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Cover of Showcase (1956) #79

Showcase (1956) #79

DC 1956–1978 series Cover date Dec 1968

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About this issue

Showcase #79 (1956) is issue #79 of DC's Showcase (1956–1978), with a cover date of December 1968. Written by Robert Bernstein and Jay Scott Pike and drawn by Ramona Fradon and Jay Scott Pike.

Creators

Writers
Robert Bernstein, Jay Scott Pike
Pencillers
Ramona Fradon, Jay Scott Pike
Inkers
Ramona Fradon, Jay Scott Pike
Letterer
Ben Oda
Cover artist
Jay Scott Pike

The stories

“The Fantasy at 14 Fathoms!”

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.

“The Kid from Atlantis!”

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

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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