Comic Book Fight Club: Man-Thing v The Glob!

Let’s face it we all love a good comic book fight scene, after all its usually the climax of any storyline and at the end of the day it’s what makes comic books so much fun. Of course, there have been many great fight scenes throughout the years from Batman getting his back broken by Bane to Spider-Man fighting Green Goblin to the death, but it’s not always the big comic book stars that have the best fight scenes. A case in point is Giant Size Man-Thing issues 1 (1974) written by Steve Gerber with art by Mike Ploog and Frank Chiaramonte. While muck monsters may not be the first characters that come to mind for amazing fight action this one certainly disproves that theory as these two monsters beat seven bells out of each other. I just love the way the artists have captured the sheer size and power of both characters as they slug it out. At the end of the day though it is the Man-Thing that wins and goes through to the next round of Comic book fight club!

Even after all these years I still had a sly schoolboy giggle to myself when reading the title “Giant Size Man- Thing". Still it’s a highly enjoyable book with some classic reprints featuring art by Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby and the legendary “Goom the thing from Planet X”.