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About 75% of Marvel’s 1970s output can be summarized thusly: Hero A fights Hero B due to (a) Mind Control; (b) a stupid misunderstanding; or (c) because one of them has a huge ego.
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In this issue, The whole Champions team fights a mind-controlled Hercules, who has a huge ego and rarely understands much of anything.
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Black Widow, however, is able to shake off the mind control.
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Because she’s mentally tough.
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But she has trouble beating the undertow.
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The villain is an evil scientist who we will never see again because he created a bunch of mutates who eat him in the end.
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