"The Planet that Came to a Standstill" is widely regarded as one of the fan favorites of DC's Silver Age, and indeed it went on to win that year's Alley Award for best full-length story. Surprisingly though, the initial response as seen in the LC of MiS 78 was somewhat mixed. Perhaps this is because of the unfortunate circumstance of only having 1 page to work with this time, and Julie wanted to show a representative sampling of responses, but one reader felt let down by Adam being "exiled" back to Earth, and another pointed out the flaw in his means of defeating Kanjar Ro:



In the next LC, Paul Seydor goes into a lengthy discourse on how to tell apart different inkers, while another reader applauds Julie's witty repartee, even comparing him to Bob Newhart!:






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