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I keep hoping that this series gets better, but this issue was the most boring to date. I am reserving my rating for the entire series, presuming that I stick with it. (Cover Date: July, 2023)

I was hoping for another Rorschach from King but this isn't that. This issue just plodded along in typical King fashion without a lot interesting happening. King also seems to think that including a lot of profanity makes the storytelling somehow better (it doesn't).

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This was a tough one to read through. The artwork was subpar, and the story seemed like something from the 70s.

Power Man, Iron Fist & Daredevil get between two ballet dancers who want to marry and two Soviet secret agents who want to prevent it on orders from her father. (Cover date: January, 1982)

Moon Knight & Frenchie travel to New Orleans to find Cajun Creed, the killer of Frenchie's former love. (Cover date: September, 1981)

Moon Knight tries to stop the mutant Bora who has been targeting Russian ballet dancers who have defected. (Cover date: January, 1984)

Cover date: February, 1980

She-Hulk is lead to a meeting of mobsters by the Seeker, who then tries to kill her, so that crime boss Shade can impress the others that he should be in control of the Los Angeles rackets. (Cover date: October, 1981)

She-Hulk comes to mob boss Shade's estate seeking vengeance for the attacks on her. She is attacked by The Doc's underground mutations & by the Earth-Lord, a creation of The Doc that has become self-aware. (Cover date: January, 1982)

After She-Hulk fights past Ralphie's super-powered mutations & Shade's assassin squad, she finds The Doc in his impenetrable War-Machine. As her father & friends arrive on the scene, The Doc holds her in a stasis field that slowly begins to kill her. (Cover date: February, 1982)

(Cover Date: December, 1971) Summary #1: During the Rutland (VT) Halloween parade, Batman & Robin encounter the Reaper, who is involved in a series of murders of former Nazis. Summary #2: Batman uncovers a foreign spy ring, who plan to blow up a ship to make it look like the USA is responsible. Comments: The second story is from Detective Comics #37 (March, 1940).

Bao reminds me of the feisty, but not too bright, little brother who keeps coming at big brother and gets the crap beat out of him each time. Okay, we get it...Bao was bullied at school by the bigoted white rich kids. I bought this book because of Red Hood's all too brief appearance. Punchline was really the star. I found it hard to really care much about Bao. He needs more development other than just being driven by a lust for vengeance.

Beast becomes concerned with Dazzler's safety after she signs with a notorious underground theatre in Hollywood after she is barred from regular work for being a mutant. (Cover date: December, 1984)

Beast is appalled to find that Dazzler has decided to return to the underground theater where gladiatorial type exhibitions are being held for their wealthy patrons' entertainment. (Cover date: February, 1985)

Despite Beast's protests, Dazzler wants to continue to perform in the theater. Beast is captured, drugged & put in the show to fight Dazzler to the death. (Cover Date: April, 1985)

(Cover Date: June, 1985)

Watching criminals being killed is the favorite pastime of wealthy & eccentric Samson Scythe. After Scythe lures Cap into a meeting & tells him he would like to start killing heroes instead, Scythe coerces Cap into coming to his estate where he has deadly traps waiting for him. (Cover date: October, 1981)

(Cover Date: September, 1967)

Pretty uninteresting tale by Parks.

Bruce Banner shows up at Gordon University at the same time that Dazzler & her band are to perform a concert there. After an unsuccessful attempt to steal top-secret genetic research, Banner transforms into the Hulk & disrupts the concert. Dazzler must then use her light powers to protect the audience from an angry Hulk. (Cover date: August, 1981)

Dazzler follows Terrax into a black hole with the purpose of extracting him so that he can be punished by Galactus for abdicating his position as his herald. (Cover date: January, 1982)

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(Cover Date: March, 1986) Reading this was a slog.

(Cover Date: June, 2023) I just couldn't get into this. The prior one-shot was better.

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(Cover Date: April, 1968) IM = 7.0 SM = n/a

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(Cover date: September, 1962)

After Loki frees himself from his tree of imprisonment, he goes to NYC to use Thor as his pawn for creating mischief there. (Cover date: October, 1962)

Thor travels to the year 2262 to retrieve a cobalt bomb that the time-traveling Zarrko stole in order to become the ruler of his own time. (Cover date: November, 1962)

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(Cover Date: January, 1965) [Tales of Asgard - Story of Odin's adoption of Loki]

(Cover Date: February, 1965)

(Cover Date: March, 1965) [The news reporter in the main story carries dynamite sticks with him in case he ever needs them. 🙄]

(Cover Date: April, 1965)

(Cover Date: June, 1965)

(Cover Date: August, 1965) [First appearance of the Warriors Three]

(Cover Date: September, 1965) [Thor meets Cap's Kooky Quartet for the first time]

(Cover Date: October, 1965)

(Cover Date: November, 1965) Loki brings the ever annoying Absorbing Man to Asgard to take on the Big Guy.

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(Cover Date: November, 1986)

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(Cover Date: March, 1987) Some clunky dialogue by Englehart.

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(Cover Date: July, 1987) Justice stalks a serial killer who targets "Good Samaritans".

(Cover Date: August, 1987) Summary: From Winterland, Damon Conquest prepares for the assault on the Land of Spring. Justice administers justice to a drug dealer. Rebecca tells Damon of her loathing for Justice. Justice is transported to a desert where he is assaulted by Black Justice. Justice prevails by slicing Black Justice into pieces with his Sword. Rebecca looks over the fallen Justice & decides not to kill him as she had wanted to. Damon plans to infuse Dark Power into his troops at the moment of the total corruption of Justice's soul. Damon talks about his evil plans for Spring after he conquers it.

(Cover Date: September, 1987) Summary: Now: Justice is attacked by Damon's Hounds of Winter at a gas station. He destroys them by blowing up oil barrels with his sword. Prior: Webstral finds the injured Justice in the desert after his battle with Black Justice. Now: Justice escapes two cops who are harassing him for vagrancy. Prior: Webstral tells Justice that his total corruption was the source of the Black Power used by Damon to conquer Spring. Justice became totally corrupt when he killed Black Justice in anger. Webstral creates an illusion showing the aftermath of the conquest of Spring by Damon. Webstral sacrifices himself to cleanse Justice of his corruption & to restore him to full health. Now: Justice vaporizes two muggers who were going to kill him.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: Justice surveys a fast food restaurant where the people inside were executed by the "Takeout Killers." A FBI agent tells Justice to leave or he will be arrested. Later that night, Justice goes inside the restaurant & finds a message on a wall written in blood. Justice shakes down a weapons dealer to get information on the couple who committed the killings. Justice goes to a McDonald's, where the couple was headed, & runs into the FBI agent, who wants to take him in for questioning. Pushing the agent aside, Justice finds the couple threatening the people inside. The man throws a pipe bomb. Justice protects the people from the explosion using his Shield, but is knocked out. Justice wakes up in an ambulance. He sees the FBI agent, who handcuffs him, & tells him the couple is still inside with hostages. Justice breaks his cuffs & drives a police paddywagon through the wall. He saves the hostages from another pipe bomb using his Shield. The FBI agent tells Justice that the couple slipped away after the blast. He argues with the agent about pursuing justice now & takes off. Later, the couple go to an empty diner, where Justice is waiting for them. Justice uses his Sword to vaporize them. Comments: Tom Grindberg's pencils remind me of Neal Adams.

(Cover Date: November, 1987) Summary: Justice is working as security at a LA nightclub. He sees a drug deal take place & knocks down the dealer with his shield. He is attacked by the druggie who has super-human strength. He uses a mild dose of his shield to put him down. The drug dealer gives Justice the name & location of his supplier. When the police arrive, the nightclub owner talks them out of arresting Justice. Damon Conquest & Rebecca are on a boat near Catalina. His hitman tells him that Andrew Markham refuses to distribute their merchandise despite his son Peter's insistence. At a hotel, Justice meets with Andrew & shows him the drugs he confiscated. In private, he tells him that his son provided them to the dealer at the nightclub. A woman, who took the drugs, goes crazy & attacks people. Justice knocks her into the pool with his shield. Justice returns to find Andrew dead & Peter barely breathing. Justice goes after the hitman, who turns into a cacodemon. Justice is losing the fight until he remembers the cacodemon gets its power from the earth. He uses his sword against its human-like shadow, causing it to dissolve. Peter accuses Justice of killing his father. Justice is about to kill him, but he sees that his aura is not completely black. Justice tells him that he is the one who killed his father by selling the drugs & knows that he will have to live with that in his conscience.

(Cover Date: December, 1987) Summary: Justice pursues a sex offender from NYC to the Southwest & kills him. He is bitten by a poisonous snake & becomes unable to read a person's aura. He follows a group of eco-terrorists to learn more about them, but is unable to prevent them from being killed by the authorities.

(Cover Date: January, 1988) Summary: Justice seeks help from Keith Remsen (Nightmask) about the recurring dream he is having involving Daedalus Darquill & Damon Conquest. Nightmask finds that Justice's world is actually a dream dimension reality created by the sleeping Darquill. Justice is actually a narcotics cop who was investigating Darquill & who was somehow caught up in the dream.

(Cover Date: February, 1988) Summary: Justice has terminated three paranormals in different cities who had used their power for evil purposes. Charley of DP7 becomes interested in the deaths after hearing that one victim had been at their clinic. Justice encounters the paranormal, Playback, while she is investigating one death for the Chicago police. He later rescues her from a man she had helped send to prison.

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(Cover Date: June, 1987) Probably the best issue of this series to date, which really isn't saying much.

(Cover Date: July, 1987) While having trouble separating his dreams from reality due to his "nightmasking", Nightmask encounters a mysterious, lovely woman who reoccurs in his dreams.

(Cover Date: August, 1987) Summary: Nightmask helps a woman overcome her fear of driving after her husband was killed in an accident that she believes was her fault. Lucian receives a letter from a Mambo in Haiti & believes he has been cursed with bad luck for not attending his mother's funeral. Keith dreams of being swallowed by a giant snake & then witnesses a Haitian ritual involving Lucian. While heading to a conference with Keith & Teddy, Lucian departs the plane after he realizes he has someone else's briefcase. He is taken captive at gunpoint outside the gate & is driven away. Meanwhile, Keith & Teddy are on their way to New Orleans.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: In Haiti, Keith & Martine are speeding in a jeep to get to Tullius' humfo before a voodoo ceremony begins involving Lucian & Teddy. They learn from a man they almost run over that a human sacrifice will be taking place. Martine takes them to Mambo Matilda to get her help. The mambo explains to them that in Haiti that twins share one soul, & it is accepted if one kills the other. The mambo gives him his Nightmask costume that Martine saw in Keith's dream. At the humfo, Teddy is laid down by Lucian who is tied to a pole. Nightmask shows up & is beaten & put in chains. As the mambo taught him, Nightmask channels the white snake god to free himself. Tullius channels the chain beast, & the two fight each other. Nightmask is struck down by Tullius. Teddy throws Nightmask a bottle of perfume, which he sprays on Tallius as the white snake sprays venom on the chain beast. The mambo says the chain beast spirit has deserted Tullius. Lucian tries to reconcile with his brother, but Tullius runs away, still hating him. Later, the group is with Lucian at the site of his parents' graves. Keith asks the mambo if she can heal Teddy's crushed legs. The mambo implies that she must learn to live with them as one of her crippled spirits does. Comments: This is the last issue of this series, & the first New Universe title to be canceled, I believe. It was plagued by mediocre storylines throughout its run.

