What is the story behind the comic book Man Thing - Man-Thing (2005) Discussion

[–] Feral2k 19 years ago

In the comics, Ted Sallis was working on his own version of Cap America's super-soldier serum(the same as half of the Ultimates characters) when HYDRA operatives breoke into his lab and shot him up. Full of holes and incomplete serum, Sallis fled to a conveniently nearby swamp. The muck mixed with the serum in his bloodstream, and he mutated into the Man-Thing.

To be honest, the movie version was more believable, IMHO.

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[–] blocherd 19 years ago

Perhaps, but it would've been nice if the origin of the character was better told. The graphical appearence of Man-Thing himself could been better as well, but since he didn't appear until the final 20 minutes of the film, I guess it didn't matter!

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[–] ultramarvelfan 19 years ago

ted salais is working on A super solider seurm. His Wife sells him out to A.I.M. (rouge scientists). He bolts for the swamp with the formula. the AIM people kill him but the seurm mixes with him turning him into the man_thing. The man thing is drawn to emotion. Fear is the strongest and those who know fear Burn at the touch of the man thing. The man thing can not think it just is. say what you want he still looked better then the HULK. the nexus thing was brought on to try a new angle in the comic. the man thing has met up with prety much met up with every major player in the marvel universe. the movie still stinks but it is still better then The HULK !

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[–] whatboy57 19 years ago

oh, come on. "The Hulk" was not a very good movie, but it was better than this. "The Hulk" at least explained very clearly the origins of the character and was, for the most part, loyal to its comic book roots. Though it did spend far too much time on the psychological aspects of the character and not enough on the "HULK SMASH" elements, which it severely needed. "Man-Thing" was just bad all around, Man-Thing's origins, never even showing Ted Sallis, the sheriff and the woman had like three scenes together, with no real emotional spark that i noticed, before they were kissing, the fact that the one thing most people who know of the Man-Thing (whoever knows fear, burns at the touch of the man-thing) wasn't even in the damn movie, the maniacal laughing of the obviously-the-villians-of-the-movie-as-soon-as-they-appeared-on-screen villians, etc. I could go on, but have neither the time nor the patience. But, in conclusion, "The Hulk"=bad Marvel movie, "Man-Thing"=horrible Marvel movie.

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[–] evilusher 19 years ago

MAN-THING (who actually debuted in the comic title JOURNEY INTO FEAR) had a fairly uniquely written storyline for the time (1970's). It would have been hard to translate that to the screen but I wish they'd have tried. It couldn't have been any worse than what they did do! Incidently another Marvel character who went on to box office flop-dom first made his appearance in the comic: Howard The Duck....

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[–] whatboy57 19 years ago

just wanted to make it clear that i'm not saying they should have gone the other way and ignored the psychological aspects of the character, which the HULK book is rich with, and had it basically be all HULK SMASH, but that they needed to find more of a balance between the two. and for the sequel, which they seem intent to at least talk about if not actually make, they really need to bring in the Abomination so they can really show the HULK SMASH elements. a Hulk/Abomination throwdown could be pretty damn sweet.

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[–] Studman_Productions 15 years ago

ah thanks ultimatemarvelfan

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[–] BlitzAceGuardian 19 years ago

I could be wrong but i thought he was like "the center of all dimensions" or something like that. I remember in a fantastic four comic when having flashbacks of their transformation, all the characters faces are flashed as well as man-things.

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[–] divadeluxe0 19 years ago

MAN-THING -- the real story:

MT debuted initially debuted in a Marvel joke mag called "NOT BRAND ECCCH!" as a SPOOF of Swamp Thing... In a weird twist of po-mo fate, readers embraced the lame parody and he was launched straightfaced in JOURNEY INTO FEAR (I think) before being given his own title. As an aside, the semi-regular value edition of Manny's series (usually padded out to its "bonus" thickness with reprinted 50s horror comics) might have had the most (unintentionally?) prurient title in all of Marveldom: "GIANT-SIZED MAN THING." Um...

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[–] amethystnewyork 19 years ago

I'm sorry, but Man-Thing did not debut in "Not Brand Eccch!" The first magazine (because it was not comic book-sized, but magazine sized) he was in, was Savage Tales # 1. Man-Thing was meant to be a one-shot story, but readers liked him so much that they wrote stories about him in their tryout series, and yes it was Journey Into Fear (once Man-Thing was promoted to his own series, Morbius the Living Vampire replaced him (it?) in Journey Into Fear.). I have all the Man-Thing comics besides Savage Tales, which costs a pretty penny.

- Amethyst

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[–] Shogun2727 19 years ago

Yup...Savage Tales #1 (the 1st appearance of Man-Thing...May 1971) will set you back in the neighborhood of $200 in NM/M condition.

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[–] nessie117-1 15 years ago

I picked up a graded (albeit 6.8) version of Savage Tales #1 for $35 at a comic convention, great find.

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