The Thing #15

(July-August 1954)

The Worm Turns (Table of Contents: 1)

The Thing / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Out of the microscopic deep it came -- this terrible, hungry mutant worm that ate everything in its path.

Genre

horror-suspense; science fiction

Characters

The Thing (host)

Synopsis

Biologist Norman Thoma breeds an invulnerable super-worm and turns it loose on mankind. Humanity seems to be doomed.

Reprints

• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1420-A - A Steve Ditko Readers Treasury - 1954
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius (Pure Imagination, 2008 ? series) (2008)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (October 2009)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (2014)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)

Indexer Notes

Cover story.

Day of Reckoning! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Thing / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Memling

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Those who knew him called Jabez Grimm a tight-fisted skinflint...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Thing (host)

Synopsis

Three sailors kill the shipbuilder Jezab Grimm and board him up on his ship, the Mermaid. The Mermaid travels the seas for years and hunts down all of the murderers.

Reprints

• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1420-A - A Steve Ditko Readers Treasury - 1954
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (October 2009)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (2014)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)

Indexer Notes

Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn.

Comeback! (Table of Contents: 3)

The Thing / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Remember Flexo, the grotesque little man whose entire body was composed of something strangely like rubber?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Thing (host)

Synopsis

Drama at the carnival: Flexo the rubber man kills snake lady Satana for her money. Returning to the scene of the crime some time later, Flexo is confronted by a vengeful Satana.

Reprints

• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1420-A - A Steve Ditko Readers Treasury - 1954
• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #5 ([October 1972])
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (October 2009)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (2014)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)

Tunnel To Terror (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There was a worried look on the face of John Harrison as he walked towards the shack that served as office for the Harrison Construction Company.

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

While excavation work for an underground garage goes on, an undead witch rises from the ground and kills five workmen.

Reprints

• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)

If Looks Could Kill! (Table of Contents: 5)

The Thing / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ever been driven blind with fury... so insanely blind that you prayed for the chance to murder?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Thing (host)

Synopsis

Surgeon Gustave Savage is kidnapped by the hypnotist Merlin. In an ensuing fight, Merlin blinds the doctor, but is killed. Savage transplants the dead man's eyes for his own and can see again. With fatal consequences, because his looks literally kill.

Reprints

• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1420-A - A Steve Ditko Readers Treasury - 1954
• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #3 ([June 1972])
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (October 2009)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (2014)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)

Family Mixup (Table of Contents: 6)

The Thing / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is the story of a man and a wife who loved each other to death!

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

The Becks, skinny husband and fat wife, hate each other and plot their spouse's demise. They succeed.

Reprints

• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1420-A - A Steve Ditko Readers Treasury - 1954
• in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #4 ([August 1972])
• in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #7 (Winter 1992-1993)
• in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (October 2009)
• in The Steve Ditko Archives (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #1 - Strange Suspense (2014)
• in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #1999-A - The Giant Readers Thing (2019)