Tales To Astonish #20 - Jun 61
     "X, The Thing That Lived!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Tales To Astonish #17 - Mar 61
     "Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Tales Of Suspense #18 - Jun 61
     "Kraa, the Unhuman" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Journey Into Mystery #65 - Feb 61
     "The Brute That Walks!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers
Strange Tales #88 - Sep 61
     "Zzutak!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko
Tales Of Suspense #11 - Sep 60
     "Spoor!" - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers

Review/plot: More fantastic Marvel horror comics from the time period when super hero comics were not very popular.

Monster X:

This section features Man-Made Monsters, like "X" above, who was brought to life by a comic book artist's typewriter, and Vandoom's Monster below, a creature created by a wax museum's curator.

Two separate stories in this batch have monsters created by an artist coming to life. I hope Kirby wasn't trying to tell us something.

Zzutak (you can definitely see Ditko on the inks here):

Spoor:

Kraa:

The Brute that Walks:

Roger Stern's Marvel Universe stories suggest that some of these creatures may actually have been Deviants that were merely activated or awoken by man. Great fun stuff.

Quality Rating: B

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: No super heroes show up to put a stop to any of these menaces. All of these stories are very self-contained.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Monster Masterworks

That panel of X "transforming himself into a smaller creature" looks... really, REALLY inappropriate if you look at it the wrong way.

Perhaps that panel was the artist's planned "origin" for that monster inside his story. Say hi to Mr. and Mrs. X, they X Jr.'s parents.