From: [v--ss--r] at [convex.com] (Lance Visser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Marvels Annotations [repost]
Date: 28 Jun 1994 16:25:33 GMT
This is a quick pass annotations for marvels. The
first issue is very difficult because they deal with 1940's
marvels. The rest of the issues are easier. The biggest
gaps deal with spider-man whose history at points I'm not
all that familier with. I also missed lots of non-marvel
celebrety cameos (like the Beetles and the Fantastic Four Wedding).
Marvels 0 came out since these annotations. I believe all the story
in it is derivitive of the human torch origin story in Marvel comics 1.
Marvels 1
p.1 J. Jonah Jamison will eventually run the Daily Bugle
p.2 The professor is Phynis Horton. The story is from Marvel
comics 1.
p. 10 the Sub-mariner's first appearance is not in Marvel Comics 1.
The first appearance was in an obscure pre-Timely/marvel
movie giveaway comic.
p. 14 I dont know the Sub-mariner electric chair reference
I dont remember what the reference to the angel is.
The phantom eagle was a world war I pilot who fought
under a mask for fear of german reprisals against his
parents in germany.
The rawhide kid was one of marvel's cowboy heros.
p. 15 <unknown> costumed character
p. 16 The fight is from an issue of marvel comics (7?) There were
several more "fire and water" fights between the torch and
sub-mariner.
p. 17 Betty Dean is an old sub-mariner supporting character from the '40's.
She also appeared in the 70's Sub-Mariner book on occasion.
p. 24 Captain america appears for the first time in Captain america
1.
p.25 The headlines may refer to old marvel stories.
p.26 A retired Popeye comments on Captain America.
NIck Fury will become first, Sgt. Fury of the marvel book
Sgt. Fury and his howling commandos, then Agent of SHIELD.
p. 27-28
Dont know if the japanese tunnel story is an invaders story
or a 1940's marvel story.
p.29 More early marvel story references.
p. 31-38 This is another famous torch-sub-mariner fight. I dont know
the issue.
p. 43-44
Bucky, Captain America, Sub-mariner, (The original vision?) unknown
unknown unknown, blazing skull(?), unknown, Torch and Toro
p. 27 Bill Lumpkin years later becomes the Fantastic Four's mailman.
Marvels 2
P.1 - p.5 Avengers vs. Masters of Evil from Avengers 6
The plot basically is that Baron Zemo in south america
reads a newspaper that captain america is back alive. He
then gathers up the masters of evil and goes after him
(and the avengers).
p.2 Captain America
p.3 Black Knight spraying Adhesive-X on the crowd.
Iron Man
p.4 Radioactive Man (A chinese villian with radiation based
powers) He is spraying Adhesive-X. Thor is fighting the
original Black Knight. In the middle of the page, radioactive
man is shown hanging from a baloon. He was caught in a trap
that wrapped him up in lead banding and hung him in the air.
Iron man is dragging the melter through the air.
p.5 Giant man
p.6 I dont recall an explicit story that had the first press conference
of the fantastic four.
p.7 Difficult to place what Fantastic Four story it is. It is
probably Strange Tales 123. I say this because the Torch
does make the signal in that story, the make a reference to the
beetle later who also appeared in that story.
p.8 This is a reference to an early x-men story, but I can't place
which one it is.
p. 13 The eel appeared first as a human Torch Villian in strange
Tales 112(?).
p. 14 The photos are of Cyclops and the Fantastic Four symbol made
by the Torch.
p. 15 Giant man vs, Spider man happened in Tales to Astonish
57.
p. 16 Kraven the Hunter comes to new York and shows up in Spider man 15
The Beetle is a minor marvel villian.
The first appearance of the Beetle is in Strange Tales 123 where
he fights the Human Torch and the Thing.
The newspaper covers the aftermath of Avengers 6.
The girl named masters is alicia masters, daughter of the puppet
master, and blind Sculpture artist.
p. 17
Sculptures are:
(left to right) Hulk, Unknown (crouching), Sub-mariner, Dr. Doom,
Pharoah Rama-Tut (Fantastic Four 19), Sub-mariner (from a different
angle), Iron man, unknown.
Dorres Evans, old girlfriend of the Human Torch from Strange Tales.
p. 18
Statues: Unknown, Unknown, Iron man
Executioner, Daredevil, unknown.
Thing.
Don and Jane are Dr. Don Blake (Thor) and Jane Foster (His nurse).
Hank and the women with him are Giant man and the wasp respectivly
(Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym).
