A LOOK BACK AT DC COMICS STRANGE ADVENTURES

A SIlver Age Comic Book Series

Many readers today may have never heard of STRANGE ADVENTURES, but they probably have heard of a handful of the characters who were first introduced on the pages of it.

The following are the more popular characters introduced:

Each of these characters has been featured either own title or other titles. Deadman and Adam Strange are the most popular of the group, but Captain Comet, The Enchantress, and Animal Man have big runs in a varied amount of comics. 

The following are a list of the characters and there appearances:

• Chris KL-99 (issues 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15)
• Darwin Jones (issues 1, 48, 58, 66, 70, 76, 77, 79, 84, 88, 93, 149, 160)
• Captain Comet (issues 9-44, 46, 49) (cover feature many times)
• Space Museum (issues 104, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 121, 124, 127, 130, 133, 136, 139, 142, 145, 148, 151, 154, 157, 161)
• Star Hawkins (issues 114, 119, 122, 125, 128, 131, 134, 137, 140, 143, 146, 149, 152, 155, 158, 162)
• Atomic Knights (issues 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, 135, 138, 141, 144, 147, 150, 153, 156, 160, with reprints in 217-231)
• Faceless Creature from Saturn** (issues 124, 142, 153)
• Star Rovers (from Mystery in Space, issues 159, 163)
• Animal Man (issues 180, 184, 190, 195, 201)
• Immortal Man* (issues 177, 185, 190, 198)
• Enchantress (issues 187, 191, 200)
• Deadman (issues 205 to 216)
• Adam Strange (reprints in #217 to 244; new stories in #222, 226/227 text stories with illos)

*Note that IMMORTAL MAN was the inspiration for DC Comic's New Age of Heroes series IMMORTAL MEN.

** Faceless Creature from Saturn has appeared in a handful of books as a villain.

STRANGE ADVENTURES The Next Generation:

The title has show up in one form or another since the 1970s.

In 1978 it was the original title for a new science fiction title, the title was changed to TIME WARP. Sadly that book was canceled after Issue #5. To be honest the stories were average Sci-Fi at best. 

STRANGE ADVENTURES gets VERTIGO

Well not really. VERTIGO took a stab a 4 issue mini-series in 

The JSA Gets STRANGE

DC did this mini-series in 2009. It's a great mini. It has it's share of strange but it reads more like a JSA story. 

STRANGE ADVENTURES Gets VERTIGO again

Vertigo introduced a one shot in 2011 and that was the last time DC Published the title.

Only Time will tell if STRANGE ADVENTURES or the many characters that are currently gracing the pages of comics will reappear. 

To Be continued.....

Go Forth and Do Well

Shane