Strange Adventures #119 for Sale - First Appearance of Ilda - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series)
Issue: #119
Publication date: August 1960
Key date: 1960-08-00
On-sale date: 1960-06-28
Indicia publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Ilda - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Star Hawkins - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Raiders from the Giant World!	cover	1	pencils: Murphy Anderson; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	Raiders of the Giant World!	comic story	9	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Murphy Anderson; inks: Murphy Anderson
3	-	cartoon	1	script: Julius Schwartz; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Tom Nicolosi; letters: Milt Snapinn
4	Presenting the Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye
5	-	letters page	1	script: Julius Schwartz; pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
6	Secret of the Cosmic Bullet!	comic story	7.67	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Sid Greene; inks: Sid Greene	Lucius Trent; Golden Gladiator; Star Amazon
7	Your Passport to Amazing Adventures!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	pencils: Bernard Baily, Carmine Infantino, Dick Dillin; inks: Bernard Baily, Murphy Anderson, Sheldon Moldoff
8	-	cartoon	1	script: Julius Schwartz; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Tom Nicolosi; letters: Milt Snapinn
9	Superman Says... "Lend a Friendly Hand!"	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: John Forte; letters: Ira Schnapp
10	The Case of the Counterfeit Credits!	comic story	7.67	script: John Broome; pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Bernard Sachs	Star Hawkins First, Ilda First
11	For the Very Best in Comics Reading!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	pencils: Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane; inks: Murphy Anderson, Joe Giella	The Flash; Green Lantern

Plus 5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Strange Adventures #235	1972	On eBay ›
Pulp Fiction Library: Mystery in Space #[nn] ISBN 1-56389-494-7	1999	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #118119 of 244#120 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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