Marvel Madness

They just keep pumping out the Marvel movies don't they? I'm glad to see that Iron Man is in the works, but here's one from left field; Man-Thing

I actually knew it as Swamp-Thing, and the plot outline does say it's in the Louisanna swamp so I'm dead certain it's the same thing. We only ever had the one comic of Swamp Thing and it was pretty old. I had no idea that it was even that popular

[Edit] Swamp Thing was actually a DC comic. Apparently at almost the same time Marvel brought out Man-Thing. According to the IMDB forum Marvel beat DC to the stands by a month. Swamp Thing was more popular than Man-Thing but I don't know by how much. Mind you, I'm not sure that DC are still around to compete are they?

[Edit again] Well after a little searching I found that we did not have a copy of Swamp Thing at all. I must have replaced "Man" with "Swamp" because he lives in a swamp. I did however remember what he looks like quite well (good with faces, not with names). Here it is in all its nostalgic glory. Man-Thing was great, just a big lumbering misunderstood beast getting shot at by rednecks in a swamp. It seems they put in a few "Man-Thing versus big other monster" type issues, but I think the majority of plots were:

• Young couple drive into swamp for some "private time";
• Something goes wrong and they need saving or Man-Thing is spotted and scare the couple;
• Young man pulls out a gun, trys to shoot Man-Thing to no avail;
• Man-Thing touches his would-be attacker and since "Whatever knows fear burns at the touch of Man-Thing" he consequently dies;
• Families of the couple sense something is wrong and group up with even more guns to save the couple;
• Upon finding Man-Thing men in the group say things like "What is that thing?" and "Kill it!", try to shoot it with the same end effect as the young man;
• Either the innocent young woman pleads to be let go or an elderly gentleman who doesn't fear for his life come to the rescue and they leave;

Another successful best-selling issue!