Showcase #34
Comic Book: DC Comics: "?" (?)
He is Ray Palmer, a physics professor who through his costume, could change his weight and shrink down to the atomic level! His costume used properties gained from a white dwarf star. The hero called "Atom" would later become a member of the Justice League of America and because Atom was de-aged into a teen-ager and now leads the Teen Titans (you will also learn about this team soon). The Atom got his first series in June 1962.
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Showcase #63
Comic Book: DC: "Conquer Man-Mountain -- Because He's There!" (08/30/1966)
Four old foes of the Freedom Brigade regroup and magically restore their vitality. The group, Vendetta, then seeks revenge on the children of their former opponents. The Inferior Five is summoned by police to help battle the crooks. They appear to be winning until a grenade created by the Masked Swastika changes glass-jaw boxer Brute Brainard into the Man-Mountain, a green-skinned behemoth. With Man-Mountain's help, Vendetta overcomes the Inferior Five. Then they strike the First National Bank. The Inferior Five recover and engage the crooks again. Merryman strikes a lucky blow to Man-Mountain's jaw and knocks him out. The other heroes then defeat the rest of the gang.
[No Reprint Known At This Time]
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Showcase v1 #95
Comic Book: (11/30/1977)
Immortus tries to take the immortality serum formula from the mind of Celsius. using his Psycho-Probe he learns of her history with Niles Caulder (The Chief). While working for the Red Cross in India, Caluder treated Arani, fell in love, but was unable to take her with him to the United States. Leaving her with a religious sect, she eventually discovered her powers.
Eventually Caulder returned to India. Immortus had, his identity unknown to Caulder, supplied him with unlimited funds to research and develop the serum. [1] Caulder, wary of unleashing such a serum on the world until his mysterious benefactor is revealed, makes it a wedding gift to Arani.
Meanwhile, during the probe, an American intelligence agent stakes out Doom Patrol Headquarters on the trail of Negative Woman.
As Tempest escapes his bonds, Immortus gets the information he wanted. As Robotman breaks through the wall, he learns they are on the surface of the moon. Celsius plugs the hole with her ice powers and the team. Fighting through Immortus' troops, Celsius find the General as he drinks the serum.
At DP HQ, the agent works past the automated defenses.
Immortus grows younger and more virile, but the effects are only temporary. Onboard an escape ship, Celsius reveals that the serum must be adjusted to the individual's body chemistry to be effective. Returning to HQ, the encounter the agent -- with a gun trained on Negative Woman.
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Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery #3
Comic Book: : "The House of Endless Years" (01/30/2009)
Two girls, Judy and Peggy, in search of Peggy's lost brother Neal, enter an old house where lives an old hag who warns them to leave for their own good. They don't and find out that the evil house drains the life from those in it by leeching on their fear of death, condemning them to an endless eternity.
[Reprinted in House of Secrets #83, DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #24, Welcome Back to the House Of Mystery #1, House of Mystery #224, and Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets #1]
-- Jeffr_2bya
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Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets #1
Comic Book: DC: "The House of Endless Years" (08/30/2008)
Two girls, Judy and Peggy, in search of Peggy's lost brother Neal, enter an old house where lives an old hag who warns them to leave for their own good. They don't and find out that the evil house drains the life from those in it by leeching on their fear of death, condemning them to an endless eternity.
[Reprinted in House of Secrets #83, DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #24, Welcome Back to the House Of Mystery #1, Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery #3, and House of Mystery #224]
-- Jeffr_2bya
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Showcase Presents: Power Girl #98
Comic Book: DC: "When The Symbio Strikes!" (March)
Back story on Power Girl. (F/AS/aP)
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Showcase Presents Power Girl #99
Comic Book: DC Comics: (April)
2nd half of the back story on Power Girl. (F/AS/aP)