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Post by shaxper on Jun 24, 2019 20:10:50 GMT -5
Pssst...Make sure to check out the Advance Warning Thread before jumping in with your selection! Absolutely everyone is welcome to participate once you've read-up on the event.6. Usagi Yojimbo vs. Gunichiby Stan Sakai Usagi Yojimbo (vol. 1) #1 (July 1987) I very nearly chose this scene, but went with another further up in my list. I wonder if it's the same one I was initially considering for this spot. It just didn't make the final (grass) cut  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 24, 2019 22:34:12 GMT -5
I also had a Usagi fight that didn't quite make my list, but will be in my honorable mentions.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 24, 2019 22:45:54 GMT -5
6. The Avengers vs. UltronAvengers #162 This should probably be in my top two, as it's one of the most awesome superhero fights ever put on paper. In Avengers #161, the Avengers are ambushed by Ultron, who seemingly kills the entire team using an "encephalo beam." The cliffhanger is one of the best ever, with Jarvis coming into the mansion to find the whole team dead. At the start of #162, several team members past and present who weren't at the Mansion during the attack gather to avenge their fallen teammates. Knowing Ultron's power, and knowing they are shorthanded, the remaining members attack anyway in what seems like a suicide mission.  The newly resurrected Wonder Man, who survived Ultron's initial attack because of his inhuman physiology, realizes dring the battle that they are likely going to die. It's just tension ratcheted up to a million.   In the end, they only win through the use of some devious tactics, as Iron Man threatens to kill Ultron's newly created bride, Jocasta, unless Ultron surrenders and gives them the secret to reversing the effect of the encephalo beam, which had only put the other Avengers in a death-like coma state. This is one, though, where it felt like they were on the brink the entire time. Great stuff from Shooter and Perez.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 25, 2019 8:54:09 GMT -5
6. Benjamin J. Grimm versus The Champion
by Tom Defalco and Ron Wilson
Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7, June 22, 1982.
The cosmic Elder called Champion who embodies the living spirit of competition arrives upon Earth to "honor" us above all others by selecting representatives to participate in his games. Many heroes are chosen: the Hulk, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Colossus, Sasquath, Wonder Man, Doc Samson, Thor and several are all disqualified during training. Samson is knocked out cold by a training machine. Namor is stubborn personified and refuses to train and is dismissed.
Then we are presented with the big fights all set up in a boxing format. Enter the mighty Thor in trunks an gloves and boots. Thor uses his hammer and is sent away for using an illegal weapon. The Hulk reverts to his most savage persona and before he can do any damage Champion teleport's him away saying Hulk is a mindless brute and not worthy of facing. Sasquatch is next up and takes one devastating punch and is out and down for the 10 count. Colossus steps in for the next match and is punched into the corner where he cannot fight back and takes a merciless beating all the while refusing to surrender or fall until he can no longer defend himself self and the referee stops the fight. Wonder Man is next and stupidly chooses to tear apart the ring boasting how he will wrap the ring around Champion and is instantly disqualified for tearing up the boxing ring.
Which leaves the final contestant, Mama Grimm's bashful blue eyed boy, The Thing. Ole Benjy gives it his best shot he is simply outmatched from the start. But Ma Grimm's boy ain't no quitter and with every blow he receives Benjamin J. Grimm refuses to surrender or give up. He continues to rise, fights back and Champion recognizes he has a true challenger in the Thing who Champion must now humiliate and defeat in totally crushing the spirit and courage of this challenger. The Bashful one continues for 3 whole rounds and the referee declares Champion as the winner saying Grimm will never survive a 4th round.
