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Something I've been working on for a few days... "Disturbance on 6th Avenue." (Modelled and rendered in 3DS Max, characters modelled in Blender.)

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I've never seen this chart before. Apparently I'm Doctor Octopus tall. Also, why would you include Professor X in this?!? 🤦‍♂️

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I scanned and stitched together the covers of The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe:

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I never knew it was Fabian Nicieza (and Jon Bogdanove) who created this ad. It was a stroke of genius - memorable to this day.

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Marvel Team-Up #55 features Adam Warlock and The Stranger, battling it out over Adam's Soul Gem, and it sent me spiralling down a rabbit-hole to find out how the idea of the Infinity Stones developed in the Marvel Universe. Buckle up, we're about to go on a nerdy deep dive!🧵

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I'm finally at the end of this run of Avengers, so buckle up for a long-ass thread about the grand finale - Avengers #200 ! Ms. Marvel's solo book had been cancelled the previous year, and she'd been an Avenger since then. Which was fine while Jim Shooter was writing the book...

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A while ago, I talked about the Silver Surfer, and how Stan Lee altered Jack Kirby's plans for the character. There was another instance where Kirby's original concept was changed, and that was with "Him", the character who would later become Adam Warlock.

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From Dave Gibbons' memoir, "Confabulation," on that time his wife finally had to read Watchmen:

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So that's it... I've read every issue of Master of Kung Fu. And I have mixed feelings about it. Firstly, it was a hell of an achievement for Doug Moench, who wrote almost every issue, spanning nearly 10 years. And whilst I didn't enjoy all of it, when it was good, it was great!

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Let's talk about the Silver Surfer. By the time of his first appearance, Stan Lee had handed over much of the plotting of the Fantastic Four to Jack Kirby. The same had happened with Steve Ditko on Spider-man, except as of #25 , Ditko actually received credit for it, unlike Jack.

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I've just reached the first Avengers issue where Iron Man's armour has a nose on the faceplate ( #126 ), so here, for those who don't know about it, is the story of Iron Man's nose!

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TIL... Jack Kirby drew the original cover to What If? #10 , but it was then redrawn by John Buscema. 🤷🏼

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Sitting in the garden reading comics. Life doesn't get much better than this.

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Is it just a coincidence that John Byrne was responsible for co-creating three corrupted/evil versions of female Marvel characters..? 🤔

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These were my gateway into the early Marvel stories. The Fantastic Four was my favourite, hence its poor condition, but also those early Hulk stories stayed with me. The image of the Hulk pounding on his cell, while Rick cowered outside gave me nightmares! Anyone else have these?

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So here's something I've only just realised; if you look at almost any Marvel comic cover-dated July or August 1974, you'll find a double page spread, e.g. Avengers #125 , Captain America #176 , Doctor Strange #2 , Master of Kung Fu #19 . It was a very short-lived policy they had. 🤷

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On his 73rd birthday, a Jim Shooter appreciation thread! As much as I like Steve Englehart's run on Avengers, the Jim Shooter era will always be "my" Avengers. It was the first time I read it regularly, as part of Marvel UK's Marvel Superheroes. Shooter hit the ground running...

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Now that I've finished reading Avengers, it's time for something a little spooky. I've never read a single issue of Tomb of Dracula, so I'm looking forward to this.

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Finally started reading Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu.

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Sal Buscema's entire pencilled first issue of Secret Wars II has come up on Heritage Auctions. Jim Shooter replaced Sal with Al Milgrom because he wasn't happy with Sal's work. Here are some comparisons.

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Gene Day died on this date in 1982, aged 31. He began his career drawing various independent comics, then got work at Marvel as an inker, primarily over Mike Zeck on Master of Kung Fu. When Zeck left the book, Gene took over as artist.

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In 2008, the original art from Amazing Fantasy #15 was donated to the Library of Congress. The anonymous donor said they first offered it to Steve Ditko, but he wasn't interested, telling them they could "do what they liked with it." High res scans here:

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RIP Keith Giffen. One of the first comics I owned was Defenders #45 , drawn by Giffen, and it was such a profoundly weird experience, it stayed with me. And his weirdness never waned, from the outrageous humour of JLI to the cosmic oddysey of Annihilation. He was a true original.

