Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly #5
Colour Comics Pty. Ltd.
Australia
Issue contents
Cover
No title recorded
(Doctor Fate and Hourman)
Cover, 1 page
""My magic doesn't work on the emotion-controlling mask of the Psycho-Pirate!" "My super-charged powers have no effect on him either!" "Perils of the Psycho-Pirate!" Special feature: Superboy Jimmy Olsent"
Featuring
- Feature
- Doctor Fate and Hourman
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- Murphy Anderson, line art
Reprint history
- First print
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Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #56 (May-June 1965)
1Featuring
- Feature
- Doctor Fate and Hourman
- Genre
- Super-hero
Credits
- Writing
- Gardner Fox, scripter
- Art
- Murphy Anderson, line art
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz, editor
Reprint history
- First print
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Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #56 (May-June 1965)
2Featuring
- Feature
- Superboy the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Writing
- David Wood, scripter [as Dave Wood]
- Art
- Al Plastino, line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Mort Weisinger, Story Editor (story story editor)
- George Kashdan, original Story Editor
- Management
- Jack Schiff, original Managing Editor
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- First print
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Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #253 (October 1958) — Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
- Also printed
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Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #120 ([February 1959?]) — Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
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Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #120 (February 1959) — Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
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Mighty Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #67 ([October 1968?]) — Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
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Teen Titans (DC, 1966 series) #36 (November-December 1971) — Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
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Super Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #52 ([December 1972?]) — Superboy Meets Robin the Boy Wonder
Synopsis
Prof Nichols sends Robin into the past to destroy a machine that will one day kill Superman.
3Featuring
- Feature
- Space Cabbie
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Writing
- Ed Herron, scripter [as France Herron]
- Art
- Howard Sherman, line art
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz, editor
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5Featuring
- Feature
- Challengers of the Unknown
- Genre
- Adventure
Credits
- Writing
- Bill Finger, scripter
- Art
- Bob Brown, line art
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff, editor
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Synopsis
The Challengers enter a museum to guard a recently unearthed sarcophagus thought missing. An anonymous tip says it will be stolen, and in flies a harpy-man who grabs it! The Challs try to stop him but are brushed off. Pursuing in their jet, they reflect on recent bizarre thefts of not-extinct object such as Montezuma's Crown and a dodo. Arriving at Skull Island, they find it's a lost island recently resurfaced. The heroes find an underground lab and museum of not-extinct creatures, including the stolen artifacts and a live T-Rex and giant scorpion! A Frankenstein lookalike thumps them, and the Challengers fight back and pursue - only to be trapped and gassed. They awaken in new yellow-red uniforms with hourglass emblems for the "sands of time running out". Their costumers are a council of "oddballs": a snaky man, harpy-man, frog-man, porcupine-man, and Frankenstein-man. They were scientists mutated by radiation into freaks, so have "created their own world" of things that should be dead. Since the Challengers should be "extinct", they are invited to bathe in radiation and join the group. The heroes pass - "Give us 20 years to think about it!" - and run. The mutants release the scorpion. The Challengers steer it near the T-Rex case, and the flailing stinger shatters the glass. T-Rex and scorpion battle. The Challengers run, but are ringed by fire. If they won't mutate, they'll be displayed in suspended animation forever. Prof, oddly, freaks at the idea of "living death" and runs to the radiation machine - to mutate himself to free his friends. He's transformed into an octo-cloud, but his mind is affected and he strangles his pals. Ace dodges towards a transformer. When octo-Prof hits it, his energy is siphoned off and he reverts to normal. But the transformer blows and tears the island apart. The guys flee in their jet as all is destroyed. But they decide to keep the new uniforms, and hope the sands of the hourglass don't run out too soon.
6Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Art
- Bernard Baily, line art
- Editing
- Jack Schiff, editor
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7Featuring
- Feature
- Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- Curt Swan, penciller
- Stan Kaye, inker
- Editing
- Mort Weisinger, editor
Reprint history
- First print
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Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #43 (March 1960) — Jimmy Olsen's Four Fads!
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Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #43 (March 1960)
- Also printed
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Super Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #3 ([August 1960?])
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Super Adventure Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #3 ([August 1960?]) — Jimmy Olsen's Four Fads
Synopsis
Jimmy decides to create his own fad.
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Printed by Kenmure Press Pty. Ltd., Cnr. Derby and Wetherill Streets, Nth. Lidcombe, for the Proprietors Colour Comics Pty. Ltd., Sydney, and produced by the K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 142 Clarence Street, Sydney. Gordon & Gotch (A'sia) Ltd., distributors for Australia and New Zealand.
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