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MONSTER MASHUPS #147

WONDER WOMAN #123's feature story, "Amazon Magic-Eye Album," pits the heroine's juvenile self against a bevy of bizarre beasts:

THE HEDGEHOG FISH and THE GIANT OCTOPUS.

THE GIANT ELECTRIC EEL.

And THE WATER COBRA.

This is a more imaginative Wonder Girl story than most, as the writer tended to pit WG against mundane menaces like sharks and whales, and maybe the occasional giant bird.

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 I haven't rewatched all the NIGHTMAN episodes of the 1990s lately, but I did rescreen a few that seemed to hold some potential.

In "That Ol' Gang of Mine," a mad scientist brings to life the long-preserved bodies of (going left to right) Al Capone, Bonnie Parker and John Dillinger, none of whom died and all of whom were simply kept on ice by J. Edgar Hoover For Reasons. This is, however, a null-crossover because I don't regard that the real-life criminals ever became what I call "legendary figur...

RAR #95: RED ARROW, NAWANDO AND WHITE BULL

In 1951 P.L. Publishing released three issues of RED ARROW, devoted to the adventures of the war-bonneted main hero and his young sidekick Running Deer. The characters had no origin and were given no motive for riding around the West fighting evildoers. The stories were ordinary and the only art I liked was the cover of issue #3, shown below. The "Minnie-Hot-Cha" in the green dress may have actually shared the name of Hiawatha's bride, since in her one appearance she's named "Laughing Water."

  

I...

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 THE SPIDBAT.

THE RADIOACTIVE UNICORN.

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 THE TIGRAWK.

THE PENTOPUS. (What, too much trouble to draw more than five arms?)

THE GIANT MOUSE (a real terror to the little elephant next to it).

 THE HORN-TOSSING FAWN.

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 Whoever wrote MIGHTY SAMSON 26 didn't take as much joy as the regular guys(s) in coining bizarre names for the mutant monsters, leaving me the burden of coming up with names for--

THE SEA DRAGON.

And the GIANT PELICAN.

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 THE MOLE-WORM.

 

THE GIGANTO-RAT.

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 THE AERO-PANTHERS.

THE INFRA-RED ANT.

 

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 THE GIANT SEA BULL.

THE QUILLED ANEMONES.

 Then there's (to bestow a name where one does not appear) THE MER-GORILLA.

And the SEA SKATER and THE GIGANTO-WHALE..

All of these monsters are commanded by a mutant race of "watermen," led by "King Nephtoon," but because they seeks a villainous goal, that of conquering N'Yark, they rate as villains rather than monsters.              

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 I didn't expect to find a crossover while buzzing through a 1976 HOT STUFF but here's the Little Devil saving Jack Frost from the villainous Iceman in "The Deep Freeze Mystery" (HS #137).