Monsters on the Prowl #10
In "I Brought the Roc to Life!", petty crook Jay High meets a sudden end fleeing police, leaving behind a mysterious talisman from Vietnam. His mother, desperate to bring him back, makes a wish with the artifact—only to have his father’s deeper, darker wish threaten to undo it all. Written by Mike Friedrich and illustrated by Don Heck with inks by George Tuska, this eerie 1971 tale unfolds with haunting emotional weight, its unsettling tone heightened by Steve Ditko and Marie Severin’s striking cover art.
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Jay High is a petty crook who dies fleeing from the police. Before his death he gave his mother a strange talisman he brought back from Viet Nam, and she uses it to wish he could return, but his father wishes that he return to the grave before they can see him.
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