(Cover Date: October, 1985)

(Cover Date: November, 1987) Summary: In New Mexico, Puma goes through a ritual to prove he is worthy of his power. His uncle tells him that he must express a measure of gratitude to Spider-Man for helping him against the Beyonder. On their honeymoon, Peter & MJ arrive at their villa in the south of France. At a restaurant, MJ encounters some her acquaintances to Peter's dismay. Returning to their villa, they find Thomas Fireheart (Puma) waiting for them. Fireheart offers him a job in his company, including a role working as Spider-Man. The next night, Peter comes to his office to tell Fireheart he is still undecided but will give it a shot. Fireheart gives him a mission to recover one of the Ova Ignata from St. Victor's Basilica where it has been hidden by a smuggler. Fireheart gives him a copy of his Spidey uniform. Spidey finds the webbing is too brittle & has to concoct a new batch that is acidic. At the basilica, Spidey is confronted by three ninjas, who he drives off. He finds the egg & is confronted by an armed "priest" who wants the egg. An armed drone stuns the "priest" with a ray. After watching on video, Fireheart reveals that it is actually a test he created. Spidey avoids the drone, but then has to rescue the "priest" after the drone knocks him off a balcony. The egg is knocked loose from Spidey's hand by the drone & is ruined by Spidey's acidic webbing. Angered at probably losing the job, Spidey tears the drone apart & sees Puma's electronics inside it. MJ is at a hotel with her friends. Fireheart is there also waiting for Peter. Fireheart criticizes Peter for his work attitude in front of her. Peter shows up with the destroyed drone & torn up costume. Peter tells him that he was using sensors in the costume to gather data on him as Spidey. Fireheart tells him that the job offer was legitimate & that he wanted a trial run to see how he performed. Peter is angry that he wasn't able to earn the job on his own. Days later when Peter & MJ are about to leave, Fireheart shows up at the villa to apologize & reiterates that the job offer still stands. To make things even between them, Fireheart agrees to destroy his files & data on Spider-Man.

Namor meets with UN officials about Atlantis' possible entry into the UN. On the way home, he is met by Dragonrider & her giant sea dragon, who try to kill him. Arriving at Atlantis, he finds the city in ruins from Dragonrider's attack while he was in NYC. (Cover date: September, 1984)

(Cover Date: October, 1963) [Rating is for Human Torch story]

(Cover Date: January, 1962) First "Ant-Man" story.

(Cover date: January, 1964)

(Cover Date: September, 1964)

(Cover Date: October, 1964) [Rating is for Hulk story]

(Cover Date: November, 1964) [Rating is for Hulk story]

(Cover Date: December, 1964) [Rating is for Hulk story]

Giant-Man = 6.5 Hulk = 7.5 (Cover Date: January, 1965)

Giant-Man = 6.5 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: February, 1965)

Giant-Man = 7.5 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: March, 1965)

Giant-Man = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: April, 1965)

Giant-Man = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: May, 1965)

Giant-Man = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 The Wasp gets a pet wasp named Boopsie. (Cover Date: June, 1965)

Giant-Man = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: July, 1965)

Sub-Mariner = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: August, 1965)

Sub-Mariner = n/a Hulk = 7.0 Wacky Moment: General Ross threatens to drop nuclear bombs on the Hulk while he is standing hundreds of yards away. (Cover Date: September, 1965)

Sub-Mariner = 7.5 Hulk = 7.5 (Cover Date: October, 1965)

Sub-Mariner = 7.0 Hulk = 7.5 (Cover Date: November, 1965)

Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.5 (Cover Date: December, 1965)

Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 Wacky Moment: Ross fires the Banner-designed T-Gun at the Hulk without any idea of what it does since it was never tested. (Cover Date: January, 1966)

Sub-Mariner = n/a Hulk =7.0 (Cover Date: February, 1966)

Sub-Mariner = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: March, 1966)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 6.5 (Cover Date: April, 1966)

(Cover Date: May, 1966) Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 Hulk has a tussle with Hercules for a few minutes until the army arrives to drive him away.

Namor = n/a Hulk = 6.5 (Cover Date: June, 1966)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 6.5 (Cover Date: July, 1966)

Sub-Mariner = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 It's such a dumb reason that Namor feels compelled to beat down Iron Man. (Cover Date: August, 1966)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: September, 1966)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: October, 1966)

Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: November, 1966)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: December, 1966)

Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: January, 1967)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: February, 1967)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: March, 1967)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.5 First appearance of the Abomination. (It's a good thing that Emil Blonsky had stretchy underwear on when he became the Abomination!) (Cover Date: April, 1967)

Namor = n/a Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: May, 1967)

Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0 (Cover Date: July, 1967)

(Cover Date: November, 1967) Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0

(Cover Date: December, 1967) Namor = 7.0 Hulk = 7.0

(Cover date: November, 1981)

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(Cover Date: September, 1968) Mar-Vell battles a man turned monster who retains a conscience.

(Cover Date: October, 1968)

(Cover Date: November, 1968) Wacky Moment: Good thing there happened to be an 1890's town full of robots that CM could use to his advantage!

(Cover Date: December, 1968) CM battles against an assassin robot, which Dr. Lawson created for The Organization.

(Cover Date: January, 1969) Summary: Mar-Vell is attacked by Aakon soldiers after he kills their commander, but he manages to escape them. While searching Mar-Vell's hotel room, Carol is kidnapped by the robot assassin, Cyberex. Mar-Vell goes to Lawson's lab to rescue her & fights against Cyberex. The Aakon follow Mar-Vell, thanks to a signal from Yon-Rogg. They all fight each other, with Cyberex eventually killing the Aakon, & Mar-Vell destroying Cyberex for good this time. Yon-Rogg torments Una about Mar-Vell being with the grateful Carol.

(Cover Date: February, 1969) Summary: On the ship's video screen, Yon-Rogg & Una watch Mar-Vell & Carol kiss on Earth. On his return to the ship, Mar-Vell is given an assignment from Ronan to learn about The Organization as a prelude to forming an alliance with them. Number One executes Number 23 with the Eon-Ray for his failure to capture or kill Lawson. Mar-Vell & Carol bail out of her car when The Organization's agents shoot the Eon-Ray at them. It turns the car to rust & a bird into a pterosaur. Mar-Vell snaps the neck of the pterosaur. The unconscious Carol is captured by the agents, who leave a note for Lawson as to where she can be found. Mar-Vell goes to the location, where he proposes to Number One that they be allies, much to Carol's dismay. When Carol escapes her guards with Mar-Vell's help, Number One realizes he has been decieved. Mar-Vell is attacked by the guards until Number One shoots him with the Eon-Ray. Mar-Vell wrests the gun away before he dies of old age & manages to reverse the ray to save his life. He then turns the aging ray on Number One & his guards. He flies Carol safely away from the crumbling building. Ronan orders Yon-Rogg to have Mar-Vell executed for disobeying his orders. Una flies to the surface to warn Mar-Vell but is struck down by a stun ray from the patrolship carrying the firing squad. As Una wakes up, she sees Mar-Vell standing before the firing squad & telling the officer to do his duty.

Hulk saves whales from being slaughtered by Russian whalers with Valkyrie & Hellcat getting caught in the middle. Nighthawk stops the hijacking of an airplane over the city. Afterwards, he finds out that he has a slew of legal problems to deal with. (Cover date: October, 1980)

The Defenders attend the funeral of Patsy's mother. Since Kyle's penthouse is sealed due to legal issues, the team stays at Patsy's mother's home in New Jersey. Daredevil is captured by Fem-Force who are working for the Mandrill. (Cover date: November, 1980)

The Defenders & Daredevil must keep the vengeful Mandrill from killing his father, who abandoned him as a child, by exposure in the core of a nuclear power plant. (Cover date: January, 1981)

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(Cover Date: August, 1981)

The Defenders must win three contests against Satan's manifestations (Throg, Satannish & Mephisto) in order to keep their world from becoming part of Hell. (Cover date: October, 1981)

(Cover Date: December, 1981)

The Defenders go to Gargoyle's home town of Christiansboro to save it from ruin. They find the townspeople gone, and the town haunted by ghosts. They then encounter the bizarre being behind it all. (Cover date: January, 1982)

Years ago, Eric Simon Payne killed the family of reporter Ian Fate when he was a mob hitman. Now, Fate, a master of mystic arts, has put Devil-Slayer's wife in another dimension to be torn apart by the demons there as revenge. Devil-Slayer, accompanied by Dr. Strange, Beast & Wonder Man, must find her in time to save her life. (Cover date: February, 1982)

(Cover Date: March, 1982)

Enchantress threatens to destroy the true body of Valkyrie resting in Niffleheim unless the Defenders retrieve the Rose of Purity for her so that she can be Love's lover. (Cover date: June, 1982)

Devil-Slayer is in the Negative Zone with the thought of killing himself for the sins he committed in his past. Accompanied by the spirit of Sunshine, he sees various people from his past. (Cover date: August, 1982)

Doctor Strange transports the remaining Defenders, along with the Vision & Scarlet Witch, to Earth-S to join Namor, Hulk, Hellstrom, Nighthawk & Hyperion. The Overmind has conquered that world by mind controlling its leaders & the Squadron Supreme. (Cover date: October. 1982)

(Cover Date: November, 1982)

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(Cover date: April, 1983)

Vandroth takes control of the Defenders' minds, except for Dr. Strange, who must figure out the means to defeat her. (Cover date: May, 1983)

**SPOILERS** Daimon & Patsy decide to get married & leave the group. Valkyrie is summoned to Asgard by Odin. Iceman shows up to visit his best bud Hank (something tells me he is about to join the team). Hank ponders making the Defenders an actual team. (Cover date: August, 1983)

While Beast, Gargoyle & Iceman are visiting at Vision & Scarlet Witch's home, they are attacked by the Secret Empire members Seraph, Cloud & Harridan who wish to capture the Vision for their leader Number One to study. Meanwhile, Silver Surfer, Strange, Hulk & Namor are taken to the 24th century by the Elf to show them what they have allegedly done to the Earth. (Cover date: September, 1983)

In the 24th century, Namor, Hulk, Strange & Silver Surfer encounter the Tribunal who begin to relate to them the events they caused that led to the desolation of Earth. It began with aliens who were draining peoples' life forces in order to save their prince & the four's interference to save them. (Cover date: October, 1983)

The Tribunal convince the original Defenders to leave the group to save Earth in the future. Working for the Secret Empire, Mad Dog & the Mutant Force attack the super-heroes attending Patsy's & Daimon's wedding. After the melee is over, the new Defenders are born as an official team. (Cover date: November, 1983)

After Angel leaves disgusted from the new Defenders first meeting & the rest of the team follows him, they run into Leviathan who was released from his cell in the SHIELD Manhattan complex by the Secret Empire agents inside SHIELD. (Cover date: December, 1983)

Cloud flees from the Secret Empire & is pursued by their robots. She seeks sanctuary with the Defenders after having found out the truth about the Secret Empire. The Defenders are attacked by a swarm of robots at their brownstone & are defeated. Cloud is recaptured, & the Defenders are left lying in the ruins of their brownstone. (Cover date: January, 1984)

The Defenders have moved to Angel's Aerie since their brownstone was destroyed by the Secret Empire's robots. With Moondragon having learned the location of the Secret Empire's base from Cloud's mind, the Defenders attempt an assault. The Defenders are overcome by a strength & mind sapping device & the Secret Empire's forces. Professor Power tells them that he is going to get his revenge on Xavier by having the Defenders kill off the New Mutants. (Cover date: February, 1984)

The New Defenders believe that they are fighting the New Mutants until Moondragon puts an end to the illusion. They are inside the Mind Ripper which the Secret Empire is attempting to use to brainwash them. Professor Power plans to launch a satellite that will increase the hatred between the USA & USSR thus leading to a nuclear war. The Secret Empire will emerge from it in control of the world. Seraph, a Soviet agent, frees Cloud from her cell, & they go to help the Defenders. Using Gargoyle's powers, Moondragon frees the team from the Mind Ripper. They are attacked by robots who they overcome this time. The team arrives at the rocket base to attempt to stop the launch & meet opposition from Mad Dog & Mutant Force. Moondragon & Valkyrie are caught on the rocket when it launches while trying to disable it. (Cover date: March, 1984)

(Cover date: April, 1984)

The Walrus & Frog-Man interrupt Hank's lecture at Brooklyn College. The Walrus wants to kill Hank to make a name for himself, while Frog-Man wants to join the Defenders. (Cover date: May, 1984)

(Cover date: June, 1984)

In San Francisco, the Defenders are drawn into helping Cutlass & Typhoon whose clients are being murdered by a mysterious group of assassins. (Cover date: July, 1984)

The hired assassin, Manslaughter, toys with the Defenders in their Aerie before killing them one by one, or so it appears. (Cover date: August, 1984)

In Warren's hometown of Elijah, New Mexico, the Defenders must rescue workers from a factory set on fire by Blowtorch Brand, who is immune to the flames. (Cover date: September, 1984)

A wizard hold Gargoyle at his command to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Cloud changes into a man & professes his love for Moondragon. After Gargoyle transports the Wizard to Colorado, the Defenders come to find him & are met by a giant menacing Gargoyle. (Cover date: October, 1984)

(Cover date: November, 1984)

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(Cover Date: August, 1985)

(Cover Date: September, 1985) This series is heading toward cancelation for a good reason.

