Talent Showcase
#16
(April 1985)
DC,
1985 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.60 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-12-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Sal Amendola (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor); Dick Giordano (executive editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #11.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Inks
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Join with the past and the present for a journey into the future
- Genre
- science fiction
The Potion of Kathpuur
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep beneath the temple of the god Kathpuur...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
in Omega Men (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #6 (septembre 1985)
-
[no title indexed]
Talk About Talent / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- L-1892
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One large weakness in the early issues of New Talent Showcase...
Indexer Notes
Letter by Orchard Worker, profiles on the artists of this issues' stories and illustration from next issue.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Pencils
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Inks
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Colors
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Letters
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Job Number
- G-1737
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- CLIC
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Wordless, four panel gag.
The Time Chasers
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- L. B. Kellogg
- Pencils
- Ron Randall
- Inks
- Ron Randall
- Colors
- John Wilcox
- Letters
- Duncan Andrews
- Editing
- Marv Wolfman; Ernie Colón; Sal Amendola
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The universe... Stretching forever in all its dimensions.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Omega Men (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #9 (décembre 1985)
-
[Smoke Ring Death]
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Pencils
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Inks
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Colors
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Job Number
- G-1738
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Wordless, four panel gag.
The Rest Is-- Herstory...
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Graham Nolan; Sal Amendola (plot)
- Pencils
- Graham Nolan
- Inks
- Graham Nolan
- Colors
- Helen Vesik
- Letters
- Helen Vesik
- Job Number
- G-1720
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Scientists continue to insist that nothing and no one could travel faster than the speed of light...
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Credit for Amendola's plot in this issue's letter column.
[Trapeze Tragedy]
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Pencils
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Inks
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Colors
- Agustin Más (signed as Más Layi)
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Wordless, two panel gag.
Lifetimes
Collapsar / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Ashley Tillman
- Pencils
- Stan Woch
- Inks
- Mark Alexander
- Colors
- Adam Philips
- Letters
- Bob Pinaha
- Editing
- Karen Berger; Sal Amendola
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I knew what I was doing.
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
Rejuvenation!
Collapsar / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Ashley Tillman
- Pencils
- Stan Woch
- Inks
- Stan Woch
- Colors
- Stan Woch ?
- Letters
- Stan Woch
- Editing
- Karen Berger; Sal Amendola
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Take a long look at what was Jim Stevens.
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
[no title indexed]
Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 1985 promises to be our best year yet.
Indexer Notes
Editorial by Dick Giordano and checklist.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Join with the past and the present for a journey into the future"]
-
1.
The Potion of Kathpuur
-
2.
["One large weakness in the early issues of New Talent Showcase..."]
Talk About Talent -
3.
["CLIC"]
-
4.
The Time Chasers
-
5.
[Smoke Ring Death]
-
6.
The Rest Is-- Herstory...
-
7.
[Trapeze Tragedy]
-
8.
Lifetimes
Collapsar -
9.
Rejuvenation!
Collapsar -
10.
["1985 promises to be our best year yet."]
Meanwhile...
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Tony R. Rose
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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