Giant-Size Man-Thing 1974 #1 - 7.5 - $26.00
A criminal pretends to be the ice-monster when the real thing comes to call...
A scientist invents a device that allows him to run faster than light, becoming invisible. He uses this ability to anonymously show off, planning to soon reveal his discovery and become rich. However, traveling so fast ages him rapidly, so that after only a few weeks he is elderly and near death.
An astronomer sends radar waves to communicate with aliens, unfortunately attracting the attention of the hideous Goom who tries to conquer earth.
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
- How Will We Keep Warm When the Last Flame Dies? - This story is broken into three chapters: How Will We Keep Warm When the Last Flame Dies? (8 pages), Chapter II This Mind, This Universe (7 pages), and Chapter III No Shortage of Evil! (10 pages).
- Meditations on a Mound of Muck - Letter from Guy C. Lawley and a half-page essay by Steve Gerber.
- I Was the Invisible Man! - Story mistakenly credited as reprinted from Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1. It was reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2, but originally published in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #67.
- Goom! The Thing from Planet X! - Narrated in the first person. Goom's next published appearance is in Warlock and the Infinity Watch (Marvel, 1992 series) #7 (August 1992); while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series).
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