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SHOWCASE #17
Cover Date: November-December 1958
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1958-09-18
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Cover Credits:
Art: Gil Kane
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Credits:
| Plot | Gardner Fox, Edmond Hamilton |
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia, Joe Giella |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Adam Strange (first appearance)
Supporting Character(s):
- Alanna (first chronological appearance; Sardath's daughter)
- Sardath (first chronological appearance; leading scientist of Ranagar)
Villain(s):
- Eternals (an alien race; first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Citizens of Kamorak (first appearance of all)
- Scientists of Samakand (first appearance of all)
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- Secret Origins Giant #1 (Summer 1961)
- Strange Adventures #217 (March-April 1969)
- Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics (Simon and Schuster) (October 1980)
- Essential Showcase 1956-1959 (1992)
- Secret Origins Replica Edition #1 (1998)
- Adam Strange Archives #1 ([February] 2004)
- Showcase Presents: Adam Strange #1 ([August] 2007)
- Showcase Presents: Showcase #1 ([July] 2012)
Credits:
| Plot | Gardner Fox, Edmond Hamilton |
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky |
| Inks | Frank Giacoia, Joe Giella |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Adam Strange (first wears his famous Rannian costume)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Morleens (an alien race; in spaceships only; first appearance)
- Zoorans (inhabitants of Yardana, Rann; first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- inhabitants of New Ranagar (first appearance)
- an Australian bushman (first appearance)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- somewhere in Australia
- Off the Malayan coast, south of Singapore
- Anthorann (first appearance)
- New Ranagar (first appearance)
- Rann
- Yardana (first appearance)
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
- Morleen (first mentioned)
Comment(s):
- This story starts approximately 62 days, 16 minutes and 5 seconds after the end of the first story.
Story Reprinted in:
- Strange Adventures #218 (May-June 1969)
- Essential Showcase 1956-1959 (1992)
- Adam Strange Archives #1 ([February] 2004)
- Showcase Presents: Adam Strange #1 ([August] 2007)
- Showcase Presents: Showcase #1 ([July] 2012)
- Mysteries of Love in Space #1/8 (March 2019)