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Issue: Gorgo #3
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #3 of 23 Issues (37 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Charlton PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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The Return of Gorgo

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgo
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDitko Monsters: Gorgo #[nn] published February 2013
as Gorgo! [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Return of Gorgo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgo
Synopsis: A dictator of a small island named Mandel Astro, gets one of his scientists to capture Gorgo. The scientist tortures Gorgo with an electric prod in order to make him obedient and controllable. Astro then gets his scientist to send Gorgo after his enemies. Soon the scientist uses Gorgo to overthrow Astro, and decides to use the monster to allow him to conquer neighboring nations. Eventually Gorgo rebels against the abuse and turns on his master.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAttack of the Mutant Monsters #1 published January 1991
as Kegor Monster of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonsters Attack! #1 published January 2002
as Kegor Monster Of The Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDitko Monsters: Gorgo #[nn] published February 2013
as The Return of Gorgo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: A-661
Disclose Notes: Mandel Astro is a spoof of Fidel Castro.
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Tall Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: For a school assignment, a young girl plants a special seed in her front lawn she obtains from an eccentric old man. Overnight the seed grows into a tree that reaches six miles in height and produces giant apples.
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Pages: 2
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Men and Monsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: A look at man's struggles against animals from prehistory, where cavemen battle prehistoric mammals, to the future where spacemen battle alien animals.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: A-660

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