The Thing #29

[iamrman]

Ben has wined and dined with kings and queens, but I don’t know if he has ever slept in an alley eating pork and beans.

(I figured Ben might be more of a Dusty Rhodes guy rather than Ric Flair. Fighting for the common man and all that).

Ben subdues Gator and dumps him in a nearby zoo.

Comments

[blues32]

...so he's now literally the world's strongest alligator?

[cainofdreaming]

Well, he ain't the world's richest duck.

[full_metal_ox]

And then he met these four sapient turtles who got exposed to the same radioactive waste that blinded Matt Murdock.

[justsotired]

When you a big orange rock-man, and you wrestlin' an alligator in the ring to put food on the table, thatth hahd timeth, baby!

[iamrman]

Now Ben just needs to wear a terrible looking one-piece with polka-dots on it.

[justsotired]

He's just an orange man, workin' hard with his hands~
He's just an orange man, workin' hard for the man
Hey he's the clobberrrrrrrrrrrrin' dream~

If you are black or white
Mutant funky, hey that's all right
Blue eyed with a lot of soul
Orange man has got his goal!

(And then Doctor Doom pulls up outside the arena in a stretch limo)

[cygnia]

Does that make Alicia Sapphire?

[iamrman]

By that same token, that would make Ben and Alicia's kids Dustin/Goldust and Cody.

[cygnia]

...I am OK with this...

[iamrman]

With all respect to Dustin, N'Kalla gets to be Cody (the Skrullian Nightmare?) I always preferred Skrulls to the Kree any way.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I thought the Hulk was coming to get him some at first. A leaner, more Lou Ferigno-ish Hulk, but Hulk just the same.

...now I want to see a match between Thing and Leatherhead from TMNT.

[sabertoothlotus]

What year was this published, and how does that line up with when Killer Croc first appeared at the Distinguished Competition?

[iamrman]

This issue came out in July 1985. Killer Croc's first full appearance was in Detective Comics #524, from March 1983.