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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.

I recently picked up a kind of ragged copy of the official handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition from, I believe, 1990, though this also might

have been a reprint from years later. I'm not entirely certain, but it's filled with various

Marvel characters from the famous to the obscure, each with profile data

and standardized character illustrations in this kind of glorious retro style.

Amid all the capes and tights, and there are a lot of tights,

there are some gloriously weird entries in the book.

There's the spiky-faced skeleton man terror ink

with his ability to steal limbs and attach them to his own body.

I was also fascinated by Quasumoto or Quasimotivational destruct organism.

He is a super-powered cyborg hunchback and

presumably he's quite motivational. But in this episode I want to focus in on the

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