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Issue: Gorgo #13
Publication Date: June 1963
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Issues: #13 of 23 Issues (37 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: 1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
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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 Capture of Gorgo

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
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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Gorgo Captured

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Gorgo
Synopsis: After hearing about Gorgo after the success of the film "Gorgo's Triumph", a zoologist decides to capture Gorgo and put him on display at the Bronx Zoo. After finding Gorgo, drugging him, and fighting off Russian spies; the zoologist and his crew bring Gorgo to the zoo. His mother shows up split seconds later to rescue him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDitko Monsters: Gorgo #[nn] published February 2013
as Gorgo Captured [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: A-2454
Disclose Notes: Story continued from Gorgo # 11.
Gorgo is referred to as "The 8th Wonder of the World" in publicity materials for the film. This moniker was used to describe Konga (another of Charlton's giant monster stars) in issue #6 of his series.
Gorgo being captured and exhibited had been done earlier in the first issue of the series.
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The Human Maze

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A professor is trapped in a giant lab maze. He wakes up and realizes it was all a dream.
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Pages: 2
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From Beyond Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, informational, science fiction
Synopsis: A story about the fall of the dinosaurs that focuses on a Brontosaurus and her mate. One of her eggs hatches millions of years later in modern day Africa. This living Brontosaurus in the modern world would inspire the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe as well as the sea serpent.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: A-2628

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