Monster of the Day

Because, you know...comics.

Good grief, when this guy first appeared he was basically a regular-sized guy. Now look at him.

Surely the most innovative character since America Captain. Actually, if the shapechanging Clayface(s) eventually became Batman's Sandman, this is Batman's the Lizard. After the goofy '50s, and the even goofier (if that's possible) Batman comics following the Adam West show, fans were ready for a more serious take on the character. They got it…

As I said, there was a lot of Gothic influence in early Batman. One early foe was mad scientist Hugo Strange, who in his second appearance whipped up a bunch of 15 ft tall monster men to plague Gotham. Sadly, I could find so stills of this adventure from Batman issue #1, which also…

It's no surprise that a character as gothic as the early Batman had gothic adventures. Indeed, just two issues after his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman was facing a bonafide vampire. (Although I think this was later retconned.) To make the latter even MORE gothic, the vamp ran around in a red cassock…

Hey, it worked in Die Monster Die!* [Note: It didn't work in Die Monster Die!]

Boy, when she said she had to put on her face.... Currently sitting at number five on the Movies Sandy Petersen Might Like list.

Man, that's some high level effects work there.

Ah, Zombies, the low-budget producers favorite monsters. (Hell, Sam Katzman made several zombie movies back in the '50s.)

Ah, the '70s, when you made your low-budget Euro zombie film and it still made sense to hire a bunch of over the hill 'name' actors to star in it. Still, John Carradine. So it *has* to be good, right? Basically watched TV all weekend, and by TV, I mean Netflix. They dropped The…