Creatures on the Loose! No. 18: Museum Object and Cultural History
Creatures on the Loose! No. 18: date made: 1972-07. maker: Marvel Comics Group. Object Name: comic book.
The object in the museum catalogue
Creatures on the Loose! No. 18 features the story "Wasteland-On a Weirdling World! , written by George Alec Effinger, Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas and pencilled by Ross Andru and Marie Severin. It stars the character "Gulliver Jones."
Gullivar Jones, an interplanetary adventurer, was first introduced in the Edwin Lester Arnold's 1905 work of speculative fiction, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation . Marvel's interpretation of the character is featured on Gil Kane's cover battling a sea-monster.
The comic also includes two other stories, both reprinted from earlier Marvel titles; Tony DiPreta's "Under the Knife" and Steve Ditko's "What Lurks in the Mountain."
The anthology series "Creatures on the Loose" first appeared in 1969 under the title "Tower of Shadows," assuming its new name in 1971.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1972-07
- maker: Marvel Comics Group
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 3/16 in x 6 15/16 in; 25.87625 cm x 17.62125 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Associated Place: United States: Virginia
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Fantasy
- ID Number: 2018.3010.105
- nonaccession number: 2018.3010
- catalog number: 2018.3010.105
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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