Comic Book Origins: Man Thing

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Dr. Theodore Sallis’ failed Super-Soldier Serum turned him into a swamp-dwelling creature born of magic and science.

Lots of bizarre creatures live in the swamp—but few compare to Man-Thing, a swamp creature with the strangely appropriate name...

The swamp creature known as Man-Thing debuted in 1971, but the Marvel Comics monster hero’s origin story has grown more complex over the years. Created in 1971 by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, the monster is a big, sluggish, empathic, humanoid swamp creature living in the Florida Everglades. Appearing off-and-on over the years in comics, the monster has also appeared on screen in the movie Man-Thing (2005) and in the TV special Werewolf by Night (2022).

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First appearing in Savage Tales #1, Dr. Ted Sallis was transformed into the Man-Thing, a mentally challenged, slow-moving, empathic, swamp man in the Florida Everglades. Created by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway, and artist Gray Morrow, the character went on to be featured in various titles and in his own series. Many of his classic stories were written by Steve Gerber.

In 2005, there was a Man-Thing film. The Australian-American project followed a Louisiana sheriff investigating a series of deaths in a swamp, leading him to encounter the creature. Originally intended as a theatrical release, the film instead premiered on the SYFY channel. Buy the Man-Thing movie from Amazon

Beware—whoever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing’s touch…

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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