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Five-Score Comic Monthly#8
Cover: Howard Purcell & Howard Purcell

Five-Score Comic Monthly #8

Dec 1958 · K. G. Murray · 2/- [0-2-0 AUP]
“The Sleeping Beauty of Space”

Jimmy accidentally gets hold of spectacles from a scientific villain, and finds out that they can show the future. One of the visions he sees shows his death from drowning. Trying to avoid that fate, on the fateful day he makes sure he is not going to be where the vision shows he will drown; just to have Superman take him there anyway. But then he finds out Superman wants him to be an actor in a "safety first" film about the dangers of drowning.

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Cast · 8 characters

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artist Curt Swan
cover pencils Howard Purcell
cover inks Howard Purcell

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Jimmy accidentally gets hold of spectacles from a scientific villain, and finds out that they can show the future. One of the visions he sees shows his death from drowning. Trying to avoid that fate, on the fateful day he makes sure he is not going to be where the vision shows he will drown; just to have Superman take him there anyway. But then he finds out Superman wants him to be an actor in a "safety first" film about the dangers of drowning.

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