Strange Adventures #140 for Sale - First Appearance of Julius Schwartz - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series)
Issue: #140
Publication date: May 1962
Key date: 1962-05-00
On-sale date: 1962-03-26
Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Julius Schwartz - 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	Prisoner of the Space-Patch!	cover	1	pencils: Murphy Anderson; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	Prisoner of the Space Patch!	comic story	8	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Murphy Anderson; inks: Murphy Anderson
4	-	letters page	1	script: Julius Schwartz
5	-	cartoon	1
6	The Strange Adventure that Really Happened!	comic story	7.67	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Sid Greene; inks: Sid Greene; letters: Sid Greene	Julius Schwartz First, Gardner Fox
7	More Startling than Tomorrow's Science Fiction!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Mike Esposito; letters: Ira Schnapp
8	-	text article	1	script: Julius Schwartz
9	-	cartoon	1	script: Julius Schwartz
10	Just One Second!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp
11	Surprise Story of the Year!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp
12	The Case of the Worn-Out Robot!	comic story	8.67	script: John Broome; pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Bernard Sachs; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Star Hawkins; Ilda
13	Justice League of America; Green Lantern	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
14	Time-Out for Talk!	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff; letters: Ira Schnapp

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Green Lantern #74	1970	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #139140 of 244#141 ›

Sources

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

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