The Force-Monster

A creature of pure Silver Age spectacle, The Force-Monster burst onto the pages of IPC's Lion in August 1968, conjured by none other than Jerry Siegel — the co-creator of Superman himself — alongside artist Carlos Pino. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare and tantalizing corner of British comics history, sharing its pages with the likes of Robot Archie and a cast of adventurers that made Lion one of the great weekly anthology comics of its era. Brief in its run but remarkable in its pedigree, The Force-Monster is exactly the kind of hidden gem that reminds collectors why digging through Silver Age British weeklies is always worth the effort.