Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani

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The Hulk is captured by a bunch of weirdos in a submarine.

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I had a yen to go through Starlord's backstory and apparently it's even more of a mish-mash than most comic book characters, with retcons having consigned his original origin story to an alternate reality. Still, I find Marvel Preview 4 an interesting taste of seventies sci-fi, with its zeerust futurism, hints of astrology, In Search Of The Unknown UFOism and NASA worship coupled with the usual capes and lasers.

(Yes, there are capes. It's the future, jabroni.)

This is SF coming out of the same primordial soup as Star Wars (which would premiere two years later) and it's just fascinating to me how it's simultaneously so modern and yet so of-another-time.

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Writers: Karl and Barbara Kesel

Pencils: Greg Guler

Inks: Scott Hanna

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The Hawk and Dove limited series was so popular that an ongoing series came shortly after.

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Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: J.H. Williams III

Inks: Wade von Growbadger and Dan Davis

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Buck Wargo wants Guy to take over his bar.

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Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Bruce Patterson

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Hal tries to solve the mystery of the Predator.

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Back around 2019, Hasbro was working to develop a Micronauts animated series. A whole 52 episodes were produced, but the animation studio, Boulder Media, was sold off and the show was shelved and made a tax write-off.

Well, guess what just leaked to archive.org!

https://xcancel.com/Chevistian1/status/1947720694265221265

https://archive.org/details/s-02-e-16_202507/

I stuck one page of X-Men & the Micronauts #3 below the cut for legality purposes.

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Words and pencils: Alan Davis

Inks: Mark Farmer

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Excalibur works to eject their uninvited guests.

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Context! It's for the weak.

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Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

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Evilstein and the Monster from Hell!

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Writer: Mark Gruenwald

Pencils: Ron Lim

Inks: Danny Bulanadi

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Cap refuses to help Diamondback with the Serpent Society, so she seeks aid elsewhere.

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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils: Ross Andru

Inks: Danny Bulanadi

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Blue Beetle is on the trail of a serial killer stalking Chicago’s homeless.

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Watching US politics from the outside continues to be like the worlds most absurd and worrying reality TV show in history.

Though it's perhaps matched by the reports of an Texan man who moved his famiy to Russia to escape the encroaching "wokeness", who has now been sent near to the front lines of the invasion of Ukraine

For those looking for a more optimistic future, we get the first two episodes of Season 3 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and BOY have I missed these guys. Both episodes felt like echoes of a Next Gen (likely accidentally) and a TOS episode (Very VERY deliberately) respectively, but were nonetheless very enjoyable.

"Superman" continues to do great box office, as the cast twinkle through prress junket after press junket being engaging, charming and funny.

And we have "Fantastic Four: First Steps" premiering this week too!

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Jim Balent

Inks: Scott Hanna

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Knightfall.

Robin is snooping on Bane's goons when he gets caught in the middle of a confrontation between Bane and Killer Croc.

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Maybe not directly comics-related, but I posted scans of a Predator comic only a few days ago, so I reckon it counts. This movie looks pretty fun to me, so far!



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Writer: Stan Lee

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Frank Giacoia

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Spider-Man stops Jonah from getting in to a fight with protesters and his natural response is to unleash a new Spider Slayer.

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Marc Silvestri

Inks: Bob Wiacek

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Storm's search for Forge continues.

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Writer: Jeph Loeb

Pencils: Anthony Castrillo

Inks: Bud Larosa

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X-Force tries to help Shatterstar out with his identity crisis.

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Writer: Don Glut

Pencils: Alan Kupperberg

Inks: Pablo Marcos

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You didn’t think you were free of Jane Foster, did you?

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