Gorgo #1

Dates

Cover date

[June 1961]

On sale

October 27, 1960

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition

  British

  The cover price is printed in that country's currency.

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• Monsters of the Past · 1 pages

  A caveman watches dinosaurs. He sees a Pterodactyl flying and a fight between a Brontosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus. It's mentioned how man will outlast them all.

• Gorgo · 22 pages

  Gorgo, a giant lizard-like creature, is spewed from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption off the coast of a small Irish Island. The monster comes ashore and wreaks havoc before being driven off by torches. Gorgo gets captured with shark nets and sold to the Dorkin London Circus where he is put on display. It's discovered that Gorgo is only an infant and that a similar but larger creature has attacked Nara Island. That creature is Gorgos mother and she follows the scent of her offspring to England. After destroying much of London and rescuing her offspring, the two return to the sea.

• Wonders of the Deep! · 4 pages

  Various facts about undersea creatures.

• Fear! · 4 pages

  Professor Hemlin explains superstition.

• Strange People Who Are Real · 1 pages

  Various facts about carnival people.

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Astounding Stories (1966), Fantastic Giants (1966), Attack of the Mutant Monsters (1991), Monsters Attack! (2002), Ditko Monsters: Gorgo (2013), Ditko's Monsters (2019)