Showcase #73 The Creeper (DC, 1968) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....
Auction amount: $1,680.00
Sold: Apr 6, 2021
Showcase #73 Values
Publisher: DC, 1968
About Showcase #73
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)
Letters: Gaspar Saladino (and logo)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: The Creeper [Jack Ryder] (introduction, origin); Professor Yatz; gangsters; Communist agents; Dr. Clayton Wetley; TV Station Manager; Bill Brane (Chief of Network Security); Major Smel; costume shop owner; Mr. Devlin; policemen
Synopsis: Professor Yatz is kidnapped by "Reds". Jack Ryder, mouthy TV host, is fired, then hired as a security investigator. He buys odds and ends for a bizarre costume for Devlin's society ball. He's stabbed and thrown in Yatz. Yatz hides his inventions: a molecular transmitter goes in the wound, and a healing serum in his veins. But Yatz is shot. The new "Creeper" goes wild on the villains - and accidentally, cops - laughing like a maniac to scare them. He exposes Devlin, then learns the moleculizer has healed inside. The Creeper will be back.
Pages: 22.000
Script: Steve Ditko (plot); Don Segall (dialogue)
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Inks: Steve Ditko
Letters: Charlotte Jetter
Reprints: Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #443 (October-November 1974)
Notes: Story across 23 pages, but pages 12 and 23 are 1/2-pages. Story continues in Beware the Creeper #1.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | NG | PG | CVR | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 41 | 26 | 51 | 65 | 73 | 75 | 87 | 79 | 68 | 53 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 725 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
|
Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
CGCxJSA |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 41 | 28 | 54 | 69 | 73 | 76 | 95 | 84 | 73 | 57 | 46 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 763 |
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