Unusual Tales - I Made A Volcano

"Unusual Tales", a series presenting Steve Ditko's comics from 1957 to 1959 that are in the public domain.

From Charlton's OUT OF THIS WORLD #5 [1957] comes "I Made A Volcano", one of my favourite Ditko stories from the era. The story about a man in the jungles of South America obsessed with destruction, with a surprise ending (thus obscured in the thumbnails below). The writing is a cut above the norm for these comics, and Ditko does a great job with the lush jungle backgrounds and the body language reinforcing aspects of the story.

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Scans in this series generally adapted to my personal tastes from those copies

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