Stanley and His Monster

Stanley and his Monster (English Stanley and His Monster) is the title of two comic series, which published the U.S. publisher DC Comics 1965-1968 or 1993. The series are about a little boy - Stanley Dover - instead of a dog, a gigantic but docile monsters for playmates with whom he has experienced all sorts of outlandish and improbable adventures.

First series ( 1965-1968 )

The first Stanley and his Monster series went from the children's comic series The Fox & The Crow produced in their issue # 95 1965 Stanley and his monster for the first time as one of several features appeared. The adventures of the unusual pair proved to be so popular that the series with the number # 109 was officially renamed from April to May in Stanley and His Monster and raised for the sole feature of the series, while the adventures of the former stars of the series, the cartoon characters the Fox & the Crow, disappeared from the series. Due to dwindling sales figures Stanley and Hist monster was finally set with the # 112 from October to November 1968. The author of all the adventures that were published 1965-1968 and spiritual father of Stanley and his Monster was the journalist and children's book author Arnold Drake, drawn all these stories of the artist Winslow Mortimer.

In the first story of the series in - The Fox & The Crow # 95 of the six -year-old Stanley Dover by chance meets ( he searches for a missing thrown baseball) on a shy, gigantic creatures with huge tusks and a bushy fur that for fear of other beings hidden under a bridge. He quickly wins the confidence of the only purely external terrifying monster that soon turns out simple as perfectly harmless, good will, and a bit naive, and does this with to his home, where the essence is at once establishes domesticated. A common theme of the series was that Stanley's parents whose claims to have the friend do not take a monster seriously and the reports of her son for fantasies and fantasy stories: The monster itself remains always hidden them through paradoxical coincidences and because of his shyness. The dominant part in the team takes on the adventurous and researching Stanley, who has a habit of lisping, while the more beqeuem contracts monster is reluctantly mitgeschliffen by him in the crazy complications always arising. The monster - which is referred to as " Beast With No Name " or "Spot" ( Thpot ) - are joined in the course of the series always new quirky creatures that will turn in Dover'schen household wide, without the parents Dover something like this would notice. A leprechaun, a dwarf and a ghost that claims to be the spirit of Napoleon.

2nd series (1993 )

The DC imprint Vertigo 1993 published a four-part mini- series satiristische that picks up the theme and variations in the style of the horror genre. Author of this mini-series was the writer Phil Fogilio. The mini-series reveals that Stanley's monster is actually a demon who was banished from hell because he was not able to do evil. Once in hell, a revolution has taken place, the other demons Stanley and his monster finally try to separate from each other and retrieve their "brother", give this request but eventually.