(Cover Date: October, 1985)

(Cover Date: November, 1985) Andromeda joins the team (for four issues). The team helps Cloud to determine who or what she is.

Guest appearance by the sentient Cosmic Cube. (Cover Date: December, 1985)

(Cover Date: January, 1986)

(Cover Date: February, 1986)

(Cover Date: April, 1987) Sunspot leaves the New Mutants after unintentionally injuring Cannonball during a soccer match & not getting much empathy from his teammates.

(Cover Date: May, 1987)

(Cover Date: June, 1987)

(Cover Date: July, 1987) Devil Dinosaur & Moon Boy make an appearance.

(Cover Date: August, 1987) Summary: Some team members find that their powers have been inexplicably increased. The Vanisher sends the team out to forage. Boom-Boom & Gomi run into a rogue Jamie. Previously left behind for good reasons, Moon Boy & Devil Dinosaur decide to go out foraging themselves. Alarmed at their absence, team members go look for them. The real Jamie is drawn to the rogue. The rogue says that he wants to live a life of his own. The team converges around the Madroxes. Devil Dinosaur accidentally steps on Don the blue lobster.

(Cover Date: September, 1987) Summary: Gomi mourns the death of Don the Lobster while his friends console him. Moon Boy tries to tell Bobby that Devil Dinosaur is sorry for killing Don. Ariel reminds Chance of their mission to deliver mutants to their bosses. Jamie tells his double that he won't absorb him since it doesn't feel right. Bill decides to go after Devil Dinosaur but attacks Moon Boy instead. Bobby tries to keep DD away from Bill. Siryn breaks up the fracas with a sonic scream. Warlock starts to act of character. Jamie's other doubles disappear. Bobby accuses Chance & Ariel of splitting them up based on whether they care for others. Boom Boom throws a time-bomb at Chance for being a jerk but it doesn't explode. The mutants' powers no longer work. Ariel feels someone is canceling their powers. BB's bomb then goes off. The other Jamie says that a latent mutant's reading was off the scale while monitoring Cerebro. He also says that Cerebro is reading the two Jamies as distinct individuals. Feeling that they are in danger, Ariel transports them to her home planet, the Coconut Grove.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: The denizens of Coconut Grove forcibly give Chance a makeover until Ariel puts a stop to it. Boom-Boom blows off the seat of Bobby's pants for making fun of Chance. Unipar tells Boom-Boom that there have been no mutations on their world for millions of years, so mutants are considered special. The Vanisher calls a meeting of the Fallen Angels. Madrox tells Chance & Ariel that he detects that they are developing mutant abilities, but they deny it. Siryn's, Madrox's & Vanisher's powers double after Chance is scanned, but she denies any involvement. Ariel's armed associates arrive to arrest the Fallen Angels. The mutants find that their powers have now vanished. Gomi is immune, since he is a cyborg, & uses his telekinesis on the armed aliens until they subdue him. The mutants are corralled together by the threat of the aliens' disruptors. Unipar shows up & says Chance is included since she is a mutant. Ariel goes to leave but is caught in a force beam. Unipar tells Ariel that she is a mutant also.

(Cover Date: November, 1987) Summary: In the Coconut Grove, Bill the cyborg lobster roams free, while the Fallen Angels, along with Ariel, have been imprisoned by Unipar with their powers dampened. Unipar tells them that they will be doing genetic & cellular examinations on them to learn about their mutations, so that they can use it on their own population, which doesn't mutate. One of the Madroxes is killed when he tries to stop another one from being taken. Unipar decides to take the two remaining Madroxes & Sunspot. Bill takes out the guards at the Fallen Angels' cell to free them. After some discussion about Ariel having betrayed them, Ariel is freed from her special prison that she could not teleport from. Their powers returned, they overcome the attacking guards & go look for the kidnapped others using Cerebro. Boom Boom blows a hole to their holding cell. Jamie creates multiple versions of himself then merges to heal his injuries. Chance doubles Sunspot's power to fight against the guards. Unipar threatens to have them shot, but Ariel talks him out of it by threatening him with Devil Dinosaur. Ariel takes the FA's back to Beat Street. Bobby & Warlock decide to go home to the New Mutants. Siryn & Jamie decide to stay to guide the team.

In Limbo, Cat rescues little Illyana from Belasco's clutches after Storm fails to do so. Storm decides to make Illyana her apprentice in sorcery to Cat's objection since it will make her more susceptible to Belasco's corruption. (Cover date: December, 1983)

Cat trains little Illyana to fight so that she may survive in Belasco's Limbo. When Cat attempts to return Illyana home, she instead delivers her into Belasco's hands. Cat suffers Belasco's punishment for defying him. (Cover date: January, 1984)

Illyana strikes out at Cat after she eats her pet Squidge, which thereafter alienates the two. Storm warns Illyana to not attempt to destroy Belasco until the time is right at the risk of losing her soul. Illyana's mutant power to create "stepping discs" manifests itself. Illyana witnesses a younger Storm try to destroy Belasco, but she becomes corrupted in the process. She then sees the older Storm struck from behind by Cat while she is confronting Belasco. Illyana fights against Cat & snaps her neck. Belasco tell Illyana that he is going to offer Storm's soul to the Dark Ones as a sacrifice, therefore damning her soul. (Cover date: February, 1984)

In Limbo, Illyana kills the alternate Ororo so that Belasco cannot sacrifice her soul to his masters, the Dark Ones. As punishment, she is banished to Ororo's former domain while a blizzard rages. She uses the giant oak tree that Ororo created to sustain her. She uses its lifeforce & her own remaining magic to create her Soulsword. With it, she is able to revert Belasco to his human form & defeat him, causing him to flee. She could have killed him but didn't. She uses her "stepping disk" mutant power to return back to the X-Men's timeline, but now seven years older than when she first arrived in Limbo. (Cover date: March, 1984)

After Man-Killer kidnaps a female revolutionary at the courthouse, Spider-Man & She-Hulk track her down only to find out that she is planning to set off a truck bomb to kill a group of businessmen, including JJJ! (Cover date: July, 1981)

Spidey joins forces with the mercenary Paladin to bring an end to the menace of the "Street Stalker" (Thermo) who has been draining the body heat from his victims in order to fuel his powers. (Cover date: August, 1981)

After Dazzler saves Spidey from being killed by Thermo, a weakened Spidey develops the means to nullify Thermo's powers. When Dazzler & Thermo's wife are kidnapped by Thermo's Satanic followers, Spidey & Paladin come to their rescue and implement their plan to take down Thermo. (Cover date: September, 1981)

After Devil-Slayer rescues Spidey from the Serpent Men, he enlists his help in freeing the rest of the Defenders, who have been possessed by the spirits of the Serpent Men from limbo as a prelude to their conquest of the world. (Cover date: November, 1981)

After Quasar is attracted to Lightmaster's hidden laboratory under the ESU campus, Lightmaster takes control of his power-bands. With his new found power, he attempts to destroy the meddling Spider-Man and to recreate his physical body. (Cover date: January, 1982)

After Aunt May's purse is pick-pocketed by one of the vigilante Young Watchers, Peter suspects that the group is not what it appears to be. After initial resistance, he is joined by the Falcon into monitoring the group when his nephew expresses his doubts about their altruistic motivations. When Falcon's nephew goes missing, Spidey & the Falcon discover who the man is behind the group. (Cover date: February, 1982)

Spidey & an aged Dominic Fortune must stop Turner D. Century from killing people under the age of 65 in order to restore the way of life as it was in the past. (Cover date: August, 1982)

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After kidnapping & threatening to kill Wanda, the Vision allows Necrodamus to take possession of his body. Wanda & Spidey must then stop Vision / Necrodamus from razing a nearby town by destroying the Vision's body. (Cover date: June, 1983)

Frog-Man, the son of retired villain Leap-Frog, wants to collect the reward money for the capture of the White Rabbit but gets in Spidey's way while pursuing after her. (Cover date: July, 1983)

After leaving Spider-Man, Reed goes to the Fennhoff Institute to investigate why Every-Man (Larry Ekler) had become more demented due to his stay there. He falls into the trap set by Dr. Faustus to drive him mad. (Cover date: September, 1983)

Jack of Hearts escapes from the armored SHIELD agents holding him at his home and then goes to ESU to see Marcy Kane. The SHIELD agents follow him there, and Spidey gets involved in the skirmish between them. (Cover date: October, 1983)

Babysitter Kitty Pryde follows her two charges below ground after they are captured by the human Morlocks. She finds Spidey who was captured earlier after being knocked unconscious while preventing two subway trains from colliding. (Cover date: November, 1983)

Daniel Steyr, owner of a security company, wants Spidey's webbing formula to use in making bulletproof body armor for policemen. He uses a sham demonstration involving Wonder Man, who is working for him, to attract Spidey & then has him be captured by the Mauler. Wonder Man, realizing he's been used by Steyr, goes to locate & rescue Spidey. (Cover date: December, 1983)

Spidey & Nick Fury search for an actress who is engaged to a former Howler & who was kidnapped by a Maggia Dreadnought. The Howler got into a business dispute with a Maggia mob boss who wants to ruin him. (Cover date: March, 1984)

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Spidey & Cannonball team up to stop the Incandescent Man from running amok in Times Square after his escape from Project Pegasus. (Cover date: January, 1985)

(Cover date: February, 1985)

A shrunken Thing & Puppet Master are besieged by the childlike Modred's toys, which have been animated by his magic while dreaming.

Pretty bland even though the Avengers are in it. Annihilus & Blastaar are one dimensional villains.

