Tyrants and the sands of time!

The Mighty World of Marvel #9

Week Ending 2rd December 1972

A very strong cover this week, the Hulk does his impression of Samson as he sends the towers of Tyrannus' underground kingdom crashing down on the tyrant and his subterranean subjects, drawn in his usual clinical style by Jim Starlin with Joe Sinnott again adding inks to finish it off. Spider-man and the Fantastic Four portraits appear in a side box to inform the readership that in this "incredible issue" they also star in "great movie length features- in one marvellous mag!" May be not quite that long but that's Marvel spin doctoring for you, still a fine weekly length. 

The Hulk story this week starts with a splash page that informs us of who will be appearing in this weeks episode, Betty Ross, Tyrannus and the Hulk. The title "Beauty and the beast!" gives us the impression that Betty Ross is the beauty and the Hulk is the beast, but I wonder if Tyrannus is both the beauty and the beast! Jack Kirby certainly does draw him with Adonis looks as Stan Lee leaves nothing in doubt that Tyrannus is a heartless tyrant towards his subterranean subjects, who would in later stories be referred to as Tyranoids, a subspecies of Moloids (both races were created by the Deviants, but left to fend for themselves in the underground world that's referred, again in later tales, as Subterranea.) Dick Ayers gets an inkers credit for the first time this issue even though he had been suppling inks to Kirby's artwork for the Hulk since issue 5 of MWOM. Art Simek is also credited as the letter.

 We get a quick origin dialogue scene from Tyrannus early in the story describing how Merlin banished him to the centre of the earth centuries ago where he discovered his Tyranoid followers and the life extending Elixir from the Fountain of Youth. The story plot is quite simple, Tyrannus wants to take over the surface world but sees America's armed atomic might as a hamper to his plans so he kidnaps Betty Ross to prevent General Ross from stopping his invasion plans. The Hulk and Rick Jones find out that Betty has been taken and follows the damsel in distress with her abductor to his subterranean kingdom. The hulk battles a robotic warrior in a gladiator contest, while Rick disguises himself as a Tyrannoid guard to rescue Betty. Tyrannoids are generally drawn as dwarf size so how the teenager passes as a guard is anyone's guess but he does. The Hulk bring the walls of the subterranean kingdom down on the Tyrannus and his followers enabling all three make their escape to the surface. A throwaway line about Betty being in a state of shock causing her to suffer a case of amnesia, thus she won't put together the facts that it was Rick and the Hulk who rescued her and why see always sees Rick with Hulk and never Bruce with the Hulk. 

The first of this weeks philosophical letters come from Christine Austin from Liverpool, who comments on the tragic irony of a mild mannered scientist and the maddened monster, that in her view illustrates a truly great piece of literature. Oxford's own Richard Sharp gets more philosophical with the good guy/bad guy formula and how much he wants "more Hulk!" Helen Richie from York wants Spider-man to sue J. Jonah Jameson for libel. Finally Terry Logan bigs himself up by saying that he uses MWOM artwork as reference to characters he draws, including a rendition of Ben Grimm that even his art teacher liked very much!

Next to the Mailbag page Marvel reveals the secrets behind Spidey's Spider Senses! Another feature taken from the Amazing Spider-man Annual #1 from 1964.

"Nothing can stop the Sandman!" at least that's what the title of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's latest masterpiece. Spider-man's crime stopping career takes a big hit as J. Jonah Jameson's editorials lead the general public and criminal fraternity see him as a menace and fraud. He needs to be taken seriously as low life criminals bluff their way out of arrest by accusing him of harassment. Things get worse when Spider-man tackles the latest in a line of super powered enemies, the Sandman, only to have to flee in fear of exposing his secret identity when during the fight his mask becomes ripped. We learn though six panels the origin of incorrigible criminal Sandman, from escaping a maximum security prison to his hiding place at the site of an atomic device testing centre located in remote sand dunes and the fateful nuclear test explosion that mixed his own DNA with the particles of sand. A smart way to inform the reader about this new character, while giving more panel space to the action we all want. 

Another Special Message from Stan Lee who promises us a photo of the "precociously perfect" Pippa M. Melling, MWOM very own "glamorous gal" editor, though I don't think we ever did see the lady. May be she was really lost under a mountain of mail. I would love to find out what the mysterious Pippa M. Melling looked like. "The Man" also teases us with Marvels fan club FOOM! 

