#Howard the Duck Vol. 1

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"YES! SEND ME A CRYPT-FULL OF TERRIBLE TALES..." -- HORROR MEETS ZANINESS IN THE BRONZE AGE OF COMICS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mail-in order form for both "Tomb of Dracula" AND "Howard the Duck" in B&W magazine format, published by the Marvel Magazine Group, c. 1977 -- "Checks or money orders only. Please allow 8 to 10 weeks on delivery."

Yes, this is the whopping THIRD time I've posted the above 1977 "Howard the Duck" and "Tomb of Dracula" horizontal, vintage Marvel house ad on Tumblr. I swear, this is the last time I will be posting it, though! Third time's the charm, am I right?

Source: https://forum.sanctuary.fr/t/page-s-de-pub/185608/225.

[theodore-sallis]

“Battle for the Palace of the Gods!” Man-Thing (Vol. 1/1974), #1.

Writer: Steve Gerber; Penciler: Val Mayerik; Inker: Sal Trapani; Colorist: Dave Hunt; Letterer: John Costanza

[im-the-antonymph-of-your-mom]

[karmirage]

some fun facts for the @tournament-of-x voters

The oldest contestants currently in the match (and by oldest, I mean “the date of their first appearance”, not their actual ages) are Magneto, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake/Iceman, and Scott Summers/Cyclops. All four of them first appear in X-Men #1 in 1963.

The youngest contestant currently in the match (again, in terms of the dates of their first appearance, not actual age) is Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool, who first debuted in Howard the Duck #1 in 2015.

Of the contestants, only Laura Kinney/Wolverine appeared first on screen -- her first ever appearance was in Season 3, Episode 10 of X-Men: Evolution in August of 2003. This would be later followed by her first comic appearance in NYX #3, in December of 2003.

As far as classic teams go: the 33 characters remaining include three of the original five X-Men (Jean, Bobby, Scott), four of the classic nine New Mutants (Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Dani Moonstar/Mirage, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, and Illyana Rasputin/Magik -- Dani, Xuân, and Roberto are also founding members), and two people who have two first appearances (both Illyana and Nathan Summers/Cable appear in canon continuity as babies/toddlers prior to appearing later under their aliases -- Illyana appears in Giant-Sized X-Men #1 in 1975 and Nathan appears in Uncanny X-Men #201 in 1985). Two contestants are also part of the iconic Giant-Sized X-Men team created in 1975 -- Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Ororo Munroe/Storm. Two members of the original Generation X remain (Monet St. Croix/M/Penance and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee), as well as two from the Academy X era (David Alleyne and Megan Gwynn, from the New Mutants second generation team and the Paragons, respectively), three if you choose to count Laura Kinney/Wolverine, who joined the remaining students of New X-Men vol. 2 just after M-Day.

All the contestants save nine made their first appearances in X-books (X-Men, Giant-Sized X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, X-Factor, X-Force, Generation X, X-Men: Evolution and New X-Men). The ones who do not first appear in X-books are Mystique (Ms. Marvel #18 in 1978, though she technically had a cameo appearance two issues prior), Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (Marvel Team-Up #100 in 1980), Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue (Avengers Annual #10, 1981), Dani Moonstar/Mirage and Roberto da Costa/Sunspot (both in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 in 1983), Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (Young Avengers #1, 2005), Tommy Shepherd/Speed (Young Avengers #10, 2006), Eden Fesi/Manifold (Secret Warriors #4, 2009), and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Howard the Duck #1, 2015).

Demographically speaking, four characters in the tournament are canonically Jewish -- Magneto, Kate Pryde, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, and Bobby Drake/Iceman (thanks for the reminder, @/ant-ifascottlang!) Though it hasn’t been confirmed, one might assume that Tommy Shepherd/Speed and Lorna Dane/Polaris are also Jewish, being related to them.

