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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published February 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "Mystery of the Giant Footprints!"

Characters Adam Strange; Alanna
Genre Adventure; Science Fiction
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Reprinted in Adam Strange Archives, The (DC, 2004 series) #1 (February 2004)

9 page Adam Strange story "Mystery of the Giant Footprints"

Characters Adam Strange; Alanna; The Rhollians (first appearance; villains)
Synopsis While exploring Rann's fabled "sinking island," Adam and Alanna discover a race of giants seeking to sink the island permanently.
Genre Adventure; Science Fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted in DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #1 (October-December 1968); in Adam Strange Archives, The (DC, 2004 series) #1 (February 2004)

1 page Giants of the Telescope filler "Pierre Janssen 1824-1907"

Genre Fact
Notes Information for this sequence originally from Arthur Lortie, September 2008.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Brave and the Bold #28 ad"

1 page Superboy public service announcement "It's Fun to Help Others!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page story "The Living Statues of Venus"

Synopsis Jerry Trent is sent on a mission to Venus to try to find his brother, lost on a previous mission. There, Jerry finds his brother transformed into a living metallic statue...and invaders!
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Bernard Sachs

Half page filler "Visible Galaxies"

1 page Wonders of Space letters page

Letters Typeset

7 page story "Secret of the Strange Satellite"

Synopsis Warren Keith runs a tourist attraction full of outer space phenomena on the moon of Io. Mercurian visitors develop a plan to conquer the universe using one of the exhibits.
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson

Half page text article "Statement of Ownership"

Letters Typeset