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1960-01-01 00:00:20
Previous:
Tales To Astonish #13
Amazing Adult Fantasy #9
Journey Into Mystery #72
Strange Tales #75
Tales To Astonish #15
Tales To Astonish #25
Strange Tales #78
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Box 1 / Monster Age

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Journey Into Mystery #63
Strange Tales #73
Tales Of Suspense #28
Strange Tales #89

Tales To Astonish #20
Tales To Astonish #17
Tales Of Suspense #18
Journey Into Mystery #65
Strange Tales #88
Tales Of Suspense #11

Tales To Astonish #20 - Jun 61
     "X, The Thing That Lived!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Tales To Astonish #17 - Mar 61
     "Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Tales Of Suspense #18 - Jun 61
     "Kraa, the Unhuman" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Journey Into Mystery #65 - Feb 61
     "The Brute That Walks!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Strange Tales #88 - Sep 61
     "Zzutak!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko
Tales Of Suspense #11 - Sep 60
     "Spoor!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers

Review/plot: More fantastic Marvel horror comics from the time period when super hero comics were not very popular.

Monster X:

This section features Man-Made Monsters, like "X" above, who was brought to life by a comic book artist's typewriter, and Vandoom's Monster below, a creature created by a wax museum's curator.

Two separate stories in this batch have monsters created by an artist coming to life. I hope Kirby wasn't trying to tell us something.

Zzutak (you can definitely see Ditko on the inks here):

Spoor:

Kraa:

The Brute that Walks:

Roger Stern's Marvel Universe stories suggest that some of these creatures may actually have been Deviants that were merely activated or awoken by man. Great fun stuff.

Quality Rating: B

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: No super heroes show up to put a stop to any of these menaces. All of these stories are very self-contained.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Monster Masterworks

Inbound References (1): show

  • Strange Tales #108 (Human Torch)

Characters Appearing: Brute That Walks, Kraa, Spoor, Vandoom's Monster, X, Zzutak

Previous:
Tales To Astonish #13
Amazing Adult Fantasy #9
Journey Into Mystery #72
Strange Tales #75
Tales To Astonish #15
Tales To Astonish #25
Strange Tales #78
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Box 1 / Monster Age

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Journey Into Mystery #63
Strange Tales #73
Tales Of Suspense #28
Strange Tales #89

Comments

That panel of X "transforming himself into a smaller creature" looks... really, REALLY inappropriate if you look at it the wrong way.

Posted by: ParanoidObsessive | July 15, 2014 5:59 PM

Perhaps that panel was the artist's planned "origin" for that monster inside his story. Say hi to Mr. and Mrs. X, they X Jr.'s parents.

Posted by: Icecypher | June 8, 2015 5:28 PM




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