1958 - 1981
COMICS INDEX
1958 - 1981
COMICS INDEX LEONIDAS FRAGIAS
The Arts & Charts Index to Adam Strange The format and design of this book is based on George Olshevsky's Marvel Index series and Murray Ward's DC Index series. Their books have a beautiful layout which was an inspiration for me. The Official Marvel Index is a series of comic books released by Marvel Comics which featured synopses of several Marvel series. The books were largely compiled by George Olshevsky and featured detailed information on each issue in a particular series, including writer and artist credits, characters who appeared in the issue, and a story synopsis. The Official Marvel Index was preceded by the Marvel Comics Index (also compiled by Olshevsky) and distributed by Pacific Comics Distributors sporadically from 1976-1982. These books were magazinesized as opposed to comic-sized. The first Official Marvel Index titles were published in 1985, and produced regularly through August 1988. A similar series of indices was published for DC Comics. The Official DC Index was released by Independent Comics Group (an imprint of Eclipse Comics) from 1985–1988. The books were edited by Murray Ward. The data for this book is taken from various sources. I fill the gap of the missing data, since I have the complete collection of DC and Marvel comics from the 1930s to the present. Also I made some corrections, when the data is wrong. The book series cover the silver age (from the mid-1950s to 1969) and the bronze age (from 1970 to 1986) of DC Comics. This is my favorite era, when it comes to comics. Many thanks to DarkMark, George Olshevsky, Murray Ward, Mark Waid and Mike Tiefenbacher among others. Leonidas Fragias
THE ADAM STRANGE COMICS INDEX, 2018. Published by Arts & Charts. Editor: Leonidas Fragias, Writers: Various. Adam Strange is trademark of DC Comics Inc. All art and cover reproductions Š2018 DC Comics Inc.
Showcase #17
Showcase #18
November-December 1958 Cover Artist: Gil Kane Story: “Secret of the Eternal City” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Mike Sekowsky Synopsis: While fleeing Inca Indians near the lost city of Caramanga, archaeologist Adam Strange makes a brave 25-foot leap across a chasm, is hit by a Zeta-Beam at the midpoint of his leap, and touches down in a tropical jungle of the planet Rann, orbiting the star Alpha Centauri, over 25 trillion miles from Earth. He is rescued from a large animal by Alanna, a Rannian woman in an aircraft, who takes him to her home city of Ranagar. There her father, the scientist Sardath, imparts to him the knowledge of their language through a Menticizer, which implants it directly into his brain. Sardath explains that, for the last four years, he has been beaming Zeta waves at Earth, hoping they would be tracked back to Rann by intelligent life on Earth. However, something the Zeta-Beam picked up on its journey from Rann to Earth converted it into a teleportation beam, and Adam Strange happened to be in the path of the first one that struck Earth.
January-February 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “Invaders From the Atom Universe” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Mike Sekowsky Synopsis: Adam Strange and the Rannians are transferred to a sub-atomic world by the inhabitants of that world, who proceed to occupy Rann.
Story: “The Planet and the Pendulum” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Mike Sekowsky Synopsis: 62 days after his first trip to Rann, Adam Strange catches another Zeta-Beam south of Singapore and is teleported to the territory of the primitive Zoorans, who think he is a sorcerer. They bring him before their chief, who condemns him to the “Rainbow Doom”, a force that teleports him to still another planet.
Story: “The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Mike Sekowsky Synopsis: To infiltrate the home of Tak Vall, who plans doom for Ranagar, Adam Strange poses as a wind-up doll of himself.
Showcase #19 March-April 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “Challenge of the Star-Hunter” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Mike Sekowsky Synopsis: Adam Strange must find out which of three animals he hunts is really an alien named Leothric, or see Rann destroyed. Story: “Mystery of the Mental Menace” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Mike Sekowsky Synopsis: An atom-shaped alien unleashes magnetic meteors to draw Adam Strange across space to him, so that he may learn the secret of his teleportation.
