Showcase #56 (1965) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Perils of the Psycho-Pirate!	cover	1	pencils: Murphy Anderson; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Ira Schnapp	Psycho-Pirate; Hourman; Doctor Fate
1	What's Wrong with These Pictures?	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Bernard Baily; inks: Bernard Baily; letters: Ira Schnapp; editing: Jack Schiff
2	Perils of the Psycho-Pirate	comic story	24	script: Gardner Fox; pencils: Murphy Anderson; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Nelson; Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden] (introduction, villain); Psycho-Pirate [Charley Halstead] (death); Wendi Harris; Wotan (in hallucination)
4	Gems of Destiny	cartoon	1
5	80 Page Giant Magazine; Superman	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
8	Detective Comics; Batman	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
10	Origin of the Original Psycho-Pirate	text story	1	script: Gardner Fox
11	80 Page Giant Magazine; Superboy	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
13	Green Lantern; The Atom	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33
14	10 Issues of Showcase for Only $1.00	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Plus 5.33 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups #1 ISBN 1401204708	2006	On eBay ›

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