Mystery in Space 1951 #66 - reader copy - $15.00

Adam and Alanna must stop a Corytrix from destroying Rann.

In the first contact with an alien ship, two explorers discover hibernation chambers: one with a beautiful girl, the other with a robot - who shouldn't need to hibernate. Waking the girl, she claims to be a space policewoman, while the robot is a prisoner. But her odd queries about "Earth's rarest treasures" raise red flags as the explorers escort her to her home planet...

Three famed adventurers compete for a $10,000 prize to capture the one-and-only loborilla on a distant planet. Each one captures the unique creature (they think) and claims the prize. But their varied accounts conflict, and soon all three are surprised about who really caught the beast!

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• Space-Island of Peril! - Pencil and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics credit inks to Sid Greene. Discussion on GCD Main agree that Joe Giella should be credited.
• - Inside front cover.
• Space-Island of Peril! - Pencil and inks credits, and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
• - House ad for Green Lantern (DC, 1960 Series) #5 (March-April 1961) and The Flash (DC, 1959 Series) #119 (March 1961), with covers shown, and both advertised as "Now On Sale".
• Walter Baade - Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie.
• Who Is Hawkman-- - House ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 Series) #34 (February-March 1961), with cover shown, and advertised as "On Sale Everywhere!"
• Beauty and the Robot! - Pencil and inks credits, and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
• - Two panels with text regarding moons Phobos, Deimos, and Amalthea.
• - Letters of comment from Jerome Clark, and "Bob (Unsigned)".
• Who Caught the Loborilla? - 1) Pencil and inks credits, and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. 2) Sid Greene's usual depiction of Julius Schwartz as a character occurs twice here, on page two panel five and page seven panel five. 3) This story's narrative conceit is similar to that of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, in which the same incident (in this case, the capture of the Loborilla) is recounted by four different characters (including the Loborilla) as well as four different perspectives. Ingeniously, writer Gardner Fox also makes all four accounts internally consistent. 4) This is the first "Star Rovers" story, although their group name "Star Rovers" does not appear. 5) The Rovers are, oddly, not a team, because, in every story, all three are in competition for some prize or goal. 6) The Rovers continued in Mystery in Space and later switched to Strange Adventures.
• - Inside back cover.
• - Back cover.