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Target: The Vision!
OR: "Attack of the Living Pinheads!" Following the Avengers' battle with the Grim Reaper and the Space Phantom, there came a moment when the cat was finally let out of the bag regarding two Avengers...
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'Tis The Season To Be A Secret Invader...
Happy holidays, everyone! But not everyone is feeling the holiday cheer. For instance, meet dismayed Daily Bugle reporter Lester (we're never told the poor man's last name), who on Christmas Eve finds...
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The Bargain... and the Betrayal!
With present-day Marvel super-teams having gone through a flurry of intermixing with each other in both conflict and do-si-do membership shuffles to a head-shaking degree, it stands to reason that...
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Universal Conflagration!
Following Captain Marvel's defeat of Thanos made possible by the destruction of the Cosmic Cube, the mad Titan eventually returned, though his failure led to him being abandoned by his "consort," the...
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Something Evil Falls To Earth!
Heading into 1980, artist John Byrne's brief eleven-issue run on The Avengers reached its end with a two-part story plotted by Roger Stern and almost seamlessly split between scripters Steven Grant...
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...Divided We Fall!
Judging by his most recent appearance in the PPC, you have to hand it to Paul Duval, the super-villain known as the Grey Gargoyle. Having already fought separately the big guns of the mighty...
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Presenting: The X-Men, 2.1
The death of Jean Grey, as well as the exit of Cyclops from their ranks, brought about significant change in the lives of the X-Men--changes which were introduced, one after another, in a late-1980...
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Provisionally Yours, The Paragon Collection
And speaking of Chris Claremont... A curious, but potentially profitable, product offer began making its way into advertising outlets (including Marvel's digital line of comics and, needless to say,...
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Don't Miss These Fabulous First Issues!
It's naturally very eye-catching when an iconic comics cover is paid homage by other artists or is otherwise recreated for a specific purpose. To date, the PPC has thrown the spotlight on Avengers #4,...
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Crisis From The Stars!
Having remembered writer Mark Waid's Fantastic Four run from the early 2000s, I was not only intrigued at seeing him take up work on the title again fifteen years later, but also surprised to learn...
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How To Repair Your Planet In 5 Easy Steps
To begin to understand the meaning and context of this post's title, we have to return to the year 1986, when the all-powerful being known as the Beyonder had come to the planet Earth and took human...
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The Path To Enlightenment
Before the conclusion of the 1985-86 Secret Wars II series which saw the presumed end of the Beyonder, "the One From Beyond," would go through a bout of depression where he believed finding his path...
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End Of A Hero
During the Secret Wars II limited series from 1985-86, the struggle of the Beyonder to understand humanity and achieve it in himself was full of pitfalls that complicated his goal and brought him into...
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Tuum Libertates Intermissa Usque Ultra Arguit*
*"Your Liberties Are Suspended Until Further Notice"If I recall correctly, The Siege from 2010 was the last crossover event that I collected before pulling the plug on retail purchases of new Marvel...
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This Evil Aborning!
The early 1980s were not especially kind to Heather Douglas--better known to Marvel readers as Moondragon, who had left the Avengers and the planet Earth following the saga of the Celestial Madonna to...
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Guys' Night Out!
OR: "Sharked By A Femizon"Occasionally I'll have the pleasure of reading a comics issue scripted by Dan Slott, who's been a prolific writer at Marvel since 2005 (though beginning his work for the...
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Dark Moon Rising
In Part One of the PPC's look at the fall from grace of Moondragon --following her attempt to mentally take control of a world's population as a stepping stone toward establishing her twisted view of...
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Defenders To Ashes...
Having gained a respite in their conflict with their fellow member, Moondragon, who had given herself over to a demon entity in dragon form and then viciously lashed out at them, things look grim for...
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Dr. Strange--Sorcerer Supreme!
In my early days of collecting comics, there were times that I would indulge in grabbing a random stack of a title and re-reading those issues in sequence, one after the other. Usually, they would be...
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Just Call "Him"... Paragon!
After the failure of the group that would later be named the Enclave to create a perfect, powerful human specimen to aid in their goal of world conquest, it stood to reason that these men would make...
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