824 – Marvel Monsters: Aug 1961

Some of the Marvel Monsters on the newsstands in August 1961
Some of the Marvel Monsters on the newsstands in August 1961

It’s important to remember that, just because Marvel launched their flagship Silver Age superhero comic this month, it was still basically an experiment and this superhero transition did not happen over night. Marvel continued to churn out wacky monster stores across all their other wacky supernatural/sci-fi titles with still wackier names: The Creature From Krogarr! Orrgo the Unconquerable! The Spider! and Sserpo the Creature Who Crushed the World!!