{"id":4455,"date":"2022-09-07T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2022-07-23T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:25:20","slug":"808-marvel-monsters-may-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/808-marvel-monsters-may-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"808 &#8211; Marvel Monsters: May 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters-1024x388.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters-1024x388.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters-768x291.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters-1536x582.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-marvel-monsters-2048x776.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Marvel Monsters on the newsstands in May 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4420\">Marvel Comics is finally here<\/a>, and by May 1961, all comics by Atlas Comics have the &#8220;MC&#8221; insignia. I also notice a distinct lack of kooky monster names this month. Other than a revisit of Grogg, Marvel seems to have switched to more descriptive names like &#8220;Sandman&#8221;, the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/767-marvel-monsters-september-1960\/\">Colossus<\/a>, and &#8220;The Crawling Creature&#8221;. Is this a conscious pivot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, I kind of miss the days of Gargantus, Goliath, Googam, Goom, Gorgilla, and Gruto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Marvel Comics is finally here, and by May 1961, all comics by Atlas Comics have the &#8220;MC&#8221; insignia. I also notice a distinct lack of kooky monster names this month. Other than a revisit of Grogg, Marvel seems to have switched to more descriptive names like &#8220;Sandman&#8221;, the return of Colossus, and &#8220;The Crawling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,504,90,647],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-atlas-comics","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}