Mole Man - Directionless - Travis M. Holyfield

Panel 1: Exterior. Daytime. The FANTASTIC FOUR stand side-by-side in Times Square. Behind them crowds of onlookers are being held back  by barriers, police cars, and a small army of NYPD officers. The FF look grim, determined, and ready for battle.


Panel 2: Mister Fantastic stretches his arm and pulls back his sleeve to reveal a wristwatch,

MISTER FANTASTIC: Something's wrong here. Those lava men we apprehended swore that he'd be attacking Times Square at noon.


Panel 3: The Human Torch floats behind Reed, and the Thing leans in from the side to see the time on Mister Fantastic's watch.

HUMAN TORCH: Maybe he got lost?

THE THING: Very funny, matchstick.


Panel 4: Focus on the Torch, looking thoughtful.

HUMAN TORCH: No, I'm serious.

HUMAN TORCH: How does he even know where to pop out anyway? It's not like there are street signs down there.


Panel 5: Underground. The MOLE MAN sits on a rock, surrounded by MOLOIDS. He has a large map unfolded in front of him, and is squinting at it. Several Moloids are peering at the map with him, over his shoulder or from his side. One of the Moloids holds a compass. The Moloid's dialogue should be represented by squiggles.

MOLE MAN: Blasted map! What good are you?

MOLOID 1: | | | | | | | | | | | | |

MOLE MAN: Don't talk to me like that. YOU were in charge of directions. Are you even using that compass the right way?

MOLOID 2: | | | | | | | | | |

MOLE MAN: If we end up in New Jersey again, you're all dead to me.

MOLOID 3: | | | | | | |

MOLE MAN: NO, we can't go to Brooklyn instead!

MOLE MAN: Who ever heard of a hipster Moloid, anyway?

Mole Man - Jerusalem - Ray Wonsowski

Panel 1-  Long shot, the sea, Monster Island. High noon, perfect blue sky. Towering astride the highest point, hundreds of feet tall, the dread DORMAMMU spreads his arms wide, the Flames of Faltine dancing in his palms. He has erected a clear magick dome over the island, his head is back, as if gazing into the sun.

CAPTION: Bring me my bow of burning gold!

Panel 2- In a subterranean cavern, a magic portal opens, an army of MINDLESS ONES breaching through. Countless MOLOIDS run away in fear.

CAPTION: Bring me my arrows of desire!

Panel 3- Walking purposefully from one cavern into a large antechamber, MOLE MAN, who looks p!$$ed-off as all get-out, comes toward us, surrounded by frightened MOLOIDS. One passes MOLE MAN his staff, another drapes his cape about his shoulders.

CAPTION: Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!

Panel 4- Reveal, a Kirby-esqe battle tank, gleaming rare metal and glowing circuitry, with an improbable double-barreled cannon on the top, a pilot's throne attached to the side. MOLE MAN,tiny in comparison, climbs up to take his seat.

CAPTION: Bring me my chariot of fire!

Panel 5- Close-up of MOLE MAN, strapping himself in, grim fury behind his goggles, impossibly ready to take the fight to Dormammu and his invaders, his demeanor should be almost that of a king defending his people.

CAPTION: I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand...

Inspired by William Blake's poem "And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times", more commonly known as the traditional hymn, "Jerusalem".

Mole Man – Life in a Tunnel – MK Stangeland Jr.

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Panel 1: MOLE MAN is sitting in a chair, looking a bit disappointed. He holds a smartphone in his hand, but it doesn’t look very operational. Other electronic equipment is sitting nearby, some of which various MOLOIDS are toying or working with.

MOLE MAN: If there’s one downside to living underground, it’s that it’s impossible to ever get a good signal.

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Mole Man - No Man is an Island - Grant McLaughlin

1 - Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, and the Fantastic Four are fighting some Moloids and various other Subterranea monsters.  The Subterranea forces are emerging from a large hole in the ground, while the FF are fighting them back.

JOHNNY: I still don't get it.

2 - Johnny has some monsters on the back foot, pushing them back with his flames.  Ben is punching a big monster in the noggin.

JOHNNY (1): Why would you bother, considering everything he's done?

JOHNNY (2): Considering what his minions are doing right now?

3 - Ben has picked up the big monster and is throwing it to push back the remaining monsters coming out of the hole.

BEN: I know it's hard for you to imagine, Johnny, but how would you feel if it was your special day...

4 - Switch scenes.  Mole Man sits in a dining room-esque space in his Subterranea castle / headquarters.  A "Happy Birthday" sign hangs on the wall behind him.  The sign looks dingy and old, as if this isn't the first year it's been used (and perhaps as if it's remained there since the first time it was put up).  Harvey sits at the head of a round table.  The rest of the seats are empty.  Harvey holds a card in his hand, although its details are obscured.  His expression is hard to read.

CAPTION (BEN GRIMM): ...and no one came?

MOLE MAN: Benjamin Grimm...

5 - Close-up of the card Harvey is holding.  It's a little smiley caveman standing on a boulder doing a happy dance (or whatever).  Along the top, the card reads "Hope Your Birthday Rocks!".

MOLE MAN (off-panel, tail coming from the top of the panel): Thank you.

Why Mole Man?

No no no no no no not him.

This guy.

If you can tell the difference....


The Mole Man was originally Harvey Rupert Elder, an American nuclear engineer and explorer. Elder was socially shunned due to a combination of his abrasive personality and his homely, dwarfish appearance. Furthermore, his fellow explorers ridiculed him for his eccentric, crackpot theories regarding a Hollow Earth. In 1956, while following the group of explorers called the Monster Hunters, he stumbled upon Monster Island, which was at the time a base of the Deviant Warlord Kro.

When Elder fell into a massive cave leading deep into the underground realm of Subterranea, he decided his theories had finally been vindicated. However, he suffered permanent damage to his eyes when he gazed directly upon a highly reflective deposit of diamonds. Partially blind and apparently secluded from the surface world forever, Elder dubbed himself the Mole Man and began exploring his new home. He eventually became the ruler of the branch of Subterraneans now known as the Moloids, and the ruler of much of Subterranea and the caverns of Monster Isle. He used the Deviant-derived creatures and technology that he found in Subterranea to strike back at the outer world in numerous attempts to rule or humble the world that had rejected him.

Sure he has jumped between good and bad, but to me he will always get a boo.