Tales Of Suspense #72 (1965)
An inconsequential one-off in which Tony Stark laments the loss of his love Pepper Potts, and Iron Man laments the gain of Tony’s love, Pepper Potts. Check out that prose. Sheesh!
The good news is, it’s Don Heck’s last issue. The bad news is, it’s also Kirby’s last Cap. He stays on layouts, but his pencil work is done.
It’s hard to bust up the Captain America story in issue #72, because unlike the Iron Man story, it continues for several more issues. So why don’t we just say that in this issue, we learn that the prior solo Cap stories were actually narrated by…Captain America! (He was telling the stories to fellow Avengers Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Hawkeye.)
We learn a bit about how the Army maintained his secret identity for him. And that the Nazis had giant robots.
FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #3 (1965): Reed and Sue wedding; 1st Patsy Walker
Annuals used to be a big deal, and perhaps no comic has made better use of them than the early Fantastic Four annuals. Whereas prior to FF Annual #1, these were…
THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra
Note: This post originally appeared on Berkeleyplaceblog.com on January 14, 2014. It is reprinted here for posterity, and because Manhattan Projects was a kick-ass comic well worth reading. Jonathan Hickman…
CREATURES ON THE LOOSE FEAT MAN-WOLF #32-33 (1974)
Man-Wolf is in an alley, looking up at the window of his “when I’m human” girlfriend, when he gets jumped by Kraven the Hunter. His daddy, J. Jonah Jameson, continues…
MARVEL PREVIEW #8 (1976)
Another issue of a magazine that puts non-Marvel Universe stories side-by-side with black and white tales of the horrorverse. I was very excited by the cover, hoping that Morbius and…