Why, it seems it can unleash some oddly familiar names and faces...
If ever you needed proof Britain and America really are two countries separated by a common language, it has to be the terror of Shagg.
Somehow I don't think the unstoppable Shagg would've been approved by the Comics Code in this country.
Rather appropriately, the comic that was to give us Thor gives us giant Vikings from space.
Orogo, the thing from beyond!
Beyond what, I have no idea.
The Awesome might of Gomdulla.
Am I the only one who suspects Howard the Duck is beneath those bandages?
Goliath, the monster that - like Frankie Valli - walks like a man.
Gruto, the creature from nowhere!
Kaptured by Korilla!
I do wonder just how many monster names Stan Lee could come up with that were variations of the word, "Gorilla."
I don't have a clue what that thing is but it's easily the coolest-looking monster in this post.
Zog! What more needs to be said?
Rro! Stan wasn't really trying with that name, was he?
Bombu!
A strangely familiar name and a strangely familiar face.
Rorgg!
Monstro!
Spragg!
That's that thing where you film your chin upside down and stick false eyes on it, isn't it?
We've had the Hulk. We might as well finish off with his old foe the Glob.
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I read 'The Ruler of the World' before. It's a mammoth computer, created to rule the world and taught to repeat over and over again, 'I am inferior to man'.
Then agents of Hydra (really, I think it was), put in circuits to corrupt it. But it doesn't work, because he is, of course, superior to man. He goes on to rule benevolently.
I think it might have been lifted from a sci-fi short story.
You're right about "shag" meaning one thing to Brits and and another to Yankees Though time have changed a bit. B.A.P. (before austin powers) we would have wondereed what was scary aout 70s style carpeting. A.A.P (figure it out) we get the connection. Great collection of covers.
They really need to start reprinting some of these stories for their Essentials books.
The "Here comes the Hulk" character had a few stories - the issue shown here was reprinted in "Monsters on the Prowl" number 11 in 1971 (one of my first Marvel monster comics I bought as a kid) where he was renamed "Xemnu - the coming of the Titan" he also appeared in issue 14 of that book as well (so the "original Hulk" must have had a follow up tale). He (it?)was later he was added as a character in the Defenders and fought the Hulk however they changed his colour to white and made him fluffy looking so he looked like a giant troll - McScotty.
The ultimate Stan Lee monster would probably be...
Lorgilla - The Thing that Walks Like a Man!
That "living hulk" bares a striking resemblance to the orange version of Gossamer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_(Looney_Tunes)
I suppose there is a touch of that about him.
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