The 70s and the 80s are proving themselves to be the most popular -- 8 candidates that were created in the 70s are still in the tournament (Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Ororo Munroe/Storm, Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Mystique, Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora, Kitty/Kate Pryde, and Emma Frost/White Queen), and 8 characters created in the 80s are still in the tournament as well (Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue, Dani Moonstar/Mirage, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Nathan Summers/Cable, Julio Richter/Rictor, and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee).

Of the other decades: seven characters were introduced in the 2000s (Eloise Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Megan Gwynn/Pixie, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, Tommy Shepherd/Speed, and Eden Fesi/Manifold), five were introduced in the 60s (Magneto, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Scott Summers/Cyclops, and Lorna Dane/Polaris), and four were introduced in the 90s (Remy Lebeau/Gambit, Lucas Bishop, Neena Thurman/Domino, and Monet St. Croix/M/Penance). Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool is the only character remaining in the tournament to be introduced after 2010.

One character is canonically Muslim -- Monet St. Croix/M/Penance.

Eleven characters are canonically LGBTQ+: Bobby Drake/Iceman, Mystique, Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Kitty/Kate Pryde, Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Julio Richter/Rictor, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, Tommy Shepherd/Speed, and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool.

Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Remy Lebeau/Gambit (thanks for the reminder, @/souldagger!) and Megan Gwynn/Pixie have been confirmed by writers to be queer, but there has been no on-panel confirmation for any of them beyond Pixie’s appearance/alternate dimension self in Secret Wars.

Without counting the upcoming Uncanny Avengers, at least three characters have been recurring Avengers -- Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, and Eden Fesi/Manifold. Rogue and Sunspot also notably led teams of Avengers. Several other candidates have been Young Avengers -- David Alleyne/Prodigy, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (who was a founding member), and Tommy Shepherd/Speed.

Ten characters are mutants of color -- Ororo Munroe/Storm is Kenyan-American and grew up in Cairo, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma is Vietnamese, Dani Moonstar/Mirage is Indigenous American, specifically Cheyenne, Roberto da Costa is Afrolatino and from Brazil, Julio Richter/Rictor is Mexican, Jubilation Lee/Jubilee is Chinese-American, Lucas Bishop is Aboriginal Australian/Black American (according to Chris Claremont, who confirmed that Bishop is indeed descended from Aboriginal Australian mutant Gateway), Monet St. Croix/M/Penance is Monacan-Algerian, David Alleyne/Prodigy is a Black American, and Eden Fesi/Manifold is Aboriginal Australian.

While Laura Kinney/Wolverine first appeared as a visibly brown girl in X-Men: Evolution, her design has since been lightened and she does not have a confirmed ethnicity.

Only eight of the remaining contestants have never appeared in live-action adaptations -- Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (though her name is shown on a computer screen in X2: X-Men United), Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Megan Gwynn/Pixie, Eden Fesi/Manifold, and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool. Of these, only Karma, Penance, Prodigy, Manifold, and Gwenpool have no on-screen appearances at all -- the others appear in the various animated series (Destiny has a recurring appearance in X-Men: Evolution, Pixie pops up in Wolverine and the X-Men, and the Beaubier twins appear in the X-Men cartoon of the 90s). While Penance is listed on Wikipedia as being in Wolverine and the X-Men, it does not cite an episode, though her twin younger sisters appear in Season 1 Episode 10 “Greetings from Genosha.” **this post has been corrected -- Monet St. Croix/M/Penance appears in the direct to TV Generation X movie (thanks for the reminder, @/cranechel!)

[mrwolfhare]

Did you get to choose the new team or was it the studio? Yes, no.

Have you had conversations with Marvel about their plans for the guardians now that you’re done? Yes

Are there any deleted scenes with Llyla, Rocket, Floor, and Teef? No.

Did you ever consider inserting any other Marvel characters to cross over into this picture? No

Is there a reason Quill didn't have his helmet in Guardians 3? It’s in his desk drawer in Knowhere. He had to get out of there fast as you know!

