Category: Marvel
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Amazing Spider-Man #10:The Enforcers!
Cover Date: Mar 1964 | Review: 3.25 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Amazing Spider-Man #10 and the story titled “The Enforcers“. In this story, we have a new menace named The Big Man, and his team of skillful enforcers taking over the cities organised crime. Then if that’s not bad enough we have the backdrop of Aunt May post surgery and needing blood from…
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Tales Of Suspense #50:Tales Of… The Watcher! Journey’s End
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 3.25 StarsToday’s review focuses on the Tales of The Watcher from Tales Of Suspense #50. In this tale, titled Journey’s end, we here the wondrous story of a Meek Man from the 21st century. The tale of one space pilot named Wilbur Weems. Weems volunteers for a one way mission in space, as he see’s that unlike his pears he has no reason…
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Tales Of Suspense #50:The Hands Of The Mandarin
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 2.5 Starsfor today’s comic book review I read the tale titled “The Hands Of The Mandarin” from Tales Of Suspense #50. In this classic comic book we have Iron Man face to face with the Mandarin for the first time. but does the story live up to the legacy that would follow from it? Story The story for this…
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Fantastic Four #23:The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 3.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Fantastic Four #23, titled “The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!” that is right, Dr. Doom is back, and seeing to eliminate the Fantastic Four yet again. But is his plan one that is destined to succeed? or will we see Dr. Doom stopped yet again? Story This is perhaps one of the best…
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Amazing Spider-Man #9:The Man Called Electro!
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 4.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Amazing Spider-Man #9,the story contained within is titled “The Man Called Electro!” And it is a Spider-Man thriller like none before, as Steve Ditko and Stan lee raised the stakes on this one. Not only do we have the action pack trills of Spider-Man facing Electro, not only do we have…
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Strange Tales #117:The Many Traps Of Baron Mordo
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 4.5 StarsFor this comic book review I read Strange Tales #117 and the story featuring Dr. Strange Titled “The Many Traps Of Baron Mordo” In this issue, we have a near foolproof plan of Baron Mordo to trap Dr. Strange and his home in another dimension. Then while he is trapped, the Barren plans to face and eliminate the ancient one. But can…
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Strange Tales #117:The Return Of The Eel
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 2.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review, I read the Human Torch Feature from Strange Tales #117 titled “The Return Of The Eel“. In this classic tale we have the return of the Eel, whom you may remember from Strange Tales #112 the issue where the human torch came the closest to being finished. But is does this tale live up to…
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Tales To Astonish #52:Not What They Seem!
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 4 StarsNow that I got the action story out of the way; I move on to review Tales To Astonish #52 “the wonderful Wasp Tells A tale!” story, This time she goes to an orphanage to tell her story to the local kids. The tale she tells is titled “Not What They Seem!” The Story The Story,…
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Tales To Astonish #52:The Black Knight Strikes!
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Tales To Astonish #52, starting Giant-Man and The Wonderful Wasp! Just from the cover of the classic comic book I seen great promise, and not just from the words, but also from the clean appearance. but is the tale titled “The Black Knight Strikes!” meant to be a good one? or is it…
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Journey Into Mystery #102:Slave of Zarrko, The Tomorrow Man!
Cover Date: Mar 1964 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review, I moved on to read Journey Into Mystery #102, to get the second part of the epic story started in the prior months Journey Into Mystery, featuring Thor, as the slave of “The Tomorrow Man!” in fact, the story is titled “Slave Of Zarrko, The Tomorrow Man!” and the title seems to hold…
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Journey Into Mystery #101:The Return Of Zarrko, The Tomorrow Man!
