HANUKAH is early this year....like it's today so Happy holidays my fellow Jews and to celebrate this year in grand old Fashion we have 8 Crazy nights with the the thing, where I will be spotlighting stories from the thing and his many team ups. Tonight WE START OFF VERY JEWISH. 
the Golem is a very MINOR Marvel hero based on the famous Jewish myth the Golem of Prague and it's many variations over the decades. A small attempt was made to make him a Marvel hero but alas he was never that popular.
The character first showed up in the Hulk but it was VERY minor appearance and the Hulk, took his place as the protector being given a lot of comparisons. The Golem is only used in flashbacks but he would show up in the modern day for a brief run.
The story starts for one reason, THE THING IS LATE FOR HIS VACATION DARN IT!
and well he goes a bit overboard in trying to catch the train, you know what they say, it's not a Marvel story without property damage in a random moment.
Now Books like Marvel two in one had a couple purposes, to help promote new characters, and maybe close out some story details for later, this is trying to promote the Golem and sadly we kind of maybe get the problem of the set up of the character.
The golem is a passive creature and has to be woken up, it doesn't leave you a lot of room to have be more reactive so it often means the villain in this case Kaballa the demon to try and fuck shit up.
The Golem goes on a rampage and the thing here's about it and is also confused because the Thing and the Golem are well very similar. Let's go into this aspect for a bit.
Many characters back in the day were not really CREATED with religion in mind and often times fan discussion led to ideas, the Thing being Jewish came from how Jack Kirby put a bit of his life into the character and fan knew enough about this, and eventually the Thing was Jewish
Now, the thing has been compared by many Jewish scholars as comparable to the Golem, and that's fair honestly, so this was kind of one of those stories that was bound to happen eventually. Plus Jews like to argue with each other and when both are rock monsters well....
With the Golem on a rampage, the family connected to him want to save him, because when you have a rock monster who protect you with the power of love you don't want to lose that plus him being a cultural artifact...you know priorities.
of course the thing gets involved and it's time FOR HIS ULTIMATE POWER PLAY, USING HIS CATCH PHRASES! WHO WILL WIN THIS EPIC BATTLE OF TWO ROCK JEWS!
now the family makes it and after the Thing fights off demons keeping them away from the scene the family reconnects with the Golem
Kaballa shows up and tries to take them out but alas The Golem now good again is able to DRIVE HIM AWAY WITH THE POWER OF TRUTH!
and that's it for the Golem, this would be his last appearance but this story is an early example of someone noticing the similarities between our favorite Marvel hero and a classic legend, maybe one day the Golem will be back to rock it out with the Thing once more.
and tomorrow...will be a special...holiday issue.....of one of the MOST INFAMOUS HOLIDAY COMICS FOR GOOD OLD BEN.
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