Welcome to Make Ours Marvel, the weekly show where Michael Kaiser and Jon M. Wilson read chronologically through Marvel Comics’ spandex adventures and discuss their thoughts with little to no authority.
In this episode…
- The X-Men #11 (Mar 1965)
- Journey into Mystery #116 (May 1965)
- Tales to Astonish #68 (Jun 1965)
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Thor #116: Triathlon I mean Trial of the Gods. That sounds like great parenting to me. The next time my daughters argue, I’ll drop them off in a random location 5 miles from home, and first one back gets ice cream and the other is grounded. Thank you guys for providing these useful parenting tips. (NO, I’M NOT DOING THAT! IT’S HORRIBLE!)
I remember that fish tale of Thor and the Midgard Serpent. Pretty crazy. A really great YouTube channel Monarch’s Factory used to have a video telling this story, but I think it’s gone due to shenanigans. Still, I wanted to give her channel a plug cause I like how she tells the stories of myth. https://www.youtube.com/user/MonarchsFactory
X-Men #11: Why were you so surprised that you never saw the Stranger! (Dang it, Billy Joel!) And how about when he walked thru that wall, like a Phantom. (… careful …) Honestly, seeing Magneto hoisted by his own petard makes me happy. And Wanda/Pietro finally leaving was dang great. Sorry we won’t see them again for … a week?
Giant-Man vs Whirlwind: I didn’t really care for this one. It was ok, but very meh. And to nitpick, in the panels when Hank is trying to shrink, the artwork slowly zooms in an him, which looked to me like he was growing, since there wasn’t any background to convey that his size was staying the same. That just was a badly done sequence and really turned me off.
Then we have Whirlwind, who grabs Janet by the wrist and flies away. His power is to spin really fast, but Jan stays in one place. That just … ARGH!
Hulk returning from behind the Iron Curtain. Leaping from continent to continent. I’m surprised no travel agency has thought to use that.
With the president knowing Banner’s secret, was this used in a couple of decades when Banner’s mind controlled the Hulk, and he got a presidential pardon? Is this a secret passed on from president to president? “Here’s the closest bathroom to the Oval Office, the best fridge to keep bottles of Yoo-hoo is in the Lincoln bedroom, and Bruce Banner is actually the Hulk. Enjoy leading the free world!”
Until the Toad impersonates the Stranger, make mine Make Ours Marvel!