Comic Title: Beware the Creeper #6
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1969
On Sale Date: January 21, 1969 Copyright Date January 21, 1969
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1969

Newsstand Date January 21, 1969
Source: Comic Reader, #71

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dick Giordano

Title: "A Time to Die"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Creeper (of Earth-1)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Steve J. Ditko
Penciller: Jack Sparling
Inker: Mike Peppe

Reprinted In:
Creeper by Steve Ditko HC (2010)

Feature Character(s)

• Creeper (last appearance in Beware the Creeper #5; next appearance in Justice League of America #70)

Supporting Character(s)

• Bill Brane (last appearance in Beware the Creeper #5; no further appearances)
• Vera Sweet (last appearance in Beware the Creeper #5; next appearance in Brave & the Bold #178)

Villain(s)

• Proteus (identity as Rip Cord revealed; last appearance in Beware the Creeper #5; next appearance in Super-Team Family #2)
• Members of Proteus's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Harley Ellison (a governor; no further appearances)

Comments:
Proteus appears to die in this story, but he later appears in Super-Team Family #2, so he must have survived his apparent fate.

This story is continued from Beware the Creeper #5.

Synopsis:
Proteus leaves the Creeper to die by drowning in a sewer tunnel. Before he departs, the villain reveals that he is Jack Ryder's roommate Rip Cord. The Creeper manages to avoid drowning and escapes the tunnel. He then tracks down Proteus who is impersonating the governor. The two men battle above the dam, which Proteus is trying to destroy. The Creeper prevails when Proteus falls over the edge with explosives and dies in the explosion.