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 Multiple Menace Weapon"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Mystery in Space #72 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Mystery in Space #71; next appearance in Mystery in Space #73)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Mystery in Space #71; next appearance in Mystery in Space #73)

Villain(s)

• Aliens from the planet Klannf (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Julan, Janna, and Tedi (a future Ranagaran, his wife, and son; no further appearances)
• Several other future Ranagarans (no further appearances)
• Tom Boyle (a police officer; not named in this story; next appearance in Mystery in Space #77)

Synopsis:
Adam Strange has resumed his profession as an archaeologist on Earth, because the Zeta Beam will not return for nearly a year. He is surprised when a purple beam strikes him while in New York, which teleports him into the future. Then, upon his arrival, the Zeta Beam strikes him, bringing him to Rann 100,000 years in the future.

Julan, a future Ranagaran, explains that they are menaced by aliens from the planet Klannf. They have brought Adam, Rann’s legendary hero, here to combat them. Adam indeed finds a way to beat the aliens using a magnetized boomerang.

Adam is then sent back to present day Rann to defeat a cone menace which threatens Alanna and her people. The future Zeta Beam lasts longer, allowing Adam to spend months with Alanna before he is returned to Earth. There, he awaits the next Zeta Beam to reunite him with his lover again.