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There's Always The Awesome Android
One Marvel character who has always flown lumbered under the radar is the Mad Thinker's so-called Awesome Android, which seldom if ever makes appearances without his awesome adjective. Making his debut...
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When Monsters Meet!
With Halloween just around the corner, it's the perfect time to bring forth the monsters! And for that, we need look no further than the incredible Hulk, who has often been called such--only this...
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The Sentry Sinister!
OR: "What A Way To Spend A Vacation"With all the exposure the Kree have received in The Avengers, how curious that we first learn of them in the pages of Fantastic Four, and in only a limited number of...
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The Legacy Of Scourge!
During the extended storyline featuring Scourge--the anonymous killer who stalked and gunned down nearly thirty super-villains in a number of Marvel titles and capped each kill with the phrase,...
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My Orders Are: Destroy!
OR:"Your Orders Are What I Say They Are, Clown!"With his introduction in mid-1967 that featured him squaring off against the world's greatest super-team, the sinister Sentry heralded into comics the...
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"A Terrible Thing To Waste..."
One of the more unusual Hulk stories to see print took place in 1986, during the period of time when Bruce Banner's mind was so deeply suppressed within the green goliath that the Hulk truly became a...
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God Loves... Man Kills!
The 1982 graphic novel X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, an often violent story featuring a plot to wipe out the mutant population, spends a great deal of its time building momentum towards that goal while...
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When Companies Clash!
Between the late '90s and the early 2000s, there were two collaborations between Marvel Comics and DC Comics which featured mash-ups of their respective stables of comics stars: the 2003 JLA★Avengers,...
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Heads Will Roll At Gamma Base!
In early 1979, the military/research installation known as Gamma Base began experiencing some internal problems that brought it under the scrutiny of the federal government--problems set in motion by...
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This Is A Job For... The USAgent!
A Marvel crossover event launched in late 2000 unfortunately took over sixteen years to catch my eye--even though its story carried considerable implications for galactic peace and was written by Kurt...
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The Clothes Make The Sorcerer Supreme
There have been noteworthy reinterpretations of Marvel characters handled by writer Warren Ellis (e.g., Moon Knight, Thor)--efforts which often meet with mixed reactions from readers, but are...
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The Double-Death Threat!
While it's true that you can't thumb through your stack of old Iron Man comics without coming across at least a half dozen Iron Man vs. the Mandarin issues, do you still recoil with a start when you...
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For Better Or Worse--Your Nurse Is On The Job!
While Earth's super-beings enjoy a measure of autonomy and often find themselves in the driver's seat in terms of making decisions for and issuing orders to civilians, there's one profession which even...
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Avengers vs. Avengers!
It's Avengers Day in October of 1967, as the city of New York honors the super-team for its victory over the Mandarin (which readers also had cause to celebrate, since the battle took place in the...
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Interview With A Vampire
Let's say that you're driving through town one night, and you come across the scene of an accident--only in this case, the accident has just happened, and the police haven't arrived yet. There are...
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My Brother, My Enemy!
OR: "Airport '76!"By February of 1976, it was becoming clear that X-Men was the book to read, with new Marvel artist Dave Cockrum quickly gaining favorable word-of-mouth at achieving the impossible:...
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The X-Ceptional Artistry of Dave Cockrum
Taking a look at X-Men #97 couldn't help but remind me of artist Dave Cockrum's initial stay on the title--an assignment which, in tandem with writers Len Wein and Chris Claremont, helped to reignite...
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Hell ls A Very Small Hulk!
You'd think the insidious organization known as Hydra would have learned from their previous debacle to never again tangle with the incredible Hulk, but you'll understand in a moment why they were...
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The Fall of Hogun The Grim!
In order to retrieve the mighty Thor from Earth so that his power could be used to augment the forces of Asgard in battling the invasion of Seth, the Egyptian god of death, Hogun the Grim has...
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