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- Captain 3D. Co-created with Joe Simon in 1953, Captain 3D was made to capitalize on the 3D comic trend. You'd expect a hero with 3D glasses would be able to see special things, or shoot lasers or something, right?
- Crazy Quilt. This eventual Batman rogue was actually created by Kirby in 1946 as a foe for the Boy Commandoes (an elite group of teenagers who were of course allowed to fight the Nazis).
- Devil Dinosaur. One of Kirby's odder creations at DC was Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, which featured the title character in a way-way-past-post-apocalyptic world ruled by talking anthropomorphic animals.
- Master Computobot and the Cavebots. A concept Kirby drew but never used, this is… well, it's a giant robot computer in control of several robot cavemen who clearly want to destroy humanity.
- Captain 3D. Co-created with Joe Simon in 1953, Captain 3D was made to capitalise on the 3D comic trend. You’d expect a hero with 3D glasses would be able to see special things, or shoot lasers or something, right?
- Crazy Quilt. This eventual Batman rogue was actually created by Kirby in 1946 as a foe for the Boy Commandoes (an elite group of teenagers who were of course allowed to fight the Nazis).
- Devil Dinosaur. One of Kirby’s odder creations at DC was Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, which featured the title character in a way-way-past-post-apocalyptic world ruled by talking anthropomorphic animals.
- Master Computobot and the Cavebots. A concept Kirby drew but never used, this is… well, it’s a giant robot computer in control of several robot cavemen who clearly want to destroy humanity.
- 15 Galactus
- 14 Ego The Living Planet
- 13 The Watcher
- 12 Omac
- 11 Fin Fang Foom
- 10 Dragon-Man
- 9 Awesome Android
- 8 Black Racer
- 7 Psycho-Man
- 6 Doughboy
In 1966, the duo of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were looking to create something that no one had ever seen before. In Fantastic Four#48, the duo debuted Galactus, a giant spaceman in a fantastical helmet who drained planets of their energy in order to sustain himself. Unlike other villains at the time, Galactus was a godlike being, an unstoppable force...
Ego the Living Planet is a sentient planet with a face. He was created by Jack Kirby as the artist became more and more interested in exploring space and the universe at large. He debuted in 1966’s Thor#132 as an adversary before transitioning to the role of an ally following an encounter with Galactus. Kirby had developed Ego based on the idea of ...
Jack Kirby introduced readers to Uatu the Watcher in the pages of Fantastic Four#13 from 1963. In this issue, he suddenly makes his appearance to break up a fight between the Thing and Red Ghost (with his trio of pet monkeys) on the moon. Another of Kirby’s godlike beings, the Watcher was forbidden from altering events, until he broke his word in o...
If you want bizarre, OMAC is pretty high up there. Billy Blank is transformed into the futuristic, superpowered One Man Army Corps by the artificial intelligent satellite known as Brother Eye. The character was introduced in OMAC#1 from 1974; however, the series only lasted for eight issues before cancellation. DC later decided to merge two of Kirb...
One of the more notable Marvel monsters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby has to be Fin Fang Foom. First introduced in Strange Tales#89 from 1961, Fin Fang Foom actually predates Marvel Comics’ superheroes by several years. It wasn’t until later that he was introduced into the company’s mainstream continuity. He’s also a dragon monster that wears ...
We remember Jack Kirby as the creator of iconic superheroes like the Fantastic Four, Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America, but for a long time, the King of Comics was known for his monsters. Every month, readers would look forward to the new bizarre creation that would go up against the hero of the book. Perhaps one of the weirder Kirby monsters is ...
Another weird Kirby monster is the Awesome Android, who is a 15-foot-tall artificial being with what looks like a brick for a head. The creature debuted in Fantastic Four#15 from 1963 as the creation of the Mad Thinker, who unleashed his monster against the combined abilities of the Fantastic Four. It was shown to be able to take on the powers of i...
When Jack Kirby moved to DC Comics, many of his ideas took new forms across town. The New Gods were implied to be the successors of the Old Gods seen in Thor. When it came time to develop the race’s avatar of death, he didn’t go much further than his old creation the Silver Surfer. To the untrained eye, the Black Racer looks like a grown man in kni...
Here’s an interesting one: Psycho-Man is actually a microscopic being who operates a man-sized robotic suit of armor to commit crimes. First appearing in Fantastic Four Annual#5 from 1967, Psycho-Man hails from the Microverse, the leader of his people. He invades Earth in hopes of conquering Earth as well. Thanks to his robotic suit, he has the str...
Out of all the Marvel Monsters created over the years, Doughboy has to be the weirdest. Its essentially a superhuman pie-man with a face. Kirby must have been influenced by the Pillsbury Doughboy, who had been introduced to television commercials just over a decade prior to his creation’s introduction. The semi-sentient monster was developed by Arn...
Oct 19, 2023 · Kirby liked to include self-insert characters into his comics, like the Thing in the Fantastic Four, but it just felt weird to include such a normal character in the Fourth World saga.
- Nigel Mitchell
- Fin Fang Foom. Without question, one of Kirby's most famous monster creations is Fin Fang Foom. The outrageous Chinese dragon has come to symbolize his crazy flair for making new monsters and remains relevant today.
- It, the Living Colossus. In "Tales of Suspense" #14 (1961), an alien ship crashed into a remote area of the Soviet Union, where a sculptor had been working on a colossal statue to honor the government.
- Goom. This monster had a great name and a great look. In "Tales of Suspense" #15 (1961), an astronomer named Mark Langley had a theory that got him laughed out of the scientific community.
- Mangog. Most of Kirby's monsters tended to be lumpy and scaly more than scary-looking, but he really went all out with the look of Mangog. He gave it claws, a tail and a huge gaping face with horns and fangs.
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Oct 12, 2018 · And in some of those monster books, Jack Kirby TORE! IT! UP! Strange Tales was bonkers: the Colossus, Grottu king of the insects, Gorgolla, Taboo, Dragoom, so many others including Fin Fang Foom, y’all! MAGIC. B is for Black Panther... who first appeared during Jack’s landmark Fantastic Four run, in issue #52. That’s in maybe the ...
May 12, 2018 · The illustrations were instantly recognizable to anyone who’d seen the film, but the characters were uniquely Kirby's: beefy and emotive with a touch of uncanny.
