 The character has been adapted often in the comic book medium.The first appearance of Frankenstein's Monster in the Marvel Comics Universe came in the five-page horror comics story "Your Name Is Frankenstein", by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Joe Maneely in "Menace" #7 (Sept. 1953), from Marvel's 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics.The following decade, a robot replica of Frankenstein's Monster appeared as an antagonist in "The X-Men" #40 (Jan. 1968), by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Don Heck, and was destroyed by the titular team of mutant superheroes.