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Showcase #17 (Nov.-Dec. 1958):
“Secret of the Eternal City!”
by Gardner F. Fox, Mike Sekowsky, Bernard Sachs

Showcase #17

Title: “Secret of the Eternal City!”

Feature: Adam Strange

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov.-Dec. 1958

Publisher: DC
Written by: Gardner F. Fox
Art by: Mike Sekowsky, Bernard Sachs


9 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Adam Strange Adam Strange
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I religious
Forgotten Heroes DC 339
Alanna Strange Alanna (Alanna Strange) supporting character
  Rannian
[wife of Adam Strange, Earth-born champion of planet Rann]
DC 118
Sardath Sardath supporting character scientist
CBR Scale: S Lady Styx devotee (convert)
Rannian
[father-in-law of Adam Strange]
DC 79
Incans
(details) 
supporting character villain group real/historical person
CBR Scale: D Incan
[1st app: Showcase #17 (Nov.-Dec. 1958)] DC 3
Rannians supporting character group
CBR Scale: I Rannian religion
[alien race] DC 53
The Eternals villain group
CBR Scale: D alien
[sought rare metal Vitatron, which makes them immortal] DC 53
Samakandians villain group
CBR Scale: R Rannian religion
Rannian
[their city appears on Rann once every 25 years]
DC 1
unnamed scientist supporting character scientist
CBR Scale: R Rannian religion
Rannian; Samakandians
[helped Adam Strange trap Eternals in fourth dimension]
DC 1
unnamed other scientist supporting character scientist
CBR Scale: R Rannian religion
Rannian; Samakandians
[helped Adam Strange trap Eternals in fourth dimension]
DC 1