Sue Storm finally announces the six super heroes that grace the super-sized poster "Mystery gift" giveaway. Claim your "No-prize" if you guessed they were the Hulk, Spider-man and the Fantastic Four. An extra bonus coupon was printed in this issue. In my copy some previous owner had struck again and removed it, so above is how it would have looked. It made little loss to my copy apart from the panel in the Spider-man story were Sandman descends to street level from a New York roof top. I looked it up in a digital copy of how it went. To be fair I've got a Marvel Masterworks edition with this story and I've also read it in the 90's the Exploits of Spider-man #5, a Marvel UK comic from February 1993, so it's not a heart ache missing this tiny panel.

Here in 2022 we're in the middle a controversial Football World Cup in Qutar, in 1972 George Best Irish football legend, who would be know for his controversial lifestyle of heavy drinking and womanising, is the star feature on this advert for Inside Football and Striker magazine. A bargain for any football fan at only 6 pence, but one pence dearer than MWOM, I'm not sure how many would swap. 

The evil despot, sorcerer, scientist and tyrant Doctor Doom boasts that he'll make the Fantastic Four his prisoners in his first ever appearance. and he does with the aid of his vast array of devises, like his shark faced helicopter and an asbestos/electrified net that covers the Baxter Building. He demands that the Invisible Girl willingly becomes his prisoner while he sends the rest of the Fantastic Four on a special mission.

Sue is taken as prisoner in a very 60's way that I imagine would be handled very differently today. Doom's plan is to send the male members of the FF back in time to obtain the legendary treasure of the pirate Blackbeard via his Time Travel Platform. Doctor Doom declares that with the gems in Blackbeards treasure, he will be able to rule the world. Seems a little far fetched but more on that next issue. So three of our fabulous foursome travel through time to the 18th century, where they steel some clothes to disguise themselves, with Reed finding the Thing a fake beard, hat and eye patch to cover up  as much of his orange rock-like hide as possible. A group of pirates pressgang the three time travellers  with the aid of a barmaid who drugs their grog to send them in to a deep sleep. What happens next will have to wait till next week. 

Interestingly if we go back to the second page of this strip Marvel goes full meta with the Human Torch reading a comic which contains a story about the Hulk. In the original American edition, Fantastic Four issue 5 from 1962, the comic was meant to be a copy of the Incredible Hulk #1. In this British comic some unknown artist was given the task of changing the title of the comic to The Mighty World of Marvel. There's no way to identify which issue from the artwork under the title. It could be an inverted cover artwork of this very issue with what looks like a shouting Hulk now on the left with a box on the right that may contain Spider-man. May be the artist had a photocopy of this weeks cover before it was issued for print. It certainly doesn't match up with any other early issues. Either way the Hulk hasn't appeared on the back page of any issue of MWOM yet. I've don't remember seeing the original version but I suspect that the Hulk back page artwork was done by Jack and didn't appear on the back of the Incredible Hulk #1 either. If it was this issue Johnny never got as far as the FF strip, otherwise he'd have read all about the bar maid spiking their drinks. May be he got so engrossed in Hulk's strip just before he teased Ben about looking like the Hulk which started a fight between the two of them, which lead to the mag getting destroyed in the brawl. 

 

   Bonus features galore this issue, with first a Mighty Marvel Maze Page, as Mister Fantastic must navigate a maze to find his teammate, the Invisible Girl while avoiding Doctor Doom, the Mole Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Hulk. No idea where this page had originally come from, may be it was specially made for MWOM. Then a teaser for a future FF villain the Puppet Master and last weeks antagonist Namor the Sub-Mariner, both originally from the Fantastic Four Annual #1. 

Inside back page is a good old fashioned dot-to-dot of Spider-man that the reader is encouraged to "help Spidey get his head..not to mention the rest of his body back together!" by completing the puzzle. I feel that his is a very British kind of page filler so I kind of feel that it was made especially of Marvel UK. The digital copy I mentioned earlier has the dot-to-dot completed, where my copy hasn't been touched. That's comic collectors karma, the Yin and Yang of life. I don't like spoiled comics but at the same time it's nice that someone at some time had enjoyed using the comic for what it was designed for, a childhood pastime. 

