(Cover Date: March, 1970)

Summary: Suprema uses her power to make men obey her by taking over several mob gambling operations. After tracking him down through the signal in his badge, Suprema commands Dum Dum Dugan to take her to Nick Fury, who is at a weaponry range with Cap. Suprema puts Fury & his SHIELD agents under her control. Cap fights through them to escape in Suprema's vehicle. Cap does some research on Suprema & returns later in the vehicle. He breaks Suprema's control of the SHIELD agents by generating an electrical field. The field disrupted the control disc worn by her brother, Scarbo. Suprema & Scarbo were formerly professional hypnotists.

Comments: I think Stan had too much on his plate at this point in his career. FF, Spidey & Thor were still good. Cap & Silver Surfer not so much. more

(Cover Date: March, 1970)

Summary: While the Black Panther is being held in chains by the Sons of the Serpent, an imposter has been attacking businesses that support the Sons of the Serpent. The Avengers feel compelled to go find their missing "teammate". The Wasp spots the "Panther" robbing a jewelry store & summons the others. When the Avengers are closing in, the "Panther" is rescued by a craft using gas grenades. The Avengers zero in on the TV studio that the Supreme Serpent is broadcasting from to the nation. The imposter Panther is unmasked & revealed to be a anti-white black man. The real Panther is freed by the Vision & takes a mask off the imposter to reveal he is actually white. It is then revealed that the there are two Supreme Serpents, who are the white host & black guest of the controversial TV talk show. Their plan was to create racial division in order to seize power. After threatening the team with guns, they are both taken out by the Panther. more

(Cover Date: March, 1970)

Summary: After Electro finds out that Spidey will be appearing on a late night talk show, he gets JJJ to agree to pay him for beating & unmasking Spidey during the show. At the TV studio, with JJJ in attendance, Electro attacks Spidey with his electric bolts. Spidey manages to web Electro's hands & feet together, causing him to short-circuit himself. Electro escapes after Spidey is stunned by the resulting feedback. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: After Colossus expresses his concern that Illyana may be in danger, Gateway teleports him to Limbo, where Illyana, as the Darkchilde, is facing off against S'ym & his demon horde. Illyana thinks that Colossus is a necromantic shade of her dead brother. She takes him to rescue the New Mutants, who are being held by characters out of a Russian novel due to some sorcery. Colossus' organic steel banishes the witch-crone, Baba Yaga, along with the others. Illyana saves the New Mutants from Baba Yaga's spell using a counterspell in Limbo. Colossus vanishes after encouraging his sister to strive to be good & to not succumb to evil. S'ym reforms after having been shattered by Colossus & reasserts his control over his horde. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: Infectia meets a policeman who blames X-Factor for the destruction in the city & turns him into an Anti-Body with a kiss. Infectia manipulates Iceman into protecting her from the Anti-Body until it disintegrates. Scott & Jean go to Dallas to find out if Freedom Force knows anything about Scott's son's whereabouts. Infectia asks Bobby to take her to the ship, claiming that she is also a mutant in need of training. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: The mad Quicksilver appears to the group in the Hungarian prison to tell them that he is behind their capture in his continuing quest to seek vengeance upon them. After Hawkeye & Wonder Man break them out of their prison, they fight a horde of giant scarlet beetles, who Hank had fought as Ant-Man. After succumbing the beetles, Hawkeye refuses to talk to Mockingbird, since the Phantom Rider, now in Hungary, has told him that she killed his earlier self. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: Betty Brant Leeds has disappeared & is suspected by Spidey of having joined the "Students of Love" cult. Flash follows the cult member that was seeing Betty into a deadly ambush but is rescued from harm by Spidey. Using a spider-tracer, Spidey follows the cult member to their compound in New Jersey. At night, Spidey comes to take Betty away, but he is given away to the other cult members by Betty's cry for help. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: At the nuclear power plant, Quicksand sabotages its fail-safe devices & sets its nuclear core to explode. Daredevil tries to stop the crazed Hogun's rampage through the city while he looks for Thor. Thor uses his hammer to create a dimensional vortex to send the nuclear power plant to a deserted world, where it explodes. After DD is pinned by a pole thrown by Hogun, Hogun leaves the scene in a tram, which is then shot up by the police. The Vizier's flame tied to Hogun's life is extinguished in Asgard.

Comments: This issue has a very Lee/Kirby feel to it. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: The team is sent to Washington, DC, to deal with a brutal attack on the populace. They find that some of the Horde are surgically modified humans with bombs planted inside them. The Horde leave with DC in ruins. Having given birth, Aline passes away, again subject to the Morituri Process. Dr. Tuolema uses a stolen Horde technology to send out a call for help. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

C&D = 7.5
DS = 7.0

C&D Summary: As part of their bargain when he restored Cloak's powers, Mr. Jip tells Cloak to bring Dagger to him. Cloak takes Dagger to what he believes is a safe place, only to find that he took her where Jip wanted her to be. Dagger finds herself surrounded by shadow beings.

