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The New, Improved Spider-Slayer!
With the dismal failure of the previous two Spider-Slayers, as well as the highly suspect motives of their inventor and developer, Spencer Smythe, we have to believe that even the irrational J. Jonah...
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Even A Watcher Can Cry
It takes only a glance at the cover of the thirty-fourth issue of What If to realize that the entire issue is likely an exercise in farce, paying homage to the late '60s satirical mag Not Brand Echh...
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Look Forward, Avenger!
The third encounter between Kang the Conqueror and the Avengers was something of a turning point for the team, now numbering just four members following the departure of nearly all of the original...
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The Silent, Swivelling Threat of... Big Brother!
It's certainly a heck of a cliffhanger we're faced with as the story involving the new Spider-Slayer continues from Part 1, with Professor Spencer Smythe using his new network of rooftop surveillance...
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When An Angel Falls!
When the X-Men title ceased publication of new material and shifted to reprints of prior stories, a number of the original covers for those stories were replaced with new work by artist Gil Kane, just...
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The Original Lady Liberators!
If you blinked in the early 1970s, you may have missed an imposing masthead that marked the debut of a new Marvel character:"Blinked," of course, being a figure of speech here, since a comic book...
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...'Til Midnight Do Us Part
As often as the character of Mephisto has been put to use and made appearances in any number of Marvel's line of comics, it's still difficult to disassociate the character with his co-creator, artist...
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Let The Cries Ring Forth...!
Shed no tears for these Marvel covers that seem fixated on the word "cry"--because frankly, it looks like they're doing well enough without you. Have a look at these cover promos over the years that...
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The Man Who Was Galactus!
Give writer Mark Waid credit for coming up with a concept for Fantastic Four that was bound to produce a few double-takes. In other words:Meet Johnny Storm, the new herald of Galactus.The reason you're...
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Experiments In Domination
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??It's always nice when a villain makes his own introductions, don't you think?I don't know much about his pax-whatsis, but if there's anyone who's going to strive to...
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Like Grandfather, Like Granddaughter
Writer Roger Stern's run on The Avengers is arguably remembered for two main reasons (three, if you're counting the presence of artists John Buscema and Tom Palmer, who turned in some exemplary work on...
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Let The Silence Shatter!
If you were a reader of Fantastic Four in late 1965, when the criminal known as Madam Medusa received an abrupt "makeover" and became a member of the royal family of the Inhumans, subsequently having...
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The Flight And The Fight!
On this Veterans Day, it seems appropriate to meet up with two old warhorses who are well-known today in super-powered and intelligence circles, but who also crossed paths during World War II to give...
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...With The Skrulls By Our Side!
Following up on Part 1 of the Avengers story where the team reunited with Captain Marvel in the Andromeda galaxy, only to find themselves in the position of having to aid the Skrulls against the...
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Watch Your Back
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??If this cover of Incredible Hulk gives you a sense of déjà vu:...it's probably because you recall when the Hulk once battled a different shadow being.Yes, Nebulo, one...
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When Quakes The Magnum Force!
The "new" X-Men didn't have much time to acclimate to Charles Xavier's school before they were thrust into various conflicts in locales around the world (and beyond), receiving their training "on the...
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This Hatred Unceasing
J. Jonah Jameson's obsession with putting an end to Spider-Man often seems as essential a part of Spider-Man's profile as everything else we've come to associate with the web-slinger, from his circle...
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The Deadly Escape of Mutant X!
When last we checked in on the X-Men, they were preparing to at long last return home following their battle in Japan with former arms dealer turned terrorist Moses Magnum, who was threatening the...
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Reality, Checked
The ending to Uncanny X-Men #125 had us on the edge of our seats, didn't it? Mutant X had come out of hiding, and was attacking the residents of the Muir Isle research facility in Scotland in order to...
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The Return Of The Big Man
The introduction of the Kingpin in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, while a significant chapter in the web-slinger's history, is really more of a story of one man's redemption--that of Frederick...
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