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Showcase '94 9

SHOWCASE '94 #9

Cover Date: August 1994
Cover Price: $1.95

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Cover Credits:
Art: Shawn McManus (signed)
Colors: Suzanne Bourdages
Color Separations: Olyoptics


Story: "The Secret Origin of Scarface Part Two: Call Me Scarface" (18 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Arnold Wesker (becomes the Ventriloquist; next in Detective Comics #583)
Woody (becomes Scarface; next in Detective Comics #583)

Villain(s):

Donnegan (dies)

Location(s):

Blackgate Prison

Synopsis:

Woody, the dummy carved from the gallows wood, incites Arnold Wesker to kill his cellmate Donnegan, and the two of them escape from Blackgate together. They get costumes more befitting their status as soon-to-be crime lords, and Woody tries to teach Wesker to be a better ventriloquist, with little success. But no matter, he's ready to take on Gotham - from now on, call him Scarface!


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Second Story: "A Story" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTerrance Griep Jr.
PencilsKyle Hotz
InksPav Kovacic
ColorsMike Danza
LetteringAlbert De Guzman
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Pax (last in L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 #67)

Villain(s):

alien parasites

Synopsis:

Pax travels the galaxy, telling the story of how he lost his world, and destroying the parasitic aliens which caused it.


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

Credits:

StoryDan Jurgens
PencilsFrank Fosco
InksKen Branch
ColorsStuart Chaifetz
LetteringRichard Starkings, Comicraft
Consulting editingMike Carlin, K.C. Carlson
EditingNeal Pozner

Feature Character(s):

Waverider (next in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4)

Supporting Character(s):

Hunter (next in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4)

Villain(s):

Monarch (becomes Extant; next in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #4)

Synopsis:

Monarch reveals that when Dove died, her powers flowed into him, making him more powerful than either of them ever were. He overpowers Waverider and takes his temporal wristband. Now, as Extant, he'll be able to do catastrophic damage to time and space...


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