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scans_daily2012-11-22 09:04 pm
skjam) wrote in scans_daily2012-11-22 09:04 pm
Nighthawk's Brain! 1/6
Hi, folks!
Given recent Spider-Man events (if you haven't already heard, you may want to come back later) I decided you folks might like to see how this sort of plotline has been handled by Marvel in the past.
In specific, the "Nighthawk's Brain" arc in "The Defenders" starting in #67.
Six pages of eighteen, plus a dessert.
Nighthawk is confronted by the ghostly apparition of Trish Starr, his ex-girlfriend, who lost her arm in an explosion engineered by her father, Egghead, to strike back at Hank Pym. He's then overwhelmed by an ocean wave.
Meanwhile at Coney Island, Valkyrie and Jack Norriss, the man who's married to her body, visit the midway. Jack wins a couple of prizes, which Val doesn't understand the point of. They rehash their relationship problems, specifically that Valkyrie has none of Barbara Norriss' memories and thus feels no particular emotional connection to Jack.
Also, this is the famous "Men killed Bambi's mother!!" issue, but you've seen those pages elsewhere.
There's a nicely sinister line.
In Las Vegas, Oklahoma tourist Charles "Whizzo" Lester is murdered by an elf with a gun.
Not sure I want to know what Doc Strange was up to there.
Chondu nearly blows his cover by recoginizing a statuette of the demon Mantok, and covers by claiming he read about it in National Geographic. But when Valkyrie (and Jack) show up, he decides that it's time to srike.
Chondu manages to ditch most of the Defenders, but Doctor Strange casts him into a pocket dimension where the two socerors battle. Even with the aid of mind-amplifying drugs, Chondu is no match for the Sorceror Supreme.
And thus began when Steve Gerber really started to go to town on Defenders weirdness.
Now, an ad from the issue.
Umm...okay then. Interesting choices by the colorist.
Next time, more mind boggling madness!
Until then, Happy Thanksgiving!
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
Given recent Spider-Man events (if you haven't already heard, you may want to come back later) I decided you folks might like to see how this sort of plotline has been handled by Marvel in the past.
In specific, the "Nighthawk's Brain" arc in "The Defenders" starting in #67.
Six pages of eighteen, plus a dessert.
Nighthawk is confronted by the ghostly apparition of Trish Starr, his ex-girlfriend, who lost her arm in an explosion engineered by her father, Egghead, to strike back at Hank Pym. He's then overwhelmed by an ocean wave.
Meanwhile at Coney Island, Valkyrie and Jack Norriss, the man who's married to her body, visit the midway. Jack wins a couple of prizes, which Val doesn't understand the point of. They rehash their relationship problems, specifically that Valkyrie has none of Barbara Norriss' memories and thus feels no particular emotional connection to Jack.
Also, this is the famous "Men killed Bambi's mother!!" issue, but you've seen those pages elsewhere.
There's a nicely sinister line.
In Las Vegas, Oklahoma tourist Charles "Whizzo" Lester is murdered by an elf with a gun.
Not sure I want to know what Doc Strange was up to there.
Chondu nearly blows his cover by recoginizing a statuette of the demon Mantok, and covers by claiming he read about it in National Geographic. But when Valkyrie (and Jack) show up, he decides that it's time to srike.
Chondu manages to ditch most of the Defenders, but Doctor Strange casts him into a pocket dimension where the two socerors battle. Even with the aid of mind-amplifying drugs, Chondu is no match for the Sorceror Supreme.
And thus began when Steve Gerber really started to go to town on Defenders weirdness.
Now, an ad from the issue.
Umm...okay then. Interesting choices by the colorist.
Next time, more mind boggling madness!
Until then, Happy Thanksgiving!
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
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