If you haven't read Dark Reign Punisher The List (by Rick Remender and John Romita Jr), I highly recommend it. The ending was very surprising to me, and it sets up this next Punisher arc (starting in issue #11) with art by Tony Moore.
Moore's cover to Punisher #12 brings back the Legion of Monsters to aid the Punisher (now FrankenCastle). Morbius, Man-Thing, Werewolf by Night are all there, along with the Living Mummy, who I haven't seen in decades. I'm looking forward to this, especially after the terrific job that Moore did recently Ghost Rider.
I'll be you dollars to doughnuts that Moore remembers this cover...
The very first (and only?) appearance of the Legion of Monsters in Marvel Premiere #28, 1975. As a total Marvel Monster freak, I couldn't wait to read this story. Written by Bill Mantlo and Frank Robbins, you had to admire the lengths that Mantlo went to have Man-Thing transported out of the swamp--it was an ordeal just to get all these horror guys together to fight a menace. It was a bit of a letdown, but I was always hoping for a return appearance.
Keep on eye on that logo, because it moved around a lot.
Later that year, Marvel published a black and white magazine called Legion of Monsters, with a Neal Adams cover painting. I had hoped for a team-up, but the magazine contained only solo stories. I believe most of them were inventory stories left over from the defunct magazines Dracula Lives and Monsters Unleashed. The editorial indicated that the magazine was an ongoing publication, but issue #2 never appeared.
But Marvel was never one to let a crappy logo go to waste! The Legion of Monsters title appeared yet again in Marvel Preview #8 in 1976. You would think with a cover like this, there would be a team-up, right? Blade and Morbius never crossed paths, they were featured in solo stories only. More inventory material, this time left over from Vampire Tales.
Let's raise a glass to Tony Moore, who loves Marvel Monsters as much as we do! Nuff said.
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"But Marvel was never one to let a crappy logo go to waste!"
LOL!!! How true. And, being a graphic designer by profession, I keep being amazed at how crappy the graphic design of Marvel books are -- even today.
And don't we wish we had a penny for every time Marvel & DC had practiced false advertising on the covers, by showing scenes and characters which never appear/meet in the story itself?! Boggled is the mind.
I love that cover, but it's by Mike McKone. McKone is doing all the covers for the Remender/Moore Frankencastle arc.
I just wish Moore drew him on the inside the way McKone draws him on the outside. The balding Moribus is kinda gross.
Thanks for pointing out that is McKone. I never realized that! I forgot that McKone is still working for Marvel, apparently on a secret project.