Monster of the Day

"Mr. Lee, Toho Studios on line one..."

Water monsters, I just love 'em.

  I saw Guardians of the Galaxy--which is a fantastic, joyful film--over the weekend. While I long ago featured Groot's first comic book appearance as a beastie in one of Jack Kirby's monster books from the '60s, I'll  stick with that theme. After all, any one of these guys could be international movie stars…

Then there was the time this happened....

Here's another Voyage blobby monster. I'm out of black and white monsters for the show; the first season only occasionally featured monsters, a situation reversed during the later seasons. Also, I used the black and white giant whale in an earlier run. So...

Bite his shiny metal ass!

I *think* this is a different monster than yesterday.* Even if it's not, like the various forms of Alien, it's a different enough stage to qualify for its own spot. [*It is, it's from the Price of Doom episode. I'd think the price of doom would be obvious--doom--but I'm not an economist. Anyway, the…

I have always liked blob monsters, so here's one from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. This is from the first season, given that it's in black and white, and hence the season with the fewest monsters. I think this prop was later reused as a space brain or something in one of…

Rather similar to yesterday's cover; this is issue #3, that was issue #4. The title appears to have been quarterly, so perhaps sales figures came in and were strong, or maybe the editor just liked this cover, and told the artist to give him another one like it.

Those fish are too cool for school. Literally.