Comic Title: Essential Showcase 1956-1959 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1993
On Sale Date: December 1, 1992 Shipping Date December 1, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #9 (#45)

Shipping Date December 1, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #58

Shipping Date December 3, 1992
Source: Advance Comics, #47

Direct Market Date December 3, 1992
Source: Comic Shop News, #277

Copyright Date December 22, 1992
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1992

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 192
Editor: Bob Kahan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Planet and the Pendulum"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Adam Strange (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Showcase #17 (1958)

Feature Character(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Showcase #17; next appearance in Showcase #18)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Showcase #17; next appearance in Showcase #18)
• Sardath (last appearance in Showcase #17; next appearance in Showcase #18)

Villain(s)

• The Zoora Tribe (no further appearances)
• Aliens from Morleen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A citizen of Anthorann (no further appearances)

Comments:
Adam finds and uses his jet pack, ray-gun, and uniform for the first time in this story.

Synopsis:
Adam Strange is again transported to Rann by stepping into the path of the Zeta-Beam. This time he arrives in the ruined city of Yardana, where he is captured by the barbaric Zoora tribe. Believing Adam to be a sorcerer, the tribe take Adam to the Tower of Rainbow Doom. Surrounded by a rainbow of lights, Adam is teleported to Anthorann a nearby planet.

Adam discovers the wreckage of a spacecraft on the surface whose passengers include Sardath and Alanna. Alanna explains that the scientists from Samakand gave their technology to the people of Ranagar. This enabled Sardath to construct a spacecraft to travel to a lost colony on Anthorann. Their ship was attacked by a vessel from Morleen and forced down.

Adam, Alanna, and Sardath are met by a man from New Ranagar and taken inside the protective dome of the city. The aliens return using a giant pendulum to slice open the dome. Using a rocket pack and ray-gun found in the spaceship, Adam destroys the pendulum while dodging enemy fire. With the weapon destroyed, the aliens leave, and Adam once again returns to Earth when the Zeta radiation dissipates.