The Creature from the Black Lagoon has been adapted to comics twice. The first time was at Dell Comics and featured a dynamic Vic Prezio cover.
Here is a link to the first part of story itself and here is a link to the finale. It's a wee bit different than fans of the movie might remember.
Many years later several of the Universal monsters got their iconic tales translated to comics yet again and the standout was easily the adaptation of Creature from the Black Lagoon by Art Adams. Adams gave us a story in his distinctive style which might've done some surprising things with the cast, but his Gill Man is indisputably one of the best ever.
Here it is in glorious black and white like the original movie itself. Reading this one again recently, I was struck by the rigorous way Adams sticks to the script and at this ability to capture the atmosphere of the movie itself.
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All the Universal Monster movie adaptations by Dell took considerable liberties with the stories!
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They must've wanted to offer an alternate version, though I confess that's odd since comics like these were documentations of the film from my perspective. In the halcyon days before video cassettes that was not unimportant.
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