Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Adam Strange Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: August 8, 2007 Direct Market Date August 8, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #5 (#221)

Direct Market Date August 8, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 512
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Beast with the Sizzling Blue Eyes"
Pages: 9

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Reprinted From:
Mystery in Space #62 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Mystery in Space #61; next appearance in Mystery in Space #63)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Mystery in Space #61; next appearance in Mystery in Space #63)
• Sardath (last appearance in Mystery in Space #55; next appearance in Mystery in Space #68)

Villain(s)

• Mortan (a lab assistant; next appearance in Mystery in Space #80)

Other Character(s)

• Zhoran Tew (a Ranagaran scientist; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While waiting for Adam Strange to return to Rann, Alanna is apparently caught in a time-warp, taking her back to a prehistoric jungle. She quickly realizes that she is not in the past, but in a forcefield bubble. Adam arrives inside the bubble and saves Alanna from a dinosaur, but suddenly the bubble disappears, taking the jungle and beasts with it.

Later another bubble appears in the ocean, this time containing a sea-beast. Adam and Alanna are able to penetrate the forcefield, but the bubble once again disappears. Unknown to Adam and Alanna, the bubbles are being made by device created by scientist, Zhoran Tew, to study to past. However, Zhoran’s lab assistant, Mortan, has imprisoned the scientist and is using the device for evil.

Mortan demands that the Ranagarans surrender to him or he will unleash the beasts within a forcefield created around the city. Adam traces the transmission and tracks Mortan to his hide-out. Then he destroys the control device, preventing Mortan from unleashing his monsters. After freeing Zhoran, Adam is drawn back to Earth by the Zeta Beam.