Ken Aldred

Not a bad issue at all, with Miller and Garcia-Lopez art.

A bit like how the Human Torch was in the earliest FFs, still needing to refine the control of his power, and rougher-looking than later on.

Also worth having as it’s a good story with very nice Michael Golden art.

IIRC, that’s the Cary Grant film, ‘Bringing Up Baby’?

In Caltopia his call will be broadcast each morning, the citizens waking up to the reassuring roar of a powerful leader.

Would a metal bazooka shell simply bounce off Magneto’s protective field, or would it explode, likely killing Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Angel, and at least severely maiming Marvel Girl, standing a little further back? A very short-running series.

I actually quite like that DC's movies tend to be tonally quite different to Marvel's. Provides some variety.

When I picked up my copies, back in the 70s, they were equally problematic for me to find, and still equal in status. I have fond memories of both - MP 2 being important to me as a b/w magazine collector from an early age, ASM 135 as one of the first non-distributed, specially-imported and higher-than-cover-priced colour comics I ever bought; a big UK 35p rather than the newsstand 12p. I liked The Punisher even that early on, having read ASM 129 in a British reprint annual. Jimmers' suggestion is a shrewd one, and Punisher m/s 1 is a must-have, as it's the story which really raised his profile and gave him the popularity he still has today,

Something that has become a very, very common, overused hype / marketing strategy in more recent years. Except that anger has been replaced by boredom, and not buying into it.

Definitely in the linework in the hands. Talking of which, this design has to remind me of the classic Johnny Craig cover...

One of his most Ingels-like covers.

How about a Marvel cover?

They did seriously consider having Nicholas Cage as Superman at one point. Miscast and bad enough in the Ghost Rider films.

ComiXology Black Friday digital comics Sale, lots of great, complete edition reading material, just £2-99 each...

I'm tempted to post my stampeding, herded pygmy goats gif again. A simple, effective visual representation.

The nutjob uber-Goth, Hela, is my current favourite.

Caltopia is an empire that will exist both on land and under the oceans. So, he'll need two appropriately-qualified deputies. To the best of my knowledge, anyway, Cal himself isn't amphibious.

+1 Yup. The pamphlets are sacred. Less of that talk.

Doom is just having a huge sulk because Hawkeye is looking away and ignoring him. Something more important than an egomaniacal dictator / super-villain has grabbed his attention. I suspect it's someone selling top-quality Latverian Bratwurst hot dogs. The word is they taste incredible.

Quite a number of posts on the boards about books 'going missing', or being removed from sale soon after a film announcement.

Most moviegoers who aren't into more extreme metal would most likely consider Amon Amarth tuneless noise, even though through years of listening to thrash, doom or metalcore some of us are more capable of getting our heads around it. I thought "Immigrant Song" might've been a bit cliched, but it worked well, and as a better commercial compromise.

I don't actually think that Jean Grey looks too bad there. I mean, compare it to the three posers at the foot of this cover...

Iceman's poor aim with his snowballs is deceptive. He's actually throwing iron ball bearings covered in ice, but made the mistake of magnetising them with the same polarity as the field he's throwing them at, leading to the snowballs being harmlessly deflected away at close range.

I'd never actually thought about any of the issues pointed out by the OP before joining the boards and seeing other threads like this one. More interested in reading the contents. On that basis, the cover works well enough.