Monster of the Day

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…

  The approaching release date for The Avengers has me in a classic Marvel frame of mind. Let's run with that for a bit.

Since I already had featured the film's (by far) most famous monster, I saved this, my second favorite, for the wrap-up. I always liked this sort of thing. This second still gives a better look at it, sans the red tinting. You don't exactly have to be Sigmund Freud (or Georgia O'Keeffe) to suspect…

Man, I love me some blob monsters. The white dome on top of the monster is actually as eye, as seen below.

I guess we know what Sid Pink's Quatermass and the Pit would have looked like.

Man, I loves me some blob monsters. The still below is, I think, supposed to be the same beastie, although it clearly isn't.

I'm assuming this is the pet of the Atomic Submarine monster. UPDATE: Here's a better long shot of the same beastie. It sure is cute!