"Marvel Premiere" and "Marvel Spotlight" were Marvel's 70s' version of "Showcase". Among the heroes featured were Hercules, the Warriors Three, Woodgod, the new Ant-Man, Paladin, the Falcon, the Scarecrow, Man-Wolf, Satana and Alice Cooper. I found it strange and baffling of the heroes who DIDN'T get a chance at a solo spotlight. Here are my picks:
1) Hawkeye- he had his history revealed in "The Avengers" but never had his moment in the sun. The closest was in "Marvel Team-Up"! He was in many pivotal stories yet was never considered to be star material, at least that has changed now!
2) The Vision- C'mon, how much of a no-brainer is this one? The anchor of the Avengers had one solo back-up in "Avengers Annual" #6. Writers loved him yet no one could pitch a story idea for him alone?
3) Yellowjacket- OK, I'm overloading this with Avengers but Hank Pym never got to shine solo as Yellowjacket , his most multi-fuctional identity. Flight, stingers, brief periods of shrinking, insect control and a real cool neural disrupter gun, plus he could fight and think!
4) the Valkryrie- Marvel's warrior woman never reached her true potential. She could have been the solo female star Marvel lacked with the right circunstances.
5) Union Jack- they could feature UJ's solo WWII adventures away from the Invaders but I really wanted to see the original in World War ONE, possibly with the Freedom Five!
Those are my picks! What would yours be?
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Hawkeye did get to star with Two-Gun Kid in a story that appeared in the back of Marvel Tales #100.
The Beast was given six issues of Amazing Adventures (#11-16), seven if you include #17 which was a reprint. Other than that, Steve Englehart kept them busy guest-starring around the MU in a storyline which culminated in the overthrow of the (second) Secret Empire in captain America.
Nightcrawler guested in "Amazing Spider-Man" with the Web-Head and the Punisher in #160-161 and in "Marvel Team-Up" as well. Wolverine teamed with Hercules in a back-up from one of the Tresurary Editions.
Others that could have been used: Nighthawk, Hannibal King-Vampire Detective (decades before Angel), Will O' the Wisp, Moondragon and even the Original Human Torch.
I knew they did that, but I just didn't know when it happened. Thanks for the info.
Travis Herrick said:
I can imagine a nice period-set adventure with the Golden Age Angel. The one story of his that I've seen was poor, but I like how he looks on some covers.
1) He was featured prominently among the X-Men, shown above their logo.
2) He was the first to be used as a guest, battling Iron Man in "Tales Of Suspense" #49 and holding his own, even winning against the rest of the X-Men.
3) the Golden Age Angel was supposedly a favorite of publisher Martin Goodman, so it would have been an easy sell!
Again just a theory on my part! Plus the Angel kept getting new costumes, the afore-mentioned solo spots and another one in another Treasury Edition!
Did he ever get his own mini?
Luke Blanchard said:
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