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SHOWCASE #15

Cover Date: July-August 1958
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1958-05-20

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Cover Credits:
Art: Bob Brown


Story: "The Great Plutonium Plot" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PlotGardner Fox
StoryEdmond Hamilton
ArtBob Brown
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Space Ranger (Rick Starr; first appearance)

Supporting Character(s):

Myra Mason (first appearance)
Thaddeus Starr (first appearance)
Cryll (first appearance; also in flashback)

Villain(s):

Zandor (first appearance)
his henchmen (first appearance of all)
Jarko the Jovian (a space pirate; first appearance)
his gang (first appearance of all)
Gurph the Martian Raider (a criminal; first appearance)
his gang (first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Crew of the interplanetary liner Asterex (first appearance of all)
Joe (a spacecraft worker: first appearance)
President Krag of Mercury (first appearance)

Location(s):

Earthport New York
North American Space Station
Moon (a plutonium factory)
Mars (Marsport)
Space Ranger's secret asteroid base (located between Mars and Jupiter; first appearance)
Ganymede

Story Reprinted in:

DC Super-Stars #8 (October 1976)
Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics (Simon and Schuster) (October 1980)
Showcase Presents: Showcase #1 ([July] 2012)

Solicitation:

A renegade scientist is stealing all the plutonium in the galaxy. He hopes to rule the solar system with his "Teleportator


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Second Story: "The Robot Planet" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PlotGardner Fox
StoryEdmond Hamilton
ArtBob Brown
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Space Ranger (Rick Starr)

Supporting Character(s):

Myra Mason
Cryll

Villain(s):

The Great Brain (would-be ruler of a Robot Empire; first appearance; also in flashback)
Robot-Corps (first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

The Shann (an alien race; Danaan, their leader named; first appearance of all; also in flashbacks)

Location(s):

Mount Palomar Observatory
Space Ranger's secret asteroid base
an unnamed planet in the Sirius system
Shanador (a city; first appearance)

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents: Showcase #1 ([July] 2012)


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