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Tales to Astonish #20
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Tales to Astonish #20
 
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1st appearance of X, a monster brought into being by a comic creator's enchanted typewriter

Strange Tales #89
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Strange Tales #89
 
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1st appearance of Fin Fang Foom, translated his name means 'he whose limbs shatter mountains and whose back scrapes the sun'

1st appearance of Dr. Chan Liuchow, a member of the Legion of Night

Tales of Suspense #16
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Tales of Suspense #16
 
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Prototype of Iron Man, a character named Metallo who is an escaped convict in a radiation prevention suit

Tales of Suspense #8
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Tales of Suspense #8
 
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1st appearance of Monstro, a giant Octopus

Tales to Astonish #12
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Tales to Astonish #12
 
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1st appearance of Gorgilla, a half-man/half-gorilla monster

Strange Tales #90
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Strange Tales #90
 
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1st appearance of Orrgo, an alien with incredible telepathic abilities

Tales to Astonish #15
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Tales to Astonish #15
 
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1st appearance of the Blip, an alien composed completely of electricity

Strange Tales #75
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Strange Tales #75
 
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1st appearance of Taboo, a swamp creature

1st appearance of Grutan

Strange Tales #74
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Strange Tales #74
 
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1st appearance of Gorgolla, a living gargoyle

Strange Tales #76
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Strange Tales #76
 
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1st appearance of Dragoom, a monster comprised of fire

Tales of Suspense #24
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Tales of Suspense #24
 
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1st appearance of Insect Man

Tales of Suspense #22
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Tales of Suspense #22
 
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1st appearance of Bruttu, a scientist who changed his molecular structure and became a monster

Tales of Suspense #27
Marvel ⋅ 1962
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Tales of Suspense #27
 
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1st appearance of Oog, an alien found frozen in ice

Tales of Suspense #9
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Tales of Suspense #9
 
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1st appearance of Diablo, a monster from another dimension comprised of smoke

1st appearance of Chondu the Mystic

Tales of Suspense #17
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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Tales of Suspense #17
 
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1st appearance of Googam, son of Goom from Planet X

Tales of Suspense #14
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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1st appearance of Colossus aka It, The Living Colossus

Tales to Astonish #22
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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1st appearance of the Crawling Creature

Tales to Astonish #19
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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1st appearance of Rommbu, a representative of a technologically-advanced alien race of monsters

Tales to Astonish #23
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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1st appearance of Moomba, a monster made of wood

Tales to Astonish #13
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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1st appearance of Groot, an alien resembling a tree

Tales of Suspense #23
Marvel ⋅ 1961
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1st appearance of the Creature In The Black Bog

Tales of Suspense #7
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Tales of Suspense #7
 
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1st appearance of Molten Man-Thing, a monster that emerged from a volcano

Tales to Astonish #9
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Tales to Astonish #9
 
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1st appearance of Anuxa, an alien frozen in the Antarctic, waiting for humanity to destroy itself so his race can claim Earth

Tales to Astonish #11
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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1st appearance of Monstrom, a monster who who rose from the swamp after lying dormant for a millennium

Strange Tales #73
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Strange Tales #73
 
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1st appearance of Frank, later identified as Ulysses Bloodstone

1st appearance of Grottu, the result of Soviet nuclear tests

Journey Into Mystery #62
Marvel ⋅ 1960
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Journey Into Mystery #62
 
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1st appearance of the Living Hulk, a prototype of the Incredible Hulk who was later reintroduced as Xemnu the Titan, an enemy of the Hulk

Strange Tales #94
Marvel ⋅ 1962
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Strange Tales #94
 
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1st appearance of Pildorr the Plunderer

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