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I Was Captured by… Korilla!
13 pages :: Jack Kirby/Dick Ayers
reprinted in Creatures on the Loose 12
But it is the last thing you shall ever see — for now, you must die!
A simple cabbie gets the fright of his life one dark and rainy night when a trip to 1446 Elm Street turns into sheer terror!
An ominous passenger is accidentally revealed to be a monster. The cabbie escapes and runs to the police. The cops mock him! “Sure, pal, sure” they say.
I could feel the ladder trembling beneath me…
The monster returns to destroy our poor hero. Once again, he barely escapes only to fall into the clutches of not just one but a whole squad of invading aliens led by the massive Korilla!
My warriors are immune to the gas, but you earthlings—are not!
Korilla is polite enough to explain the nefarious plan: an unnamed group of fierce warriors from a distant galaxy have found the earth and plan to destroy all human life using a horrible radioactive vapor!
As the aliens gloat, our wily cabbie sees a chance to make a run for it. He escapes down a secret staircase to the chemical lab in the basement. The cabbie fools the rest of the monsters into a dead-end — locking them in!
He then fools the “Mother Planet” into thinking the squad had failed in its mission… a failure that carries the penalty of death.
That's all that's really important!
A new gas fills the chamber, one that kills really ugly aliens — not men. Oh, the irony! As our hero says, “A fitting end to a fiendish plan!”
Finally, the cabbie witnesses a scene never beheld by mortal man: a giant ray of light sweeps down and whisks away all evidence of the invading forces.
As our exhausted hero wobbles home, a passing cop yells at him for having a broken headlight, calls him a menace to society. Yeah, right, we all know what a real menace looks like — don't we?!
............. Philip Parodayco :: 09 May 2004
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On seeing him again after all this time, I guess I liked Korilla. Especially in the scenes where he was trying to hide his appearence. He looked mean, cool
............. c.papantoniou :: 23 June 2004
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