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“…Man-Thing!” Savage Tales (Vol. 1/1971), #1.
Writers: Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway; Penciler, Inker, and Letterer: Gray Morrow
#Marvel#Marvel comics#Marvel 616#Savage Tales#Man-Thing#Ted Sallis#Ellen Brandt#alshskj so you see where that M-rating came from#and I am…very interested to see how Ellen’s character changes over time#seeing as Marvel’s notorious for trying to do damage control on the uuuuuh less than in-depth development of their female characters#because yeah *spoiler alert* Ellen in this story is completely playing Ted and is going to sell him out soon to profit from his research#but of equal importance !!! considering when this was released (1971) I love the panel where Ted worries about the applications of his work#contrasted with the newspaper headline about napalm#(I’m sorry about how everything connects back to Spider-Man comics for me but considering how they later made Ted#and Curt Connors research partners I think it’s appropriate hahaha)#It reminds me of the one issue where it was revealed that one of the reasons why Dr. Connors developed such an affinity for lizards#was because of the cruelty of man he witnessed during the Vietnam War#and I think there might be something similar at work here#I’ve heard that a common structure for this period of monster comics is that they involve a major moving from ignorance to#bitterly-won experience with a major moral to be learned at the end#and it might be basic but I’m pretty sure a major influence of/parallel for this story#were people realizing what horrible applications were being developed for technology during the Vietnam War#some people may have tried to ignore it for a time but the truth came out eventually
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