Mystery in Space #53 August 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “Menace of the Robot Raiders” (10 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange returns to Ranagar, where he deals with the menace of giant robots left by aliens, which have now inexplicably gone berserk.
Mystery in Space #54 September 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “Invaders From the Underground World” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange finds himself accused of crimes on Rann that a race of rock-like underground people has committed in preparation to invading Rann’s surface.
Mystery in Space #55 November 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Beast From the Runaway World” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange must cope with a dinosaur from a runaway world and a bomb threat from aliens when he returns to Rann.
Mystery in Space #56 December 1959 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Menace of the Super-Atom” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: On his latest trip to Rann, Adam Strange must battle an atombeing who has created an army of inanimate soldiers to conquer the planet.
Mystery in Space #57 February 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “Mystery of the Giant Footprints” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: On his latest voyage to Rann, Adam Strange battles blue giants who wish to sink an island containing Orichalkum.
Mystery in Space #58 March 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “Chariot in the Sky” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Three powerful beings named Jupiter, Hercules, and Apollo mistake Rann for their native planet, attack it in the belief that the Rannians are invaders, and end up battling Adam Strange.
Mystery in Space #59 May 1960 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Duel of the Two Adam Stranges” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: The deposed last ruler of Rann creates a giant Adam Strange robot to try and regain power, and the real Adam Strange must defeat it.
Mystery in Space #60 June 1960 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Attack of the Tentacle World” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange and Alanna encounter Yggardis, a sentient, tentacled planet that scours other worlds for life forms to populate it-which die within 24 hours of the transplantation.
Mystery in Space #61 July 1960 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “Threat of the Tornado Tyrant” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: After barely escaping a dying world, Adam Strange returns to Rann and has to fight the menace of a living tornado.
Mystery in Space #62 September 1960 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Beast With the Sizzling Blue Eyes” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: A would-be tyrant on Rann harnesses monsters from that planet’s ancient past to terrorize it, and Adam Strange must defeat him.
Mystery in Space #63 November 1960 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Weapon That Swallowed Men” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Rann is conquered by alien invaders whose Vacuumizer weapons dissolve and suck up soldiers, and even Adam Strange is initially defeated by them.
Mystery in Space #64
Mystery in Space #65
December 1960 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Radioactive Menace” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: A would-be dictator of ancient Rann becomes radioactive and is teleported via a time warp into the 20th Century, where Adam Strange must battle him for the fate of the planet.
February 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “The Mechanical Masters of Rann” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: When Adam Strange returns to Rann, he finds it guarded by the Mechanimen, great robots who protect the people of that world from all danger--whether they like it or not.
Mystery in Space #66 March 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “Space-Island of Peril” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange and Alanna must battle the Corytrix, a creature which is intent on hurling Rann into its sun.
Mystery in Space #67 May 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Bernard Sachs Story: “Challenge of the Giant Fireflies” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: The Rannians, in Adam Strange’s absence, deal with the menace of giant fireflies, only to discover (as does Adam) that they need them in order to fight flame-bodied beings from their sun.
Mystery in Space #68 June 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Fadeaway Doom” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange must battle Kaskor, who seeks to conquer Rann with a zeta-beam weapon of his own, and the alien Dust Devils.
Mystery in Space #69 August 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Menace of the Aqua-Ray Weapon” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange and a dog teleport to Rann to face the Kyrri, ancient enemies of the human Rannians who turn their foes into puddles of water with a new weapon.
Mystery in Space #70
Mystery in Space #71
September 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Vengeance of the Dust Devil” (9 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange unwittingly brings a Dust Devil with him when he journeys back to Rann, only to see the being threaten both Rann and Earth.
November 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Challenge of the Crystal Conquerors” (17 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange, Alanna, and other Rannians are transformed by a strange being into the likenesses of crystal-bodied outlaws from Karalyx, while the outlaws are changed into the images of Adam, Alanna, and other Rannians.
