Stanley and His Monster

Stanley and His Monster
An older Stanley introduces the monster to his grandfather, in Green Arrow #9 (Dec. 2001). Art by Phil Hester & Ande Parks.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Fox and the Crow #95 (Jan. 1966)
Created by	Arnold Drake and Win Mortimer
In-story information
Alter ego	Stanley Dover
Stanley and His Monster
	Stanley and His Monster #109 (May 1968), the debut issue, featuring several supporting characters. Cover art by Bob Oskner (penciler).
Series publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Humor, Fantasy
Publication date	May – Nov 1968 (vol. 2) Feb. – May 1993
Number of issues	4
Main character(s)	Stanley Dover The Beast With No Name aka S.N. Massachusetts aka Spot Shaugnessy Poltroon Schnitzel Napoleon's ghost Marcia
Creative team
Writer(s)	Arnold Drake (vol 2.): Phil Foglio
Artist(s)	Win Mortimer (vol 2.): Phil Foglio

Stanley and His Monster was an American comic-book humor feature and later series from DC Comics, about a boy who has a monster as his companion instead of a dog. Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Winslow Mortimer as a backup feature the funny-animal comic The Fox and the Crow #95 (Jan. 1966), it went to its own 1960s title and a 1990s revival limited series.

The backup feature "Stanley and His Monster" appeared in DC Comics' funny-animal comic The Fox and the Crow #95–108, upon which the series became Stanley and His Monster from #109–112 (May–Nov. 1968), the final issue.

The characters' next major appearance was in a 1993 four-issue miniseries, Stanley and His Monster vol. 2, by writer-artist Phil Foglio, who had previously done their origin in Secret Origins #48 (April 1990). This humorous adventure series, revealing the monster as a demon from Hell who had turned good and was cast out by Lucifer, incorporated and parodied elements of DC Comics' mature-reader Vertigo imprint in a lighthearted, general-audience fashion. Among the characters who appeared are Remiel, Duma, The Phantom Stranger, and the John Constantine-like Ambrose Bierce.

The title characters returned in 2001 as supporting players in the Green Arrow series, written by filmmaker Kevin Smith, but in a much darker tone than any previous appearance, and with Stanley by now a young teenager. They next appeared in the 2005–2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, where, in issue #6, they are part of a gathering of supernatural characters attempting to summon the mystical spirit of vengeance, the Spectre, for aid.