Los monstruos

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Los Monstruos
Date1973
Series Mort & Phil
Publisher Editorial Bruguera
Creative team
Writers Ibáñez
Artists Ibáñez
Original publication
Published in Mortadelo
Issues112-122
Date of publication1973
LanguageSpanish
Chronology
Preceded by El otro "yo" del profesor Bacterio , 1973
Followed by El elixir de la vida , 1973

Los Monstruos (English: The Monsters) is a 1973 comic written and drawn by Francisco Ibañez for the Mortadelo y Filemón (Mort & Phil) comic series.

Publication history

The comic strip was first published in the Mortadelo magazine, issues #112 (January 15, 1972) to #122 (March 26, 1973).

Plot

Professor Bacterio has invented a machine which is supposed to bring literary figures to life. He attempted to test this invention with a copy of the fairy tale Snow White ; but somehow the machine has malfunctioned and instead unleashed a group of horror monsters onto the city: Frankenstein's Creature, Dracula, a Werewolf, a Living Mummy, King Kong, a hideous Alien, a Witch, a Ghost, the Hairy Beast, and the most terrifying of them: The Thing (of which no deliberate depiction is shown).

Mortadelo and Filemon are called in to apprehend the fugitive monsters, who are one by one surprisingly revealed to be merely masked criminals assigned by their mastermind Macario Cabezón to rob gainful objectives all across the city, using their masquerade to terrify the populace into flight. When his minions are all incarcerated, the mastermind himself comes forth in the guise of the Thing to wreak vengeance on the T.I.A. for spoiling his operation. After frightening a number of T.I.A. members out of their wits, Cabezón is eventually subdued by Mortadelo and Filemon. But the story ends with a twist when Mortadelo wishes to prove to Bacterio that his machine does not work by inserting a book about medieval monsters - and bringing a dragon to life, which chases Mortadelo, Filemon, Senor Super and Bacterio all over the country with its fiery breath!

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