#you’ve got the struggle between science and religion (whether science should be used to improve lives or if that’s man
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Giant-Size Man-Thing (Vol. 1/1974), #1.
Writer: Steve Gerber; Penciler: Mike Ploog; Inker: Frank Chiaramonte; Colorist: Petra Goldberg; Letterer: John Costanza
#Marvel#Marvel comics#Marvel 616#Giant-Size Man-Thing#Giant-Size Man-Thing vol. 1#Giant-Size Man-Thing 1974#Cover Gallery#Man-Thing#Ted Sallis#somehow this didn’t get posted when I wanted it too and has been saved in my drafts for six months (yikes)#so here is it now whoops mea culpa#yes…we’ve heard every joke possible about this title…#but for real though this issue is w i l d#because on the one hand in some parts it reads like an undergrad philosophy major’s ideal project#you’ve got the struggle between science and religion (whether science should be used to improve lives or if that’s man#interfering in the natural order of things)#early discussions of how technology could help the environment as opposed to merely destroy it#and some bonkers religious allegory for the creation of man highlighting the tension between self-actualization and#whether or not man was always fated (created???) to be imperfect???#but then again the other half of the issue is two giant mud monsters just absolutely going at it#talk about whiplash
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