823 – The Fantastic Four!

2024-12-02
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Well, I talked about it for a long time, but we are finally here: the birth of the true Marvel Universe with The Fantastic Four #1 (Aug 1961). Stan Lee and Jack Kirby bring us a full book-length story here that introduces their first true super-heroes of the Silver Age named, of course, The Fantastic […]

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718 – Monstrous Names

2022-05-04
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Remember when I mentioned before how Atlas Comics was starting to morph into Marvel Comics near the end of the 1950s, featuring crazy-big and strangely-named monsters on its covers? Yeah well October 1959 is a really good example of that, so move over Godzilla, this month’s Marvel Monster Mash-Up gives us Zog, Grottu and Monstro!

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