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    Showcase #73

    Showcase » Showcase #73 - The Coming of the Creeper!! released by DC Comics on April 1968.

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    The Coming of the Creeper!! last edited by nero999 on 02/20/22 01:01AM View full history

    Ousted TV personality Jack Ryder hadn't planned on working for a security agency or combating communists. However, writer/artist Steve Ditko and co-scribe Don Segall gave him more than the last laugh as the garishly garbed Creeper, one of DC's quirkiest protagonists.

    Dawn of the Creeper
    Dawn of the Creeper

    Ryder had adopted yellow make up, a green wig, and red sheepskin to crash a mobster's costume party and locate the kidnapped Soviet scientist Emil Yatz. Criminal Angel Devlin's gang had abducted Yatz, but Yatz promptly gave Ryder a serum to heal his wounds and boost his energy to superhuman levels. He also implanted a device inside the wound, enabling Ryder's creepy attire to materialize and disappear with the click of another dial.

    Yatz was shot dead by the mobsters, but Ryder's odd appearance, disturbing behavior and maniacal laughter helped him to dispense with the criminals and spies. Authorities wrongly branded the Creeper as a crook, even though the underworld had felt his wrath, which he would begin doling out again in his own series two months later.

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    It StartsHow is is possible that I am the first to review such a legendary comic as the first appearance of the Creeper. It is funny how you can see thirty reviews for new book that shows it's ugly head but nothing on a classic such as this. OK....enough of my soapbox...on with the review.I first have to admit that I am a huge Steve Ditko fan. It started with the Blue Beetle and grew from there. So this may taint my review a little but remember a great comic book creator is more apt than not to ...

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