The Monster Awakes
- by unknown writers and Russ Heath
- Comic Book
- Horror
- YA and Up
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “The Monster Awakes” [uncredited], Adventures into Terror #43 [1] (Atlas Comics, November 1950).
Av aviator in China during World War II unintentionally awakens a 100-foot tall, sadistic giant named Garaz from a centuries-long sleep.
—Michael Main
Thank you for awakening me and freeing me from my prison! Wait! I will not harm you! You are my friend! You will come with me!
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- Time Periods
- Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic): time of the underworld demi-gods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: time of the story during World War II
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time of the story’s frame
- Themes
- Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.: “thousands of centuries in sleep”
- Real-World Tags
- Great Wall of China
- World War II: a fighter pilot in “Chennault’s Flying Tigers”
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
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- “The Monster Awakes” [uncredited], Adventures into Terror #43 [1] (Atlas Comics, November 1950).
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written by
unknown persons [uncredited]