Where Monsters Dwell #27: Grogg

Where Monsters Dwell #27 features "From Out of the Black Pit Came . . . Grogg!" which originally appeared in Strange Tales #83 (publication date, April 1961).

Almost a carbon copy of "Fin Fang Foom!" but appearing a half-year earlier, "Grogg!" is another Lee-Kirby Cold War anitcommunist faerie tale.

A hibernating colossal dragon-like creature is awoken by a secret nuclear test staged by a totalitarian Central European state bent on world domination. Once aroused Grogg! goes after the Reds. Note the Red Army uniforms bear an 'X' insignia rather than Soviet sickle & hammer. The pencils are by Jack Kirby; the inks, Dick Ayers.