The Zakary Thaks were an American garage rock band from Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, which formed in the mid-1960s.

The group then became The Marauders, adding lead guitarist John Lopez and David Fore on drums with Gerniottis on vocals, Gregory on bass, and Stinson on rhythm guitar.

Their first record, for the local J-Beck label, combined an original composition, "Bad Girl", with a Kinks song, "I Need You".

In 1979, "Bad Girl" was included on the Volume 2 of the Pebbles anthology of mid-1960s garage bands,[2] and has maintained its renown among collectors of the genre.

In 2015, a compilation called It's the End: The Definitive Collection was released and contained all of the group's master recordings from all six singles for the first time.