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Title: | Showcase |
Issue: | 18 |
Page Count: | 36 |
Publish Date: | January-February 1959 |
Volume: |
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Showcase 18
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6.0
CGC
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Detailed information about the issue is listed below.
Story Title: | The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange! - cover |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | adventure; science fiction |
Characters: | Adam Strange; Alanna |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Stephens Credit Sales |
Pages: | 1 |
Story Title: | Invaders from the Atom Universe - comic story |
Pages: | 14.33 |
Genre: | adventure; science fiction |
Characters: | Adam Strange; Rann; Alanna; Vrenn chieftain; The Vrenn |
Synopsis: | Adam is zeta-beamed to Rann, but pop-eyed green aliens inhabit the city! Adam is thrown into an "Orkinomikron" to wake on a desolate atomic world, having been shrunk. The Rannians will perish. He finds the original transfer machine hanging over a bottomless pit. Color streaks tell him the fuel was phosphorous. Scraping matches, he transports himself and Alanna back home, except they're tiny spies. Back on the desolate world, he rallies the Rannians and teleports to Rann. Belt units make the Rannians giants who send the Vrenn packing. And Adam is zapped away to Earth. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Tootsie Roll |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | Formula for Success! - public service announcement |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | advocacy |
Characters: | Jimmy; Mr. Lane |
Synopsis: | Jimmy is a natural-born musician, but his father demands he take Engineering courses. A kind teacher intervenes. "I think young people need a chance to develop all their talents!" |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - cartoon |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Genre: | non-fiction; math & science |
Synopsis: | Facts about Jupiter's and Uranus's satellites. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Columbia |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Tootsie Roll Pop |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | Bernard Lyot - comic story |
Features: | Giants of the Telescope |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | non-fiction; math & science |
Characters: | Bernard Lyot |
Synopsis: | Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph to study the solar corona, and made observations of Mercury and Mars. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Bunker Hill Sporting Goods Co. |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | Prize Stars! - text article |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Genre: | non-fiction; math & science |
Synopsis: | Facts about Proxima Centauri, Sirius, Beta Orionis, and other stars. |
Story Title: | The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange! - comic story |
Pages: | 9.67 |
Genre: | adventure; science fiction |
Characters: | Adam Strange; Alanna; Tak Vall (first appearance, villain); Moora (first appearance, villain) |
Synopsis: | Adam rockets over a cop to meet the zeta beam. The new rage in Ranagar is Adam Strange full-size dolls. Alanna wants to send 11 - plus Adam! - to isolationist Dys, who may be planning an invasion. Alanna fakes an emergency landing. Tak Vall, Chief Scientist, will plant "KLY" bombs in the dolls and destroy Ranagar. Adam sneaks to find Alanna. He jet-packs after a flier - as (wind-up doll) Alanna is pitched over the Flaming Sea. Alanna sees Adam blown up, but he rushes in. The doll didn't perspire. Adam sent the bomb-dolls into the ocean. At the honors dinner - he's zeta-beamed away! |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Tootsie Roll Fudge |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Giant Dinosaurs |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Wilson Chemical Co. |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
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