Now I've Seen Everything: Doom Patrol vs. Yeti

From the comic Doom Patrol, # 121 (December 1967)

Several surprises here...

First of all, it's 1967 and the yeti has horns.  This may be the first known recorded instance of a yeti depicted with horns.

And this may also be the first recorded instance of someone making the "Abdominal Snowman" joke.

Third of all, the yeti says "ARQQRRGH!"

Yep, with 2 Q's.

Then he says "UNGAAAAAAAA!"

And finally and most importantly, the yeti attack is interrupted by Beast Boy who gives him a pin depicting Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman.  He convinces the yeti that this is a mirror and he's looking at himself.

The yeti thinks he looks like Alfred E. Neuman.

WHA?

Now I've Seen Everything: Doom Patrol vs. Yeti. and all that entails.

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Note to self: Add "ARQQRRGH!", "UNGAAAAAAAA!", and "UNGA-UNGA-UNGA-UNGA!" to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page, and then let's just close that thing down. We're done.

Yeti Drinks Beer on Tap

Drinking Quest RPG

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Note to self: Please add "HOLLA" to "Everything Yeti Has Ever Said" page.

Oddity of the Week

Oddity from Action Comics Vol 1 255 (1959)

This is from a Congorilla comic story, and being from 1959, it fills the gap of yeti stories that were coming out annually at the time (see bottom of this post for list). I would LOVE to learn more about this story, but can't find anything online. What's the plot? Why does he have a barrel?

Note to self: Please add "UUGHHH!" to the Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

Powerpuff Girls vs. Yeti

Note to self: Please add YARRRHHH, GRRRAAAAAAHHH, RRROOAR, and ARRRRGGHH to the Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

Comic: The Ice-Monster Cometh (1962)

As previously blogged about, the great Steve Ditko drew one of the first yeti stories in comics for Strange Worlds called "I Captured the Abominable Snowman" in 1958.

In 1960, he inked a Kirby-drawn story, "I Found the Abominable Snowman" for Tales to Astonish # 13, but in 1962, he was back holding the pencil for Amazing Adult Fantasy # 11 (later reprinted in Giant-Size Man-Thing #1 (1974)) for yeti 'nother yeti comic story.

It was called "The Ice-Monster Cometh!" and although it takes place in some unmentioned Germanic village, and not the Himalayas, it still counts as yeti in my book.

Plot:  Hugo Bogg, a jewel thief,  hid his stolen gems in a village. In order to dig them back up, he needs to clear out the townspeople - but how?  There's a local myth of an "Ice-Monster", so Bogg cleverly (and heroically) makes a costume and pretends to be the creature so he can scare everybody off...

Nice one, Bogg

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The plan works, but unfortunately, it garners the attention of the real Ice-Monster!

The Ice-Monster speaks English and says the following...

"I have found another of my kind! Someone to keep me company! Never again shall I be lonely! Never again shall I prowl where humans dwell! For fate has sent you to me and we shall be...inseparable."

Note to self: Please add "I have found another of my kind! Someone to keep me company! Never again shall I be lonely! Never again shall I prowl where humans dwell! For fate has sent you to me and we shall be...inseparable." to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

And then it drags Bogg away to its lair to keep him company forever, and to hug him and squeeze him, and call him George.

The End.

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Hmm, you know, I've noticed that almost all of these early comics stories have similar elements:

1958:  I Captured the Abominable Snowman
A man seeks the yeti and gets magically transformed into one as a fitting retribution for his greed and violence.

1960:  I Found the Abominable Snowman
A man seeks the yeti and gets naturally transformed into one (after losing his mind and letting himself go) as a fitting retribution for his greed and violence.

1961 "The Abominable Snowman"
A man seeks to imitate the yeti (for a sleazy TV show) and gets mistaken for a real one by an actual yeti, who takes him away to its lair to be its companion, a fitting retribution for his greed and violence.

1962: "The Ice-Monster Cometh"
A man seeks to imitate the yeti (to get his stolen gems) and gets mistaken for a real one by an actual yeti, who takes him away to its lair to be its companion, a fitting retribution for his greed and violence.

1963: Incredible Hulk
The Hulk seeks to imitate the yeti (to play on his enemy's superstitions), but it doesn't work and he himself falls for a 3-D projection of a dragon and jumps at it like an idiot, falling into an electronically-charged cage, a fitting retribution for his greed and violence.

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OK, so maybe the Hulk story doesn't really fit in, but otherwise, the most prevalent theme to these early stories seems to be:

Seek the beast and you shall find him, for he will be you.

How to speak tomorrow

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Say "Yargh" or "Hm" tomorrow.

[Musics Week] Jammin'

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Note to self: Please add "One two three four..." to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

Marks and Spencer Yeti

For a 1-7 year old British child, this T-shirt (£5.00 - £6.00) is available from Marks and Spencer.

I have no idea why the self-satisfied, giant-sized Yeti is saying "Boo." But I approve.

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Note to self: Add "BOO." to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

Harter Yeti

Jeff Harter

Sanguansook Yeti

Yeti by Alongkorn Sanguansook

Note to self: Add "Yo!" to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

Throwback: Rise of the Guardians

Arghbal, everybody.  It's been one year since this film came out. Let's throw it back!

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Sagramola Yeti

Yeti by Giulia Sagramola

Note to Self: Add "!!!" to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said Page.

A is for Abominable 4

A is for Abominable Snowman by Jarod Rosello

Note to self:  Please add "I concur" to the "Everything Yeti Has Ever Said Page".

Foreshadowing of Next Week's Theme

Yeti or Why I Love Winter by Martynas Pocius

On Top of the World by Lasercat

Note to self: Please add (Pictogram of bleeding/broken heart) to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page.

Filstrup Yeti

Jolly Good by Sam Filstrup

Note t' me self: Please add "Jolly Good!" t' th' Everythin' Yeti Has Ere Said page.  And swab the decks o' bilge while yer at it, ye lily-livered swine.

Toole Yeti

Yeti by Chase Toole

Note to self: Please add "(Pictogram of a skull & crossbones)" to the "Everything Yeti Has Ever Said" page.

Top 10: Quotes

10) Tie: (Pictogram of Hot Cocoa) & (Pictogram of steaming teacup)



9) BREEEEK



8) GOARRGH



7) Power Action Brain Transplant



6) GNNH



5) BLA-LALALALA!!!



4) Your Hand - It is on fire.



3) I will hug him and squeeze him and call him George



2) GRHAWAARH



1) SNNAAAURR