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Some beautiful movie-poster-style splash pages from Master of Kung Fu, by Paul Gulacy.

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Apropos of nothing on this sunny Sunday afternoon... a little classic Iron Man!

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2 years

The collector mentality got the better of me. Gotta catch 'em all!

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Because nobody demanded it... a brief history of the Falcon's wings! Sam Wilson first appeared in Captain America #117 . He wore a green and gold costume and had a pet falcon called Redwing. He couldn't fly, though. (Sam, that is... Redwing could fly just fine.)

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I'm nearly at the end of my Master of Kung Fu read-through, so I figured I'd better decide what I'm going to read next. I thought, after skirting the fringes of the Marvel Universe, I'd dive straight into its mainstream heart, so Marvel Team-Up it is!

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I could never choose just one... but this would definitely be in my top 3.

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Do you have an all-time favorite splash page?

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The only thing better than a Sal Buscema punch... is a Sal Buscema double-punch.

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Jim Starlin's cover art for Avengers #135 , along with the published version with some major redrawing by John Romita. No idea why the Human Torch on the left was removed, though. 🤷

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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! Hope you all got what you wanted. I got this wonderful Taschen book (regular comic book for scale.) I love the way it's printed to look like an actual comic, rather than the usual gaudy Omnibus-style colouring.

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Mail call! This has been a mini-grail of mine for some time. Arrived in time for Halloween! 👻🎃

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After a letter appeared in Amazing Spider-man #5 criticising the way Steve Ditko drew feet, he drew himself into a panel in #22 - concealed by a column, of course.

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Saturday morning reading.

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What fictional car would you drive around as your daily vehicle?

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What Fictional Car would you drive around as your daily vehicle?

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As of Avengers #100 (1972), this was all the people who'd been an Avenger (along with Hercules, not pictured). Nowadays, 90% of the Marvel Universe has been an Avenger at some point!

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A measure of how little value was placed on original comic artwork back in the day; Jack Kirby's original cover art for Hulk #1 was cut up and re-used for a house ad for Tales to Astonish #59 .

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Nothing to see here, just Steve Englehart mocking Don McGregor's verbose dialogue from the Black Panther's own series. (from Avengers #137 )

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In 1972 Stan Lee decided to create some comics aimed at women. He came up with the names The Cat, Shanna The She-Devil and Night Nurse, and then gave them to Roy Thomas. Roy enlisted some female creators (Linda Fite, Marie Severin, Carol Seuling, Jean Thomas) to work on them.

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Mail call! I've read this mini-series before and didn't care for it, but I thought I'd give it another go, having read a few Squadron Sinister/Supreme stories recently.

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Reunited with my comics after leaving them in storage for 6 months. 🥰

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In Iron Man #127 , Jarvis resigns after his poor treatment by an alcohol-influenced Tony Stark. The letter shown was actually Dave Cockrum's resignation letter (he was on staff as cover designer at the time) who'd become increasingly disillusioned with Jim Shooter's leadership.

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A landmark issue of the Avengers, with the debut of George Pérez on the book. But why, oh why did they saddle him with Vinnie Colletta's inks!?! 🤦‍♂️

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Spider-Woman was created in response to Filmation's plan to create a character with that name - they eventually changed their character to Web Woman. Meanwhile, in Marvel Spotlight #32 , Archie Goodwin & Sal Buscema created Spider-Woman, with a costume designed by Marie Severin.

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Daredevil #191 is Frank Miller's swansong (for now), with Daredevil playing Russian roulette with a paralysed Bullseye, as he struggles to define his own morality. It's the kind of story that would have been unthinkable in any Marvel comic only a few years before.

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Marvel Team-Up was never the best book in the Marvel lineup, but Chris Claremont and John Byrne certainly classed the joint up for a while in the 70's. After #70 , the X-Men went from bi-monthly to monthly, so they only returned sporadically, most notably reuniting for #79 .

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Some beautiful pages from Master of Kung Fu #38 , by Paul Gulacy and Dan Adkins. And props to Doug Moench for letting the art do the talking for an entire page - a rarity in a Marvel comic in 1975!

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I finally got round to framing my Buscema/Sinnott Fantastic Four page.

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Doctor Doom wishes you all a happy Monday!

