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One Life To Change The World
The 2007 series Bullet Points, while squarely falling into the category of a What If tale, has the advantage of being presented as a five-issue limited series, allowing it to take its time as it makes...
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The Monster And The Predator!
Despite the fact that his abilities stem from both his predatory namesake and the Sub-Mariner, the villain known as Tiger Shark made more of an impression as a ruthless S.O.B. than he did as a viable...
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My Father--My Enemy!
Following the Avengers' battle with and subsequent capture of the Zodiac crime cartel--thanks in part to one of their members, Libra, switching sides and saving them from perishing in their prison in...
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Mysteriously Yours... The Melter!
It's no surprise that a villain who calls himself the Melter would mainly spend his time going up against Iron Man--which, unless he was being groomed to be a villain on the scale of the Mandarin,...
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The Once And Future Kang!
There was a time when I mentioned with a reasonable amount of presumption that the history of Kang the Conqueror was so convoluted that there weren't likely that many people who would want to take a...
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The Earth That Was!
As many 20th century Marvel readers are aware of (it seemed appropriate to actually cite the century, given our subject matter), Kang the Conqueror's road to conquest began in the year 3000 A.D., in an...
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The Prestige And The Power!
The stories that led to Bruce Banner finally being revealed as the Hulk consisted of a slow build-up by writer Stan Lee, and seemed suited to the 10-11 pages those stories were allocated in the split...
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Mission: Replace Captain America!
Like a few of his fellow heroes, there have been times when even the straight-up, cool-headed Captain America has "gone wild," in the popular vernacular of the late '60s (and even extending into the...
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The End Of The Fantastic Four!
In a 1971 Avengers story, we saw a plan put into motion by Captain Marvel that resulted in the successful retrieval of Rick Jones from the Negative Zone, thus putting an end to their merged status that...
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Council Is Again In Session!
As we've previously seen, a three-member council made up of alternate-reality versions of Kang the Conqueror had convened to, in essence, clean up after themselves--that is, to exterminate the...
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Where Stumbles The Simple Surfer!
Given the Silver Surfer's grandiose gestures that bordered on posing, and his legendary tendency to theatrically brood and bemoan his sorry state while trapped on the planet Earth (with respective...
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"...And To The Vanquished--Death!"
The introduction of Tiger Shark to the Marvel Universe may have proven little more than an annoyance to the incredible Hulk, but it proved to be fatal to the human father of the Sub-Mariner--and, back...
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...And The Children Shall Slay Them!
In the seventh issue of Tomb Of Dracula from March of 1973, writer Marv Wolfman joins artists Gene Colan and Tom Palmer to form a near-perfect team of creativity that would take the book through the...
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Army Of The Undead!
At the end of the previousTomb Of Dracula story that saw our brave band of vampire-hunters under attack from a group of children that Dracula had enslaved into his service, you would think its...
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And In Exchange... Armageddon!
OR:"Then There Was That Time When the Top Brass Chewed Out the Sorcerer Supreme..."While the military enjoys a cooperative arrangement with the super-beings who often stand between humanity and those...
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To The Brotherhood We Return
At the end of 1967, Avengers writer Roy Thomas took a series of steps which would pare down the Avengers and would effectively wipe the slate clean as far as their lineup--leaving a core group of...
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The Better Man
From the Tribunal to the Council of Time to the Council of Cross-Time Kangs, no doubt by now you've seen your fair share of such assemblies of judgment in Marvel's wide range of stories, featuring...
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The Searing Gaze of the Thermal Man!
Along with Replicus and the Crypto-Man, the Thermal Man filled out a trio of deadly man-made constructs that gave the mighty Thor more trouble than they probably should have (as opposed to the Growing...
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A Match Made In Fiction
While there's little argument that Marvel knew what it had in Captain America, there was a point when it didn't quite realize what it had in Steve Rogers, Cap's civilian identity. To explore the...
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