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 Menace of the Super-Atom"
Pages: 9

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

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

Reprinted From:
Mystery in Space #56 (1959)

Feature Character(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Mystery in Space #55; next appearance in Mystery in Space #57)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Mystery in Space #55; next appearance in Mystery in Space #57)

Villain(s)

• Nimar (an energi-being of super-intelligence; no further appearances)
• Nimar's army of lifeless statues (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When Adam Strange returns to Rann via Zeta-Beam, he finds that Alanna is missing. An unmanned flying car picks him up and takes him to a previously unknown location on Rann. An energi-being named Nimar has kidnapped Alanna and threatens to conquer Rann with an army of lifeless statues. Adam takes up Nimar's challenge to stop him.

Adam returns to Ranagar and battles the statue army. When his efforts prove futile, he returns to Nimar. He realizes that Nimar's control of the army only extends to inanimate matter via thought control. Adam hypothesizes that Nimar can be defeated using thought-power. Adam commands Nimar to desist his attack, then puts the being into suspended animation. Adam's idea is successful; once again he has protected Rann.