Showcase #82
(May 1969)

DC, 1956 Series
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Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthy, with the exception of January, April, July and October
On-sale Date
1969-03-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Periodical Publications Inc.
Brand
Superman DC National Comics
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Murray Boltinoff

Issue Notes

First Nightmaster.

On-sale date from copyright registration.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Nightmaster / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino ?

Job Number
B-152
Genre
adventure; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Nightmaster

Indexer Notes

New logo design begins with this issue.

Some Forbidden Fate (Table of Contents: 1)

Nightmaster / comic story / 21.83 pages (report information)

Script
Denny O'Neil
Pencils
Jerry Grandenetti
Inks
Dick Giordano
Colors
?
Letters
Shelly Lefferman ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
You do not understand it, do you, Jim Rook?
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Characters
Nightmaster [Jim Rook] (introduction, origin); Janet Jones (girl friend); thugs; King Zolto; Nacht (in flashback); Brom (in flashback); Farben (in flashback); Boz; Warlocks; the Ice Witch. (First appearance of all characters)
Synopsis
Jim is transported to a magic dimension, and told that he is descended from an ancient hero. The elderly king needs Jim to use that ancestor's sword and fight the king's enemies. Jim wants only to return home, until told that his girl friend was also transported. She is now held by the king's enemies, and Jim must fight his way to her.
Reprints
Keywords
dimension; magic sword; quest; witch

Indexer Notes

Story across 23 pages, but pages 7 and 23 are 2/3 pages and page 14 is a 1/2-page.

Take That, You Hideous Magician, You! (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Denny O'Neil
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
B-122
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Friend, it's possible you've been missing something.

#7: Detective Comics #27 (May, 1939) (Table of Contents: 3)

Fact File / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
S-138
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The comics readers of thirty yeas ago always could depend upon getting a good buy for their money whenever they picked up a copy of Detective Comics.
Characters
Batman
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Nightmaster
  2. 1. Some Forbidden Fate
    Nightmaster
  3. 2. Take That, You Hideous Magician, You!
  4. 3. #7: Detective Comics #27 (May, 1939)
    Fact File
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