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Issue: Gorgo #2
Publication Date: August 1961
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Issues: #2 of 23 Issues (37 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Charlton PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Gorgo Returns

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgo
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAttack of the Mutant Monsters #1 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagDitko Monsters: Gorgo #[nn] published February 2013
as Gorgo! [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gorgo Returns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgo
Synopsis: When the British electrify the waters off Ireland, Gorgo and his mother head west to America. Gorgo is attacked after it fouls the trans-Atlantic telephone cable and gets incapacitated in a sandpit while his mother is sleeping. When she wakes up and finds the baby missing, she attacks New York City. The world's weakest Hydrogen bomb is dropped on her, which fails to kill the monster. Gorgo eventually escapes from the sandpit and reunites with his mother but gets wounded by cannon shells loaded with a nerve agent. His mother scoops him up and returns to the ocean where they both go to sleep.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDitko Monsters: Gorgo #[nn] published February 2013
as Gorgo Returns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Job Number: A-457
Disclose Notes: Story acts as a sequel to the the 1961 film.
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Batch 345A

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A group of scientists are working on creating special fertilizer to grow giant crops in order to end world hunger. But during testing at a site of batch 345A, the fertilizer in the soil accidentally creates giant earthworms.
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Pages: 2

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