{"id":157,"date":"2004-12-12T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/12\/tales-of-suspense-19-the-green-thing\/"},"modified":"2004-12-12T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T17:33:57","slug":"tales-of-suspense-19-the-green-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/157","title":{"rendered":"Tales Of Suspense #19 [1961]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Swamp Thing, before Man-Thing, there was &#8220;The Green Thing&#8221;. A 13-page Kirby\/Ayers cover story in this issue of TALES OF SUSPENSE, featuring a scientist who goes to a remote island to test his serum, which he thinks will increase the intelligence of plants. Not finding the highly developed plant he hopes, he instead tries the serum on a weed, which grows to giant size, gains intelligence and plans to rule the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Tales-Of-Suspense-19-1961.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3071\" alt=\"Tales Of Suspense #19 [1961]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Tales-Of-Suspense-19-1961-715x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Tales-Of-Suspense-19-1961-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Tales-Of-Suspense-19-1961-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Tales-Of-Suspense-19-1961-624x893.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Tales-Of-Suspense-19-1961.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, with the remaining serum, the scientist is able to evolve a sample of his original choice, Ignatius Rex (and while checking to see if that was a real plant, all I found were links to websites about this story), which is a more benevolent walking plant. Lucky that worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Hm, giant weed turning its own\u00a0fibers\u00a0into a lasso, these are some strange comics.<\/p>\n<p>Published July 1961<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Swamp Thing, before Man-Thing, there was &#8220;The Green Thing&#8221;. A 13-page Kirby\/Ayers cover story in this issue of TALES OF SUSPENSE, featuring a scientist who goes to a remote island to test his serum, which he thinks will increase the intelligence of plants. Not finding the highly developed plant he hopes, he instead tries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}