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SHOWCASE '96 #12 Winter 1996 [$2.95] Cover Credits: Steve Lightle (pencils, inks; signed)

First Story: "Roots" (18 Pages)

Credits: Tom Peyer (plot, script); Derec Aucoin (pencils); Martin and Branch (inks); Adrienne Roy (colors); Ken Bruzenak (letters); Frank Pittarese (edits)

Feature Characters: Brainiac-5, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Spark, Gates, Inferno II (all six next in Superman Vol. 2 #119)

Guest Star: Vril Dox II

Supporting Characters: Stealth, Lyrl Dox (both last in R.E.B.E.L.S. '96 #17), Taptree (first appearance; a L.E.G.I.O.N. operative; next in Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #96), Shvaughn Erin (next in Superman Vol. 2 #119)

Villain: Brainiac (next in Superman: The Doomsday Wars #1)

Synopsis:

Shvaughn Erin engineers the legionnaires' escape from confinement and they meet up with L.E.G.I.O.N. operatives Vril Dox and Taptree, working together to rescue Brainiac-5 from his ancestor. However, the events prompt the scientists of Colu to enter a phase of pure research rather than development, a phase which Brainy realises will last until his own time.

Second Story: "Overrun" (10 Pages)

Credits: Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn (plot, script); Oscar Jimenez (pencils); José Marzan Jr (inks); Spike (letters); Tom McCraw (colors); Alisande Morales (edits)

Feature Character: Jesse Quick (last in Green Lantern Vol. 3 #81; next in Impulse #22)

Supporting Characters: Tally (her personal assistant), Max Mercury

Other Characters: Jack Curtis (Jesse's intended blind date), Bartleby (a business executive)

Synopsis:

Jesse Quick suddenly finds she cannot access her connection to the speed force and can't get anything done. By the end of the week, she and her p.a. conjecture that it is her appointment book which is causing the mental block, and it transpires that this is the case. The further away she is from this record of what she has to get done, the faster Jesse is able to run.

Third Story: "Rough Air" (10 Pages)

Credits: Stuart Immonen (plot, script, pencils); Dick Giordano (inks); Willie Schubert (letters); Chris Chuckery (colors); Mike McAvennie (edits)

Feature Characters: Sarge Steel (last in ???), King Faraday (last in ???)

Synopsis:

King Faraday and Sarge Steel work together to protect a group of diplomats from various nations. They get the job done, but most definitely do not like each others' methods.