Mystery in Space #72 December 1961 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Multiple Menace Weapon” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange is teleported 100,000 years into the future to deal with invaders who threaten the Rann of that era, while the Rann of his era faces danger from other invaders.
Mystery in Space #73 February 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Invisible Raiders of Rann” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Rann is threatened by an alien energy-form invader who turns all people on the planet invisible, except for Adam Strange.
Mystery in Space #74 March 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Spaceman Who Fought Himself” (14 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: A Kai warrior who is a look-alike for Adam Strange tricks him into a trap that leaves him on a barren world, with Rann ripe for the taking.
Mystery in Space #75 May 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Joe Giella Story: “The Planet That Came to a Standstill” (25 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Kanjar Ro escapes the place of his imprisonment and comes to Rann, planning to use its triple suns to give him triple the power of Superman, and pitting himself against Adam Strange and the Justice League of America.
Mystery in Space #76 June 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Challenge of the Rival Starman” (14 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange is challenged to overcome three menaces by Xanthos, the champion of another world.
Mystery in Space #77 August 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Ray-Gun in the Sky” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange destroys a giant ray-gun menacing Rann, but by so doing exposes Rann to an even greater danger.
Mystery in Space #78
Mystery in Space #79
September 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Shadow People of the Eclipse” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Llyrr, a powerful alien, uses an eclipse-weapon to convert Adam Strange and the Rannians into living shadows to transport them to a world on which they become part of his menagerie.
November 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Metal Conqueror of Rann” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange finds himself paralyzed and Alanna turned into a statue by Ikhar the Undying, an energy-based life-form that can only live in unliving matter.
Mystery in Space #80 December 1962 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Deadly Shadows of Adam Strange” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Mortan escapes and captures Sardath to lure Adam Strange into a trap of living shadows.
Mystery in Space #81 February 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Cloud-Creature That Menaced Two Worlds” (25 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: A 1000-year-old ex-dictator of Rann comes out of suspended animation, tricks Adam Strange into staying on Earth with a double of Alanna, and conquers Rann in his absence.
Mystery in Space #82
Mystery in Space #83
March 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “World War on Earth and Rann” (16 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange must deal with an Earth villain who threatens to conquer the planet with weapons snatched from the future and a Rannian tyrant who is conquering the world city by city with a giant lens weapon.
May 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Emotion-Master of Space” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Rann is endangered by a giant platinum-eating bird, and Adam Strange and Alanna have their emotions manipulated by an alien’s device.
Mystery in Space #84 June 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Powerless Weapons of Adam Strange” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Jakarta the Dust Devil breaks free of his static-electricity prison, divides himself in two, menaces Earth and Rann simultaneously, and defies Adam Strange to defeat him.
Mystery in Space #85 August 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Riddle of the Runaway Rockets” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange must face an ancient giant robot which has been reactivated to attack modern-day Rann.
Mystery in Space #86 September 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Attack of the Underworld Giants” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange, Alanna, and other citizens of Ranagar are teleported by giant thieves to a city below Rann’s ice cap to serve as substitute captives for the police from their world.
Mystery in Space #87 November 1963 Story: “The Super-Brain of Adam Strange” (12 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Sardath uses Null-Zeta radiation on Adam Strange in order to control the amount of time he can spend on Rann, up to a year in duration. But the radiation has the side-effect of turning him into an arrogant, megacephalic, futuristic genius, and causes Ranagar to be menaced by radiation blasts.
Mystery in Space #88 December 1963 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “The Robot-Wraith of Rann” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Thanas Pral turns himself into a wraith and attempts to do good to make amends for his past crimes. But radiations from a metal container brought from Earth to Rann by Adam Strange force him to do evil again.
