Showcase #73

Dates

Cover date

March-April 1968

On sale

January 23, 1968

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Coming of the Creeper!! · 22 pages

  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.

• A Strange Tale Told by the Creeper · 0.67 pages

  In Old England, a man sees his ancestor's portrait sometimes varies from holding a wine glass to a dagger, foretelling death in the household.

• Meet the Men Behind the Creeper · 1 pages

  Bios of Steve Ditko and Don Segall, although Ditko refrained from providing personal information, explaining: "I never talk about myself. My work is me. I do my best, and if I like it, I hope somebody else likes it too." The editor also requests letters for future publication. The piece is uncredited but from the editor’s note is most certainly written by Boltinoff.

Characters

Reprinted in

Detective Comics (1937), The Creeper by Steve Ditko (2010)