Comic Title: Mystery in Space #64
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1960
On Sale Date: October 20, 1960 Copyright Date October 20, 1960
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1960

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Jan., April, July and October
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Radio-Active Menace"
Pages: 9

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

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

Reprinted In:
Strange Adventures #225 (1970)
Adam Strange Archives Vol. 1 HC (2004)
Showcase Presents:Adam Strange Vol. 1 TPB (2007)
Adam Strange:The Silver Age Omnibus HC (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Mystery in Space #63; next appearance in Mystery in Space #65)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Mystery in Space #63; next appearance in Mystery in Space #65)

Villain(s)

• Carlon Zan (a radioactive man; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Some Ranagaran scientists (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Banished by his people a billion years ago, Carlon Zan was sent into space aboard a ship. Somehow the ship was turned radioactive and transported in time where Zan arrives on Rann. His very touch turns people and objects radioactive, and he becomes a menace to the people of Ranagar.

Adam Strange, having recently returned to Rann, studies films of the man’s arrival and notices that one of his footprints does not become radioactive. Ranagaran scientists study the footprint and determine that a rare element, Malybium, counteracts the radioactive man’s touch. Using a gun designed to spray Malybium, Adam and the Ranagarans stop Zan’s movement, and he is changed into lead.