1997 MAN-THING LOT!! Marvel Comics, 1997 - 1998! Asking $12.00 OBO!
These are all in NM- with all pages complete! This series ran for a total of 8 issues and 1/2 of them are here!
Issue #
1 - Dec. 1997 - Shame Shame Shame" is by Writer J.M. DeMatteis, Penciler and Inker Liam Sharp, Colorist
Christie Scheele and Letterer Jon Babcock, as we witness Jack and Gwyneth Burke are driving down a road in Citrusville when the Man-Thing lumbers out into the street. Their car strikes the creature, but the Man-Thing's body quickly reconstitutes itself. Meanwhile, Ellen Brandt suffers a nightmare wherein she sees herself being attacked by the Man-Thing. As the former fiancée of scientist Ted Sallis, Ellen was instrumental in the accident that transformed Sallis into the Man-Thing. Awakening with a start, she stares into a mirror examining her ruined face - scars she acquired after suffering from the Man-Thing's burning touch. From his Sanctum Sanctorum, Doctor Strange determines that the End of All Things are approaching fast. This premonition is somehow tied to the unconscious echo of the Man-Thing's psyche. Strange decides to investigate the matter. Man-Thing comes upon pedophile Owen Jackson. The Man-Thing's empathic powers bring to light Jackson's guilt over his sinful past. Unwilling to live with such emotional pain any longer, he lets the Man-Thing destroy him with his touch. A sheriff and his deputy come upon the scene, and the sheriff fires his pistol at the Man-Thing, who quickly recovers from it.
3 - Feb. 1998 - "Christmas in Bedlam!" Christmas Eve finds Eric Simon Payne, the hero formerly known as Devil-Slayer, now a patient at Rosewell Sanitarium in Charles, Massachusetts. He has been suffering massive delusions attributed to guilt that he feels over the death of his wife Cory. In the Florida Everglades, Ellen Brandt tries to establish an empathic connection with Man-Thing. Ellen knows that she must guide the Man-Thing on a quest to reconstitute the shattered Nexus of All Realities, and perhaps even heal her own fractured psyche. Unfortunately, Ellen has no idea how she is going to accomplish such a feat. Mister Termineus appears in the swamp holding a gnarled wooden staff while wearing an old fashioned Santa Claus outfit. He addresses Ellen and tells her that he is a colleague of Stephen Strange. He wants to help her achieve her objectives and hands her the wooden staff, then disappears in a wall of fire.Ellen Brandt uses the staff given to her by Mister Termineus to transport the Man-Thing and herself to Rosewell Sanitarium!
5 - Apr. 1998 - "An Empty House" Convinced that the Man-Thing represents the manifestation of all of his personal demons, he lunges at the beast and the two grappling combatants blister away in a violent conflagration that threatens to destroy not only the Sanitarium, but the entire town of Charles as well. However, thanks to the mystic staff provided to Ellen Brandt by Mister Termineus, the crater that had been swallowing the town quickly recedes. The patient known as Sorrow establishes an empathic rapport with Payne and succeeds in exorcising his internal demons, by driving out the fragment of the Nexus of All Realities that existed inside of him. Taking the fragment, she forges it into a necklace and gives it to Ellen, much to the chagrin of Mister Termineus who covets the fragment very badly. As the Man-Thing and she leave the hospital however, they find themselves transported to an alternate reality - a picturesque world that appears as if it were spun from a Norman Rockwell painting. In this dreamlike reality, the Man-Thing is "Doc" Ted Sallis and Ellen is his wife. He is a respected member of the community and the two live a perfect life. Ellen is bothered by the sudden influx of new memories that she knows are not real; the most painful of which is seeing her and Ted's son - a child that she should not have! Ellen and the Man-Thing meanwhile, exit the alternate reality and find themselves back in the Everglades. They come across the Cult of Entropy. The leader of the cult is carrying what appears to be an infant wrapped in cloth in his arms. Ellen briefly thinks that the child is her own until the wrappings fall away revealing -- Howard the Duck!
6 - May 1998 - "The Duck & the Muck" sees Ellen Brandt and the Man-Thing encounter the Cult of Entropy. They have in their possession, a bound and slightly ill Howard the Duck. Ellen takes off running, and the Man-Thing advances towards the cult. One of the cult members dices him with a pair of electro-coils and the Man-Thing collapses into a pile of bifurcated lumps of vegetation. He soon reconstitutes his form and finds that the leader of the cult, the diseased and malformed Mahapralaya, plans on eviscerating Howard in order to retrieve a fragment of the Nexus of All Realities. Howard is surprised to learn that he possesses such a thing and had previously attributed his illness to a bad case of gas. Mahapralaya, in his nihilistic quest to destroy all reality, believes that by destroying even a single piece of the Nexus, the Nexus as a whole cannot be repaired. The Man-Thing, chosen guardian of the Nexus, instinctively moves towards Howard. He concentrates his physical form and enters Howard's body through his mouth!! Howard the Duck regurgitates the Man-Thing's biological matter. When the Man-Thing reforms, he is twice his normal size and is now in possession of the Nexus fragment that was previously lodged inside of Howard's being. The Man-Thing attacks Mahapralaya and burns him with his corrosive touch. However, the Man-Thing's powers, working in concert with the Nexus shard, produce an expected result. Rather than burning Mahapralaya's face, it actually heals his disease-ridden body, turning him into a normal person. Mahapralaya staggers off into the swamp!

Trivia!!!
In this issue, the Cult of Entropy is said to recruit members through their website www.putrescence.com . The domain for sale as of 2020, and it was apparently not active back in 1998, when the comic-book was published. Between 2003 and 2008, it was the website of a Canadian metal band.

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