Countdown to Halloween Day 25: Nothing can stop... GOOM!

Father of Googam, Goom, is the choice for our latest visit to the world of Marvel Monsters Kirby style. Went with a straight to pencils version of Goom and tried to stick to the Kirby formula for his look and how he would move. Goom made his first appearance in TALES OF SUSPENSE #15...

Before we share with you the story of Goom, a brief reminder of Stephen Hawking's warning against humanity contacting an otherworldly intelligence as it could turn out badly for us. And now on to the tale...

Goom, a criminal on his home planet--Planet X, a planet in our solar system, but hidden from our knowledge by way of time and space warps--, is contacted by an Earth scientist using radio waves. Seeing our world as easy pickings, the helmet headed monster steered his space ship in our direction. Once he arrived, he caused all kinds of mayhem, finding himself to be much more powerful on our planet than his own. He then held the scientist's wife hostage while the Earth's leaders were led to him to surrender.

As a show of might, he took one of the men and placed him in his "time machine" and de-aged the man to his infancy. Secondly, Goom used his telekinesis to lift an entire city. Just as the Earth men were about to give up hope and surrender, the scientist who had originally summoned the beast contacted Goom's home planet again, begging them for help. They soon arrive and take Goom back with them to their home planet to be punished. Little do they know that Goom has left a son behind on Earth to continue his ways...

Here we have the card of the day:

COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN Day 19: GOOGAM, SON OF GOOM!

The first of the Kirby Monsters that I post is the son of yet another fantastic monster who will appear later in our countdown, he is: GOOGAM, Son of Goom. I decided I had enough time tonight to throw a little color on Googam to pretty him up for our inaugural post. Click on it to get the big picture. Below is the straight from pencils version (it's clickable too).

Googam, Son of Goom, is an alien invader from the planet “X”. His father brought him to Earth on his initial invasion and hid the undeveloped Googam in a cave. Googam is abandoned when Goom is captured and returned to Planet X. Googam is later discovered by a boy. As Googam is about to destroy the boy’s home, the kid challenges Googam to a game of tag. The boy then leads Googam into quicksand where the invader apparently drowns.

TALES OF SUSPENSE #17 is the first appearance of Googam.



Googam went on to became a valet and member of the Fin Fang Four.


And now, the next Halloween Greeting...