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Showcase '94 8

SHOWCASE '94 #8

Cover Date: July 1994
Cover Price: $1.95

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Cover Credits:
Art: Ted McKeever (signed)
Color Separations: Olyoptics


Story: "The Secret Origin of Scarface Part One: The Gallows Doll" (18 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlan Grant, John Wagner
ArtTeddy Kristiansen
LetteringKen Bruzenak
ColorsTeddy Kristiansen
Consulting editingDennis O'Neil
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Arnold Wesker (a life prisoner; earliest chronological appearance)
Woody (a ventriloquist's dummy; earliest chronological appearance)

Villain(s):

Donnegan (first appearance; a life prisoner at Blackgate)
Randall (first appearance; a prisoner at Blackgate)

Location(s):

Blackgate Prison

Synopsis:

Imprisoned in Blackgate for life, Donnegan fashions a ventriloquist's dummy from the charred wood of the old gallows - a dummy that seems to have a life of its own, threatening to spill Donnegan's escape plans. When Donnegan gets a cellmate, Arnold Wesker, he brutalizes him. Then, when Wesker plans suicide, he is talked out of it. By the dummy. And Donnegan is fast asleep...


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Second Story: "Brujas y Gatos" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEddie Berganza
PencilsNick Gnazzo
InksRay Kryssing
LetteringBill Oakley
ColorsSuzanne Bourdages
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Wildcat II (last in Spectre Vol. 3 #20; also in flashback following Yolanda Montez' decision to become Wildcat, and in flashback following her death; next in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4)

Supporting Character(s):

Wildcat III (deceased; also in flashback)
Juan Montez (Wildcat III's father; in flashback)
Maria Montez (Wildcat III's mother; also in flashback)
José Montez (Wildcat III's brother; also in flashback)

Villain(s):

A bruja (dies)

Synopsis:

Wildcat comes to an understanding with the family of his deceased protégé after he exposes a woman who claimed to be able to bring Yolanda back from the dead.


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Third Story: "Sum-Zero" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDan Jurgens
PencilsFrank Fosco
InksKen Branch
LetteringStarkings/Comicraft Comicraft
ColorsStuart Chaifetz
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Waverider (last in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Hunter (last in ???)

Villain(s):

Monarch (last in Armageddon: The Alien Agenda #4)

Synopsis:

Monarch lures Waverider into a trap.


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