Issue | #89 |
Published | August 1959 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Jack Schiff (Editor); George Kashdan (Associate Editor); Murray Boltinoff (Associate Editor) |
Pencils | Bernard Baily |
Inks | Bernard Baily |
Synopsis | A mysterious plant grows up, right through a city street, on a quest to absorb every bit of water it can find. The authorities determine that they can kill the plant if they poison its supply of water. But more plants appear and the plant develops the ability to separate the poison out of the water. |
Pencils | Bill Ely |
Inks | Bill Ely |
Genre | gag |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Characters | Superman |
Synopsis | Paul Drake wants to be respected as a concert violinist, but due to his average performance skills only gets offers to be a musical clown. When he hears the legend of the violin of Lajos, he decides that it will change his destiny. Little does he know how right he is. |
Pencils | Doug Wildey |
Inks | Doug Wildey |
Reprinted | in Unexpected, The (DC, 1968 series) #128 (October 1971) [retitled there as "The Haunted Violin"] |
Genre | Funny Animals |
Script | Jack Schiff |
Pencils | Rube Grossman |
Inks | Rube Grossman |
Letters | Ira Schnapp |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | Jay Drews, billed as the Man of 1000 Faces, does a quick-change act. After a performance, he's approached by a stranger selling him a realistic Martian costume, claiming he found it in a chest that fell out of the sky. Jay purchases the costume, tries it on, and then finds he can't take it off. The costume seems to have other plans for Jay... |
Pencils | Bruno Premani |
Inks | Bruno Premani |
Reprinted | in Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #44 (May 1960) |
Synopsis | On an archaelogical dig, mysterious lights start emanating from caves, having dramatic effects on the men on the dig, changing them into strange creatures. |
Pencils | Bernard Baily |
Inks | Bernard Baily |