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Publisher: DC

Title: Showcase
Issue: 73
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March-April 1968
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Creeper Origin & 1st Appearance
Owner: Triskelion

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Showcase 73
Owner: Sam I am

537
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Story Title: Beware the Creeper - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero


Story Title: The Coming of the Creeper!! - comic story
Pages:22
Genre:superhero
Characters:Professor Yatz (death); gangsters; Communist agents; Dr. Clayton Wetley; TV Station Manager; Bill Brane (Chief of Network Security); Major Smej; costume shop owner; Angel Devilin; policemen; Mr. Pell (sponsor)
Synopsis:Professor Yatz is kidnapped by "Reds". Jack Ryder, mouthy TV host, is fired, then hired as a security investigator. He buys odds and ends for a bizarre costume for mob boss Angel Devilin’s society ball. He's stabbed and enters Yatz’s cell, locking the door behind him. Yatz hides his inventions: a molecular transmitter goes in the wound, and a healing serum in his veins. But Yatz is shot dead. The new "Creeper" goes wild on the villains - and accidentally, cops - laughing like a maniac to scare them. He exposes Devilin, then learns the moleculizer has healed inside. The Creeper will be back.


Story Title: A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper - comic story
Pages:0.67
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:In Old England, a man sees his ancestor's portrait sometimes varies from holding a wine glass to a dagger, foretelling death in the household.


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: You Too Can Play the "Game" - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:Op Art ad for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #360 (March-April 1968), an 80-Page Giant featuring Supergirl.


Story Title: Meet the Men Behind the Creeper - text article
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:Bios of Steve Ditko and Don Segall, although Ditko refrained from providing personal information, explaining: "I never talk about myself. My work is me. I do my best, and if I like it, I hope somebody else likes it too." The editor also requests letters for future publication. The piece is uncredited but from the editor’s note is most certainly written by Boltinoff.


Story Title: Returning to the Savage Battle Skies of 1918 -- The Hammer of Hell -- Enemy Ace - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Genre:war
Synopsis:House ad for the Enemy Ace.


Story Title: [ no title ] - in-house column
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Steve Ditko... Like Lightning -- Strikes Again! The Hawk and the Dove - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.5
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:Ad for Ditko's upcoming The Hawk and the Dove (DC, 1968 series).


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