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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
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Credits:
Plot | Gardner Fox |
Story | Edmond Hamilton |
Art | Bob Brown |
Editing | Jack 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
Credits:
Plot | Gardner Fox |
Story | Edmond Hamilton |
Art | Bob Brown |
Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Space Ranger (Rick Starr)
Supporting Character(s):
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)