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Showcase 16

SHOWCASE #16

Cover Date: September-October 1958
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1958-07-22

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Cover Credits:
Art: Bob Brown


Story: "The Secret of the Space Monster" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PlotGardner Fox
StoryEdmond Hamilton
ArtBob Brown
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Space Ranger (Rick Starr)

Supporting Character(s):

Myra Mason
Thaddeus Starr
Cryll

Villain(s):

Rebel Korthans (Kavor Gan, Councillor Koran Dar named; first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Korthans (an alien race; first appearance)
Captain Jones (a pilot: first appearance)

Location(s):

Earth
Earthport New York
Space Ranger's secret asteroid base
Ganymede
Korth (a planet in the Procyon system; first appearance)
Callistin (Korth's capital city; first appearance)

Story Reprinted in:

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

Solicitation:

President Thaddeus Starr is warned of a space-monster sighting near Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. Space Ranger thinks things don’t quite add up and decides to investigate.


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Second Story: "The Riddle of the Lost Race" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PlotGardner Fox
StoryEdmond Hamilton
ArtBob Brown
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Space Ranger (Rick Starr; next in Tales of the Unexpected #40)

Supporting Character(s):

Myra Mason (next in Tales of the Unexpected #40)
Cryll (next in Tales of the Unexpected #40)

Villain(s):

Ragnar-Ell (first appearance)
Plutonians (first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Evan Blanchard (a space archaeologist; first appearance)

Location(s):

Space Ranger's secret asteroid base
Mars
Mercury
Saturn (Valley of Ice)
Venus

Story Reprinted in:

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


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