Mystery in Space #89 February 1964 Story: “Siren of the Space Ark” (13 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: The Electronibrains, mechanical masters of a space ark, give an enslaved woman the power to cause Adam Strange to become her loveslave, so that he will not oppose their takeover attempt on Rann.
Mystery in Space #90 March 1964 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Planets in Peril” (25 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Pencillers: Carmine Infantino (pgs. 1-8, 19-25), Murphy Anderson (pgs. 918) Synopsis: Rannian scientist Oran Dargg transports the entire Earth to the Alpha Centauri system by Zeta-Beam, threatening to destroy the worlds by collision in a week unless they capitulate to him, and Adam Strange and Alanna team with Hawkman and Hawkgirl to seek a solution before disaster claims both worlds.
Mystery in Space #91 May 1964 Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson Story: “Puzzle of the Perilous Prisons” (15 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Alanna, having accepted Adam’s proposal of marriage, returns with him to Earth. But she has been hit by a negative Zeta-Beam created by Mortan, Adam Strange’s old enemy, which sends her back to Rann-and, when Adam contacts her physically, will destroy them both.
Mystery in Space #92 June 1964 Story: “The Alien Invasion From Earth” (11 pages) Writer: Dave Wood Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: Adam Strange discovers aliens invading Earth just before he is zeta-beamed away. Then, on Rann, he learns that the same alien race is invading that planet.
Mystery in Space #93 August 1964 Story: “The Convict Twins From Space” (12 pages) Writer: Dave Wood Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: Adam Strange must save Alanna when she and two friends release captive energy-beings on the planet Zoe.
Mystery in Space #94 September 1964 Cover Artist: Dick Dillin / Sheldon Moldoff Story: “The Riddle of the Two Solar Systems” (part 1; 7 pages) Part 2: “The Adam Strange Story” (10 pages) Part 3: “The Future Adam Strange” (8 pages) Writer: Dave Wood Artist: Phil Kelsey Synopsis: In the future, Space Ranger and a descendant of Adam Strange find the solution to a current menace in the first Adam Strange’s diary account of a similar case.
Mystery in Space #95 November 1964 Cover Artist: Lee Elias Story: “The Hydra-Head From Outer Space” (12 pages) Writer: Dick Wood Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: On Rann, Adam Strange and Alanna take on a criminal who uses animals in his operations.
Mystery in Space #96 December 1964 Story: “The Coins That Doomed Two Planets” (12 pages) Writer: Dave Wood Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: When Adam Strange returns to Rann, the planet is endangered by menaces taken from magical coins.
Mystery in Space #97 February 1965 Cover Artist: Lee Elias Story: “The Day Adam Strange Vanished” (11 pages) Writer: Dave Wood Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: An interrupted Zeta-Beam throws Adam Strange into a world under a green sun, where he teams with a local lawman against a criminal band that threatens both that world and Rann.
Mystery in Space #98 March 1965 Cover Artist: Lee Elias Story: “The Wizard of the Cosmos” (part 1; 12 pages) Part 2: “The Return of Yarrok of Zulkan” (13 pages) Writer: Dave Wood Artists: Lee Elias (pgs. 1-12), Howard Purcell (pgs. 13-25) Synopsis: A mad Vulcanian scientist threatens Rann, and Adam Strange and Alanna must stop him from plundering the planet. Centuries later, Yarrok’s descendant discovers his ancestor’s secrets, and presents a threat Space Ranger and the future Adam Strange must deal with.
Mystery in Space #99 May 1965 Story: “The World-Destroyer From Space” (12 pages) Writer: Jerry Siegel Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: A Zeta-Beam accident transfers the minds of Adam Strange and a beast with the power to destroy a planet into each other’s body.
Mystery in Space #100 June 1965 Story: “The Death of Alanna” (12 pages) Writer: Jerry Siegel Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: Adam Strange comes to Rann to deal with an alien who has apparently killed his lover Alanna.
