I seem to recall that Centurious decayed everything he touched, so with dead people and dead animals already off the board, I will guess dead plants?

A certain rather obscure Marvel character introduced in 1989 was based on one-time Marvel writer and editor Len Wein...the character and Wein shared an interest in collecting teddy bears.
Who is the character, and which two old school (ie, Pre-FF #1) monsters were in his collection?

big enilwen for the she hulk comic. and i can't remember the monsters. i know he went after xemu because he looked like a teddy bear.

OH, yes. Big Enilwen from the original Sensational She-Hulk series. And he had collected Spragg the Living Hill and Xemnu the Titan.I think he had others, as well, but those are the two I vaguely recall.

Big Enilwen is the guy, and Spragg and Xemnu are the creatures. Mr_JTR, you had the first complete answer, so the thread is yours, sir (unless you wanna let madjap77 take a cut...he did seem to jog your memory on this one).

I never read Sensational She-Hulk, so I looked up the answer. Big Enilwen, eh? Yet another of John May-He-Byrne's immature jibes at his colleagues; right up there with Sunspot and Ben DeRoy.

Well, I agree for the most part, but I did think the Ben DeRoy bit wasn't all that bad.

I'm of a mixed mind on this one. True, the Big Enilwen character was a bit unnecessary, but on the positive side, he did dust offf Xemnu and Spragg. I know for me, that arc on She-Hulk was my first eye-opener to some of the classic silver age Marvel monsters, so it wasn't all bad.

Some monster stories were still sharing books with Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense (possibly Journey Into Mystery) when AntMan, Iron Man, ( and Thor) came along at the beginning of the Silver Age. So I guess they could be considered at least in part to have been Silver Age stories. Also the classic Fantastic Four issue with the Mole Man and his gigantic monster bore a striking resemblance to many "pure monster" titles - for good reason. They were accustomed to making monster books AND they weren't sure where their readers would be coming from.
I agree there was a kind of "Monster and Western" era that dominated the 50's and very early 60's - in fact the Western part of the equation is what doomed the JSA run in All-Star, as hard as that is to believe!

That's mostly why I lump them in with the Silver Age in my mind. Still, I think that Mr. JTR has a good point in as far as the traditional Gold-Silver-Bronze-Modern progression doesn't seem to capture the ten-odd year era from the decline of the early super heroes that defined the Golden Age to the debut of the Fantastic Four (I'm not a DC guy, so I don't know when the beginning of the Silver Age would be over there). Perhaps there should be an official Monster Age sandwiched in there