Series Mort & Phil Artists Ibáñez Issues 112-122 Originally published 1973 Date 1973 Artist Francisco Ibáñez Talavera | Writers Ibáñez Published in Mortadelo Date of publication 1973 Publisher Editorial Bruguera | |
Preceded by El otro "yo" del profesor Bacterio Similar El plano de Alí‑Gusa‑No, Los diamantes de la gra, ¡Soborno! | ||
Los Monstruos (English: The Monsters) is a 1973 comic written and drawn by Francisco Ibañez for the Mortadelo y Filemón (Mort & Phil) comic series.
Contents
Hey monstruo los monstruos
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!