Joe Gill and Steve Ditko · PD
Spewed from the ocean floor by a volcanic eruption, a prehistoric colossus rises to paralyze London and challenge the might of the British Navy. This action-packed anthology collects the debut of the sea-beast Gorgo, a terrifying look at the "Wonders of the Deep," and a historical exploration of man’s oldest superstitions.
36 pages · 159 panels · every panel read aloud, every balloon voiced, with sound effects and soundscapes.
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Gorgo
The monster from the sea!
Picture, if you can, a huge reptile... Long-jawed, scaled like a fish, with wings twenty feet from tip to tip! This was the flying horror called the pterodactyl at the end of the cretaceous period in world history...
Man, in those days when the world was young, hadn't developed the mental ability to devise or use weapons... So he was defenseless against other beasts such as the carnivore (meat-eater) named tyrannosaurus rex, 20 feet tall, 50 feet long, with a tail that was only less lethal than his foot-long teeth...
This jugular jungle giant is brontosaurus which weighed about 20 tons and measured about 60 feet in length! Big bronto should've won this battle but, as history points out...
...neither won it! They couldn't adapt to changing conditions and a puny, little critter outlasted them all! They're extinct now, unable to sur- vive.... And you and I are still around!
Spewed up from the bottomless depths by a volcanic eruption that reached back 2,000,000 years in time to give the world one horrifying glimpse of a species we had thought extinct, gorgo came forth, a thing of terror with massive jaws, awesome fangs capable of crunching ships or tanks… As a dog does a bone! Gorgo's incredible strength was to paralyze the greatest city on earth… Rout the mighty british navy… And teach man once more that his own greed is his most terrible danger… And if unchecked could someday destroy him!
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