My Greatest Adventure #21

DC Comics

United States

Published
May-June 1958
Page count
36
Cover price
0.10 USD
Colour
Colour
Size
Silver Age size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Glossy colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/14383

Credits

Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, Editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, Associate Editor
 
Murray Boltinoff, Associate Editor
 
George Kashdan, Associate Editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover I Fought the Champion of Outer Space! Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Bob Brown, line art
Colours
Jack Adler, colourist
Text
Ira Schnapp, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
New Zealand (Aotearoa)
All Favourites the 100-Page Comic! (KG Murray (NZ), 1958? series) #10 ([November 1958?])
Untitled
Show/hide 1. Untitled (Joe Weider) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Joe Weider

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Text
, typeset

Notes

Inside front cover.

Show/hide 2. We Were Doomed by the Metal-Eating Monster Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Jack Kirby, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Pat Gordon, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Five-Score Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #4 ([August 1958])
We Were Doomed by the Metal-Eating Monster
 
United States
The Jack Kirby Omnibus (DC, 2011 series) #1 (July 2011)
We Were Doomed by the Metal-Eating Monster
Show/hide 3. New! Exciting! Mystifying! (The New Adventures of Charlie Chan) Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Featuring

Feature
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
Genre
Crime; detective-mystery
Characters
Charlie Chan

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Sid Greene, penciller
 
Joe Giella, inker
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

Synopsis

House ad for The New Adventures of Charlie Chan #1.

Show/hide 4. Untitled (Doctor Rocket) Comic story, 2 pages

"Some crumpets, Madam?"

Featuring

Feature
Doctor Rocket
Genre
Humor
Code
#3
Characters
Doctor Rocket; Mrs. Rocket

Credits

Writing
Henry Boltinoff, scripter [signed]
Art
Henry Boltinoff, line art [signed]
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
New Zealand (Aotearoa)
All Favourites the 100-Page Comic! (KG Murray (NZ), 1958? series) #10 ([November 1958?])
Untitled
 
Australia
All Favourites, The 100-Page Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #10 ([November 1958])
Untitled

Synopsis

Mrs. Rocket can't stand her friends' snobbiness about their butlers.

Notes

The #3 in job number may be indicating that this is the third Doctor Rocket strip drawn by Boltinoff. Most DC job numbers for his strips are four digits.

Show/hide 5. I Made Time Stand Still Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Bill Ely, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Pat Gordon, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Five-Score Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #4 ([August 1958])
I Made Time Stand Still
Show/hide 6. Peril from the Parallel World! Text story, 1 page

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
, author
Text
, typeset
Show/hide 7. Buzzy Scoffs at "That Deep, Dark Secret!" (Buzzy) Public service announcement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Buzzy
Genre
Humor; advocacy; teen
Characters
Buzzy; Tommy; Margie; Susie

Credits

Writing
Jack Schiff, scripter
Art
Win Mortimer, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer

Synopsis

Margie learns that having a mental patient in the family is nothing to be ashamed of.

Show/hide 8. The Menace of the Crocodiles! Comic story, 2 pages

Featuring

Genre
Non-fiction; jungle
Characters
Jim; George

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
George Papp, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Pat Gordon, letterer

Reprint history

First print
United States
Congo Bill (DC, 1954 series) #4 (February-March 1955)
The Menace of the Crocodiles!
Show/hide 9. I Fought the Champion from Outer Space! Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Genre
Science fiction
Characters
John Talbot; Jurr; Gar; Zoro

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Jim Mooney, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
Ira Schnapp, letterer

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Five-Score Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #6 ([October 1958])
I Fought the Champion of Outer Space!

Notes

Targonians from the planet Targon.

Show/hide 10. Untitled (Stephens Credit Sales) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Stephens Credit Sales

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Show/hide 11. Untitled (Junior Sales Club of America) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Junior Sales Club of America

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Text
, typeset

Notes

Inside back cover.

Show/hide 12. Untitled (Garcelon Stamp Co.) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Garcelon Stamp Co.

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, typeset

Notes

Back cover.


Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 44216

Cover added

  • 30/03/2010

Index completed

  • 10/08/2021

Last updated

  • 10/08/2021