After Ben crash lands in an experimental jet into the Florida Everglades & suffers a concussion, he recalls a mission he went on with Nick Fury & Howling Commandos during WWII. Swamp Thing is also on hand to help him out. (Cover date: July, 1981)

Ben is outraged at a TV show based on the Thing & starring Wonder Man. When he goes to the studio to stop it, he is attacked by a mind-controlled Wonder Man. The villain controlling Wondie is found to be implementing a plan which has dire consequences for the future of humanity. (Cover date: August, 1981)

Thinking that Ben is somehow responsible for the appearance of Star-Dancer & the dome that she placed over their town, the fearful people of Hartsdale, MA threaten to kill Alicia if she does not send the alien away. Blue Diamond, a superhero from the 1940's, comes to her defense, while Ben tries to break through the dome. (Cover date: September, 1981)

Modok's synthoids are abducting the homeless in the Bowery to be used as test subjects for his experimental Virus X. When Ben interferes with an abduction, he is taken to Modok also. Namor is in the city & returns to the Bowery, where the Human Torch found him years ago. Namor agrees to help the people there find their missing friends. (Cover date: November, 1981)

Ben goes to Canada to find Dr. Walter Langkowski to treat his friend Goliath, who is dying of radiation poisoning. He finds Sasquatch instead, & the two get into a brawl. Meanwhile nearby, Shaman finds the Sacred Tomb of Ancient Shamans & releases the evil Ranark the Ravager who wants to purify the world. (Cover date: January, 1982)

The god-like Ranark creates chaos throughout Canada by destroying the modern technogical achievements he sees as an afront to his traditional way of life. Ben joins with Alpha Flight to stop him, so that Walter Langkowski can aid his friend, Bill Foster, who is close to death from radiation poisoning. (Cover date: February, 1982)

At a Renaissance festival, Ben & Spidey fight against a sorcerer from another dimension who has possessed the magician working at the festival. (Cover date: August, 1982)

After speaking with Dr. Strange & Reed, Ben goes to Egypt to investigate what is going on & finds the Sphinx, who is attempting to recreate his Ka stone that was destroyed by Galactus. (Cover date: September, 1982)

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Ben returns to the alternate Earth to find that it has been decimated by Galactus & is now ruled by the Red Skull. He joins forces with his alternate human self to overthrow the Red Skull. (Cover date: June, 1983)

(Cover Date: April, 1987) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.0

(Cover Date: May, 1987) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.5

(Cover Date: June, 1987) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.5

(Cover Date: July, 1987) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.0 C&D Summary: Cloak reverts to normal due to excess light from Dagger. He collapses due to accumulated exhaustion & is approached by Nightmare in disguise who wants him to lure Dr. Strange to his dimension. DS Summary: Sensing an evil in Hong Kong, DS finds there "The Wings of Needless Sorry", which causes people to despair to their destruction over that they love the most.

(Cover Date: August, 1987) C&D: 7.0 DS: 7.0 Summary #1: Exterminators spray a poison gas at night to kill an infestation of rats. In his waking dream, Tyrone talks with the disguised Nightmare who wants him to bring Dr. Strange into his dark dimension. Cloak scares a group of people away from their abandoned church who are meeting to express their concerns to an official about the spraying. Cloak & Dagger hear the screams of boys being attacked by rats & follow the kidnapped ones into Vermin's underground lair. After Vermin threatens to kill the kids, Cloak envelopes him in his cloak, but then releases him after sympathizing with his plight. When Vermin begins to flood the chamber, Cloak envelopes the kidnapped kids & Dagger in his cloak to escape to safety. Summary #2: Strange & Rintrah go to Kamar-Tai to ask Jigme to lead them to the lamasery. Jigme declines to help them until Strange convinces him that he is the Sorcerer Supreme. They are attacked by an elemental force along the way, & Jigme is mortally injured after falling off of a cliff. Valkyrie comes to claim him, but Strange refuses to let her have him. Valkyrie offers him the help of some of the Defenders, & Strange reluctantly lets Valkyrie have him. In a blinding snowstorm, Valkyrie then leads them to the Ancient One's lamasery.

(Cover Date: September, 1987) C&D: 7.0 DS: 7.0 Summary C&D: A girl enters the confessional in the abandoned church where C&D reside. She talks about her boyfriend who stole the experimental Opti-Link & has turned to a life of crime. After listening in, Dagger convinces Cloak that they should try to reform Zapper than destroy him. Zapper & his gang rob armored car guards. After Zapper hits Dagger with his optic beams, Cloak engulfs him in his cloak, & Zapper is shown what his future life may be like. Zapper decides to turn himself in to the police & do his time so that he can be with his girlfriend. Summary DS: Strange & Rintrah enter the lamasery to find a young female tourist sitting by a fire. When Strange shows her his old room, the "girl" reveals herself to be Erlik Khan, who is no longer bound by the talismans that Strange destroyed. Strange's spells don't work on him as he is battered by Khan. Strange summons the New Defenders to come to his aid. Khan then disappears while telling Strange his transformation to evil is almost complete. Rintrah holds the body of the girl, saying he doesn't remember anything. Valkyrie tells Strange that she died many days ago.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: Tyrone has dreams of the disguised Nightmare suffering & of Cloak throwing everyone into the darkness. Dagger assures him that she will be there to keep the dark at bay. Sensing Strange's presence, Cloak & Dagger go to to the lamasery & find the New Defenders present. Dagger senses that they have no aura of living light. Valkyrie says that they are from the Land of the Dead after their fight with the Dragon of the Moon. Seeing Strange, Cloak asks for his help for his dreams. Strange uses his Eye of Agamotto on Cloak & is seized by Nightmare's giant hand. Everyone is pulled inside Cloak except for Rintrah. They find themselves in Nightmare's dream dimension with a giant Nightmare. Nightmare tries to squeeze Strange to death in his hand, but Strange turns to streamers & reforms. Nightmare puts Strange into a cage, & the New Defenders attack to free him. Cloak's shadow turns on him, while Dagger attempts to prevent it with her light daggers. Saying that Cloak must die for them to survive, Strange shoots a mystic bolt at Cloak. Valkyrie & the New Defenders escort Cloak through a portal to the Land of the Dead. Dagger grabs ahold of Cloak to stop him. Filled with the light from beyond the portal, Dagger attacks Nightmare with her more powerful light daggers. Feeling pain, Nightmare sends Cloak, Dagger & Strange back to the lamasery. Strange says that he had to deceive her about killing Cloak.

(Cover Date: November, 1987) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.0 Summary C&D: Tyrone has a nightmare of being engulfed by the darkness within him. He feels that he is a failure now that he is normal. He goes to Mr.Jip's Shoppe of Wonders for help. The proprietor gives him a small black cube that will grant his heart's blackest desire. While Tandy is showing him the new dance she learned, Tyrone decides to use the cube. He changes back into Cloak. Tandy slaps him for giving up his normal life, something she can't do, & decides to leave him. Summary DS: Strange watches natives in Africa at a temple to one of the dark powers he has released. Strange reads to Rintrah from the journal of the Ancient One, where he writes abouts his doubts of Strange succeeding him. Strange's old foe, Kaluu, shows up. Strange tells Rintrah of Kaluu's violent past. Kaluu justifies his actions to Strange. Kaluu tells Strange to use his dark magic fully & to become his disciple to fight against the dark powers on Earth. Strange reluctantly agrees to join him.

(Cover Date: December, 1987) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.0 Summary C&D: With Dagger now departed, Cloak looks for criminals to feed upon & causes a blackout of the city. He runs into Dazzler, who is unable to feed him with her light powers. Cloak resists the urge to take her life energy. He is attracted back to the church, where he finds Day & Night. Day knocks him out with a light bolt, then Mr. Jip makes his appearance. Summary DS: Strange & Kaluu arrive at the temple of Ghaszaszh Nyirh of the Old Ones in Africa. The starving natives have come to the temple for food. They place a spell within a child to gain entry into the temple. The demon within is destroyed when they activate the spell, but it is replaced by something else that recognizes them.

(Cover Date: January, 1988) C&D = 7.0 DS = 7.0 C&D Summary: After they meet in a hair salon, Black Cat shows Dagger how she should live her life to be more like her. After she returns to the church to see Cloak, she finds Mr. Jip restraining Cloak. Jip says that Cloak is lost to her now, but it doesn't make any difference, since he is going to kill her anyway. DS Summary: At Strange's insistence, Kaluu uses black magic to save the people from the exploding temple. They enter Ghaszaszh Nyirh's temple to confront him. GN takes the form of Clea to fight them. GN delivers a deadly blow to Kaluu, but DS refuses to abandon him. After GN takes out DS's left eye, he leaves the temple, as Kaluu commanded. Kaluu, looking like a bug on DS's face, orders DS to seal the gate with his black magic, & the temple disappears. Kaluu reappears & tells him he has paid a price for rebelling against the path he is now on.

I am not a Superman reader but I picked this up because of Morrison. The artwork is top tier but the story was just OK. I didn't follow some of the dialogue probably due to not being familiar with Black. I'm not sure whether I will pick up the next issue unless I hear good things about it.

The Superman / Black parts were ok. The Nat Irons part was cringe worthy. The Midnighter / Apollo part was meh. The June Moone / Enchantress part I didn't understand. Was it all a delusion in her unwell mind?

Better than the last issue. I didn't care for the change in artists in the flashback scene. How the team accessed June's dreamworld & the physics supporting it were a little confusing.

This started out interestingly enough with Superman's confrontation with Brainiac & UH but limped to the finish with the meh battle between the Authority & UH's hired rogues.

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(Cover date: May, 1964) [Rating is for IM story]

(Cover Date: June, 1964) [Rating is for IM story]

(Cover Date: July, 1964) [Rating is for IM story]

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(Cover Date: September, 1964) [Rating is for IM story]

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IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: November, 1964)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: December, 1964)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: January, 1965)

IM = 7.0 CA = 6.5 (Cover Date: February, 1965)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.5 (Cover Date: March, 1965)

IM = 8.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: April, 1965)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: May, 1965)

IM = 7.0 CA = 8.0 [Fun fact: The rare metal Nautilium causes oxygen to become moist.] (Cover Date: June, 1965)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.5 (Cover Date: July, 1965)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 [Ugh, more alien antagonists in IM's story.] (Cover Date: August, 1965)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 Iron Man risks his life for American pride! Stan's dialogue was pretty corny in this story. (Cover Date: September, 1965)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: October, 1965)

(Cover Date: November, 1965) IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: December, 1965)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 The start of the great Gene Colan's run on Iron Man. (Cover Date: January, 1966)

IM = 7.5 CA = 6.5 Wacky Moment: Cap thinking that the Sleepers would bore to the center of the Earth & set off a bomb that would shatter it to pieces. (Cover Date: February, 1966)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 [First appearance of Sharon Carter.] (Cover Date: March, 1966)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: April, 1966)

(Cover Date: May, 1966) IM = 7.5 CA = 7.5 [First appearance of Peggy Carter.]

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: June, 1966)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: July, 1966)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.5 (Cover Date: August, 1966)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.5 (Cover Date: September, 1966)

IM = 7.5 CA = 8.0 (Cover Date: October, 1966)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.5 (Cover Date: November, 1966)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.5 (Cover Date: December, 1966)

IM = 7.5 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: January, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: February, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 The Master Planner comes across as a second-rate Mad Thinker. (Cover Date: March, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: April, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: May, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: June, 1967)

IM = 6.5 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: July, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 (Cover Date: August, 1967)

IM = 7.0 CA = 7.0 Features the introduction of Modok (distorted image & voice only). (Cover Date: September, 1967)

(Cover Date: October, 1967) IM = 7.0 CA = 7.5 Features the first full appearance of Modok.

(Cover Date: November, 1967) IM = 7.0 CA = 7.5

(Cover Date: December, 1967) IM = 7.0 CA = 6.5

(Cover Date: January, 1968) IM = 7.0 CA = 7.5 Guest appearance by the Black Panther in the Cap story.

(Cover Date: February, 1968) IM = 7.0 CA = 7.5 First appearance of Whitney Frost in the IM story.

(Cover Date: March, 1968) IM = 7.0 CA = 7.5 Last issue!

