Steel the Indestructible Man #5 Fine Minus (5.5) [DC Comic]

Cover pencils by Don Heck, inks by Al Milgrom. "A Scream in the Night!", script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Don Heck, inks by Frank Chiaramonte.

Weak from injuries, Steel, the Indestructible Man tackles a monstrous creature called the Swamp Monster (intro, origin); He beats the shambling horror away from Doctor Olivia Brown; Barely conscious, Steel keeps the doctors from removing his cowl and revealing his secret identity; Steel follows the creature's tracks to Hawk House, an enormous mansion left to ruin; The caretaker allows Steel entry, but bars him from meeting with the master of the house, Andrew Hawk; As Steel makes his way through the shadowy corridors, he is nearly slain by an enormous guillotine blade that drops from the ceiling; Next hes targeted by heavy machine gun fire from turrets that emerge from the very walls. Final issue. In 1978, this series was abruptly canceled in a company-wide decision on cancellations which has become known as the DC Implosion. The cancelled material was later reworked into All Star Squadron #8-9.