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Issue: Showcase #21
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #21 of 104 Issues (108 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/26/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Second appearance of Rip Hunter.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Circe
First Line: You will do as I command, or you, too, will be transformed into animals!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Essential Showcase 1956-1959 #[nn] published February 1992
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Rip Hunter, Time Master #1 published September 2012
as Showcase #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as Showcase #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Buzzy Says "Be Sure of Your Facts!"

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion, teen
Character(s): Jim
First Line: Have some popcorn, fellows!
Synopsis: Five dollars goes missing in the clubhouse, and Buzzy warns the kids to search around before making wild accusations.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated April 1952.
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The Secret of the Lost Continent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Alexander the Great
First Line: Rip! Come back!
Synopsis: (Chapter 1.) Rip has an ancient tablet locating Atlantis, but the last line is obliterated. They journey to Alexandria in 331 BC, because Alexander the Great owned the tablet. Rip and Bonnie will be executed as spies, but the "great metal bird" (Time Sphere) awes Alexander. The oncoming Persian army is huge, and Alexander would retreat. Rip jumps in a chariot and panics the elephants with a gasoline-soaked scarf. The war is won. Rip's crew find the tablet refers to a missing map!
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Rip Hunter, Time Master #1 published September 2012
as The Secret of the Lost Continent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as The Secret of the Lost Continent [Chapter 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as Chapter 2 The Forbidden Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9.67
Disclose Notes: Rip's crew wears civilian clothes, including Bonnie in a fetching red frock. Rip and Jeff also wear pistol belts. Later the crew would adopt green and red uniforms, without guns.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: You'll find Tootsie Roll is the trend at most any game you attend.
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Pages: 0.33
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Your Passport to Strange Journeys...

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Strange Adventures; House of Secrets
Synopsis: house ad for Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #106 and House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #22
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, science fiction
First Line: This is my clairvoyance machine.
Synopsis: Doctor Rocket's new "clairvoyance machine" predicts his wife will burn the dinner roast.
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In Content Item: FlagBlackhawk #207 published April 1965
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 0.5
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Chapter 2: The Forbidden Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Circe; (fake) centaurs; Cretan sailors
First Line: Rip! That huge dragon - what kind of a place have we stumbled into this time?
Synopsis: Alexander points the crew to the island of Aeaea, where the tablet came from. They journey. They journey there in 700 BC. Rip and Jeff fall into a pit trap. Circe and her "centaurs" warn them off. But Bonnie and Corky find the "centaurs" wear horse frames covered with skins. Circe is a pretend sorceress to protect her people. Cretan warships arrive. Rip's crew build a dragon lifted by the Time Sphere that breathes acetylene fire, and frighten away the Cretans. Circe points out a carved map and the year Atlantis sank. Bonnie is jealous of Circe's gratitude toward Rip.
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Rip Hunter, Time Master #1 published September 2012
as The Secret of the Lost Continent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7.67
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Ben
First Line: A great water skier named Ben for Tootsie Roll Pops had a yen.
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Pages: 0.33
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Operation Blackhawks!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Blackhawk; Blackhawks
First Line: Hawk-a-a-a! That's the ringing cry that summons the bold Blackhawks to daring action!
Synopsis: house ad for Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #138
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Pages: 1
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Mystery of the Lost Lands

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Atlantis, legendary continent that sank into the sea, may be the most famous of the lost worlds, but it...
Synopsis: Educational piece on Atlantis and other fabled lost cities.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Planets and stars shine with the same light...
Synopsis: Planets and stars shine with the same light... Fish is a brain food... A person's height remains constant through 24 hours... There are place on Earth where it never rains...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Adventures #24 published September 1952
was [untitled] [Cartoon on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Chapter 3: The Doomed Continent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Aliens from Jexjara; R'Del (Chief Scientist); D'Zar (dictator)
First Line: Rip! That soldier is aiming at the Time Sphere with that energy gun of his!
Synopsis: The Time Sphere arrives in Atlantis in 14,000 BC, but it's a futuristic space city! Orange aliens shoot ray guns, but the crew is saved by R'Dell's force field. Before the planet Jexjara exploded, the alien race split up to find a "New Jexjara". A colony came here, and would move on, but the dictator D'Zar won't allow it - and an earthquake is imminent. Rip shoots a giant earth globe to block the door. The aliens board ships to fly to New Jexjara. Rip's crew saved an alien race and witnessed the destruction of Atlantis - with more great spectacles to come!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Rip Hunter, Time Master #1 published September 2012
as The Secret of the Lost Continent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Showcase #1 published September 2012
as Chapter 3 The Doomed Continent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6.67
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Dunn
First Line: A four-minute miler named Dunn ate Tootsie Roll Fudge on the run.
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Pages: 0.33
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Peter Puptent
First Line: This is indeed a strange, mysterious island we are on!
Synopsis: Peter Puptent's worry about monsters gets a jolt from his partner's shadow puppets.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagColossal Comic #36 published February 1966
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: From Wilson Chemical Co.
Back cover.

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