The Power children are endowed with super-powers by a dying alien who had come to warn their father that his prototype energy generator will destroy the Earth. The alien was mortally wounded by the war mongering Snarks who want the blueprints to the generator & have kidnapped the children's parents. (Cover date: August, 1984)

Power Pack decides to destroy their father's matter / ant-matter converter before it can be tested, which would lead to the destruction of the world. (Cover date: September, 1984)

After the Power kids return home to look for food, Alex, Julie & Katie are captured by Snarks to be used as weapons. Jack follows them aboard the Snark ship & releases them from their constraints. (Cover date: October, 1984)

(Cover date: November, 1984)

The Power kids unwrap their parents from their suspended animation cocoons but decline to tell them what actually occurred. Blaming the kids for the destruction of the energy converter & believing they are mutants, Carmody hunts them down with the intention of killing them. (Cover date: December, 1984)

Jack & Alex go out looking for Spider-Man & find him. Julie & Katie rescue Dragon Man from the gangsters that were using him to raid warehouses. (Cover date: January, 1985)

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(Cover Date: April, 1985) [Guest stars Marrina of Alpha Flight]

Power Pack teams up with Marrina to locate Snake Eyes & to move it to the Arctic to put it in a state of hibernation until the Collector comes back to pick it up. (Cover Date: May, 1985)

The Pack goes into the storm sewer to rescue a kitten & encounters alligators?! (Cover Date: June, 1985)

The Morlock Annalee wants to kidnap the Power kids to replace her late children that were murdered by surface dwellers. Other Morlocks help her in order to put an end to her mental broadcasts of misery. Guests stars Kitty Pryde & Nightcrawler. (Cover Date: July, 1985)

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(Cover Date: October, 1985) Guest appearance by the Warriors Three.

(Cover Date: November, 1985) Guest appearance by Franklin Richards.

(Cover Date: December, 1985) Franklin Richards joins Power Pack as a member.

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(Cover Date: February, 1986) Mighty Mouse doesn't save the day.

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(Cover Date: April, 1986) The thugs Moe & Larry are shockingly blood-thirsty to shoot their guns at kids.

(Cover Date: May, 1986) The Snarks return to Earth to abduct the Power kids & to steal their powers to be used in their game of thrones.

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(Cover Date: December, 1986) Morlock Massacre tie-in. Power Pack rescues Leech & Caliban from death at the hands of the Marauders.

(Cover Date: February, 1987) The FF run into Maraud in Snark space while looking for their son. The Power kids take Franklin back to Avengers mansion where they meet Jarvis, Hercules & Black Knight.

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(Cover Date: June, 1987) Ugh, another story about drug dealers.

(Cover Date: August, 1987) Summary: After drug addict, Rip, is shot to death by police after robbing a store, Alex vows to destroy the drug supplier. The Pack follows a drug dealer to his crack house. They go back home, since they need to go to a school play. At the play, Alex feigns illness & goes to the crack house. After the play, the other Power kids say they are sick also & go to bed. They arrive at the crack house to find Alex fighting the mutant group Trash. Trash has been hired to protect the crack house. The two groups fight against each other. Both groups exit the crack house when there is an imminent gas explosion caused by Trash. The crack house is left burning. The Pack returns home to their beds before their parents come in to check on them.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: The Garbage Man roughs up Trash's team members for allowing his client's crack house to be destroyed. Alex gets involved in a scuffle between a crack dealer & Johnny Rival. Johnny tells Alex to get lost since he blames him for his brother's death by the cops. Trash lets Power Pack follow them to Garbage Man's hideout. They fight against Trash & all end up getting knocked out. Garbage Man orders their deaths using a drug overdose. Trash refuses to kill them & fights against the Garbage Man. They wake up PP & free PP from their bindings to help them fight against Garbage Man. They knock GM into a hole in the floor then escape the building when Cap creates an explosion. Alex wants to take Trash in because they're criminals. Alex & Legs get into an argument about the societal differences in their lives. The groups separate. Legs concedes that they will never be heroes since they need to make money illegally.

(Cover Date: November, 1987) Summary: Sunspot & Warlock chase after the Vulture after he robs an armored truck but lose him in an old building. Franklin sees a silhouette of them flying while dreaming & thinks the Snarks have returned. He sends his dreamself to tell Power Pack. Franklin leads them to where Sunspot & Warlock are located. A brief scuffle ensues until they recognize each other. Looking to do something heroic, Sunspot saves a disabled car's occupants from a gang. After they fix their tire, the car is pursued by the police, to Sunspot's dismay. PP then stop the car for the police. Sunspot & Warlock go after the black-costumed Spidey, thinking he is a cat burglar. PP arrive to tell them who it is. PP come up with a plan to dress Julie up as a super-villain that Sunspot can defeat. Julie expands to 8 feet & they use a sheet & other items to make her look like a monster. Franklin & Katie summon Sunspot for help. He tries to strike her multiple times but can't connect, since she can change her density. Warlock tries to stop him. Sunspot hurls stairsteps at Julie. The kids think she's dead, but she rematerializes from her gaseous form. Sunspot is mad at them & himself. Warlock decides to take Sunspot back home. Arriving at their home, the kids find that their parents have been looking for them. Dad grounds the oldest three for two weeks. Comments: This issue is an epilogue to Fallen Angels #8.

(Cover Date: January, 1988) Summary: After both kids have acted irresponsibly due to being bored, Katie & Franklin see Madcap on TV & seek him out to take them on an adventure. Of course, Madcap acts zany the whole time. Their adventure ends when they stop Madcap from interferring in a botched bank robbery to avoid a shootout & help the police capture the robbers. After being around Madcap, the two kids have learned a lesson about how to act responsibly. Comments: The scene on the cover does not take place in the story.

(Cover Date: February, 1988) Summary: After a power blackout, Katie goes out to find her mother. Worried, the others follow her, & they encounter Pestilence, who is making civilians sick. They provide assistance to X-Factor & Death (Angel) when Apocalypse's ship knocks off the antenna to the Empire State Building. They stop the ship from damaging the Statue of Liberty & cause it to crash into the harbor. They manage to return home just as their mother arrives.

(Cover Date: December, 1987) HE = 7.0 MB = 7.0 HE Summary: Hawkeye practices for his benefit performance with Wonder Man & Mockingbird looking on. Before the performance starts, the clowns are gassed unconscious by Trick Shot & replaced by his henchmen. They then try to kill Hawkeye during the performance. Despite a broken bow, Hawkeye manages to take them out. MB Summary: Mockingbird hitches a ride on a traffic helicopter to go to Hawkeye's charity show at the LA Coliseum. In the dressing room, she finds the clowns have been gassed unconscious & is attacked by Trick Shot's henchmen. Mockingbird sends them on the run after a fight, but they take a hostage with them. Mockingbird pursues them, causes their van to crash & frees the hostage. Mockingbird then fights the henchmen again. Trick Shot shoots a flaming arrow at the ruptured gas tank, but Mockingbird manages to stop it in time. Later, she shows the gas arrow to Hawkeye, who turns pale after seeing it, remembering the man that it belongs to.

(Cover Date: January, 1988) HE = 8.0 CM = 7.0 HE Summary: After a training session, Hawkeye tells Mockingbird about his & his brother Barney's early life. He tells her how he met Swordsman & Trick Shot at a carnival. Trick Shot trained him to become a master archer after Swordsman tried to kill him to keep him silent after he stole the carnival's receipts. Trick Shot has Clint accompany him when he murders & robs Marko. Clint shoots Barney who is working with Marko. Clint refuses to go with Trick Shot to take Barney to the hospital. Trick Shot tells Clint that he will kill him later when he becomes more experienced. Hawkeye shows Mockingbird the one-way plane ticket to Paris that he received from Trick Shot. CM Summary: While flying over Switzerland, Captain Marvel is hit by a energy beam from Picaro that causes her to lose control & that drains some of her power. She finds that Picaro is holding Prof. LeClare & his associates & is threatening to kill them, unless she lets him absorb her powers. She leads Picaro away from the lab, then merges with him, causing him to overload from absorbing her power too fast. The resulting explosion destroys a mountaintop. The unconscious Picaro is taken away by the authorities without his exo-suit.

(Cover Date: February, 1988) HE = 7.0 MK = 7.0 Summary HE: Hawkeye flies to Paris to find Trick Shot, but he is ambushed by Trick Shot's hired assassins Batroc, Zaran & Machete. Summary MK: Moon Knight goes to an isolated estate to meet with a crime boss to get information on Cornelius Van Lunt (Taurus). Instead, he encounters a series of deadly traps & the Shroud, who he fights when attacked by him.

Competently written & nicely illustrated. This first issue has a fantasy feel to it.

King's dialogue is good, but his story in this issue is just not that interesting. The highlight is Evely's artwork. Apparently, Supergirl's wounds in the last issue were not that severe even after taking 3 arrows to the chest. I didn't get that. It was left unclear what Krypto's fate was. The idea of an interstellar bus service was amusing. The red kryptonite actually working as planned seemed like a stretch.

After finding a gang inside his old dilapitated childhood home, Ben tells them of his own troubled youth & his early friendship with Reed. (Cover date: July, 1983)

While Alicia lies in her hospital bed, Ben tells her about his lost love from college who wishes to see him again. (Cover date: August, 1983)

The Inhumans' dog, Lockjaw, teleports Ben to a small town in order to protect a grossly misshapened child from death at the hands of a murderous mob. (Cover date: October, 1983)

Despising that Ben is part of Alicia's life, the newly reincarnated Puppet Master mind controls Wonder Man, She-Hulk & Spider-Man to attack him. (Cover date: November, 1983)

After gaining control of the Thing, the Puppet Master confronts human Ben in his mind to torment him & to tell him of his plan to destroy the FF. (Cover date: December, 1983)

Ben runs into the Swedish villain, Goody Two Shoes, after he robs a bank. Goody gets the best of Ben for a time in a fight that takes them to top of the Empire State Building, then Ben gets really angry. (Cover date: January, 1984)

She-Hulk runs into the depressed Ben on the street & buys him a beer to get him to talk to her. An armored car heist happens outside the bar, which the two heroes put to a stop. Ben goes to the hospital to see Alicia & is spied on by an elderly janitor. The janitor flashes back to ancient Egypt, where he was a wizard for the pharaoh. He cast a spell on a slave who was an unfortunate pawn of the cruel queen. The wizard developed a potion that has extended his life to the present day. He confronts Ben to tell him that the slave has been reincarnated in Ben's body & is finally in a worthy body for his revenge. Ben crushes the wizard's tablet that releases a mist which changes him into the slave but with an orange, rock-like skin. (Cover date: February, 1984)

Alicia follows the path of destruction from the hospital that was left by the ancient Egyptian slave possessing Ben's body. The reincarnated man goes to the UN Building to announce that he is taking over as ruler of the world. Despite the old wizard's protestations, Alicia convinces him to give up the body so that Ben may live his life. (Cover date: March, 1984)

Ben tells Alicia that he wants to change his relationship with her & tells her about his first hours after becoming the Thing. Ben, Reed & Johnny investigate the alien structure in Central Park & disappear inside it. (Cover date: April, 1984)

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Ben discovers the riddle of Tarianna's people within Doom's castle on the Beyonder's world. (Cover date: July, 1984)

(Cover date: August, 1984)

Gruhl tries to kill Ben with a disintegrator ray gun after they get into a tussle over Tarianna in a bar. In the meantime, the "Yancy Street Gang" play pranks on Ben for damaging their car when Ben's airship crash landed into their city. (Cover date: September, 1984)

Ben falls down a crevice into subterranean caverns with Thing-like beings who are initially hostile toward him. Tarianna tries to find him & is beset by living skeletons that she fights off. She is then kidnaped by a cloaked figure who vanishes with her. (Cover date: October, 1984)

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(Cover date: December, 1984)

While looking for the kidnapped Tarianna, Ben is strangely attacked by the monsters he watched in the movies during his adolescence. (Cover date: January, 1985)

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Ben runs into a group of Leprechauns who grant him three wishes or does he? (Cover Date: July, 1985)

(Cover Date: August, 1985) [Guest appearance by a young Vance Astro]

(Cover Date: December, 1985)

While on vacation from his wrestling career, Ben goes to a remote Pacific Island to see Sharon Ventura who is a stunt woman in the filming of "Devil Dinosaur". (Cover Date: January, 1986)

(Cover Date: February, 1986) Wacky Moment: A private investigator shoots a gun with blanks at Vance to keep him from running away.

