We are going to talk about the reddest baddest red devilsaur in the Marvel universe. Who is he?
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The Devil Dinosaur is an original Kirby creation that starred his own series -named the Devil Dinosaur, go figure-, in a depiction of the prehistory combining dinosaurs with ancient men in the same story.
And he has teeth!
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But today my people, I'm going beyond the obvious and I will show you the greatness of this marvelous ancient reptile! With some Kirby-good scans and feat explanations of course.
Now, into the respecting!
I'm going to start by the durability feats. Here we have for example the moment in which the Devil Dinosaur gained his marvelous abilities:
Back when the Devil Dinosaur was a baby, he was in the middle of a volcanic explosion, and not only did the little reptile survived... He became RED!!!
That its hardcore
From then on, the Devil Dinosaur became friends with a hairy hominid named Moonboy in a classical powerful-beast/coward-weakling kind of way. Not that I can hold it against Moonboy, as he was facing dinosaurs.
One would think people would know better than to throw a bunch of rocks at this dinosaur. But most of the problems that a rock cannot solve, a bunch of rocks can!
That happened in the second issue and the series were canceled until the ninth, needless to say, he survived.
But you may say: "Yeah, he can survive some wood and stones, big deal, I have a wood and stones". You may ask then for durability against more modern tech.
DON'T WORRY!!
Kirby did us a favor by using some plot devices and we have a bullet bouncing off Devil's skin:
As you can see, the Devil Dinosaur is currently stranded in Savage Land after a little time incident that happen as an excuse to bring him into continuity. I guess Marvel couldn't do without him.
Another one in which he uses his brains to win. I know that you are saying "He had trouble with a huge dude, thats totally not hardcore" -yeah, I know you talk like that-. However, let me show you what that giant did to other dinosaurs:
To give some context: Godzilla was shrunk and sent into the past so S.H.I.E.L.D. would get rid of him. It was a Godzilla comic so Devil did rather well considering.
Next, I'm going to post some miscellaneous stuff before letting you enough space in the thread to praise this wonderful character.
Our great dinosaur made an appearance in the Nextwave miniseries, which are often cited or debated as non-cannon, one of the reasons is that the Devil Dinosaur appears, talking and he speaks about eating his good friend Moonboy, however, we see Moonboy alive later in Heroes for Hire and Devil is there too.
All in all, the Nextwave series have some durability feats inside:
I don't know if he pulled a Jurassic Park there or if he found a dinosaur-love, but it seems that more Devil Dinosaurs will be plaguing the Savage Land in the future.
Or maybe one of those two dinosaurs is a skrull, who knows.
Yeah, I'll do that, but not without reminding to our readers that there is a little nine issue Kirby book that totally got canceled -Kirby tradition-, which you can read. And that there are still some goodies that I was unable to fight.
It happened. He resisted a few bullet shots and minor problems while GR was away doing something else. Then he pretty much one-shotted Devil. It was a bulky version of Ghost Rider, I'm not sure how strong he was at the time.