Showcase #28 Values

Publisher: DC, 1960

About Showcase #28

Second appearance of the Sea Devils. Russ Heath grey tone cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Undersea Prison!

Characters: Sea Devils [Dane Dorrance; Judy Walton; Nicky Walton; Biff Bailey]

Pencils: Russ Heath

Inks: Russ Heath

Colors: Jack Adler (washtone)

Letters: Ira Schnapp

Notes: wash cover

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Prize Flippers!

Characters: Sea Devils [Dane Dorrance; Judy Walton; Nicky Walton; Biff Bailey]; Mr. Dorrance

Synopsis: The Sea Devils compete with each other to win the flippers that belong to Dane's father. Everyone knows how badly Nicky wants them, so they each disparage their own efforts in the competition, but it turns out that Nicky really does win the contest when he saves everyone's life when a whale smashes their boat.

Pages: 9.000

Script: Robert Kanigher ?

Pencils: Russ Heath (signed)

Inks: Russ Heath (signed)

Letters: Gaspar Saladino ?

Title: The First Frogman!

Characters: Scyllis; Xerxes

Synopsis: Scyllis, a Greek diver in the fifth century B.C., performs great underwater feats.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Ross Andru

Inks: Mike Esposito

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Reprints: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #437 (July 1974)

Title: Bike Safety = Bike Fun!

Synopsis: quiz based on the rules of the Bicycle Institute of America

Pages: 1.000

Script: Jack Schiff

Pencils: Bernard Baily

Inks: Bernard Baily

Letters: Ira Schnapp

Notes: published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

Title: Undersea Prison!

Characters: Sea Devils [Dane Dorrance; Judy Walton; Nicky Walton; Biff Bailey]; Mona Moray; Professor Moray

Synopsis: The Sea Devils agree to help Mona Moray locate her missing father. They find that the professor has been taken captive by a race of undersea aliens who are planning a larger invasion of Earth.

Pages: 15.670

Pencils: Russ Heath

Inks: Russ Heath

Letters: Gaspar Saladino ?

Notes: First appearance of the Sea Devils' dockside office and sign: "The Sea Devils / Underwater Troubleshooters / Have Flippers - Will Travel!"

Title: Undersea Breezes by the Sea Devils

Synopsis: First letters column, with questions about diving from readers and answers from the Sea Devils (as opposed to comments about the comic stories). Questions on choosing diving equipment and lessons from Walt Framer of No. Hollywood, CA; Stan Wood of Atlantic City, NJ; George Kastner of New York, NY; and Dan Stinson of Detroit, MI. The editors asks readers to write to Sea Devils, National Comics Pub, 575 Lexington Ave, New York 22, NY. The logo is a diver giving a lecture to a "school" of mer-people.

Pages: 1.000

Letters: Typeset

Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the previous story sequence.

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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	1	0	1	0	5	3	5	9	9	7	8	12	15	13	9	6	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	110
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
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	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	4	5	9	10	8	10	12	16	14	10	7	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	119

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