Showcase (1956-1978) comic books

Showcase (1956-1978) 14 CBCS 5.0 Restored

Slight amateur restoration

Paper: Off white to white

Amateur Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover.

Label #21-1D352A2-008

Cover pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Frank Giacoia. 4th appearance of the Flash in "Giants of the Time-World!", script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Frank Giacoia; The Flash, Fastest Man Alive, battles the strongest menace of all time, people who grow bigger every second. Origin of Dr. Alchemy in "The Man Who Changed the Earth!", script by John Broome, pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Frank Giacoia; In the previous issue of Showcase, the Flash - after a hectic series of adventures - capture and sent to jail his most formidable foe, Mr. Element!; Now another criminal appears - more bold, more daring, and possessing even greater uncanny than Mr. Element - The Amazing Doctor Alchemy - who to Flash's astonishment turns out to be a two-in-one criminal! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Showcase (1956-1978) 22 CBCS 4.0

Paper: Off white

Small piece of tape on interior cover.

Label #23-33A20C7-005

Origin and 1st appearance of Hal Jordan (Silver Age Green Lantern). Cover and interior art by Gil Kane. SOS Green Lantern; Hal Jordan is selected by the power ring of Abin Sur to become a Green Lantern. Secret of the Flaming Spear!; Saboteurs try to crash a new experimental aircraft created by Ferris Aircraft. Menace of the Runaway Missile!; Green Lantern stops a missile launched by Dr. Parris at a government Hydrogen Power facility. Scripts by John Broome. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Showcase (1956-1978) 23 CBCS 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #0009863-AA-045

2nd appearance of Green Lantern. Cover and interior pencils by Gil Kane, cover and interior inks by Joe Giella. Summons from Space!; Green Lantern travels to Venus to save a blue-skinned caveman-like race from attack by yellow Pterodactyl-like creatures. The Invisible Destroyer!; When Dr. Phillips is distracted, The Invisible Destroyer is released from his mind. Scripts by John Broome. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Showcase (1956-1978) 25 GD- 1.8

2.75" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached at one staple.

Cover pencils by Joe Kubert, inks by Jack Adler. Captives of the Medieval Sorcerer starring Rip Hunter...Time Master, script by Jack Miller, art by Joe Kubert; As a favor to his friend Professor Blakeslee, Rip agrees to take Doctor Senn into the past; The destination is the island kingdom of Rittannia in the year 960; Upon arrival, Senn takes off on his own; While waiting for his return, Rip and his crew are discovered by King Gamina and his guards; Captured, they are taken to the city and thrown into a dungeon; Out of nowhere, Cholorus the Sorcerer appears to ask why the strangers have not been thrown into the Valley of Monsters. Buzzy's "Famous Books" Quiz public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Ruben Moreira. Ad for House of Mystery #97, House of Secrets #30, and Tales of the Unexpected #47. From Rocks to Rockets text article. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Showcase (1956-1978) 52 FN- 5.5

Cover by Lee Elias. "Prisoners of the Lost World," script by Bob Haney, art by Lee Elias; When Cave Carson and his team discover the real underground city of Xanadu, they must face a terrifying monster and a monumental decision! 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Showcase (1956-1978) 55 VG 4.0

Cover by Murphy Anderson. 1st solo Golden Age Green Lantern in Silver Age (pre-dates Green Lantern 40), Doctor Fate, and Hourman star in "Solomon Grundy Goes on a Rampage!", script by Gardner Fox, art by Murphy Anderson; When Solomon Grundy last fought Green Lantern Alan Scott, Green Lantern encased Solomon Grundy in an emerald sphere prison floating above Earth; Years later, the sphere has now crash landed back on Earth, and Solomon Grundy has emerged to get his revenge on Green Lantern; Solomon Grundy instinctually heads back to his home of Slaughter Swamp, which at this point is bordering the Tyler Chemical Company plant; At the Tower of Fate, Kent Nelson is warned that there is trouble by his crystal ball; Seeing the source of the trouble to be Slaughter Swamp, Nelson becomes Dr. Fate; Hourman comes across Solomon Grundy in Slaughter Swamp; Hourman pops his Miraclo pill, then attacks Solomon Grundy. One-page text feature tells the origins of Dr. Fate and Hourman. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Showcase (1956-1978) 70 CBCS 6.5 SS Friedlander

Paper: Off white to white

Witnessed Signature: Barbara Friedlander on 7/31/2021

Label #21-306BA3D-001

Leave it to Binky in these reprints! Binky stars in "Duel Shiners," "Changed Man," "Leap Before You Look" and "Perfect Match." Art by Bob Oksner. Plus, the 2-page "Peggy's Page." 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Showcase (1956-1978) 73 CGC 6.5

Paper: Off white

Label #4384477002

Cover art by Steve Ditko. 1st appearance of the Creeper in The Coming of the Creeper!, script by Steve Ditko (plot) and Don Segall (Dialogue), art by Steve Ditko; Professor Yatz is kidnapped by "Reds"; Jack Ryder, mouthy TV host, is fired, then hired as a security investigator; He buys odds and ends for a bizarre costume for Devlin's society ball; He's stabbed and thrown in Yatz; Yatz hides his inventions: a molecular transmitter goes in the wound, and a healing serum in his veins. A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper filler page, art by Morris Waldinger. Ad for Action Comics #360, an 80-Page Giant featuring Supergirl, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by George Klein. Meet the Men Behind the Creeper; bios of Steve Ditko and Don Segall. Ad for the Enemy Ace, art by Joe Kubert. Ad for Ditko's Hawk and the Dove. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Showcase (1956-1978) 79 CGC 6.0

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4076854011

Cover pencils by Jay Scott Pike. Ad for Green Lantern #65 and Brave & Bold 81. 1st appearance of Dolphin in The Fantasy at 14 Fathoms!, script and art by Jay Scott Pike; US Navy frogmen cut into a sunken WWII Navy ship to retrieve documents from a vault; And spot a white-haired girl(!) at the sea bottom; When she's brought aboard, she turns blue from suffocation--because she has gills; With regular dips in the ocean, she falls for Chris and learns some English. Ad for Ideal's Captain Action, Action Boy, and Dr. Evil toys, art by Kurt Schaffenberger. Ad for 80-Page Giant Superman #212. The Kid from Atlantis!, script by Robert Bernstein, art by Ramona Fradon; Aquaman helps Aqualad, a rejected child from Atlantis, to overcome his fear of fish; Aquaman adopts Aqualad as his sidekick. Article on "What's In a Fanzine." Ad for Captain Action #2, art by Gil Kane. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Showcase (1956-1978) 96 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #4381088002

Cover by Jim Aparo. "Defection!", script by Paul Kupperberg, pencils by Joe Staton, inks by Bruce Patterson; The Doom Patrol returns home after their defeat of General Immortus to find a U.S. agent waiting for them in their headquarters; Lt. Matt Cable has been assigned by U.S. Intelligence to apprehend and arrest Russian ex-cosmonaut Lt. Col. Valentina Vostok, aka the new Negative Woman; The Doom Patrol defends their new teammate, and trap Lt. Cable in a locker; Robotman grills Negative Woman on her past, and she leaves; Her exit, though, is interrupted by the Cossack, a Russian agent assigned to bring her in. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.