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Bridge To Nowhere
What's wrong with this picture? Well, if the mighty Thor is off at World's End, and if he's about to throw down with Kartag, the keeper of the Twilight Well--then why does the cover of his next issue...
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Attack Of The Hula-Hoops
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??If there was ever a criminal who plied his trade on the basis of the haves and the have nots, it would be Anthony Davis, the Ringer, whose career began by pulling a...
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"-- And Odin Dies!"
Good grief! Could things get any worse for the maybe-not-so-eternal realm of Asgard? The city has been ripped away from its location in the normal universe--Thor has returned from World's End and...
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Your Wish Is Hulk's Command
In the Hulk's original blinked-and-you-missed-it bi-monthly series from 1962, it appeared that writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby were taking the character in the direction of the bizarre. An...
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Bride And Doom!
There would come a point when Avengers writers would overplay the Ultron card and have the metal maniac reappearing and hatching plots even more often than new Avengers would join the ranks (and that's...
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This Hatred Reborn!
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??There's nothing subtle about either the name or message of the Grand Director, who heads the white supremacist group, the National Force, and has begun to hold hate...
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Enter: The Orange Avenger!
OR: "Pulp Fiction!"In 2011, the Florida citrus industry created "Captain Citrus" to spread the nutritional message of orange juice in Florida classrooms. As you can see, the Captain's hefty girth sent...
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The Night Of The Prowler!
OR: "Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right"There were many times when writer Stan Lee took the fast track to creating a super-villain to challenge an issue's hero, particularly in comics such as Strange Tales...
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The Last Days Of Sue Storm!
Reed Richards and Sue Storm didn't have a whirlwind romance by any stretch of the imagination--but when news of their engagement got out, you'd think that we *ahem* comics fans were in the presence of...
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The Son of Fire!
Iron Man has certainly been threatened often enough by opponents who had the potential to damage his armor by intense heat, to the point where you started to wonder why most Iron Man villains didn't...
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Peter Parker: Dumped!
In this comparison between the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #79 and its reprint in the pages of Marvel Tales, you don't exactly have to have 20/20 vision to realize what the chief difference is between...
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To Prowl Once More!
While it's true that Spider-Man and Hobie Brown didn't quite part as friends following Hobie's misguided decisions while acting as the Prowler, they parted amicably, with Hobie even owing Spidey a debt...
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The Coming Of The Swordsman!
Welcome to Swordsman Week here at the PPOC! Throughout this week we'll take a sharp-edged, long-overdue retrospective look at the man who would become known (if primarily through his own boasting) as...
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Vengeance Is Ours!
As part of Swordsman Week at the PPOC, we've witnessed the man's first classic battle with the Avengers--and the team has learned the hard way that it's not a good idea to let the Swordsman gain the...
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The Sword and the Spider!
With the Mandarin as well as the Avengers looking to settle accounts with the Swordsman (as well as Interpol likely keeping a sharp eye out for him), you'd think that this daring adventurer would be...
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Team Player
You've landed in the middle of Swordsman Week here at the PPOC! But we have a problem: With the Swordsman at long last in the custody of law enforcement (following his capture by the Avengers after...
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"Nobody is unbeatable! ...Especially you!"
We're well into Swordsman Week, the PPOC's look at the creation and evolution of the man heralded as the Best Blade Artist In The World--and recently, we've seen him lend his blade and his good right...
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Scourge of the Avon Ladies!
Prison seemed to work wonders for the Swordsman, who appeared to think things over after his team-ups with Power Man and Batroc's Brigade and arrive at the decision that working with partners wasn't...
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A Call To Arms Must Include--The Swordsman!
It's too bad prison stays don't have the equivalent of frequent flyer miles, since, during Swordsman Week here at the PPOC, we've seen the Swordsman return to prison so often you'd think the place had...
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To Battle On Yancy Street!
Before we learned that the Human Torch was behind the gag gifts that the irritated Thing used to receive in the mail from the Yancy Street Gang, it was the general assumption that it was the Thing who...
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