Showcase #38

(May-June 1962)

For the Best in Comics Entertainment (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Nightmare Menace! (Table of Contents: 2)

Metal Men / comic story / 25.67 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Ross Andru

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

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

Feature Logo

Metal Men

Genre

superhero

Characters

the Nightmare Menace; Gold; Lead; Mercury; Iron; Platinum; Tin; Dr. Will Magnus; Von Vroon; Col. Henry Caspar

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #34 (March 1983)
• in The Metal Men Archives (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)
• in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([November] 2007)

Keywords

World's Fair

Indexer 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.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Sea Devils / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Superboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Mystery in Space; Adam Strange / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Metal Facts and Fancies! / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ross Andru

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

There are about eighty metals...

Genre

non-fiction

Reprints

• in Super Comics (BSV - Williams, 1968 series) #18

Keywords

copper; gold; iron; plutonium; radium; sodium; thallium

Indexer Notes

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

Magic with Metals (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

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

Genre

non-fiction; math & science

Keywords

cerium; gallium; indium; mercury; thallium; tungsten

Indexer Notes

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

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Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Time-Out for Talk! (Table of Contents: 9)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors

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Letters

Ira Schnapp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hit him hard, Tim!

Genre

advocacy

Characters

Tim; Mike; Bert

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Best Values Coins and Currency / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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150 Civil War Soldiers / advertisement / 1 page (report information)