The second story in the alternate-reality anthology comic book What If #26 (April 1981) asked, "What if the Man-Thing had Regained Ted Sallis' Brain?" Written by Steven Grant, with art by penciller Herb Trimpe and inker Bob Wiacek. In the story, an alligator that Dr. Oheimer was working on became the new Man-Thing, while Sallis self-immolated at his own fear while fighting it. [97] Man-Thing comes with a reprint of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #4, a story which also features the origin and only appearance of Ultimate Lizard. It's decent, but it doesn't really explain anything at all about who or what Man-Thing is. He just shows up, burns the Lizard and leaves. Retool and repaint of the 12-inch Marvel Legends Captain America figure with a new head, boots, gloves and accessories They were yellow in Fear #10-13, but red in the Astonishing Tales issues, and all subsequent issues from Fear #14 onward. The Man-Thing appears in a self-titled film, portrayed by Conan Stevens. [106] [107] This version was a Seminole shaman and chieftain before being murdered and reborn as the vengeful Man-Thing.

Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars revealed the existence of the She-Man-Thing, a character that fought on the Grandmaster's team in a bonus round of the Contest of Champions. [74] Early shipments have a paint error with grey paint on 616 pants and blue on Ultimate. A running change corrected this.

The Man-Thing appeared regularly during The Punisher's Franken-Castle story arc and became a regular member of Thunderbolts with issue #144. The series was retitled Dark Avengers with #175, and the Man-Thing continued to appear as a regular character until issue #183. Steve Gerber's posthumous Man-Thing story "The Screenplay of the Living Dead Man", with art by Kevin Nowlan, originally planned as a 1980s graphic novel before being left uncompleted by the artist, [26] was revived in the 2010s and appeared as a three-issue miniseries cover-titled The Infernal Man-Thing (Early Sept.-Oct. 2012). [27] The story was a sequel to Gerber's "Song-Cry of the Living Dead Man" in Man-Thing #12 (Dec. 1974). [26] The Man-Thing is a large, slow-moving, empathic, humanoid swamp monster living in the Florida Everglades near a Seminole reservation and the fictional town of Citrusville in Cypress County (also fictional), Florida. Magic-users and spellcasters seem to be prevalent among the Man-Thing’s encounters. The sorcerers Dakimh and Jennifer Kale rank chiefly among them having had more than one adventure with the swamp creature. Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Stephen Strange, AKA Doctor Strange, may also be counted in this group, being sympathetic to the Man-Thing’s existence as a protector of realities.

Author R.L. Stine made his comics debut with a five-issue Man-Thing miniseries in 2017. [28] Fictional character biography [ edit ] On Earth-91, everyone in that reality is a Man-Thing. The Multiversal Masters of Evil arrive on Earth-91 where they massacre this reality's Prehistoric Avengers. Unbeknownst to the Multiversal Masters of Evil, Doom Supreme secretly saved a Man-Thing variation of Doctor Doom called Doom-Thing where it swore its allegiance to him alongside the other variations of Doctor Doom. [90] Earth-691 [ edit ] Stan Lee called me in; it would've been late '70 or early '71. [...] He had a couple of sentences or so for the concept – I think it was mainly the notion of a guy working on some experimental drug or something for the government, his being accosted by spies, and getting fused with the swamp so that he becomes this creature. The creature itself sounds a lot like the Heap, but neither of us mentioned that character at the time.... I didn't care much for the name 'Man-Thing', because we already had the Thing [of the superhero team the Fantastic Four], and I thought it would be confusing to also have another one called Man-Thing. [9] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Man-Thing possesses a variety of superhuman powers that are derived from the combined interaction of the scientific formula created by Ted Sallis and the mystical energies of the Nexus of All Realities.Gerry and I thought that, unconsciously, the origin in Swamp Thing #1 was a bit too similar to the origin of Man-Thing a year-and-a-half earlier. There was vague talk at the time around Marvel of legal action, but it was never really pursued. I don't know if any letters even changed hands between Marvel and DC. [...] We weren't happy with the situation over the Swamp Thing #1 origin, but we figured it was an accident. Gerry was rooming with Len at the time and tried to talk him into changing the Swamp Thing's origin. Len didn't see the similarities, so he went ahead with what he was going to do. The two characters [di]verged off after that origin, so it didn't make much difference, anyway. [15]

Figures are 8-inch (200mm). The figures were produced by Hasbro and feature multiple points of articulation. In 2016, 12-inch Legends returned effectively reviving the concept of the Icons line in all but name. The figures are more expensive and are therefore aimed at a more adult collector market. Toy Biz had several related lines of toys of Marvel Comics characters, often exhibiting comparable articulation, and similar scale.

The Wein-written Man-Thing story appeared in between Wein's first [13] and second [14] version of his DC Comics character the Swamp Thing. Wein was Conway's roommate at the time and as Thomas recalled in 2008, There was some question about why we were getting a Man-Thing figure as part of Marvel Legends, when there were so many other characters still waiting to be made. Well, obviously, because Manny's getting the movie treatment some time this year. It's been more than 20 years since Swamp Thing graced screens, and the characters are so different that it just might work. Swamp Thing is basically a superhero with leaves; Man-Thing has the potential to be a great old-school movie monster, the kind that doesn't get all chatty during the final reel. Alternate spike ball hand, alternate claw hand, 2 sand effect pieces and alternate battle-damaged head