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Reptisaurus #8

Charlton · Series began 1962 · December 1962

Dates

Cover date
December 1962
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

pencils: Bill Montes, Sal Gentileinks: Ernie Bache

Stories

  • Brood of the Beast · Reptisaurus · 20 pages

    Dr. Harden experiments on the baby Reptisaur and deduces that radiation can kill it. He also discovers that high pitched frequencies can hypnotize it. He decides if he can hypnotize and control the Reptisaurs he can use them to conquer the world. While he is out, his assistant uses radiation to kill the baby after it breaks free. Enraged, Harden goes to Africa and is able to control Reptisaurus. However his assistant had called the U.N and asked them to send bombers to drop radiation bombs. They do killing the 2 baby Reptisaurs and Harden. The parents attack the bombers and then fly off.

  • Seven Steps in the Snow · 2 pages

    Dr. John Boyle and Professor Roger Hollander of the Saxon Foundation are called to the country of Teyar near the Himalayas to investigate Abominable Snowman footprints. They encounter a 50 foot snowman that attacks them. It's set on fire and vanishes. Did it really exist?

  • And the Light Shall Come · 5 pages

    On a world like Earth, an Atomic war drove the survivors underground where they live like primitives in the dark. They are trapped underground by a huge steel door. They have a civil war amongst themselves until the steel door is opened from outside by spacemen from Earth. The people leave the darkness behind and enter the surface world to embrace sunlight.

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