The thing is down at the bottom of the page.
p. 20
The Williams Embezzlement case refers to Simon Williams who would
become Wonderman because of his legal and financial problems in
Avengers 9. He died the same issue.
p. 21
The engagement was announced in Fantastic Four 36.
p. 23
The escaped convict is tha Absorbing man who thor fought with
In Journey into Mystery 114-115.
The New Avengers (Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksliver and
Scarlet witch) were introduced at the end of Avengers 16.
Frightful Four abduction of Sue Storm was in Fantastic Four 38?
Daredevil fought the Stilt-man (bottom of page) in Daredevil 8.
p. 18
Bolivar Trask is the creator of the sentenels. He developed
the sentinels (mutant hunting robots), but they turned on him
about the same time that he decided mutants were not so
bad after all. The story is in x-men 14-16.
p. 20
Mille Collins is an old marvel character that had a romance
book "Millie the Model" for years and years at Marvel.
p. 21 The Wedding itself is from Fantastic Four Annual 3.
The book itself was a giant fight to end all fights involving
tons and tons of marvel heros and villians. The Annual fits
into the the FF series between issue 43 and 44 I believe.
Pictured are: (Front To back)
(the guy who married them)
Thing, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Jonny Storm, Alicia Masters
Hawkeye, Captain America
Thor, Iron Man, (Peter Parker?), Scarlett Which, quicksliver,
?Janet Van Dyne (Wasp) ?, unknown, Daredevil, Dr. strange
Norman Osborne?, J. Jonah Jamison, Willie Lumpkin (the FF's mailman)
unknown, unknown, unknown
unknown, unknown, unknown, (4 more unknowns)
(I dont know any of the back two rows)
(I dont know the three back photographers)
At the very back of the room are Dum-Dum Duggan, Gabe Jones
and Nick Fury all of SHIELD and the Howling Commandos before
that.
p. 22
The all-winners squad was marvel's first hero-group. I believe
it started (in the books) late in WWII and continued for a while
in the 40's. Those pictured are:
Sub-mariner, Toro, The Human Torch, Captain America, Miss America,
the Whizzer and unknown.
The debate between Xavier and Trask I believe is from X-men 14.
p. 32 Weschester County is where professor Xavier's school is
located.
p. 33 Iron Man's battle with the Titanium Man is from Tales
of Suspense (68-70?)
Marvels 3
Page 1
Photo of Black Widow circia Tales of Suspense 52(first app.)-59.
Wanted poster of Hawkeye. His criminal status starts
in Tales of Suspense 57 (first app) and ends when he
joins the avengers (Avengers 16).
Photo of new Avengers as they appeared at the end of Avengers
16.
Photo of original Crimson Dynamo from Tales of Suspense 46.
The magazine cover is from some undetermined point between
Avengers 1 and Avengers 2.
A photo of Iron man in his all-gold armor (sometime between
Tales of Suspense 40 and 48).
? The Sen. Byrd and weapons test <Tales of Suspense ?>
? Stark and Contessa. The contessa could be the black Widow
in which case it would be referring to Tales of Suspense 52.
The small note with the names crossed out are Phil's attempt
to find out the secret government thing (SHIELD) Tony Stark
is involved in.
p.2
Again, the secret government thing is shield which first appeared
in Strange Tales 135 and which Tony Stark was involved deeply in
even before Nick Fury was.
p.3
The avengers going being declaired public menances is from Avengers
21-22. Power-man and the Enchantress basically frame the group
until captain america figures out the frame.
p.4
A scene from just after Avengers 22.
Tony Stark's disappearance I believe is caused by his being
kidnapped by the manderian in (approx.) Tales of Suspense 75-77.
This story is also the first appearance of Ultimo, the Manderians
Giant Blue robot. The Tony Stark vs. Congress story lasted
quite a while so they could be referring to another instance
where stark was in trouble with the comittee.
p.5
The first panel shows shield fighting the Eggs of the Deadly
Druid (approx. Strange Tales 144-146). Really bad story
as I remember.
I dont remember Miss McCann ever appearing. The mention of
the Iron Man foundation seems really early in Marvel history
relative to when I remember it first appearing. The Iron
Man foundation is Tony Stark's Charity organization.
p.6-8
The Flood is from Avengers 26-27. It was caused by Attuma
as part of an attempt to conquer the surface world.
p. 9
Spider Man attacking J. Jonah Jamison (from where?)
Fantastic Four - fighting Dragon Man. This is probably From
the first Inhumans storyline (somewhere in FF 44-46).
p. 10
Hulk attacking White House ( ???)
