Twin Earths was an American science fiction comic strip that ran in Sunday and daily newspapers from 1952 until the early 1960s, written by Oskar Lebeck and drawn by Alden McWilliams. The daily strip began on 16 June 1952, the Sunday on 1 March 1953. The Sunday was drawn in a half page format, but it was available in smaller formats with dropped panels.
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The story told of another Earth, in the same orbit as our planet but on the opposite side of the sun, whose scientifically advanced civilization visits us in flying saucers. Comics historian Stephen Donnelly noted:
While semi-retired, Lebeck teamed with McWilliams (who had illustrated some of Lebeck's past books and had done work for him at Dell Comics) to launch Twin Earths. It made use of the duplicate earth concept and tapped into the growing interest during the period in flying saucers. In 1957, Lebeck retired and McWilliams assumed scripting duties for the strip.
The Twin Earths Sunday strip ended December 28, 1958, while the daily strip continued until May 25, 1963.
Most of the strips have been reprinted in magazine format. In 1987, Dragon Lady Press published one issue of Science Fiction Classics featuring Twin Earths. Beginning in 1991, R. Susor Publications reprinted most of the daily and Sunday strips in three magazines, Twin Earths (eight issues), Twin Earths Sunday Pages (five issues), and Twin Earths Special Edition (one issue)
Twin Earths Special Edition #1, R. Susor Publications, 1993.