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| Fantastic Ditko art, reprinting Konga #1 and Gorgo #1, as well as two short monster stories. Steve Ditko even gets mentioned on the cover of this 1966 edition! |
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| Being a "giant atomic monster" fan ,I remember being absolutely blown away when I bought this off the spinner rack during my childhood in the 60s. |
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| Ditko's giant monster 'origin stories' are actually better than the films on which they're based. The films: hokey, slow-moving, badly-acted, cheezy SFX. The comics: Amazingly, all of the foregoing detractions have been removed from the stories by Ditko, and the result is totally convincing (for a comic book)!! |
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| Publication | September 1966 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: four times yearly |
| Notes | Ditko draws himself as a man with an inkpot for a head. |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Gorgo; Konga; Steve Ditko; Adam; Hogar |
| Notes | Ditko draws himself as a man with an inkpot for a head. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | After his plane crashes in Africa, Doctor Decker is befriended by a small monkey named Konga as well as natives that stand nearly 12 feet tall. Decker discovers that the natives drink a serum concocted from seeds of a giant plant which is what causes their immense growth. Bringing Konga and some plant seeds back to England with him, Decker creates the serum and injects Konga with it. Konga grows into a gorilla and eventually into a giant that rampages through London before being destroyed by the military. |
| Credits | Job #: 6982 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Konga; Doctor Charles Decker; M'Bontu; Margaret Decker; Sandra; Bob; Dean Foster; Professor Tagore |
| Notes | Adapted from the movie. |
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| Comic Story | With the Help of Hogar (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Manu the witchdoctor (who had been banished by his tribe due to his evil practices) carves a meteorite into a giant figure he names Hogar that he hopes will make him leader of his tribe. Manu promised he could bring the statue to life to impress the people. While he is trying to entice the statue to move, the French are testing an atomic bomb nearby. The radioactive fallout combined with a lightning bolt hitting the statue brings Hogar to life. The giant kills Manu and goes on a rampage through Africa destroying jungles and villages. Finally aliens from another universe arrive and destroy him. |
| Credits | Job #: B-150 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Manu; Hogar |
| Notes | New story. Kaler credit per Nick Caputo, January 2014, as revealed in Comic Comments #9, November 1966.
Hogar is a giant horned cyclopean orange statue.
The aliens that destroy Hogar are yellow bald humanoids in blue space suits. They had created the "meteorite" that became Hogar as experimental matter. This is why they came to Earth to destroy it. |
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| Synopsis | Gorgo, a giant lizard-like creature, is spewed from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption off the coast of a small Irish Island. The monster comes ashore and wreaks havoc before being driven off by torches. Gorgo gets captured with shark nets and sold to the Dorkin London Circus where he is put on display. It's discovered that Gorgo is only an infant and that a similar but larger creature has attacked Nara Island. That creature is Gorgos mother and she follows the scent of her offspring to England. After destroying much of London and rescuing her offspring, the two return to the sea. |
| Credits | Job #: 6673 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Gorgo; Joe Ryan; Sam Slade; Sean; McCartin; Dorkin |
| Notes | Adapted from the movie. |
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| Comic Story | The Mountain Monster (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A mad scientist in a European mountaintop castle creates a monster. He sends the monster out to nearby villages to kidnap doctors and bring them back to the castle. The scientist does this so he can transfer their knowledge to his creation which he names "Adam". The plan backfires when Adam not only receives their knowledge but their memories too. This includes fear. Fear they have for the monster. Adam then becomes afraid of himself and flees out into the night. Adam climbs a mountain to get away from himself but ultimately gets struck by lightning which destroys him. |
| Credits | Job #: B-149 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense; Science Fiction | Characters: Adam; Vadju; Dr. Caesmer Karv; Martha Karv; Hans Leiter; Willeth; Fraum |
| Notes | New story. Kaler credit per Nick Caputo, January 2014, as revealed in Comic Comments #9, November 1966.
It's revealed that Adam was actually a robot who wore clothing and a mask which made him look like a monster.
In one sequence Adam fights a pack of wolves.
At the end of the story, Adam's hand is twitching indicating that he might not be dead. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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