Showcase #15

DC's Showcase #15 from 1958 spotlights the Space Ranger in his vivid yellow-and-magenta suit, lunging across a futuristic interior while a group of bald, orange-skinned Shann-Men close in — his word balloon making clear that a companion named Myra is still caught in a Paralybeam somewhere nearby, rendered in a glowing inset below. Bob Brown's cover crackles with that distinctive Silver Age energy, balancing genuine peril with the wide-open optimism of "Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of a Bold New Hero of the Future!" Inside, Gardner Fox and Edmond Hamilton — two of science fiction's sharpest comics minds — bring you "The Great Plutonium Plot," making this a fine snapshot of 1958 DC at its most imaginatively adventurous.