Showcase #20

(May-June 1959)

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

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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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #225 (September-October 1974)

Indexer Notes

Chapter 1. Origin.

[Tootsie Roll ad] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

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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:

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #225 (September-October 1974)

Indexer Notes

Chapter 2

[Tootsie Roll Pop ad] (Table of Contents)

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Dinosaur Album (Table of Contents)

filler / 2 pages (report information)

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Script:

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Pencils:

Russ Heath?

Inks:

Russ Heath?

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Beasts That Ruled the Earth (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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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:

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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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #225 (September-October 1974)

Indexer Notes

Chapter 3

[Tootsie Roll Fudge ad] (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

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