STRANGE TALES #181 – 1ST MADNESS MONSTER – JIM STARLING CREATION – 1000 CLOWNS – 1975

STRANGE TALES #181 – 1^ST MADNESS MONSTER – JIM STARLING CREATION – 1000 CLOWNS

AUGUST 1975 – KEY ISSUE

1^ST APPEARANCES – MADNESS MONSTER

2^ND APPEARANCES – GAMORA

CHARACTERS – Warlock, Madness Monster, Gamora, Kray-Tor, Magus, Matriarch, Pip the Troll

STORYLINE – 1000 CLOWNS

Warlock discovers that there is no escape from the Madness monster!

Adam Warlock has found himself in some strange reality. He is met by a group of clowns telling him that is in ‘the land of the way it is’. They tell him this is where he will be happy. In reality he is being mentally conditioned by the Matriarch and the Universal Church or Truth. They use will numbing drugs and a sensory input helmet, but still he resists.

Gamora and Pip are seeking Warlock in order to free him. One of the Church’s Black Knights fears Gamora and tells her where to find him.

PUBLISHER – MARVEL COMICS

WRITER – Jim Starlin

INTERIOR ART – Jim Starlin

COVER ART – Jim Starlin