The Creeps #1

Frank Beardsly lies buried after being murdered by his wife Ellen and her lover Joe, but the chemical formula he once created brings him back to life—awake in the dark, rising from the earth with a purpose. Now, the dead man walks, driven by a vengeance that stirs beneath the soil.

Sir Fredrick follows his missing betrothed Christine into a crumbling castle, only to find her unconscious and the old wizard standing over her. The wizard warns him to turn back, but Fredrick presses on, driven by love and fury—only to uncover a truth far more unsettling than he imagined.

When Metro City’s streets grow too dangerous for the law to handle, the vigilante Crime Cruncher takes matters into his own hands—executing mobsters with chilling precision. Spared by the killer after revealing his undercover status, Detective Mullen is drawn into a dark mystery that forces him to question everything he thought he knew about justice, and the man behind the mask.

In the shadowed corners of a forgotten basement, little Joey Nelson faces his terror when he’s taken by the sinister Leo Farnsworth. Trapped with two other children—Johnny Regis and Tina Smith—Joey finds unexpected courage as they band together to survive the night.

Cassus rises as a feared gladiator in the arena, his victories built on a secret: he pays water-bearers to poison his opponents’ drinks, turning the fight in his favor. As the crowd roars and the stakes grow higher, his rival Darrius watches closely, while the legendary Hectorus of Greece remains a looming presence in the shadows.

Commander Cory leads a mission to colonize Ceta-6, a planet scarred by a forgotten experiment in genetic perfection. There, amid the ruins of a corporate lab, she uncovers traces of Dr. Gerald Talbot’s forbidden work—echoes of a past Earth tried to erase.

Laura Drum, once a rising star now overshadowed by her younger, seemingly ageless co-star Helen Bright, grows increasingly fixated on the secret behind Helen’s eternal youth. When a late-night discovery in the dressing room reveals something far beyond mere vanity, Laura’s curiosity spirals into a chilling reckoning she never saw coming.