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Child Services
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Good intentions aside, the methods of Nanny, creation and former operative of the anti-mutant organization known as the Right, bear some scrutiny. Nanny seeks out...
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The Call Of The Hunt
Given his ego, it would be easy to assume that the villain known as Kraven the Hunter would undertake the hunt for Spider-Man on his own initiative. It's been a long time since he first appeared in...
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No Assembly Required
Most of the time, the invincible Iron Man has to spring into action so quickly that there isn't time to get a look at the components of the armor as they're pulled from storage, slipped on piece by...
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The Incredible Shrinking Villains
Artist Gil Kane has done his share of reinterpretations of classic Marvel covers to appear in reprint mags such as Marvel's Greatest Comics and Marvel Tales--and while many of them have been on par...
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Fantastic Four - Strike Three
OR:I must say, the final paragraph of A.O. Scott's review of "Fantastic Four" in The New York Times will have me avoiding this film like the plague."'Fantastic Four,' despite the dogged efforts of its...
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Life After Death
You don't see a lot of so-called "album" issues on the comics racks, or even in collectors' boxes, perhaps because of the general format they all must adhere to. You may not even be familiar with the...
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Finding Namor
If and when the Sub-Mariner makes it to the big screen, the producers and casting personnel have their work cut out for them. The #1 hurdle to be cleared, of course, is Namor himself, who must be...
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The House Of Recycled Ideas
If you were a reader of Tales of Suspense, the co-feature title where Iron Man shared the book with Captain America, you may have raised an eyebrow when you saw a copy of Invincible Iron Man #92 on the...
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Fail Hydra!
With only twelve issues under his belt in his own series, an "album issue" for Captain America would seem to be premature for readers who might have begun buying the book for its contemporary take on...
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The Strangest Show On Earth
If you're looking for an X-Men story that put a twist on the characters and essentially presented them out of character, one that comes to mind is an issue from mid-1978, which took the "new" X-Men and...
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An Album Of Snapshots
It's hard not to go into a Fantastic Four album issue with high expectations--and indeed, the cover of issue #190, rendered by classic FF artist Jack Kirby, gives an indication of being something...
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The Vengeance of Decades
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Your first impression of our mystery villain may admittedly leave you underwhelmed--but this character actually plays an incredibly pivotal role in the history of one...
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The Fates Of The Phoenix!
Almost four years after the now-classic X-Men story which saw the death of Phoenix (or so we thought), a behind-the-scenes look at that story was published which not only contained an extensive...
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For Better Or For Much Worse
While Dracula may write in his journal to muse about lessons learned or setbacks he may have endured, at times he'll write about his sadistic manipulations of and triumphs over we humans whom he holds...
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Limited Editions
In late 1998, Amazing Spider-Man ended its amazing 35-year run, only to relaunch in January of 1999 as--well, Amazing Spider-Man. It wasn't the only Marvel title to be inexplicably reset before the...
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Stranger In A Strange Issue
An Avengers membership turnover issue is something of a special occasion for readers, providing a nice break between crises that allows us to "sit in" on an Avengers meeting as they uphold tradition...
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Daughter Of The Sea
Like Roy Thomas, writer Len Wein offered something more in the pages of Incredible Hulk besides the Hulk smashing for smashing's sake. Wein at times provided the Hulk with character encounters that...
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Re-Enter: Rogue!
OR: "Begging Your Pardon, But--Aren't You My Nemesis?"A lot of water has come and gone under the bridge for Carol Danvers since she began taking the first steps to reclaim her life after having her...
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I'm Still Your Father
Fathers don't just have surprise reunions with their offspring on talk shows--they also occasionally happen in the pages of comics. Whether one venue is more dramatic than the other depends on your...
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Love Is A Battlefield
If you've ever been in the doghouse with your significant other, you know the requisite squirming that you normally have to do before you're let out again. That's when you have to pick up a comic book,...
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