Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Monster Masterworks!


I love this cover image by Walt Simonson. Monster Masterworks was one of the very first trades I ever bought, as at that time I was fully dedicated to the purity of the monthly comic. I eschewed the high-priced tomes that wanted to pretend to be actual books and distance themselves from the lowly comic.
But time has mended my thinking, along with ever-increasing prices and I find that trades offer up the rare true bargains in modern comics reading. The lowly comic book is a thing of my past as I currently get not a single one regularly.


But all that said, that's still a kickass Simonson cover! For the record the monsters featured are Fin Fang Foom, Groot, Glob/Glop, Two-Headed Thing, Sporr, and X The Thing that Lived. More Fin Fang Foom tomorrow! 

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4 comments:

  1. McSCOTTYAugust 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM

    I love those old Marvel/ Atlas monsters and have a few collected trades. I haven't seen this one before but cover is a belter. My new comic purchases are few and far between as well , but I'm still partial to a wee a back issue purchase now and then.

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    1. Rip JaggerAugust 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM

      I have to admit that I get some of those vintage reprints that DC puts out from time to time, but no regular comic series. The closest I get is my regular dose of MAD.

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  2. Colin JonesAugust 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM

    Rip, I left a comment on your August 1961 post but it seems to have got lost. I merely mentioned that Barack Obama was born on August 4th 1961 so August 1961 saw both the birth of Marvel Comics AND the first black US president.

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    1. Rip JaggerAugust 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM

      It's taken care of. I thought I'd published it, but obviously I hadn't. Thanks for sticking in.

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