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…
- Tales to Astonish #70 (Aug 1965)
- Sgt. Fury #20 (Jul 1965)
- Tales of Suspense #68 (Aug 1965)
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Tales to Astonish #70:
Namor’s first story surprised in one specific way. Lady Dorma. I know her completely from stories after she died. So I’m stunned that Namor is practically uninterested in her, treats her awful, and she in turn isn’t much better. This is the great love of Namor’s life? Yeesh!
Hulk: Banner’s dead, but gets better thanks for Rick and a gamma ray gun, and now he’s Bruce-brain with Hulk-bulk. I could swear this is the first time we see “the madder I get, the stronger I get!” No changing when he gets too excited. Brulk (Bruce-Hulk) wants to get excited, i.e. angry. Big moment!
Tales of Suspense #68
Iron Man versus the Master of Dreeeee-I mean-Count Nefaria. This story was just not good. Iron Man goes inside a hologram of a rocket? What?! And Tony sees a spaceship outside his window, but no one else at Stark Enterprises does? Not even the security guards at the gates? How did Morgan manage to time that? And the actual aliens. Oh god. Green not-Hulks from the Moon named Gouda and Edam. I’m sure you can hear my eyes rolling.
Captain America: Yay, he doesn’t shoot the Allies commander! And Cap also knows exactly how to overload a top secret weapon that hasn’t been fully tested. Sure, ok. I think I remember that “vanishing gun” from the Marvel Super-Heroes cartoon, so that’s fun in itself. But the bad guy having gas capsules taped to his armpit. I had no idea the Nazis used Nair for men. Um, ow?
Another crazy thing: the vanishing gun reminds me of a story from a Twilight Zone comic I used to have. This boy genius created a ray beam which could make things disappear, and he’d tested in on his toys. But then his parents in typical bullheaded fashion barge into his room demanding to know what’s going on, and stumble right into the beam. The boy just thinks they’re gone. But Rod Serling assures us the parents are now trapped on a distant world which … isn’t much better with no way home. Oh, that wacky Twilight Zone, always bringing the chuckles!
Getting closer to the big 1-0-0! Until next time, or until Namor discovers a roomful of Dormas (a Dorma-tory?), make mine Make Ours Marvel!
Lady Dorma gets suckered into telling Namor that you don’t have a throne anymore,offers to help,he coldly rejected her,so she has him jailed, but she felt so guilty, that she lets Namor out, but Krang chastised Dorma and blames her for Namor going on a quest, when he dies, Dorma, you’re mine! Dorma says no way, Krang,so Krang gasses Dorma into a plastic cage and sent her to die by the hands of the Faceless Ones,who rip Dorma’s plastic cage apart, sexually abusing her sexy breasts, while the cage explodes, Dorma gets bruised and battered by the explosion, barely surviving!