Marvels #4- "The Day She Died"

[tripodeca113]

(15 out of 45 pages)




Phil's book Marvels has finally been released, and it's a hit. Meanwhile the Avengers are involved in an interstellar war, with the fate of Earth in jeopardy.











Disturbed by the publics mistreatment and apathy towards the Marvels, Phil decides to do something. He'll write a book to clear Spider-Man of the murder of George Stacey.

He begins by interviewing eyewitnesses, to Spider-Man's fight with Doctor Octopus. They claim that Spider-Man was trying to kill witnesses, and throw a chimney at the crowd.




What's going on with these two here? Your meant to pin the crime on Spider-Man, shake your fist inefficiently, then go home early.

Anyway, Doctor Octopus has been captured again. Phil is able to get his publisher to arrange a meeting, by claiming he wants to do a book on supervillains.





Once while Phil and Gwen, are discussing Spider-Man a group of Atlanteans commanded by Namor invade the city .....to rescue one of them being held captive by the UN, and it's all done very responsibly, no one got hurt, only some minor property damage. While the crowd panic, Gwen found beauty in the situation.





Everything's looking up for Phil, George Stacey's death is the ideal subject for his book. Gwen offers to find her father's journal to include in the book. She should have it ready in a few days.

Unable to find Gwen at her home, Phil goes to check out her boyfriends apartment....



Phil chases the Green Goblin...











Phil's assistant Marcia, wants him to continue working, on his book.




A news report of Hawkeye and the Hulk, fighting Zzzax near the waterfront comes on TV.







The use of Danny Ketch does date this a bit.

The story will continue in the flawed, but interesting Marvels: Eye of the Camera!

Comments

[lordultimus]

Well, considering the writer is still writing superhero comics, it's a little easy to miss.

[silverhammerman]

An early forerunner in the surprisingly pervasive genre of stories about passing the torch and moving on, after which the writer went back to business as usual.

[laughing_tree]

Though it might not have been if the series were less successful. Busiek's said that if Marvels hadn't come out, he likely wouldn't have been able to remain in the industry.

[laughing_tree]

How does that make it easy to miss? It's a story, not autobiography?

[lordultimus]

"At some point, everyone loses interest in superheroes... Except me! I'll love them until the day I die!"

I'm just saying, if Busiek actually retired from superhero comics, people would actually register this moral.

[laughing_tree]

It'd be more evident, yeah, but it's already so prominent that, even contradicting the writer's own life, you'd think more people would pick up on it. I mean, it's not exactly subtly. It's the literal ending.