Let's Review Marvel's The Frankenstein Monster Series...What Happened?

Join Pete as he takes a look at the complete run of Marvel's The Frankenstein Monster series, why it worked, and why it didn't. #marvelcomics #marvel #comicbooks #comiccollecting
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[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

That badass ploog cover of the monster of Frankenstein #2is a fantastic classic!!! I had a stunning sticker collection when I was a kid, have ❤d his work forever!

[@maxthepupp]

Ploog was so great! Anyone else seethe made for TV version of Shelly's book? Michael Sarazin (Reincarnation of Peter Proud was way cool) played the monster and ended up educated and handsome only to reach the showdown in the arctic! Great stuff and there's a scene where a girl gets run down by a horse & carriage. Scary stuff for a kid. I ain't forgot it!

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Ah yes, great stuff!

[@adamexenvironmental4468]

One of my all time favorites. I actually watched it when it first came out… I was in 3rd grade…1973…Scared the living buhjeeziz out of me!!! I didn’t watch it again until I was in my late 40s… still scary and disturbing…(love when James Mason (Polidori/ Polly Dolly) gets strung up by the monster on the mast and gets struck by lightning!!! His hands all deformed and bony…Great take on the old classic.

[@keng.2468]

Love this series! I own every issue along with Werewolf by Night and Ghost Ridert! I was a huge Mike Ploog fan and bought every issue he did at Marvel.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

Ploog defenently was the best artist of these books. As I have said so many times before, horror artist aren't known by mainstream comic book readers, but some of the best creators (individually) and creative teams (for projects and company wide) were horror comic book artists.

[@peterm.fitzpatrick7735]

l like Ploog's intricate line work. I know what it takes to devote that much time to drawing all those details and understand why he insisted on inking his own pages. Not a few pencil wielders in comics have been disappointed by what the inkers do with their originals. You can see the drop-off in detail work in the later issues, with simply outlines and reliance on color to fill the panels.

[@EugeneLorey]

Love love love my 1970s Marvel & D.C. horror comics!

[@CelestialWoodway]

Also still affordable to collect unlike precode horror.

[@BrianRidgway-u5g]

I think those early Ploog issues are on par with Barry Windsor Smith on Conan. His style was animated and lively, while displaying his own style of tragedy. Beautiful, timeless work.

[@robertfalcone3025]

The Monster Of Frankenstein with art by Mike Ploog was one of my ALL TIME favorite Marvel Comics.

[@richardranke3158]

The first Marvel Frankenstein book I bought was also #4. (Thanks to a comic book convention I got the first three.)For many issues I felt it was excellent, but after he met Dracula for a few issues I felt they were running out of ideas and going downhill. I kept buying the mag,but it only lasted 18 issues.

[@wynathinorum4875]

So cool, I didn't know Marvel did a series for The Frankenstein Monster! I knew about Werewolf by night, and of course Dracula. Great video, and information!

[@sprinklelouis]

The Mike Ploog run is the best by far.I stuck with the title through to the end and it was okay. First time viewer,will be subscribing.

[@betelguese3909]

Ploog was what drove me to collecting WWBN and MoF. But when he left the series the magic left with him. Gene Colen was the perfect dracula artist along with wolfman as writer. An artist can make or break a book. Look at the crossover issues of Dracula and werewolf, Colan's werewolf is not good and Ploog's Dracula is "meh". Now I have WWBN and ToD in omnibus. Also have Ploogs Planet of the Apes in hardcover. Still waiting on Monster of Frankenstein in omnibus format so my Ploog can be complete.

[@johnmichaelwilliams6694]

Thanks for this, Pete. Almost the entire series came out during a personal time away from comic books so only a couple of books in the collection boxes somewhere. if memory serves, there was a collected edition published about ten years or so ago for anyone interested in that possibility. Looking forward to whatever comes next.

[@CelestialWoodway]

The Monster was in The Invaders a few issues also.

[@danielbowden6330]

He's also in Iron Man #101. Frankenstein speaks in Bride but not again until the end of Ghost of Frankenstein.

[@patricktilton5377]

Odd that they didn't have Gene Colan do the art for the issues where Frankenstein's Monster meets Count Dracula, since Colan was the regular artist on Marvel's TOMB OF DRACULA. Colan's run on TOD was magnificent -- he was the perfect artist to set the mood for that book. But Ploog was also magnificent, he being my favorite Marvel artist to work on their PLANET OF THE APES magazine.

