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Showcase, #38

Published: May-June 1962

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Showcase #38

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Issue Contents:
The Nightmare Menace!
1 page superhero

"Gold!"

Characters
  • the Nightmare Menace
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Platinum
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Tin
  • Dr. Will Magnus
Credits
For the Best in Comics Entertainment
Story 1 1 page
Characters
  • Superman
  • Batman
  • Flash
  • Green Lantern
  • Aquaman
  • Bob Hope
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Lois Lane
  • Jimmy Olsen
Story Notes

Inside front cover. House ad for various DC titles.

The Nightmare Menace!
Story 2 26 pages superhero

"Gold!--Sling Doc out of the reach of..."

Storyline

The Metal Men battle a robot built by a foreign power and designed to cause their powers to malfunction.

Characters
  • the Nightmare Menace
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Iron
  • Platinum
  • Tin
  • Dr. Will Magnus
  • Von Vroon
  • Col. Henry Caspar
Credits
Story Notes

Story divided into parts: unnumbered part I (7.67 pages); Part II (4 pages), Part III (14 pages). Col. Henry Caspar was named Col. Henry Casper in the previous issue of Showcase.

Featuring Sea Devils

Story 3 0 pages
Story Notes

On the bottom of page 8 of the main story sequence.

Featuring Superboy

Story 4 1 page
Story Notes

On the page immediately following page 8 of the main story sequence.

Featuring Mystery in Space; Adam Strange

Story 5 1 page
Story Notes

On the page immediately following page 8 of the main story sequence.

Story 6 2 pages non-fiction

"There are about eighty metals..."

Credits
Story Notes

On the two pages immediately preceding page 9 of the main story sequence.

Magic with Metals
Story 7 1 page non-fiction; math & science

"Can you imagine squeezing cold steel out of a tube like toothpaste?"

Story Notes

On the page immediately following page 12 of the main story sequence.

Story 8 1 page

"Be my guest at the King Bros. Sells & Gray Combined 3-Ring Circus"

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
Story Notes

On the page immediately preceding page 13 of the main story sequence.

Time-Out for Talk!
Story 9 1 page advocacy

"Hit him hard, Tim!"

Characters
  • Tim
  • Mike
  • Bert
Credits
Story 10 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 11 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.