Credits
Writer(s):
Jack Kirby
Penciller(s):
Jack Kirby
Inker(s):
Mike Royer
Colorist(s):
George Roussos
Letterer(s):
?
Subject Matter
Genres:
historical, science fiction
Feature(s):
2001: A Space Odyssey
Character(s):
Beast-Killer [The One Who Hunts Alone] (caveman, hunter); Bill (boy); Mason (astronaut); the Monolith; Woodrow Decker (astronaut)
Synopsis:
The issue starts in the distant past where the monolith instructs a hunter on how to craft a spear and then shifts to the future where two astronauts discover an alien ruin. One of the astronauts is killed by a creature, but the other, Woodrow Decker, is transported into a pastoral countryside by the monolith. Here he rapidly ages until he dies and is converted by the monolith into an embryo-type creature referred to as a 'new seed' to explore the galaxy.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
17
Notes:
Set in the Miocene Age and on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter in the year 2001.