Mystic #40
In "I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!", a cosmic tyrant descends upon Earth with a bizarre plan to harvest a town for his alien experiments. With Jack Kirby’s dynamic art and Stan Lee and Larry Lieber’s pulpy storytelling, this 1963 classic delivers a wild, offbeat clash between interstellar menace and a hero armed with nothing but ingenuity—and termites. The cover by Kirby and Ditko captures the full absurd grandeur of the tale.
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The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.
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