The Outer Limits
#17
(October 1968)
Dell,
1964 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1968
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell [rectangle]
- Editing
- D. J. Arneson (original editor of reprinted cover and story); ? (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
The first of two reprint issues to bring this series to a close. The familiar phrase "Reprinted by popular demand", used in Western's "Post-Dell Gold Key Comics" to identify reprints of material Western had originally produced for Dell, appears at the end of the indicia. Cover and comic contents are all reprint. No interior ads in this issue. Ads are limited to inside and back covers.
No Weapons on Earth Can Defeat the Strange Creatures from Outer Space!
The Outer Limits / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Vic Prezio (painting)
- Inks
- Vic Prezio (painting)
- Colors
- Vic Prezio (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- three huge upright-walking bug-like aliens; Professor Walters (scientist); Dan Dalton (reporter); Joseph Grindly (New York City Bureau of Missing Persons file clerk), various police, various military
- Synopsis
- Three advancing bug-like aliens show themselves to be impervious to weapons fire.
- Reprints
-
from The Outer Limits (Dell, 1964 series) #1 (January - March 1964)
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- Keywords
- aliens; fear; military; panic; police; weapons; wreaking havoc
Battleground of Monsters
The Outer Limits / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Jack Sparling
- Inks
- Jack Sparling
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- D. J. Arneson (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boat horns blare, hands and handkerchiefs wave, as an excited, expectant crowd watches the graceful Queen Mary being nosed into her dock by four tending tugs that churn up the Hudson's calm water into white wakes!
- Feature Logo
The Outer Limits [Dell Comics Logo 1]- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- three huge upright-walking bug-like aliens; Professor Walters (scientist); Dan Dalton (reporter); Joseph Grindly (New York City Bureau of Missing Persons file clerk), various police, various military, various panicked citizens of New York City.
- Synopsis
- A century of missing persons cases, at regular and specific intervals, leads to a cosmic swap with three benevolent aliens - soon followed by five warlike ones.
- Reprints
- from The Outer Limits (Dell, 1964 series) #1 (January - March 1964)
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- Keywords
- aliens; battle; fear; military; missing persons; New York City; panic; police; Queen Mary (ship); transporting; United Nations; weapons; wreaking havoc
Indexer Notes
A fine "Outer Limits-type story", but for the absence of the TV series hallmark - the ominous "Control Voice" narration. Standard comic-book narrative captions run throughout this story - but nothing resembling the uniquely memorable opening and closing statements of The Control Voice.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
No Weapons on Earth Can Defeat the Strange Creatures from Outer Space!
The Outer Limits -
1.
Spaceman Strength and Endurance
American Body Building Club -
2.
Battleground of Monsters
The Outer Limits -
3.
Amazing $1 Art Offer
Colonial Studios -
4.
Boys, Girls, Men, Women
Wallace Brown Greeting Cards
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Salvatore Carotenuto
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Bob Hughes
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Smith
- Joe Torcivia
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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