(Fight Comics 010, 1940)
I wanted to do a fun title goof where "World" was crossed out in favour of "Space" but it seems that I don't have that ability. But yes, it's true! These Creeps of the World are not in fact on the world! Any world! They are in fact one of my favourite sci-fi tropes: living beings so large that they are mistaken for planets!
These particular creeps show up in the solar system early in the 21st Century and after an expedition to explore them goes missing they are visited by Saber, the Spy Fighter, who at this point is pivoting a bit from exclusively fighting spies to general super-hero pursuits. He also gets a massive power boost in this issue, gaining the ability to fly through space unprotected and under his own power as well as to grow to planetary sizes in his own right.
This sequence, in which Saber discovers that the missing expedition is building a colony inside of the monster using its own bones as building materials, is 100% the reason for this post. What an image! Even before the horde of Martian warriors came charging up the rib cage this was one of the weirdest sci-fi locales I had ever seen.
A good thing like an endless bone-filled plain inside of a moon-sized monster man can't last, however. After getting the expedition back to thir spacecraft (and tossing the Martians into interplanetary space), Saber beats up all three of the Living Planet Monsters and then throws the three of them so hard that they disintegrate.
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