Monster of the Day

Thank you, Mike Mulligan!

How about a little more Kirby love? Obvious reason I went with an Avengers cover, although the FF featured more monsters (right on their first issue is one of the most famous comic book beasties ever). Still, Lava Men clearly fill the bill. Notice the early guest star appearance by the Hulk. The perpetually…

Clearly I've been saving these guys for last, an early, lovably creaky example of suitmation. The suits are endearingly awkward. The raised headpieces clearly threw the actors inside off-balance, the arms pretty much just hang there, and the suits plainly didn't allow those inside to see much, if anything. The result is that their…

Ah, that's the stuff.

Well clearly, this is just a lizard with a fin glued to its back--Special Effects Expert Ken.

They must mean it's the Seven Deadly Sins one, because I know it ain't the other kind. UPDATED: Since you guys are being such pills, here's more shots of the beastie looking much more sloth-like:

OK, I think this is my favorite. Somebody else must have liked him, too, as his son (!) later menaced the Earth too.

Yeah, you probably want to get on antibiotics pretty quick, there.

"Triffid?" "No, he 'ent."

1952! A good decade before the Marvel superhero revolution, Marvel was doing monster, romance and Western comics. I think from today's perspective we sometimes fail to understand how revolutionary it was to import this sort of thing into superhero comics; the Thing and Hulk could have easily been just rote monsters back in this…