comicbooks.com Join Free
Strange Adventures #30 cover
Cover: Murphy Anderson

Strange Adventures #30

Mar 1953 · DC · 0.10 USD
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free
“Menace from the World of Make-Believe!”

From DC's celebrated science-fiction anthology comes Strange Adventures #30 (1953), featuring the tantalizing cover headline "The Great Ant Circus!" — promising "an amazing preview of man's next masters!" Murphy Anderson's cover depicts a colossal, menacing ant looming over two fleeing humans — a terrified young woman and a man backing away in alarm — while a small robotic or armored figure rides atop the giant insect like a circus performer. Anderson's crisp linework gives the oversized creature an unsettling, almost mechanical presence against the tropical backdrop, perfectly capturing the era's fascination with nature run amok and worlds just beyond our own.

writer Gardner Fox · artist, inker Murphy Anderson · letterer Gaspar Saladino · cover Murphy Anderson

This exact issue on

Raw — VG $130 1 listing
Verified matches for Strange Adventures #30 · eBay asking prices, seen 3 days ago

Sell my copy

Have this issue — or a whole collection? Get a fair offer from us, skip the marketplace fees and the hassle.

We Buy Collections ▸
Fast, fair offers · we handle grading & shipping

Full credits

artist, inker Murphy Anderson
cover pencils, inks Murphy Anderson

Full plot ⚠ may contain spoilers

▸ Reveal full plot — may contain spoilers

Bill Hanley and his wife own an ant circus, but they are kidnapped by giant ants and taken to perform in an alien circus.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

Key issues in Strange Adventures

Reviews

Reader reviews

No reader reviews yet.