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Daredevil: The Man Without Fear Collected

By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

Matt Murdock was raised by a single father, an over-the-hill prizefighter with one last chance to make it good - a chance that cost him his life. Taunted and tormented by children while growing up, Matt's life was irrevocably altered after he was blinded by radioactive materials while saving the life of an old man. The payoff? An unbreakable will a...

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Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #5

By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

The conclusion is here! But this is just the beginning for the Man Without Fear!

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7.5

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #4

By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

Enter the Kingpin! What will this mean for a young Daredevil?

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7.5

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #3

By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

Matt Murdock's connection with Elektra grows stronger. But is Murdock in over his head?

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7.5

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #2

By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

Matt Murdock hunts the men that killed his father.

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8.5

I could maybe do without the intense melodrama of the narration, but this is an origin story hugely worth its salt, for a character that hugely deserves it.

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1

By: Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

The origin of Daredevil is retold by legends Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.! What led Matt Murdock on the path to becoming the Man Without Fear?

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9.0

Doctor Strange Season One #1

By: Greg Pak, Emma Rios
Released: Sep 12, 2012

A window-crashing, high-flying, globe-traveling, ghost-battling adventure from the earliest days of Doctor Strange’s training in the mystic arts! Part Indiana Jones, part Lord of the Rings, thrill to this new tale of how a selfish, arrogant surgeon collided with a hot-headed martial artist to become the greatest team the mystic arts have ever see...

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danehops rated Strange Tales #115 Nov 29, 2024
8.0

Strange Tales #115

By: Stan Lee, Dick Ayers

As never seen before! The Torch disguises himself as Spidey just so he can successfully scorch Sandman!

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Sub-Mariner: The Depths #5

By: Peter Milligan, Esad Ribic
Released: Mar 4, 2009

Satan's greatest trick? Convincing the world he didn't exist. Here, at the bottom of the ocean, at the bottom of the earth, Dr. Randolph Stein is about to plumb the depths of his very soul, as he discovers that some things can't be explained by facts, or science or reason. Some things do defy explanation. Something does live down here in the black ...

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Sub-Mariner: The Depths #4

By: Peter Milligan, Esad Ribic
Released: Jan 7, 2009

Legendary adventurer Randolph Stein travelled here, into the dark belly of the Marianas Trench, to find a missing deep-sea expedition and refute a legend. What he's found surpasses his wildest nightmares. A creature of indescribable power and fury has been waiting for him. Its name is Namor, and it has special plans for Stein. Special plans.

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Sub-Mariner: The Depths #3

By: Peter Milligan, Esad Ribic
Released: Nov 5, 2008

There is something down there in the murky depths that man was not meant to see. Something that drives men mad -- or worse. A creature of indescribable power and fury that been waiting for Stein for a long, long time. The legend is true, and it's larger than Stein could have ever imagined.

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Sub-Mariner: The Depths #2

By: Peter Milligan, Esad Ribic
Released: Oct 1, 2008

There is something down there in the murky depths -- something far closer to God than man -- and it has been waiting for Stein for a long, long time.

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Sub-Mariner: The Depths #1

By: Peter Milligan, Esad Ribic
Released: Sep 3, 2008

When a deep sea expedition mysteriously vanishes without a trace near the Marianes trench, legendary adventurer, Randolph Stein embarks on a journey that will rock him -- and his crew -- to their very core. Travelling deep into the dark belly of the sea, the men of the good ship, Voyager, are about to see things that defy description, that supersed...

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7.5

Fury: Peacemaker Collected

By: Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson

Before he presided over S.H.I.E.L.D., before he ran with the Howling Commandos, Sgt. Nick Fury fought on the blood-stained sands of the Tunisian desert. It was here that he came face to face with the incomparable might of the 21st Panzer Division and its skilled warrior commander - General Stephen Barkhorn - and barely lived to tell about it. And i...

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X-Men: Magneto Testament #5

By: Greg Pak, Carmine Di Giandomenico
Released: Feb 4, 2009

The boy survived Kristallnacht, the Einsatzgruppe, and the Warsaw Ghetto. But now Max Eisenhardt faces Hitler's Final Solution in the death camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. What will it take to endure? Who are the Sonderkommando? And will a vision of a girl named Magda bring hope – or horror? The definitive origin story of Magneto reaches its sh...

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X-Men: Magneto Testament #4

By: Greg Pak, Carmine Di Giandomenico
Released: Dec 31, 2008

The Poles called the little town Oswiecim...but the conquering Nazis have given it a new name. Now the young man who will eventually become Magneto faces the most unfathomable horrors of his life within the death camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. Whose familiar face will greet him? What will it take to survive? And in the face of such overwhelming ...

