Frankenstein?!
Yes, Frankenstein. And he beats up the X-Men.
And yet, he’s not Frankenstein. He’s an alien robot.
And somehow Mary Shelley knew that.
Seriously. That’s what the book is about.
This book goes from really good to terrible and stays there for quite some time before becoming one of the most influential and brilliant books of all time.
I’ve tagged this as Frankenstein, even though it’s a fake out, because it does reflect that he is a real character in the Marvel Universe.
Appropriately, I’m posting on April Fool’s Day.
Yeah, you’re right……..again! This story had X-treme potential to be something great…….had the Frankenstein Monster in question here had been the Real Deal, instead of some stupid, improbable alien android, what we would have had would have been the very first official meeting between Marvel superheroes and a classic Universal horror monster. As it was, we had to wait a full six more years for that, with Marvel Team-Up#12. ( Spider-Man and the “Werewolf By Night” ) Wouldn’t a simple meeting between the X-Men and the actual Frankenstein Monster have been a hell of a lot more plausible than all this space alien/Frankenstein robot bullshit???? Incidentally, this story is receiving a sequel this month in a new first edition ‘X-Men’ comic featuring the mad doctor who recovered and reactivated the Frankenstein robot, who now goes by the less-than-frightening appellation “The Curator”. However, the past fifty-six years have not been very kind to the not-so-good doctor, because, boy, is he ugly now! ( of course, fifty-six years of aging will do that to anybody! ) Overall, this story is a massive cheat on the same scale as ‘Giant-Size Spider-Man’#1, where we were promised an encounter between the Arachnoid Adventurer and the Lord of the Undead, which ALSO did not happen! The ONLY good thing I can say about ‘Uncanny X-Men’#40 is that Marvel Girl is driving me wild in that off-the-shoulder version of her classic ‘Marvel Girl Mini’! But that’s ALL I can say about it! WORD!!