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Fan of Bronze: The Thing Replaced By...Power Man?!? Sweet Christmas!

Sweet Christmas, indeed, as I got this for Christmas in December 1975 when I was 10!

The previous issues of Fantastic Four, #166-167 (Ja-F'76), had the THING revert back to his human form of Ben Grimm, due to being exposed to the Hulk's gamma ray emi

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Fan of Bronze: The Elongated Man Joins the JLA

I've been picking up the later Showcase Presents Justice League of America volumes that pick up where the Justice League Archives leave off. That saves me the trouble of pulling out those now forty year old books while letting me relive those halcyon

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Iron Man Questions AKA I Was Wondering #15

This one has been sitting on my desk for about six weeks. The problem, I think, is that Iron Man is my least favorite Silver Age Marvel feature. The few that I have read seem to follow these two patterns:

1) Iron Man gets defeated, Tony builds newer,

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A heads up and a rumor...

First: From all reports, AVX: Versus #6 (hey, I don't make the titles up) out today is THE book to pick up as it's a kind of What The?! parody of the whole event with tons of fun stuff.  This and the Doop story in Wolverine and the X-Men may be the b

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Fan of Bronze: Plastic Man and Blackhawk--A Theory

In comments that I have made here and in Mister Silver Age's forum (may it rise again), I have asserted that the DC Multiverse (Pre-Crisis) had contained several versions of Plastic Man and, by extension, Blackhawk. But then I started thinking down a

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Stark Expo opens May 7, 2010

http://www.starkexpo2010.com/

 

It looks like it'll be good this year. 

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Here comes the first full Iron Man 2 trailer

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/ Wow...

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Happy discoveries

I'm starting to pack books for our family vacation...The Strain by del Toro and Hogan, Killing Floor by Lee Child, the last two Paul Dini Batman collections, a bunch of magazines (The New Republic, Wired)...and as I was going through my "not read yet

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