The Golem is pretty much the exact character you expect it to be with killer Buscema artwork. Read more: The Horrific Return of John Constantine to Hellblazer Actually, this Golem was infused with compelling Jewish lore and really captured the ancient feel of the Hebrew legend. So this Golem of ours may not have had a huge historical impact on the MU but it was created by the same bard that created Wolverine, so it has that going for it. There have actually been a number of Golems in the Marvel Universe but our stone monstrosity in question first appeared in Strange Tales and was created by two absolute legends, Len Wein and John Buscema. While we’re on the subject of giant, lumbering stone colossuses, colossi? colossusseses? We have Marvel’s very own Golem. It has made recent appearances in the pages of Deadpool Team-Up and remains one of the most famed pronouns in Marvel monster lore. By the way, the original It stories were inked by Ayers who got to revisit his co-creation over a decade later, how cool is that? This time, it was revealed O’Bryan lost the use of is legs but was able to animate the lumbering piece of anti-socialist propaganda. O’Bryan was the protagonist of the Isabella/Ayers Bronze Age tales.
and once again was possessed and went on a rampage until a Hollywood effects genius named Bob O’Bryan. Later, somehow, the statue found itself in the U.S. Read more: 31 Best Streaming Horror Movies As these things go, the stature was animated by an alien intelligence and trashed Moscow. This It was a 100 foot tale Golem like stature crafted as part of an anti-Communist protest. In the Kirby tales, It was one of those rare Kirby Kreatures that appeared twice in the pre-Marvel Age monster mags. It, the Living Colossus was created by Jack Kirby right before the dawning of the heroic Marvel age in pages of Tales of Suspense and was revived by Tony Isabella and artist Dick Ayers in the pages of Astonishing Tales #21 (1973). Marvel has a character named Colossus, Stephen King created a character named It, put them together and you get a child eating Russian clown with steel hard skin! Sadly, that’s not the It, the Living Colossus we are talking about although this It is still kind of cool. Manphibian has popped up recently in the pages of Ghost Rider, Punisher, and Daredevi l and even played a major role in Marvel’s recent Howling Commandostitle thus proving that you just can’t keep a good alien version of a Creature From the Black Lagoon rip off down. Until recently that is, because modern day Marvel creators know that it is beyond awesome that something called a Manphibian shares the same world as Spider-Man and Wolverine. Read more: The Best Horror Movies on Netflix Thus Manphibian was set up as Marvel’s leading Creature knockoff but it was not to be as Manny never popped up again. The murderous swamp beast goes on a rampage until the heroic Manphibian stops it, but of course, the rest of the world now views the Manphibian as a soggy threat. In his one and only Bronze Age tale, it was revealed that Manphibian was an alien creature that pursued a member of its own race across the galaxy after the rival creature murdered the Manphibian’s mate.
Manphibian, Manphibian, Manphibian!Īnyway, old Gill Face here was kind of a tragic character. Marvel had a Living Mummy so why not a Creature From the Black Lagoon knockoff?Įnter the Manphibian. Dracula was one of its top sellers and gained a large cult following, while Frankenstein’s Monster and Werewolf by Night each gained a level of success. In the ’70s, Marvel had great success with its Universal Monsters parallels. Join us as we journey into the darkest realms of the Marvel Universe and celebrate the greatest monstrous creations that ever sprang from the nightmares of the House of Ideas. These new, Universal-inspired monsters joined the Kirby Kreatures like Fin Fang Foom and Googam as the Marvel Universe became a world where things that go bump in the night became as commonplace as superheroes.
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Starting in the late Silver Age, the Comics Code became less restrictive (because Frederic Wertham was killed by a mummy…actually, no he wasn’t), and Marvel was able to bring in all sorts of boogeymen to share page time with the likes of Thor, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. It seems that Marvel (and DC) heroes have infringed on the monstrous monopoly of Halloween, but that’s OK, because to even things out, the Marvel Universe has its fair share of monsters dwelling under beds, behind walls, and in gothic mansions (mansions usually expertly drawn by Mike Ploog) to even things out. For every Frankenstein Monster that comes to your door, there are probably sixteen Iron Men and a few Rocket Raccoons. Halloween isn’t just for monsters anymore.
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