Cover: Bob Oksner & Sergio Aragonés & Tex Blaisdell

Showcase #77

Sep 1968 · DC · 0.12 USD

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In Showcase #77 (1968), a cast-wearing man stumbles into the oddball detective agency of Angel and Sam, a human PI and a gorilla who draws comics for Brainpix Publications. When Trumbull is kidnapped, Angel and Sam must race against time—Sam dodging traps across the city while Angel frees herself from captivity—after a mysterious plot emerges around the secret plans hidden in Trumbull’s bandages. Written by E. Nelson Bridwell, Howie Post, and Al Jaffee, with art by Bob Oksner and inks by Tex Blaisdell, the cover by Bob Oksner and Sergio Aragonés captures the wild, offbeat energy of this 1968 DC oddity.

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writer E. Nelson Bridwell · writer Howie Post · writer Al Jaffee · artist Bob Oksner · inker Tex Blaisdell · letterer Ray Holloway · cover Bob Oksner, Sergio Aragonés, Tex Blaisdell

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writer E. Nelson Bridwell

writer Howie Post

writer Al Jaffee

artist Bob Oksner

inker Tex Blaisdell

letterer Ray Holloway

cover pencils, inks Bob Oksner

cover pencils Sergio Aragonés

cover inks Tex Blaisdell

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Trumbull, with his leg in a cast, stumbles into O'DAY AND SIMEON, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS. Angel is a crack PI and judo master. Sam is a gorilla who draws comic books. Sam delivers his latest art to Stan Bragg, publisher at BRAINPIX PUBLICATION, INC. Angel protects Trumbull from kidnapping, but they're nabbed. Sam races across the city (nobody noticing he's a gorilla in a suit) to the zoo. Angel wiggles out of her bonds as Sam avoids death traps. The zookeeper nabbed Trumbull for his cast, since the bandages contain "super rocket" plans - for a ride at Disneyland!

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