The Half-naked savage is Kazar. As far as I can tell, this is
from Daredevil 14. Kazar has been brought to england by his
brother (The Plunderer) and Framed for Murder. His brother
turned him over to the police. While he was on trail, the pulnderer
attacked a nuclear missle base in the north atlantic and was defeated
by daredevil. The plunderer then confessed that Kazar had not
murdered anyone. Lord Plunder also accused daredevil of participation
in the murder.
One of the bottom photos is of Captain America fighting Bartoc.
(Tales of Suspense 75-76). The other is Hercules throwing a car
probably from somewhere Journey into Mystery (Thor) 126-130.
p.11-15
Fantastic Four 48
The watcher created the illusions to divert the Silver Surfer
and Galactus away from earth. It did not work.
Most of the rest of the story is from Fantastic Four 48-50.
p. 28
The figure attacking the Fantastic Four is a robot used
by Galactus known (I think) as the punisher.
p. 39
The device is the Ultimate Nullifier. The watcher sent the
Human Torch to get it and as it could destroy Galactus, it
scared him off.
p. 40
Galactus is punishing the Silver Surfer by stranding him on earth.
p. 41
Goliath returning to the Avengers is from Avengers 28. In Avengers
26 or 27, the wasp was captured by the collector and the avengers
spent 28 trying to free her. The concept that the public knew
that Goliath was Giant man is new maybe. The identitys of
Goliath (Hank Pym) and the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) was revealed
to the other avengers at the end of Avengers 28. I dont rememeber
when they revealed their identities to the public at large.
p. 42
Spider Man fighting the Looter is from Spider-man 36.
p. 43
Tony Stark's plants closing because of the defense contracts
being cut is from around Tales of Suspense 77 or 78. They
were cancelled because Tony Stark didn't show up at Senator
Byrd's hearings. Tony Stark didn't show up because he was
kidnapped to China and fighting the Manderian.
p.44
Count Neferia imprisoning Washington DC is from X-men 22-23.
He captured the city with the help of one of the worst
collections of third-rate marvel villians ever assembled:
Plantman, Scarecrow, Porcupine, the eel and the Unicorn.
Marvels 4
p.2-3
(top panel) - Avengers 96 fight in space against a Skrull(?) invasion
fleet (Kree-Skrull war). It might also have been a kree fleet.
I dont remember. The characters are Scarlett witch, Thor,
Goliath (Hawkeye version), Captain Marvel, Vision, quicksilver
and Iron man. Captain marvel technically should not be in the
picture I believe by the story.
p.2 (bottom left)
Avengers 92-93. The details of a Kree plot to turn
the world back to the stone age (Avengers 90-91) leak to the
public and A senator demands that the Avengers explain themselves.
p.2 (middle) - The Mandroids (armored Suits) were sent to arrest
the avengers in avengers 94 for questioning. They failed.
p.2 (bottom right)
Avengers 97 - At the end of the Kree-Skrull war, the senator
who had been attacking the avengers is revealed to be the
fourth of the four Skrulls who impersonated the Fantastic
four in FF 2 (and who got away at the time). The crowd
he was speaking to lynched him. I believe the Supreme
Intellegence of the Kree (with souped-up powers via contact
with the brain of Rick Jones) broke the Skrull's disguise.
p.4 The murder reference to spider man involves the death of
Captain Stacy in the middle of a battle between Dr. Octopus
and spider man. (issue?)
p.5 Black Widow murder trial is from Daredevil 83. The scorpion
was thought to have been killed by the black widow.
p.6 "Four wounded in Stark Riot". Iron Man 44-46.
Tony Stark for various reasons wants to get out of the defense
business. He comes into conflict with his board of directors
over that decision. He also comes into conflict with his
friend Kevin O'brian who he has given a suit of iron-man type
armor called the guardsman to. The fight with Keven O'Brian
is over:
1. A Girl, Marianne Rogers
2. Politics <vietnam era student protests and the ethics
of providing weapons to the military>.
3. The Guardsman armor is driving him insane the more he
uses it.
As I remember, the guardsman offers his services (as replacement
to Iron man at Stark Industries) to the board of directors.
One of the directors asked him to prove himself against the
demonstrators outside of Stark Industries. He gets angry
and fires his repusor rays into the crowd. The impression
in this issue was that the demostrators died. The paper
here suggests they were only wounded. At the end of the storyline
the guardsmen ends up getting killed. The whole story is a veiled
Kent State reference (Guardsman == National Guard).
The Falcon - Nothing really specific here. This sort of attitude
was present all through the Captain america relivance phase
(120's to 140's were the high point, limited references after
that up to 183 or so.
