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Series: Amazing Adventures

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Publisher: Ziff-Davis

Title: Amazing Adventures
Issue: 5
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: October-November 1951
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: ?

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Amazing Adventures #5
Owner: jimbo707

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Story Title: The Secret of the Crater-Men - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Allen Anderson (painting)
Inks:Allen Anderson (painting)
Colors:Allen Anderson (painting)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Mission to Malooka - comic story
Features:Martin Hawkins
Pages:8
Pencils:Murphy Anderson
Inks:Murphy Anderson ; Frank Giacoia ?
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Martin Hawkins, Luther Mynot, Groll Mynot, Gykosian Great One, Iklak
Synopsis:Captain Hawkins is disliked by Commandant Luther Mynot for how Hawkins' father rode Mynot when he was younger. Mynot assigns his son Groll to Captain Hawkins' ship, the Penumbra. Groll gets space sickness. Instead of putting Groll adrift according to protocol, Hawkins returns Groll to the hospital. Gykosians raid the scientific station on a planetoid named Gykos that Hawkins was supposed to check on. This causes Commandant Mynot to banish Hawkins to Malooka where the Gykosians are holding the scientists from Gykos.


Story Title: The Secret of the Crater-Men - comic story
Pages:9
Pencils:Al Carreno (signed)
Inks:Al Carreno
Letters:John Duffy
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Rockets Are Old Stuff! - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Cosmic Creeps - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:humor


Story Title: What the Atom Can Do for Peace! - comic story
Pages:1
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:non-fiction; math & science


Story Title: The Red Hills of Uganda - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Ray Bailey
Inks:Ray Bailey
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:jungle; science fiction
Characters:Frank Dumont; Marta Svenstrom; Balooga; Dr. Gunnar Svenstrom; Captain Manchester of the RAF
Synopsis:Marta hires Frank to fly into unexplored Uganda to find her naturalist father. They rescue him from a giant ant hill, but the destruction causes the ants to go on the march.


Story Title: Yuff-Yuff - comic story
Pages:1
Pencils:Don Perlin (signed)
Inks:Don Perlin (signed)
Genre:humor


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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