Is there an in-universe explanation as to why Quill’s ditched his helmet and rocket boots? They have jet packs. The rocket boots comparatively suck. That's like cheap shit you get in the intergalactic version of Radio Shack. And Chris could never have done those amazing hallway moves with a helmet on.

Was there a plan for a new helmet design for Star-Lord (the classic design would’ve been cool)? No.

In the scene where Rocket and Groot are dancing, was that you and your brother on set? Yes

I was VERY curious on how Drax knew the JOOB JOOB but Mantis didn’t being Ego’s translator? Drax knew the language from his childhood. It's not in anyone's translators.

Why did no one understand, or acknowledge the language on Counter-Earth not being recognized by their translators? It's a cloistered culture. It would be normal not to have their Humanimal language in the translators.

Was the line always going to be “I love you guys” or did you have other options? No

Was there any consideration given towards giving the one spoken “F***” in the movie to Groot? Consideration? Sure.

Was redesigning Howard The Duck your idea? Yes. I've redesigned him on every movie because I've never been satisfied and we were rushed the first couple times. I'm happier now.

Did you ever think about giving Howard the Duck a bigger role in these movies (just asking because he’s my favorite Marvel Character)? Yes.

Does your average MCU earthling know that the Guardians of the Galaxy exist? No

Was Miley Cyrus not able to reprise her role from Guardians 2? Was that the same character? Yes. Yes.

James is Adam Warlock single? Yes

Has Grandpa Quill heard about Peter’s world-saving adventures already? No.

Does Peter Quill’s grandfather know about Ego? No

Was there an actual dog playing Cosmo or was that CGI? No, yes.

Was the Eagle in the cage an Eagly reference? Or just an Eagle? That was actually the real Eagly.

Can Groot grow a new body very quickly now? Yes.

Will there be Vol 4? No.

Will there ever be a director’s cut of the trilogy? Yes (the trilogy as is is the Director's Cut)

Do you want to do an extended version? No.

Does Guardians 3 have an alternate ending planned? No.

Will there be a longer cut of the film that has more Michael Rosenbaum in it? No

Will there be a commentary version of this film? Yes

As early as when you were making GOTG 1, did you already have ideas on where Vol 2 and 3 would go that eventually made it in the final films? Or were your initial ideas totally overhauled along the way? Yes, no.

Did you have to fight/negotiate hard with Disney to have all of those dark scenes? Or were the pretty open to your final vision? No. Yes.

Was it difficult writing Gamora’s arc in Vol 3, knowing Infinity War was going to kill her off? No.

Nebula's arm is the Bucky's arm from Holiday Special?? No. It's way better.

I saw you mentioned Annihilus as a possible villain for Vol 3. Was he also going to be a candidate for Rockets creator? Yes.

Does Rocket keep in contact with Thor? No.

Is there a super big, deeply-hidden Easter egg like the first one? Yes.

Did Bradley do all the young Rocket voice work too? No (Noa Raskin is baby Rocket, Sean Gunn is Young Rocket)

Since Halfworld isn't a thing in the MCU (I guess this is what you retconned out from the 1st movie) does that mean Rocket isn't a halfworlder in the MCU, right? You could consider Halfworld a more intergalactic name for Counter-Earth.

[cogentranting]

Things that I'm very curious about in the world of What If 2x01

Does this imply that Howard the Duck was on Xandar during the events of GOTG vol 1?

It seems to suggest a course of events where the Guardians characters were all at Xandar during the big invasion, but some got trapped on the surface and some did not. We see Yondu, Groot, and Drax on Xandar, and we know Gamora is dead in this timeline, leaving Peter and Rocket unaccounted for-- what are they up to? (It's not clear that any version of the Guardians every actually formed here, but it's not out of the question either. If they didn't it raises questions about how/why Yondu and Drax ended up on Xandar and what led to Rocket and Groot getting separated-- unless Rocket is dead in this timeline.)