The final page belongs to the Human Torch as Johnny Storm answers all the questions an enthusiastic fan wants to know and other things that they don't. This particular feature had originally appeared in Fantastic Four #8. It promises that next issue Johnny will explain all about his ability to fly. You'll have to come back in a week to find out if he does or if this was left on by accident as part of the original feature. So I hope I'll see you in seven to find out.

Make Mine Marvel!

   

  
 

  

Hoaxes and fishy tales!

The Mighty World of Marvel #8

Week Ending 25th November 1972

After a strong run of fantastic covers by Jim Starlin for MWOM this weeks helping seems a little pedestrian but functional, this is properly due to the fact that, after doing my research I found out that Starlin had only proved the layout for this cover, (possibly due to an increased work load for the in demand artist) while Al Milgrom finished off the pencils and Mike Esposito completed it with inks. 

The first story this week is a belter, don't get me wrong there are faults with it but if you can look past the plot holes and 60's paranoia it's a perfectly serviceable tale. Stan and Jack teases us right from the start with a "to the point" title- "The gladiator from outer space!" A strange craft lands in urban America as the awe inspired public look on, an un-earthly giant opens a hatch and proclaims "I-Am-Mongu!"

The alien warrior requests a challenger to meet and battle with him for the planet. Rick Jones is watching this unfold live on TV and informs Bruce Banner of the duel. Within minutes Banner accepts the challenge, changes into his modesty shorts and steps onto his improved Gamma Ray Projector to complete his transformation into the only being who has a chance of winning. Soon the ready Hulk and Rick have chartered a plane and are heading off to the Grand Canyon to face off with Mongu. Now here's my first problem, how does a scientist and a teenager afford the price of a twin jet plane and a pilot to fly it? Surely Bruce or Rick don't have a pilots licence. Then the jet lands on a flat mounting top close to the alien craft, my second problem is there can't be enough surface area for a runway, but maybe Bruce, as the inventor of the Gamma Bomb was payed extremely well by the US government and could afford a jet with VTOL. I'm fine with overlooking these issues, (and a cardboard axe that could have been made of steel, but the little phoney prop comes later so lets move on,) if it helps to keep the story running a long.

The reveal is that the alien challenge was an elaborate ruse to catcher the Hulk for the purpose of learning the secrets of the green goliath' incredible strength for the insidious use by a foreign power. In early 70's Marvel UK Russians, Soviets, Reds or Communists were seen as prohibited concepts that would upset young British minds while in 60's America that form of paranoia was quite normal. So the foreign soldiers talked about their "Homeland" and other references were changed to friendlier terms. I remember seeing the panel of Boris Monguski emerge from his Mongu armour in an article about "Anti-communism in early Marvel" by Pete Scott, printed in The Mighty World of Marvel Volume 2 issue 13 from June 1984. Well worth a re-read if you have a copy. I wonder if this comic was on sale today in 2022 would the Soviet/communist references would be left in, with the current climate towards Russia and its "conflict"(war) mongering leader! I know that country isn't communist any more, but would any regime by any other name smell as full of sh!t? Political, rant over. 

The Hulk makes mince meat of those reds and tights up any loose ends, quite literally with the belts from the foreign solders. I'm not sure if Stan Lee was incredibly clever and ahead of his time or did he stumble on a plot device where things are covered up from the general public in a X-files way, newspaper reporters are lead to believe that the Space Gladiator hoax was planned by the Hulk, possibly to make him look like a hero and not the fact that a foreign power was operating commando tactics on American soil. Better to believe a lie when the truth hurts.

A Marvel pin up page features the most powerful being alive, but can you spot a mistake in this Jack Kirby spread? Answers at the end of this blog.

   Its worth noting that Mongu the gladiator did eventually make a number of appearances and even battled the Hulk (in his own comic Incredible Hulk #210-211 later reprinted in MWOM #266-271) after making his true first appearance in Fear #14 (March 1973) battling the Man-Thing in gladiatorial conflict. This story would also be printed in Dracula Lives during the swamp creatures run. 

The second half of Spider-man's first encounter with Doctor Octopus starts with our dejected hero at his lowest, needing some confidence boosting as Doc Ock makes himself at home in an atomic research planet. The confidence boost come in the form of his fiery friend/rival Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, as he gives a speech at Peter's high school assembly while he's recovering from a virus that is weakening his flame powers. The simple advice is "never give up!"Peter takes the inspiration and uses his scientific brain to device a mixture of chemicals that will fuse two of the fends mechanical arms together. 

