Things in Marvel Comics that were scary that creeped you out

[Captain Zolalnadia]

Seeing Venom in commercials for Spider-Man 3 freaked me out when I was younger

[lalalei2001]

[Filament]

This! And most of Claremont's body horror. This was the one time I EVER felt bad for Selene:



Oh yeah, and then there was the Xavier/Caliban forced merge:



Yick.

Agree, that's a creepy issue. I know it was one of those "everyone dies" stories from the get-go, but it it still so horrific. And Xavier/Caliban is too horrible for words. Reminds me of when that guy got merged with the "metal fetishist" in Tetsuo, the Iron Man.

Romita had Selene being segmented while alive in a later issue. It doesn't help that he draws her so curvy. It just doesn't seem right happening to her, even if she is evil incarnate. As an aside, I think Romita draws his women like his wife looks (a real blonde bombshell, at least during her younger years). I read that someone met her and John at a con and they looked like two porn stars, haha. He keeps himself pretty damn fit for being around 50. By the way, the person said they are very nice people to meet in person.

[MyriVerse]

Agreed about Dire Wraiths. Not only can these things pose as anyone around you, but they have drill-bit tongues that suck your brains out. And they used black magic.

Don't know about creeped me out, but I find it sad that Mr. Sinister was once this menacing Frankenstein's monster like guy that could toss Sabretooth around like a kitten, and lately, he's a Victorian fop that can casually be pushed aside by Mystique.

[ERON]

I was scared to death of the Hulk when I was a kid. It started with the TV series, which my parents watched, but extended to the comics as well. I liked Spider-Man because of his appearances on The Electric Company, so when my aunt bought me my first Spider-Man comic when I was about 5 or 6, I was excited at first, until the Hulk made a guest appearance. It not only turned me off of Spider-Man to know that he was pals with the Hulk, it killed my interest in superhero comics in general until I was in my teens.

[Filament]

There was a 3-issue Avengers Halloween arc with them fighting the Grim Reaper and a Legion of the Undead (or was it Unliving?) that kind of creeped me out as an adult. Nefaria and Nebula were beating the crap out of Hercules and were talking about how they were going to feast on his flesh. It was that same kind of eagerness and anticipation that the zombies have these days.

The issues featured a black backround in the message page that looked pretty cool. The Avengers may have been doing things to copy the X-Men at that time, but it certainly retained some individuality as comic.

Another cool thing was how Vision took care of things. None of them could harm him while he was intangilble and simply floated away from the Reaper to help his teammates. That reminded me of a moment during the Avengers first meeting with Wonderman, in which Iron Man abandoned fighting Simon (who he thought he could "take") to free a trapped Thor. Kirby tended to not portray Iron Man as being an A-lister and Heck (this was his first issue on the title) immediately changed that to what I was accustomed to in Iron Man.

[XPac]

Agree, that's a creepy issue. I know it was one of those "everyone dies" stories from the get-go, but it it still so horrific. And Xavier/Caliban is too horrible for words. Reminds me of when that guy got merged with the "metal fetishist" in Tetsuo, the Iron Man.

Romita had Selene being segmented while alive in a later issue. It doesn't help that he draws her so curvy. It just doesn't seem right happening to her, even if she is evil incarnate. As an aside, I think Romita draws his women like his wife looks (a real blonde bombshell, at least during her younger years). I read that someone met her and John at a con and they looked like two porn stars, haha. He keeps himself pretty damn fit for being around 50. By the way, the person said they are very nice people to meet in person.

Yeah, that story was super creepy awesome. If that story occured in todays era it would be a company wide event. X-Men, Avengers, Spidey... with almost everyone dying. It should have been a graphic novel or something. It felt too big to be just a story arc.

But yeah... super creepy.

[Filament]

There was a 3-issue Avengers Haloween arc with them fighting the Grim Reaper and a Legion of the Unliviing. Nefaria and the alien villian, his name was Nebula or something like that and they were beating the crap our of Herculses. What creeped me out was how they kept talking about feasting on his flesh. Reminds me of the eagerness that the zombies have these days.

The issues featured a black backround in the message page that looked pretty cool. The Avengers may have been doing things to copy the X-Men at that time, but it certainly retained some individuality as comic.

Another cool thing was how Vision took care of things. None of them could harm him while he was intangilble and he simply floated away from the Reaper to help his teammates. That reminded me of a moment during the Avengers first meeting with Wonderman, in which Iron Man abandoned fighting Simon (who he thought he could "take") to free a trapped Thor. Kirby tended to not portray Iron Man as being an A-lister and Heck (this was his first issue on the title) immediately changed that to what I was accustomed to in Iron Man. He was ususally able to take care of things before his batteries went dead in his own comic. With Kirby, even rust would stop him.

[Turlast]

Osborn's face from Sin's Past and Todd Mcfarlane's Hobgoblin are some of the scariest images I've ever seen.

[Tiamatty]

Rob Liefeld. *shudder*

[Filament]

Yeah, that story was super creepy awesome. If that story occurred in today's era it would be a company wide event. X-Men, Avengers, Spidey... with almost everyone dying. It should have been a graphic novel or something. It felt too big to be just a story arc.

Yeah, two issues and done. A graphic novel would have been nice. Alternate realities weren't as common then as they are now so it was pretty special. I do like how Claremont kind of snuck the Avengers in without it having vast repercussions on the entire Marvel Universe. I like the altered realities with characters being mystical versions of what they are due to science. Vision being a golem was an interesting concept that could be expanded upon very nicely. Claremont never messed with somebody else's stuff in a way that it would have to be retconned by somebody else later. As bad as he was with following through with some dangling plots he was also good at wrapping one up.

[Haquim]

Bendis & Loeb!

Also, Quesada!

[lalalei2001]

[paurru]

also another thing that still creeps me out is the old Marvel Comics 1980s Transformers in an issue where on of the Autobots along with a "red shirt" transformer they're in the Smelting Room

The whole issue is about them in the Smelting Room where any transformer is sent to be turned into melted scrap in a molten lava pit.

I still have that old issue and yeah Im 36 years old but that issue still creeps me out lol

[DebkoX]

Seeing the Hate Monger was a bit creepy.