Yonn Rogg ended up on Xandar?? What did Carol do with him at the end of Captain Marvel?

What did Yondu and Nebula get up to in the five years on Xandar? He called her Nebby. It's sweet.

[vertigoartgore]

1986's Howard the Duck Vol.1 #33 cover by Brian Bolland (Judge Dread, Batman: The Killing Joke, Camelot 3000).

After that, Brian Bolland did only two others cover for Marvel (1990's Sensational She-Hulk #14 & 1994's Hellstorm: Prince of Lies #16).

[spinxeret]

º ✧ 。 GET TO KNOW THE MUN !

what’s your phone wallpaper : Spider-Girl #0 cover !

last song you listened to : "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

currently reading : Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows: Vol. 1 by Gerry Conway & Spider-Man/X-Men: Time's Arrow by Tom Defalco.

last movie : Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

last show : Ghost Adventures

craving : Pizza, like always

what are you wearing right now : Spidey shirt and sweats.

how tall are you? : 5'5"

piercings / tattoos? : None, I'm lame.

glasses ? contacts? : 20/20, but I use reading glasses.

last thing you ate? : Lasagna.

favorite color(s) : Red!

current obsession : Besides anything Spidey? (excepting current run. fuck you wells ) Probably just comics.

any pets : One kitty, named Buffy.

do you have a crush right now?: Nah. I haven't dated in almost five years now. I've given up.

favorite fictional character : Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker, Mayday Parker, Annie Parker (any of the Parkers), Susan Storm, Howard the Duck, Batman.

last place you traveled : Erie

tagged by: @redhead-reporter ( thank you friend <3 )

tagging: @divinamour , @spybiote , @webheadedhero , @thrillor , @webbfluid , @h-osborn, and YOU

[sisilafami]

2022

Rap:

Chicken P - BussaBrick Vol.2 : BussOne 101 / BussaBrick Vol.1 Deep In The Pot

Bandgang Lonnie Bands - Creatures In Paris / Scorpion Eyes / Hard 2 Kill Reloaded

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New Old:

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Nature - 98' Nate

Universal Liberation Orchestra - Communion

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[marvelman901]

Howard The Duck vol 1 3 (1976) . Four Feathers of Death! / Enter the Duck! . Written by Steve Gerber Penciled by John Buscema Inked by Steve Leialoha Colors by Michele Wolfman Lettered by Annette Kawecki Edited by Marv Wolfman Cover by Rich Buckler and Steve Leialoha . Howard learned Kung Fu to save Beverly from Count Macho... . See more relevant content here: #marvelman901howardtheduck #marvelman901johnbuscema #marvelman901richbuckler . #howardtheduck #kungfu #martialarts #70s #johnbuscema #richbuckler (på/i Cleveland, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoY-wWdNHRX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[brettsinger]

2023 Indie Comics and More

Returning to the show to talk about new comics is Dan Bublitz Jr.! Dan tells us all the books he read in 2023 and what he's looking forward to in 2024! How great are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips? Do comic book movies get people in to comic book stores? Why is The Tick so expensive? What book is Brett reading that isn't grabbing him? Is it better to collect trade paperbacks rather than individual issues? How was new universal? How fun is the dollar bin? What does Brett look for when he does comedy out of town? Who is Tim Seeley? Where did Kingpin get his start in comics? 