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(Cover Date: July, 1985) [Another Doc Ock's arms on a rampage story.]

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(Cover Date: November, 1985) Spidey meets the Smithville Thunderbolt.

(Cover Date: December, 1985)

(Cover Date: January, 1986)

(Cover Date: February, 1986) Flash gives Pete his goofy rationale of why he wasn't a bully in high school.

(Cover Date: March, 1986) Peter finally shuts up Mrs. Muggins, at least for awhile.

(Cover Date: May, 1986)

(Cover Date: June, 1986) One of the best issues of Web to date. Solid script & artwork.

(Cover Date: July, 1986) Peter & Joy Mercado travel to a town in Appalachia Virginia to cover a story for Now Magazine & run into its unfriendly inhabitants who are willing to use force to protect a secret.

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(Cover Date: April, 1987) Unfortunately, the plot is more like that of an early 60's Marvel comic.

(Cover Date: May, 1987)

(Cover Date: June, 1987) Web has become the home for not very good inventory Spidey stories.

(Cover Date: July, 1987) Summary: PP travels to California to retrieve his clothes & ID hidden in the Statue of Liberty's torch, which is being refurbished there. He runs into a gang of "avocado rebels" who plan to steal the torch to make a political statement. However, the leader of the gang drives away with it, intending to sell it for millions instead, & Spidey follows in hot pursuit.

(Cover Date: August, 1987) Summary: Peter attends Ned's funeral & sees Betty home afterwards. He blames himself for Ned's death. Richard Fisk is questioned by Joy Mercado as to why he is at the funeral. Richard tells Alfredo & Dina about his former business relationship with the Hobgoblin. As Keating & Kingsley are arguing about going to prison due to their ties to the Hobgoblin, they are interrupted by the Rose's hitmen. Kingsley is wounded while Keating manages to escape out the window. Later, the Rose returns to his penthouse to find that his two hitmen have been killed by the new Hobgoblin (Jack O'Lantern). Hobgoblin flies off after deciding to let the Rose live for now. Wolverine finds a brooding Peter by the dock when a gang attempts to mug them. They fight back & send the gang fleeing. Hobgoblin finds Alfredo in one of his hideouts, looking for evidence against Richard. After avoiding the Hobgoblin's finger blasts, Alfredo flees in his Porsche. Spidey & Wolverine pursue the gang, & Spidey webs them up for the police. Hobgoblin chases after Alfredo, whose car goes off the dock with a blown tire, but he is rescued underwater by Spidey. Wolverine tells Spidey that he is not responsible for Ned's & Charlie's deaths in Germany, & he needs to let it go. Comments: After a number of inventory stories, Web finally ties back to the other Spider-Man titles.

(Cover Date: September, 1987) Summary: Spidey recalls the death of Ned Leeds & the appearance of the new Hobgoblin. Richard Fisk's girlfriend, Dina, wonders what has happened to him. Richard goes to a confessional to confess his sins to a priest. He relates how he met Ned Leeds, who was trying to get information from him to write an expose about his father, the Kingpin. Triggered by his father's treatment of his mother in dealing with Daredevil, Richard decides that he needs to take down his father. After contacting Ned to get information, Ned reveals to him that he is the Hobgoblin. Ned helps him create his alter ego, the Rose, behind which to run his criminal organization. Richard tells the priest of how Ned became obsessed with Spidey & became more arrogant & evil. He recounts how badly his father treated his mother by bringing her back from Europe. He confesses that he killed a police officer that he only meant to wound. He leaves the confessional & goes to his father's penthouse HQ, where he tells his father that he'll work for him.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: Kraven fights against a panther & a gorilla. He recalls that he came to this country after the Russian revolution as a child. His herbs, roots & potions have kept him young, but he thinks he will die soon. Spidey stops by a tavern to pay his respects to the late Joe Face. Kraven immerses himself in spiders & eats mouthfuls of them. Peter wakes up from a nightmare & goes out web-slinging, but not feeling right. Kraven is stalking Spidey & is followed by his henchman in a helicopter. Spidey is hit by a dart from Kraven, which drugs him. He alternately sees Joe Face & Kraven. After Kraven hits him in the head with a pole, he throws a net over Spidey that he is unable to break. Spidey is shocked to see Kraven approach him with a rifle. After Spidey tells him that it isn't his style, Kraven shoots him. Spidey lies in a coffin in the cemetery near Kraven's manor. The coffin is lowered into the hole. Kraven shows both sadness & elation. Kraven's henchman begins to fill the hole with dirt.

(Cover Date: November, 1987) Summary: Spidey hallucinates about seeing Ned Leeds, being a spider & crawling naked through a tunnel where Kraven is waiting to shoot him. He reaches the surface & staggers to Kraven's estate. He finds a newspaper that indicates that he has been buried for two weeks. He realizes that he was shot with one of Kraven's jungle potions. Vermin is trapped in an electrified cage. Spidey returns back to the apartment to see MJ. Later, despite MJ's protests about his condition, he leaves to go find Kraven. He enters Kraven's penthouse through the skylight where Kraven is waiting for him.

(Cover Date: December, 1987) Summary: A woman is committed to a mental institution by the Arranger so that she doesn't talk about her husband's job with the Kingpin. After Peter runs into her kids, he goes to the institution later as Spidey to investgate & finds the kids on the roof confronting their father. They are assaulted by armed guards, & Spidey is shot while rescuing the daughter, who was tossed off the roof by a guard.

(Cover Date: January, 1988) Summary: A Skrull wins a bet with another alien by subduin̈g the Watcher using one of Galactus' lost weapons. The Skrull & the Watcher have a bet based on the winner of a football game that Spidey is playing with some kids. If the Watcher wins, he gets his freedom & Galactus' weapon. If he loses, he gives his arsenal to the Skrull & loses his life. Despite interference from the Skrull, Spidey's team wins after making a huge comeback. The Watcher sends the Skrull to Las Vegas, where he has been transformed into a Joker playing card, watching the bettors but unable to bet.

(Cover Date: April, 1968)

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(Cover Date: July, 1968) Agent 13's name is revealed as Sharon Carter (finally!).

(Cover Date: August, 1968)

(Cover Date: September, 1968)

(Cover Date: October, 1968) Features a chain-smoking SHIELD agent.

(Cover Date: November, 1968)

(Cover Date: December, 1968) It's a sticky situation for Cap as he tries to rescue his beloved Sharon from the clutches of the **** talking Trapster.

(Cover Date: January, 1969) Summary: Cap tells Fury about a mission that he & Bucky were on in WWII to disable Nazi coastal guns prior to the D-Day invasion. Prompted by Fury, Cap tells him of the day when Dr. Reinstein's "super-soldier" formula turned him from frail Steve Rogers into Captain America & when Reinstein was killed by a Nazi spy, thus taking his secret formula with him to the grave. He then reminisces about how Bucky learned his secret identity & later tragically died.

(Cover Date: February, 1969) Summary: Steve Rogers is out for an evening stroll when the Hulk bursts through a wall, pursued by soldiers. The Hulk is hit by an ionic energy cannon. Rick Jones shows up while Cap is fighting against the Hulk. Rick tries to calm the Hulk but is knocked out when the Hulk destroys the cannon. Hulk then leaps away. Cap takes Rick to Avengers Mansion to recover. Rick appears before Cap dressed in Bucky's outfit. Cap objects at first but then relents. The Avengers' alarm goes off, & the two head into the sewer system, where they are met by a force of Hydra agents, who are going to poison the water supply. Feeling the fighting is too dangerous, Cap tells Bucky to leave. Madame Hydra orders Cap to be killed, & he is attacked by a Hydra agent in a power vest. Cap defeats the agent. Rick comes back to see the Hydra agent holding Cap's shield. Rick charges in to avenge Cap's death. Revealing himself, Cap then uses his shield to break the surrounding water lines. Madame Hydra captures Rick with her whip & then pushes him toward the raging water, where the Hydra agents are being swept away. Cap extends his arm to save Rick from the torrent. Cap compliments Rick on helping him to beat Hydra.

(Cover Date: March, 1969) Summary: Cap receives a mysterious fortune at the arcade. Cap is ambushed by Hydra hitmen but evades their fire. The hitmen run away, & Cap destroys the robot cowboy with his shield that was meant to finish him off. Madame Hydra gives the leader of the hit squad the Warrant of Death for his failure to kill Cap. While he watches old film of Cap & Bucky, Rick questions whether he can be as good as Bucky was. Cap shows Rick some combat gymnastics. Later when Cap is gone, Rick opens a delivered envelope that contains a psychedelic gas & collapses. He is taken away by Hydra agents. Arriving home, Cap tries to stop them, but they escape with Rick. At Hydra HQ, Rick revives & escapes his guards. Cap goes back to the arcade seeking clues & is met by the Hydra robot, Mankiller. Cap destroys the robot with its own miniture missiles. Now at the arcade & with Hydra below, Rick shouts at Cap to get off of the roof. A figure jumps into a hail of bullets from the Hydra agents as it dives into the water. The police fish Cap's uniform & a mask with Steve Roger's facial features out of the water.

(Cover Date: April, 1969) Summary: The police pull Cap's bullet-ridden costume out of the water, but they do not find his body. They assume it has drifted out to sea with the tide. At Avengers Mansion, Iron Man is notified that Cap is dead. IM reviews Cap's career before closing his file: (1) 40's foes: Red Skull, Butterfly, Ringmaster of Evil, Legion of Beggars, White Death, Toadman, Zemo, (2) Death of Bucky Barnes, (3) Frozen in ice, found by Namor, rescued by the Avengers, (4) Allies: Nick Fury & Sharon Carter of SHIELD, (5) Foes: Modok & AIM, Fourth Sleeper, Batroc, Tumbler, Swordsman, Living Laser, Red Skull's Exiles, Trapster, Dr. Faustus. Comments: This is the last issue penciled by Jack Kirby until #193, when he returns to Marvel.

(Cover Date: May, 1969) Summary: Madame Hydra watches a reporter on TV discuss the death of Captain America. She recalls how she survived a war in Europe & how she became Madame Hydra. Still emotional, Rick is unable to tell the Avengers how Cap died. Nick Fury speaks at a memorial for Cap. Gas is released from the coffin, knocking Fury & the Avengers out. They are loaded into coffins by Hydra agents & taken to a cemetery, with Rick tagging along. Rick watches the coffins being placed into graves, when he is discovered by a Hydra agent. Suddenly, Cap appears on the scene with his motorcycle & fights against the Hydra agents. He has Rick shoot the gastank of his motorcycle, causing an explosion that takes out the Hydra agents. Madame Hydra releases Hunter missiles that Cap & Rick avoid. Instead, the missiles destroy a crypt that Madame Hydra is near, her fate unknown. Cap tells Rick that he used a rubberized figure & Steve Rogers mask to fake his death so that he has a secret identity once more.

(Cover Date: June, 1969) Summary: With Steve Rogers now "dead", Cap decides to not return to Avengers Mansion to break with his past. He goes to SHIELD HQ to see Sharon. She is on a mission to monitor a cell of AIM leaders, but against orders, she decides to tackle them herself, thinking Cap is dead. Cap & Rick arrive in time to protect her from the robot, the Walking Stiletto. They team up to destroy the robot just as Fury's agents arrive to round up the AIM leaders. Fearing for her safety, Cap asks Sharon to resign from SHIELD, but she refuses. Depressed, Cap leaves her. Later, he puts on a disguise & finds a cheap hotel to live in. Suddenly, a triumphant Red Skull appears in his room, once again holding the Cosmic Cube.