Captain Stacy (panel 3) - Captain Stacy (Gwen's Father)
was killed during a battle between Spider man and Dr. Octopus.
p.7 The Galactus story is Fantastic Four 120-123. Read Richards
uses the powers of Agatha Harkness to calm down everyone in the city
after Galactus leaves.
The eviction thing started in Fantastic Four 126 with the thing
threatening the owner of the Baxter building (Collins) after
collins came up to complain about the thing hitting something and
shaking the building. In Fantastic Four 127, the tourch burned
a court order for the groups eviction. The story dragged on
as a subplot from there.
p.9 Robbie Robinson is an old Daily bugle character from Spiderman.
p.10 Luke Cage appeared first in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire 1. Not
much else to say. Marvels gives the background one the characters
gimmick.
I dont know who the witness is to the death of Captain Stacy.
p.11 The death of Captain Stacy happened in Spider man ???
p. 12 Hulk in New York ???
p. 13 I believe the objects coming from the Sun are the Sentinals
returning to battle the avengers in 103-104.
Starcore was a UN space station that showed up in varous marvel books
(principally Hulk I believe).
p. 14 I dont recall who Dr. Jorgenson is. It might just be
Morbius the vampire and this could be a reference to Spider man
101-102.
p. 15 The avengers fight the sentenals in Avengers 103-104
The fight happens in Australia at least in part.
The pictures are of Dr. Doom and Luke Cage. Dr. Doom did hire
Luke Cage at one point, but I dont remember the issue of
his book that it happened in or if the two pictures are a
reference to it.
p. 16
I dont remember the issue in which Spider man captures
Dr. Octopus.
The fire destroying Yellowjacket and the wasp's home
was caused by the Whirlwind in Marvel Feature 5. At that
time, Yellowjacket was ant-man again and both he and the wasp
were stuck at six inches in height. The survived the fire, but
spent several issues fighting there way to safety while the
world thought they were dead.
The photo is from their wedding in Avengers 60.
(Bottom of Page)
This is from Daredevil 93-94. Daredevil is living
in San Francisco with the Black Widow at this point. the Villian
pictured is some rich guy named ?
who stole something called project four which turned him into
a giant. The giant is called the industructable man.
p. 17
Thundra's fight with the thing at Shea Stadium is from Fantastic
four 133. Thundra was a member of the Frightful Four at the
time. She kidnapped the thing's girlfriend Alicia to force
the fight at Shea Stadium. Thundra had the thing beat and
was tricked into giving up the fight when Reed Richards turned
the thing back to Ben Grimm for a couple seconds.
p. 24-28
Sub-Mariner 60. The altantian citizen kidnapped is actually the
red-skinned alien Tamera.
p. 29-35
Spider-man 120-122(?) - The Death of Gwen Stacy issues.
p. 36
Norman Osborne was the Green Goblin who was killed at
the end of Spider man 122(?) shortly after Gwen Stacy.
p. 39
Pictures in the pile are: Lizard, Spider man fighting Rhino,
Nick Fury, Black Panther, half-covered in middle (silver Surfer?),
Green half-exposed (Beetle?).
Next panel photo is of Hulk.
The Time story is probably from around Avengers 113 or 114.
There was a whole story about the protests over the relationship
between the vision and scarlett witch. There were a bunch
of protestors called the human bombs who tried to kill the
vision by strapping bombs to themselves and blowing themselves
up next to him.
The Detroit story is from Iron Man 60. The Masked Marauder is
the one stealing the space shuttle.
p. 40
The electrical monster is Zzack(sp) and the story is
from Hulk 166.
Photos at bottom of page:
The black panther picture (again)
Thing fighting the Hulk from the time of Fantastic four 25. The
picture is a swipe of the cover of the issue.
Triton of the inhumans driving a truck. The picture looks familar
but I can't place it.
p. 41
More photos:
Electro, spiderman and truck-driving Triton again. In the middle
of the page, we get the Rhino vs. Spiderman photo again.
p. 42
Ant-man and the wasp were discovered alive at the end of Marvel
Feature 10. A villian named nemisis had cured ant-man and
the wasp of their size problems. He was holding the wasp
hostage and wanted to use ant-man to break into avengers mansion.
ant-man outsmarted nemisis and saved the wasp. The avengers
discovered him and all the loose ends were cleaned up. This
was the end of the ant-man series in Marvel feature.
The front cover is Spider man, the green goblin and Gwen Stacy
from spiderman 122. The back cover is the avengers from
Avengers 96 (Goliath (the Hawkeye version), Captain Marvel
and Captain America).