Showcase
#64
(September-October 1966)
DC,
1956 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-07-19
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
Third Silver Age Spectre solo story.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
The Ghost of Ace Chance!
The Spectre / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Ace Chance
- Reprints
in 
in 
The Ghost of Ace Chance!
The Spectre / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited)
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ace Chance was a gambler
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Ace Chance (villain); Mona Marcy; Soraboru
- Synopsis
- The ghost of gambler Ace Chance takes over the body of Jim Corrigan, stranding the Spectre without a host.
- Reprints
-
in Les Chefs-d'œuvre de la bande dessinée (Planète, 1967 series) (1967) - in Spectre (Arédit-Artima, 1967 series) #2 (juillet 1967) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
-
in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #493 (November 1982) - in Showcase Presents: The Spectre (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
- in The Spectre: The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([October] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story across 24 pages in three parts of 7.67, 5.67, and 9.67 pages.
Feature continues in The Spectre #1.
[no title indexed]
Readers' Rendezvous / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Mike Friedrich and Irene Vartanoff.
[no title indexed]
Cap's Hobby Hints / activity / 0.5 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as
Henry Boltinoff) - Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
- Job Number
- 6422
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm making my own decals for my models, Tom!
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Idea from Rob Kuchar, West Newton, Pa.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Ghost of Ace Chance!
The Spectre -
1.
The Ghost of Ace Chance!
The Spectre -
2.
[no title indexed]
Readers' Rendezvous -
3.
["I'm making my own decals for my models, Tom!"]
Cap's Hobby Hints -
4.
[no title indexed]
Direct Currents
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Matthew Head
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Jason Sacks
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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