Friday, May 9, 2025

The Thing and Batman in: "March Of The Monster Men!"

 

Batman and The Thing are my favorite characters from from DC and Marvel, and they have met before in other Lost Issues -  They were trapped in the Microverse in STF #4192, They quarreled over Aunt Petunia in STF #3322... They had a boxing match in STF #2455... They faced a fiery situation in STF #554... They topped off an Anniversary Issue in STF #500... before that, They battled the Riddler/Trapster team... earlier, The Thing discovered the Bat Cave... and was handed control of The Outsiders... not to mention This Whole Blog... and finally, they first appeared together in one of my earliest covers...

8 comments:

Detective Tobor said...

YES!! prime Batman with early Grimm..a team that has so much room to grow with. Hugo that way & I'll go this way!! These stories would really be worth a close read. Early learnings and mistakes. Great job Ross!!

Bob Greenwade said...

Ah yes... these are both renderings of the character in their very early appearances, quite possibly the first.

Still, out of all their appearances together, my favorite is the one where Bats turned the Outsiders over to Ben.

emsley wyatt said...

Nice retro look.

Carycomic said...

YES!!!! A long-overdue sequel to MTIO: The Lost Issue #3.

Thanks, Ross. :-)

Anonymous said...

Their canonical meeting in the JLA/Avengers team-up was rather good, too.

Simreeve said...

Oops! The above reply was by me.

Anonymous said...

Looks more like Adam's Uncle Hugo made hairless clones of Man-Wolf.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps in collaboration with the Jackal.

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