Creatures on the Loose! No. 18
date: label: date made
content: 1972-07
name: label: maker
content: Marvel Comics Group
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content: <i>Creatures on the Loose! No. 18 </i> features the story "Wasteland-On a Weirdling World! ,</i> written by George Alec Effinger, Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas and pencilled by Ross Andru and Marie Severin. It stars the character "Gulliver Jones."
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content: Gullivar Jones, an interplanetary adventurer, was first introduced in the Edwin Lester Arnold's 1905 work of speculative fiction, <i>Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation </i>. Marvel's interpretation of the character is featured on Gil Kane's cover battling a sea-monster.
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content: 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."
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content: The anthology series "Creatures on the Loose" first appeared in 1969 under the title "Tower of Shadows," assuming its new name in 1971.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Virginia
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
label: Subject
content: Fantasy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3010.105
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content: 2018.3010
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3010.105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/16 in x 6 15/16 in; 25.87625 cm x 17.62125 cm