DS Summary: Kaluu, Rintrah & Enitharmon take Strange to his boyhood home in the midwest. They create illusions to try to attach him back to his reality. When the illusions don't work, they let Strange take himself to med school where he saw a woman named Alice that he was infatuated with but never knew. This does the trick.
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(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: While Spidey is questioning some tough guys in a bar about who hired the hitman (last issue), one of the tough guys is shot in the back by an unknown assailant when he is about to shoot Spidey. Tombstone tells the Arranger that the unknown assailant at the bar is looking for him, as planned. Peter receives a call to meet someone at the Statue of Liberty. When he comes as Spidey instead, he gets shot at to scare him off. He catches up with the Punisher, who wants Robbie's cassette tape regarding Tombstone. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

HE = 7.0
DP = 7.0

HE Summary: Hawkeye & Mockingbird encounter Blind Justice when he wants to kill the local florist, who just happens to be the ringleader of an extortion gang.

DP Summary: Hank is a suspect in a series of burglaries that fit his previous powers as an Avenger. Hank suspects who is behind the burglaries & where he will strike next. Hank finds his old foe, Dr. Nemesis, & manages to overcome him using his technology & ability to shrink objects. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: The Star Child seeks knowledge from his father, who has become mad & believes he is the Messiah due to the power granted to him. The Star Child offers him the choice of "nonexistence" or the removal of the Star Brand, which would further his madness.

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: Kree Supreme Leader Nenora charges Ronan the Accuser with terminating SS due to his doppelganger wreaking havoc on Kree border worlds. SS defeats Ronan after a brief skirmish. SS & Nova then track down & find the doppelganger who has destroyed his reputation with the Kree.

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: The team gets back the stuffed animals stolen by three girl bullies from Julie & her friends by discreetly using their powers at the bullies' hideout.

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: After Illyana talks her reluctant teammates into going with her to find Forge, they find that he is being protected by Freedom Force. After the team is defeated by Freedom Force, Destiny warns both teams that the Darkchilde (Illyana) will bring disaster to the world (a demon invasion from Limbo) due to her current course of action.

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(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: In a nightmare, Tony Stark/Iron Man battles a monstrous version of himself that represents the guilt he feels for the people who suffered due to his stolen technology.

Comments: Great interior & cover art by Barry Windsor-Smith!

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: After the Leader plants the stolen gamma bomb in the small town of Middletown, the Hulk has to fight through Rock, Redeemer & the Leader to try to deactivate it before it explodes in 2 hours.

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: While the FF are in Antarctica, they are attacked by ice humanoids created by an AIM tank. The FF destroy the ice creatures & the tank. The captured AIM leader refuses to tell them what their mission is. After a conference with Ka-Zar, Shanna, Morbius, Steven Beckley & Max, Ben tells the others of the intertwined history between Arcturus IV & the Savage Land. While looking underground for the teleportation warp to Arcturus IV, the FF find a base associated with the Beyonder (?). more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: After meeting on the street, Matt tries to apologize to Mary for the way he acted before (last issue). Matt tells Foggy that he is unknowingly working for the Kingpin, much to Glori's disdain. Typhoid Mary tries to bribe a female juror in the Kelco case. Informed by Eightball, DD comes to the woman's apartment but is confronted by Typhoid Mary. DD leads her into the sewer system to gain an advantage. When DD rejects her, she tries to kill him, but stops when her Mary personality asserts itself, & she runs away. DD returns to the juror's apartment to talk to her. The next day, Matt kisses Mary when he picks up Tyrone for court. At the courthouse, Matt gives the Kingpin back the bribe money. The jury foreman, the woman who they attempted to bribe, announces that Kelco has been found guilty. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: Dr. Druid creates the illusion of a sinking ship to draw the leviathan into attacking Atlantis, thereby convincing Namor that it must be killed. The Avengers track down the leviathan to find it destroying a ship. It is shot with a viral recombinant DNA harpoon developed by Dr. Pym. The creature turns back into Marrina. "Fred Flintstone " Kang is accepted into the Council of Cross-Time Kangs & is befriended by "Nebula" Kang. While Namor is flying with Marrina, she turns back into the leviathan. Thor & Captain Marvel combine their power to try to electrocute the creature to death, but it is to no avail. The Black Knight screams & passes out after Namor plunges his ebony blade into the head of the leviathan. The leviathan sinks into her nest made of ships it has destroyed. Her eggs hatch, & the hatchlings swim away, too quickly to make out what they look like. After the dead leviathan returns back to the form of Marrina, Namor swims away holding his deceased wife. As the team prepares to leave, Dr. Druid notifies the others that Captain Marvel is missing. more

