Comic Title: Mystery in Space #69
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1961
On Sale Date: June 6, 1961 Copyright Date June 6, 1961
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1961

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

Title: "Menace of the Aqua-Ray Weapon"
Pages: 9

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

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

Reprinted In:
Strange Adventures #229 (1971)
Adam Strange Archives Vol. 2 HC (2007)
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 #68; next appearance in Mystery in Space #70)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (last appearance in Mystery in Space #68; next appearance in Mystery in Space #70)

Villain(s)

• The Kirri (a blue-skinned race thought to be extinct; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #263)

Other Character(s)

• Chunky (a dog; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While catching the Zeta Beam that will return him to Rann, Adam Strange rescues a dog, Chunky, from an avalanche. Adam arrives with the dog on Rann and finds that Alanna has been turned into a puddle of water along with the other Ranagarans.

A race known as the Kirri are responsible for Alanna’s condition, using an Aqua-Ray weapon. They wish to replace the humans as the dominant species on Rann. They liquify Adam as well and take him to the planet’s polar region where they restore his body, but he is frozen in ice with the other humans, including Alanna.

Chunky, having followed the Kirri, manages to free Adam from his ice prison. Adam then constructs a ice duplicate of himself to distract the Kirri, while he gains control of the Aqua-Ray. He liquifies the Kirri and frees the Ranagarans, before he and Chunky are returned to Earth by the Zeta Beam.