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Havoc Is The Headmen!
OR:"I Think We're All Bozos In This Plot"(with apologies to the Firesign Theatre)When you form a villain group named the Headmen, there are probably a number of ways you could read into just why its...
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The Men Who Would Be Headmen
With the introduction of the criminal outcasts known as the Headmen, some of you might remember a letters page notice which mentioned that three of them had appeared previously--and it was left up to...
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A Bargain At A Buck
With rare exception, comics issues which pepper their covers with tidbits of scenes from inside, along with captions that exclaim that this issue is the one you can't miss (or words to that effect),...
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The Battle of Heaven's Hand!
At the tail end of 1981, Tony Stark's personal life was in a tailspin! We'd better get started patching it up, eh?Here's the gist:Stark's girlfriend, bodyguard/P.I. Bethany Cabe, suddenly takes off on...
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Birth Of An X-Man!
Once the decision was made to admit Rogue to the X-Men on a probationary basis--over the strong objections of none other than the X-Men themselves--there was nowhere to go but up for the young mutant,...
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Matrix Eight--Supplier of the Sinister
Or:"How To Harness The Hulk"Shortly after the brief Roger Stern/John Byrne period on Captain America had run its course, what appears to be an inventory story was published--one which no doubt...
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Symbolic Splash Pages: Fantastic Four
When I think of the symbolic splash pages that Marvel titles used on occasion beginning in the early 1960s, I seem to recall their mention in letters pages, as the page's letter-answering "armadillo"...
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Symbolic Splash Pages: Spider-Man
We're in the middle of a week-long look at Marvel's symbolic splash pages which were in limited use during the early 1960s to shortly after the mid-'70s--the cleverly put-together Page One which was...
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Symbolic Splash Pages: Avengers/X-Men
Wrapping up our look at symbolic splash pages which were featured in Marvel books from the early 1960s to the mid-'70s, we come to two team books which separately may not have offered much in this area...
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The Future Is Now: The Iron Man of 2020
Having seen a number of grim future scenarios portrayed in Marvel's line of comics, which we eventually caught up to in real time and passed without incident, it seems fitting to take a look at what...
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This Madman... This Power!
One of the more interesting crossover stories which occurred in early 1972 worked out either according to plan, or with a good deal of reshuffling behind the scenes--it's hard to say. My own guess is...
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I'm Your Friend... Your Enemy... Your Friend... Enemy... Friend...
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Continued »»»
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...At Death's Door!
In the last months of 1979, the Fantastic Four found themselves dealing with two major problems, both of them life-threatening--and to add to the list, they were traveling through space to seek out a...
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With Colleagues Like These...!
Or: "Is There A Doctor In The Cult?"It's probably safe to say that, since his ascendance to the mystic arts, Dr. Strange has no regrets in leaving behind his self-centered life as a surgeon, when he...
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"Your Serve... er, Move, Daredevil!"
Having put together a special series on symbolic splash pages featured in Marvel's major team books as well as in Amazing Spider-Man, the PPC now moves briefly to highlighting some noteworthy efforts...
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Howl Of The Werewolf! Rage Of The Vampire!
During 1944-45, Universal Pictures sated demand for the Wolfman, Dracula, and the Frankenstein monster by giving us The House of Frankenstein and, just a week short of one year later, House of Dracula,...
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The Coming Of... Apocalypse!
It's mid-1986, and Mike Nowlan is a mutant striving to keep himself under the radar--even more than the average mutant who fears discovery. A junkie by choice, Mike shoots up with heroin to keep in...
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In Search Of The Perfect Head
Or: "It's My Body And I'll Rage If I Want To..."Following the dynamic Defenders' defeat of the economic and political aspirations of the evil Headmen, it would be roughly thirteen years before we would...
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The Return Of... Captain America!?
By the fall of 1964, Captain America was well on his way to becoming a legend with a new generation of comics readers, just as he had been twenty years earlier during the Golden Age of...
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"To Tame A Titan!"
It wasn't until the early 1970s when a few of Marvel's line of books began to call attention to a title's fiftieth issue with a well-placed cover caption--the implication being that the issue was...
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