Monster's Mate

Monster's Mate is the companion of the Monster from the Lost Lagoon, an aquatic creature encountered by the Fantastic Four. She is a sea-dwelling being whose bond with the Lagoon Monster drives the story's conflict in their debut issue.

Born from the imagination of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #97 (1970), Monster's Mate is a genuine Silver Age Marvel rarity — a figure so steeped in that era's sense of wonder and creature-feature atmosphere that even a handful of appearances carries real weight. Affiliated with the Fantastic Four and sharing the page with icons like The Thing, Mr. Fantastic, and Susan Storm Richards alongside the enigmatic Monster from the Lost Lagoon, this character inhabits some of the most storied real estate in comics history. Popping up across Fantastic Four, Marvel Super-Heroes, and even the British Super Spider-Man TV Comic over a span stretching into 1991, Monster's Mate is the kind of deep-catalog discovery that reminds collectors just how richly strange the Marvel universe could be when Lee and Kirby were at the height of their powers.