Earth
New City


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Third Story: "The Wheel of Beasts" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJack Sparling
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Ned Carlisle (first appearance; an archaeologist)

Supporting Character(s):

Horace Phelps (first appearance; an explorer; temporarily transformed into a beast-man)
Stan Galloway (first appearance; an explorer; temporarily transformed into a beast-man)
Chad Thornton (first appearance; an explorer; temporarily transformed into a beast-man)

Villain(s):

Kull the Sorcerer (first appearance; likely dies)

Location(s):

an island in the South Pacific

Comment(s):

This story is not part of DC Universe continuity.


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