Reading list: Snelson: Comedy is Dying Knock 'em Dead Dying is Easy (free on Kindle Unlimited) Ed Brubaker Captain America Ed Brubaker Daredevil Gotham Central (free with Comixology Unlimited) Fade Out Nightmask Pulp Reckless That Texas Blood *Money Shot *Money Shot Comes Again Mark Waid / Neal Adams Fantastic Four (free on Comixology Unlimited) Howard The Duck The Tick Superman: American Alien *Under the Influence by Elliot Rahal Velvet Hot Lunch Special *Local Man Where the Body Was Night Fever PeaceMaker Tries Hard Big Game by Mark Millar Marvel 1985 (free on Kindle Unlimited) The Ultimates *Red Light (free with Kindle Unlimited) Joe Fixit *Klik Klik Boom Negaduck *Murderworld Garbage Pail Kids *The Exiled by Wesley Snipes (!) Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series Basic Instinct *Animal Pound by Tom King Popscars Slow Burn *The Plot Holes *Minor Threats by Patton Oswalt *The Alternates by Patton Oswalt Saturday Morning Adventures - TMNT and D&D The Enfield Gang Massacre Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Compendium, Vol. 1

Check out Comics Who Love Comic Books!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

MORE & MORE TUMBLR COVER PHOTOS GALORE – MY VERY OWN PERSONAL “MAXI-SERIES” STILL @!*#$%& CONTINUES!!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the first of two sets of Tumblr cover photos for the month and year of September 2024, a.k.a., my birth month. Finds already utilized and upcoming include:

A splash page of Christine Blaze, from the WildStorm comic book series “Divine Right” Vol. 1 #1, c. 1997. Artwork by Jim Lee.

English hardcore punk band DISCHARGE, performing live at the Santa Monica Civic on October 8, 1982. 📸: Marla Watson.

A Marvel house advertisement for “Howard the Duck” and “Tomb of Dracula” B&W magazines published by Marvel Comics in 1977.

Edo Period Fire Brigade woodblock prints, from the series Flowers of Edo for Children’s Amusement, artwork by Utagawa Yoshitora (active 1840-1880).

English stoner/DOOM metal power trio, ELECTRIC WIZARD, during the band’s first North American tour in 2001.

Partial cover art to “Batman: Harley & Ivy” (2016) trade paperback, originally published by DC Comics in 2004. Artwork by Bruce Timm.

Back cover art to HELLHAMMER’s “Satanic Rites” 1983 demo on CD format, a bootleg release by the illusive Hellhammer Maniac Records label.

Opening double page spread of a winged dragon with the front legs of a European brown bear, artwork by Eric Carle for his 1988 children’s book of poetry, “Dragons Dragons and Other Creatures that Never Were.”

Sources: www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/2018/02/20/divine-right-1-1997, X, Dark Horse Wikia, Pinterest, TPL Records, Picuki, Reddit, various, etc…

[big-gay-apocalypse]

yes

[gotankgo]

During the 70s when my purchasing was at it’s zenith, my taste in vintage & current comic books was decidedly outside of what was popular and Howard the Duck was a favorite.

Can’t remember for sure but perhaps I received a little cash for Christmas of 1975 and used it to purchase this huge comic which I absolutely owned and loved

[docgold13]

365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

Halloween Supplemental - Hellcow

The creature known as Hellcow had been a normal dairy cow living on a farm in seventeenth century Switzerland.  She became the victim of a desperate Count Dracula who fed upon her when he could not find a human victim.  The cow died yet later arose an undead vampire.  

The vampiric cow secretly wondered the world for decades feeding off of humans and animals alike to quench her unyielding thirst for blood.  Many years later, Howard The Duck was investigating a string of murders in a sleepy farming community.  He came across Hellcow who attacked him.  Howard was able to defeat Hellcow, seemingly destroying her with a wooden stake.  She was later revived by the mad scientist, Dr. Kilgore, who sought to use her milk as a means of obtaining immortality.  This ultimately led to Hellcow teaming up with Deadpool to defeat Kilgore.  

Hellcow first appeared in the pages of Giant Size Man-Thing Vol. 1 #5 (1975).

