Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Elongated Man Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: July 5, 2006 Direct Market Date July 6, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #4 (#208)

Direct Market Date July 5, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 560
Editor: Emily Ryan Lerner

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Case of the Curious Compass"
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Elongated Man (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #338 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Elongated Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #337; next appearance in Detective Comics #339)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Detective Comics #337; next appearance in Detective Comics #339)

Villain(s)

• Big Bob Wilkes (a cruise director; no further appearances)
• A gang of diamond smugglers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Captain Emerson (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Ralph Dibny is invited onboard a cruise ship to solve the mystery of a compass that points in the wrong direction temporarily on each cruise. Ralph watches over the compass and spots a gang of crooks move it. He apprehends the crooks, who are jewel smugglers. The next night, Ralph stakes out the compass again. The needle points to the jewels. Ralph catches the ship's cruise director in the act of taking them, proving that he was part of the gang.