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Up Close And Personal!

Over the years of working on the PPC, I've come to recognize the advantages of indulging one's creative process by use of the personal computer--a handy and, at times, daunting piece of equipment that...

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Traitor Of S.H.I.E.L.D.!

For an issue of Captain America so fraught with drama and danger, #127 received rather lackluster treatment in the advertising department:We can tell by the graphics that a lot of action is happening...

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"Thunder In The Netherworld!"

Complying with his role in the prophesied Day Of Three Worlds, Thor, the God of Thunder, follows the whispering wind to fight on behalf of another: Hercules, of Olympus, who met Thor in battle and...

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Things Past And Present

It all seemed so simple for Ben Grimm, the Thing: Reed Richards finally comes up with a formula for returning him to human form, but it would only have been successful on the earliest version of the...

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When A Star Dies!

Or: "When Worlds... er, Stories Collide!"Two similar plots, playing out just nine months apart in the pages of Strange Tales and Tales Of Suspense, would have a single and similar catalyst: Our sun,...

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My Son... The Sub-Mariner!

Following the death of the Lady Dorma and the abdication of Namor The First and his subsequent departure from Atlantis, the grief-stricken Sub-Mariner turned to the surface world in an attempt to...

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Symbolic Splash Pages: The Early Years

As an encore to our series on symbolic splash pages, the PPC wraps up this nostalgic look at the opening pages to a number of classic issues from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s by rounding up some of...

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War, Interrupted

Gosh, has anyone heard of this little story?I jest, of course. Even after nearly fifty years, the early 1972 story of the Kree-Skrull War by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, John Buscema, and Tom Palmer...

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Too Tall... Too Small

In the beginning of his career, there's little dissent that the crime-fighting Daredevil had a bizarre array of foes to pit his talents against, including but not limited to: a criminal who fashioned...

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The Height And The Hammer!

(It was either that or "This Height--This Hammer!")Having seen the schemes of Wilbur Day, a.k.a. the villain known as the Stilt-Man, when he was just starting out in crime, why don't we leap ahead...

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Legacy Of Loss!

At the end of the 1972 Kree-Skrull War, it's possible you may have found yourself thinking that you hadn't really seen much of a "war" by the time of the conflict's inexplicable cease-fire (a feeling...

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War, and Remembrance

"On occasion, my duties include examination of the histories of alternate universes."I have shown you a portion of the events which occurred in one such reality, in which the star-spanning Kree Empire...

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Six Against The Skrulls!

Since the Kree-Skrull War has recently been a focus of the PPC, we'd be remiss if we failed to note a group of individuals who formed a coterie as a result of that event:Yes, the Illuminati, who met at...

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Blood And Thunder!

From a period of eleven months during 1993-94, you may remember a crossover event which took its lead from the pages of Mighty Thor and essentially had the Thunder God decimating a number of...

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Bruce Zick Artistry

As a brief follow-up to the PPC's post of the Mighty Thor"Blood and Thunder" crossover event from 1993-94, have a look at some additional pages from artist Bruce Zick, whose résumé includes comics...

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The Return Of The 4-D Man!

Despite making a fairly strong showing in the Mighty Thor title in the early 1970s, it seemed the character of Mercurio didn't have much future potential in further appearances. Since his obsession at...

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God vs. Titan!

When last we left the mighty (and unfortunately insane) Thor, he had finally been subdued after having undertaken a violent and seemingly inexplicable rampage through the stars--all part of the 1993-94...

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Ka-Zar, 2.0!

As we've already seen examples of, Marvel wasn't exactly reluctant when it came to using the Fantastic Four mag, its hot property in the '60s, to promote its growing stable of characters as well as...

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Nature Abhors A Villain

Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Continued »»»

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The Hunt for Madam Medusa!

Even before its main story gears up, Fantastic Four #44 from late 1965 has a few bullet points to draw the comic enthusiast's notice. For one thing, it's the first FF story which takes place following...

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