Comic Title: Strange Adventures #12
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1951
Approx. On Sale Date: July 27, 1951 Copyright Date July 25, 1951
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1951
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Girl from the Diamond Planet"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Captain Comet (of Earth-1)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Comet (last appearance in Strange Adventures #11; next appearance in Strange Adventures #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lucy Torrence (first name given as Lily; last appearance in Strange Adventures #11; next appearance in Strange Adventures #15)
• Emery Zackro (last appearance in Strange Adventures #11; next appearance in Strange Adventures #13)
• Radea (next appearance in Strange Adventures #22)

Villain(s)

• Chadro (leader of Hyperba; no further appearances)
• The Green Ones (a race of aliens; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Inhabitants of Hyperba (Eckro named; no further appearances)

Comments:
Miss Torrence's first name is given as Lily in this story only. Subsequent stories, including Strange Adventures #16 and Strange Adventures #35, indicate that her first name is Lucy. Since the name Lucy is used more often than Lily, Lucy Torrence shall be considered her official name.

Synopsis:
Captain Comet travels into space aboard his ship the Cometeer. He reaches a distant solar system that has a pulsating star. He lands on a diamond shaped planet called Hyperba to observe the star and is met by Radea, a woman like him that is an evolutionary mutant.

Radea rescues Captain Comet from the Green Ones, an evil race. She then explains that their sun is dying and must be kept alive via manned missiles that explode and reignite the star each cycle. Chadro, the leader of Hyperba, tricks Captain Comet into piloting the latest missile with Radea also onboard. Comet discovers that the missiles do not need a pilot, and Chadro is using them to eliminate his enemies. Captain Comet and Radea escape their doom, return to Hyperba, and overthrow Chadro. Radea becomes the new leader of her planet, and Captain Comet returns to Earth.