Category: Marvel
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Journey Into Mystery #99:The Mysterious Mister Hyde!
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Journey Into Mystery #99, featuring the first of a two-part story starring The Mighty Thor. this, the first part of the story is titled “The Mysterious Mister Hyde!”. With the title one might suspect, it is a tale that is a play on Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde, and in fact they would be…
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Amazing Spider-Man #7:The Return Of The Vulture
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 3.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review, I read Amazing Spider-Man #7 and the tale contained within called The Return Of The Vulture. This classic By Stan Lee and Steve Ditko serves as a squeal to Amazing Spider-Man #2. But can the Vulture who was so easily defeated by spider-man issues ago, make a compelling return? or is he a bird-brained menace doomed…
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Tales Of Suspense #48:The Mysterious Mr. Doll
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 3.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Tales Of Suspense #48 where The New Iron Man Battles… The Mysterious Mr. Doll, in a “Book-length Marvel Masterwork!”. But is this issue, that reveals an all new Iron Man a classic or just an old relic? and what of the less than ominous sounding Mr. Doll? is he a menace that invokes fear,…
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Fantastic Four #21:The Hate-Monger
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 4.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Fantastic Four #21, where we have The Fantastic Four team up with Nick Furry to defeat The Hate-Monger! But an issue such as this, has a greater meaning, as well as deeper thoughts then just the action packed events leading to the defeat of a nemesis that nearly broke up…
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Strange Tales #115:The Origin of Dr. Strange
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 3.5 StarsThat’s right, after having several Dr. Strange stories under our belt, today we get to the origin of our Strange hero. but before i dive into that, if your here looking for the Human Torch story of this issue, please click here for my review of that one. Dr. Strange is not so unlike our other marvel…
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Strange Tales #115:The Sandman Strikes
Cover Date: Dec 1963 | Review: 3 StarsToday’s comic book reviews focus on Strange Tales #115, You can find the review of Dr. Strange’s story here, but this review focuses on the Human Torch as he faces Spider-Man’s foe Sandman, alone. This comic starts, with the human torch being summoned back to Fantastic Four’s Headquarters by Mr. Fantastic, to be sent on a mission.…
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Fantastic Four: Season One
Published: Feb 22nd 2012 | Review: 4.25 StarsFor today’s comic book review I am braking from my trend of working up though the classics to cover one that was released recently, even if it is a retelling of stories I already read and reviewed. Today I read the Graphic Novel Fantastic Four: Season one but with sitting down to read and review the first…
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Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos #4:Lord Ha-Ha’s Last Laugh!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 4.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos #4, with the story titled “Lord Ha-Ha’s Last Laugh!”. but this tale of our favor Sgt. Nick Fury and his seven Howling Commandos had everything we have come to hope for from these tales, and a hole lot more. The basic background of the story is our seven hero’s get sent…
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X-men #2:No One Can Stop The Vanisher!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 2.5 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read X-men #2 where we have Cyclops, The Beast, Angel, Ice Man, and Marvel Girl Face off against the Vanisher. But can our teenage hero’s stop a mutant who’s power allows him to disappear instantly? Story I felt that the story for X-men #2 was well written and The multiple scenes all give…
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Avengers #2:The Space Phantom
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 3.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review, I checked out Avengers #2, where they do battle against The Space Phantom! But who is this space phantom, and how can he alone threaten the avengers? The space phantom has the power to become anyone he chooses, and in doing so, vanquish them to limbo, taking their place and powers among men.…
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Tales Of Suspense #47:Iron Man Battles The Melter!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 3.25 StarsToday I sit down to read and review Tales Of Suspsnse #47, where we have the tale of “Iron Man Battles The Melter!“. In this story, we have Iron Man facing a menace that seems to be able to defeat Iron Man, with the ease of just quickly melting away his armor. But does the Melter make…
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Tales To Astonish #49:The Birth of Giant-Man
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read the story in Tales To Astonish #49 titled “The Birth of Giant-Man” and this story offers perhaps the greatest development and change for our ongoing Ant-man and the wasp stories so far, giving Dr. Hank Pym the choice to be ant-man or to double his size to 12 feet and…
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Amazing Spider-Man #6:Face-To-Face With… The Lizard!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 4.25 StarsFor todays comic book review, I read the Amazing Spider-Man #6 from November of 1963. and this story is one of the cases where I will say that the cover does not do the story justice. The story title is “Face-To-Face With… The Lizard!” To summarize the story: News reports have spread as far north as New York of…
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Journey Into Mystery #98:Challenged By The Human Cobra!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 4.25 StarsFor today’s comic book review we have Journey Into Mystery #98, and the story titled “Challenged By The Human Cobra!” Featuring The Mighty Thor! Then As you may recall, we left last time hanging with Jane Foster leaving the employment of Dr. Don Blake for another doctor. This story picks up, almost no time later, continuing that fateful tale only with…
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Strange Tales #114:The Return Of The Omnipotent Baron Mordo!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 3.5 StarsAfter being gone for a couple month, Dr. Strange returns, and not without editorial explanation on its first page. and I quote: In Strange Tales #110 and #111 we introduced the mystifying Dr. Strange! Then, we waited to receive your letters, to see if you would want him continued! Well, your enthusiastic mail left us only one…
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Strange Tales #114:Captain America*
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 4 StarsThat is right, you read the cover right, likely after looking at the stunning image of Captain America standing there, and his shield deflecting fireballs from the human Torch. The cover indeed does say, im the big White and Yellow letters just what you think it did. “From out of the Golden Age of Comics…
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Fantastic Four #20:The Mysterious Molecule Man!
