Monsters on the Prowl #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "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.
In "I Brought the Roc to Life!", two newlyweds in Egypt stumble upon a massive egg buried in the sand, which hatches under the sun into the legendary Roc. As the creature begins gathering wreckage from trains and bridges to build a nest, the scientist who discovered it devises a bold plan—constructing a robotic twin to lure the bird on a journey beyond Earth, driven by an ancient, lonely longing.
In "One Last Wish!" from Monsters on the Prowl #10 (1971), a dying man’s final act sets off a haunting family rift when his mother uses a mysterious talisman from Vietnam to wish for his return—only for his father to counter with a desperate plea to keep him buried. The story unfolds in seven chilling pages, where grief and guilt collide in a moment that defies death.
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