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Exodus!
While I'm sure none of us would want to take on the engineering ordeal of having to devise a way to move and relocate an entire city, along with its foundation, intact, there doesn't seem to be much to...
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May The Best Empire Win!
In September of 1980, a dramatic scene unfolded in space, as the X-Men were taken aboard a Shi'ar ship and ordered to turn over the woman named Jean Grey, who at the time was the embodiment of the...
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The Plan Is: Play Dead!
Previously, we've seen a plan employed by Reed Richards where the Fantastic Four and their allies, the uncanny Inhumans, took the shortest route to victory by employing a deception that made it appear...
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Roger Stern Reassembles The Avengers!
While I stopped reading new comics from Marvel well before 2019, I couldn't resist the temptation to take a look at a one-shot issue published that year during the company's 80th anniversary...
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When Calls Galactus, Cancel Your Engagements
Whatever your thoughts on the mutant performer known as Dazzler, you probably would never have considered the possibility that she might one day be sought after by...Yes, I can guess what you're taking...
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The Guiding Light
If you're a New York club performer with your own light show, you'd probably be flattered if an alien known in part for his aloofness toward lesser beings takes notice of you, a single mortal, out of...
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When Strikes the Savagely Sensational New Silver Surfer!
In September of 1970, Silver Surfer readers were presented with a tantalizing, and potentially terrifying, cliffhanger:A startling scene which unfortunately coincided with the end of the series'...
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In The Grip Of The Psycho-Man!
Let's just recap how bleak things are looking recently, shall we?The Silver Surfer, fed up with his treatment by the hostile human race, refuses to turn the other cheek any longer and vows to meet...
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X-Men: Revisited
In late June of 2018, artist/writer John Byrne could be found penciling and then posting in his forum a few off-the-cuff pages of the X-Men in all-new action (yet as they still were in both garb and...
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"Invasion From The 5th Dimension!"
With writer Roy Thomas back in the driver's seat following Gerry Conway's twenty-month stay on Fantastic Four, artist Rich Buckler continued to make his mark on the title, handing both writers a number...
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"Havoc In The Hidden Land!"
Invaders from the 5th Dimension have taken control of the Great Refuge of the Inhumans! Holding the royal family captive is their conqueror, Xemu, who intends to employ his sonic amplifier, the...
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Hail, Madame Hydra!
Ophelia Sarkissian may not be a name that immediately rings a bell for Marvel readers, but the character has enjoyed a long and prolific career as one of the company's most deadly and recognizable...
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By The Vision Betrayed!
OR: "Mr. Smith Goes To Outer Space!"Sandwiched between the new Goliath's conflict with the Swordsman and a looming threat from Kang the Conqueror was a three-part Avengers tale from 1969 which would...
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Beware The Power Of... The Ultimate Ultron!
THE STORY SO FAR:The Vision goes missing (apparently)!A cylinder of the new, impenetrable metal called adamantium has been stolen (definitely)!Iron Man is injured when an Avengers training session is...
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My Daughter... My Victim!
"Where's the fun in having power... if you can't go out and abuse it now and again?"- Lilith, daughter of DraculaWith their contentious relationship a never-ending one, it's usually a pleasant surprise...
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(Almost) All You Ever Wanted To Know About Phoenix...
If you were one of those Marvel readers who went as far as you could in trying to make some sort of sense of all the subsequent appearances of Phoenix after the "death" of Jean Grey, let me just say...
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Turmoils In Time!
The world of fiction is replete with the concept of time travel, though that particular method of travel is especially epitomized in the more visual fiction of comic books where fantasy and adventure...
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Demolished!
When you take into consideration the fact that the story of the character known as Deathlok--the cyborg assassin/military operative tracking his targets in a not-too-distant post-apocalyptic...
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Countdown to Operation: Purge!
Having followed the trail through time of the cyborg known as Deathlok the Demolisher, who unwillingly vanished from the year 1990 to appear in our own time only to be rendered mindless and...
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