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Professor X To The Rescue!
In the early days of the X-Men, and really for as long as he held the reins of his original team, Charles Xavier maintained a no-nonsense relationship with his students--giving his young charges their...
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Kill Or Be Killed
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Judging by his villain name, our friend here--a mercenary with an excellent rep and a talent for gadgets--seemed to want to make it easy for his clients to find him in...
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Enter--The Master Of Guile!
When we last left the Silver Surfer, in the retelling of the story of his arrival on the planet Earth from the 1978 Lee/Kirby graphic novel, Galactus had refused the Surfer's plea to spare our world...
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May It Please The Court
While it's true that Marvel's characters fight to uphold the law (for the most part), on occasion they've found themselves on the receiving end of a hard-swung gavel when in a courtroom setting. And...
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My Son, The First Man!
I know what you're thinking, and you're absolutely right--it's been WAY too long since Thor slugged it out with a common mortal who's been inexplicably changed into a monstrous, primitive savage and...
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The Farmer And The Fury!
I guess this cover can't help but make you curious as to what a farmer could possibly do to get on the Hulk's bad side:But, more to the point--how is the poor guy going to survive it??Let's go back a...
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When A City Dies!
I remember last month when our comrade in comics, Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!, ripped Amadeus Cho a new one for claiming that the incredible Hulk was never directly the cause of loss of life in his...
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This Issue's Got Almost Everything!
There certainly seems to be a lot going on in this issue of Amazing Spider-Man:But, hey, does it really deliver on "everything" we see here? Let's break it down!Fortunately, we know it's going to have...
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Sacrifice Of The Surfer (Or: This Is No Gag)
In Part One of our review of the 1978 Stan Lee/Jack Kirby graphic novel, The Silver Surfer, we saw the Surfer come to Earth to herald the arrival of his deadly master, Galactus, whose intention was to...
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Sorry, Marvel Girl, Only One Back To A Customer
Welcome to yourBrain Teaser for the Week!Let's say you're the Vision, and you can manipulate your mass (i.e., increase or decrease it). Normally, we might associate mass with size--in other words, if I...
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The Strangest Teens Of All!
X-Men #66, the last issue of the team's original series before the book would be placed on indefinite hiatus, had a couple of interesting distinctions, artistically speaking. For one, Neal Adams, who...
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Worthless Dream
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??Judging by the hue of his costume, as well as his preoccupation with acquiring a certain metal element, it comes as little surprise that "Jack Smith" is known as the...
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Five months after the end of the original Silver Surfer series, Stan Lee explains (from a "Stan's Soapbox" entry in February, 1971) why the book was cancelled:(paragraph breaks inserted)One thing we've...
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Once More, The X-Men!
It was mid-1970 when the first X-Men series published its final issue, with the title subsequently taking a nine-month break and then "returning" with a shift to publishing reprints of its earlier...
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The Coming Of The Falcon!
With Captain America: The Winter Soldier now having introduced the very cool Falcon, it bears mentioning that the original comic book version of Falc didn't have military training, nor did he get his...
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The Fearsome Fury of--The Hellbirds!
Gosh, whatever happened to the pairing of the glamorous Black Widow and her former partner-in-crime, Hawkeye? I'm sure that's something Hawkeye would like to know, after the Widow dumped him (in his...
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Future Statues Of The Past
This statue was first created in 2004 by the Kucharek brothers, who have done a fair share of Marvel statue designs; but in light of all the "Days Of Future Past" buzz, it seemed appropriate to bring...
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Down, Down, And Away
While scouring New York for a bad guy, the Avengers separate in order to cover more ground. (In which case you'd need, oh, about 7,000 Avengers to even make a dent in a search of all of New York City,...
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The Yellow Stick Of God
Some of you reading comics during the early 2000s may remember writer Mark Waid's run on Fantastic Four, when the FF were in their "Imaginauts" phase. Valeria Richards... Johnny becoming the CFO of FF,...
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SPLAT Goes The Vision
It's time to plummet into another experiment inGiven how it looks like our friend the Vision is trying to become a regular in this series, we'd probably better summarize what we learned the last time:...
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