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Showcase (1956-1978) 55

  • Issue #55
    Showcase (1956-1978) 55
    • Cover detached at one staple.
    • 5" Cumulative spine split. Staples added (not manufacturing).
    • 4" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Water damage.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case
    • Label #3901784013
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4475002011
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Interior tearing.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Cover by Murphy Anderson. 1st solo Golden Age Green Lantern in Silver Age (pre-dates Green Lantern 40), Doctor Fate, and Hourman star in "Solomon Grundy Goes on a Rampage!", script by Gardner Fox, art by Murphy Anderson; When Solomon Grundy last fought Green Lantern Alan Scott, Green Lantern encased Solomon Grundy in an emerald sphere prison floating above Earth; Years later, the sphere has now crash landed back on Earth, and Solomon Grundy has emerged to get his revenge on Green Lantern; Solomon Grundy instinctually heads back to his home of Slaughter Swamp, which at this point is bordering the Tyler Chemical Company plant; At the Tower of Fate, Kent Nelson is warned that there is trouble by his crystal ball; Seeing the source of the trouble to be Slaughter Swamp, Nelson becomes Dr. Fate; Hourman comes across Solomon Grundy in Slaughter Swamp; Hourman pops his Miraclo pill, then attacks Solomon Grundy. One-page text feature tells the origins of Dr. Fate and Hourman. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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    $435 Showcase #55 (Mar 1965, DC) 1st APPEARANCE SOLOMON GRUNDY - CGC GRADED 7.0
    $465 SHOWCASE #55 CGC 7.0 1st APP SOLOMON GRUNDY!GREEN LANTERN DR FATE DC COMICS 1965
    $495 DC Comics Showcase 55 4/65 FANTAST CGC 7.0 White Pages
    $750 CBCS 8.5 Showcase #55 (DC Comics March-April 1965)

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