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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 333. Not illustrated. Chapters: Green Lantern, Swamp Thing, Zippy the Pinhead, Man-Thing, Ra's Al Ghul, Illuminati, Morbius, the Living Vampire, Defenders, Doc Samson, John Stewart, Valkyrie, Talia Al Ghul, Nighthawk, Hyperion, Mister Miracle, Doctor Spectrum, Orion, Big Barda, Mockingbird, Serpent Men, Blue Jay, Squadron Supreme, Spymaster, Granny Goodness, Desaad, Overmind, Tom Thumb, Golden Archer, Kalibak, Merlyn, Champions of Angor, Blue Eagle, Jarella, Glorious Godfrey, Gnarrk, Lightray, Silver Sorceress, Black Racer, Mantis, Highfather, Bruno Mannheim, Doctor Bedlam, Virman Vundabar, Dubbilex, Lady Lark, Sonny Sumo, Dirty Duck. Excerpt: The Man-Thing is a fictional character, a monster in publications from Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, the character first appeared in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), and went on to be featured in various titles and in his own series, including Adventure into Fear, which introduced the character Howard the Duck. Steve Gerber's 39-issue run on the series is a cult classic that was influential on such writers as Neil Gaiman and Nancy A. Collins, both of whom would later write for Swamp Thing. Man-Thing is a large, slow-moving, empathic, vaguely humanoid creature living in the Florida Everglades near the Seminole reservation. As described in the text featurette "The Story Behind the Scenes" in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), the black-and-white adventure fantasy magazine in which the character debuted in an 11-page origin story, Man-Thing was conceived in discussions between Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee and writer Roy Thomas, and that together they created five possible origins. Lee provided the name, which had previously been used for unrelated creatures in Marvel's early science-fiction/fantasy anthology Tales of Suspense #7 (Jan. 196...
