Showcase Comics Price Guide #61-#104
Showcase Comics Price Guide For Issues #61 to #104
The final part of this series shows you values for issues #61 to #104 (final issue) of Showcase. Click here to see values for #1 to #29, and here to see values for #30 to #60.
Here are record sales and minimum values for the final run of Showcase comics.
Showcase #61
Record sale: $910
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #62
Record sale: $800
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #63
Record sale: $1,250
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #64: The Spectre
Record sale: $540
Minimum value (poor but complete): $5
The Spectre returned in Showcase #64, a stand-alone story in which the Spectre is pitted against a criminal named Ace Chance who has just died.
His spirit takes over the body of Jim Corrigan while the Spectre is still out of it, and the Spectre must get Chance out of his corporeal host.
The cover of Showcase Comics #64 has the somber and ghostly Spectre, lines of magical force emanating from his hands, telling Chance rather vehemently, "Out of my body, you SQUATTER!"
Showcase #65
Record sale: $420
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #70
Record sale: $780
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #73 (April 1968): The Creeper
Record sale: $1,680
Minimum value (poor but complete): $5
Steve Ditko's Creeper is one of the most underappreciated super heroes of the Silver Age, or of any era.
Ditko was still at the top of his game in 1968, and Showcase #73 testifies to that.
After this one issue, the Creeper got his own comic, which didn't last long, but Showcase Comics #73 is a minor classic.
Showcase #74
Record sale: $1,500
Minimum value: $5
Showcase Comics #75 (June 1968): Hawk and Dove
Record sale: $10,200
Minimum value (poor but complete): $1
Another late-Silver-Age Steve Ditko creation in Showcase #75, the Hawk and the Dove are a pair of twin brothers who embody opposing attitudes towards war.
One of the more original and timely concepts for a superhero team, to be sure. Hawk and Dove got their own series, but it was too good and too thoughtful to last very long.
Showcase #76
Record sale: $6,600
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #79
Record sale: $14,400
Minimum value: $5
Showcase #80 (November 1968): Phantom Stranger
Record sale: $9,000
Minimum value (poor but complete): $1
The Phantom Stranger hadn't appeared since 1952 when DC brought him back.
Showcase #80 is, like all the other later issues of Showcase Comics, a victim of the lower values of later Silver Age comics in general.
Even the Neal Adams cover and the Silver Age reintroduction of the Phantom Stranger can't bring values up.
Showcase #85
Record sale: $130
Minimum value: $1
Showcase #90
Record sale: $350
Minimum value: $1
Showcase #93
Record sale: $230
Minimum value: $1
Showcase #94 (September 1977), Bronze Age Relaunch: The New Doom Patrol
Record sale: $750
Minimum value (poor but complete): $1
Showcase was canceled in 1970, with #93. Revived in 1977 with Showcase #94, it picked up right where it left off, this time with the new Doom Patrol.
Unfortunately, the impending DC Implosion meant that there would be no new regular series for the new Doom Patrol after their three-issue run in Showcase.
It would take ten more years for DC to start a new Doom Patrol title, but that's outside the realm of our discussion here.
Showcase #95
Record sale: $270
Minimum value: $1
Showcase #96
Record sale: $150
Minimum value: $1
Showcase Comics #97 (February 1978): Power Girl
Record sale: $550
Minimum value (poor but complete): $5
Power Girl, introduced in 1976, was Kara Zor-L, the Earth-Two version of Supergirl.
She was young, she was new, she was powerful, she was Kryptonian, and she had the kind of impossibly hourglass-shaped anatomy that only Joe Staton could ever pencil.
Kara Zor-L was alright, but it should have been apparent by that time that pin-up girls don't sell comics. OK, well, maybe they do now, but they didn't in 1978.
Showcase #98
Record sale: $200
Minimum value: $1
Showcase #99
Record sale: $140
Minimum value: $1
DC Comics Showcase #100 features most of the characters who appeared in the series. Click for valuesShowcase #100
Record sale: $100
Minimum value: $1
Showcase Comics #101 (June 1978): Hawkman
Record sale: $280
Minimum value (poor but complete): $1
Oh, Hawkman. He had wings, he was an alien, there was the whole hawk mask thing, and he didn't wear a shirt. What's not to like?
Well, something wasn't to like, because Hawkman was the red-headed stepchild of the DC universe after his 1961 Silver Age reboot in Brave and the Bold #34.
He was shifted around from title to title, from backing feature to membership in more and more awkward teams, with his one shot at his own series in the 1960s lasting only a few years before being merged with The Atom because of poor sales.
Showcase #104: Final Issue
Record sale: $110
Minimum value: $1
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