Monster of the Day #1144

Updated on May 5, 2015 By Ken Begg 15 Comments

To be fair, with that name he never had a chance.

And I admire that fellow’s optimism, but I don’t think that .38 is going to get the job done.

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  • CaptNemo

    Probably the same guy who shoots at Superman and then throws the gun at him. All the while expecting a different result.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    That looks like a Kirby monster pasted onto someone else’s work. Don Heck, maybe? And the gun reminds me of one of my favorite dub lines in “The Mysterians” when a general, hearing of the giant robot’s rampage says in astonishment “I understand even a pistol had no effect!”

  • bgbear_rnh

    and in the old TV show, Superman would duck the gun.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Soldier: Nothing can stop it!
    General: Did you try shooting at it with your pistols?
    Soldier: (quizzical look)
    General: Did you try shooting at it with your pistols?!
    Soldier: We saw no point in it being a giant robot and all…
    General: Then you can’t say nothing can stop it if you did not try everything!
    Soldier: So you want us to shoot at it with handguns?
    General: Yes! Why do I have to tell you how to do everything?
    Soldier: You are a general?
    General: Get out of here!

  • Luke Blanchard

    The story and cover come from AMAZING ADVENTURES (1961 series) #5. The page on the issue at the Grand Comics Database says the cover is the story’s splash image with additions done by Steve Ditko. They don’t include the building, though. One can find images of the splash by googling, and it already looks wrong there. Perhaps the splash was first altered by someone else.

  • Luke Blanchard

    Ditko drew a monster destroying the United Nations building for the cover of Charlton’s GORGO #2, and the version there doesn’t look the same.

  • Gamera977

    ‘I PITY THE FOOL!!!’- sorry must be the mohawk…

  • Gamera977

    I would laugh if the military shot him with artillery and then scientists zapped with a giant masor and neither fazed him. But then a gang-banger put a cap in his @#@ with a Saturday night special and he dropped over dead…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I’m just guessing on Don Heck. The two people in the lower right look like his work, but I’ll admit I’m no expert.

  • bgbear_rnh

    and then we will put his brain in his arse because no one will think to shoot him their, right? mha, ha, ha

  • Eric Hinkle

    Did Ditko have a thing for monsters destroying the UN?

  • bgbear_rnh

    [insert political commentary here]

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The way he’s been placed on that building, it makes the perspective on the monster all off. Unless his hind feet are really, really tiny.

  • Luke Blanchard

    Sorry if I wasn’t clear. The Monsteroso story was pencilled by Kirby and inked by Dick Ayers. The critter climbs the UN building at the story’s climax, and in the panels I checked it’s drawn the same way there as on the splash. Stan Lee might’ve had their version of the building changed by someone, but the treatment of the building on the GORGO #2 cover and splash is different, so if so, I’d guess not by Ditko although I think the art-spotters are right to say he made the cover changes.
    Charlton published GORGO and KONGA comics for several years, and also, more briefly, REPTILICUS, which was quickly renamed REPTISAURUS. You can find issues at Comic Book Plus. Ditko drew a lot of the GORGO and KONGA ones, from scripts by Joe Gill. The first issues adapted the movies.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Sorry, you didn’t say anything that bothered me. And thanks for the information about the art.