{"id":1655,"date":"2006-07-12T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:26:28","slug":"it-was-a-monster-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/it-was-a-monster-mash\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a Monster mash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlwm_mon.php\">our review of the <i>Marvel Legends<\/i> Monsters box set<\/a>, following the relaxation of  the Comics Code in the 1970s, Marvel expected a huge upswing in monster-themed comics, and so took immediate steps to position themselves to take advantage of it. Take a look:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml8_mt.php\">Man-Thing<\/a> - <i>Savage Tales<\/i> #1 (May, 1971)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smhml3_morb.php\">Morbius<\/a> - <i>Amazing Spider-Man<\/i> #101 (October, 1971)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlwm_mon.php\">Werewolf By Night<\/a> - <i>Marvel Spotlight<\/i> #2 (February, 1972)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml4_beast.php\">Beast<\/a> - <i>Amazing Adventures<\/i> #11 (March, 1972)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/stml1_drac.php\">Dracula<\/a> - <i>Tomb of Dracula<\/i> #1 (April, 1972)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml7_gr.php\">Ghost Rider<\/a> - <i>Marvel Spotlight<\/i> #5 (August, 1972)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlwm_mon.php\">Frankenstein<\/a> - <i>Monster of Frankenstein<\/i> #1 (January, 1973)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml5_blade.php\">Blade<\/a> - <i>Tomb of Dracula<\/i> #10 (July, 1973)<\/li>\n<li>Zombie* - <i>Tales of the Zombie<\/i> #1 (August, 1973)<\/li>\n<li>The Living Mummy - <i>Supernatural Thrillers<\/i> #5 (August 1973)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/hmlx_bov.php\">Brother Voodoo<\/a> - <i>Strange Tales<\/i> #169 (September 1973)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smwolf.php\">Man-Wolf<\/a> - <i>Amazing Spider-Man<\/i> #124 (September, 1973)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/stml1_dh.php\">Son of Satan<\/a> - <i>Marvel Spotlight<\/i> #12 (October 1973)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/hmlx_tb.php\">Satana<\/a> - <i>Vampire Tales<\/i> #2 (October, 1973)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlh4_tigra.php\">Tigra<\/a> - <i>Giant-Size Creatures<\/i> #1 (July, 1974)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml9_dl.php\">Deathlok<\/a> - <i>Astonishing Tales<\/i> #25 (August 1974)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Man, look at that list! In the span of just three years, Marvel managed to throw together a pretty impressive stable of horrors to scare the pants off you.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you'll notice that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlwm_mon.php\">Zombie's<\/a> got an asterisk after his name, like he's Roger Maris trying to pull in a homerun record. Why is that, you ask? Because <i>Tales of the Zombie<\/i> wasn't first actual appearance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/zombie1.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"255\" title=\"Menace #5 and Tales of the Zombie #1, 20 years apart\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The character in that comic was actually taken from <i>Menace<\/i> #5, originally published in July, 1953. The Zombie was redrawn to have shoulder-length hair and a medallion (to appeal to the dirty hippies), but otherwise he was the same.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/zombie2.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"440\" title=\"yes, the older one has more colors\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>So he's put on this list in the 1973 slot, because that was when he was introduced to the post-Code era.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #83 - Yellow Jacket\/Goliath &#038; Kree Soldier\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/minimate-mini-review-83-yellow-jacket-goliath-kree-soldier\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #83 - Yellow Jacket\/Goliath &#038; Kree Soldier<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Lord Raptor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/soon-forget-darkstalkers-lord-raptor\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Darkstalkers Lord Raptor<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #56\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-56\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #56<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"\"Well, I suppose this one looks a bit like me...\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/well-i-suppose-this-one-looks-a-bit-like-me\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\"Well, I suppose this one looks a bit like me...\"<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #297 - Cyborg Spider-Man &#038; Songbird\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/minimate-mini-review-297-cyborg-spider-man-songbird\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #297 - Cyborg Spider-Man &#038; Songbird<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we said in our review of the Marvel Legends Monsters box set, following the relaxation of the Comics Code in the 1970s, Marvel expected a huge upswing in monster-themed comics, and so took immediate steps to position themselves to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/it-was-a-monster-mash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160,8,37,25,11],"tags":[131,104,88,293,153],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-hasbro","category-lists","category-marvel","category-toybiz","tag-avengers","tag-ghost-rider","tag-marvel-legends","tag-vampires","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44409,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/44409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}