Showcase #79 Values

Publisher: DC, 1968

About Showcase #79

First appearance of Dolphin. Jay Scott Pike cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Dolphin; frogmen

Pencils: Jay Scott Pike [as Pike] (signed)

Inks: Dick Giordano ?; Jay Scott Pike ?

Letters: Ben Oda ? (logo)

Notes: Nick Caputo suspects Giordano either inked the cover or provided alterations, particularly on Dolphin's face.

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: The Fantasy at 14 Fathoms!

Characters: Dolphin (intro); Chief Petty Officer Chris Landau; Seaman 1st Class Ben Harkey; Naval officers and sailors

Synopsis: US Navy frogmen cut into a sunken WWII Navy ship to retrieve documents from a vault. And spot a white-haired girl(!) at the sea bottom. When she's brought aboard, she turns blue from suffocation - because she has gills. With regular dips in the ocean, she falls for Chris and learns some English. Her origin is a mystery. As a storm kicks up and the wreck teeters, Chris asks Dolphin to retrieve the documents, but the wreck slips into the abyss. Still, she surfaces smiling. With the mission complete, they'll return to land. Dolphin can't go, and dives overboard - into her world.

Pages: 16.670

Script: Jay Scott Pike [as J. Scott Pike]

Pencils: Jay Scott Pike [as J. Scott Pike]

Inks: Jay Scott Pike [as J. Scott Pike]

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: Full credits on page 1, "Created, written, and illustrated by J. Scott Pike. Edited by Dick Giordano." Story across 18 pages, but page 6 is a 2/3-page and pages 13 and 18 are 1/2-pages. Dolphin is given an origin much later in Aquaman.

Title: The Kid from Atlantis!

Characters: Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Aqualad [Garth] (intro, origin); Atlantis; Topo

Synopsis: Aquaman helps Aqualad, a rejected child from Atlantis, to overcome his fear of fish. Aquaman adopts Aqualad as his sidekick.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Robert Bernstein

Pencils: Ramona Fradon

Inks: Ramona Fradon

Notes: Reprint of the origin of Aqualad. Writer credit of Robert Bernstein by Martin O'Hearn. We previously credited Jack Miller.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	4	9	19	21	29	40	46	54	56	56	55	69	45	24	15	21	2	0	0	569
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	4	9	20	21	30	40	47	54	56	56	56	70	47	25	16	21	2	0	0	578

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