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The Sub-Mariner For The 1990s
The year 1990 brought a new series to the comics racks that I'm surprised I passed on:Shaped and handled by artist/writer John Byrne, Namor the Sub-Mariner provides the title character with a new...
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The Incursions of... Strange!
Following the run of Roy (and Dann) Thomas on Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, writer David Quinn began a sixteen-month story arc that introduced a new, enigmatic character which appeared during...
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The Thing No More!
There's little doubt that the saga of Ben Grimm's existence as the tragic Thing added a great deal of character development to the Fantastic Four book--a recurring plotline that by necessity of its...
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The Vengeance of Salomé--Sorceress Supreme!
Having dealt with the mysteries of two body-and-soul analogs of Dr. Strange which were created to carry out specific earthly tasks for him during his self-exile from our dimension--"Vincent Stevens,"...
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The Doomed Life of Donald Blake
It was only when I began giving some thought to looking into the final appearance of Dr. Donald Blake in the 1966-96 Mighty Thor title that I came to realize the can of worms I was prying open. To...
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...As A City Goes Mad!
Two issues into his notable run on The Defenders, writer Steve Gerber was continuing the effort by Len Wein to mainstream this non-team following the disbanding of the original group and chart a...
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"The Woman Who Never Was!"
Having collected and read the entirety of the Marvel Team-Up title from the '70s, I suppose I feel as qualified as anyone to say that, in terms of hit and miss, its stories generally tipped into the...
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The Fiery, Blustering History of Fin Fang Foom!
One has only to look at Marvel's "spec sheet" for our featured character today to get an idea of the long history and hidden appeal of Fin Fang Foom, a sentient dragon which dates back to 1961...
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The Dragon Seed Saga!
In 1991, John Byrne, the writer for the Invincible Iron Man title, began a one-year story arc which focused on essentially three things: the deteriorating condition of Tony Stark, his entire nervous...
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Death To The Son Of Loki!
In the pages of Mighty Thor, we've twice seen the fulfilling of prophecy regarding the appearance of Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent--the final foe to burst forth on the dreaded day of Ragnarok, and...
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Favorite Scenes: Mister Fantastic!
As the leader of the world's most famous super-team, Reed Richards--aka the one and only Mister Fantastic--is arguably the face of the Fantastic Four and front and center in the FF's dealings with...
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When Dies The Universe!
There probably isn't a comics reader alive who hasn't come across a story where a character appears to have or actually has returned from the dead--but isn't this taking things a bit too far?And...
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More Than Human
At first glance, this doesn't appear to be an individual to trifle with:After all, anyone who raises a fist and tells Satan off is generally someone to steer clear of--especially when that person...
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Redemption, Interrupted
Having covered the 1988 Armor Wars storyline in detail, in addition to its epilogue, we turn our attention now to a scenario where Tony Stark, who instigated the campaign whereby he sought out and...
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Thing vs. Torch!
Fantastic Four readers are not only familiar with the team's myriad adventures and battles over the years, but no doubt also with those clashes between the Thing and the Human Torch that erupted on...
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The Sorcerer, The Ally, and the Avengers!
Even as early as its Silver Age books, Marvel was discovering the value of story crossovers in regard to not only profit but also as a means to entice readers to pick up a title that they'd passed on...
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The Avengers Break Up! (Sort of!)
While it's true that the West Coast Avengers didn't have the best of endings to their story as a team within a team (or the most dignified), I admit to having been pretty jazzed about the concept in...
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2001: A Jack Kirby Odyssey
"Less than half the film has dialogue. It attempts to communicate more to the subconscious and to the feelings than it does to the intellect. I think clearly that there's a basic problem with...
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