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The Titans and the Table!
I don't know why we don't see more super-heroes arm-wrestle. You'd think it would be one of the ways they could indulge in their strength level without bringing down nearby buildings or wrecking...
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Marvel Goes Mobile!
I'd been meaning to get around to spicing up my phone's run-of-the-mill wallpaper with some choices that gave it a little more zing for me. You probably don't need to be a rocket scientist to guess...
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Enter--Dr. Doom!
Doom brings you salutations once more, you fawning fops.Given the frequency with which I initiate my various campaigns for power and conquest, perhaps you've wondered why our paths don't cross more...
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The Deadly Flight of the U-Foes!
Even though they eventually fizzled as a concept, I have to admit to being a little giddy when it comes to the U-Foes, a team of villains which mimicked the same origin as the Fantastic Four but lacked...
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Prey of the Black Widow!
Oh, no! It looks like Spidey might have met his match here, doesn't it?No, we can all relax. Spider-Man isn't really fighting a copy of himself, as much as the Black Widow wishes otherwise.The gist of...
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The Surprise Villain Of The Year!
This was a nice cover by Marie Severin, no doubt about it--Captain America being hauled into captivity, or worse:But to tell you the truth, I was more intrigued at finding out who Marvel considered the...
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Gone But Not Undusted
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Let's face it, it takes no small amount of courage for an up-and-coming villain to go around calling himself the Porcupine. But for army ordnance weapons designer Alex...
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The Four Called Nova
Although I've never been a reader or, frankly, a fan of "the man called Nova"--the super-being created from a dying space traveller's transferral of his power to an Earth youth named Richard Rider--the...
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Iron Man Is Not Happy (Or Chord)
Gosh, remember how much fun it used to be when Iron Man had a secret identity? When people couldn't put two and two together and figure out that Tony Stark's "bodyguard" was never doing any actual...
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The Star-Spangled Flying Wallenda
Beats me how the Captain America in the movies doesn't hesitate to leap out of planes--even without a parachute!--with no thought of the consequences. Because the Cap in the printed page usually finds...
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The Reassembling Of The Avengers
The above scene, from the four-part Avengers story, "Chaos," serves to boil down the events of the crisis which led to this point--better known as the 2004 "Avengers Disassembled" series, written by...
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An Extraordinarily Bad Day
Part One of "Chaos," which fired the opening salvos of the "Avengers Disassembled" story, had our assemblers reeling from multiple attacks on their home ground--and from their own members, including...
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Hawkeye, The Marksman--Marked For Death!
In Part Two of "Chaos," the main story in the "Avengers Disassembled" series shared with seven other Marvel titles in late 2004, Hawkeye made the observation that the recent deadly attacks on the...
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Mother's Day
With Dr. Strange's arrival at the end of Part Three of "Chaos," the story at the center of "Avengers Disassembled," we're more than ready for a few answers. Why have the Avengers been under almost...
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The More Things Change...
Three months have passed (in Marvel time) since the end of Part Four of "Chaos," the story which concluded the events of the "Avengers Disassembled" storyline that ran in the main Avengers title as...
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The Right Sub-Miniature Device for the Right Job
When Iron Man's red/gold armor was first revealed, we got a brief run-down on its make-up and improvements over his all-golden armor. But, seven months later, we'd find out a little more about how Tony...
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The Untold Origin of Spider-Man!
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??There are actually two Marvel villains who go by the name of Manslaughter--but to get to know our featured villain above, we need to take a quick look all the way back...
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Piling On Peter Parker
Just five issues to go until Spider-Man's 200th issue, and look at all the things he's already got on his plate:Not to mention all the nerve-wracking adjectives....
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The World's Greatest Double-Takes
Even though, at times, you felt like asking "Will the real Rich Buckler please stand up?" when looking at some of his work for Marvel, I really admired his art on Avengers, Thor, and Fantastic Four....
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The Mountain That Walks Like A Man!
When the cover to Marvel Two-In-One #13 appeared on the rack, you'd almost think you were looking at a reprint of one of Marvel's old monster comics from the early 1960s:Those monster names just rolled...
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