Stan and Steve Ditko wrap up the story very affectively, Spider-man defeats the Doctor with a simple old fashioned punch to the jaw. Spidey uses extra webbing to hold his mechanical arms while more webbing holds him midair like a fly trapped in a spider's web with his feet tided back and a picture a Spider-man face stuck to his chest incase anyone didn't realise who defeat the mad scientist. With the look of that panel I've often wondered why Doc Ock doesn't struggle more to free himself,  he does talk to the guards, I guess that punch to the head took all the fight out of him.  

  

Spider-man meets the Torch in the closing panels to thank him for his words of advice. This is the second time they meet and you definitely feel that they part as potential friends, with may be a little room for teenage rivalry. 

Spider-man reveals what anagram of  ISX EURSP EEHSOR is, did you guess it? It's Six Superheroes! But which six superheroes will grace your free full colour poster when you've collected eight of the ten coupons you might have collected? It shouldn't be hard to guess really, they'll look incredible in amazing full colour on a fantastic free poster when you find out, so no spoilers from me. Another centre spread without a missing coupon, a bonus for me!

We have a bonus page which give us all the secrets of Spider-man's mask and costume, that original was published in Amazing Spider-man Annual #1 from September 1964, although I've seen it many times reprinted in Marvel UK's own various Spider-man titled comics, as well as a UK annual I'm pretty sure. 

In the mail bag this week Roy Calhoun from Dublin ask why the Human Torch doesn't accidentally burn his team mates, to which the editor answers "with practice". Chelsea fan John Williams who lives in Fulham discusses what football position Spider-man would be great at, he thinks centre forward while his friend Joe thinks he'll make a super goal keeper. I think in midfield as a number eight. Jerry Collins needs help, he doesn't want to spoil his comics but wants to put the Marvel Pin ups on his wall, to which the friendly editor replies "buy two copies!" Problem solved! Rick Jones (no not the Hulks sidekick but a Welsh lad from Swansea) worries about his name sake getting hurt by the Hulk and finally Welsh lass, Gaynor Davis from Cardiff writes about how she has to threaten screaming at her brother so that he will share his copy of MWOM. I possibly did similar with my older brother just to look at his copy. I think it did eventually work 'cause he got me in to reading Marvel comics.

"Beware--the Sub-Mariner!" warns the title of this week Fantastic Four story, as Namor recovers from his amnesia to discovers part of his under-sea kingdom destroyed by the surface worlds atomic testing. It's kind of understandable that he is permanently angry with humans and their polluting ways. The avenging son wants vengeance on the human race.

Johnny Storm's method to return Namor's memory is a bit extreme, he basically throws a confused man into the harbour in a severe case of sink or swim, but if his memory fails to return he'll dive in and save him. Before he can do that Namor swims off to witness  first hand the scene of Atlantean devastation No wonder he vows a death warrant on the human race when he surfaces to find waiting at the dockside the  Torch. 

The Sub-Mariner chooses Giganto as his weapon of mass destruction on the human race, that he awakens from its slumber at the bottom of the deep blue sea with his ancestor's trumpet horn (which is later named the Horn of Proteus in another story). This ancient horn drives the undersea beast into a frenzy. Jack Kirby loves creating and drawing strange gigantic monsters, Giganto is just another impossibly, insane creation. A giant whale like creature with arms and legs that can live under the sea but can also survive on land for small periods of time. Research has lead me to believe that the monster is from a race of creatures breed by Deviants (a race who themselves were created by the Celestials as a cosmic experiment,) or creations of Atlantean sorcery. May be they're just an evolution mistake, who knows but I love the crazy fun design. The stuff of legends, a modern day Moby Dick. 

 The Thing comes up with the solution to stop the monsters rampage, he volunteers to carry on his back, a nuclear bomb and walk with it right into the resting beasts throat. Very dangerous as you can imagine, but this modern day Jonah carries the bomb deep into the monster, past the remains of ancient vessels and parasitic sea creatures who live inside Giganto's stomach. The bomb explored with Ben barely escaping.The sea monster is a hardy breed with a thick stomach, as it only remained stunned and no harmful radiation poisoned New York. Stan and Jack played fast and loose with nuclear power, no damage is  done, no one gets sick or dies. Namor takes on the Fantastic Four where he crosses path for the first time with Sue Storm, requesting she become his bride to save his wrath against the human race. 