(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: Peter tours On-Line Research in Emporia, Kansas in consideration of accepting a job offer from Jacoby, the company's head man. When an acetylene torch explodes, Peter (as Spidey), see construction boss, Wes Cassady, running at super-speed to contain the fires. Later, Spidey visits Cassady at his home to learn that he acquired his powers after being bitten by a radioactive rabbit. Cassady tells Spidey that he just wants to be normal. Dr. Nero, in the riot suit he developed, demands the plans for the secret projects the company is working on from Jacoby. Spidey confronts & fights to stop Nero. Spidey asks Cassady for help after being stunned by sonics, but Cassady declines to act. Spidey recovers to take Nero out. After arriving back home, Peter tells MJ that he wants to take the job. MJ tells him that she does not want to leave New York. more

(Cover Date: August, 2016)

Comments: A double dose of deus ex machina.

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(Cover Date: February, 1970)

Summary: After treating an ersatz Thor at the circus, Thor, as Blake, suspects the newly paroled Ringmaster has been up to no good. Loki sends Ulik to Earth to kill Thor so that he can be Odin's sole heir. Ulik appears in the midst of the circus & is hypnotized by the Ringmaster. Having given the ersatz Thor a sedative previously, Thor replaces him in the show. The Ringmaster has Ulik lift a 5,000 pound barbell to put it on a truck. Thor attacks Ulik after sensing the Ringmaster's scheme. They fight until Thor sends Ulik back to Asgard using the power of his hammer. The police arrive to arrest the Circus of Crime members. Thor smashes open the barbell with his hammer to reveal a national defense dual computer that the gang had stolen.

Comments: This issue features the lamest villains in the Marvel universe. more

(Cover Date: February, 1970)

Summary: SS reads a newspaper about the threat of the Doomsday Man. He recalls seeing a concrete bunker being built on a remote Pacific island. Dr. Kronton tells some UN ambassadors about the origin of the Doomsday Man robot. It was transported to the bunker after its invincibility was realized. The robot is believed to be active due to an earthquake. SS takes Dr. Kronton to the island, where they enter the bunker. SS is attacked by the Doomsday Man. It grabs a cobalt bomb stored in the bunker & jets undersea to San Francisco. A skeptical SS gets Kronton to admit that he planned it all in order extort money from the world. SS gets the robot to release the bomb. He creates a deep hole under the robot. Before falling, the robot kills Kronton when he rushes toard him. SS then harmlessly detonates the cobalt bomb in space. The onlookers think that SS let Kronton be killed. more

(Cover Date: February, 1970)

Summary: Iron Man takes Eddie March to the hospital after Eddie's fight with the Crimson Dynamo. Titanium Man breaks free of a crate underwater & is confronted by the police. Alex Niven (Nevsky) tells Janice Cord about the original Crimson Dynamo, his idol, & his desire to succeed him to get revenge on Tony Stark & Iron Man. Titanium Man breaks into the lab to take Alex back to the USSR, from which he fled. Iron Man follows Titanium Man's trail of destruction to Cord Labs. Titanium Man fires an high-voltage electric beam at Iron Man & Crimson Dynamo while they are fighting. Janice is caught in & killed by the beam. An angry Iron Man disables Titanium Man's armor, & they both fall into the water. Iron Man resurfaces, but the Titanium Man has disappeared. A weakened Crimson Dynamo vows vengeance on Iron Man for Janice's death.

Comments: This issue features the death of Tony's love interest, Janice Cord. more

(Cover Date: February, 1970)

Summary: The world is on the brink of WW III, which the Monocle & his associates want to spark in order to seize power afterwards. While Sue & Reed are patrolling above the UN building in the Fantasti-Car, they are hit by a Neutrak ray by the Monocle but safely crash into the river. Ben stops a building from falling down that was caused by the Monocle. Over Johnny's protest, Medusa returns Crystal to Attilan per Black Bolt's command. The Monocle distracts Johnny from his search by blowing up nearby objects. Inside the UN, the Monocle is about to assassinate an ambassador when his "camera" blows up due to Reed's reversal ray gun. The Monocle tries to escape out of a window, but Johnny melts his air-jet rods, & Ben then catches him. more

(Cover Date: February, 1970)

Summary: Working with the Jester, Mr. Hyde & the Cobra break into the Guggenheim Museum to steal some of the world's most valuable toys. Matt interrupts his date with Karen to go after the two villains. The next day at the DA's office, Lemuel Frye tells Matt that the three villains rented his carnival from him. Frye leads DD to the carnival where he is immediately set upon by the three villains. While DD is fighting the villains in the House of Mirrors, an angry Karen shows up with the police to arrest them. more