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Showcase '94 4

SHOWCASE '94 #4

Cover Date: April 1994
Cover Price: $1.95

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Cover Credits:
Art: Kyle Baker (signed)


Story: "Madmen Across the Water" (18 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlan Grant
PencilsTim Sale
InksJimmy Palmiotti
LetteringKen Bruzenak
ColorsBernie Mireault
Consulting editingDennis O'Neil
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Jeremiah Arkham (next in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #33)

Villain(s):

Two-Face (next in Batman Vol. 1 #511)
Poison Ivy (next in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #94)
Amygdala (next in Underworld Unleashed: Batman - Devil's Asylum #1)
Firefly II (next in Detective Comics #689)
Scarecrow (next in Anima #2)
Riddler (next in Robin Vol. 2 #8)
Mad Hatter (next in Guy Gardner: Warrior #29)
Cornelius Stirk (next in Underworld Unleashed: Batman - Devil's Asylum #1)
Doctor Faustus (dies)
Skeets Young
Big Red

Other Character(s):

Victor Zehrhardt (next in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #33)

Synopsis:

As the Arkham inmates learn how to play softball, Jeremiah Arkham learns that Doctor Faustus (a fairly normal guy, apart from the fact he believes Satan asks him to kill at least one person a month in exchange for immortality) has excellent leadership skills and is able to shape the disparate personalities into something resembling a team. The big day of the match against the Blackgate inmates arrive and things are going very well until some of the Blackgate team taunt Amygdala, causing a full-blown riot to cover an escape attempt. The attempt fails, and Doctor Faustus is killed in the process. As for the game, it is debatable which side one, but Zehrhard insists that his side, the Blackgate inmates, were the victors, and all of Arkham's charges are confined to their cells around the clock. He desperately longs for the day when the Asylum is rebuilt.


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Second Story: "Banzai, Good Buddy!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryChuck Dixon
PencilsHoward Porter
InksMark Stegbauer
LetteringL. Lois Buhalis
ColorsGreg Rosewall
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Psyba-Rats:
Razorsharp (next in issue #12/2)
Hackrat (next in Psyba-Rats #1)

Other Character(s):

T. Clyde Pontefract
Pontefract's security staff

Synopsis:

Razorsharp and Hackrat give the security guards a good run around, largely aided by Rae's meta-human ability to transform her arms (and, it seems, her legs) into razor-sharp metal blades. When they finally reach their goal, and insert the computer virus into the system, they are congratulated by the building's owner, T. Clyde Pontefract. He had hired them to find out if his security was adequate, which it evidently isn't.


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Third Story: "Caged City, Chapter Three: Bug War" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBrian Augustyn
PencilsPatrick Rolo
InksDick Giordano
LetteringWillie Schubert
ColorsMike Danza
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Blue Beetle II (next in ???)

Villain(s):

Kurtz
Marcus

Synopsis:

After an aerial chase between several airships very similar to his own Bug, the Blue Beetle is able to call the Feds in to Freemont to end the reign of Kurtz. Before he leaves, he ascertains that the patents to his technology were sold to the Freemont Project by his father Thomas. Quite why, Beetle doesn't know, but he's determined to find out.


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