The Lifeforms story took place over four titles that seem to not go together: Punisher, a street-level book that usually doesn’t touch the 616; Daredevil, a character-driven series that, at the time, was mostly about the occult; Hulk–a traditional superhero title; and the cosmic Silver Surfer.
An AIM soldier is mutated into a monster. Punisher kills him. Or thinks he does.
The Lifeform returns in Daredevil’s annual, where DD and some of his cast fight it. Like Typhoid Mary.
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And then Hulk.
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Silver Surfer the fights him…
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…and gets to solve the problem by dumping Lifeform on another planet.
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These stories are fairly self-contained–the through-line being that the Lifeform can’t die.
These are entertaining enough. I dug the story.