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Issue: Showcase #68
Publication Date: May 1967
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Issues: #68 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 Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/23/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 13 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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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
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Maniaks [Jangle [Gilbert Jeffries]; Silver Shannon; Pack Rat [Byron Williams]; Flip [Philip Folger]]; "Eggs" Benedict; "Peaches" Melba; "Veal" Scallopine; "Beef" Strogonoff
First Line: Take cover! Here come... The Maniaks
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"A Crooks' Tour of Palisades Amusement Park!" or "How to Cook a Goose!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Maniaks [Jangle [Gilbert Jeffries]; Silver Shannon; Pack Rat [Byron Williams]; Flip [Philip Folger]]; "Eggs" Benedict; "Peaches" Melba; "Veal" Scallopine; "Beef" Strogonoff; other "food" gangsters; screaming teen girls
First Line: This is a story of good guys and bad guys.
Synopsis: The Maniaks are "not to be confused with the Beatles, the Monkees, or anyone in his right mind!" Jangle can do sound effects and impressions. Pack Rat is a gadgeteer. Flip is a contortionist. And Silver Shannon is "The Mod Miser", a gold digger. They perform at Palisades Park, mobbed by teenage girls! They run to hide. Meanwhile, "Eggs" Benedict's gang has planned an ambush on the rival gang of "Dutch" Edam at the park. And in stumble the Maniaks, now witnesses. "Rub 'em out!"
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Disclose Notes: Silver sings a parody of the Monkees’ "Last Train to Clarksville", "Take the last train to Knoxville - They are cutting off the service..."

Palisades Amusement Park ran ads with coupons in DC comics for years, so the story setting might be a thank-you.
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Who Is This Teen-Terror?

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Genres: adventure
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Challengers of the Unknown (DC, 1959 series) #56, where "Tino Mannaray" vows to kill the Challengers in "License to Kill!"
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Maniak Memos
Synopsis: A goofy editorial session in the DC conference room yields, "THE MANIAKS..."
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First Line: Don't put the cockpit on your model plane like that!
Synopsis: Model hint: Use your sister's colorless nail polish to not fog up a jet windshield.
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Job Number: 6557
Disclose Notes: hint submitted by Mike Stachurski of Addison, Illinois
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CRUNCH! YIP! BLAM!

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Disclose Notes: House ad for Superboy 138, an 80-Page Giant "Featuring Superboy and Krypto's Most Terrific Battles!"
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Part II: You Have to Use Your Noodle When You're in the Soup!

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First Line: If we can keep far enough ahead of them
Synopsis: The Flips run from two gangs. Pack Rat cobbles a popgun and fishhooks to make a grapple to snag the cable car. Flip bounces so much gangsters can't nail him. Pack Rat cobbles an electromagnet to catch bullets. But the band is trapped atop a Ferris wheel. Flip leaps into a pool - and is snagged in a net. Money-mad Silver is worried because his insurance isn't paid up!
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For the Most in Laughs

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Genres: humorous
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Disclose Notes: House ad for The Adventures of Bob Hope (DC, 1951 series) #105 and The Adventures of Jerry Lewis (DC, 1957 series) #100.
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Part III: Next on the Menu -- Just Desserts

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First Line: What do you intend doing with us?
Synopsis: The Maniaks will be dumped in the ocean. Shannon sings a heartbreaking song, "He's just my Bill, a stupid-looking slob" that reduces the mobsters to tears. "I am even more sorry we have to bump you off!" On the pier, Jangle imitates a police squad. Flip flips them onto crooks' heads. Pack Rat improvises lock picks. Shannon kicks tail with concrete go-go boots. And the cops arrive. Jangle hopes "the comic-reading public is groovy over us and we get our own fab mag!" And Shannon starts counting. "Let's see... One million copies at 12 cents each..."
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Hoo-Boy! He's Getting Hammered by Hafnium!..

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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Metamorpho (DC, 1965 series) #12, "Trap of the Test-Tube Terrors!"
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Disclose Notes: "Well, that time is here again when April showers are supposed to bring May flowers - and the newsstands blossom out with a new crop of DC mags!" Go-Go Check blurbs Sea Devils 35, Detective Comics 363, Strange Adventures 200, and more.
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BEM Shows Up!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion, teen
Synopsis: Brains, Emotions, and Muscles alone don't impress girls - so all three combine into BEM!
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Disclose Notes: inside back cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
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The Rat Patrol

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: "A new Aurora hobby kit featuring the men, the jeeps, the tanks, and the excitement of the TV show!"

This model was a new experiment for Aurora, with miniature jeeps, soldiers, and sand dunes you could arrange in a diorama however you like.

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