Atlas/Marvel continue their monthly parade of crazy giant monsters in October 1960, featuring title stories of The Brute (a proto-Incredible Hulk story), “It”, Goom (the Thing from that pesky Planet X), and Vandoom! Other stories in these issue include even wackier names like Kragoo and Moomboo. Boy that’s a lot of double-O names this month. […]
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Comic books from Atlas/Marvel Comics on sale in September 1960 include more giant monsters: Rorgg (King of the Spider Men), The Scarecrow, Colossus (no, not that one), and Thorr (no, not that one).
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The next batch of Atlas/Marvel Comics on sale in August 1960 include more giant monsters: Goliath, Gargantus, The Blip, and Elektro. No, not the Spiderman villain, just this one.
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Atlas/Marvel Comics continues to explore the “giant monster” concept in July 1960. Interestingly, all three comics have monsters with names of future Marvel superheroes / villains: The Hulk, The Thing, and Krang.
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The modern Marvel era inches closer with Atlas Comics’ Journey Into Mystery #62 (July 1960) where one of the “Marvel monsters” is given the name “The Hulk”. A giant orange hairy metal creature is discovered next to a shattered spaceship and nursed back to life by Joe Harper, who feeds the creature electricity. The creature […]
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Atlas/Marvel comics on sale in June 1960 feature more giant monsters. This month’s round-up features Gomdulla the Living Pharoah, Gor-Kill the Living Demon, and Groot the Monster from Planet X. Groot! Yes, that tree-creature from Guardians of the Galaxy! In this first appearance, Groot is your typical alien-monster affair from Atlas at the time. It’s […]
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Atlas/Marvel comics on sale in May 1960 feature more giant monsters. Bombu the Witch Man, Gorgilla the Monster of Midnight Mountain, and the return of Taboo (originally in Strange Tales #75 in Jan 1960). You can see the desire to create something readers will want to buy with the assertion that Strange Tales this month […]
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Marvel/Atlas comics continue to decorate their fantasy/sci-fi books with giant monsters. This month batch brings us Spoor, the Thing That Could Not Die and Monstrom, the Dweller in the Black Swamp – a very Swamp Thing-like creature, but turns out to be an alien who is waiting for mankind to drop their xenophobia and help […]
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Marvel (Atlas) continues to decorate its covers with giant monsters. The covers on sale in March 1960 include Shagg and Dragoom, a very Dormamu-like “flaming intruder”.
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Atlas/Marvel covers are decorated with more giant monsters in February 1960: Titano! and Cyclops!
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