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Publisher: DC

Title: Showcase
Issue: 18
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: January-February 1959
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Showcase 18
Owner: Sam I am

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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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