Strange Adventures #13 is an issue of the series Strange Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1951.
Synopsis for Captain Comet: "When Earth Was Kidnapped"
Something is causing Earth to be repelled from its orbit, and Captain Comet investigates a possible connection to mysterious stone statues.
Appearing in Captain Comet: "When Earth Was Kidnapped"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Stone people
Other Characters:
- Mr. Edwards
Locations:
Items:
- Gravity selector
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Artist of Other Worlds"
The amnesiac Aldebaranian Jhal Khar lives as an Earthling, working in strange portraits of alien animals.
Appearing in "Artist of Other Worlds"
Characters:
- Jhal Khar/John Rowe
- Arlene Merton
- Martin Rains, biologist
- George Grey, FBI
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Man Who Televised Time"
Professor Wonderwitz offers U$ 1 million for new, legitimate inventions. But he is hard to fool.
Appearing in "The Man Who Televised Time"
Characters:
- Professor Wonderwitz
- 4 "inventors"
- Paul Mason
- Cleopatra (On a TV or computer screen)
- Julius Caesar (On a TV or computer screen)
- Columbus (On a TV or computer screen)
- George Washington (On a TV or computer screen)
- Charles Lindbergh (On a TV or computer screen)
Locations:
- 1st Century BCE
- 15th Century (On a TV or computer screen)
- San Salvador (On a TV or computer screen)
- 18th Century (On a TV or computer screen)
- 20th Century
Items:
- Perpetual Motion Machine
- Sonic typewriter
- Gold extractor
- Time television
Vehicles:
- Lindbergh airplane (On a TV or computer screen)
Synopsis for "The Hidden People"
After a naval accident, Scott became the only person who might see the invisible invaders from Venus.
Appearing in "The Hidden People"
Characters:
- Scott Fulton
- Venusians
- Nura
- Nornath
Locations:
- Chicago
- Venus (planet) (Flashback only)
Items:
Vehicles:
- Invisible spaceship
Notes
- The Man Who Televised Time is reprinted in The Flash #194. The last phrase of Prof. Wonderwitz might be a bluff. He says:"The police are at door now... I secretly summoned them while I was talking with you. It's...ER... one of my own inventions!" The story ends before the inventor of Time-televisor can talk anything in his own defense. Prof. Wonderwitz's sentence may imply that the machine, despite his explanations, could really observe other times, and he had left those police officers there so that the professor could steal the machine, and he is telling the police officers that it is his own invention. Ironically, the principle after sonic typewriter (Speech recognition), which the professor considered it useless, is used today in mobile phones.
- This issue also includes the one page story "Giants of the Telescope", featuring Johannes Kepler.
Trivia
- On the first story's title page, "kidnapped" is misspelled as "kidnaped".
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