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Title: | Showcase |
Issue: | 65 |
Page Count: | 36 |
Publish Date: | November-December 1966 |
Volume: | |
Contributors: | Editor: Jack Miller |
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Detailed information about the issue is listed below.
Story Title: | Academy for Super-Heroes! - cover |
Features: | Inferior Five |
Pages: | 1 |
Pencils: | Mike Sekowsky |
Inks: | Mike Esposito |
Letters: | Gaspar Saladino |
Genre: | satire-parody; superhero |
Characters: | Inferior Five [Awkwardman; The Blimp; White Feather; Dumb Bunny; Merryman]; Egg's Men [The Ape; Icarus; Winter Wonderland] |
Story Title: | "Agony at the Academy or "A Scrap'll Floor the Teacher!" - comic story |
Features: | Inferior Five |
Pages: | 10.67 |
Pencils: | Mike Sekowsky (credited) |
Inks: | Mike Esposito (credited) |
Letters: | Joe Letterese ? |
Genre: | satire-parody; superhero |
Characters: | Inferior Five [Merryman; Dumb Bunny; The Blimp; Awkwardman; White Feather]; Dean Egghead; Egg's Men [The Ape (Harry McElhinney); Basilisk (Irish Autumns); Icarus (Melvin Murgatroyd XIV); Winter Wonderland (Billy Gander); Levitation Lass (Penelope Pink)]; Fraternity of Atavistic No-Goodnicks/FAN [Dr. Dinosaur; Frog Man; Angel Fish; Mr. Amoeba; Pterano Don Juan] |
Synopsis: | At Dean Egghead's Academy for Super-Heroes, the staff quits. The JLA, Metal Men, Doom Patrol, Metamorpho, and even Super-Hip turn him down, so the dean is reduced to hiring the Inferior Five as teachers. They bumble through lessons, getting zapped to stone, doused, iced, and otherwise damaged. But Dean Egghead has hope. A fan club is coming to visit. Except it's really the Fraternity of Atavistic No-Goodnicks (FAN) bent on destruction! |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Plastic Man |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Pencils: | Gil Kane |
Genre: | humor; superhero |
Characters: | Plastic Man |
Synopsis: | Ad for "the one, the only original Plastic Man" #1 in "Brand New Exploits!" |
Story Title: | Second Super-Smash Issue of the Ultimate Utmost in Comic Magazines -- - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Justice League of America |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Pencils: | Mike Sekowsky |
Genre: | superhero |
Synopsis: | Ad for 80 Page Giant Justice League of America #48 (reprints). |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - letters page |
Features: | The Inferior Five Dead Letter Office |
Pages: | 1 |
Pencils: | ? (illustration) |
Inks: | ? (illustration) |
Letters: | Typeset |
Synopsis: | Editorial Letters on the debut of the Inferior Five. Despite that "millions" wanted this issue to feature Batman teamed with Fox & Crow, here's the I5 again. Includes letters like, "The Inferior Five will definitely go down in history - and the sooner the better!" from Charmaine Missleto from Wake Island. Includes praise from Joe Orlando, Mike Esposito, and Nelson Bridwell (the creators). And an actual letter from Bill Smith of Bangor, ME. |
Story Title: | Part II: "Two Brains Are Better Than One!" - comic story |
Features: | Inferior Five |
Pages: | 6.67 |
Pencils: | Mike Sekowsky |
Inks: | Mike Esposito |
Letters: | Joe Letterese ? |
Genre: | satire-parody; superhero |
Synopsis: | Dr. Dinosaur boasts two brains (one in his tail), so plans to destroy the Egg's Men. And the I5? "Them, too." The I5 aren't having much luck with the "high-spirited students", so go on a field trip to demonstrate super power use, destroying property willy-nilly, if accidentally. Arriving back at school, they're ambushed by the FAN! "Attack, Nogoodniks!"" |
Story Title: | For the Most in Thrills... Go- Go- Go- - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Teen Titans; Metamorpho |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Pencils: | Nick Cardy; Ramona Fradon |
Synopsis: | House ad for Teen Titans #6 with Beast Boy and Metamorpho #9. |
Story Title: | Lost -- A Free Education! - public service announcement |
Features: | Binky |
Pages: | 1 |
Pencils: | Bob Oksner |
Inks: | Bob Oksner |
Letters: | Ira Schnapp |
Genre: | advocacy |
Characters: | Tim; Binky; unnamed former student |
Synopsis: | Binky chides Tim for skipping school, and a grocery boy warns him he needs an education. "Go back to school!" |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Direct Currents |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Letters: | Typeset |
Synopsis: | Blurbs for Detective Comics #357, Teen Titans #6 with Beast Boy, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #97, and other comics. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - activity |
Features: | Cap's Hobby Hints |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Pencils: | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Inks: | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Synopsis: | Wood slathered with plaster and sprinkled with pebbles makes a "real stone fence." |
Story Title: | Part III: "Some Throwbacks Should Be Thrown Back!" or "But Some Shouldn't!" - comic story |
Features: | Inferior Five |
Pages: | 5.67 |
Pencils: | Mike Sekowsky |
Inks: | Mike Esposito |
Letters: | Joe Letterese ? |
Genre: | satire-parody; superhero |
Characters: | Freedom Brigade [The Patriot; Lady Liberty; Capt. Swift; The Bowman; Princess Power; Mr. Might; The Mermaid] |
Synopsis: | Awkwardman crashes into the pool - and meets Angel Fish, a mermaid! The I5 pound on FAN with vacuum cleaners, barrage arrows, and a swift kick in the pants for Dr. Dinosaur. The Egg's Men help, and the FAN is rounded up. The I5 are "not quite up to teaching school", so call in their parents, the retired Freedom Brigade! They'll train the "super-heroes of tomorrow", who lament "the picnic is over". And Awkwardman pines for Angel Fish. |
Story Title: | Holy Partnership! - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | The Adventure of Jerry Lewis |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Genre: | humor |
Characters: | Jerry Lewis; Batman; Robin; Joker |
Synopsis: | House ad for The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #97, with Batman, Robin, and Joker as guest stars. |
Story Title: | New Man Joins Platoon! - advertisement |
Features: | Adventures in the GI Joe Club |
Pages: | 1 |
Characters: | Andy; George |
Synopsis: | Hasbro introduces the new G.I. Joe, a Green Beret, then the heroes of Vietnam and subject of a John Wayne movie. |
Story Title: | Build These 4 Great New Aurora Hobby Kits! - advertisement |
Features: | Aurora Models |
Pages: | 1 |
Synopsis: | Introducing Kit 464, Captain Kidd (actually a reissue), Kit 451 The [goofy] Frog, Kit 422 Forgotten Prisoner of Castelmare, and Kit 413 The Green Beret. Also available Kit 452 Blackbeard (another reissue) and Kit 452 The [goofy] Vampire. |
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