Kamandi #5
In "Les spasmes du monde," Steve Ditko crafts a twisted, pulse-pounding chapter of Kamandi’s post-apocalyptic odyssey, where a kidnapped scientist and a disgraced TV host collide in a web of secrets and sabotage. When Jack Ryder is thrust into a dangerous investigation and forced into a surreal costume for Devlin’s society ball, he becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game—one that leaves him wounded, transformed, and haunted by a mysterious healing power. With Ditko’s signature surrealism and Kirby’s dynamic cover art, this 1976 issue delivers a chilling, offbeat thriller where identity and survival blur.
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Professor Yatz is kidnapped by "Reds". Jack Ryder, mouthy TV host, is fired, then hired as a security investigator. He buys odds and ends for a bizarre costume for Devlin's society ball. He's stabbed and thrown in Yatz. Yatz hides his inventions: a molecular transmitter goes in the wound, and a healing serum in his veins. But Yatz is shot. The new "Creeper" goes wild on the villains - and accidentally, cops - laughing like a maniac to scare them. He exposes Devlin, then learns the moleculizer has healed inside. The Creeper will be back.
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