Monsters on the Prowl #16

(April 1972)

The Forbidden Swamp (Table of Contents: 1)

King Kull / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Pencils

John Severin

Inks

Marie Severin

Colors

Marie Severin ?

Letters

Artie Simek

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Death to them, lads! Death to the serpents who walk like men!

Genre

sword and sorcery

Characters

King Kull; Brule; Red Slayers; Shanna (death); Alecto; Duron (death); Thulsa Doom (first appearance); Gomar (death)

Synopsis

Kull and Brule enter a temple to the Valusian snake-god which is guarded by a giant undersea beast. There he meets Thulsa Doom for the first time, who pretends to be an ally and asks to return with them to the City of Wonders.

Reprints

• in Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel UK, 1975 series) #8 (April 26, 1975)
• in Savage Sword of Conan Special (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 ([Summer] 1975)
which is reprinted
• in Kull the Savage: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
• in Super Conan 2ª Edición (Planeta DeAgostini, 1989 series) #7 (1991)
• in The Chronicles of Kull (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1 (December 2009) [Recolored]
• in The Savage Sword of Kull (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (November 2010) [in black and white]
• in Kull the Destroyer: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)

Indexer Notes

Feature continues from Kull the Conqueror (Marvel, 1971 series) #2.

Where Walks the Ghost (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-159

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Big Monk McGak; Mr. Zero

Synopsis

An escaped convict looks to buy a house that has the reputation of being haunted so people will steer clear of him, but when he meets up with a real estate agent turns out to be the ghost that haunts the prospective property, he turns himself in to the police for his own protection.

Reprints

• from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #68 (May 1961)

Mister Morgan's Monster (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Philip Morgan; Mrs. Morgan; humanoid robot

Synopsis

Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot’s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.

Reprints

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #99 (August 1962)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Monsters Mail Box / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas ?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Kenny Dube, Larry Trepel, Bruce Schulman, and Ron Sorrells.