Making a Splash: Marvel Comics 40 Years Ago, August 1971

August 1971. Marvel's tenth anniversary! Ol' Groove remembers it well. T'was the month Marvel raised the price of (almost) all their comics to twenty-five cents (a few stayed 15 cents, but a random few did go up to twenty cents) and doubled their page count (on most of, but not all of their mags--DC had already gone the twenty five cent route and doubled their page-count a couple months earlier). It was also the month that the "Marvel banner/logo" trade dress (the one that lasted all the way into the early 80s) made its debut on most (but again, not all) of Marvel's mags--but more on that in tomorrow's post! The interiors are today's focus, and lemme tell ya, despite the changes on the outside, we got the same great Marvel madness we'd always loved--just more of it!--on the insides. As proof, Ol' Groove offers up this sensational set of superb splashes. This is all of Marvel's non-reprint mags for that watershed month, by the by. Enjoy, Groove-ophiles!