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To clarify Sporr, it was a simulacrum created by Mister Fantastic to battle a cosmic powered Dr. Doom in &. In those stories, Reed refers to all the monsters used as "comic book characters". However some of the ones he picked have since been identified as actually existing on Earth-616. The Fantastic Four's relationship with the pre-FF monsters has evolved over the years states that early on their career (pre ) the Fantastic Four spent much of their time capturing all these old monsters and imprisoning them on Monster Island.

Another interesting point is states that (at least on Earth-9997) a lot of the Marvel Monsters were active in the 1950s and 60s. It wasn't explored much more than that in that series.

Marvel has been trying to incorporate as much of their Timely and Atlas era stuff into mainstream continuity as much as possible (likely to maintain the rights to the unique characters) Going through handbooks I've noticed that references to the more conventional monsters (vampires, werewolves) from old sci-fi and horror anthologies have been incorporated into mainstream continuity (especially if it's involving Dracula, Merlin or some other character that has a long running -- but public domain -- publication history)

I would posit that we can assume that something happens on Earth-616 if it meets the following criteria:

- if the story is set in the era the comic was published in or in the past. - if the story doesn't upset the status quo of history as we know it, or that of the Earth-616 universe.

With aliens in particular since a lot of them are called Martians we can make a point of stating how the term was commonly used instead of "alien" or "extraterrestrial" was frequent. Or that aliens have had a long history of deceiving Earth as to their world's of origin (which was used to explain away the Kronans originally being called the Stone Men From Saturn, as an example)