Comic Title: Strange Adventures #24
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: August 1, 1952 Copyright Date July 30, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.


Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Doomsday on Earth"
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 #23; next appearance in Strange Adventures #25)

Supporting Character(s)

• Emery Zackro (last appearance in Strange Adventures #23; next appearance in Strange Adventures #25)
• Lucy Torrence (last appearance in Strange Adventures #22; next appearance in Strange Adventures #25)

Villain(s)

• A brain creature (no further appearances)
• A griffon (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Wilbur and Lydia Walker (an author and his daughter; no further appearances)
• A geologist and his students (Nelson named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A series of strange disasters plague the Earth. Captain Comet recalls that these exact events were predicted by Wilbur Walker in a book that was dismissed by the scientific community. Comet visits Wilbur in Wyoming and meets his daughter Lydia. She explains that her father believes the Earth is a living being and the recent atomic tests have irritated it.

Captain Comet then follows Wilbur into a hole in the Earth. Under the surface, Captain Comet discovers a giant brain creature that has been causing the disasters. Wilbur's theory was mostly correct. It was not the Earth that was alive, but rather the giant brain. Captain Comet destroys the brain, and the disasters come to an end. Walker's theories are then elevated in standing by other scientists.