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Issue Details

Issue #75
Published December 1967-January 1968
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing George Kashdan [as George Hashdan]
Notes Editor's name mis-spelt in indicia (info from Ted Watson via the error-list, October 2007).

Cover Details - "The Grasp of Shahn-Zi!"

Characters Batman; The Spectre; Shahn-Zi
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams
Reprinted in Showcase Presents The Brave and the Bold Batman Team-ups (DC, 2007 series) #1

23 page Batman; Spectre story "The scene: Gotham City's Chinatown!"

Characters Batman; Spectre; Shahn-Zi (1st); James Gordon; Bill Loo; Danny Loo
Genre superhero
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes Story is divide into three sections (each labelled "Batman and the Spectre"), with page 8 just 0.50 (a house ad underneath), page 16 at 0.33 (Sequence 3 underneath) and page 24 at 0.50 (Sequence 4 underneath).
Reprinted in Showcase Presents The Brave and the Bold Batman Team-ups (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page text article "A Land of Many Walls"

Synopsis A description of the many defensive walls found in China other than the Great Wall.
Genre Fact
Letters typeset
Notes Located between pages 8 and 9 of Sequence 1.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Dig what's Coming"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Superman
Synopsis The winner of a track race continues running, to his newsstand to find out who won the race between the Flash and Superman, in Flash #175.
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed); Carmine Infantino
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed); Mike Esposito
Notes The cover of Flash #175 is reproduced, with logo, DC bullet, price, code seal, month (but not number), dialogue balloons and blurb included, and an additional blurb added where nothing of substance is obscured. This item is located at the bottom of page 16 of Sequence 1.
Reprinted partially from the cover of Flash, The (DC, 1959 series) #175, December 1967.

Half page Cap's Hobby Hints activity

Synopsis A rendering of reader Bill Graff's technique for making a very straight pinstripe on a racing car model.
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes This item is located at the bottom of the last page of Sequence 1.

1 page Direct Currents promo (ad from the publisher)

Characters Deadman [Boston Brand]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Synopsis Promotional hype for Adventure Comics #363, Strange Adventures #207 (with cover repro), Detective Comics #370 (with cover repro), Action Comics #357, Our Army at War #188 and Superman #203.
Pencils Neal Adams; Carmine Infantino
Inks Neal Adams
Letters Typeset; ?
Reprinted from the covers of Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #207, December 1967, and Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #370, December 1967.

1 page activity "The Batman Whirly-Word Game"

Characters Batman
Letters typeset
Notes Despite the title, this is a puzzle to be solved rather than a game to be played.