MONSTER MASHUPS #21

Even before DC's JIMMY OLSEN comic did a salute to monsters in this issue, the writers of the comic tended to play to the "monster kids" amidst their readers. Jimmy became a "wolf man" a couple of times, had a close encounter with Boris Karloff, and filmed his own monster movie.

It should be obvious that this is meant to resemble a famous monster-movie of about three years previous.

However, had KING KONG VS. GODZILLA never existed, this would still be a "monster mashup" by my lights. The same would be the case had Titano and the Flame-Dragon never appeared anywhere before this story, given that the monsters are different enough from one another to create the "mashup" buzz. The situation in that case would be akin to the "Legion of Super Monsters" covered in post #15.  

None of these outer-space creatures are meant to reference earlier creations, in contrast to the majority of mashups I've covered so far. In the case of Titano and Flame-Dragon, their resemblance to King Kong and Godzilla provides some icing for the cake, but the referentiality is not the cake itself.