[multiverseforger07]

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole arrived to the Marvel Universe from what she claims to be "the real world".[10] In her home reality, Gwen had been a comics superfan as an escape from her life as an unemployed high school dropout. Unwilling to be an "extra" in the Marvel world, she went to a tailor for superheroes and requested her own costume. The tailor (named Ronnie) complied, but misread Gwen's application form, and thought Gwen went by the alias of "Gwenpool", leading to a costume similar to Deadpool's.[11] Upon gaining the ability to manipulate the borders of the fourth wall from an attempt to return her to reality, allowing her to travel in time, Gwen retcons the Marvel Universe into believing her to be a mutant after being given the idea by Kamala Khan, allowing her to enter the gates of Krakoa.[12]

Solo seriesEdit

Gwenpool's first appearance as a character was in Howard the Duck Vol 6 #1 (later republished in The Unbelievable Gwenpool #0), when she was involved in stealing a humanity-destroying virus from Black Cat and selling it to Hydra to get money easily, believing that the Avengers would simply deal with any consequences. When she revealed to Howard the Duck the item she had stolen from Hardy and to whom she had sold it, Howard scolded her and informed her that the Avengers were not available to save the Earth from the virus. Guilt stricken, she then set out with Howard to retrieve the virus from a Hydra base.[13]

In the 2015 Gwenpool Special, Gwenpool is hired on her first mercenary job, to kill a villain. After completing her mission, Gwenpool attends a Christmas party hosted by She-Hulk, where she's seen talking to Ms. Marvel.[14]



Gwenpool unmasked

Following the events of Gwenpool Holiday Special #1, Gwenpool becomes a full-time mercenary.[15] While trying to deposit the money she made killing Orto, Gwen stops a bank robbery by killing all of the robbers, except for the gang's hacker Cecil, whom she enlists as a reluctant sidekick. After a mission revolving around extraterrestrial arms dealers where she killed MODOK Superior's best agent and took credit for his work, MODOK tracked Gwenpool down. He murdered Cecil in order to persuade her to become his henchman and an agent for his Mercenary Organization Dedicated Only to Killing. Gwenpool joins MODOK's elite squad, which also includes the alchemist Mega Tony, the magician Terrible Eye, and Batroc the Leaper, who gives Gwen basic combat and firearms training.[16]

Gwenpool then arranged a meeting between herself and Doctor Strange, in which she explained to him that she was from a reality where all Marvel characters are fictional characters in comic books. Doctor Strange agreed to transfer her history from Gwen's original world to create a fake background for her in the Marvel Universe, so that she could get her Social Security number, driver's license and other essential documents. However, this allows MODOK Superior to discover Gwen's ordinary, powerless background, and he swears to destroy Gwen for lying to him and having no credentials to be a mercenary. Gwen and MODOK then engage in battle, and she defeats him with the hacking assistance of Cecil, who returns as a ghost.[17]

Without MODOK, Gwen becomes the new leader of the MODOK organization, but learns she is wanted by the alien arms dealers, who are known as Teuthidans. Assisted by a rogue Doombot named Vincent Doonan and MODOK's other agents, Gwenpool's team defeats the Teuthidans, but destroys the MODOK base in the process. Without a base or funding, Batroc and the others decide to disband MODOK.[18]

During the Civil War II storyline, Gwenpool appears in Georgia attempting to earn the bounty on an alien smuggler named Chammy, only to discover that Rocket Raccoon and Groot are also after him. The three end up fighting another alien named Reeve, who put the bounty on Chammy. After Reeve defeats them and escapes, Chammy tells Rocket, Groot and Gwen that Reeve is looking for a formula that could temporarily neutralize Captain Marvel's powers, allowing him to kill her. Gwen refuses to help at first, under the logic that Captain Marvel, being one of most important "characters" in the current "story", would not be killed off in "a comic about a talking tree and raccoon". However, after coincidentally running into Kitty Pryde, Gwen falls under the mistaken impression that the comic she is currently in was being written by Brian Michael Bendis, a "big-deal comic book writer" with a fixation on Pryde who would have the authority to kill Captain Marvel. Convinced that Captain Marvel’s life is actually in danger, Gwen accompanies Rocket & Groot to the Triskelion, where they and Chammy help defeat Reeve, and Gwen realizes that the real writer put Kitty Pryde on the street to trick her into helping.[19]

