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Post by Icctrombone on May 1, 2016 7:24:22 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on May 1, 2016 7:24:43 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on May 1, 2016 19:58:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 8:12:57 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2016 16:48:38 GMT -5
Black Widow Covers The Widow with magnetic powers? |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2016 16:53:05 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on May 3, 2016 17:03:07 GMT -5
Black Widow Covers The Widow with magnetic powers? And while we're on the subject, why was the watcher's origin being told in Iron Man instead of, say, Fantastic Four? |
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Post by The Captain on May 3, 2016 17:19:34 GMT -5
The Widow with magnetic powers? And while we're on the subject, why was the watcher's origin being told in Iron Man instead of, say, Fantastic Four? This was pre-Captain America stories being published in ToS, so I'm assuming they were making good use of the space as well as possibly selling copies of ToS to FF fans who might otherwise not think of picking this book up. |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 17:50:20 GMT -5
Black Widow Covers The Widow with magnetic powers? I think the artist goofed up on that ... Since the Black Widow have no special powers to speak of and she had extraordinary abilities that's makes her a world class athlete that's made her gifted in many ways. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 3, 2016 17:57:24 GMT -5
And while we're on the subject, why was the watcher's origin being told in Iron Man instead of, say, Fantastic Four? This was pre-Captain America stories being published in ToS, so I'm assuming they were making good use of the space as well as possibly selling copies of ToS to FF fans who might otherwise not think of picking this book up. That's sort of true. When Iron Man first started, his stories were 13 pages and they filled the rest of the book with the same kind of sf/fantasy/horror stories that had been in TOS from the beginning. By issue #49, Shellhead's stories were 18 pages, leaving room for one 5-page backup story. Stan decided to keep doing the sf/fantasy/horror stories, but tie them together as an ongoing feature called "Tales of the Watcher". This one is the only one in the series that's actually about the Watcher; he just does introductions in the rest. They did a very similar thing in Tales to Astonish; the backup stories were called "The Wasp Tells a Tale", and they were framed as stories that Jan was telling someone. These two anthology-style backup series gave way to Cap and the Hulk. Luckily, Marvel's other backup series, Dr. Strange and Tales of Asgard, had more of an ongoing narrative and stayed around. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 3, 2016 18:02:11 GMT -5
The Widow with magnetic powers? I think the artist goofed up on that ... Since the Black Widow have no special powers to speak of and she had extraordinary abilities that's makes her a world class athlete that's made her gifted in many ways. Not a goof - in the story she steals an anti-gravity device invented by Tony Stark and uses it against Iron Man. The cover is depicting anti-gravity, not magnetism. |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 21:46:58 GMT -5
I think the artist goofed up on that ... Since the Black Widow have no special powers to speak of and she had extraordinary abilities that's makes her a world class athlete that's made her gifted in many ways. Not a goof - in the story she steals an anti-gravity device invented by Tony Stark and uses it against Iron Man. The cover is depicting anti-gravity, not magnetism. My bad, you are so right Rob Allen and I wasn't thinking straight ... thanks for clearing that up! |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 4, 2016 4:35:56 GMT -5
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Post by DubipR on May 4, 2016 6:27:40 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on May 4, 2016 17:52:46 GMT -5
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