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IT! The Terror from Beyond Space                            Comics Lot
Writer: Mark Ellis
Artist: Dean Zachary
Inkers: Jim Amash & Robert Lewis
Colorists: Marcus Rollie & Deirdre de lay
Editor: Melissa Martin
Cover #1 by: Tony Harris
Cover #2 by: Marcus Rollie

It! The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 American black and white science fiction film produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, and starring Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith (Shirley Patterson) and Kim Spalding. The premise of a hostile alien creature hunting a spaceship’s crew as it returns to Earth was the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien.

The plot involves a rescue mission to Mars that finds the sole survivor of a previous Earth expedition. The survivor, the expedition’s former commander, claims that his crew were killed by a hostile Martian life form. The rescue ship’s captain does not believe him, surmising that they were actually killed for their provisions so that the commander could survive. He confines the commander to quarters after the rescue ship launches for Earth. The same hostile Martian creature, now a stowaway and immune to the crew’s few weapons, begins another human hunting spree.

Now, adapted from the 1958 feature film, Millennium Publications presents…The first manned expedition to Mars and unbeknownst to the crew of the Challenge 142, a sinister, living remnant of an ancient, otherworldly civilization which has stowed away aboard their vessel.

Story/Spoilers
In issue #1, ” Testimony”, In 1976 the unmanned Viking One space probe brought Mars to life with clear color pictures of the Red Planet’s surface. While organic life was not detected, several of the photographs transmitted back to Earth suggested the possibility of artifacts from an ancient Martian civilization. Upon the Cydonia Plains, the Viking cameras captured a sphinx-like face almost a mile across, and structures that many researchers believed to be the ruins of a city. Though NASA officially denied these conclusions, and the controversy raged over twenty years, a manned Mars mission was launched in the first decade of the 21st century. The objective of the Challenge 141 was to determine, once and for all, the true nature of the so-called “Monuments of Mars.” Unfortunately, communication with the ship was lost almost immediately upon planetfall, and NASA assumed the Challenge 141 and its crew of ten had perished in a crash. A second ship, the Challenge 142, was dispatched to Mars to discover the fate of the 141, and if possible, to complete its predecessor’s mission. The crew of the 142 discovered Colonel Edward Carruthers to be the sole survivor of the first vessel. Concluding the Carruthers had murdered his ship-mates in order to stretch out the supplies of food, water, and oxygen, the commander of the 142 placed him under arrest and chose to return him to Earth for trial rather than investigate Carruthers’ claims of a pyramid city, his discovery of the mummified remains of an extra-terrestrial, or of a mysterious creature that had killed his entire crew within a single day. Unbeknownst to the crew of the Challenge 142, a sinister, living remnant of an ancient, otherworldly civilization has stowed away aboard their vessel…

Next in issue #2, “Evidence”, It seems Carruthers had been telling the truth – and the very same monster that had killed his entire crew within a single day. was now lurking within the Challenge 142! The body count begins to rise with the discovery of the shriveled corpse of a colleague, then another near death. Both bodies have been sucked dry of moisture. The once skeptical crew now accepts that something has crawled aboard while they were on Mars. Now as the crew numbers dwindle, the survivors retreat upward, deck-by-deck, pursued by the humanoid creature…

Collectible Entertainment comment: IT! The Terror from Beyond Space (1992 – 1993) is an ill-fated title that was originally to have run for four issues instead of just the 2 that were published and is therefore an incomplete story (cliffhanger – see 12th scan for last panel)…. Nonetheless, Dean Zachary’s “Alien Monster” artwork is still awesome from cover to cover. Recommended for Science Fiction Movie enthusiasts. It’s good stuff.

Comics lot contains: IT! The Terror from Beyond Space (1992 – 1993) Issues #1-2.  Millennium Publications

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Millennium Publications
Publication Date: 1992 – 1993
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1 & 2 are in Fine to Fine + condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious IT! The Terror From Beyond Space and/or Science Fiction collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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