LOVE RUSH, appearing four years after YOUKAI LOVE ATTACK, didn't last any longer than the 2012 manga and also didn't offer as many colorful monsters. This one excerpt depicts most of them getting trapped by a big slime-girl called "Pooty Pudding" (!) The monster-girls include Kokoro (a cupid), Tsukimi (a wolf-girl), and Ellis Lapesh (a shy succubus).
The manga YOUKAI LOVE ATTACK barely had time to set out its monster-girls before getting cancelled. They included:
A snow-woman.
The protagonist's sisters (though maybe not by blood), who reveal themselves to be the demonesses SHUTEN DOJI (left) and IBARAKI DOJI (right).
This item from BIG SHOT #79 (1947) may qualify as the most obscure mm here. Two ghosts (named, unimaginatively, "Drakky" and "Franky") try to dodge their witch-girlfriends ("Haggie and Baggie"). The ghosts and witches change into human beings and bump into the long-forgotten star of the four-page strip, a teen schmuck named "Brass Knuckles."
The SUPERMANSION episode "Sympathy for Black Saturn" parodies the UNDERWORLD franchise, opposing a clan of vampires ("the Dracuvlads") against one of werewolves ("the Wolvenlykes"). The two clans also appear in "Saturn's Six," but only long enough to get wiped out.
JLA #53 features a technically unnamed villain (though two captions call him "The Master Thief") who challenges the League with a bunch of animated statues of folkloric monsters-- the Monster of Leeds (aka the Jersey Devil), the Doodang, the Ring-Tailed Roarer-- plus one folk-hero and his animal-buddy: Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe.
Though the monstrous foes of the Heroic Moby Dick get top billing in their only appearance--
Three inventive aliens from WORLD'S FINEST #96.
Oh, those 1950s twist-ending tales. In "Deadline" (JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS #16 (1953), horror-writer Herbert Carvel tries three times to get his editor to buy a story involving a conflict between vampires and ghosts. The editor doesn't like pitting two types of monsters in the same story, but he must be desperate for stories because he accepts an invitation to Herbert's house for dinner, only to learn that (1) Herbert is a ghost, (2) wife Lydia is a vampire, and (3) the editor is the dinner! What a twist!
Here lie the feminine fear-figures of MONSTER MARRIAGE SHOP, starting with --
URURU THE WEREWOLF.
CAMILLA THE VAMPIRE.
MEISA THE GORGON.
YUKO THE UNICORN.
KANAME THE AKANAME (scum-sucking demon)
I gave the 1984 SHE a negative review eight years ago, but I'll admit, after a re-screening, that it isn't as unimaginative as most post-apoc films, which, if they have monsters at all, usually keep it down to some stumbling zombie-mutants. SHE does boast--
THE NOOKS, mutants who are totally okay after their arms get sliced off.
GODAN, a psychoknietic mutant who tries to build a cult around his godhood.
A self-regenerating fellow named Xenon, who can not only rebuild any body part (arm, head) out of nothing, the severed parts also grow into duplicates of Xenon-- though this monster's real threat is that he sounds like Robin Williams on speed.
No combinations of distinctive monsters occur in GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI until the 1996 story-arc "Survival Mansion." In this tale, the GS team is trapped by evil munitions makers who have started making monsters, whether of real demonic derivation or of artificial creation, to sell as super-weapons. The villains try to use the sweepers as test subjects of their monsters' toughness, but Mikami and her aides Yokoshima and (a now mortal version of) Okinu kick the asses of--
I liked the first crossover between the DC Universe and the Monster-verse, but a second one sounded like gilding the lily.
I did rather enjoy King Shark becoming a kaiju.
Mediocre monsters from Gerry Conway's really stinky LEGION run.
THE JOVIAN ATTACK SQUID...
And THE VENUSIAN NIGHT SHARK.
