Marvel Knights (2002) #3
MARVEL MASTERCARD (1996)
Those dummies printed Peter Parker’s actual card number in the ad! I’m gonna go on a spending spree!
This is a real advertisement by the way, for a real credit card.
From Marvel Vision magazine.
UNCANNY X-MEN #332-333 and WOLVERINE #101-103 (1996): 1st Ozymandias
These issues continue the feral Wolverine story, and also are the last issues before the Onslaught event. Given that that event changes just about everything in the 616 Universe, it feels hollow to go to much into detail here.
It is notable that the story introduces Ozymandias, an ancient character who controls carvings and speaks about himself in the third person and signals the return of…
MARVEL FANFARE #4-5 (1996-1997)
Dazzler and Longshot go to the Mojoverse.
I’ll say this: The first volume of Marvel Fanfare was very uneven. There were some really good issues that broke new ground, and many mediocre ones that didn’t.
This 1996 revival is consistent. Consistently boring.
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #329-331 (1996): 1st Sunstreak
These are the last issues before Onslaught comes and Marvel fixes the fact that it made Tony a 16-year-old just because they thought it would save sales. The kid is trying to learn to be a super-hero and meeting some of Iron Man’s classic villains, but none of these weak attempts at developing a new character matter because, again, Onslaught is coming.
It does debut a new super-villain gang,…
VENOM: THE HUNTED (1996)
The latest Venom miniseries has him being hunted.
He’s in New York again, and the local cops are trying to find the killer of a woman eaten in an alley. Naturally, Venom is a suspect and Brock’s hideout has been compromised. As such, he’s down on his luck. A movie usher gives him some spare change for food.
He goes to get food at The Daily Grind, where Ben Reilly works.
Ben Reilly is…
MARVEL FANFARE #2-3 (1996): Wendigo
Before you get excited about a Hulk, Wendigo, Wolverine reunion, look at the panel, below.
All the art is like that. It’s an early Joe Kelly script, but it’s hard to read because the art is so distractingly awful.
I just use one tag for all iterations of Wendigo, but technically this story is about a new one. A scientist caught in a blizzard in Canada’s Great White North gets hit with the…
