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Showcase '95 1

SHOWCASE '95 #1

Cover Date: January 1995
Cover Price: $2.50
Publication Date: 1994-12-15

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Tom Grummett (signed)
Inks: Doug Hazlewood (signed)


Story: "Perfect Form" (18 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCharles Moore
PencilsStuart Immonen
InksWade Von Grawbadger
LetteringKen Bruzenak
ColorsTom McCraw
EditingFrank Pittarese

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (last in Action Comics #706)

Supporting Character(s):

Elizabeth Perske (last in Supergirl Vol. 3 #4; next in Supergirl Vol. 4 #17)

Villain(s):

Lord Dichon (first appearance; an artificial intelligence)

Other Character(s):

Bailey (first appearance; an employee of Bone-Dagger Labs)
Hitch (first appearance; an employee of Bone-Dagger Labs)
Skyver (first appearance; an employee of Bone-Dagger Labs)
Khundian miners (first appearance; all die)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
United States of America
Charlotte, NC
Unidentified Space Sector
deep space (on board a Khundian mining vessel)

Comment(s):

Story continues in the next issue.

Synopsis:

Visiting the town of Charlotte, Supergirl encounters three scientists who seem to be causing a disturbance underground which threatens the city. A robotic being approaches the city from space, looking for the very crystals the scientists were investigating. However, he sees in Supergirl, a "self-repairing organic unit" something far more wonderful and decides to use her for a host body, reverting her to protoplasmic form and taking her aboard his ship.


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Second Story: "Do the Clothes Make the Man?" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMark Wheatley, Allan Gross
PencilsPhil Hester
InksWayne Faucher
LetteringAgnes Pinaha
ColorsBjarne Hansen
EditingRuben Diaz

Feature Character(s):

Argus II (last in Flash Vol. 2 #94)

Supporting Character(s):

Linda Park (last in ???)
MacAlistaire

Villain(s):

Lee Anne Mosher (first appearance; an arms dealer)
Anson Mosher (first appearance; Lee's son)

Other Character(s):

Eddie (first appearance; a corrupt police officer)

Synopsis:

Argus encounters a young man who is using a device to dissolve the clothes from the models at a fashion show, but as the man happens to be the darling son of the show's organizer, nothing is done, save that he suffers the same embarrassment as the models. He then investigates getting a new costume, and realises he must go to MacAlistaire and pay many thousands of dollars for state-of-the-art body armor.


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Third Story: "Ghosts" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryR.A. Jones
PencilsGene Gonzales
InksWade Von Grawbadger
LetteringKevin Cunningham
ColorsLee Loughridge
EditingEddie Berganza

Feature Character(s):

Alan Scott (last in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #0; becomes Sentinel; next in Guy Gardner: Warrior #29)

Supporting Character(s):

Molly Mayne-Scott (last in Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #7/6; next in Underworld Unleashed: Abyss - Hell's Sentinel #1)
Torquemada (last in Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #7/6; next in Green Lantern Vol. 3 #81)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Atom (as a ghost conjured by Torquemada)
Doctor Mid-Nite (as a ghost conjured by Torquemada)
Hourman (as a ghost conjured by Torquemada)

Location(s):

New York, NY
Valhalla Cemetery (first appearance; not named in this issue)

Synopsis:

A vision of his fallen Justice Society comrades leads Alan Scott to discover that he has power within him, the power of the Starheart that powered his ring. He renames himself Sentinel as Torquemada observes from afar, knowing that Alan's power will be crucial to the world.


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