The story is quickly wrapped up as the Human Torch creates a flame vortex that lifts the angry prince, his menacing sea-trumpet and Atlantean beast dumping them in different parts of the ocean. The vengeful prince makes a predictive vow "I'll be Back!" Many decades before Arnold would, Stan did it first fans. The FF swear they'll be ready waiting when he does. But what's to come next week? Someone called Dr.Doom! That name won't catch on surely? 

The answer to my earlier pop quiz...the Hulk is drawn with three fingers and one thumb on each hand! A bit of lazy artwork there by the artist. Claim yourself a No-prize if you spotted it. See you in seven!

Make Mine Marvel! 

 

 

The Octopus and the Sub-Mariner in a pea green boat.

 The Mighty World of Marvel #7

Week Ending 18th November 1972

These covers get better and better as the weeks go by and this week's issue is a belter! Centre stage is the Hulk "battling for his life" as Rick Jones operates a Gamma Ray Projector in an effort to return Bruce Banner to normal. This is an example of early Jim Starlin drawing Rick Jones, a character he would return to many, many times in his classic Captain Marvel run. In fact his fourth art work for Marvel was the co-pencils on The Avengers vol 1 issue 107, release dated 10th October 1972, where Rick Jones, as Bucky, made a flashback appearance. Starlin's first ever strip, "You show me your dream and I'll show you mine!" was a back up strip in Journey into Mystery vol 2 issue 1, released dated 25th July 1972. These early MWOM covers must have been among some of his first Marvel work, but don't they look amazing! I'm lead to believe that the late great Dan Adkins did the inks on this cover, I see no reason to see otherwise. 

The Hulk strip this week is "The monster and the machine!" in which Rick Jones employs an early version of a Gamma Ray Projector to change  the green giant back to his Bruce Banner alter ego. Within four American issues Stan Lee changes the Hulk from a Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde style, to a Rick Jones mind controlled monster/super hero, then on to Banner controlled Hulk. I'm not sure Stan had in mind what he really wanted with this character. 

Betty Ross plays the love struck girl in this tale. In deep thought she is very suspicious of Rick Jones and Bruce Banner's relationship as well as the teenager and the Hulk's relationship. It seems so obvious that Banner is the Hulk to everyone surely, but the young girl and her General father seem to be totally blind to this possibility. Does love make you blind or does a Stan Lee plot device like hiding something in plan sight seem too obvious?

 This story is not only a first for the Gamma Ray Projector but also it's a first time for the classic Hulk "Thunderclap". A technique that the She-Hulk would use many times in her Disney+ TV show She-Hulk Attorney-at-law. Stan and Jack thought of it first! "WHOOMPH!"

Last week I mentioned in my blog that Jack Kirby seemed to be drawing the Hulk flying instead of leaping. This week those impression come to a head as Kirby makes every panel of a leaping Hulk look like he is flying with magnificent ease. He changes direction in mid air, hovers behind a jeep before plucking Rick Jones from his seat, then rise upwards into the sky. Stan Lee makes multiple strong points that the Hulk is "propelled by his prodigious leap", "performing a feat which no other living human could have accomplished", " the most powerful pair of legs on Earth again catapult the Hulk", "he seems to be flying" and "like a human catapult". It must have been an uncomfortable day in the Marvel office with them two, but I'm glad Lee won that argument. The Hulk should never fly, he's no Super-man. I love the uncontrolled flightpath that super leaping gives.

Even though Kirby drawing the flying version of the Hulk isn't to my tastes, I love this three panel strip, where the King draws the Hulk pursuing the under guard Rich Jones by showing the Hulk's reflection in the jeeps rear view mirror! Very stylish!

The Gamma Ray Projector does indeed work and we get to see the first version of the Mr. Fixit/Professor Hulk persona. This 60's version of those personas feels good, Its one of my favourite versions, just the right amount of anger and intelligence for the green Goliath. 

During the Hulk strip you get a brief respite with a single feature on "Peter Parker's Classmates" originally from the Amazing Spider-man Annual #1 from 1964 drawn by Steve Ditko with text by Lee. This the first UK appearance of Professor Warren, the future the Jackal. I would've preferred this feature to have been in full colour instead of the  colour hogging Mail Bag page. Speaking of which...