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RIP Dan Green. Some examples of his amazing inking, over: John Byrne Bernie Wrightson George Perez Dave Cockrum

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Felt like drawing some Iron Men, so I did.

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Finally finished reading Man-Thing. There are a lot of ideas here that blew my mind when Alan Moore did them in Swamp Thing, but Gerber did it a decade earlier. Ideas like Ted Sallis/Alec Holland died that fateful day in the swamp, replaced by an animated clump of greenery.

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Happy Batman Day! #BatmanDay2024

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In Tomb of Dracula's first letter column in #3 , Gerry Conway gets schooled on vampirism by an expert in Balkan medieval history, and a missive from future Marvel writer, David Michelinie, who doesn't care for Gene Colan's art. The fool!

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Creation is a messy, inexact science. A while ago, Tom Brevoort wrote about how and when all the traits by which we define Wolverine came about - many of them long after his initial creation. Should all those writers and artists be called his co-creators?

When Was Wolverine Wolverine?

At this point, so long after the fact, and with a bevy of films reinforcing the essential ideas of the character, the specifics of who and what Wolverine are have been very well established. But fo…

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No, YOU'RE a nerd... 😛

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In this instance, Gil Kane sketched a gem on Warlock's forehead, and over the next 20 years, and via dozens of writers and artists, an entire mythology was created. Okay, that's it! Sorry this went on a bit. If you stuck with it to the end, well done. And thanks!

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Thought I'd do another view of my Galactus scene:

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In Daredevil #170 , the Kingpin finally enters Daredevil's world. Frank Miller had been struggling with a way to make the character appear threatening, until John Byrne told him, "you're the guy who does shadows - put him in shadow!"

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Happy birthday to Jack Kirby! Since it's a Wednesday (named after Odin), here's some of the Allfather's fanciest headwear, courtesy of the King:

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Steve Englehart's Avengers is gloriously nuts. This issue features a corporate supervillain team, a former teen romance star, the Avengers participating in a train robbery in the old west, and it all somehow works. Even Patsy Walker bickering with her ex-husband is entertaining!

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"Check out the page, people..."

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One of my favourite splash-pages ever, from Daredevil #165 . I love that the cityscape is half-way between the reality of 1970's New York and a Ditko-esque fantasy version.

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Jack Kirby's depiction of Ragnarok from Thor #128 (1966) and the first page of New Gods #1 (1970). Kirby had a vague plan to end Thor and introduce the New Gods at Marvel, but due to continuing disagreements with Stan Lee, he kept the characters to himself until he could leave.

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I finally got the last two Rom annuals I was missing, so now I really do have a complete set. Might have to buy my first ever action figure, too... 😬

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A little 60's-style Fantastic Four thing I drew:

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A graph of my knowledge of the various eras of comic history:

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Steve Ditko's trippy visuals led some people to believe he was on drugs when he was working on Doctor Strange. He wasn't, but apparently Gene Colan was...

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Four "fish out of water" covers that I like:

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The Two-Gun Kid reading The Rawhide Kid, having returned to the present day (1976) with Hawkeye. (from Avengers #162 , by Jim Shooter, George Pérez & Pablo Marcos)

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Love this Master of Kung Fu cover, by Mike Zeck.

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Frank Miller's cover art for Daredevil #165 is currently at auction, if you have a few hundred k going spare...

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Neal Adams left a blank space on this page of X-Men #60 , and wrote a note to Roy Thomas saying, "write pretty, Roy!" He later did something similar on an issue of Thor scripted by Stan Lee. Stan did not appreciate it.

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Christmas comic haul. I always wanted these as a kid, but never got round to collecting them at the time.

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In Daredevil #168 , Mr. Slaughter has his goon, Mickey, fetch him some cigars from Village Cigars. The shop still exists, pretty much unchanged, to this day.

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Roy Thomas chimes in on the controversy surrounding the Stan Lee documentary. I'm pretty much in agreement with Roy here.

Roy Thomas, Former Marvel Editor, Addresses Debate Over New Stan Lee Doc (Guest Column)

The prolific writer and former Marvel editor-in-chief looks at the Disney+ documentary 'Stan Lee' and the question of credit for creating the Marvel Universe.

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Neal Adams' original cover for his first X-Men issue was rejected by Marvel publisher, Martin Goodman, because he felt the figures obscured the logo. So Adams drew a second version, which was later homaged by John Byrne for X-Men #135 .

