Monster of the Day #1266

Updated on December 30, 2015 By Ken Begg 15 Comments



The good Captain’s oft-gorgeous covers are his high point (as you’d expect) but with artists like Wally Wood a seasoning of monsters, the interior pages look pretty good too.

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  • Gamera977

    I would have loved this as a kid, and it’s pretty cool even now.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Hooray for Captain Science, The Dinosaur Destroyer.
    He took his aim and fired away
    And that is why we say, Hooray, Hooray, Hooray

  • bgbear_rnh

    “One morning I shot an stegasaurus in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.”

  • Nothing worse than a meat eating styracosaurus. And that ape monster is glorious. Though I’d think it be better served chasing Betty Boop…

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I confess, I keep being distracted by the glasses on that man on the first page. They look like a superhero mask. “Greetings! I am Striped-Jacket Over Leopard-Skin Man! My ‘fashion-sense’ gives me amazing sartorial powers!”

  • Gamera977

    It’s red plant sap, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

  • sandra

    I think Striped Jacket Man is wearing an ascot. Feel free to make a pun about it.

  • Flangepart

    Lets see…stereotypical oriental villain- Check.
    Monster who feeds on human babes (Won’t eat no ugly ones)- Check.
    Hero that fits in with the ‘Space Mutiny’ list (Rick Hugelarge, Jack Squarejaw, ect)-check.
    BTW, Ken…are these two stories from the same issue?

  • Eric Hinkle

    Great stuff and so wonderfully insane. That story at the bottom with the eldritch abomination octopus eating hapless lovelies in the Gobi desert makes me wonder if the writer read Merritt’s “Dwellers in the Mirage”, which had much the same story.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Oh, and not related at all to the MotD, but I this is something that may well amuse or horrify you folks:

    I was reading a review of one of Manly Wade Wellman’s ‘Silver John’ novels
    on Amazon, and was vastly amused by one… I suppose I’ll call them a
    person, who in barely readable English downvoted the book because ‘No
    sex, no profanity, no gore, this isn’t a real horror novel. I’d say
    more but I have to go back to my English students.’

    So, no sex scenes + no gutter dialogue + no buckets of blood = not a real
    horror novel? Wow. Well now I know why writers like Poe, Lovecraft,
    Stoker, and Jackson were all failures whose work is all but unread
    today.

  • Flangepart

    (Sigh) Brute minds teaching minds to be brutes. It is to weep.

  • Eric Hinkle

    That guy was mild when I consider what I’ve learned about some local teachers. Like the way some of them defended a teacher who got in trouble locally for having sex with their students.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The ape monster looks a lot like Basil Wolverton’s work. And…hang on a moment, does he have two right arms?!

  • Ken_Begg

    That’s exactly what I thought. That man had a very distinctive style.

  • Luke Blanchard

    The top story is signed Harrison/Bache. The GCD confirms the penciller was Harry Harrison. That’s the famous science fiction author. He worked in comics as an artist for a time. The inker was Ernie Bache, whose name I don’t know.