Showcase 17 Variant? Re-duex 0

[RMG1]

Total newb here. Sorry... I put this under Copper Age (ready, fire, aim...) 

 

[themagicrobot]

The Grand Comic Database put this as being from 1945. It seems they were actually sold in the latter half of the 1950s.

https://www.comics.org/issue/932986/

I guess a batch of covers were found (or reprinted) and paired with remaindered comics or coverless comics. Not really a legit thing to do? Good job the price hadn't changed for comics in a dozen years (although the page count reduced). See also Blue Circle Comics (and the trick would be repeated with multiple comics by Elisdons and Thorpe and Porter's Double Double comics and others)

Edited June 5, 2021 by themagicrobot