"The Metal Conqueror of Rann" contained some beautifully evocative scenes as Adam fought desperately for his lover's life. In fact, anyone who thinks DC's Silver Age characters were too robotic should read this story.

Not surprisingly, most of the readers responded favorably to this outpouring of emotion, although longtime fan Paul Gambaccini, of all people, dismissed it as "mushy"!!:





Finally, that brings us to our last column, with letters commenting on "The Deadly Shadows of Adam Strange", the last tale in this archive volume. One reader had a bone to pick with the final scene, while another actually agreed with Julie's stance that Alanna should never find her way to Earth:




That's all folks! Hope you enjoyed it - I'll be back in a couple of months with excerpts from Green Lantern's Mail Chute for GL volume 6.