[@WayneAshford-l4p]

Would've DEFINITELY ❤❤❤ to seen The Monster v Blade v Dracula v Werewolf by Night...😮

[@djmrjoel]

Was staying at my grandparent’s house “in the country”. Walked all the way to the Boondocks grocery store and was thrilled to find an issue of Monster Of Frankenstein! I read it under the giant willow tree in their yard, and left it outside when I went in for lunch. It then started pouring rain, and the comic was destroyed! Aaack! Got the Power ⚡️Records set very shortly afterwards. I was maybe seven?

[@davekijek2302]

Classic Rock & comics! Pete you are the man.

[@adamexenvironmental4468]

One of my favorite comics.. I have several…including #7… (you should see who the Old Gypsy Lady ‘digs up’ from a secret cave at the end!!!) Still in good shape…50 + years later. I bought all of them off the rack when I was 9-12 years old…1973-76.

[@rogertemple7193]

Marvel Comics turned all of the classic movie monsters into regular comic book series either as heroes or villains.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲

[@alv4794]

Fantastic Ploog art On Frankenstein, Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night. Very Will Eisner inspired art (he was Eisner's assistant before Marvel)

[@brucehennessey7230]

Hey PETE.. I also have this AMAZING RUN as well.. all but #2.. as well as half the WEREWOLF BY NIGHT run and half the TOMB OF DRACULA..most of the LIVING MUMMY run... good stuff..MAKE MINE MARVEL.. ALOHA NUFF-SAID..🤙

[@jefferysteen1041]

I liked this series!

[@gregm1675]

Very nice collection of Frankenstein comics. Do you have the Living Mummy issues and could you go over as well for a show?

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

I do!

[@robertchambers6344]

Thank you! This is my favorite. I wished we got a proper ending.

[@chrislackey775]

TY I liked and subbed! FRANKSTIEN IS THE BEST I WILL TRY TO COLLECT THE RUN! REALLY ENJOY YOUR CHANNEL (MY CHILDHOOD)

[@WayneAshford-l4p]

Btw Pete,❤❤❤ your T-shirt.

[@WayneAshford-l4p]

Bela Lugosi as Igor later gave the Monster a voice in "Son of Frankenstein"..!

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

That was actually at the end of Ghost of Frankenstein. While he did learn to speak in Bride, he was silent once again for Son.

[@rodtough2235]

"What happened" was that it started off (as all the 70s Marvel horror series did) with care and good writing and art. A more-or-less faithful adaptation of the original novel, followed by "what came after." Meanwhile, a somewhat more predictable and inferior series began in the b&w "Monsters Unleashed" featuring the monster revived in the present by a crackpot scientist, now inexplicably mute and stumbling from one situation to another. The decision was taken to explain how the monster became mute in the colour comic and have him frozen in ice to awaken in the present, syncing up with the early episodes of the b&w series and continuing from it, with the monster a mute stooge. "Monsters Unleashed" was cancelled and the colour comic wasn't far behind it, writer Doug Moench attempted to restore some degree of intelligence and speech to the character and teamed him up with a robot before handing over to Bill Mantlo for an inconclusive final issue with a female Frankenstein descendant appearing in the final panel. In short, what happened was they started well then messed it up!

[@barnabascollins-n3p]

I think they lost most of their Readers once Mike Ploog left the book.

[@rodtough2235]

@@barnabascollins-n3p ALL the monster series he worked on seemed to go downhill when he left! Werewolf, Man-Thing etc. were all better when he was the artist.

[@WayneAshford-l4p]

Don't suppose you'd do a review on "Tomb of Dracula"(1972-1981)..?!? Pretty please 😮😢❤

[@bfsolari]

Do you review indie comics? The source material for my superhero comic The Eternal is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

[@arghsonofcliff]

I am not a monster. I also showed up in avengers 131 132. They should have done him like Conan but kept him in the 1800's

[@HalfassDIY]

"Frank-n-steen"

[@MDC617]

The actual title of the comic is”Frankenstein”. Always go by the indicia. 🤷‍♂️

[@johnmorrissey4106]

Thanks, Pete! These issues are right in my wheelhouse (I started collecting Marvel comics in the fall of 1971)!yllaer I really enjoyed this trip on a spooky Memory Lane!