One among many of the iconic covers of Jack Kirby, Tales to Astonish #13 gives us Groot, the Monster from Planet X. Memorable more for humor than horror, this classic image was birthed during the Mighty Marvel monster craze of the 1950s and 1960s. Like only he could, Kirby conveyed an imposing menace with crisp lines and a forced perspective of a once proud metropolis crushed under the weight of Groot's massive, branching root system. In an admittedly silly story, it is the timeless art of Jack Kirby that conveys all the mustered menace of an alien composed of wood.
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