Before Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four #13 (1963)...
...there was
...The Watcher!
We're talking big bald alien in a cloak, part of a legion of cosmic observers keeping an eye on the doings of other races throughout the universe (and, presumably, the multiverse)!
Here's his first (and only, AFAIK) non-Marvel appearance from Charlton's Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #18 (1960)
Unlike Marvel's Watchers, Codin and his fellows deliberately interfere directly with others, albeit surreptitiously.
But, I'm compelled to ask...did this story influence either Stan or Jack several years later when they introduced their Watcher?
Guess we'll never know...
Both the writer and artist of this never-reprinted tale are, ironically, unknown.
(Too bad the Watcher can't tell us...)
The
Grand Comics Database speculates the illustrator is Bill Fraccio, a long-time
Charlton mainstay who did
everything from romance to Westerns to war to sci-fi!
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(featuring the first appearance of Marvel's Watcher)
