The Heap appears for the first time in Air Fighters #3 in 1942. The โmuck monster,โ created by Harry Stein and artist Mort Leav, appears in various forms in different comics by Hillman Periodicals in the 1940s and 1950s and is the proto-type for Marvelโs Man-Thing and DCโs Swamp Thing characters in 1970s.ย
This Day in Halloween: Influential comic book โmuck monster,โ The Heap appears for the first time in "Air Fighters" #3 in 1942. / Illustration by Noah Ayub