Journey into Mystery 62

 

"Here Comes the Hulk!" Xemnu, the living Hulk, first showed up in 1960, a few years before the green (and more famous) Hulk appeared.  He was later renamed The Living Titan.  It is a convict from an intergalactic prison world.  It turns up on Earth, with its energy severely depleted.  Good ol' Joe Harper (who looks a lot like Dr. Robert Bruce Banner), your friendly neighborhood electrician, is hypnotized by the Hulk.  He helps it revive, and then it wants to take over the Earth.  It actually does, and makes the enthralled people build it a new spaceship.  Joe is not hypnotized, so Xemnu can gloat, but hubris is its downfall.  Joe crosses the wires and sends the Hulk on an endless jaunt around our sun.  The people of Earth are freed!  No one but Joe knows what happened.

ZATS - "Prom Night"

            

Sven- Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

 

Or is it?  Count Yorga talks a lot during this movie.  He is a bit funny, which helps.  The rest of the cast talks a lot as well.  The narrator talks a lot.  The Count holds a seance and starts looking for more prey. He does like the ladies, and has two or three of them stashed away already.  It takes our heroes a while to realize that he is a vampire, and then they rush off without any preparation.  No garlic, no holy water, no crosses, not even any stakes.  And they go at night, each time.  They sure could have used Peter Vincent, or any horror fan from that time period for help.  Finally, the Count is destroyed, but alas, his last lady was not.

does whatever a spider can?

Spider-Man does a lot of things a spider does, sort of.  He can crawl on walls, spins webs, has the "proportionate strength" of a spider and that eerie spider sense.  Too bad spiders are not strong like ants.  Be that as it may, Peter must not have suffered from acrophobia, since he is always floating about in the air, or crawling up the sides of the many tall buildings in NYC.  The first time he jumped onto a wall, he didn't even think about how high up he was.  Now, perhaps the sudden strength increase helped, or the spider DNA took over, but he never had a problem with heights.

Black Adam (2022)

 

A long time ago, movies started with the title of the film.  No, that's not what happened here.  The Council of Wizards chose a hero to help save his land and free his people.  According to legend, Teth-Adam does that, but then disappears.  Some 5000 years later, Khandaq is still oppressed by invaders, and Teth-Adam returns.  This is sort of a mixed blessing to everyone, since he is full of rage and power.  No one should make him mad, though he seems to be mad all the time.  InterGang has taken over the country, and we all know who funds that group.  Amanda Waller, of Task Force X, sends the JSA to contain Teth-Adam.  This group consists of Dr. Fate, Hawkman, Atom Smasher and the Red Tornado.  After many battles, Teth-Adam finds and fulfills his destiny and defeats Sabbac.  The JSA departs and lets the newly christened Black Adam ponder his future.

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) - Trailer

              

Batman and Captain America (1996)

 

There is a plot afoot in Gotham City in early 1945.  Batman and Robin are on the trail of the Joker and after he escapes, Batman finds some disturbing clues about what the Clown Prince of Crime's plan is.  Cap helps Rock and Easy Company dispose of a War Wheel (I think that is what is is) and gets summoned back to the States.  He and Bucky run into Batman and Robin during a rescue of Robert Oppenheimer.  The big brass suspect a spy on the Manhattan Project.  They think they spy is Bruce Wayne, and Private Rogers is set to watching him.  Steve and Bruce have a quick tussle, and Bruce figures out who he is fighting.  They join forces to stop the Joker, and find out the Red Skull is behind it all.  Big surprise there, right? 

Robot MOTW- Mechagodzilla

 

Strange ape-like aliens create a robotic clone of Godzilla, and not surprisingly name it Mechagodzilla.  It is loaded with a massive array of weapons, including lasers, missiles, eye beams and an incredible force field.  Those aliens from the third planet in the black hole weren't messing around.  Mechagodzilla can even fly!  It is a wonder that Godzilla wasn't killed d-e-d dead during the battle.  Mechagodzilla almost did destroy the King of the Monsters.  Fortunately, Godzilla had an ally in King Shisa and was able to prevail over his doppelganger.

Destroy All Monsters ('68): Enter the Monsters

The Times of Monsters #22

 

I never owned an issue of The Monster Times growing up.  I either never saw it or it did not get distributed in my area.  I think I saw one once in WV, but I cannot say for sure at the vintage I now am.  I had read about them here and there, but never read any until the newspaper ceased publication in July of 1976.  Interestingly, the issue I may have seen in a store was probably the last one, but I think I purchased the first issue of Starlog instead (exact same time frame).  The Monster Times was published from January 26th, 1972 until August of 1976, and at first it was biweekly, then monthly.  I think I would have enjoyed it a lot, since it almost always had comic books, movies and television shows featured in it.  It also featured a lot of articles about Godzilla and other Japanese monsters.  That would have caught my attention.