| The Heap | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Airboy-Heap.jpg) The Heap: Airboy Comics vol. 9 #3 (April 1952), cover art by Ernie Schroeder. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Hillman Periodicals |
| First appearance | Air Fighters #3 (Dec. 1942) |
| Created by | Harry Stein Mort Leav |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Baron Eric von Emmelman Jim Roberts Eddie Beckett |
| Team affiliations | The New Wave Greenworld |
| Abilities | Strength and durability derived from size and composition; can engulf enemies and transport them to the Greenworld (Image version) |
The Heap is the name of several fictional comic book muck-monsters, the original of which first appeared in Hillman Periodicals' Air Fighters Comics #3 (cover-dated Dec. 1942), during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. The Heap was comics' first swamp monster.[1]
The character was created by writer Harry Stein and artist Mort Leav, in collaboration with Hillman editor Ed Cronin.[2]
Similar but unrelated characters appeared in comics stories published by Skywald in the 1970s[3] and Image Comics in the 1990s. The Heap was revived in the 1980s by Eclipse Comics.
- ^ Mitchell, Kurt; Thomas, Roy (2019). American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-1944. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 133. ISBN 978-1605490892.
- ^ Cooke, Jon B. (2014). Swampmen: Muck-Monsters and Their Makers. Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-60549-057-1.
- ^ Sacks, Jason; Dallas, Keith (2014). American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s. TwoMorrows Publishing. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1605490564.