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So that's it for Daredevil #1 to 100. It was a hugely entertaining read, even when things got a little silly - looking at you, "Mike" Murdock! So what have I discovered along the way..?

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"... he would like to draw a comic strip." Steve Ditko in the Johnstown Tribune, circa 1950. After graduating from The Johnstown Veterans Trade School, he enrolled in the Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York, where he studied under Jerry Robinson.

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Amazing Adventures #16 is the start of the first ever Marvel/DC crossover... unofficially! Writer Steve Englehart was friends with Gerry Conway, who wrote Thor #207 , and Len Wein, who wrote Justice League of America #103 . Together, they cooked up a story in which they co-starred.

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I'm loving the motivational posters in the Daily Bugle offices. (from Daredevil #159 )

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I've started reading Avengers #100 to 200, so it's time for a change of avatar. The majority of this run has Vision in the corner box, so that's who I'm going with.

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Marvel Team-Up #53 is drawn by John Byrne, and co-stars the X-Men (although clearly their popularity had yet to soar, since they don't warrant so much as a mention on the cover!) I think, though, this must have been the first time Byrne drew the X-Men for publication.

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Marvel Premiere #15 , featuring the first appearance of Iron Fist, was released 50 years ago today, so here's a bunch of Iron Fist comics to celebrate that. I could have gone on laying out a bunch more Power Man & Iron Fist comics, but the wife was starting to look at me funny.😬

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So I was trying to find out more about Tony Isabella's falling-out with DC Comics over his creation, Black Lightning, and ultimately it led to me reading this notorious issue of Lois Lane. Come with me, if you will, down a rabbit-hole...

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I kind of love that the "official" image on the Wikipedia page for Glactus is this guy.

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A letter from Dave Cockrum in Fantastic Four #36 was seen by Andrea Kline and it started a correspondence that led to them getting married. They'd later have a son together, Ivan. When Ivan was born, Dave couldn't be found because he'd gone out to buy comics.

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Avengers #152 marked the end of Steve Englehart's run on the book. He'd been struggling to meet his deadlines for a while. #136 was a reprint, #145 & 146 were fill-ins by Tony Isabella, and even #150 was a reprint with a new prologue. (A thread about Marvel's rotating editors...)

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I've finally reached #100 of Master of Kung Fu - just 25 more to go! This issue features the debut of Gene Day as artist on the book, as opposed to inker. He pencils the first half of this double-sized tale, and Mike Zeck pencils the remainder.

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In Daredevil #87 , Matt moves to San Francisco, and Gene Colan immediately makes spectacular use of his new surroundings.

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Avengers #192 features a text piece about how Steven Grant, Mark Gruenwald et al came up with the plot for the resolution of this saga. It's an interesting glimpse behind the curtain.

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A thread on the long, twisting saga of the parentage of the Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver. It started with Roy Thomas wanting to forge a link between the Avengers and the Golden Age characters he loved so much, such as the All-Winners Squad.

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Avengers #127 takes place in Attilan, where the Avengers and Fantastic Four have come for the wedding of Quicksilver and Crystal of the Inhumans. A mysterious villain has been controlling the guests, and on the last page his identity is finally revealed.

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I was always so confused by this image of Tony Stark stretching out his armour like that. Who is this... the invincible Lycra Man?? (from Tales of Suspense #43 )

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4 spooky comics from my collection for #Halloween .

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His visual appearance was inspired by the alien race, the Metrons, from the Star Trek episode, "Arena." And Kirby clearly liked the name "Metron," as he'd later use the name for one of his New Gods.

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1 year

Daredevil #183 features a story that should have been in #167 , but was pulled at the last minute because the Comics Code Authority objected to a scene where a teenager smokes some PCP. Frank Miller, never a fan of censorship, was not happy.

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I have a real soft spot for Marvel's C-list characters like Nighthawk, so it's always a welcome surprise when they turn up in Marvel Team-Up.

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A nice splash page from Avengers #108 , by Don Heck & Joe Sinnott.

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In 1969, the Kirby family moved from New York to California, and later that year, they were visited by the new Editorial Director of DC Comics, Carmine Infantino. Kirby showed him some new characters he'd designed and said, "these I want to do - but I won't do them for Marvel."

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