Comic Title: Strange Adventures #20
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: March 28, 1952 Copyright Date March 26, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
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Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Slaves of the Sea-Master"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Murphy Anderson
Inker: Joe Giella

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Comet (last appearance in Strange Adventures #19; next appearance in Strange Adventures #21)

Supporting Character(s)

• Emery Zackro (last appearance in Strange Adventures #18; next appearance in Strange Adventures #21)
• Lucy Torrence (last appearance in Strange Adventures #16; next appearance in Strange Adventures #22)

Villain(s)

• An ancient king of Atlantis (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Various sleepwalkers (Arthur Felton, Alfredo Amadeo, and Lifer Andrews named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Hundreds of people are suddenly entranced and begin walking toward the ocean. Many of them build flimsy rafts that will not support them. Fearing that the people will all die, Captain Comet constructs a glass wall to prevent the walkers from reaching the ocean. He then traces their path to a single point in the ocean.

When Captain Comet reaches that point he finds a whirlpool which leads to an Atlantean city. The only inhabitant of the city is an ancient king who admits to using mental influence on the people to build a slave army. Captain Comet is unable to overcome the king, so he feigns death. Captain Comet then activates the city's hydraulic system to lift it out of the ocean. The sudden change in pressure kills the king and releases the spellbound slaves. Captain Comet then sinks the city back into the ocean.