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STRANGE TALES #135-138 (1965): Nick Fury; 1st Hydra!I’m fully aware that there was a Sgt. Fury war comic, but I haven’t covered it here because it’s only tangentially relevant to the...
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AVENGERS #178 (1978): 1st ManipulatorThis issue is a real gem. I’d completely forgotten it until I started pulling out the polybags to do this blog. ...
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Captain America #312 (1985): 1st Flag SmasherThis is the first appearance of Flag-Smasher, an anti-Nationalist of the worst—not best—kind. His fear is fascism,...
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SHE-HULK #2-5 (1980)In her attorney-guise as Jennifer Walters, She-Hulk is defending a crime boss and tries to coerce three hoods who attacked her last...
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SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #19 (1998)Peter and MJ go to Florida for a weekend getaway, but Lizard’s there. So is Slug. The story is average, but it’s...
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The Best Comic Book Movies/TV Shows of 2017Fine print: This reprints a post from December 2017 on my old site. It’s unedited and just posted here for posterity and because the...
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DOCTOR STRANGE #175-178 and AVENGERS #61 (1968-1969): 1st SatannishIn these issues, we see Gene Colan experimenting more and more with the kind of elaborate page designs that Jim Steranko was...
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HULK VS THING BY CHRIS GIARRUSSO (1997)From Marvel Visions’ fan art section, a recreation of the epic Tyson/Holyfield fight. Giarrusso would go on to be a Harvey Award...
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AVENGERS #1/416-3/418 (1998)George Perez draws everyone. Everyone? The Avengers roar back to life with issue slapped with a #1 but later...
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Hulk by Dale KeownThis is awesome.
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Captain America #326 (1987)On Halloween, Captain America goes trick-or-treating at Red Skull’s house. He is haunted by the ghosts of villains...
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DAREDEVIL #371 (1998)Karen Page steals Matt’s credit card, hooks up with his boss Roz, and goes on a spending spree while Matt is in Cecelia Reyes’...
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NIGHT NURSE #1-4 (1972-1973)Night Nurse was one of a trilogy of female-titled books that hit the stands in 1972. (The other two were Shanna of the Jungle and Claws of...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHIELD!The agency first appeared in Strange Tales #135, which hit the stands on August 25, 1965.
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MAVERICK #6-7 (1998)Elena leaves Maverick to go hunt down Sabretooth, who killed her mother. Maverick goes after her, and in #7 has a full-issue fight...
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ALPHA FLIGHT #6 (1998)In the earlier issues, we saw that Sasquatch was now feral and contained in Department H’s basement. Of course we knew he’d...
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MARVEL FANFARE #51 (1990)Marvel prints an old Silver Surfer story that was meant to be Silver Surfer #1. The Kree is trying to take...
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CAPTAIN AMERICA #323 (1986)Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary on a “new characters” kick, and they’re all “go USA” types. First the...
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X-MEN AND DOCTOR DOOM ANNUAL 98 (1998)Doom travels back in time to investigate a connection he perceives between Magneto and Onslaught. He figures out that Professor X created...
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #432, SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #25, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #255, SPIDER-MAN #89 (1998): Spider HuntIn Spider-Man #88 , Norman Osborn framed Spider-Man for murder. The results of that frame up make up the four issues that constitute the...
