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CGC records 188 graded copies for Showcase #19 (1959). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Adam Strange: "Challenge of the Star-Hunter"
In Calcutta, India, Adam Strange is in the attendance of a number of explorers whom wish to witness an ancient rope trick. When one of the locals explain that it's a trick, and nobody can disappear at the end of the rope, Adam Strange offers to prove him wrong. He manages to climb up in the air and -- to everyones astonishment -- disappear. However, none witnessing could guess that Adam really intercepted the next Zeta-Beam and is transported to Rann.
Arriving on his adopted world, Adam finds himself greeted by Alanna and a delegation of of people from Rann who inform Adam that a super-being known as Leothric has appeared and demanded to face Rann's chosen champion. The delegation decide to choose Adam Strange as that champion, and Adam accepts.
Confronting Leothric's ship, Adam Strange and Alanna find themselves transported to the planet Ardvak. Leothric explains that he is trapped on his world because the planet's sun is his source of life. He explains that he had built a device to put himself in suspended animation for 100 years, however it malfunctioned and he soon found himself waking up 1 million years later to find that he was the last of his people. Bored, Leothric began a game where he would use his shape changing abilities in a contest against champions of different worlds. At first he was the hunter, but found it too easy to best his opponents, and decided instead to be the hunted, using his shape changing powers to trick his foes. He explains that he will give Adam three chances to capture him with a special ring, or Rann will be destroyed.
Taken to a jungle region, the first attempt to capture Leothric remains, however the choose the wrong animal. Leothric then takes them to the next location, an ocean region, where once again Adam Strange and Alanna fail to choose the right animal. Taken to a desert region, Adam Strange decides that he and Alanna should split up and catch an animal each then decide which one could be Leothric. With two animals captured, Adam tricks Leothric into revealing himself by stating that his tracks give him away. Leothric turns to look, giving himself away and Adam touches the ring to his opponent changing him back into his true form.
Defeated, Leothric releases other champions frozen in suspended animation and they all decide that they should stop Leothric from ever starting his game again. Adam explains that since Leothric cannot leave his planet the best way to do so is by destroying his remote control ship. Sending everyone back home, Adam destroys Leothric's remote ship, and waits for the Zeta-Beam to wear off so that he can return to Earth.
Creative credits
Writers: Gardner Fox, Gardner Fox
Interior art: Mike Sekowsky, Mike Sekowsky
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GCD: 14921