Friday, July 2, 2021

Fantastic Four and The Demon

 


The Demon felt a lot like a Marvel character to me, so it's not hard to imagine a story like this taking place in the first few years of The Fantastic Four.  It would have been a thing of beauty to see Kirby illustrate and co-plot such a tale with Stan Lee providing dialogue for Etrigan!

28 comments:

jlbgriggs2 said...

Beautiful mash-up cover!

Ross said...

Thanks, I like how it turned out!

det_Tobor said...

In all the meetings you have required
There is one a miss that is needed most dire
King Kirby would not have sulked
Given the chance for The Demon to meet the early Hulk

Carycomic said...

I agree, Ross. A little artistic tweaking by the King, himself, and we'd have a revision of WHAT IF...? volume II/#22. But, co-starring Etrigan rather than the Silver Surfer!


Come to think of it; have you ever depicted Etrigan vs. Mephisto, here?

anonymous said...

Fantastic cover - really want to read this issue!

Bob Greenwade said...

There are Marvel characters who feel more like DC, and vice versa. I think there may have even been a cover on this blog somewhere featuring one of each. I'd like to see more of that, though -- especially if, as with this cover, they can be single-artist works!

Ross said...

Hulk and Mephisto would both be good matches for The Demon, I agree.

emsley wyatt said...

A quick search revealed that you've never used Felix Faust

Carycomic said...

@Emsley and Anonymous: actually, Ross has used him twice, already. Check the left-hand column of search parameters under "F."

Bob Greenwade said...

Making things a bit easier, Felix was the foe of the Human Torch and Hawkman in #1251, and part of the Secret Society of Super-Villains when Spider-Man set out to join them in #3272. But I do think he should be used more; Dr. Strange seems like an obvious choice of foe, and perhaps the Thunderbolts or Hellboy.

Horsefeathers putting up the middle said...

Banner's bloody banter. Mephisto's magical mayhem. Tis not Hulk but She-Hulk you might want Demon to meet. Much more mileage.

Anonymous said...

I’d suggest Felix Faust vs. Donald Duck

Simreeve said...

A related team-up possibility?

"The Demon, Hellcat,
and the Cat in the Hat;
And that's that."

Carycomic said...

Or Ben Grimm meets Thing 1 & Thing 2 in....

"The Three Things Who Hate Ambush Bug."

Guest-starring the annoying green guy-who-shan't-be-named.

emsley wyatt said...

I stand corrected.

Bob Greenwade said...

Felix Faust vs. Donald Duck sounds like a wonderfully odd pairing; so would Felix Faust versus his namesake cat.

As for that "Three Things" cover, I don't think I'd use Thing 1 and Thing 2, but rather let Ben be joined by John Carpenter's classic creature and the Addams Family's handservant.

Bob Greenwade said...

Another thought: as I was scrolling through the main page just now, my eyes flitted over the phrase "Stan Lee providing dialogue for Etrigan" and thought, "What if it wasn't Stan, but Dr. Seuss?"

"Greetings, mighty Etrigan!
Do you like green eggs and ham?"

det_Tobor said...

@Carycomic, Benjy shared a cover with #1 & #2 Way back in July 5, 2011 - #163.
Ben has over 100 covers so research does take a minute.

Regarding Felix... Ross, you can go for fully lopsided connections so Felix and/vs
Dormammu. A deal gone bad or being a screw up. Either way, Felix is forked.
Say, for that matter, The Demon vs Dormammu??

Ken Roskos said...

And a surprise visit from Agatha Harkness in this scenario might be welcome too.

Carycomic said...

@Bob Greenwade: Tobor's right, BG. And Carpenter's version was there, too.

Bob Greenwade said...

@Tobor & Cary: I was referring to who'd be more appropriate for the suggested story. I don't get the feeling that T1&T2 would be much for a "hating" story.

On the other hand, if we put all five together, Ross could have a group called "The Things"! (If nothing else, they could all get together to enjoy the music of a certain Scandanavian jazz trio.)

Simreeve said...

Bob Greenwade said...
"On the other hand, if we put all five together, Ross could have a group called "The Things"!"

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Remember the old D&D magic item called the 'Deck of Many Things'? For inclusion in a scenario that I ran I designed & placed a variation on this concept that the players' characters (perhaps fortunately) never found. Each card in it had a 'Thing' aspect of some kind:
Several versions of Ben Grimm, the suit of powered armour that Reed built for his use during a period when he had been reverted to human form, the 'She-Thing', the 'Thing' from another of Marvel's Earths who was actually Reed Richards instead (Only he & Ben were on that fateful space-light, Ben got all three of the other power-sets involved and got Sue as his wife...), Man-Thing, Swamp-Thing, a [weaker] version of John W. Campbell's 'Thing', "[Love is] A many-splendored Thing" (all that I remember about this one was that it had a peacock-like train...), "[Happiness is just] A Thing Called Joe" (details now forgotten), and maybe a few more...

Carycomic said...

On the other hand, Ross could also depict a rock group composed of cavemen who are dedicated to Joan Crawford.

The "Trogs!"

Horsefeathers already dressed for Halloween said...

Some Things Wicked this way comes.
Some Things are better left alone.
Some times some things just don't go together.
Some times some things are best left unsaid.
Witch of these Things are not the same?

Anonymous said...

@Bob Greenwade: unless, of course, it's the Thing 1 and Thing 2 of Earth-3 (brought to Earth-STF by Mopee) who irreversibly hate green eggs and ham!

Carycomic said...

@Anon & Bob: I second that emotion. Case closed!

Comment Deleted could Not have said...

Demon with the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Carycomic said...

@Delete Ed: S'mores to come!

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