Strange Adventures #18
Colour Comics Pty. Ltd.
Australia.
- Published
- February 1956
- Page count
- 28
- Cover price
- 9d [0-0-9 AUP]
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Matte colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
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Colour Comics Pty Ltd
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- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/825071
Credits
- Editing
- ?
Issue contents
Cover
The Mirages from Space!
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction; mystery
Credits
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Joe Giella
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited)
Julius Schwartz (actual)
Reprint history
1Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Script
- Otto Binder
- Pencils
- Gil Kane
- Inks
- Bernard Sachs
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited)
Julius Schwartz (actual)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #61 (October 1955) — The Mirages From Space!
- Also printed
-
Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #51 ([July 1969?]) — The Mirages from Space
-
Showcase Presents Strange Adventures (DC, 2009 series) #1 ([January] 2009) — The Mirages from Space
2"The full moon sheds 100 times as much light upon the earth as all the stars combined…"
Featuring
- Feature
- Amazing Ratios
- Genre
- Fact
Reprint history
- First print
-
Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #54 (March 1955) — Untitled
- Also printed
-
House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #99 (June 1960) — Amazing Ratios!
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The Hundred Comic (Colour Comics, 1961 series) #90 ([April 1964]) — Untitled
Synopsis
Science information on light of the moon, energy in a thunderstorm, body heat, moons of Mars.
3Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Script
- John Broome
- Pencils
- Sid Greene
- Inks
- Joe Giella
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited)
Julius Schwartz (actual)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #62 (November 1955) — The Emperor of Planet X
- Also printed
-
Showcase Presents Strange Adventures (DC, 2009 series) #1 ([January] 2009) — The Emperor of Planet X
Notes
Pages five and six of this story have been expanded from a single page of the original, increasing the page count of this story by one page.
4"During the course of a working week, the building elevators in New York City travel a distance equivalent to three round trips to the moon…"
Featuring
- Genre
- Fact
Reprint history
5Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Script
- Otto Binder
- Art
- Sy Barry
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited)
Julius Schwartz (actual)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #60 (September 1955) — World At The Edge of the Universe
- Also printed
-
Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #48 ([April 1969?])
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Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #48 ([April 1969?]) — World at the Edge of the Universe
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From Beyond the Unknown (DC, 1969 series) #7 (October-November 1970) — World at the Edge of the Universe
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Showcase Presents Strange Adventures (DC, 2009 series) #1 ([January] 2009) — World at the Edge of the Universe
Notes
Pages five and six of this story have been expanded from a single page of the original, increasing the page count of this story by one page. As the story printed in Wonder Comic Monthly 48 also has seven pages, it is clearly drawn from this printing.
Notes
Strip advertising at the bottom of various pages in this issue promotes Humpty Dumpty; Hopalong Cassidy; Binky; and Mutt and Jeff. Each advertisement is repeated twice throughout the issue. Three features in this issue were reprinted in Murray comics in April 1969.
Indicia
Printed by Mentmore Press, for Colour Comics Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Proprietors and produced by the K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 56 Young Street, Sydney. Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd., distributors for Australia and New Zealand.