Cover Date: Feb 1964 | Review: 3.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Journey Into Mystery #101; a story that is part one of another two-part story for the Mighty Thor. But all being part of a larger epic that is ongoing related to his desire of Jane Foster. In this issue, to punish Thor for not forgetting the mortal Jane Foster he…
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Avengers #3:The Avengers Meet Sub-Mariner!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Avengers #3, In this issue we have Namor, the Sub-Mariner, in his first appearance scene Fantastic Four Annual #1. But in this issue he does not face the Avengers alone, instead he acquires the assistance of the renegade and hunted Hulk to improve his chances of success against the surface world. This issue also have an all-star cast, showing…
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X-men #3:Beware Of The Blob!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read “Beware Of The blob!” from X-Men #3. in this tale we have our team of X-men scouring the city to find a mutant that Professor X detected. but are Cyclopes, Ice man, Angel, Marvel Girl, and The best ready for who they find? Or will they be able to convince the Blob to…
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Fantastic Four #22:The Return Of The Mole Man!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 5 StarsI think the cover starts us off quite well for this comic book review, giving us a wonderful drawn and colored look of the Fantastic Four approaching Mole Man, and him edging them on while Mr. Fantastic tries to stop the Fantastic Four from walking into certain doom. Then if that scene is not enough, we have an arrow…
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Amazing Spider-Man #8:Spider-Man tackles The Torch!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 2 StarsAt the end of spider-man #8 we got a bonus, a story featuring spider-man facing off against the human torch. but Hero vs. hero is always a dangerous line, and one that can be tough to do right, more so when its the main plot of a whole story. so read on to my review…
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Amazing Spider-Man #8:The Terrible Threat Of The Living Brain
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review, I read Amazing Spider Man #8 from January 1964, a book crammed packed with Spider-man excitement, in fact two stories featuring our hero. This is a review of the first story. Titled. “The Terrible Threat Of The Living Brain” But worry not, a review of the second story where Spider-Man faces The…
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Strange Tales #116:Return To The Nightmare World
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4.75 StarsThe second tale that I reviewed today from Strange Tales #116 is Dr. Strange’s tale, titled “Return To The Nightmare World” and in this mystic story we have a feature length thriller that is reminiscent of the first appearance of Dr. Strange back in Strange Tales #110. In this tale, we have nightmare trapping people in their sleep into the nightmare dimension so that they never…
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Strange Tales #116:The Human Torch In The Clutches Of The Puppet Master!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 1.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Strange Tales #116, for this first post, I am reviewing “The Human Torch In The Clutches Of The Puppet Master!” in this Strange tale, we have the human torch falling under the effects of a surprisingly alive Puppet Master, and forced to hit on Alicia, so that the Puppet Master can get the two to…
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Tales Of Suspense #49:Tales Of The Watcher: The Saga Of The Sneepers
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4.25 StarsThis story, much like the one by the wasp reviewed yesterday is framing a tale around the words of the Watcher. This tale, the tale of the Sneepers, Earths greatest and unmet rivals from afar, is a great one to start these tales with. to summarize the story, the Sneepers are an advanced race of conquers and slavers, whom…
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Tales Of Suspense #49:Meets The Angel!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 1.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I set out to read and review the Iron Man story from Tales Of Suspense #49. Hoping for an action pack story, filled with everything one could want, and even from the cover I knew that Iron Man would be up against another hero, X-men’s Angel. Leaving me to wonder…
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Tales To Astonish #51:The Wonderful Wasp Tells A Tale: Somewhere Waits A Wobbow!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 4 StarsIn addition to the Giant-Man and The Wasp super hero feature, starting in this issue, The wonderful Wasp would get her own tale, or at least the job of telling one. I could tell you what this is all about in my own words, but I would just assume quote the comic. When she’s not…
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Tales To Astonish #51:Showdown with the Human Top!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 3 StarsYesterday I read Tales To Astonish #50, and seen how The Human Top humiliated Giant-Man, Today I read the second part, to see if Giant-Man and The Wasp could stop the human Top. In this issue, we have a continued effort to catch the top, as he engages in a plan to steal US secrets…
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Tales To Astonish #50:The Human Top!
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 4.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Tales To Astonish #50, containing the “Giant-man and the wonderful Wasp Battling The Human Top!” But also being the first part of a two-part story (our second two-part story reviewed this week!) This one, gives us a good focus and background for the menace of the issue, whom is…
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Journey Into Mystery #100:The Master Plan Of Mr. Hyde!
Cover Date: Jan 1964 | Review: 2.5 Starsfor those who are reading along with me, you will recall that yesterday we read and I reviewed Journey Into Mystery #99, well today we move right to Part II of that story, and read Journey Into Mystery #100.As we left off Mr. Hyde was beginning a crime spree masquerading as Thor to try to discredit the…