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Title: | Showcase |
Issue: | 5 |
Page Count: | 36 |
Publish Date: | November-December 1956 |
Volume: |
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Showcase 5
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8.0
CGC
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Detailed information about the issue is listed below.
Story Title: | The Human Eel - cover |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | crime |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Garcelon Stamp Co. |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | The Greatest Villain of All Time - comic story |
Pages: | 8 |
Genre: | crime |
Characters: | Lt. Harry Fowler; Sergeant Collins; Ben Gatewood (Producer); Leif Conrad (Director); Danny Tell (Public Relations); Otto Sands (Actor) |
Synopsis: | A thief is stealing artifacts that recreate roles from famous movies such as "The Mad Maestro" and "Phantom of the City". Only Lt. Harry Fowler, once a Hollywood screenwriter, makes the connection to catch Leif Conrad, driven mad to recreate his roles and become "The Greatest Villain of All Time." |
Story Title: | Boys and Girls!! - advertisement |
Features: | Anra, Inc. |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Synopsis: | "Get in line for the greatest Hallowe'en and masquerade costumes ever!" Ad for costumes such as skeleton, pirate, bride, and Superboy and Supergirl. |
Story Title: | Binky's Special Election Exhibit - public service announcement |
Features: | Binky |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | advocacy; teen |
Characters: | Binky Biggs; kids; citizens |
Synopsis: | Binky notes kids aren't old enough to vote, but can help adults vote by providing babysitting services, help with English for new citizens, registration drives, and more. "In 1952, 37 percent of the eligible U.S. voters failed to vote... Let's do our bit!" |
Story Title: | The Two Faces of Mr. X - comic story |
Pages: | 7.66 |
Genre: | crime |
Characters: | Don Reed; FBI agents; Alex Tate (crime boss); gangsters |
Synopsis: | Don Reed is a top fashion model. Until the FBI wants him to impersonate Alex Tate, the leader of a crime syndicate. Reed, a former counter-intelligence agent, secretly studies Tate to prepare for the role. The FBI snatches Tate, who laughs the "stooge" will get "the surprise of your life". At the gang HQ, the posing Reed learns Tate was due to undergo plastic surgery to change his face! Forced into the operating room, Reed wraps in bandages and breaks loose with knockout gas to capture the gang. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Wildroot Cream-Oil |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - comic story |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Genre: | humor |
Characters: | Warden Willis; convict; guard |
Synopsis: | Warden Willis finds out why the convict asked his friends to mail him neckties. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Daisy Manufacturing Company |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - comic story |
Pages: | 0.66 |
Genre: | humor |
Characters: | Casey the Cop; Old Lady |
Synopsis: | An old woman calls Casey to a "riot" of yelling - at a baseball game! |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Palisades Amusement Park |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Story Title: | Secrets of the Secret Service - text article |
Pages: | 2 |
Pencils: | ? (illustration) |
Inks: | ? (illustration) |
Letters: | typeset |
Genre: | non-fiction; spy |
Synopsis: | "Originally established to do counter-espionage work, the agency has assumed many other crime-busting tasks," such a catching counterfeiters. |
Story Title: | The Human Eel - comic story |
Pages: | 8 |
Genre: | crime |
Characters: | Agent Drew; The Human Eel; Zorac; police of many nations |
Synopsis: | Agent Drew is obsessed with stopping The Human Eel's empire of crime. The Eel wears a special "shock suit" that jolts his enemies into submission. Even Drew suffered a shock, and now has a weak heart, so can't function at heights. He pursues the Eel atop the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramid of Egypt, but gasps for air so the Eel escapes. Finally, in Johannesburg, he disguises as Zorac, the Eel's criminal competitor. Donning an oxygen mask, he mounts a high bridge to confront the Eel and smashes the controls of his "shock suit". |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | American Specialty Company |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Disneyland Color Television Set |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Stephens Credit Sales |
Pages: | 1 |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Baby Ruth |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
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