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Issue: Where Creatures Roam #5
Publication Date: March 1971
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Issues: #5 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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Gorgilla!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby; Marie Severin (alterations)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers; Marie Severin (alterations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #24 published October 1961
was The Abominable Snowman [Illustration on Cover, Front]as a cover to the story "Gorgilla Strikes Again!" from issue #18 (April 1961); original title: The Abominable Snowman!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Additional figures and background art by Marie Severin. Info per Nick Caputo, June 2015.

The monster pictured is The Abominable Snowman (from Tales to Astonish #24); it is unclear why the cover to Tales to Astonish #18, where "Gorgilla Strikes Again" was not used.
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
Synopsis: Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1 (page count uncertain)
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Part 2...Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2 (page count uncertain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: V-122
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in the story reprinted in (Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #9 (February 1971), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Mighty Marvel Checklist
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
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Something Missing!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sally; Tom
Synopsis: The first mission to Mercury has a stow-away, the lover of one of the pilots. The captain is angry, but when they arrive on Mercury they find that the natives are hostile, and only the girl's display of love towards the pilot convinces them that the humans have something of value to offer.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #24 published October 1961
was Something Missing!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-330
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He Waits in the Dark!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A mysterious janitor tries to improve conditions for the residents of a tenement and then faces the greedy landlord in a final showdown.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #24 published October 1961
was He Waits in the Dark! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-328

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