The Rev. William Stryker escalates his evangelical, anti-mutant crusade to a mass-murderous level with a plot involving Professor X. A powerful addition to the X-Men canon by longtime scribe Chris Claremont and future-Astro-City artist Brett Anderson.
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Spider-Man and Captain Britain wake inside a giant pinball machine and soon must survive the deathtraps of Murder World. A fun Arcade outing with Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Dave Hunt.
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Roy Thomas, Neal Adams and Tom Palmer team on an Inhumans adventure, while Thomas, Gene Colan and Bill Everett deliver a downbeat Christmas for the Black Widow. Needless to say, this is a very well-drawn issue.
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The fingerprints of Charles Dickens are all over this DC reprint digest, as the Victorian author’s classic tale serves as inspiration for more than one story. (Except for Jack Kirby’s Bronze Age Sandman adventure, of course, a story widely distributed for the first time in this issue.)
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Princess Diana inspires some of history’s greatest heroes to help the Amazons repel Ares’ invasion of Paradise Island. This issue reprints a surprisingly epic adventure from Wonder Woman #183-184, crafted by writer/artist Mike Sekowsky.
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Madame Xanadu helps stop a drug addict and a young woman experimenting with witchcraft from unleashing a pair of demons. Marshall Rogers art is stronger than Steve Englehart’s story, but this whole package is quite nice – especially the backup feature by J.M. DeMatteis and Brian Bolland.
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Carol Danvers helps the X-Men infiltrate the Pentagon, where they soon find themselves clashing with Rogue and Mystique! A fine issue chockablock with action and subplots, from the creative team of Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and Bob Wiacek.
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With Tigra under his mental control, Kraven captures Spider-Man and forces the heroes into a battle to the death. Chris Claremont and John Byrne pair for another unsurprisingly strong installment of Marvel Team-Up.
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Settling into their first camping trip as friends, the new Teen Titans learn the origin of Cyborg. A fine first installment to a four-issue miniseries by the classic Titans creative team of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.
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The Shi’ar come to Earth as the X-Men (and guest star Tigra) battle Deathbird and her new allies – the Brood! An action-packed, chockablock issue from Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and Bob Wiacek.
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