This month's cover is issue #6 of Where Monsters Dwell, which was one of my favorite titles as a kid. These comics appeared in the 1970s, but they reprinted stories from earlier comics such as Tales to Astonish. One such reprint is this issue's title story--"I Challenged Groot, the Monster from Planet X!"--and it's a Stan Lee/Jack Kirby creation that's also a masterpiece of Freudian drama. Our hero, a girly-man named Leslie who prefers his science experiments to more "manly" pursuits, must confront the ultimate phallus, a hostile alien named Groot (the beast pictured on the cover below). Over the course of the story, Leslie's wife Alice berates her husband's "softness" while at the same time swooning over muscle-bound neighbor George Carter. In her estimation, Leslie needs to "harden up." However, the tables are turned when Leslie's big brain saves the day. He takes the lead out of Groot's pencil by releasing genetically engineered termites on him, thus toppling the reign of the giant "woody." At the story's end, Alice vows never to complain about Leslie again. If nothing else, the story gave hope to this comic's readers, who probably identified more with Leslie than with George Carter.