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Publisher: DC

Title: Showcase
Issue: 7
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March-April 1957
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Showcase 7
Owner: Sam I am

590
Views
6.0
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Showcase 7 CGC 8.5
Owner: Sam I am

626
Views
8.5
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Story Title: ULTIVAC Is Loose! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:adventure
Characters:Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Professor Haley; Red Ryan; Rocky Davis]; June Robbins; ULTIVAC


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: ULTIVAC Is Loose! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:adventure
Characters:Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Professor Haley; Red Ryan; Rocky Davis]; June Robbins (first appearance); Felix Hesse (first appearance); ULTIVAC (first appearance)
Synopsis:Felix Hesse, a German scientist, comes pleading to the Challengers to save him from ULTIVAC, "a creature of my own making... but now out of control!" He explains. Interned as a war criminal, he met Floyd Barker, a bank robber. Released, they team to build a giant machine - Suddenly a giant robot hand crashes through the window and seizes Hesse. Spouting propellers, it flies off with Hesse. The Challengers have their next job, "Track down ULTIVAC!"


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Chapter Two: A Challenger Must Die! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:adventure
Characters:Director June Robbins, a computer expert
Synopsis:The Challengers consult Director June Robbins, computer expert. She deduces radioactive materials have given ULTIVAC super-intelligence. She runs a computation to find their odds, and the card reads, "ULTIVAC WILL FALL WHEN A CHALLENGER DIES!" Meanwhile, Hesse watches ULTIVAC build robot-duplicates of Hesse to fetch supplies. Red and June respond to a lead, sneak onto Hesse's copter, and enter ULTIVAC's lab. But the robot can "DETECT YOUR THOUGHTS!" ULTIVAC senses June is not afraid, and they talk. Until Red smashes a power unit and they flee in the confusion.


Story Title: Dead or Alive? - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:non-fiction
Characters:Robert Louis Stevenson
Synopsis:In 1892, in Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson dreamed he died, became a ghost, and was revived by a doctor fetched by his wife.


Story Title: Chapter Three: The Fearful Millions - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:adventure
Synopsis:Hesse shoots ULTIVAC with a ray gun. The robot falls. Now Hesse and Barker can "make millions". ULTIVAC is clamped and displayed in Yankee Stadium in New York before thousands. But ULTIVAC sends a mental signal to June. The robot breaks free and carries June off. Ace, flying a jet, takes command to "talk terms", but ULTIVAC's vibration beam shatters the plane. The robot dives under the sea with June inside his dome. Prof, master diver, dives, but is slammed by a vibro-beam and captured.


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:1
Characters:Moolah the Mystic; The Tattooed Man
Synopsis:Moolah the Mystic meets the new Tattooed Man, who's "sponsored".


Story Title: Supernatural Sleuths - text article
Pages:1.75
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:"Ju-Ju" detectives & the Man with the "Radar Brain" are among those who exploit superstition to make men confess."


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.25
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Chapter Four: The Fatal Prediction! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:adventure
Synopsis:June argues "ULTIVAC is a scientific marvel". The robot swims out. Ashore, Red shoots while Rocky attaches a magnetic bomb that destroys ULTIVAC. Not. ULTIVAC sent out a decoy. June convinces him "Wars never solve anything!" and ULTIVAC agrees to a televised public hearing, and pledges to help humanity. Hesse blasts ULTIVAC and Rocky - who dies on the operating table, as foretold. June offers to take Rocky's place, and the Challs agree, until Rocky miraculously revives. ULTIVAC ends up a stationary calculating machine, his spark gone, yet "still contributing to man's knowledge".


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Littleton Stamp Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Jim and Betty Solve the "Flying Saucer" Mystery! - comics-form advertising
Pages:1


Story Title: Mickey Mantle Goes to Bat for "Billy Bikeless" - advertisement
Pages:1


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