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When Nefaria Commands...!
It's the fall of 2000, and Marvel has pulled itself out of its nose dive from the late '90s and making great stories again. And it doesn't get better than artist George Pérez closing out a nearly...
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In Defeat, We Stand!
Holy Hannah! The Avengers sure look peeved at somebody!What's going ON here?If you had caught the PPC's review of the 2000 Avengers/Thunderbolts crossover story, you'd have a good idea which poor slob...
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The Alternate Fantastic Four
Slipping by the PPC's roundup of other incarnations of the Fantastic Four was a late-1977 story by writer Roy Thomas which started the ball rolling after an earlier tale from 1972 successfully piqued...
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The Man Without Super-Senses
At first glance, you'd think the question that this 1978 cover of What If poses was dealt with on that very cover, asked and answered:We could also presume that the world wouldn't necessarily care one...
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The Cure, Or The Cost?
On the heels of a procedure conducted by Leonard "Doc" Samson which made use of a nutrient bath vat to physically separate Bruce Banner from the Hulk, which led to the re-emergence of the gray Hulk,...
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The Death Chair of M.O.D.O.K.!
The 1977 Iron Man Annual, written by Bill Mantlo with art by George Tuska and Don Perlin, could be viewed for all intents and purposes as a Hail Mary pass to benefit the mid-'70s super-team the...
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The Mid-1970s Hulk, Redux
Nestled in between the second volume of Incredible Hulk and its 1999 successor, Hulk (renamed in 2000 after eleven issues to Incredible Hulk), was the six-issue series Rampaging Hulk published during...
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The House Of Magnus
"You know how sometimes you hear the phrase: AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN? Well, this time believe it, buster!! NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!" -- Promotional copy taken from...
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Birth(s) Of A Living Legend
There have been no less than four full-fledged origin tales of the star-spangled Avenger known as Captain America, which in a way is astonishing considering that Cap's origin is among several that...
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A World They Never Made
Continuing the PPC's look at the House Of M crossover event from 2005, we turn our focus away from the title series to others whose lives were affected by the rise of mutants in the world, where a...
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It's Not Nice To Bind Mother Nature
For nearly all of its 1974-1987 run, Doctor Strange was obliged to follow a bimonthly publication schedule, having briefly flirted with monthly issues from April-October of '76 during the height of...
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What Were YOU Reading in 1983?
Forty years ago in August of 1983, we had these items of trivia occupying our minds and media: 12-year-old Samantha Druce becomes the youngest female to swim the English Channel (21 miles), at 15...
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Reality Check
We've recently begun taking a detailed look at the 2005 Marvel event known as House Of M, which followed up on the chain of events that led to the Avengers falling victim to one of their own--the...
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No More Mutants
Unknown to the heroes caught up in the new reality of the House Of M--which came into existence when the Scarlet Witch, at the direction of another, reshaped the world as we knew it to conform to a...
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Witch Hunt!
We've reached the final installment of the House Of M limited series from 2005, where the X-Men and the Avengers found themselves swept away into a new reality created by the Scarlet Witch at the...
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The Ascendance of... Baron Mordo!?
OR: "Dr. Strange, Hiker of the Mystic Arts" The thought of Michael Golden handling the artwork for the forty-page What If story featuring Baron Mordo as the Master of the Mystic Arts would be enough...
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The Return Of... Everyman!
You remember this guy, don't you?(You can be sure those covering the scene aren't likely to forget him.) A creation of writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Mike Zeck, we first met Everyman in his PPC...
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The Final Fate of the Scarlet Witch!
We've reached the end of a long and winding road involving Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, having tracked her activities following her devastating attack on her fellow Avengers at Avengers Mansion...
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Hulk (Didn't) Smash
By the turn of the century, you and I had seen and likely enjoyed any number of stories featuring clashes between the Thing and the Hulk--two classic characters who, despite having long since settled...
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Take A Seat
As I was compiling subject matter for this post, the first thing that came to mind was this guy:Who looks like he's traveling through space seated on some kind of contraption--at least that's what I'd...
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In This Corner... Champion!
The year 1982 saw the publication of the seventh and final Marvel Two-In-One Annual, which, like its companion monthly series, featured the Thing and a special guest-star in action together--only in...
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The Surfer, The Titan, and the Dethroned
Following the introduction of Champion in the 1982 Marvel Two-In-One Annual, a story that saw him pitting his might against not only the Thing but also a grouping of Marvel's strongest characters, we...
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Journey's End
Dear Friends,With a mixture of sadness and optimism, I would like to bid you all a fond farewell, as I sign off from The Peerless Power of Comics. I've enjoyed contributing to this effort...
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