The Giants From Outer Space (1958) by Jack Kirby

Cover by Ruben Moreira


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Tales of the Unexpected #23 (March, 1958) © DC Comics
Art by Jack Kirby

Life On Other Worlds: Pluto By Murphy Anderson (1946)

Art by Murphy Anderson
Planet Comics #45 (Nov. 1946) © Fiction House

The Black Terror in "The Serpent Lady Returns" by Jerry Robinson & Mort Meskin (1948)

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The Black Terror #24 (Sept. 1948) published by Standard
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Story: Jerry Robinson; Art: Mort Meskin

The Origin of Aqualad!

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Story: Robert Bernstein; Art: Ramona Fradon
Taken from Showcase #76 (1968), reprinted from Adventure #269 (1960)

Coevolution of Bat & Dolphin Echolocation

Echolocation in dolphins and bats evolved separately, but through the same genetic changes.

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Dolphins and bats have both evolved the same specialized form of inner-ear hair cells that allow them to use sophisticated echolocation: detecting unseen obstacles or tracking down prey by making a high frequency noise and listening for the echo that bounces back.

"The natural world is full of examples of species that have evolved similar characteristics independently" said Stephen Rossiter. "However, it is generally assumed that most of these so-called 'convergent traits' have arisen by different changes in the animal's DNA. Our study shows that this very complex ability - echolocation - has in fact evolved by identical genetic changes in bats and dolphins."

Kamandi © DC Comics

According to Rossiter, the discovery represents an "unprecedented" example of convergence between two very different animals, and suggests that further studies might unearth more genetic similarities between species than scientists would have suspected. link

Ref.: Convergent sequence evolution between echolocating bats and dolphins. 2010. Y. Liu, et al. Current Biology 20: R53-R54, 26.

Appointment in Paris [Danger Trail #1] by Alex Toth

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Danger Trail #1 (July-August 1950)
© DC Comics
Story by France Herron; Art by Alex Toth

The Thing From The Sea! by Wally Wood (1954)

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Art by Wally Wood
From Eerie #16 (1954), © Avon