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Issue: Monster Masterworks #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1989
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 180
ISBN: 0871355922
UPC/EAN: 02488523630995
Price: $15.75 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 30 (18 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Marc McLaurin
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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reprinted 27 times from Content Items in other Issues.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Penciller(s): Walt Simonson
Inker(s): Walt Simonson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Fin Fang Foom; The Glop; Groot; Sporr; X
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound cover.
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Blank pages

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 2
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Monster Masterworks

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Inker(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title page with creators listed against a background of a monochrome photograph.
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Monsters of the Shifty Fifties

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Jack Kirby comments on the monsters of the 1950s.
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Monster Masterworks

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Inker(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents with a background of a monochrome photo. Most reprint sources are listed from the 1970s reprints, not the originals.
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Alien Invaders

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Inker(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Section header with type and a monochrome scenery photo.
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I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans
Synopsis: The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-839
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The Threat of Tim Boo Ba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tim Boo Ba
Synopsis: Alien warlord Tim Boo Ba is master of all he surveys but is wiped out in a torrential flood when an Earth boy drips water on the small scale model that is Tim Boo Ba's home planet.
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From Content Item: FlagAmazing Adult Fantasy #9 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1962
was The Terror of Tim Boo Ba [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is reprinted from the retitled version in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #10.
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The Glop!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Glop
Synopsis: A painter is hired to cover a statue with strange paint. The statue comes to life at midnight and goes on a rampage. The statue is an advance agent for an alien invasion, and the painter defeats it by using turpentine to remove the special paint.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #7 published July 1971
was The Glop [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lewis Conrad; Taboo (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: A popular adventure writer finds a giant mud creature from another planet stranded in a Brazilian swamp. The alien tricks him into bringing all Earth's scientific records for nefarious purposes, but is destroyed by an H-bomb hidden with the records.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #75 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1960
was Taboo! The Thing From Murky Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-673
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I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Blip
Synopsis: A power drain and radar anomaly is traced to a creature made of electricity hiding in a cave. It claims to be a friendly visitor, but humans attack it and it flees into space.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-943
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I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Hanson; Clara Hanson; Creature from Krogarr
Synopsis: A dissolute human is targeted by an alien that can transport items through television sets, but he is saved by his failure to pay the electric bill.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #25 published November 1961
was I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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A Martian Walks Among Us!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man spots upon a Martian in human form scouting for an invasion. The police won’t believe him, so he finds and kills the spy himself, revealing that he is a Venusian in disguise working to protect Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #78 published November 1960
was A Martian Walks Among Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: T-864
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Man-Made Monsters

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Inker(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Chapter header with monochrome photo and title.
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What Was "X" The Thing That Lived!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
Synopsis: A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The writer comes to the conclusion that the key is in the typewriter he's been using to write the stories.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: A four-part story.
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Van Doom, the Man Who Made a Creature!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature
Synopsis: Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
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Pages: 13
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Kraa the Unhuman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kraa (intro)
Synopsis: An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #18 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1961
was Kraa the Unhuman Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #18 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1961
was Kraa! Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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I Am the Brute That Walks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): "The Brute That Walks" [Howard Avery]; Sally Barton
Synopsis: Scrawny scientist Howard Avery develops a growth serum so his girlfriend Sally will like him better, but it turns him into a giant monster.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #1 published July 1970
was I Am the Brute That Walks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: V-875
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Sporr
Synopsis: A scientist moves into Dr. Frankenstein's castle to set up his experimental growth ray. When he trains it upon an amoeba, the frightened villagers burst in, and seeing the equipment, think he is going to bring ruin down upon them and hustle him off to the town jail. With no one to shut off the growth machine, the amoeba grows to huge size and smashes out of the castle to menace the village. The scientist escapes his jail cell and uses his labcoat soaked with sugar to lure Sporr into a quicksand pit.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #11 published September 1960
was I Created...Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-778
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Zzutak: The Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints. The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending the threat.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #88 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1961
was Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-299
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Zzutak" (7 pp).
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Ancient Menaces

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Inker(s): Vince Mielcarek (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Chapter header with monochrome photo and title.
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Fear in the Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zenocian #7; Model Vog robot
Synopsis: A man and a robot are stranded and the man tries to sacrifice himself to save the robot, but they are both saved, and we find that the man was a humanoid robot, and the robot a robot-looking alien.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #65 published February 1961
was Fear in the Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-83
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Gigantus! The Monster That...Walked Like a Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mr. Baxter; Charlie; Gigantus
Synopsis: An advertising man tricks an advance agent of a proposed invasion from Atlantis into returning to Atlantis by building a mannequin even larger than Goliath and threatening to wage war with his people for the surface of Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #10 published July 1971
was Gigantus! The Monster That.. ...Walked Like a Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-930
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Relettered to change the monster's name from Goliath to Gigantus.
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Grottu, King of the Insects!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Frank [Ulysses Bloodstone] (earliest published appearance according to later continuity); Lynn Avery; Kasenga; Grottu (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: A journalist and an archaeologist go to Africa and find an atomically mutated giant ant with super-intelligence. The giant ant tries to lead an army of insects to world conquest, but is foiled when the humans use sugar to turn his ants against him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #73 published February 1960
was Grottu, King of the Insects! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: T-547
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Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers ?; Russ Heath ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): John Cartwright; Titan
Synopsis: John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #28 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
was Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Reprinted from the version in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12. This printing says inks by Dick Ayers; index for original printing says Russ Heath.
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Fin Fang Foom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Fin Fang Foom (introduction); Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow
Synopsis: A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its layer before restoring its mystical slumber.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #89 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1961
was Fin Fang Foom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-318
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: part one (6 pp) and part two (7 pp).
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Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #15

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Inker(s): John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Morrie Kuramoto
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Kraa
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From Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #15 published May 1972
was Kraa -- the Unhuman! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #35

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek; Danny Crespi
Subject Matter
Character(s): Gorgolla
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #35 published May 1975
was Gorgolla the Living Gargoyle! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #21

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Character(s): Fin Fang Foom
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #21 published May 1973
was Fin Fang Foom! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Cover - Where Monsters Dwell #16

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Vince Colletta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Character(s): Googam
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #16 published July 1972
was Beware the Son of Goom! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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