#3

Synopsis

The issue starts in the distant past where the monolith instructs a hunter on how to craft a spear and then shifts to the future where two astronauts discover an alien ruin. One of the astronauts is killed by a creature, but the other, Woodrow Decker, is transported into a pastoral countryside by the monolith. Here he rapidly ages until he dies and is converted by the monolith into an embryo-type creature referred to as a 'new seed' to explore the galaxy.

Reprinted from

• Two Gun Kid #79
• 2001, A Space Odyssey #1
• Star Wars #5

Credits

Script

Roy Thomas, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber

Pencils

Rick Hoberg, Howard Chaykin, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers

Inks

Dave Cockrum, Steve Leialoha, Mike Royer, Carl Hubbell

Colours

Glynis Oliver, George Roussos