User blog:Domakesaythink/Jack Kirby's Monsters!

In the era before the silver-age of comics and the Fantastic Four, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby filled their comic books with some of the most outlandish and astonishing monsters around. Lab experiments gone wrong, robots run amok, alien space invaders, mutated insects, these early stories had it all!

Recently I started reading through some of these old stories and saw that the database had a significant gap in its material when it came to these beasts of yester-year. So I decided to create pages for as many of them as I could (it's fitting this time of year too I guess, with Halloween coming up and all).

In recent years several of these monsters have turned up in the traditional Marvel universe fighting with some of our favourite heroes, who usually end up wondering where these ugly brutes came from anyway. A couple of these oldies who had toiled in obscurity for decades have actually played significant roles in some of the big events in the Marvel universe over the past couple of years including Groot and the Infant Terrible, both of whom played roles in the Annihilation event.

I'm just wondering if I'm part of a minority who would like to see more of these creatures plucked from the past and made relevent again in the present. Maybe stick a pile of them on Monster Island or something for starters. Is anyone else interested in seeing classic monsters made new again? Or maybe it's just me, lol

PS: Check out my contributions page for pages I've done on some of these monsters if you're interested. Some of my favourites include the Sandman (Alien) (Earth-616), Two-Headed Thing (Earth-616), Tragg (Earth-616) and Sserpo (Earth-616) among others. There are sure to be more to come as well, as I get the time to complete them.

Cheers Domakesaythink 13:16, October 28, 2010 (UTC)