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Cover: Irwin Hasen

Comic Cavalcade #29

Oct 1948 · DC · 0.15 USD
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"Machine of Schemes" delivers a gripping wartime flashback in this 1948 issue of Comic Cavalcade, as Johnny recounts his harrowing experience aboard a sunken vessel during World War II. Years later, the same Nazi submarine resurfaces off the coast of Venezuela, now a mechanical menace threatening modern shipping. Written, drawn, and inked by Howard Purcell, the story blends wartime memory with a present-day mystery, all rendered with the crisp detail of Irwin Hasen’s cover art.

Contains 10 stories
Machine of Schemes
12 pp · Superhero
Professor Calculus (introduction)Dean Sourpussvarious Army intelligence officers and soldiers (introduction for all)Crime-Brain Doone (villain, introduction)Doone's men (villains, introduction for all)various crime lords (villains, introduction for all)

In "Machine of Schemes," Wonder Woman teams up with Professor Calculus to safeguard a revolutionary super-computer designed to solve intricate problems—only for the device to be stolen by the cunning Crime-Brain Doone, who plans to use it to crack Fort Knox. The race is on to stop the theft before the machine’s power falls into the wrong hands.

"Boy! I like the circus!
1 pp · Humor, Children
NipsElmo (the famous midget)
Untitled Humor story
5 pp · Humor, Children
Mrs. Jones (Katie's mother)Mrs. DirtflingerPlasma (dog)
Situation Wanted
12 pp · Superhero
Mrs. Grace (a charity worker, introduction)Mr. Groyd (insurance company owner, introduction)Tarlo (trapeze artist, introduction)Dexter (villain, introduction)Dexter's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Untitled Humor story
0.5 pp · Humor, Children
OrvilleMiss Potts
The Movie
6 pp · Humor, Teen
Sargepolicementheatre managerGuy Daring (on movie screen)
Practice
0.5 pp · Humor, Children
Orville
The Lovely Lady
8 pp · Fantasy
SwansonLawford (Johnny's war buddy, introduction)a newspaper editor (Johnny's boss, introduction)several prisoners [Swansonothers unnamed] (introduction for all)Von Luger (villain, Nazi submarine commander, introduction, death)Nazi submarine crew (villains, introduction for all, all die)

In "The Lovely Lady," Johnny recalls a harrowing WWII ordeal when his ship was sunk by a Nazi submarine—now, years later, that same sub has resurfaced off the coast of Venezuela, threatening modern shipping. The story blends wartime memory with a haunting present-day mystery, anchored in the eerie return of a vessel from the past.

Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Jack
The Last Man Alive!
12 pp · Superhero
several women (introduction for all)a gang of bank robbers [Rondoothers unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

In "The Last Man Alive!", Jay Garrick wakes to a world eerily empty—no people, no sounds, just silence where life once thrived. The mysterious Star Sapphire, mistress of the 7th Dimension, has left him alone on Earth, and now he must uncover the reason behind her strange, solitary experiment.

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Raw (Good) $151
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $4,367*
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $2,803*
CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $2,271
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $2,271
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $2,271*
CGC 7.5 · 4 in census $2,271
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CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $686
CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $579
CGC 6.0 · 6 in census $499
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $412*
CGC 4.5 · 3 in census $352*
CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $306
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 none in existence
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $166*
CGC 1.5 · 2 in census $165
CGC 1.0 none in existence
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $84*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
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Cast · 27 characters

Full credits

writer, artist, inker Howard Purcell
cover pencils, inks Irwin Hasen

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Reprinted in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus #4 (2020)

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