Showcase #11 (1957) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Day the Earth Blew Up!	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Jack Kirby; letters: Ira Schnapp	Rocky Davis, Prof Haley, Ace Morgan, Red Ryan
1	Teddy Roosevelt: Guardian of Nature	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Ruben Moreira; inks: Ruben Moreira; letters: Ira Schnapp	Theodore Roosevelt
2	The Day the Earth Blew Up [Chapter 1]	comic story	7	script: Dave Wood, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Marvin Stein; letters: Pat Gordon	Rocky Davis, Prof Haley, Ace Morgan, Red Ryan
3	-	comic story	2	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff	Moolah the Mystic
4	Chapter Two: The Tyrans	comic story	6	script: Dave Wood, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Marvin Stein; letters: Pat Gordon	Rocky Davis, Prof Haley, Ace Morgan, Red Ryan
5	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff	Shorty
7	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
8	Chapter Three: The Thing That Came Out of the Sea	comic story	6	script: Dave Wood, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Marvin Stein; letters: Pat Gordon	Rocky Davis, Prof Haley, Ace Morgan, Red Ryan
9	The Man from Nowhere	text story	1	letters: typeset
10	Time-Traveling into the Past and the Future!	comic story	2	pencils: Virgil Finlay; inks: Virgil Finlay	Julius Caesar; John Anderson
11	Chapter Four: One Minute to Doom	comic story	5	script: Dave Wood, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Marvin Stein; letters: Pat Gordon	Rocky Davis, Prof Haley, Ace Morgan, Red Ryan

Plus 3.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Challengers of the Unknown #80	1973	On eBay ›
The Essential Showcase 1956-1959 #[nn] ISBN 1-56389-079-8	1993	On eBay ›
Challengers of the Unknown Archives #1 ISBN 1-56389-997-3	2003	On eBay ›
Showcase Presents Challengers of the Unknown #1 ISBN 1-4012-1087-2	2006	On eBay ›
Showcase Presents: Showcase #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-3523-9	2012	On eBay ›
Challengers of the Unknown by Jack Kirby #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-3474-4	2012	On eBay ›
Challengers of the Unknown by Jack Kirby #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-7719-2	2018	On eBay ›

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