Monsters on the Prowl #17

(June 1972)

Chapter One I Created the Colossus! (Table of Contents)

Colossus / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-57

Content Information

Genre:

Monsters

Characters:

Colossus [later It, the Living Colossus] (Introduction); Ivan Petrovski (Introduction); Boris Petrovski (Introduction)

Synopsis:

Boris Petrovski is suspected of democratic tendencies so his brother Ivan demands that he build the largest, strongest, most impressive statue in the world as a symbol of the power and invincibility of their government. Boris hates the totalitarianistic regime but builds the statue so he won't be killed. After the statue is built a spaceship crashes outside and a crab-like creature comes out. With telepathy the creature tells Boris that he must take over a larger, stronger body until another spaceship can come save him. He takes over the statue as Ivan and other top officials show up to see the statue.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #14 (February 1961)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Atlas Tales website, not found on the story. The job number for parts 2 and 3 is V-35. According to George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B one panel is reprinted in the story in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #24, possibly with alterations of some kind. Page 5 panel 2 of this story is reprinted in page 9 panel 2 of the story in Astonishing Tales #24.

Chapter Two "The Colossus Lives!" (Table of Contents)

Colossus / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-35

Content Information

Genre:

Monsters

Characters:

Colossus [later It, the Living Colossus]; Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski

Synopsis:

The Colossus escapes from the army and Boris takes the opportunity to attack the regime by declaring that after he built the statue a voice came from the beyond saying that it was time for dictators to be brought to task and power-mad rulers to be halted. Once away from the army the Colossus comes back and destroys a submarine and the war ministry decides to destroy it with a hydrogen bomb.

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• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #14 (February 1961)

Chapter Three "The Power of the Colossus!" (Table of Contents)

Colossus / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-35

Content Information

Genre:

Monsters

Characters:

Colossus [later It, the Living Colossus]; Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski

Synopsis:

The Colossus flies and manages to destroy the plane with the hydrogen bomb. It then lands and another spaceship appears. The crab-like creature leaves the Colossus and goes home. Boris takes this chance to tell his brother Ivan that his Government must change or the Colossus will come back to life again. The Government changes and the Colossus stands guard to make sure that justice and peace will continue in the land.

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• from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #14 (February 1961)

Island of Fear! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks:

Joe Sinnott (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

A-504

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

Nick Allen; Wheeler; Jeannie; Ronstedt; Morel; Perry

Synopsis:

A "ghoulish" reporter finds more than he bargained for when he meets with a mysterious stranger on a boat to talk about some local disappearances.

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• from Adventures Into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #11 (August 1952) [reprint title: Island of Fear!]