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Series: Monsters on the Prowl

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Monsters on the Prowl
Issue: 17
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: June 1972
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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Monsters on the Prowl #17
Owner: Ghost Town

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Story Title: The Coming of Colossus! - cover
Features:Colossus
Pages:1
Pencils:Herb Trimpe (signed)
Inks:Herb Trimpe (signed)
Letters:Morrie Kuramoto
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Colossus [later It, the Living Colossus]


Story Title: Chapter One I Created the Colossus! - comic story
Features:Colossus
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks:Dick Ayers (signed)
Letters:Artie Simek
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Colossus [later It, the Living Colossus] (Introduction); Ivan Petrovski (Introduction); Boris Petrovski (Introduction)
Synopsis:A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it and defeating the whole military. The alien’s companions retrieve it and the sculptor claims that the statue was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime.


Story Title: Chapter Two "The Colossus Lives!" - comic story
Features:Colossus
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kirby
Inks:Dick Ayers
Letters:Artie Simek
Genre:science fiction
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.


Story Title: Chapter Three "The Power of the Colossus!" - comic story
Features:Colossus
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks:Dick Ayers (signed)
Letters:Artie Simek
Genre:science fiction
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.


Story Title: Island of Fear! - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inks:Joe Sinnott (signed)
Genre:horror-suspense
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.


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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