Five-Score Comic Monthly #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Incredible Fireball Creatures!", the Kull’s peaceful space-lighthouses—designed to warn travelers of dangerous anti-matter blotches—take an unexpected turn when one drifts into Earth’s solar system. Two Earthmen stumble upon the strange structure, only to be captured by the Zarran, the Kull’s long-time foes, who plan to weaponize the lighthouse’s energy against their enemies. Written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky with inks by Frank Giacoia, this 1959 adventure blends cosmic mystery and alien intrigue. The cover, by Bernard Baily, captures the eerie glow of the fireball-lit lighthouse in stark, dramatic detail.
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The Kull are a peaceful people who have discovered random anti-matter blotches throughout space. To warn travelers of the blotches they station lighthouses in their vicinity. One of the lighthouses drifts into our solar system. Two Earthmen investigate the lighthouse and become prisoners when it is retrieved by the Zarran, enemies of the Kull. The Zarrans rig the lighthouse with crystals to absorb the deadly radiation from the blotches and beam it onto the Kull planet. The Earthmen help the Zarran defeat the effects of the radiation and are rewarded with knowledge to take back to Earth.
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