Mystery in Space #102 September 1965 Cover Artist: Lee Elias Story: “The Robot World of Ancient Rann” (12 pages) Writer: Jerry Siegel Artist: Lee Elias Synopsis: Adam Strange and Alanna are thrown back into Rann’s past to deal with the Robot-Master and his horde of human-hating robots.
Strange Adventures #222 January-February 1970 Cover Artist: Gil Kane / Murphy Anderson Story: “Beyond the Wall of Death” (10 pages) Writer: Denny O’Neil Artist: Gil Kane Synopsis: Adam Strange is Zeta-Beamed back to Rann where he finds he must pull a Trojan Horse maneuver to liberate Alanna and other Ranagarians from the warlike Reekans.
Strange Adventures #226 September-October 1970 Story: “The Magic-Maker of Rann” (8 pages) Writer: Gardner Fox Artist: Murphy Anderson Synopsis: Adam Strange returns to Rann to discover that all the people on the planet have mind-over-matter powers, but that they have inexplicably gone mad.
World’s Finest Comics #263
Green Lantern #132
July 1980 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Dick Giordano Story: “Zeta-Death” (8 pages) Writer: Jack C. Harris Artist: Steve Sherman Synopsis: Kaskor has made an alliance with the Kyrri to conquer Rann, and Adam Strange uses a new function of the Zeta-Beam to teleport to their hideout and spy upon them.
September 1980 Story: “Brain Beast” (8 pages) Writer: Jack C. Harris Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange faces a menace created by the brain energy of the Akalonian race on Rann.
Green Lantern #133 October 1980 Story: “Siege On Ranagar” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange leads a charge that takes Ranagar back from Kaskor. Unfortunately, a malfunctioning Zeta-Beam transports him into the hands of his enemy.
Green Lantern #134 November 1980 Story: “Earth-Ground” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange manipulates Alva Xar into freeing him from Kaskor’s clutches, but finds himself back on Earth when his Zeta-Beam radiation finally runs out.
Green Lantern #135 December 1980 Story: “The Zeta-Bomb Maneuver” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange finds that the Zeta-Beam radiation in his body no longer makes it fatal for him to live on Earth, and hops another beam back to Rann. There he bluffs Kaskor’s army into turning back and deserting the would-be dictator, and saves Ranagar again.
Green Lantern #136 January 1981 Story: “The Gameplayers of Rann” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange attends an athletic competition on Rann, whose events are swept by one contestant...who happens to be an alien invader in disguise.
Green Lantern #137 February 1981 Story: “The Secret of Adam Strange” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Trying to Zeta-Beam Alanna away until they can complete an anniversary gift for her, Adam Strange and Sardath accidentally put her in danger.
Green Lantern #138 March 1981 Story: “Alanna’s New York Adventure” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Alanna goes with Adam Strange for her first visit to Earth, and both of them become involved in a face-off with New York terrorists.
Green Lantern #139 April 1981 Story: “The Mer-Queen of Rann” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange returns to Rann and discovers that Alanna did not return to Sardath when her Zeta-Beam wore off. He begins a search for her, but encounters a mer-woman named Aeriela who enlists her in a quest to save her people and tells her that her psychic powers indicate Alanna is still alive.
Green Lantern #140 May 1981 Story: “Leviathan” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: With the help of a young boy named Rad, Adam Strange is able to destroy a robot sub that menaces Aeriela’s people.
Green Lantern #141
Green Lantern #142
June 1981 Story: “Doom in the Citadel of Love” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Aeriela and Rad take Adam to the man who is holding Alanna prisoner--his old enemy, Alva Xar. When Adam refuses his foe’s offer of alliance to unite Rann, Xar has him imprisoned in an ice cage, and watches Alanna in a death trap.
July 1981 Story: “The Crystal Peril” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange escapes his ice cage and saves Alanna. But when he once again refuses to unite with Alva Xar, the villain appears to turn Alanna into glass and shatter her, and sends Adam back to Earth with an Anti-Zeta-Beam.