After short team-ups with the Champions,[20] Blade,[21] Deadpool,[22] and the duo of Ghost Rider and Kate Bishop, Gwen meets her brother Teddy, who drags her back to her world (or a close facsimile).[23]

Here Gwen loses her memories of her time in the Marvel Universe and resumes an ordinary life, but she gradually becomes once again aware that she is in a comic book. Gwen then begins experimenting with the fourth wall again and learns to interact with the comic book medium by erasing the walls between panels and even climbing out of the panels, finding herself looking in on her life.

Watching the past from outside the borders, Gwen sees the "extra pages" of her Holiday Special, in which when her brother Teddy was sucked into the Marvel Universe, he ended up working for Orto the snake swordsman. Upon seeing her kill Orto's henchmen, Teddy runs into versions of Spider-Man, The Terrible Eye, and Vincent Doonan, who claim to be from a future where Gwen becomes a huge threat and destroys their lives. They offer him the chance to "return home" with his sister and fix things. Being concerned for Gwen's mental health, and having had a terrible time, he readily agrees. On finding this out Gwen, with her memory and costume restored, re-enters the borders, confronts Teddy for trying to undo the past and steal her dream of living in a comic, and shows him that their "parents" aren't real, and they never even left the comic.

Terrible Eye explains that their attempts to send the Pooles to their home dimension created a pocket dimension from their memories that was almost identical to their real one. The three realize that trapping Gwen was what led to her gaining her powers over reality in the first place. When Spider-Man narrates a flashback sequence of the future evil Gwen's misdeeds, the evil Gwen herself travels through the flashback's panels to follow him to the present.

Future Gwen battles Spider-Man, Terrible Eye, and Doonan, while each side tries to convince the present Gwen to join their cause. Future Gwen turns out to be weakened by Present Gwen’s doubt, but still effortlessly kills Doonan, Terrible Eye, and Spider-Man, horrifying Present Gwen, before explaining to her past self that she became a villain because she was tired of her good deeds being undone as the plot progressed, so she turned to committing evil that could always be undone on characters that “matter”, demonstrated when Spider-Man’s death is retconned a moment later because he’s too important in the story to be killed. However, Present Gwen is disgusted at the idea of hurting the characters she’s grown to love, and wipes her future self from existence. This comes at the cost of erasing all of the Evil Gwen stories and thus dramatically shortening Present Gwen’s lifespan.

Learning that the universe is attempting to make her into a joke villain, Gwen wants to make sure her evil self never comes to be. To catch the attention of the Avengers she visits Latveria in an attempt to face off with Doctor Doom, thinking him to still be evil, as she hasn't read Infamous Iron Man. It is revealed that she and Cecil, now in his mystical monster body, share an apartment and since she has given up killing people is hacking to pay the bills. A short time later after rescuing Vincent Doonan from Paste Pot Pete and throwing him into the void between comic panels as a demonstration of her new superpower, Gwen asks Vincent where to find the real Doctor Doom so she can defeat him and prove herself to be a fameworthy hero. Vincent leads her to Doom, who explains he's reformed, but Gwen still attacks him, releasing an evil version of Doctor Doom from within him.

After a brief fight in which she realizes she can't kill the Doom doppelganger, the real Doom comes to her aid and destroys his evil past self. He and Gwen have a chat about why she wanted to kill him, which turns out to be because since destroying her evil destiny self, her comic pages are running out and she believes she is doomed to be cancelled. With only a few pages left, once Doom is gone, she wonders if she has to become a super villain.

