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CLASSIC COMICS: Gorgo: The Monster from the Sea!

3/11/2013

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Title : Gorgo #1
Publisher: Charlton Comics 
Featuring Gorgo
Cover Credits Pencils: Dick Giordano, Inks: Dick Giordano
Content Genre: Science Fiction; Monster
Publication    Date: 1960, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36
Notes Based on the motion picture by King Brothers released by MGM.

Comic Story: Monsters of the Past (1 page)
Synopsis: Facts about dinosaurs.
Credits Script: Joe Gill, Pencils: Sam Glanzman, Inks: Sam Glanzman, Letters: Jon D'Agostino
Content Genre: Fact
Notes Inside front cover.

Comic Story: Gorgo (22 pages)
Synopsis: A giant lizard-like creature is spewed from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption only to wreak havoc on the modern world.
Featuring: Gorgo
Credits Script: Joe Gill, Pencils: Steve Ditko, Inks: Steve Ditko, Letters: Jon D'Agostino
Content Genre: Science Fiction, Characters: Gorgo

Comic Story: Wonders of the Deep! (4 pages)
Synopsis: Various facts about undersea creatures.
Credits Script: Joe Gill, Pencils: Charles Nicholas [as ChaSal], Inks: Sal Trapani [as ChaSal], Letters: Jon D'Agostino
Content Genre: Fact

Activity Captain Corey's Curiosity Corner (2 pages)
Credits Letters: typeset
Notes Things to make, things to do, things to know.

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Comic Story: Fear! (4 pages)
Synopsis: Professor Hemlin explains superstition.
Credits Script: Joe Gill, Pencils: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Letters: Jon D'Agostino
Content Genre: Fact

Comic Story: Strange People Who Are Real (1 page)
Synopsis: Various facts about carnival people.
Credits Script: Joe Gill, Pencils: Charles Nicholas, Inks: Vince Alascia, Letters: Jon D'Agostino
Content Genre: Fact
Notes Inside back cover.

Full page backcover pinup of Gorgo smashing London Bridge. (At right.)

Charlton's Monster from the Deep

After a seaquake a huge lizard like creature walks out of the ocean and almost destroyers a fishing village in Ireland, fortunately for the village the same quake that brought the 65 foot monster to land has also grounded a salvage ship, the crew of which proves up to the task of capturing the beast.

Instead of killing it, or turning it over to the government, they decide to take it to London and put it on display for profit.

Looking to be a huge success things become more complicated when it’s discovered that the monster, which has been dubbed Gorgo, is really just a youngster and it’s 200 foot tall mother is coming for him.

After a pitched battle with the British army Gorga’s mother Orga able to free her child and they both go lumbering back to the sea.

That however is not the last the world has heard of Gorgo, apparently having found a taste for the land the young monster begins to make regular visits there.

At the same time governments, scientists, and even would be world conquerors pursue Gorgo and his mother for their own ends.

This leads to Gorgo finding himself in a succession dangerous situations, from battling other giant primitive monsters, to control by mad scientists, to even at one point inadvertently preventing World War III.

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Update from IDW
STEVE DITKO’S MONSTERS VOL. 1: GORGO - Gigantic Preview

Hey gang!  We're really excited about the recently released STEVE DITKO'S MONSTERS VOL. 1: GORGO and thought it'd be awesome to give you guys a GIGANTIC preview of the monster-fueled mayhem within. 
So, here for your viewing terror, is the classic GORGO #1 in its entirety!
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CLASSIC COMICS: Giant Classic King Kong Comic Book

3/4/2013

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Giant Classic King Kong Comic Book
Art: Alberto Giolitti
Publisher: Whitman
Released: 1968
Cover Artist: George Wilson


This Whitman Giant Classic featured terrific cover art by George Wilson of King Kong atop the Empire States Building. And the excellent interior art was by Alberto Giolitti.

The familiar story itself was split into seven short chapters, and all the familiar characters are present, from Carl Denham (here with gray streaks in his hair, and a moustache), and Captain Englehorn, to Ann Darrow, Jack Driscoll, and Kong himself.

In Chapter Two, the voyagers reach Kong’s island, and the adventure really begins.  Interestingly, the comic version features some sequences deleted from the film.  For instance, a Styracosaurus chases several sailors onto the log over the chasm, a moment not in the final cut.  

And also, in the comic-book version of the tale, Englehart’s ship is named The Wanderer, not Venture.

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