Green Lantern #143
Green Lantern #144
August 1981 Story: “Outlaw of Rann” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Adam Strange is blamed by Sardath for Alanna’s apparent death and is called a murderer by the people of Rann. But he deduces that Alanna is still alive, and captive of Alva Xar.
September 1981 Story: “The Final Battle” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Rodin Rodriguez Synopsis: Queen Aeriela and her mer-people aid Adam Strange in a battle to capture Alva Xar and free Alanna.
Green Lantern #145
Green Lantern #146
October 1981 Story: “The Shadow Crawler” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange returns to Rann, where he and Alanna encounter a ravaging space insect.
November 1981 Story: “The Shadow Children” (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange deduces that the Shadow Children insects are not menaces, just misplaced ecologically, and finds a way for them to complete their metamorphosis.
Green Lantern #147 December 1981 Story: “Peril From the Past� (8 pages) Writer: Laurie S. Sutton Artist: Carmine Infantino Synopsis: Adam Strange and Alanna accompany the boy Rad back to a hidden city from which he says he came, where they encounter an ancient monster.
1958 - 1981
An Explanation of the Comics Index In this series, we examine every issue of every DC and Marvel comic book of the silver and the bronze age and also provide you with a color reproduction of the comic’s cover, a complete listing of the creative people involved in producing the comic, a summary of what happened in each adventure, and various other information. All comics indexed in a series will run in serial order, beginning with the first issue or the earliest issue that features the series being indexed. Each of the index entries is as self-explanatory as possible. Some of the criteria we used to create an index entry are provided below. Cover Credits It usually takes many people to produce a comic book cover, from conception and design through coloring and production, and it is impossible to credit them all. The Artist, responsible for the basic execution of the cover, does the lion’s share of the work. If more than one artist works on a cover, some usually pencil and the others usually ink. Records of artists and letterers are sometimes unavailable, particularly for covers that appeared many years ago, so the identities of some cover artists and letterers are the best guesses that the indexers and DC’s and Marvel's current editors and art staff can make. Credits other than Artist or Artists and Letterer appear where known. Story Information Story titles are given as they appear on the title pages, not as on the covers or in coming attractions. When a story lacks a title or title page (a rare occurrence), a note to this effect appears as a Comment. Story credits are taken from the credits as published. As with cover credits, it is impossible to credit everybody who worked on a story, but whenever additional information is available, it appears in the Index. If the published credits in a story are incorrect, the Index corrects them wherever possible.
Chronology A time line for all of DC’s and Marvel's comics that allows proper chronological ordering of the appearances of every DC and Marvel character is far from complete. Nevertheless, some appearances are known to precede or follow others. Whenever chronological information is known reliably but is not obvious from the continuity of the stories, it is noted in parentheses. “First appearance” accompanies a character’s listing when the comic is the earliest one in which the character appears. A first appearance is not necessarily a character’s chronologically earliest appearance, which might occur, for example, in an origin flashback first told many years later. As a general rule, in the case of feature characters who are members of a team but who also appear in their own features or comics, issue-by-issue chronological notations for these characters are made in the indexes to their own features, not in the index to the team feature. For instance, Superman’s chronology is noted in The Superman Index, not in The Justice League of America Index. A casual reading of a few Plot Synopses will make it abundantly clear that a whole month does not usually pass for the characters in between monthly issues of a comic. Many issues begin hours or even minutes after the previous month’s story. Consequently, a character who has had his own feature for ten years will not have aged ten years in the time it took for those comics to come out. As for trying to determine in what year a given adventure takes place, there’s no conclusive answer. Specific dates that appear in stories, as well as mention of current events and popular culture, depictions of contemporary fashions, and usage of contemporary slang, are all what is known as Topical References. These are specific details added by a writer or artist to a story to make it seem current at the time the story is being published. They are not necessarily indicators of when — what year or even what decade — a story took place.