Ben collapses upon the mat and then drags his bloodied body across the ring saying the fight ain't over yet and that Champion will never beat him. He just doesn't know when to quit or give up. Champion now recognizes the true strength of humanity in Grimm and says that he could never beat the Thing. That he could crush his bones and break his body but never conquer the warrior spirit of his adversary. This is an epic fight story in a grand tradition that knocked my socks off when it was published and I take the issue out and read regularly. A great Thing story that delivers why Benjamin J. Grimm is such a great and true hero!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 25, 2019 9:32:09 GMT -5
6. DAREDEVIL VS. THE HULK
Daredevil #163 - "Blind Alley"
Written by Roger McKenzie
Art by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Joe RubinsteinI was trying not to include too many Hulk stories, but this one just kept clamoring for attention as a Daredevil story. The Hulk is in New York! Matt Murdock manages to calm him down and the Hulk turns into Bruce Banner, but New York City being what it is, he's soon turned a rampaging, angry green goliath again. Now it's Daredevil's turn. He's trying to keep the Hulk from hurting someone, and so he has to get in close and try to reason with the Hulk. He gets smacked around pretty bad! His own punches don't do anything but make the Hulk MAD! It ends the only way it can. Daredevil keeps coming back for more until unconscious and bloody while the cops call an ambulance. The Hulk walks by and leaps away, and one of the policemen says: "I'll never forget the look on his face. Like he'd just lost his only friend." Miller's stint as a writer casts a long shadow over a lot of quality Daredevil stories. I roll my eyes when I hear some Miller fans say something like "He took a minor character with years of crappy stories and totally transformed comics!" I love Frank Miller! But let's try to have a little perspective on the pre-Miller years, OK? And nothing highlights this more than writer McKenzie's run as writer. The fight with the Hulk is one of my favorite Daredevil stories. Matt doesn't turn away just because he's hopelessly outclassed in the strength department. Taking on the Hulk means he's going to get hurt! But he's the man without fear, and he does what he has to. Miller took over the writing from McKenzie and maintained the tone they had developed together, and he created Elektra, developed the conflicts with Bullseye and the Kingpin and added ninjas. And he wrote some of my favorite comics ever! But I think McKenzie deserves a lot of the credit for helping to st the tone for the Miller years.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jun 27, 2019 0:58:43 GMT -5
6. DAREDEVIL VS. THE HULK
Daredevil #163 - "Blind Alley"
Written by Roger McKenzie
Art by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Joe RubinsteinI was trying not to include too many Hulk stories, but this one just kept clamoring for attention as a Daredevil story. The Hulk is in New York! Matt Murdock manages to calm him down and the Hulk turns into Bruce Banner, but New York City being what it is, he's soon turned a rampaging, angry green goliath again. Now it's Daredevil's turn. He's trying to keep the Hulk from hurting someone, and so he has to get in close and try to reason with the Hulk. He gets smacked around pretty bad! His own punches don't do anything but make the Hulk MAD! It ends the only way it can. Daredevil keeps coming back for more until unconscious and bloody while the cops call an ambulance. The Hulk walks by and leaps away, and one of the policemen says: "I'll never forget the look on his face. Like he'd just lost his only friend." Miller's stint as a writer casts a long shadow over a lot of quality Daredevil stories. I roll my eyes when I hear some Miller fans say something like "He took a minor character with years of crappy stories and totally transformed comics!" I love Frank Miller! But let's try to have a little perspective on the pre-Miller years, OK? And nothing highlights this more than writer McKenzie's run as writer. The fight with the Hulk is one of my favorite Daredevil stories. Matt doesn't turn away just because he's hopelessly outclassed in the strength department. Taking on the Hulk means he's going to get hurt! But he's the man without fear, and he does what he has to. Miller took over the writing from McKenzie and maintained the tone they had developed together, and he created Elektra, developed the conflicts with Bullseye and the Kingpin and added ninjas. And he wrote some of my favorite comics ever! But I think McKenzie deserves a lot of the credit for helping to st the tone for the Miller years. Day Five What He Said Dude this one issue stayed with me more than all the rest of what Miller did with Daredevil, and I do adore all of that. BUT this, this distills Matt/DD to a tee, everything about this man is said here, just never freakin' give up. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 2, 2019 13:02:36 GMT -5
6. Luke Cage vs. Doctor Doom or "Guess Who's Coming to Latveria" By: Englehart, Tuska & Graham Hero for Hire 9 (1973) Stiffed by a client, hero for hire Luke Cage borrows a ride from the FF and flies east to collect. The client is Doctor Doom. Cage arrives at Doom's stronghold to confront the monarch and, because the universe is sometimes kind, demands, "Where's my money, honey?" The two super-powered adversaries then launch into battle over $200. Cage, unimpressed by Marvel's premiere villain, actually manages to put Doom out of commission as well as earn his respect. All of it means very little to Cage, who just wants his paper. Genius!  |
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