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X-Men: Magneto Testament #3

By: Greg Pak, Carmine Di Giandomenico
Released: Nov 12, 2008

The harrowing saga of young Magneto's struggle to save his family from the Nazi onslaught continues as the German army invades Poland -- and our hero learns brutal new lessons and discovers new strength within himself. But even with all of his hard-won smarts and developing skills, how can one boy fight against the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and ...

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X-Men: Magneto Testament #2

By: Greg Pak, Carmine Di Giandomenico
Released: Oct 8, 2008

The definitive origin story of one of Marvel's greatest icons continues as young Magneto, a Jewish boy in Hitler's Germany, travels to Berlin with his father in a desperate attempt to secure protection from the Nazi menace. What new rules and skills must father and son learn to survive in this insane new world? And will those lessons be enough to s...

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X-Men: Magneto Testament #1

By: Greg Pak, Carmine Di Giandomenico
Released: Sep 10, 2008

Today, the whole world knows him as Magneto, the most radical champion of mutant rights that mankind has ever seen. But in 1935, he was just another schoolboy -- who happened to be Jewish in Nazi Germany. The definitive origin story of one of Marvel's greatest icons begins with a harrowing struggle for survival against the inexorable machinery of H...

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danehops rated Marvels #1 Nov 29, 2024
8.0

Marvels #1

By: Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross
Released: Jan 12, 1994

Double-sized! Regular price! Welcome to New York City. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly colored costumes scale the glass and concrete walls, and creatures from space threaten to devour the planet. Witness the birth of the Marvel Universe through the eyes of the proverbial man in the street - Daily Bugle photographer Phil Shel...

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danehops rated Marvels #0 Nov 29, 2024
8.0

Marvels #0

By: Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross
Released: Aug 10, 1994

Phineas Thomas Horton is a brilliant inventor on the brink of great discovery! Like a modern day Prometheus, Horton, unlocking the secrets of creation, hands the world a Human Torch! This is the beginning of Marvels!

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danehops rated Captain America #255 Nov 29, 2024
6.0

Captain America #255

By: Roger Stern, John Byrne

It's the 40th anniversary of Captain America! Join Cap and his comrades down memory lane, and witness the legend that is Captain America!

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9.0

Origin II Vol. 1 Collected

By: Kieron Gillen, Adam Kubert

A new chapter in the secret origin of one of Marvel’s most mysterious characters is revealed, by superstars Kieron Gillen (THOR) and Adam Kubert (AVX)! A few years after the events of ORIGIN finds James “Logan” Howlett running with the wolves, until something unexpected brings him back into the world of men! And when word of a clawed wild man...

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danehops rated Origin Collected Nov 29, 2024
8.5

Origin Collected

By: Paul Jenkins, Andy Kubert

Collects Origin (2001) #1-6. Marvel's best-kept mutant mystery revealed! Before the X-Men, before Weapon X, Wolverine's struggle with his subconscious savagery first flourished in family tragedy. Some of Marvel's most acclaimed creators unite to tell the tale that shaped mutantdom's mightiest misfit.

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danehops reviewed Detective Comics #27 Nov 29, 2024
8.0

Similar to the introduction of Superman, I would've been quite excited to read this in 1939!

Detective Comics #27

By: Bill Finger, Bob Kane
Released: May 17, 1939

The very first appearance of the Bat-Man in the six-page story ""The Case of the Criminal Syndicate!"" This issue also features the first appearances of Commissioner Gordon and the revelation of Bat-Man's secret identity as Bruce Wayne.

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danehops reviewed Thor: Son of Asgard Worthy Nov 29, 2024
6.0

It was better than the last volume, but then you read the last issue, and yeah, terrible again.

Thor: Son of Asgard Worthy

By: Akira Yoshida, Greg Tocchini

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danehops reviewed Thor: Son of Asgard #12 Nov 29, 2024
2.0

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Thor: Son of Asgard #12

By: Akira Yoshida, Greg Tocchini
Released: Jan 12, 2005

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danehops reviewed Thor: Son of Asgard #11 Nov 28, 2024
7.5

First Mjolnir usage + Hela in one issue? Kinda baller.

Thor: Son of Asgard #11

By: Akira Yoshida, Greg Tocchini
Released: Dec 8, 2004

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danehops reviewed Thor: Son of Asgard #10 Nov 28, 2024
7.0

The hammer has been grasped.

Thor: Son of Asgard #10

By: Akira Yoshida, Greg Tocchini
Released: Nov 10, 2004

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danehops reviewed Action Comics #6 Nov 28, 2024
8.0

I love the commercialization of the concept of Superman. It's also really funny, but mostly unintentionally.

Action Comics #6

By: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster

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