Comic Title: Mister Miracle #3
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jul/Aug 1971
On Sale Date: May 18, 1971 Newsstand Date May 18, 1971
Source: House Ad, Super DC Giant #S-25, Page 14

Copyright Date May 18, 1971
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1971

Newsstand Date May 18, 1971
Source: Etcetera, V1 #3
Listed as May but misdated 4/18

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jack Kirby

Title: "The Paranoid Pill"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Mister Miracle (of Earth-1)

Writer/Penciller: Jack Kirby
Inker: Vince Colletta

Reprinted In:
Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle TPB (1998)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2007)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 TPB (2012)
Mister Miracle by Jack Kirby TPB (2017)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus HC (2018)
Absolute Fourth World by Jack Kirby Vol. 1 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Mister Miracle (last appearance in Mister Miracle #2; next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Oberon (last appearance in Mister Miracle #2; next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)

Villain(s)

• Doctor Bedlam (first appearance; next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)
• Several animates (automatons under the control of Doctor Bedlam; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The workers in Chandler Towers (next appearance in Mister Miracle #4)

Comments:
This story continues in Mister Miracle #4.

Synopsis:
Doctor Bedlam, a force of extreme mental will, arrive on Earth from Apokolips by possessing the body of an automaton called an Animate. Bedlam then telephones Scott Free to offer a challenge. After explaining the danger to Oberon, Mister Miracle meets Bedlam atop Chandler Towers. The villain offers Miracle a chance to surrender, but he offer is refused. Bedlam then floods the building with gas created from a paranoid pill which turns thousands of people in the building into maniacs. Mister Miracle must then reach the lobby and exit the building to escape. However, the workers in the building capture him, lock him in a trunk, then throw the trunk down an open stairwell.