Friday, April 15, 2022

Today in Comics History, April 15, 1973: The Day the Earth Stood Bored

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published April 15, 2015.

'Twas midnight on tax day, and suddenly this dude
Came up from the ground like a-bubblin' crude



from "The Monster!" in Adventures into Weird Worlds #12 (Marvel/Atlas, November 1952), pencils and inks by Ed Winiarski

(But where does it say it's in '73?
Well, it does in the reprint and that's good for me.)



from "It Came From Beneath the Earth!" (reprint) in Weird Wonder Tales #1 (Marvel, December 1973)

He tried to scare kids, but it wasn't no fun
'Coz in this world, Steve Rogers carried a gun



He faced off with a cop but escaped getting flack
Good thing he was green instead of being black.



He tried to scare women; she showed him no mercy
'Coz this real bad-ass dame hailed from down home in Joisey.



So the monster discovered his attacks were quite futile
Ha ha! It's a comment that mankind is brutal.



3 comments:

Blam said...

Man, I'd take this over modern computer coloring any day.

Blam said...
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-- MrJM said...

We really dodged a bullet there, huh?

-- MrJM