(Cover Date: July, 1969) Summary: Possessed of the Cosmic Cube, the Red Skull fends off Cap's attempts to stop him. He tells Cap how he located the Cube. The Skull attempts to break Cap by creating surreal conditions with the Cube. Finally, the Skull summons forth Sharon Carter, then switches bodies with Cap to torment him.

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It was interesting to see the revisiting of an old Tales of Suspense story, but Demon Druid was a pretty lame antagonist for Cap. (Cover date: April, 1981)

(Cover date: June, 1981)

A man that Cap knew in WWII asks Cap to talk to his son who has joined a biker gang. When Cap is at the gang's hangout, Doc Ock (!) shows up to grab Cap's shield for study. (Cover date: July, 1981)

Cap goes to California to meet with Galactic Pictures who want to make a movie about his life. Twice the Nihilist Order shows up to kill him but so does the new hero Nomad. What is their connection and who is behind the attacks on Cap? (Cover date: September, 1981)

During a parade to promote the Captain America movie, Ameridroid & the Nihilist Order show up to attack Cap. Nomad again comes to Cap's rescue, but things go terribly wrong for both of them. (Cover date: October, 1981)

The Red Skull tells Cap about his scheme to discredit him in the public eye by using Nomad, Ameridroid & the Nihilist Order. Cap then finds out that it is a part of the Skull's much bigger plan to bring down America, and he tries to stop him before it can be implemented. (Cover date: November, 1981)

After Cap is abducted by Sultan & his Biotrons, Spidey & Nick Fury come to his rescue. Fury becomes grappled to a nuclear missile headed to Washington, DC, while Cap & Spidey find their escape from Sultan's island base isn't as easy as they thought it would be. (Cover date: January, 1982)

After Cap & Spidey save themselves from falling to their deaths, they must still deal with Sultan & its Biotrons who are trying to kill them. Meanwhile, Nick Fury must figure out how to stop the nuclear missile he is riding that is headed toward Washington, DC. (Cover date: February, 1982)

After the psychopath Everyman murders four policemen on TV, he challenges Cap to a duel at the Statute of Liberty to kill him, believing him to be a false symbol of the reality of America. (Cover date: March, 1982)

(Cover date: April, 1982)

Cap & Team America follow the Mad Thinker's giant android, who has kidnapped a Nobel Prize winner, through a teleportation tube. They find themselves in a quaint town where they meet the Mad Thinker's androids of famous thinkers of history. (Cover date: May, 1982)

(Cover date: June, 1982)

Cap & the Howling Commandos assault Hydra Island to free General Sawyer who has the launch codes for the SAC Aerial Command Center bomber that was hijacked by Baron Strucker & Hydra. (Cover date: October, 1982)

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(Cover date: July, 1984)

Captured, Cap, Nomad & Arnie Roth are tormented by Sister Pleasure & Mother Superior prior to their planned execution at the hands of Zemo & the Red Skull. (Cover date: August, 1984)

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(Cover Date: February, 1987) Let's see, who has messed with Cap's mind in the past?

(Cover Date: June, 1987)

(Cover Date: December, 1987) Summary: After giving up his Captain America identity due to a lack of freedom imposed by the government, Cap runs into an ecological saboteur called Brother Nature, who has acquired the power to control the forces of nature. After Brother Nature is injured during their fight, he learns the background of the man. He uses the experience to decide his future course of action in getting his Captain America identity back.

(Cover Date: November, 1985)

(Cover Date: January, 1986) C & D learn a lesson about applying their brand of justice from the Beyonder.

Detective Brigid O'Reily becomes the undead Mayhem after being subjected to poisonous gas & Cloak & Dagger's powers while they are trying to save her life. (Cover Date: March, 1986)

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(Cover Date: November, 1986) Nice pencils by Art Adams.

(Cover date: May, 1962)

The Toad Men invade Earth after General Ross has their scout ship shot down. It isn't the Hulk who ends up saving the Earth but Banner. (Cover date: July, 1962)

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(Cover Date: February, 1969) Summary: The alien warlord brings the Hulk to his planet as an offering to the Galaxy Master. When the Hulk attacks him, the Galaxy Master uses various transformations to try to kill him. The alien princess sees this as a golden opportunity to dispose of their tyrant. She recalls how the Galaxy Master conquered her world & destroyed other worlds that were seen as a threat to it. She orders her planet's forces to attack it. Hulk is spared from being sent to the core of planet due to the distraction caused by the attack. The princess' ship is destroyed, & the Galaxy Master captures her in a tractor beam. Hulk leaps into the beam which carries him inside the Galaxy Master. Hulk destroys its brain, then saves the princess from falling to her death. While fleeing, the warlord falls to his death in the chasm created for the Hulk. The princess agrees with the Hulk's demand for him to leave her world. However, the Hulk also demands that the spaceship leave immediately before the cabin is pressurized properly. After liftoff, the Hulk changes back to Banner, who cannot breathe properly due to the thin air.

Hulk destroys the Flame of Life Tower in El Dorado, causing the flame form of Tyrannus to hurtle uncontrollably into space. (Cover date: January, 1980)

After Hulk interrupts a ceremony at Graumann's Theater in L.A. & causes trouble, he is confronted by It, the Living Colossus, which is controlled initially by Bob O'Bryan & then by evil Doctor Aloysius Vault. Hulk grinds It into dust, which leads to the death of Vault. (Cover date: February, 1980)

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#1 - Banner is taken in by a mysterious woman named Glazier after she finds him on her Malibu beach. She has plans to add his likeness to her collection of glass statues of men. #2 - While in LA, Banner meets a couple whose son claims that they are aliens. Banner soon finds out the true nature of the boy when he stays with the couple. (Cover date: August, 1981)

Rick & Betty land at the LA airport as Avalanche is tearing up the runway to extort money from the state. Hulk and Landslide arrive to stop him. (Cover date: September, 1981)

Assisted by the Teen Brigade, Rick & Betty plan to take Banner to get the help necessary to cure him of being the Hulk. The Corruptor, who has his own sinister plans for the Hulk, sends his henchman, Night Flyer, to find him. (Cover date: October, 1981)

The Corruptor threatens to have evil Hulk kill Betty & the Teen Brigade, unless Rick summons the Avengers. The Corruptor plans to gain control of the team as they battle the Hulk. However, it's not the Avengers who get the summons, but the Rangers, who arrive on the scene & fight against the Hulk. (Cover date: November, 1981)

(Cover date: July, 1982)

After harvesting lumber for the Canadians who lost their wheat to the insectoid aliens, Hulk decides to go home & is confronted by the National Guard at the US-Canada border who aim to stop him. (Cover date: August, 1982)

The Avengers & Hulk find the Leader's spaceship but must then fight through a horde of Humanoids to gain access inside.(Cover date: May, 1983)

(Cover date: June, 1983)

Banner/Hulk dictates the memoirs of his life as the Hulk. When the Soulstar power core is installed in Banner's new science observatory & releases Zzzax, Banner/Hulk must find a way to stop it before it consumes the life energies of the people present. (Cover date: July, 1983)

Hulk is transported to the 41st century whose society's reason for existence is to make war with each other due to the influence of Kang. (Cover date: August, 1983)

Banner gets an assistant from SHIELD at his Northwind Observatory, much to the displeasure of his sentient Recordasphere. Modok breaks into Project Earthfall to break one of Hulk's old foes out of cryogenic storage with the approval of General Thunderbolt Ross. (Cover date: September, 1983)

AIM agents rebel against MODOK, and failing to kill him, drive him away. The Abomination attacks Banner, intending to kill him, after having been coerced by MODOK to do so. General Ross, accompanied by Betty, arrives at the observatory expecting Banner to be dead per his agreement with MODOK. (Cover date: November, 1983)

After the Abomination delivers Kate Waynesboro to them, AIM transforms her into Ms. Modok to defeat Modok, but when Modok & the Hulk show up things do not go according to their plans. (Cover date: December, 1983)

Bruce goes to Mexico City, accompanied by Kate Waynesboro, to build a gammascope to increase the country's food supply. They attend a performance of the Circus of Crime in a small town. Banner is recognized as the alter ego of the Hulk due to their first meeting long ago. Ringmaster hypnotizes Banner into turning into the Hulk to humiliate him. However, he loses his control of Dragon Man, & the two begin to fight. During the melee, Kate fires Cannonball into the Ringmaster, knocking off his hat, which Dragon Man stomps on. No longer being controlled, Dragon Man flies away, while the Hulk is dejected at having become a monster again. (Cover date: February, 1984)

A man tries to assassinate Banner to get revenge for a time the Hulk battled the military, which resulted in the destruction of the man's hometown & subsequently his personal life. (Cover date: March, 1984)

Boomerang kidnaps Kate to force Banner to use his gammascope on former mob boss Max Stryker in the hope of curing his cancer. (Cover date: April, 1984)

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(Cover date: August, 1984)

Nightmare manipulates the savage Hulk into attacking Doctor Strange. Strange attempts to waken the last vestige of Bruce Banner in Hulk's mind in order to save him. (Cover date: September, 1984)

His Bruce Banner psyche now gone, the mindless Hulk goes on a rampage through NYC. Various heroes try to stop him: Gab Jones & SHIELD, Human Torch, Iron Fist, Power Man, the Avengers & Thor. Finally, Doctor Strange decides that the best course of action is to exile the Hulk to another dimension where he will do no harm. (Cover date: October, 1984)

(Cover date: November, 1984)

Hulk enters a reality where he is beaten by Maktu, the Iron Knight, & is held prisoner. He is saved from death by a green woman who is a fellow prisoner & who is to be Maktu's bride. The woman hopes that Hulk is the champion who will set her free. (Cover date: December, 1984)

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(Cover Date: October, 1985) The story recounts the early tragic life of Bruce Banner.

(Cover Date: November, 1985)

(Cover Date: December, 1985) First issue by John Byrne.

(Cover Date: January, 1986)

(Cover Date: February, 1986)

(Cover Date: March, 1986)

(Cover Date: April, 1986) Doc Samson gets into a tussle with the Hulkbusters which proves to be deadly.

(Cover Date: May, 1986) While Doc Samson saves the Hulkbusters from the Hulk, Bruce & Betty actually get hitched even after T-Bolt Ross' interference.

(Cover Date: June, 1986) A dip in quality with Byrne's departure as writer.

(Cover Date: July, 1986)

(Cover Date: September, 1986)

(Cover Date: November, 1986) Rick Jones transforms into a Hulk.

(Cover Date: December, 1986)

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(Cover Date: March, 1987)

(Cover Date: April, 1987) Features the death of General Thunderbolt Ross (or does it?).

(Cover Date: May, 1987) Peter David begins his long run as the regular writer on this title.

(Cover Date: June, 1987) The Leader is restored to his former gamma-spawned brilliant self with the help of the gray Hulk.

(Cover Date: July, 1987) After Banner is arrested, the Hulk finds himself drawn into the tragic relationship between a domestic abuse victim & her sheriff husband.

