Showcase 1956 #47 - low grade - $14.99

Burmese Lin Tan goes to WHO nursing school in Rangoon. She then discovers the bubonic plague in her home village.

Maj. Tommy Tomorrow and Maj. Lon Vurian are brought to the Academy of Planetary Sciences, where they are told of an anti-matter cloud that could destroy the entire solar system. They have 10 years to evacuate the 20 billion people from every planet, or find a way to stop the cloud. Maj. Tomorrow leads a crew to investigate the coming cloud, and Maj. Vurian's team seeks a new world on which to relocate. Though the effort is a secret, word somehow leaks to the media.

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While Maj. Tomorrow tries to uncover the person who revealed their mission to the press, there is wide unrest around the solar system because the population believes they are doomed. Maj. Vurian's team first finds an inhospitable planet, then one that seems to welcome them. Professor Xoroth comes up with a plan to create a hole in the center of the anit-matter cloud, which would grow large enough in 10 years to allow the solar system to pass safely through it.

Both Maj. Tomorrow's and Maj. Vurian's teams contain a traitor who has been working with a criminal mastermind, Dr. Loglov, to profit from the dire situation. The scientists activate their device and blast a hole in the center of the anti-matter cloud. Maj. Tomorrow and Maj. Vurian confront Dr. Loglov and trick him into confessing.

5th and final Tommy Tomorrow feature in Showcase. On-sale date from copyright registration.

• Your United Nations at Work - inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
• Doomsday for Planet Earth Part 1 - This story takes place in the 21st century. The stories in Showcase are prequels to the Tommy Tomorrow tales told in Real Fact Comics, Action Comics, and World's Finest Comics. Sometime between the previous issue and this one, both Tommy Tomorrow and Lon Vurian were promoted from Captain to Major.
• - subscription ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series), now featuring hero team-ups; includes cover art from issue #50
• [Doomsday for Planet Earth] Part 2: Nine Worlds Gone Mad - Chapter 2 (story pages 7-17).
• 100 Toy Soldiers $1.25 - Sold by Josely Co.
• [Doomsday for Planet Earth] Part 3: Threading the Planetary Needle - Chapter 3 (story pages 18-25).
• - house ad for Flash Annual (DC, 1963 series) #1
• - Inside back cover.
• Make Your Own Monsters - Back cover.