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Showcase #18 (1959) · The Collector

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Showcase (1956)
#18

DC Comics#18

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Showcase #18

Invaders from the Atom Universe / The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: January 1959
On sale: Nov 18, 1958
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

1st appearance of Tak Vall
1st appearance of Moora

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Printing not stated · $0.10
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Credits

Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inkers: Joe Giella, Bernard Sachs
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino

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Grand Comics Database issue 14820

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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.

Covers

Gil Kane, Joe Giella

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Other

Julius Schwartz

Characters

Moora· 1st appearance
Tak Vall· 1st appearance
Adam Strange
Alanna
Bernard Lyot
Rann
The Vrenn
Vrenn chieftain

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