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Cover: Steve Ditko

Beware the Creeper #5

Jan 1969 · DC · 0.12 USD
📊 ~11,416 copies sold its debut month
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“The Color of Rain Is Death!”

The Creeper faces a chilling ultimatum on Steve Ditko's cover for this 1969 DC issue — a grotesque, shape-shifting figure identified as Proteus looms close, daring our yellow-and-red hero to behold his "true face" before meeting his end. Ditko's jagged, kinetic linework crackles with menace as the two figures clash against a shadowy, fractured background that feels genuinely unsettling. With Denny O'Neil scripting "The Color of Rain Is Death!" behind that striking cover, issue #5 of Beware the Creeper is a fine example of late-'60s DC at its most imaginatively offbeat.

writer Denny O'Neil · artist Steve Ditko · inker Mike Peppe · letterer Morris Waldinger · cover Steve Ditko

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Full credits

writer Denny O'Neil
artist Steve Ditko
inker Mike Peppe
letterer Morris Waldinger
cover pencils, inks Steve Ditko

Reprints

Reprinted in The Creeper by Steve Ditko #[nn] (2010), Relatos Fabulosos #128

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