Cover Date: Nov 1963 | Review: 3.75 StarsFor a story that has it all, from Yancy Street and a member of its gang to The Watcher Uato you need to look no farther than Fantastic Four #20. The story “The Mysterious Molecule Man!” is one that has begun to raise the bar of what we expect in epic future of the Fantastic…
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Fantastic Four #19:Prisoners Of the Pharoah!
Cover Date: Oct 1963 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read “Prisoners Of the Pharoah!” the story contained within Fantastic Four #19. It is a breath taken tale of heroics in their raw form, going to great lengths to help a friend. The story is centered around trying to help Alicia Masters see again, Reed believing that he has found a hint…
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Strange Tales #113:The Coming Of The Plantman!
Cover Date: Oct 1963 | Review: 4.25 StarsToday’s Comic book review is of the story “The Coming Of The Plantman!” that was published in Strange Tales #113. This story featuring the human torch is in some ways a milestone for the character and the series. Because it is with this issue, and story that he gain’s his first supporting character other than the Fantastic Four. In this…
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Amazing Spider-Man #5:Marked For Destruction By Dr. Doom!
Cover Date: Oct 1963 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s Comic book review I read Amazing Spider-Man #5 and the story “Marked For Destruction By Dr. Doom!” it is a grand story for the marvel universes development, like so many in the year of 1963. This one, while having the Fantastic Four play a minor role, while one of there main advisories Dr. Doom faces off against…
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Journey Into Mystery #97:The Mighty Thor Battles The Lava Man
Cover Date: Oct 1963 | Review: 4.5 StarsFor today’s Comic Book Review I read Journey Into Mystery #97 and reviewed the Thor Story Titled “The Mighty Thor Battles The Lava Man”, but in addition to this epic tale, this issue debuted “Tales of Asgard” a short-lived story about Thor’s Home land, I will be reviewing them at a later date collectively. this…
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Tales To Astonish #48:Ant-Man And The Wasp Defy The Porcupine!
Cover Date: Oct 1963 | Review: 1.5 StarsFor today’s Comic Book Review I read and reviewed the Ant-Man and the wasp story from “Tales To Astonish #48” and what I found was an astonishing tale titled “Ant-Man And The Wasp Defy The Porcupine!” the basic outline of the story is one of an evil scientist, a weapons developer for the military develops what he see’s…
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Tales Of Suspense #46:Iron Man Faces The Crimson Dynamo!
Cover Date: Oct 1963 | Review: 3.75 StarsFor today’s comic book review, i read the Iron Man story from Tales Of Suspense #46. this is the 8th time iron man graced the pages of that comic book, but the first time his foe is another like himself, a human with a technologically enhanced suit. The story starts off behind the iron curtain, as Professor Vanko better…
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Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos #3:Midnight On Massacre Mountain!
Cover Date: Sep 1963 | Review: 4 StarsFor today’s comic book review I read Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos #3, and the story titled “Midnight On Massacre Mountain!“. As Comic Book Stories go, I feel comfortable before even diving into the details of my review to say that this issue is a classic. for a short synopsis of the story, we have Sgt Fury,…