“Enter: Skull the Slayer and Exit: The Thing” begins a two-part dinosaur adventure with The Thing and Skull the Slayer.
We’ll wrap up part two tomorrow.
Digging Skull the Slayer? We love dinosaurs, but we’re no experts on Skull. But we know someone who is! Click for a Skull the Slayer retrospective on Diversions of the Groovy Kind. It includes the complete first issue of Skull’s own title and lots more scans, history, and goodies.
For a review and recap of the first 100 issues of Marvel Two-in-One, see our friends at the Longbox Graveyard.
Collector’s Guide:
- From Marvel Two-in-One #35. Marvel, 1978.
Reprinted in Essential Marvel Two-in-One TPB #2, 2007.
Story by Marv Wolfman. Art by Ernie Chan.
August 29th, 2012 at 12:51 am
[...] #35 Skull the Slayer in “Enter: Skull The Slayer And Exit: The Thing” by Marv Wolfman and Ernie Chan. Guest artist Chan is a good fit for the barbarians and dinosaurs on offer here, but Skull the Slayer is a hopeless character, with a tedious supporting cast that I wanted to see fed to the thunder lizards. To be fair, this was one of those cases where Two-In-One was used to wrap up the story from a cancelled book, which is never ideal — and for a compelling case why Skull deserves our respect, read this excellent post from Diversions of the Groovy Kind. And you can read the whole issue over at Mars Will Send No More! [...]