Appearing in "The Blood of Kings! / Chapter II The Land Between Night and Day! / Chapter III Fates and Fables! / Interlude: Meanwhile, Back in Katharta..! / Chapter IV This World and Next...!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Klonus the Wizard ⏵ (First appearance)
- Mortak the Usurper ⏵ (First appearance)
- Tai the Slayer (First appearance; dies)
- Serpent-Hawks (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Zokk (Referenced)
- Mortak's soldiers (Only in flashback)
- people of Katharta (Only in flashback)
- Korrek's father (Only in flashback) (First appearance; dies)
- Ipsis (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Talita (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Giant (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Living idol of Sibarthu, the Hunter of the Heavens (First appearance)
- Maftra (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Katharta
- Mountain-Temple of God Zokk (First appearance)
- Nexus of All Realities
- Earth
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Blood of Kings! / Chapter II The Land Between Night and Day! / Chapter III Fates and Fables! / Interlude: Meanwhile, Back in Katharta..! / Chapter IV This World and Next...!"
When the forces of the evil wizard Klonus have taken over Korrek's home realm of Katharta, Dakimh and Jennifer Kale dispatch the Man-Thing to that realm to rescue Korrek from execution at Klonus' devices. Transporting both Korrek and Man-Thing to the Realm Between Night and Day, Korrek explains to Dakimh and Kale that upon returning home during their last adventure together, his realm was under invasion of Klonus and the royal family (his parents) were killed effectively making Korrek ruler of Katharta.
After considering how inhospitable Katharta is, Dakimh believes that the evil wizard Klonus wants control of the realm because of its mystical significance in the Nexus of All Realities. All parties agree to go back to Katharta to liberate it from the rule of Klonus. Before they depart, Dakimh warns that one of them is fated to perish in battle. During their fight against Klonus and his henchman Mortak, they are transported back to Earth, where their battle resumes in Citrusville.
The fight ends with Dakimh being struck down by a spell cast by Klonus, Jennifer then uses her powers to entrap Mortak and Klonus in mystical cocoons and they are banished into space. Before Dakimh dies, he tells everyone gathered that he knew all along that he was the one fated to die, but kept it to himself to insure that the others would fight to their fullest ability. Afterwords the Man-Thing returns to the swamp leaving Korrek and Jennifer to deal with Dakimh's body.
Appearing in "Krogg!"
Amazing Adventures #6
(originally printed as Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!)
Featured Characters:
- Henry Burke (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Thomas Burke (First appearance)
- Anne Burke (First appearance)
- Jupiterians
Antagonists:
- Sserpo (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Island Natives
- Australian Army (Mentioned)
- Royal Australian Air Force
- Japan Air Self-Defense Force
- United States Army
- Inuit Tribe
- United Nations
- Professor Wilkes
Races and Species:
- Lizards
- Humans
- Cats
- Dogs
- Fish
- Gods of Earth (Mentioned)
- Jupiterians
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Sol
- Earth
- North America
- Pacific Ocean
- Island (Unnamed) (Destroyed)
- Kautau Isle (Mentioned)
- Australia
- Asia
- Bering Sea/Strait (First appearance)
- Army Base (Unnamed) (Destroyed)
- Arctic Ocean (First appearance)
- Jupiter
- Earth
- Sol
- Heaven (Invoked)
Items:
- Growth Serum
- Hydrogen Bomb
- Anti-Growth Serum
- Jupiterian Sky-Hook
Synopsis for "Krogg!"
Amazing Adventures #6
(originally printed as Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!)
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Our protagonist, an early SETI pioneer, has a great-grandfather who despairs from failing at creating a growth formula and so tosses it into the ocean. One hundred years later, our story begins where the vial is consumed by a small lizard-like creature. The missing ingredient for the growth formula turns out to be simply water and so Sserpo, as the lizard-like creature is named, begins to grow. The first humans to encounter him pull him into their boat with a net only to find that he is even bigger by the time they reach their island. Sserpo continues to grow until he makes the island sink and heads for Australia, nearly 1000 feet tall. The Australians use rockets to get Sserpo to turn back into the sea and he heads for Japan at nearly 2000 feet tall. The Japanese are worried that he will sink their island and so use an atomic bomb to frighten Sserpo off. The military are worried about his continued growth and so they attempt to slay him with a hydrogen bomb, but Sserpo just shrugs it off. All scientists are panicked, fearing Sserpo will grow so large he will upset the orbit of Earth, but our hero refuses to give in to fear and doggedly continues his attempts using radio equipment to contact the largest planet, Jupiter. He succeeds, and the Jupiterians send a skyhook across space to snag the now-visible-from-space Sserpo off the planet, saving Earth.
Appearing in "Save Me from the Weed!"
Strange Tales #94
(originally printed as I Was a Decoy for Pildorr the Plunderer from Outer Space!)
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Pildorr
- Pildorr's army of space raiders
Races and Species:
Locations:
Vehicles:
- Pildorr's Space Fortress
- Cobalt Bomb
Synopsis for "Save Me from the Weed!"
Strange Tales #94
(originally printed as I Was a Decoy for Pildorr the Plunderer from Outer Space!)
100 years into the future, John Brett is told to fly "Earth's greatest treasure" past a horde of space pirates encroaching on the planet but Pildorr is monitoring the radio broadcasts and intercepts Brett. Pildorr makes Brett walk the plank where he will drift in orbit forever before opening the box which contains Earth's most powerful cobalt bomb rigged to detonate upon opening. They send up a ship to retrieve Brett from orbit, because although he has no spacesuit, he has suffered no ill effects as he is a robot.
Appearing in "Humans, Keep Out!"
- Appearances not yet listed
Synopsis for "Humans, Keep Out!"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "Blackmail!"
Featured Characters:
- Marty Sneed
Antagonists:
- Jasper Kane
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Manager
- Unnamed Bellhop
- Unnamed Shoeshine
- Unnamed Paperboy
- Unnamed Bartender
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Flame of Midnight (Diamond)
Synopsis for "Blackmail!"
A diamond thief gets more than he bargains for when he seeks after the Flame of Midnight from Jasper Kane.
Notes
- Cover art:
- Klonus the Wizard figure on the bottom right by Romita, flying figure of Korrek and animal on the left is by Romita or Kane and Romita.
- The tagline for this issue is, "A World He Never Made". This slogan is traditionally attributed to occasional guest-star Howard the Duck.
- In the 1st story The Blood of Kings!:
- Marcos Pelayo is credited as Marcos.
- Dakimh dies, although his spirit lives on and continues to appear in the pages of Man-Thing.
- In the 2nd story Krogg!:
- Anthony Druid is renamed Dr. Druid from Doctor Droom in the original story. In fact, in page 2 panel 6 he is referred to as Dr. Druid, while in panel 7 the same character is referred to as Droom.
See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Man-Thing profile at Wikipedia
- Man-Thing profile at the Marvel Directory
- Man-Thing profile at Toonopedia
- Man-Thing movie entry at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)