{"id":4420,"date":"2022-08-30T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2022-07-23T18:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:16:38","slug":"802-marvel-monsters-april-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/802-marvel-monsters-april-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"802 &#8211; Marvel Monsters: April 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters-1024x377.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters-1024x377.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters-1536x566.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-marvel-monsters-2048x754.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to call April 1961 the month when Atlas Comics finally FINALLY became Marvel Comics, since some of their comic books on sale that month had a very distinctive &#8220;MC&#8221; insignia box on the covers: Journey into Mystery #69 and Strange Tales #86. Farewell Atlas Comics! I, for one, welcome our overlords Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-mc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-mc.png\" alt=\"One of the first &quot;MC&quot; insignias on a Marvel Comic, April 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4422\"\/><\/a><figcaption>One of the first &#8220;MC&#8221; insignias on a Marvel Comic, April 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This month&#8217;s batch of Marvel monsters include Manoo, Korilla, Mechano and The Green Thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to call April 1961 the month when Atlas Comics finally FINALLY became Marvel Comics, since some of their comic books on sale that month had a very distinctive &#8220;MC&#8221; insignia box on the covers: Journey into Mystery #69 and Strange Tales #86. Farewell Atlas Comics! I, for one, welcome our overlords Stan Lee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,504,161,90,647,219,615],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-atlas-comics","tag-jack-kirby","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-monsters","tag-stan-lee","tag-steve-ditko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}