Fantastic Giants
#24
(September 1966)
Charlton,
1966 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- four times yearly
- On-sale Date
- 1966
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Pat Masulli (credited) (executive editor); Dick Giordano (credited) (managing editor)
[no title indexed]
Gorgo; Konga / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgo; Konga; Steve Ditko; Adam; Hogar
- Reprints
-
in The Art of Ditko (IDW, 2009 series) (November 2009) [cover detail] - in Ditko Monsters: Gorgo (IDW, 2013 series) (February 2013)
- in Ditko Monsters: Konga! (IDW, 2013 series) #[nn] (June 2013) [Reprint is black and white]
- in Fantastic Giants [Facsimile Edition] (FantaCo Enterprises, 2022 series) (2021)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Ditko draws himself as a man with an inkpot for a head.
[no title indexed]
Konga / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- 6982
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From out of the black, lush weirdness of the unknown jungle he came... a scientist's dream that became a living nightmare!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Konga; Doctor Charles Decker; M'Bontu; Margaret Decker; Sandra; Bob; Dean Foster; Professor Tagore
- Synopsis
- Doctor Decker discovers a chemical that can increase the size of animals and he tests it on a monkey.
- Reprints
- from Konga (Charlton, 1960 series) #1 ([June 1961])
- in Fantastic Giants [Facsimile Edition] (FantaCo Enterprises, 2022 series) (2021)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Adapted from the movie.
With the Help of Hogar
comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- B-150
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Manu; Hogar
- Synopsis
- Manu carves a meteorite into a figure that he hopes will make him leader of his tribe.
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #123 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #188 ([circa 1982 - 1983]) - in Steve Ditko Reader (Pure Imagination, 2002 series) #3 (2005)
- in Fantastic Giants [Facsimile Edition] (FantaCo Enterprises, 2022 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
New story. Kaler credit per Nick Caputo, January 2014, as revealed in Comic Comments #9, November 1966.
[no title indexed]
Gorgo / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- 6673
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Spewed up from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption that reached back 2,000,000 years in time to give the world one horrifying glimpse of a species we had thought extinct.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgo; Joe Ryan; Sam Slade; Sean; McCartin; Dorkin
- Synopsis
- Joe Ryan and Sam Slade capture a sea monster and hope to make money off it.
- Reprints
- from Gorgo (Charlton, 1961 series) #1 ([June 1961])
- in Fantastic Giants [Facsimile Edition] (FantaCo Enterprises, 2022 series) (2021)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Adapted from movie.
The Mountain Monster
comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- B-149
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Adam; Vadju; Dr. Caesmer Karv; Martha Karv; Hans Leiter; Willeth; Fraum
- Synopsis
- A monster kidnaps men from the village.
- Reprints
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #37, #91 ([circa 1972 - 1973]), #182 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
- in Fantastic Giants [Facsimile Edition] (FantaCo Enterprises, 2022 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
New story. Kaler credit per Nick Caputo, January 2014, as revealed in Comic Comments #9, November 1966.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Gorgo; Konga -
1.
["An amazing invention - "Magic art reproducer" Draw any person in one minute!"]
Magic Art Reproducer -
2.
["From out of the black, lush weirdness of the unknown jungle he came... a scientist's dream that became a living nightmare!"]
Konga -
3.
With the Help of Hogar
-
4.
["Spewed up from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption that reached back 2,000,000 years in time to give the world one horrifying glimpse of a species we had thought extinct."]
Gorgo -
5.
The Mountain Monster
-
6.
["3 complete fishing outfits"]
Niresk Fishing Outfits -
7.
["Boys, girls, men, women"]
Wallace Brown Greeting Cards
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Paul Lefebvre
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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