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  • Adam Strange is a science fiction superhero published by DC Comics. Created by editor Julius Schwartz with a costume designed by Murphy Anderson, he first appeared in Showcase #17 (November 1958). In May 2011, Adam Strange placed 97th on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time.
  • Είναι ένας από τους υπερήρωες των Κόμικς.
  • Adam Strange is a superhero in the DC Universe and often travels between Earth and the faraway planet Rann.
  • While working on a dig in Caramanga, South America, Adam was transported to the planet of Rann via the Zeta-Beam. He immediately befriended the Rannians and took up a flight pack and raygun to assist them. While there, he also fell in love with a Rannian woman named Alanna. As the Zeta Beam's teleportation effect wore off, Adam was returned to Earth. However, he was able to return to Rann by following a schedule of where the Zeta beam would next hit. He scheduled his archeological trips to coincide with the location and time. He also married Alanna. File:AdamStrange.png
  • Adam Strange is a DC Comics space hero character from the 1950s, who still appears occasionally in their comics and cartoons. He was created by Gardner Fox, and first appeared in Showcase #17 (November, 1958). After three try-out issues in Showcase, he became a regular feature in Mystery in Space beginning with #53 (August, 1959). Adam is a long-time ally of the Justice League of America, though not a member. Eventually, a way to make the z-effect permanent was found, and Adam stayed on Rann, and married Alanna.
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  • Fighting Experience, Archaeologist
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  • Earth , Rann
  • Justice League, Justice League United, Seven Soldiers of Victory, R.E.B.E.L.S.
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  • Showcase #17
  • Warrior of Two Worlds, Savior of Rann
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  • Earth/Rann
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  • Wears a jet pack spacesuit that allows for sustained flight and interstellar travel; Carries energy blast guns; Generates solid-light equipment via spacesuit; can see into the whole electromagnetic spectrum
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  • Julius Schwartz, Murphy Anderson
  • Showcase # 17,
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  • Alanna Strange ; Aleea Strange ; Sardath ; Janey Strange ; Todd Strange ; Bantteir ; Adam Strange II
  • can see into the whole electromagnetic spectrum, Involuntary teleportation between worlds
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  • Adam Strange is a science fiction superhero published by DC Comics. Created by editor Julius Schwartz with a costume designed by Murphy Anderson, he first appeared in Showcase #17 (November 1958). In May 2011, Adam Strange placed 97th on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time.
  • While working on a dig in Caramanga, South America, Adam was transported to the planet of Rann via the Zeta-Beam. He immediately befriended the Rannians and took up a flight pack and raygun to assist them. While there, he also fell in love with a Rannian woman named Alanna. As the Zeta Beam's teleportation effect wore off, Adam was returned to Earth. However, he was able to return to Rann by following a schedule of where the Zeta beam would next hit. He scheduled his archeological trips to coincide with the location and time. He also married Alanna. It was initially believed that the Zeta Beam was used simply as a friendly communication between Rann and Earth. However, it was later hinted that Rann was searching for suitable mates from other planets as more and more of the Rannians were found to be sterile. Adam met the JLA after helping them battle Kanjar-Ro, but declined their membership offer. He continued to act on both Earth and Rann, helping to improve relations among different planets. File:AdamStrange.png
  • Είναι ένας από τους υπερήρωες των Κόμικς.
  • Adam Strange is a superhero in the DC Universe and often travels between Earth and the faraway planet Rann.
  • Adam Strange is a DC Comics space hero character from the 1950s, who still appears occasionally in their comics and cartoons. He was created by Gardner Fox, and first appeared in Showcase #17 (November, 1958). After three try-out issues in Showcase, he became a regular feature in Mystery in Space beginning with #53 (August, 1959). Adam was an ordinary Earthman, an archeologist who was teleported to the planet Rann (located in the Alpha Centauri solar system, the closest to Earth) accidentally after being hit by the zeta beam, a communications beam invented by a Rannian scientist named Sardath that was somehow altered en route to become a teleportation effect. Adam fell in love with Sardath's daughter, Alanna, but it turned out that the zeta-beam's effects only lasted a few hours, and then he was returned to Earth. Adam then calculated where the next zeta beam would strike Earth, and made sure to be at that spot so he could return to Alanna, even if only for short intervals at a time. In addition, he helped protect Rann from various menaces, monsters and aliens, using a Rannian jet pack and a raygun, plus, most notably, his wits and scientific knowledge. Adam is a long-time ally of the Justice League of America, though not a member. Eventually, a way to make the z-effect permanent was found, and Adam stayed on Rann, and married Alanna. A two-issue story in the Alan Moore run of Swamp Thing stated that Adam was not transported by accident, but rather that the Rannians needed him to help repopulate their species as nuclear war had rendered them sterile. The idea was further developed in a three-issue miniseries by Richard Bruning in which Adam learned the truth, Sardath went mad, and Alanna was killed off. This Retcon was quietly undone in the late 1990s by Mark Waid, who revealed Alanna was still alive and casually had Adam mention curing Sardath's madness. The "sterile Rann" Retcon has gone unmentioned since, and associated miniseries seems to have tacitly slipped into Canon Dis Continuity. Has nothing to do with professor Hugo Strange or the Marvel character Doctor Strange. * Adventurer Archaeologist: Adam is an archeologist but it rarely plays into his adventures. * Badass Bookworm: Adam is quite smart but also pretty tough. * Darker and Edgier:The three-issue miniseries "The Man of Two Worlds". * Faster-Than-Light Travel: The Zeta Beam * Genius Loci: Adam once fought Yggardis, a sentient planet that stole other lifeforms to populate itself, which then died within 24 hours. * Goal-Oriented Evolution: The Rannians are further along than Earth humans (no appendix, no hair except on the head), leading to the "ape" epithet for Adam in the Alan Moore comics. * Guile Hero: As fits a DC Comics hero of the Silver Age, Adam mostly defeated the menaces he encountered with science and trickery. * Human Aliens: The Rannians. As typical of DC, no explanation for this was ever given. * I Thought It Meant: No connection to Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange. * Jet Pack: Adam Strange has one of these. * Mighty Whitey () * Adam used Rannian technology to fight his enemies. Why couldn't they do likewise? Because they're not as well-suited to heroics and violence as Earth people. * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Alanna (subverted in that Sardath isn't mad, in most versions of the character.) * Monster of the Week: The oddest variety this side of Toku shows. (Example: a giant flying magnifying lens.) * Planetary Romance: In some versions. * Ray Gun: Adam Strange has one of these, too. * Raygun Gothic * Rogues Gallery Transplant: Kanjar Ro went from fighting the Justice League to repeatedly clashing with Adam for awhile. * Teleporters and Transporters: The Zeta Beam. * Trapped in Another World: Inverted: he wanted to stay in Rann, but couldn't for long. * Weapons That Suck: One enemy alien race used this form of sucking weapon.
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