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Title: | Showcase |
Issue: | 73 |
Page Count: | 36 |
Publish Date: | March-April 1968 |
Volume: |
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Creeper Origin & 1st Appearance
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7.5
PGX
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Showcase 73
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9.6
CGC
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Detailed information about the issue is listed below.
Story Title: | Beware the Creeper - cover |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | superhero |
Story Title: | The Coming of the Creeper!! - comic story |
Pages: | 22 |
Genre: | superhero |
Characters: | Professor Yatz (death); gangsters; Communist agents; Dr. Clayton Wetley; TV Station Manager; Bill Brane (Chief of Network Security); Major Smej; costume shop owner; Angel Devilin; policemen; Mr. Pell (sponsor) |
Synopsis: | Professor Yatz is kidnapped by "Reds". Jack Ryder, mouthy TV host, is fired, then hired as a security investigator. He buys odds and ends for a bizarre costume for mob boss Angel Devilin’s society ball. He's stabbed and enters Yatz’s cell, locking the door behind him. Yatz hides his inventions: a molecular transmitter goes in the wound, and a healing serum in his veins. But Yatz is shot dead. The new "Creeper" goes wild on the villains - and accidentally, cops - laughing like a maniac to scare them. He exposes Devilin, then learns the moleculizer has healed inside. The Creeper will be back. |
Story Title: | A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper - comic story |
Pages: | 0.67 |
Genre: | horror-suspense |
Synopsis: | In Old England, a man sees his ancestor's portrait sometimes varies from holding a wine glass to a dagger, foretelling death in the household. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - statement of ownership |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | You Too Can Play the "Game" - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | superhero |
Synopsis: | Op Art ad for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #360 (March-April 1968), an 80-Page Giant featuring Supergirl. |
Story Title: | Meet the Men Behind the Creeper - text article |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Synopsis: | Bios of Steve Ditko and Don Segall, although Ditko refrained from providing personal information, explaining: "I never talk about myself. My work is me. I do my best, and if I like it, I hope somebody else likes it too." The editor also requests letters for future publication. The piece is uncredited but from the editor’s note is most certainly written by Boltinoff. |
Story Title: | Returning to the Savage Battle Skies of 1918 -- The Hammer of Hell -- Enemy Ace - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | war |
Synopsis: | House ad for the Enemy Ace. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - in-house column |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | Steve Ditko... Like Lightning -- Strikes Again! The Hawk and the Dove - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Genre: | superhero |
Synopsis: | Ad for Ditko's upcoming The Hawk and the Dove (DC, 1968 series). |
View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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