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Showcase #73 (1968) · The Collector

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Showcase (1956)
#73

DC Comics#73

Showcase

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Showcase #73

The Coming of the Creeper!! / A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: March 1968
On sale: Jan 23, 1968
Cover price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

1st appearance of The Creeper

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Credits

Writers: Steve Ditko, Don Segall
Pencillers: Steve Ditko, Morris Waldinger
Inkers: Steve Ditko, Morris Waldinger
Letterer: Charlotte Jetter

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Grand Comics Database issue 21708

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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.

Cover

Steve Ditko

Editor

Murray Boltinoff

Cover letters

Gaspar Saladino

Characters

The Creeper· 1st appearance
John Greenley

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