{"id":265,"date":"2005-02-17T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/17\/monsters-on-the-prowl-28-the-escape-of-monsteroso\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T19:47:00","slug":"monsters-on-the-prowl-28-the-escape-of-monsteroso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/265","title":{"rendered":"Monsters On The Prowl #28 [1974] &#8211; The Escape of Monsteroso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-page Kirby\/Ayers reprint from AMAZING ADVENTURES #5 (1961) leads off this issue. In this one, the owner of a failing circus hears about a report of a space-ship crashing in Africa (with some rather racist comments from the news announcer mentioning it). He decides to go down and see if he can find a lead attraction for his circus out there, and finds a giant monster, apparently dead, which he ships to New York to sell to a museum, using all his showman talents to come up with the name &#8220;Monsteroso&#8221; (now we know why his circus was failing). In the museum, Monsteroso suddenly comes to life and goes through New York, including a trip through Central Park, digging from the lake to the zoo, where he examines (and puts down unharmed) several animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-28-1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3038\" alt=\"Monsters On The Prowl #28 [1974]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-28-1974-690x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-28-1974-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-28-1974-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-28-1974-624x925.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Monsters-On-The-Prowl-28-1974.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I love those weird panels Kirby would throw in, where he had the word balloons coming out of a shot of the Earth, which in his world-view apparently had many other planets, including ringed giants, in close proximity)<\/p>\n<p>As the police use try to use gas on him, he climbs the UN building and sits up there, until they manage to shoot him down with a drugged harpoon and he falls into the river. They&#8217;re quite proud of their ability to defeat the alien menace. Then, in an &#8220;ironic twist&#8221; (as the caption calls it), a giant space-ship comes down and out emerge mountain sized aliens, revealing Monsteroso to be a lost curious infant.<\/p>\n<p>Decent story, the plot works a lot better here than it did when it was re-cycled for one of the weakest issues of FF a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>The cover is also taken from AMAZING ADVENTURES #5, a modified version of the splash page, with the added art on the right side being done by Steve Ditko.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-page Kirby\/Ayers reprint from AMAZING ADVENTURES #5 (1961) leads off this issue. In this one, the owner of a failing circus hears about a report of a space-ship crashing in Africa (with some rather racist comments from the news announcer mentioning it). 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