MONSTER MASHUPS #124

 Somehow I think the HEAVY-MATTER EAGLE is pretty much the same as the earlier STONE-CRUSHING EAGLE.                                    

THE GORILLA-SAUR.                                                                        

THE GIANT VAMPIRE BAT.                                                              

MONSTER MASHUPS #123

 THE STONE-THROWING MONSTER.                                                            

THE METALPECKER MONSTER.                                                         

The prosaically named FLYING MONSTER.                                      

THE PLANT MONSTER and THE ROBOT BODYGUARD.                     

In this issue, the writer apparently decided that he would keep the creature-quota even higher through the use of featurettes on "Famous Monsters Samson Had Known," but which didn't actually appear in earlier stories. Such as THE NET-CASTING SPIDER-MONSTER                                                                                                   

    THE LIGHTNING-BEAST...                                                                       

    And THE SPINE-THROWING CACTUS.                                               

                                                          

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 Since the cartoon JAMES BOND JR takes place in a world where James Bond has a college-age nephew involved in fighting evil spies, no crossovers are involved when Junior faces off against alternate-universe versions of Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.                           

  However, if this Goldfinger also associates with a character from the "Bond cosmos" that the original's not associated with-- as in the episode "Cruise to Oblivion," where the villain also employs "Nick Nack," a creation of the movie MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN--then that's a charisma-crossover.                                                                 

 

CROSSOVER MADNESS

Whereas the Disney animated shorts usually only crossed over characters who had appeared in the cartoons, the Disney comic books, usually published by Dell, felt free to intermingle any characters any Disney project had adapted-- thus providing a "mass crossover" universe some time before Marvel Comics did so. In this 1960 tale "Bad Deeds' Club Annual Picnic" (DELL GIANT #33), Gyro Gearloose not only encounters a bunch of disparate villains-- the Big Bad Wolf, the Wicked Witch, Black Pete, Captain Hook and the Beagle Boys-- the story also works in Peter Pan, the Seven Dwarves, the Three Little Pigs, Mickey Mouse and Uncle Scrooge.                         

     The same issue also includes a Pluto story, "The Dancing Dog,"  in which the dopey dog encounters the satyr Pan but also Stromboli from PINOCCHIO.                                                                                       

From DELL GIANT #30. there's "Hook and Crooks." Uncle Scrooge and Gyro Gearloose chase the Beagle Boys to Neverland to recover the billion dollars stolen from Scrooge, only to find that the Beagles have joined forces with Captain Hook.                                                                                         

    Modern gender politics are well served by "The Scary All-Girl Safari," taking Daisy Duck, Minnie Mouse, Grandma Duck and Clarabelle Cow on a jungle cruise.                                                            

In "The Tiny Trouble Shooters," Chip and Dale ally with Scamp (a product of LADY AND THE TRAMP) avoid Monstro the Whale and help Pinocchio and Gepetto against a Giant who looks familiar though I can't place him from anything earlier.                                         

On a minor personal note, I remember having read these comics in real time, when I was about five years old, give or take a year, and upon re-reading them sixty-plus years later, I still remember some of them pretty well.   
 

MONSTER MASHUPS #122

 And in this corner, we have--                                                                        

THE PETAL-PRISON PLANT.                                                                       

THE BLACK MONSTER.                                                                    

THE GIANT WORM.                                                                           

THE MONSTER MAN. (He's also called "the Ice Monster," but MS already had one of those.)                                                                         

THE APE-MEN.                                                                                    

THE FLAME-WOLVES (though they're not seen breathing flame as the writer claims).                                                                                       

 
   THE MANY-HEADED SHARK.                                                             

THE TUSKED MONSTER.                                                                       

And, most imaginatively, the ICICLE-QUILL FISH.
                                                                   

RAR #91: THE KICKMIQUIK TRIBE

 In this 1950 DONALD DUCK story by Carl Barks, the tribe encountered by Donald and his nephews never has a proper name. However, since they live near a river called "the Kickmiquik," why not let that be their default name? In my essay I noted that Barks exerted himself to make the tribal people's customs and attire match that of the Indians of the Northwestern U.S.                                                                        

MONSTER MASHUPS #121

 Relatively small mashup in issue #7.                                                                    

THE MOLE MONSTERS.                                                                    

And THE FLOWING BLOB.

MONSTER MASHUPS #120

 And from MS #6 we get... THE KANGORILLA!                                          

THE METAL EATERS.                                                                        

THE SPIDERSAURUS.                                                                             

 THE JET-BIRD.                                                                                    

THE VACUUM BEAST.                                                                                 

THE COLOSSO-WHALE.                                                                    

And to my surprise, the author for the first time repeats a monster, providing a new representative of the species of THE FLYING SWORDFISH from #5. 

MONSTER MASHUPS #119

 More one-shot monsters from MIGHTY SAMSON #4.                                        

The rather unimaginatively named GIANT TOAD and GIANT FLYING FISH.                                                                                                    

THE ICE MONSTER.                                                                            

The comparatively original HIGH-SPEED HYENAS.                                    

And THE HYPNO-BEAST, the first one in the series to look like a mutated human.

RAR #90: TUROK AND ANDAR

 Here's a scene from the first appearance of those intrepid comic-book braves Turok and Andar, as they have their initial encounter with the denizens of the mysterious lost valley that (in the original comic) they never escape. Here they meet both dinosaurs and cavepeople in one easy lesson.                                                                                                       

  

MONSTER MASHUPS #118

 MIGHTY SAMSON #3. No monsters repeated yet.                                         

THE SPIDER-BEAST.                                                                                  

THE DOUBLE SNAKE.                                                                               

THE STONE-CRUSHING EAGLE.                                                      

THE TENTACLED GORILLA.                                                                       

THE HORNED RHINOPHANT.                                                           

THE LIGHTNING-BOLT EEL.

MONSTER MASHUPS #117

 More mutant monster malarkey from MIGHTY SAMSON #2.                                                                                 

Here we get the Fanged Flyers.                                                                    

Then the Morass Monster and the Three-Jawed Gator (I only see two).                                                                                                           

 Then there's the Titano-Turtle.                                                                 

And we finish up with an Octosaur (distant relation to Sharktopus?)