(May-June 1959)

DC, 1956 Series
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Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
bi-monthly
On-sale date:
1959-03-17
Indicia Publisher:
National Comics Publications, Inc.
Brand:
Superman DC National Comics
Editing:
Jack Schiff; Murray Boltinoff (Associate Editor); George Kashdan (Associate Editor)
Format:
Standard Silver Age U.S.; Later Standard Modern Age U.S.; Full Color; Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior; Saddle-Stitched; Was An On-Going Series

Issue Notes

1) First Rip Hunter. 2) The last names of Jeff (Smith) and Bonnie and Corky (Baxter) are not given in the four Showcase appearances. 3) The heroes wear street clothes or safari clothes in all four Showcase appearances. The green-red uniforms were finally introduced in Rip Hunter... Time Master #16.


Prisoners of 100 Million B.C.! (Table of Contents)

Rip Hunter...Time Master / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Bob Brown
Inks:
Bob Brown
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction
Characters:
Rip Hunter; Bonnie Baxter; Corky Saxter
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Prisoners of 100 Million B.C. (Table of Contents)

Rip Hunter...Time Master / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Miller
Pencils:
Ruben Moreira
Inks:
Ruben Moreira
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction
Characters:
Rip Hunter (introduction; origin); Jeff Smith; Bonnie Baxter; Corky Baxter
Synopsis:
Having finished work on Time Sphere II, Rip Hunter and Jeff Smith do a test run back to the mesozoic era. Meanwhile, in the present day, crooks force Bonnie Baxter and her brother Corky to take them to Rip and Jeff in Time Sphere I. Meeting in the past, the crooks have the drop on Rip and crew, until battling dinosaurs separate the good guys from the bad. But when the heroes get back to their Time Sphere, they find it's gone missing.
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Indexer Notes

Chapter 1. Origin.


[Tootsie Roll ad] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself? (Table of Contents)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Schiff
Pencils:
Bernard Baily
Inks:
Bernard Baily
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:
fact
Synopsis:
Betsy tells young Bobby that he should keep his room neater but realizes that she has the same problem.

Indexer Notes

Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Later appears in DC comics cover-dated March 1966.


[Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Characters:
Superman; Emmett Kelly

["Whee! This is fun!"] (Table of Contents)

Prehistoric Fun / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Henry Boltinoff
Pencils:
Henry Boltinoff
Inks:
Henry Boltinoff
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

The Modern Day Cavemen (Table of Contents)

Rip Hunter...Time Master / comic story / 6.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Miller
Pencils:
Ruben Moreira
Inks:
Ruben Moreira
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction
Characters:
Rip Hunter; Jeff Smith; Bonnie Baxter; Corky Baxter
Synopsis:
The crooks have hidden the Time Sphere and try to negotiate with Rip to help them find precious minerals to take back and make them rich in the present. In the midst of the discussion, the ledge they are standing on falls away and the bad guys plummet to their apparent doom. With no idea of where the Time Sphere is, Rip and crew have to set up camp for a possibly lengthy stay. But a volcanic eruption exposes the whereabouts of the Time Sphere and also puts it in danger of being destroyed.
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Indexer Notes

Chapter 2


[Tootsie Roll Pop ad] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Dinosaur Album (Table of Contents)

filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Russ Heath?
Inks:
Russ Heath?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Beasts That Ruled the Earth (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

The Great Beast Stampede (Table of Contents)

Rip Hunter...Time Master / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Miller
Pencils:
Ruben Moreira
Inks:
Ruben Moreira
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction
Characters:
Rip Hunter; Jeff Smith; Bonnie Baxter; Corky Baxter
Synopsis:
As the time travelers make tracks for the sphere, they hear the cries of the crooks, who survived the fall and managed to accumulate a sack full of jewels. Since each sphere can only hold 4 people, Bonnie and Corky return to the present in one, while Rip, Jeff, and the crooks head for the disabled sphere, with the pieces necessary for its repair. Once the repairs are made, and the time travelers escape a dinosaur stampede, the sphere heads for its proper time. But home, the crooks find their sack empty, since one of the immutable laws of time travel is that you can't bring anything back with you from the past.
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Indexer Notes

Chapter 3


[Tootsie Roll Fudge ad] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Prisoners of 100 Million B.C.
    Rip Hunter...Time Master
  2. 2. [Tootsie Roll ad]
  3. 3. Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
  4. 4. [Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park]
  5. 5. ["Whee! This is fun!"]
    Prehistoric Fun
  6. 6. The Modern Day Cavemen
    Rip Hunter...Time Master
  7. 7. [Tootsie Roll Pop ad]
  8. 8. Dinosaur Album
  9. 9. Beasts That Ruled the Earth
  10. 10. The Great Beast Stampede
    Rip Hunter...Time Master
  11. 11. [Tootsie Roll Fudge ad]
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