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Publisher: Charlton

Title: Space Adventures
Issue: 7
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: July 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Alfred Fago

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Space Adventures 7
Owner: bomber-bob

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Dick Giordano (signed)
Inks:Dick Giordano (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Lars Kranston; Betty Stone


Story Title: Transformation - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Dick Giordano (signed)
Inks:Dick Giordano (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Lars Kranston; Betty Stone
Synopsis:Anticipating nuclear war that would leave Earth barren of life, Lars Kranston convinces his colleagues to go to Mars. His paramour Betty Stone insists that she go as well. The ship crashes on Mars. Everyone but Lars and Betty are killed, but Lars thinks she died too. Betty wakes up suffering total amnesia. Lars decides to use the supplies that survived the wreck. He manages a complete sex change. The tumultuous situation on Earth dies down. The predicted war never occurs. Betty remembers the journey. She runs Lars, who explains his sex change to a woman. Betty breaks down at the revelation.


Story Title: The Doomed Civilization - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Frank Frollo (signed)
Inks:Vince Alascia (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Commander Krait; Arn; Dr. Triple; Captain Jer
Synopsis:Commander Krait's crew begins receiving transmissions from an inhabitable planet called X-3-Z. Dr. Triple interprets the message. The message states society living there faces immanent destruction through war. Krait sends ships to stop the senseless destruction. Captain Jer leads a fleet to try to stop the war, but to no avail. The last panel reveals X-3-Z was called Earth by its erstwhile inhabitants.


Story Title: Simtone Saves the Space Officers - text story
Features:Space Officers
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Homecoming - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Stan Campbell (signed)
Inks:Stan Campbell (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Edmund Cranston; Doctor Corning; Ellis; Major Learner
Synopsis:In the summer of 1953, Edmund Cranston presents his designs for a rocketship to Dr. Corning at a large aircraft corporation. Cranston's only request is to be on the spacecraft maiden voyage to the moon. The ship is completed and crewed by Cranston and Doctor Corning, Ellis, and Major Learner. Once in space, Cranston reveals he is Gord of Mars. He had the craft built to return to Mars after his ship crashed. The men are never heard from again on the Earth, and a dad tells his son that spaceships "wouldn't work". No further development in space travel is pursued following the incident.


Story Title: Fateful Fluid - comic story
Pages:2
Pencils:Art Cappello (signed)
Inks:Art Cappello (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Kryn
Synopsis:When a professor perfects an elixir to transmute all it touches into gold, Kryn uses a "paralyzo ray" to freeze the professor. Kryn takes the potion for his own purposes. He puts some on his hand and turns the wall to gold. It also turns his arm and hand to gold. It continues to turn him into gold. This causes him to clumsily knock a burning hydrogen torch off a table. Its heat melts the gold-man into a golden glob of goo.


Story Title: Eternity in Space - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Art Cappello (signed)
Inks:Art Cappello (signed)
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Dr. Brown; Dr. Tero; Dr. Orso; Nors; Gri
Synopsis:The Earth-Moon space station is a city floating between the Earth and the Moon. The city is constructed on an artificial wheel. Dr. Tero and Dr. Orso create two synthetic children. One is named Nors, the other Gri. Lars works on a fuel for spaceships. Both plan to win a contest for amazing feats. Gri steals some of the fuel and goes to Saturn. He captures an alien creature on the planet and returns with it. In a competitive mood, Nors takes out a craft Gri is not aware of. Nors takes the craft and begins using it to destroy and rebuild structures in the city. The contest is a tie.


Story Title: Invasion - comic story
Pages:1
Pencils:Tony Tallarico
Inks:Tony Tallarico
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:A Saturnian creature attempts an invasion of Earth. He takes pills to make him diminutive to avoid detection. Before he can return to his normal size, he is attacked and killed by a spider.


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