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Duel In The Danger Room!
Dissension In The RanksWhen resentments and disagreements boil over,even allies can turn against each other in fierce battle that can bring the house down.(And often does!)FEATURING:Storm and...
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Claws Of The Vulture!
Ack! It looks like we're entangled in another Spider-Man cover peppering us with plot points:"If you read only one comic-mag story this month, it must be--THE DARK WINGS OF DEATH!" I hope no one in...
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One Vulture Outfit, To Go, Please
Part Two to our Spider-Man murder mystery in progress has a cover which would certainly fit like a glove in our "No! Not YOU!" sampling:But Part One of this story left us all pretty desperate for...
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Home Sweet Universe
Back in Fantastic Four #123, Reed Richards conceived of a plan to finally rid our world of the threat of Galactus--by taking the world-devourer's ship hostage, and threatening to destroy it unless...
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Mystery! Danger! Suspense! And Yes, Killer Crabs!
A comic's 50th issue wasn't often heralded in Marvel's titles--but with a book which could use every edge in sales, it didn't hurt to caption its cover with such a distinction. That was particularly...
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Out Of Juice
OR: "The Blink-And-You-Missed-It Sports Trend"While I freely admit that I wasn't one of the kids who wore a pair of "Juicemobiles":... I don't remember seeing any other kids wearing them,...
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Villainy Sails The Seas!
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Arrrrrr, matey--of course it's Commander Kraken who's waving that sword in our faces, about to put the smack-down on Iron Man. For a villain who had such grand plans...
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Love Amidst The Madness!
Like many stories that Jack Kirby scripted for Marvel during his return to the company in the late 1970s, the story in Captain America #198 is something of a mixed blessing. Kirby often had his heart...
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Oil, that is. Black Gold. Texas Tea.
OR: "Prince Over A Barrel"In the 50th issue of Sub-Mariner, we saw that Namor's creator, artist Bill Everett, had stepped aboard to help the sea prince make a course correction and get his book back on...
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A Billion To One
I find that "origin issues" offer me something different than other types of comics stories I might pull out for review, and perhaps the same holds true for yourself as a reader. Generally we're...
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Hearts And Flowers!
I don't know how many of you are planning a June wedding--but to get you in the spirit of your pending nuptials, why don't we let take a look at some of the weddings that took place with our Marvel...
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Fill My Eyes With That Double Vision
Most of us are used to seeing crossover comics from time to time, where stories continue to other titles published in the same month or even spanning several months. (I'm perhaps being too...
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When Burps Galactus!
It's almost inconceivable to think that a planet's population could react to the coming of Galactus with anything other than panic, despair, and pure terror:Nor was it difficult to encounter the...
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The Riotous Return of Mr. Fantastic!
The cover of Fantastic Four #197 proclaims, "At long last! The return of Reed Richards' super-powers!" At long last, indeed. With over thirty-five issues of "Mr. Fantastic" being a shadow of his...
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Invasion!
In these issues leading up to the landmark Fantastic Four #200, we started the ball rolling by first seeing Mr. Fantastic spring into action against the Red Ghost after finally regaining his stretching...
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The Eyes of Sauron
It might be interesting to come across a book which compiled the thoughts of Marvel writers and artists on just how they came up with brand-new villains for our heroes to contend with. Because I can't...
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Death Of A Hero!
As uncelebrated a character as he is, you wouldn't think Egghead would have gotten the mileage he has as a villain; but he's been around awhile and gone up against some heavy hitters in Marvel's...
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The Son of Doom!
In this third installment of our look at the issues leading up to the two-hundredth issue of Fantastic Four, things are looking pretty bad for the FF. On the other hand, things look great for Doctor...
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Laugh With Me, Not At Me
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??It isn't often you hear a villain start off their career with a declaration like this:But you'd better take him at least halfway seriously, because the Jester--yes, the...
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The Return Of--The Swordsman!
After about twenty-five issues had passed since the Swordsman's first appearance in the pages of The Avengers--when he became a member of the team under false pretenses, only to see his membership...
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