Showcase #73 p 20 (1ST CREEPER APPEARANCE & GREAT BATTLE PG!) 1967

Steve Ditko landed with a bang at DC in 1967, pitching the Creeper as a figure of heroic/horrific vengeance, feigning madness in order to intimidate his criminal quarry. This HISTORIC 1967 VERY FIRST APPEARANCE ISSUE & INCREDIBLE BATTLE PAGE is to the GREATEST DC SUPERHERO STEVE DITKO EVER CREATED: "THE CREEPER!" This masterpiece was was penciled and inked by Ditko just 2 years after he left THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN art chores, from the story titled: "The Coming of the Creeper!" This ICONIC page features the CREEPER doing his classic "HA HA HA" LAUGHING all around the main villain of the story named Angel Devilin! EACH of these 4 great panels is something to just MARVEL at, with an iconic 1960s SUPER HERO BATTLE! Maybe it is Ditko's credential as a pre-Code censor-bait horror artist, or perhaps his off-the-grid creation of the merciless vigilante known as Mr. A, that causes even Ditko's major-publisher projects to look somehow Underground-like. Ditko's uniquely weird Creeper franchise resembles no other DC property of its period -- and much of that quality stems from its toned-down, Code-compliant derivation from Ditko's maverick Mr. A series (in Wally Wood's experimental Witzend magazine). SILVER AGE STEVE DITKO Super hero battle pages are VERY hard to find in the hobby these days, so don't miss out on a great opportunity here to own a nice SILVER Age 1967 BIRTH ISSUE STEVE DITKO CREEPER ALL OUT BATTLE page! Compare this nice art to the published comic book page in the red link above! ALL art on our website (including this one) are able to be purchased with VERY fair time payments, and trades are always considered towards "ANY" art on our website! Just send us an email to mikeburkey@aol.com and we can try to work something out.

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