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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

2:44 @officialuniversalhorror on Instagram Has De-Emphasized Classic Monsters

7:03 The Wolfman (2010) Newspaper Prop FOR SALE on PropStore.com

9:22 One More Small Piece of News...

11:07 TITLE TOPIC: Skybound's Universal Monster Comics!

11:53 Dracula

22:13 Creature From the Black Lagoon Lives!

33:49 Frankenstein

42:03 The Mummy

52:15 The Invisible Man

1:03:33 RANKING Skybound's Universal Monster Comics

The Universal Monsters (also known as Universal Classic Monsters and Universal Studios Monsters) is a media franchise comprising various horror film series distributed by Universal Pictures. It consists of different horror creature characters originating from various novels, such as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, the Phantom of the Opera, Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man, as well as original characters the Wolf Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The original series began with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) and ended with The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). While the early installments were initially created as stand-alone films based on published novels, their financial and critical success resulted in various cross-over releases between the monsters, as well as other properties such as Abbott and Costello. Following the positive response to various viewings of these films via television redistribution which began airing in the 1950s, the studio began developing the characters for other media. In the 1990s, it became priority for Universal to promote their catalogue with official packaging that presented films with the official franchise title. Through a number of VHS editions, their popularity continued into contemporary entertainment. This included additional development through modern-filmmaking adaptations, beginning with Dracula (1979) and most recently Wolf Man (2025). Until recently, Bruce and Xander thought I typed all of this crap out, as if copy and pasting a Wikipedia article wasn't infinitely easier to do. Those absolute buffoons.