"MONSTER" AMBASSADOR "MONSTER" AMBASSADOR
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial; possibly pre-modern era
Occupation: Ambassador
Group Membership: Supreme Council of Civilized Planets
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Hostile humans
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
presumably somewhere in outer space
First Appearance: Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5 (January 1962)
Powers/Abilities: The alien ambassador had six arms and long tail. A large being in comparison to humans, it may consequently have possessed superior strength. It possessed a flying saucer capable to space travel, and, assuming it didn't rendezvous with a larger mother ship once out of the atmosphere, presumably capable of interstellar travel.
Height:
(height) 15'; (length, head to tip of tail) 30' (by approximation) (see
comments)
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Red
Hair: None
History:
(Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5
(fb) - BTS) - An alien of an unrevealed species that belonged to the
Supreme Council of Civilized Planets, the ambassador was chosen to visit
Earth because humanity were on the verge of space travel, and extend the
gift of friendship. Unable to speak any human languages, it carried a
note written in English offering to share the council's treasured
knowledge, including the secrets of long life, happiness, and perfect
health, and how to abolish crime, poverty and war.
(Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5 - BTS) -The ambassador's ship was spotted as it flew slowly over a major American city (likely NYC, but not explicitly named), then gently came to rest in the heart of the city. The ambassador waited for humans to gather to greet it, and outside its vessel crowds of bystanders joined TV news crews and National Guard units. As tension mounted the longer they were kept waiting, some in the crowd loudly advocated the guard should shoot at the ship or throw a bomb to force the visitors to exit their vessel.
(Amazing Adult
Fantasy#8/5) - Finally the ambassador
opened the natch and lowered a ramp to come out and meet humanity, but
upon seeing its alien visage many in the crowd reacted in horror,
declaring it a monster and shouting at the guard to shoot and kill it.
Though the guard maintained their cool, some in the mob began throwing
rocks and bottles, causing the ambassador to pull back in shock. Then a
shot rang out, and though it was unclear where it had come from, or even
if it had been aimed at the ambassador, the alien reacted in fear,
dropping the note intended to welcome humanity, and hastily withdrew
back into its ship, with the crowd cheering as the vessel rose into the
air and flew away.
(Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5 - BTS) - A TV news reporter who had
witnessed the crowd's intolerant reaction with growing dismay went over
and picked up the ambassador's note. Saddened to see what mankind had
cost itself thanks to the belligerent way they had greeted a friendly
alien visitor, he read the note out loud for both the crowd on the scene
and the viewers watching on his newsfeed. As they heard what the
ambassador's true intentions had been, one by one the crowd began to
hang their heads in shame. Finishing the note, the reporter declared
that everyone had been right when they said that there had been monsters
on Earth today, because "Heaven help us...we are the monsters!"
Comments: Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
The main image seems to show the alien standing a little over twice the
height of nearby humans, but within the story it seems closer to three
times their height (see left).
Could this story be taking place on
Earth-616, the mainstream Marvel Earth? Thanks to its stand alone
nature, I don't see any reason why not. Sure, someone says this is
mankind's first encounter with an alien race, but we've been shown that
lots of incursions are overlooked by the general public, or are written
off by anyone not physically present as hoaxes.
If it does take place on Earth-616, there's no reason it couldn't take place around the time it was published, as the lack of ongoing characters means it doesn't need to be tied to the sliding timeline that other stories use to prevent major characters growing excessively old.
The only name used in the story is that of the reporter's cameraman, and he's only called Joe. The closest we get for the alien is either him being called "the monster" (an overly common, and in this case utterly inaccurate, descriptor) or the ambassador.
While I get that they might not be able to
send an ambassador who looked less monstrous to humanity, I've got to
question one who couldn't speak. I would think that if the Supreme
Council of Civilized Planets had monitored Earth closely enough to know
they were on the brink of space travel and to have learned English so
they could write mankind a note, then even if the ambassador itself was
physically unable to vocalize the noises required it could have been
equipped with some kind of translator, or even just a recorded message
to playback.
This profile was completed 09/22/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary's celebratory event.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The "monster" ambassador has no known connections to:
The ambassador's ship was a large roughly saucer shaped vessel. Using the ambassador itself for a very rough scale estimate, it looked to be perhaps 90 feet in diameter, and around 30 feet high.
--Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5
images: (without ads)
Amazing Adult
Fantasy#8/5, p1, pan1 (main image)
Amazing Adult
Fantasy#8/5, p4, pan8 (headshot)
Amazing Adult
Fantasy#8/5, p4, pan 8 (retreating into saucer, good view of tail)
Amazing
Adult Fantasy#8/5, p4, pan6 (being threatened by mob, height
comparison to humans)
Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5,
p2, pan6 (front view of saucer)
Amazing
Adult Fantasy#8/5, p2, pan3 (top
view of saucer)
Appearances:
Amazing Adult Fantasy#8/5 (January
1962) - Stan Lee (writer, editor) Steve Ditko (art)
First Posted: 09/23/2021
Last updated: 09/22/2021
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
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