In the final chapter of Unbelievable Gwenpool, a Gwen from the future appears to her and explains that while her first comic series has ended, she's already in several other comics, toys, games, fan works, and so on. Even if her current book ends, she and her side characters will return in future stories. Meanwhile, in between these pages, Gwen enlists the help of Stephen Strange and her friends to restore Cecil to human form. She is given a watch that counts down the issue's remaining pages and she uses the rest, one page at a time, to see old friends, team up with new superheroes, rescue her brother from Hell, meet the Marvel Universe counterparts of her parents, and chase off M.O.D.O.K. one more time. Future Gwen then goes back to where the chapter started to talk to her past self, creating a loop.

West Coast Avengers Vol. 3Edit

After recently having been beaten up by a clone of Squirrel Girl,[24] and later attending the funeral of a separate Skrull duplicate of Squirrel Girl, Gwen visits Kate Bishop in Los Angeles, before being drafted to join the accidentally reformed West Coast Avengers. She instantly enters into conflict with one of the members, Quentin Quire, but their clashes and shouting matches eventually evolve into passionate kisses. However, Gwen later informs the camera crew following the team that she started a relationship with Quentin partly because she felt a romantic plot would make her less of a supporting player and thus less likely to die, having also considered establishing a romantic relationship with America Chavez.[25] Along with the other Avengers, Gwen helps stop giant monsters created by the original M.O.D.O.K., adopts a baby land-shark she names Jeff, and faces an alliance of villains headed by Madame Masque.[26] Later, during the War of the Realms, Gwen and the West Coast Avengers assist Otto Octavius in protecting San Francisco, and she uses her perspective as a Marvel Universe outsider and a fellow B-list hero to help him come to terms with his lack of a star role in the event.

Gwenpool Strikes Back (2019)Edit

In this miniseries, after breaking up with Quentin and using encounters with Peter Parker, Wade Wilson, and the Fantastic Four as filler for its first two issues,[27] Gwen uses a new ability to create flashbacks to things that had previously never happened (allowing her to manipulate reality) to acquire a fortune from Tony Stark post-Civil War II to allow her to pit the heroes of the Marvel Universe against one another in a battle royale.[28] After accidentally setting herself to combat the Immortal Hulk, Gwen pulls previous versions of herself, as portrayed by different writers and artists, from the Gutter, forming a six-Gwen team known as the GwenHive. Gwen leaves the GwenHive to enter combat with the Hulk while she dives into continuity, leading to the death of the Gwen from Champions. Gwen returns, having stolen Mjolnir and the severed arm of Thor Odinson, and uses them to defeat the Hulk. Gwen then finds herself facing Kamala Khan as the tourney's final battle.[29] Fearing for her continued existence, and upon being accidentally inspired by Khan, Gwen uses the retcon ability to convince Khan and the wider Marvel Universe that she is a mutant, hoping that as a "mutant" resident of Krakoa she will remain "in continuity"; upon arriving, she encounters James "Logan" Howlett and Quentin.[12] After leaving Jeff with Wade while dressed in her original Chris Bachalo design,[30] Gwen later avoids participating in a Fortnite tie-in while drinking with Kwannon, Mystique, Storm and Domino.[31] After being hired by A.I.M. Scientist Supreme Monica Rappaccini to kill MODOK (being accredited for having briefly killed him when she first launched him into space), Gwen assumes that she has been given a new ongoing Gwenpool series and happily kills MODOK, only to realize with a sigh (upon viewing his projected memories of a family) that he is being humanised, and she is merely a guest star in his book--the villain of his story. Entering the Gutter, Gwen proceeds to rearrange the comic's pages and retcon MODOK's death to having been merely knocked out by an EMP. Gwen helps MODOK discover his family's home from his memories, and MODOK grants Gwen his respect.[32] Gwen is later seen wearing cosplay for a fan convention,[33] and is also seen in Los Angeles celebrating the repeal of Kamala's Law with Robbie Reyes and the West Coast Avengers,[34] and leaves a mug with her face on it to Kate as a parting gift.[