Monster of the Day #1468

Updated on December 5, 2016 By Ken Begg 12 Comments

If only I had some sort of applicable running gag here!

The Mars Attack cards suddenly sent onto a long run of giant insect attack scenes, presumably because watching Martians disintegrate people (or most memorably, once a dog) could only provide so much fodder. Also, they came out in 1962, and that was pretty recently after the ’50s run of giant bug movies.

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