Would you like to be Chameleo-Man? He's an astronaut hero roaming the universe with the amazing ability to randomly pop into arenas holding big swords and looking around dazedly at his surroundings while a 3 headed monster attacks. Sort of like the old TV show Quantum Leap except you become a dinosaur thing instead of a hippie.


After that exciting splash page, we meet our astronaut hero roaming the part of the universe known as "Cape Kennedy", which was Cape Canaveral again by the time 1985 rolled around, but they didn't know that when this comic was made in 1966 so let's move on! Our astronaut hero knows nothing of this place called "Florida", he's merely a blank slate in a spacesuit. A spacesuit with a doofusy looking chameleon on the front like a Ben Cooper Halloween costume.


Look, I don't wanna say this story's a little disjointed but I've been staring at this for like an hour and can't figure out how he got those clamps around that fish monster. He's up in the pre-launch tower and controlling the tightness of the clamps but that doesn't explain how the monster got there in the first place??? And that's just ignoring the fact that a fish monster is rampaging on dry land, which, don't even get me started!

Well, it has hurricane breath, so I guess it's amphibious, but still!


Oh, yeah, the premise is he changes his form like a chameleon, forgot about that bit.


If this were a Japanese manga, we'd have some idea what a tentacle monster will be doing, but since this isn't that kind of a comic, he'll probably just rescue a space rocket.


Yep, there's the spacemen, waving at him out the little windows like they're in a 1930s Brooklyn tenement.


So he got there by ship? Is he really taking over an alien body Quantum Leap style? I guess? Well, I'm sure the ending will provide a logical and satisfactory solution to these riddles!


Now we return to the scene of the splash page, thankfully we are spared the excitement of seeing him get captured. Meanwhile, Gene Roddenberry reads this comic upon its original publication, furiously taking notes about "dinosaur men" and "space gladiators".


Once again Chameleo-Man, whose powers are uncannily similar to a chameleon, uses his special "squeeze hard" move to defeat the 3 headed monstrosity!


So that alien king or whatever knows the dinosaur guy is Chameleo-Man, which means he came in the same spaceship he was in as the tentacle monster but he's never actually ON the spaceship because he's transported somewhere else? How does this work?? Well, don't worry, I'm sure the explanation will make total sense.


True to his name, Chameleo-Man changes colour slightly to blend in with his surroundings errrrrr I mean changes form completely into different types of animal creatures to save more dumb Earthlings who clearly can't handle life in outer space, and also to steal pirate loot.


More importantly, why does that voice sound almost exactly like Ted Knight, of TV's Mary Tyler Moore fame? Could we be getting closer to solving the riddle?


Instead of turning into another giant animal, he turns into a giant Chameleo-Man, murdering the aliens as the temple collapses upon them (relax, this is a Comics Code comic, those little black blobs are the aliens escaping the destruction).


Of course assuming the aliens DID survive, he's now stranding them on Earth, so I guess they'll take over anyway?


Well, it might be the future, if you're from 1902, have you checked to see if you're from 1902?


At least we know the answer to one question - he doesn't travel in a spaceship.


Shoutout to the accurately-drawn animation desks, though judging from the fact they animate on top pegs, this may be Japan after all!

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Personally I'd be more worried about getting, you know, shocked from a sparking animation camera but I'm sure it's fine, keep shooting Joe.


Well, that's understandab... wait, why are you narrating in the camera room? Shouldn't you be in, like, a recording studio? Well before the animation has been drawn, transferred to cels, painted, and gone to camera?


Yeah, the hallucinations and dangerously malfunctioning electrical equipment are both good reasons to leave, especially since, again, this is not the recording booth.


Finally the Chameleo-Man takes his final form, as Tyler Durden. He never really existed at all, just a freaky phenomenon that I guess created all those other planets and aliens? Or it was just the director's hallucinations? idk, this arty stuff always goes over my head.

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