Swamp monster

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Swamp monsters have been a staple of comics for years. From the 1940's to the present many murk-dwellers have made their muddy mark in comics.

[edit] Examples in Literature

• Hillman Publications' The Heap
• Man-Thing, character created by Stan Lee, Gray Morrow, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway for Marvel Comics
• The Swamp Thing, a fictional character created by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson for DC Comics
• Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monster by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
• In the anime and manga Princess Resurrection, the characters are attacked by a tribe of monsters resembling the creature while vacationing by a lagoon, who desire Hime's blood to make them immortal and keep their kind from dying out. In a possible reference to the novel version of the movie, one of the creatures is roughly 30 feet tall.

[edit] Examples in film and television

• The Gill-man from The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
• A creature, credited as the Gill Man, also appears in the non-Universal release the Monster Squad (1987) along with Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man. He was portrayed by Tom Woodruff, Jr.
• A swamp monster made a cameo appearance on an episode of TV's The Munsters as visiting Uncle Gilbert.
• In the Simpsons episode "There's Something about Marrying", Bart and Milhouse play various pranks on a Huell Howser look-alike. One of them is where they go fishing in a lake contaminated by the power plant, and the lookalike gets attacked by a Swamp Monster, which originally seemed like Blinky, the oft-referenced three-eyed fish.
• In the Family Guy episode, "I Never Met the Dead Man", the Griffin family catches a creature strongly resembling a "Swamp Monster", while fishing.
• In the novel It by Stephen King, It takes the form of a swamp monster to kill Eddie Corcoran
• Tim Burton's film The Nightmare Before Christmas had a background character who resembled a female swamp creature.