(Cover Date: August, 1987) Summary: Bruce Banner is rescued off the top of a narrow butte by a helicopter. Hulk had left him there before sunrise, so that Banner doesn't work on a cure. Betty is in a hotel room with Ramon. Betty is questioning her marriage to Bruce. At Gamma Base, Rick is determined to be "Hulk free". Bruce, with Rick, confronts Betty in the hotel room. Ramon punches Bruce but is then knocked out by Rick. After Bruce spends some intimate time with Betty, he changes back into the Hulk, having been unaware of the actual time, & crashes out of the hotel room. Hulk is attacked by the gamma-spawned monster, Half-Life, who tries to absorb his life energy. Hulk leaves Half-Life in pieces. Later, Bruce, now left on a mountain, realizes that Half-Life was created by a gamma bomb that he designed.

(Cover Date: September, 1987) Summary: The Stalker chases a teenage girl he blinded out of her bedroom window & into the arms of the Hulk, who protects her from him. The Stalker disappears when the police show up, as does the Hulk who jumps away. The girl is in the hospital after having her eyes slashed by the Stalker. She tells Banner about the attack & a suspect; Banner is pretending to be a psychiatrist. Banner watches Gil Jeffers outside his window. Gil likes to watch nothing but horror movies. As Gil drinks himself to sleep, Banner turns into the Hulk, & the Stalker rises from Gil's body. The Stalker takes the Hulk to a bar where there are four men who assailted a woman & got away with it. The Stalker attacks the men & tells Hulk to kill one to strengthen his dark side. Instead, the Hulk grabs the Stalker, who gets away from him. The Stalker carjacks a police car but crashes into the Hulk. He runs back to Gil's place & tries to wake him up. The Hulk punches through the Stalker who screams. In the hospital, the girl's parents are told that she may regain part of her eyesight. Banner stands by the bed of Gil, who is in a coma. Banner says that the hatred of the Stalker replaced his soul & now there is nothing left but a shell.

(Cover Date: October, 1987) Summary: Clay Quartermain is reproached by the SHIELD Council for his failure to get rid of the Hulk. Angry at having to become Banner again, the Hulk slams his fist into a building. Banner is knocked out by falling debris as the building collapses & is taken inside the home of a man named Dick. The man hopes to receive a bounty for reporting Banner to X-Factor as a mutant. Banner calls Gamma Base, & Rick subtlety warns him to not return. Banner is out walking when X-Factor arrives at Dick's home. Banner runs from X-Factor, thinking that they are SHIELD agents. Banner turns back into the Hulk & confronts X-Factor by throwing a train boxcar at them. Their fight ends up inside a printing company. They continue their fight until the Hulk is encased in ice by Bobby. Scott calls Quartermain to come get the Hulk, since X-Factor has no means to contain him. The SHIELD Council tells Quartermain to send as many people as necessary to end the menace of the Hulk.

(Cover Date: November, 1987) Summary: Betty leaves the hospital with Ramon. The note she leaves for Bruce is blown under a cabinet. Hulk has been encased in ice by Iceman. A SHIELD force is on its way to pick up the Hulk. When it arrives, Quartermain stops Saunders from shooting the Hulk with a laser cannon. The Hulk arrives at Gamma Base & breaks out of the ice. The Hulk fights against Doc Samson & X-Factor. The SHIELD Council tells Quartermain that they don't need Banner alive anymore, since they have perfected the gamma bomb. They tell Quartermain to do his duty. After getting knocked out by Samson, the Hulk is held in kinetic bonds. A shadowed figure (Quartermain) is secretly setting bombs around Gamma Base. Agent Trump, Quartermain's second-in-command, orders the SHIELD agents to take out X-Factor & Samson. They fight back. Iceman frees the Hulk from his bonds. The Hulk & X-Factor rout the SHIELD agents & break out to the outside. The sun is rising, & much to the Hulk's dismay, he turns back into Banner. Before Trump & his agents can gun the group down, Quatermain's bombs start to go off. Quartermain picks them up in a van & drives away as Gamma Base is being destroyed. Later, X-Factor leaves in a rental car to go pick up their plane. When Bruce mentions Betty, Quartermain starts to tell him what happened to her. Samson digs out from under the rubble to find Gamma Base has been destroyed.

(Cover Date: December, 1987) Summary: Bruce, Rick & Clay flee in a van to avoid being captured by SHIELD agents. Along the way, Bruce/Hulk are plagued by Mercy, an alien angel of death, who kills people with an inner desire to die. Banner's personality decides he really wants to live, & the Hulk manages to defeat her in the end by blowing up a gas station.

(Cover Date: January, 1988) Summary: Hulk, Rick & Clay go to a SHIELD safehouse in Boulder, CO to find the location of the gamma bombs & Betty. They find that the caretaker's foster son is "Ashcan" (see PPSSM#118). After Ashcan blasts the Hulk, the Hulk chases the kid to a carnival. The Hall of Mirrors brings back memories of Bruce being abused by his father, while Ashcan remembers killing his own abusive father. Hulk brings the kid back to the safehouse, where Rick talks him into leaving the kid with his foster father.

(Cover Date: February, 1988) Summary: During a freak snowstorm, the X-Men fly to Dallas in their Blackbird to find Storm. After the Hulk leaves a trail of destruction that leads Wolverine to him, the two get into a savage brawl. It is finally broken up by Clay Quartermain, who talks some sense into both of them. Hulk leaves with Rick & Clay to continue their search for the military's gamma-ray bombs.

(Cover Date: May, 1968)

(Cover Date: June, 1968) First appearance of Janice Cord.

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(Cover Date: December, 1968) This issue reveals the life story of Whitney Frost leading up to how she became the Big M.

(Cover Date: January, 1969) Summary: At a Chinese curiosities shop, a hooded figure receives a crate containing the Hulk. After testing the Hulk, the hooded figure sends the Hulk to kidnap Janice Cord. Tony is meeting with Janice & her attorney regarding the sale of her company to him. Hulk leaps away with Janice with Iron Man in pursuit. They skirmish along the way, until they arrive at a power plant. They fight there until the Hulk falls into an electrical generator. The "Hulk" is shown to actually be a robot & collapses from the damage sustained. The hooded figure is revealed to be the Mandarin, who states that he has confirmed that Tony Stark is Iron Man.

(Cover Date: February, 1969) Summary: The Mandarin completes his lab beneath Mei-Ling's shop. He creates fake photos of Tony Stark with communist agents. Reporters interrupt Tony's date with Janice Cord to ask him about the photos. Tony leaves them without comment. Since Tony has not responded about the photos, the government, represented by Senator Byrd, cancels their contracts with SI. Tony receives a call from Mei-Ling to come to her shop if he wants a solution to his dilemma. Outside the shop, Iron Man runs into Fury & Sitwell who want him to meet with SHIELD's executive committee. IM flees from them & avoids the SHIELD heli-carrier. Tony goes to Cord Lab to hide & runs into Janice. He convinces Janice to trust him despite her doubts. IM crashes through the skylight of Mei-Ling's shop & is confronted by the Mandarin. The Mandarin animates two stone statutes that attack IM. IM quickly shatters the two statues into pieces. He follows the Mandarin into his lab. They have a brief skirmish before IM is immobilized by neutralizer rays. The Mandarin boasts that he is going to remove IM's helmet to prove he is Tony Stark & then destroy him with his power rings.

(Cover Date: March, 1969) Summary: With IM caught in his neutralizing rays, the Mandarin uses his power ray to remove IM's helmet. To his surprise, the face that is revealed is not that of Tony Stark. IM tells the Mandarin to turn on the TV. Stark is seen meeting with the media at his lodge. The Mandarin leaves IM in Mei-Ling's custody & teleports to the lodge find Stark. IM makes Mei-Ling angry about the Mandarin's lack of love. She slams a door while leaving, which causes a damaged lamp to fall in front of the neutralizing ray, freeing IM. Tony takes off his mask & flies to his lodge. He recalls the Stark LMD that he secretly built in Cord Labs. The Mandarin enters the lodge & strikes down the Stark LMD when it fails to obey him. IM shows up & gets into a fight with the Mandarin, ripping off his teleportation belt. The Mandarin's robot reserve teleports into the lodge, but IM easily destroys them. Worried about Tony, Janice runs into the lodge, & the Mandarin takes her as a hostage. The Mandarin takes her to his aircraft, which was piloted there by Mei-Ling. IM crashes into the craft. When the Mandarin is about to kill Janice, Mei-Ling steps in front of his power ray due to Janice's love for Tony. IM punches the Mandarin into the instrument panel, which causes the airship to go out of control. IM flies away with Janice as the airship crashes into a mountain. Back at the lodge, they see the Stark LMD being loaded into an ambulance to be taken to the hospital. Comments: The scene on the cover of the prior issue actually takes place in this issue.

(Cover Date: April, 1969) Summary: After his battle with the Mandarin, Iron Man, along with Janice, watch the ambulance take the fallen Stark LMD away. At SI, IM beams instructions to the LMD so that the ambulance drivers find it alive & well. The LMD is returned to SI by police helicopter, & Tony locks it in his vault. Sitwell is supervising the recovery of the ship that Whitney Frost escaped in & crashed in the Everglades. Janice tells Tony that her lawyer, Vincent Sandhurst, is pressuring her to sell her company to Tony. Sandhurst needs his fee to care for his brother, Basil. Upon returning home, Vincent finds his brother has become the Controller. They recall how Basil had worked for Cord & was badly injured in a chemical fire. The Contoller moves in an exo-skeleton powered by the mind. Basil shows Vincent his Mind-Wave Absorbatron that he has connected his servants to tap their mental forces. Basil attaches a disc to the unwilling Vincent's forehead to connect him remotely with the Absorbatron. Tony & Janice drive to the town where Vincent lives to settle the sale. Tony finds the people in a restaurant are all wearing discs. The Controller pulls Janice out of the car, attaches a disc to her & flies away. Tony follows as IM & forces the Controller to the ground. The Controller is not fazed by IM's repulsor rays. He knocks IM down & puts a disc on him. He then flies away with both IM & Janice in his arms to be added to the Absorbatron.

(Cover Date: May, 1969) Summary: Iron Man fights against the Controller aboard a train carrying his Absorbatron to NYC, where the Controller plans to use it to vastly increase his mental energy.

(Cover Date: June, 1969) Summary: The Night Phantom destroys a Stark project plant on a small Caribbean island. Tony meets Travis Hoyt, a wheel-chaired writer who is opposed to the plant. After inspecting the ruins of the plant, Tony's jeep is upended by the Night Phantom. Tony wakes up to find himself with Janice Cord who is visiting her friend Hoyt. Hoyt reveals to Janice that he is the Night Phantom & got his strength from an underground radioactive pool. Iron Man finds the cavern that they are in. Hoyt tries to throw Janice in the pool, but she catches herself on the ledge. IM fights against Hoyt using his repulsor rays. As he pulls Janice to safety, Hoyt throws himself into the pool to gain additional strength, but falls through a crack. On the flight home, Tony is torn between being with Janice & putting her at risk while he remains Iron Man.

(Cover Date: July, 1969) Summary: After the Red Ghost helps the Unicorn recover his memory & repairs his equipment, he coerces him into stealing Tony Stark's cosmic ray intensifier, which leads to a conflict with Iron Man. The Red Ghost uses the device to give himself & his apes super-powers.

After learning of the deaths of employees at his branch in Hong Kong, Tony Stark works with a mystic to eliminate the threat of the All-Devourer and its servants. (Cover date: January, 1980)

Tony Stark runs into the Hulk, who is blocking traffic on the Long Island Expressway. After the Hulk changes back into Banner, Iron Man takes him to Stark International, where they jointly develop a pulse regulator to stop Banner's change into the Hulk. (Cover date: February, 1980)

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In his prototype space armor, Iron Man joins Sunturion to destroy the Soviet attack drones that were sent to destroy the Roxxon space station. When Iron Man begins to disable the station's solar panels due to its illegal operation, Sunturion attacks Iron Man to stop him. Their battle sends the space station's core hurtling toward Earth. (Cover date: February, 1981)

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