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A carnival performer apparently made of swamp muck, Muck Monster and the rest of his fellow performers had their souls stolen by the magician Moondark and turned into his mindless slaves. The carnival was freed from Moondark by Spider-Man and Ghost Rider and their souls returned.[1][2]

After being liberated, Muck Monster left the carnival, along with Gorilla Girl and Six, to seek their own fortunes. As they were crossing a moonlit country road, a speeding car swerved to avoid them and crashed. Muck Monster's shapeshifting friend, still in her ape form, blamed the accident on their grotesque appearances, and insisted that they help. Muck Monster was unsympathetic, but the other two overruled him. The trio used their abilities(Muck Monster used his mossy body to dampen the flames) to rescue the driver, a frantic Dr. Melloncamp from the burning vehicle, only to realize that it wasn't the Freaks that frightened her.[1][2]

A moment later, Hammer and Anvil arrived and bowled the Freaks over. They explained that Dr. Melloncamp was too valuable to be let go and that they intended to keep her as a prisoner. Seeing the doctor's plight, Six ignored his friends' protests and leapt at the two criminals, only to be tossed aside. But the other two freaks wouldn't let him fight alone.

While Hammer was distracted by the shapeshifter in the form of a beautiful woman, Muck Monster swatted Anvil to the ground with a tree trunk. Hammer turned back to his partner, only for the beauty he'd been staring at to transform into a gorilla and punch him out with her hairy paw. Gorilla Girl joked that she had more than one way of "turning men's heads." The "Freaks"(a proposed name for their "superhero team") and the doctor departed, leaving the two thugs unconscious on the road.[2]

Attributes

Powers

  • Superhuman Strength
  • Mossy, Flame-Resistant Body

Notes

  • In his first appearance, Peter Parker mistook Muck Monster for Man-Thing at first before stating that he appeared to be a man in a costume instead. His later appearance as actually being made of Muck implies Parker's second assumption was also wrong.[1][2]

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