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Tony Stark: Murderer!
As we've begun to see this week, the Avengers: Disassembled story arc from 2004 sent ripples through a select number of other titles, though some mostly shared the story's distinctive DISASSEMBLED...
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The Cycles Of Ragnarok!
The final months of 2004 saw the Avengers decimated by the events of Marvel's DISASSEMBLED story arc--bringing an end to the book as well as several of its characters, even as the crisis trickled down...
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The Fantastic Four Are On The Job!
We've reached the end of our week-long look at the various titles which rode the wave of the Avengers: Disassembled stories from 2004, adding the distinctive DISASSEMBLED banner to their mastheads even...
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When Titans Tussle!
Aside from his rumbles with Thor, and, on rare occasion, the Hulk, you don't see many one-on-one battles with Hercules that go the distance. What might have been a compelling exception to that...
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Titans Eight!
As often as various Marvel titans have clashed, to great fanfare, it may seem that we've seen the bold splash page title "When Titans Clash!" (along with its sister, "A Clash Of Titans!") any number of...
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You Can Take The Avenger Out Of The Carnival...
- Where YOU Weigh In on the Pros and Cons of a Character's New Attire -FEATURING: Hawkeye, the Marksman Following the Avengers' involvement in the Kree-Skrull War, Clint Barton, who at the time was...
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The Betrayal Of The Avengers!
Dissension In The RanksWhen resentments and disagreements boil over,even allies can turn against each other in fierce battle that can bring the house down.(And often does!)FEATURING:The AvengersWhen...
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The Bride Of M.O.D.O.K.!
It's 1983, and we're hip-deep in the middle of a Bill Mantlo story featuring the Incredible Hulk! And with Mr. Mantlo at the helm, you can imagine the piecemeal plot that you've stumbled into. But the...
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Re-Enter: The Squadron Sinister!
With his departure from The Defenders, writer Steve Englehart also decided to arrange for the departure of most of the core members of the non-team--the Silver Surfer, the Sub-Mariner, and the...
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Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Unfrozen
In Part 1 of the Defenders tale which introduces the character of Nebulon, the Celestial Man, and returns to comics the Squadron Sinister (a team of criminals which includes, notably, the future...
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A Life For A Life!
Yikes! What would make Captain Marvel and the rampaging Thing come to blows??We apparently have no further to look than the two figures in shadow, above; but technically, we have to point the finger to...
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The Black Leopard--M.I.A.!
While Roy Thomas's initial run on Fantastic Four lasted only seven issues--followed by a two-issue encore with a story which paid homage to the 1950s--he submitted a sampler of sorts of what he would...
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Now Strikes--The Panther!
As we've previously seen in a Fantastic Four tale from 1972, writer Roy Thomas, scripting his first story for the title, altered the name of the Black Panther--for reasons which had their basis not in...
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Spymaster Triumphant! (Wanna bet?)
Of all the foes who have taken on the invincible Iron Man and proven themself a force to be reckoned with, it's a little hard to believe that the Spymaster could pose that great a challenge in a...
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In The Grip Of The Gargoyle!
There are a handful of schemers I could think of who might warrant the international spy agency, S.H.I.E.L.D., pooling its forces with Captain America to take down. Off the top of my head, in no...
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The Race For Element X!
Things looked pretty hopeless when we left Captain America and the Falcon following a harrowing battle outside of a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. mountain base. With an elaborate plan that should put him in the...
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Mars Attacks!
It was hard to resist picking up the premiere issue of a new Amazing Adventures venture in mid-1973 that featured an adaptation of H.G. Wells' famous "The War Of The Worlds" saga that so successfully...
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The Art Of The War
Following up on a previous post that explored the launch issue of the Amazing Adventures series "War Of The Worlds" from 1973, it was evident that the acclaimed yet troubled series would be off to a...
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Trouble Times Two!
Following Steve Englehart's departure from Incredible Hulk, there was a small circle of writers in 1974 who pitched in for the nine issues published before Len Wein would begin his extended run: Chris...
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Battle Of The Bruisers: The Hulk vs. The Juggernaut!
In their first meeting in 1974, the incredible Hulk and Cain Marko (a/k/a the Juggernaut) didn't exactly hit it off as allies following their joint escape from captivity at Hulkbuster Base; in fact,...
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