Creatures On The Loose No. 19: Museum Object and Cultural History
Creatures On The Loose No. 19: date made: 1972-09. maker: Marvel Comics Group. Object Name: comic book.
The object in the museum catalogue
Creatures on the Loose! No. 19 features the story "The Long Road to Nowhere," written by George Alec Effinger and pencilled by Gil Kane and Wayne Boring. It stars the character "Gulliver Jones."
Gullivar Jones, an interplanetary adventurer, was first introduced in Edwin Lester Arnold's 1905 work of speculative fiction, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation .
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" began in 1969 under the title "Tower of Shadows," assuming its new name in 1971.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1972-09
- maker: Marvel Comics Group
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in; 26.035 cm x 17.4625 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Associated Place: United States: Virginia
- Subject: Comics
- Subject: Fantasy
- ID Number: 2018.3010.106
- nonaccession number: 2018.3010
- catalog number: 2018.3010.106
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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