449 – Chris KL-99

A panel from Strange Adventures #1, June 1950
A panel from Strange Adventures #1, June 1950

DC’s Strange Adventures debuted in June 1950. The magazine shipped continuously for a couple decades and was DC’s first pure science fiction comic book. The first issue features a lesser known explorer of space: Chris KL-99, who was the first baby born in space and was named by his parents after Christopher Columbus.