Showcase #73

(March-April 1968)

The Coming of the Creeper (Table of Contents)

Beware the Creeper / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Ditko (plot); Don Segall (Dialogue)

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

The Creeper [Jack Ryder] (introduction, origin); Professor Yatz; gangsters; Communist agents; Dr. Clayton Wetley; TV Station Manager; Bill Brane (Chief of Network Security); Major Smel; costume shop owner; Mr. Devlin; policemen

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 Devlin's society ball. He's stabbed and thrown in Yatz. Yatz hides his inventions: a molecular transmitter goes in the wound, and a healing serum in his veins. But Yatz is shot. The new "Creeper" goes wild on the villains - and accidentally, cops - laughing like a maniac to scare them. He exposes Devlin, then learns the moleculizer has healed inside. The Creeper will be back.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #443 (October-November 1974)

Indexer Notes

Continued in Beware the Creeper #1.

A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper (Table of Contents)

filler / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Morris Waldinger

Inks:

Morris Waldinger

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #25 (April 1954) [as A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper]

Indexer Notes

This version has been heavily edited. Panels 3 and 5 of the original version have been omitted. This story appears between pages 4 and 5 of the main story.

You Too Can Play the "Game" (Table of Contents)

Supergirl / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Supergirl; Superman

Synopsis:

Op Art ad for Action Comics #360, an 80-Page Giant featuring Supergirl.

Meet the Men Behind the Creeper (Table of Contents)

Editorial / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Attempted bios of creators, but Ditko insists, "I never talk about myself." So it's a bio of Don Segall, the scripter. And a pitch for letters.

Returning to the Savage Battle Skies of 1918 -- The Hammer of Hell -- Enemy Ace (Table of Contents)

Enemy Ace / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Joe Kubert

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

War

Synopsis:

House ad for the return of Enemy Ace, but it doesn't say where. (Star Spangled War Stories?)

Direct Currents (Table of Contents)

DC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Various

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

Ad

Synopsis:

Blurbs and some covers for The Flash #177, The Spectre #3, Strange Adventures #210, and other DC comics.

Steve Ditko... Like Lightning -- Strikes Again! The Hawk and the Dove (Table of Contents)

Hawk and Dove / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Synopsis:

Ad for The Hawk and the Dove, "Coming Soon".