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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from stuff to blow

your mind focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

Let us return to the pages of Marvel Comics to consider a true monster, man thing.

Not to be confused with D.C. Swamp Thing, but he stands as something of his spiritual

twin sibling.

So both Man Thing and Swamp Thing are hybrid swamp-based humanoids created through an explosive collision

of humanity, mad science, and swamp water.

Both characters to various differences in the characters.

Plus Marvel's Walking Swamp Creature, the Heap, predates both of them, dating back to the early 1940s,

as does the muck monster it from Street and Smith comics.

Still, these various swamp beings become linked.

They have a kinship.

And you'll even find a panel in Alan Moore's swamp thing

run visually suggesting kinship between Swamp Thing,

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