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"This Is Worse Than The Track!"
Thanks to Kyle Richmond, a/k/a Nighthawk, even an Asgardian goddess can enroll at college:Oh, Kyle. Better men than you have tried to part the bureaucracy waters and make the pathway toward signing up...
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Bid The Swordsman Goodbye
Avengers #129 might be memorable to you as the issue that features one of Kang the Conqueror's bolder attempts at conquest, as he comes looking for the Celestial Madonna and decides to conquer Earth...
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The Man With The Power!
Looking at John Byrne's early Fantastic Four issues, you tend to notice how his presentation differs from other books that, like all comics, must deal in a crisis to sweep us into the action. As Byrne...
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Gang Ways
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??This wouldn't be the first time we'd see the name of the White Dragon used for a Marvel villain, though he certainly looks the part more than the White Dragon that Iron...
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Not All Their Power Can Save Them!
It's often enjoyable while reading comics to just sit back and take in a good free-for-all without giving too much serious thought to how you got there. Yet in the case of Iron Man's conflict with...
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"Velvet Rope?? BAH!"
It's not every day that the Avengers throw a "housewarming" party for a new headquarters building. But when they left their Hydrobase digs (after the base's destruction during "Acts of Vengeance"), the...
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Choose Your Doom
In Part One of the Avengers tale where the team saw their gala at Avengers Headquarters crashed by none other than Doctor Doom, the master of menace had not only revealed his presence in several areas...
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This Old Mansion
While we all probably enjoyed being honored guests along with the various dignitaries invited to the gala presentation of the sparkling new Avengers Headquarters--the new base of operations for the...
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I Came... I Recreated... I Assimilated
By the time that Fantastic Four #241 hit the stands, writer/artist John Byrne had more than gotten his feet wet with the team, and the reception of his work seemed promising. With only nine issues...
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Execution Made Easy
I'm no expert in the practice of execution:...but exposing his human victim to space has likely done Pildorr's work for him, no?
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The Ties That Kill
Since the incredible Hulk was an outcast who roamed the world, if only to find his place in it, his stories in the 1970s allowed readers to sample characters and antagonists whose lives and motivations...
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You Dare Not Miss This Issue's Shock En... er, Beginning!
In the '70s, the letters pages of Marvel comics were the closest thing you had to a forum--and when there was a point of contention to be hashed out, those pages were the closest thing you had to what...
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"Victory!" Cries The Gladiator!
This superb Fantastic Four story by John Byrne introduces a cover that, over thirty years later, is arguably as recognized as the one he created for "Days of Future Past":And, just as with that iconic...
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All Is Fair in War
From the cover that heralds its beginning, it's not hard to get the gist of the seven-issue arc of stories in 1988 known as the "armor wars":I'm not sure where or when "armor wars" became the comics...
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...From The Ashes Of Defeat!
Yikes! From the look of things, it's open season on the FF!Let's hope this cover of Fantastic Four proves more symbolic than the cover for the prior story, where Gladiator of the Shi'ar arrived on...
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Where Walk The Immortals!
It was probably the shortest invasion of Asgard on record, but the incredible Hulk did indeed pay the "Realm Eternal" a visit, as the mag that reintroduced him to readers, Tales To Astonish, drew to a...
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Final Reckoning!
There was a time when the Kingpin used to take Spider-Man for quite a ride:The Kingpin emerged in both the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil to be the crime boss of all crime bosses--ruthless...
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And Then There Was One!
The villainous Super-Skrull has been in the doghouse with his superiors in the Skrull empire ever since he failed in his mission to destroy the Fantastic Four. Nor can he help being reminded of that...
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Sound And Fury
In this two-part Inhumans story from 1971, it takes a little digging to get to the truth behind their deceptive covers:And digging in a good way, since only one of these covers depicts an outright lie....
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Beware The Judgment Calls of... Ms. Marvel!
The last time we checked in on the Super-Skrull, he was just about to end Spider-Man's annoying interference in his plans forever! And it doesn't look like he's backed off from that position in the...
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