Thomas Browne writes that he finds the Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Hulk more frightening that the sci-fi Toad Men and he wants more "hard hitting action." Pete Sheppard from Manchester laughs at Skrull cows. Janet MacPherson from Edinburgh says that the Thing is a "Super Guy." Karl Holman from Lincoln is reeling from the impact of the first few issues. While Gary Smith  having seen nothing like MWOM in British comics asks what are the individual contribution of Lee, Kirby and Ditko, to which the editor answers what every full time Marvel fan must know. 

This weeks Spider-man tale is the first appearance of Doctor Octopus. Where as in previous MWOM stories the villains come fully formed, in this story we get to read the Doctor's origin as real time events and get to sympathise with his condition. I think that Doc Ock is possibly my favourite Spider-Man villain with the Lizard and the Vulture coming a close joint seconds. The character worked well in any decade, in the movies Spider-man 2 was my favourite super-hero movie until the MCU started and only Michael Keaton's Vulture has beaten that version as a better example of a movie Spider-man villain. Otto Octavios is a very human villain, driven by his scientific quest for knowledge, the atomic genius creates a set of remote arms that aid in his handling of radioactive materials, but ultimately this tunnel vision leads him towards an accidental path of bitter evil intent. Due to an explosion of radiative volatile chemicals he suffers brain damage which also gains him the ability to control his robotic arms with his mind, that atomic blast also welds the mechanical marvels to his body. Yes the name Doctor Octopus is silly by modern standards but to my 70's child ears I never had a problem with it. But I do love that scene in Spider-man No way home, when Peter, MJ and Ned laugh at Doc Ock's name.    

This story is the first half of Amazing Spider-man issue 3 were the Human Torch makes a guest appearance in the second half, which won't see print till next week, so to cover that up on the pea green coloured UK version the blurb box on that splash page is replaced with a flash text box that states "The world's most HUMAN fantasy adventurer battles the Earth's most INhuman menace!"sharp words concerning Doc Ock may be, but I think the editor couldn't get the Human Torch out of their heads. I've put both versions next to each other so you can "spot the difference." 

I absolutely love these two Steve Ditko panels of Doctor Octopus fighting Spider-man, they're iconic. When I think of them two battling I see those Ditko  images of a struggling Spider-man with his arms and legs pinned by Otto's robotic pincers while the mad scientist in his lab overalls gloats about his nuclear born strength. It's a classic! Doc Ock defeats our young hero by the end of this half, but will Spidey bounce back next issue? May be the Human Torch can tell us.

Johnny Storm does offer us a clue to what will be on the Mystery Gift (it's a colour poster by the way), in the form of an anagram. If you can unscramble the letters of "ISX EURSP EEHSOR!" you won't need to wait till next week to find out. I wonder if it's an anagram of who ever has been cutting out the coupons in my copies? I wish the Torch would tell me that!

While the Torch is giving us a clue in the centre spread he's gone AWOL in the Fantastic Four strip so his team mates go in search of him in all the places that a teenager might be, mainly to comic effect. The Thing is the first to actually locate the teenage fire bug as Johnny welds an engine gasket with his own flame on a racing hot rod. Ben Grimm rips open the workshop by tearing out a wall. Naked flames, damaged walls and barrels of gasoline , that's a health and safety nightmare! 

Johnny flys off in an adolescent fit and then does what every teenager would do, brood a little, then read some comics. While engrossed in some classic mags he is force to intervene in a fight with a group of men and a mysterious stranger with incredible strength. But I wonder who it could be?

If you haven't already guessed yet I'll give you some more clues, he's plays a massive part in the latest MCU movie,  Wakanda Forever, he smells a bit fishy and has tiny wings on his feet! 
 

Yeah you've guessed it, Its Namor, the Sub-Mariner! Stan Lee was very subtle with those title and sub titles. Johnny does a fantastic job on trimming back Namor's beard and hair with his flame like a Turkish barber but the Atlantean must get someone else to do his eyebrows, they're immaculate! 

Find out next week if it is the legendary 1940's hero, if he recovers from his amnesia and if I've had a chance to watch the Sub-Mariner making his first movie appearance in Wakanda Forever. (I really must book some tickets!) Find out all that and more (and if I think the movie is any good,) next week. Till then...

Make Mine Marvel.