# Volcano eater? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga\ **Created:** [July 20, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-eater/837372 "2019-07-20T23:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-eater/837372/1 "2019-07-20T23:46:27Z")
Today an old comic crossed my mind–there is an erupting volcano, and something is convinced to eat the volcano, saving the people around it and having a mildly spicy snack. Any clues? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-eater/837372/2 "2022-03-24T16:00:19Z")
Bumping this, because I saw a cover of a comic today that I thought could be the one, but isn’t. To repeat, a volcano is erupting, threatening the human population, and some sort of giant or genie or _something_ eats the whole erupting volcao, solving the problem. I would have seen it in the late 70s/early 80s, but it could have been published earlier. Possibly in a Disney or Harvey comic, but _not_ _[Stumblo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumbo_the_Giant)_. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-eater/837372/3 "2022-03-24T17:48:30Z")
Aww, _Stumbo_ would have been my guess, he was always getting involved with volcanoes - he used an extinct one for storage, he cooked on one… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-eater/837372/4 "2022-03-24T19:39:07Z")
This whatever was big enough to swallow the volcano (and Stumo) whole. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-eater/837372/5 "2022-03-24T19:59:22Z")
In DC Comics, one member of the Legion of Superheroes was Matter Eater Lad. This kind of thing is right up his alley. I don’t know if he did eat this volcano, but he could have. [Matter-Eater Lad (disambiguation) | DC Database | Fandom](https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Matter-Eater_Lad)