Gorgo (1961) comic books 1961

Add to cart CGC 9.0 $1,020.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Pedigree: Northland Northland. Label #0119056003

Add to cart GD 2.0 $70.00 View scan 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Two cover to cover punctures in margins.

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Cover art by Dick Giordano. "Monsters of the Past"; Facts about dinosaurs. "Gorgo," art by Steve Ditko; A giant lizard-like creature is spewed from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption only to wreak havoc on the modern world. "Wonders of the Deep!", pencils by Charles Nicholas (as ChaSal), inks by Sal Trapani (as ChaSal); Various facts about undersea creatures. Captain Corey's Curiosity Corner activity 2-pager. "Fear!", art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; Professor Hemlin explains superstition. "Strange People Who Are Real," pencils by Charles Nicholas, inks by Vince Alascia; "Various facts about carnival people." Full page backcover pinup of Gorgo smashing London Bridge. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Steve Ditko. "Gorgo Returns," script by Joe Gill, art by Steve Ditko; The British electrify the waters off the Irish coast which drive the Gorgo creature and its infant west until they rest off the east coast of America; The baby Gorgo fouls the trans-Atlantic telephone cable so divers go out to fix it; Alerted to the presence of Gorgo, the creature is attacked and finally incapacitated in a sandpit while the mother is sleeping; When she wakes up and finds him missing, she attacks New York city; The world's weakest Hydrogen bomb is dropped on Gorgo which not only fails to damage New York, it doesn't kill the monster; One of the divers who initially found the baby Gorgo waves flame at its snout so it will break free of the sandpit and they can use smoke to drive it out to sea; Two cannon shells are loaded with a nerve agent, one for mama and one for baby, and are fired into them; Baby Gorgo collapses, but mama scoops him up and returns to the sea floor; The men think the nerve agents have killed them, but they are merely snoozin. 36 pgs., full cologr. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Steve Ditko. "The Return of Gorgo," script by Joe Gill, art by Steve Ditko; The dictator of a Latin American country forces a scientist to train Gorgo to obey his commands; The dictator uses Gorgo to conquer a neighboring country, but the scientist decides to use Kegor to become dictator himself. "Tall Tree" text story. "Men and Monsters," pencils by Bill Molno, inks by Vince Alascia. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Steve Ditko. Stories and art by Sal Trapani, Charles Nicholas, and Vince Alascia. The Godzilla-ish sea monster from the 1961 B-movie becomes the star of this cult-classic Charlton monster comic that frequently featured work by future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. An astronaut returning to Earth happens to land in the midst of Gorgo's rampage across New York City. He survives by literally riding Gorgo's head out of the city. A backup story is a speculative look at what it would be like if humans were located elsewhere on the food chain. Cover by Steve Ditko is the archetypal monster-attacking-the-city scene. Homecoming; Dawn to Destruction; If You Were.... 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.