Comic Title: Strange Adventures #16
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: November 30, 1951 Copyright Date November 28, 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: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Ghost of Captain Comet"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Comet (last appearance in Strange Adventures #15; next appearance in Strange Adventures #17)

Supporting Character(s)

• Emery Zackro (last appearance in Strange Adventures #15; next appearance in Strange Adventures #17)
• Lucy Torrence (first name changed to Lucy; last appearance in Strange Adventures #15; next appearance in Strange Adventures #20)

Other Character(s)

• Hugh Carney and Alice Morrison (a grocer and a school teacher; no further appearances)
• An interdimensional being (takes the form of Frank Carney, Bob Somers, and Elmer Hawkins; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Hawkins (a widow; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When reports of ghosts in the town of Pineville reach Captain Comet, he creates an astral form of himself to seek out the truth. The ghostly Captain Comet reaches Pineville and finds the ghost of Elmer Hawkins. He captures the ghost and learns that it is really an interdimensional being trapped on Earth by a hydrogen bomb explosion. The being takes a ghostly form based on the thoughts of nearby people. Captain Comet takes the "ghost" to the site of another H-Bomb test. When the bomb explodes the being is able to return to his home dimension.