{"id":260,"date":"2005-02-13T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/13\/weird-wonder-tales-4-we-found-the-ninth-wonder-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2005-02-13T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-13T21:38:00","slug":"weird-wonder-tales-4-we-found-the-ninth-wonder-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/260","title":{"rendered":"Weird Wonder Tales #4 [1974]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reprint of TALES TO ASTONISH #1 (1959), inks attributed to Chris Rule.<\/p>\n<p>A ship encounters a <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterblog.oneroom.org\/meet_the_monsters\/the_ninth_wonder_of_the_world.html\">giant lobster<\/a>, just one in a series of giant sea life they&#8217;ve encountered as Professor Briggs leads them on an expedition following the map of Doctor Parker. The ship is capsized by what seems to be a giant moving island, and Briggs and Captain Kane wind up on the shore of another island, where they find Parker. Turns out he&#8217;d been conducting experiments on hormone regulating systems, but hadn&#8217;t yet found a way to control it, leading to the giant turtle currently escaping from behind a huge gate. As they flee, Kane considers the potential wealth and problems of taking such a giant beast to civilization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Weird-Wonder-Tales-4-1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3041\" alt=\"Weird Wonder Tales #4 [1974]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Weird-Wonder-Tales-4-1974-696x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Weird-Wonder-Tales-4-1974-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Weird-Wonder-Tales-4-1974-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Weird-Wonder-Tales-4-1974-624x918.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Weird-Wonder-Tales-4-1974.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately he decides not to, and on the way out they encounter an even bigger turtle from an earlier experiment, the very &#8220;island&#8221; that had capsized the ship.<\/p>\n<p>A hodge-podge of ideas already cliche as the time, borrowing heavily from KING KONG of course. The monsters in this are also a let-down, being just large versions of real animals. I did like the odd perspective shot of the stockades that the turtle was held in, though.<\/p>\n<p>The cover is also from TALES TO ASTONISH #1, also Kirby\/Rule, but heavily modified for the reprint. In the original the monster shown through the gates is clearly a large turtle, just walking out, as in the story, in the reprint it&#8217;s completely redrawn as some huge snarling clawed beast.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprint of TALES TO ASTONISH #1 (1959), inks attributed to Chris Rule. A ship encounters a giant lobster, just one in a series of giant sea life they&#8217;ve encountered as Professor Briggs leads them on an expedition following the map of Doctor Parker. 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