Comic Book Monsters, Of course

The Claw started off in a one-shot pulp adventure comic as a pretty blatant Fu Manchu ripoff. How he went from that to being the size-changing reptilian god of hate, I'm honestly not sure. He battled characters like the original Daredevil (not blind, wields boomerangs) and The Ghost (dresses as a ghost, punches nazis) and, in true comic book fashion, died several times only to be continuously resurrected. I have a feeling the kids who read these comics found him way more entertaining than any of the heroes who fought him.

I wish I had more pictures of Hellboy's monsters and demons, I'd love to spam this thread with them.

Zzzax!

There was this old comic called the Eye about a giant magical eye that went around stopping evil.


I'm still confused as to whether or not he's supposed to be the hero.

Yeah, here's the thing about the early days of superhero comics that people often forget. The idea of a lantern-jawed defender of justice who always saves the day with a minimum of violence wasn't a precedent back then. There WAS, however, a precedent for the violent, borderline insane antiheroes of the pulps.

I can name a ton of marvel monsters.But, the first that came to mind are symbiotes.The Symbiotes are parasitic extraterrestrials that attack other life-forms and create a type of parasitic bond that allows the alien to control the host's mind.Kinda like a mind-controlling monster costume.

ah the 90s so many scars that will never heal right.

But they can be covered up with pouches.

More Jack Kirby!

That's the Multi-Killer, whose creation was commissioned by a would-be dictator as his ultimate last-resort weapon should he be captured. It has the ability to eat matter and convert it into any sort of energy, which it then spews from its multifarious tentacle-mouths.

If we're doing Jack Kirby monsters, none are better in my opinion than Angry Charlie:

This beastie is from the Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen comic, and was created by Project DNA- what eventually became Cadmus. It looks fearsome, but subsides entirely on wood polish. He treats varnished furniture like candy.

Hi kids, I'm Nuul the Living Darkness.

The characters I'm about to show you are BARELY monsters, which is notable in and of itself. It seems that at some point in the 60s, Dell comics decided to turn the "big three" of monsters into superheroes.

Frankenstein wasn't a HUGE stretch, since he at least was the actual Frankenstein monster. Most of the time he wore a flesh-tone mask to hide his green face (only his face was green), but when fighting crime he removed it. And donned a ridiculous leotard.

Al U. Card wasn't an actual vampire, though he was descended from the real Vlad Dracula. By some chance a lab accident gave him vampire powers, so he decided to put on a bat costume and do battle with... uh... phony spiritualists. Seriously, he decided that Frankenstein had crime-fighting covered, and that exposing small-time con artists was the best use of his amazing powers.

Then there's Werewolf, who's just a secret agent with a pet wolf, so fuck him.

I don't know if any of you remember this discussion we had over whether or not the Ar-Finn Lovecraftian Donald Duck comic existed, but after some research, I've finally found it.
That Donald Duck comic on TV Tropes was not a hoax.

It was called The Call of C'Rruso.

Here are two INDUCKS pages I've found on the comic.

There's a chanse I might be able to find the book it's published in. The Finnish version is relatively recent, and I think I've actually seen it. Not sure if it's for sale anymore, but it's worth it to check.

I know the first run of Swamp Thing had some pretty decent monsters, like the Un-Men and M'nagalah.

For the most part he's kind of bland as giant world-devouring eldritch horrors go, but this biography doesn't mention that M'nagalah started out by growing on this guy's arm. He's essentially a giant tumor. Look: he's got an ear!

There were also some pretty well-designed Un-Men, but I can't find pictures anywhere. I'm looking for the snakey-looking guy if anybody's got Swamp Thing volume 1.