#marvel premiere

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Deadpool and Wolverine cast in London.

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Cover of the Day: Marvel Premiere #46 (February, 1979) Art by George Pérez and Terry Austin

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BHOC: MARVEL PREMIERE #47

Now I know that I picked this issue of MARVEL PREMIERE up in a candy store in a distant strip mall that my parents had gone to for some shopping reason. My regular 7-11 didn’t seem to carry issues of MARVEL PREMIERE–they had quietly stopped getting all sorts of books, including double-sized issues such as Annuals and pretty much any newly-launched series such as SHADE: THE CHANGING MAN. It was a…

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Danny: “How do you kick somebody’s head off in zero gravity conditions? Start with the weapon-- use the inertia to spin around and-- then shove off the wall and bring it to him-- Even shattered, the stub of the whip-sword still looks nasty-- then take it-- and him-- out. And then...Stellar Astro-Fist. Um...Kick of the Geosynchronous Thunderbird. Something. Doesn’t matter. I made it up. What’s got two thumbs and didn’t boot in front of millions of people while inventing zero-g kung fu?��� Defenders (2011) #1 by Matt Fraction, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Sonia Oback, and Clayton Cowles

In which Danny fends off assassins in low orbit.

For the record, this is not actually his first time fighting while weightless. All the way back in Marvel Premiere #22, he and one of his early antagonists were thrust into an abstract pocket dimension created by Master Khan, which had the fun feature of no gravity.

"The odds here are against you. For you were never trained to use your kung fu skills...where gravity does not exist! You float helplessly as the razor-sharp shuriken shrieks past your head. Each movement sends you drifting even more helplessly. Each succeeding shuriken passes even more closely to your person." Marvel Premiere #22 by Tony Isabella, Arvell Jones, George Roussos, Aubrey Bradford, and Karen Mantlo

Fortunately, Danny was trained to adapt quickly to new environments, even very odd ones, and just as he does in the above scene from Defenders, he manages to find his space legs in time to fight back.

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Original Art - Marvel Premiere #038 Pg 26 (1977) by Mike Ploog And Alex Niño

From ha.com...

Elven hero Tyndall is featured throughout this page from the Weirdworld story "The Lord of Tyndall's Quest".

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Marvel Premiere 7 Cover by Mike Ploog

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Charge

Dave Cockrum

[ordinaryschmuck]

You know, with the existence of characters like Loopy Goopty and Charlie mentioning downfallen superheroes in Hell in the Pilot, i now just imagine a universe where Charlie goes to to Earth and accidentally ends up becoming a superhero.

Like Satana?

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The Doctor (not counting the Dell adaptation of the non canon Doctor Who and the Daleks film) made his first American comic appearance in Marvel Premiere 57#, Dec 1980. The story and art weren't original to this edition, but were taken from the UK comic Doctor Who Weekly issues 1, 2, 3, and 4. Marvel did add some supplementary art that was new to introduce the franchise including The Five Doctors (William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and non-canon Peter Cushing), Who is the Doctor (included an article explaining Doctor Who), TARDIS and K-9, and the Doctor's Most Fearsome Foes. ("Doctor Who and the Iron Legion parts 1 - 4", Marvel Premiere 57#, Marvel Comic Event)

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Marvel Premiere #47 (Michelinie/Byrne, April 1979). Caught a glimpse of Scott Lang in a recent issue of Avengers. Now we learn the full story — a former convict desperately burgles Hank Pym’s house, seeking a means to get treatment for his sick daughter. Hard to blame him!

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0095: Marvel Premiere #6

Cover Date: January 1973 On-Sale Date: October 24, 1972

For this issue, the fill-in artist if Frank Brunner. It gives us a glimpse into the near future when Englehart and Brunner take over as the regular creatives for a decent length of time. Robert E. Howard continues to get credited with "featuring concepts created by" while Howard P. Lovecraft continues to be ignored despite being the stronger influence. There's an interesting first. Doc purposely kills not one, but two villains in this issue.

Picking up directly from the previous issue, Ebora is closing in on Doc who's trapped in a crevasse. This isn't as hopeless a situation as we're led to believe. Doc has the plan of grabbing Ebora's trident out of her evil hands using that handy cloak of levitation. Clever Doc!

Ebora thinks she can leave Doc to drown in the rising waters. His legs are still trapped after all. Like many people in Doc's orbit, including Doc himself, they don't clean up their messes assuming that the circumstances will finish the job instead of doing it themselves. Well, Doc uses the trident to free himself and caption describes his leg muscles as powerful! I'll bet Clea is a happy girl!

As Doc swims away, a familiar shape starts to follow. The incompetent demon, Sliggith still wants a piece of him. Doc manages break the surface and gulp down some air right before Sliggith grabs one of his powerful legs and drag him under.

Doc, still under the influence of Starkesboro's evil aura that cancels out most of his magic (I guess the Vishanti's time limit was reached) has to turn to the physical again. Good thing he's got those powerful legs! Doc grabs the Sliggith cross and gives the lizard dude a swift bonk on the head. I'm guessing his arms are powerful too!

And there you have it. Doc holds Sliggith's gills shut. Doc straight out murders him.

Sliggith's death causes the next Gardner Fox weirdo to wake up and we are introduced to N'Gabthoth, the Shambler from the Sea.

The suction cup fingers are a nice touch! Meanwhile, Clea and Wong arrive at Starkesboro and immediately run into someone names Johnny Frames who followed his fiancé Deborah back to their hometown. Jonny appears to be Ethan Stoddard-lite. He distracts our supporting cast long enough for the town's lizard-folk to overwhelm them.

They chain the trio to an altar on a cliff and Ebora uses her cleavage to summon N'Gabthoth.

We change scene to Kaa-U where The Ancient One by the little shrunken people from Phantasm Shadowmen. The Ancient One thinks "I can't do anything to help myself here, I'll go check on Stephen." The old boy goes ghost and heads to Starkesboro. Doc is flying over the countryside and sees his underlings (and a stranger) about to get eaten by suction cup fingered thing.

The three really freak out, understandably so. In the nick of time Doc swoops down to the rescue! The cyclopean Shambler's eye beam is too much for Doc who comes crashing down. Ebora thinks she's got this nailed down. But Doc musters up enough mojo to break the captive trio's chains.

Wong, Clea, Johnny and the lizard-folk start beating the crap out of each other while Ebora cajoles N'Gabthoth to kill Doc. Doc thinks he's done. But this is the moment when The Ancient One, in ghost form, arrives and cancels out the towns naughty aura. He's filling in for the Vishanti. With full power, the Shambler isn't much more of a challenge than Sliggith and he runs away. The Ancient One gets particularly vicious.

Doc is like "Nah. Gotta find out where he's going. Then I'll kill him." The Shambler runs back to the Sliggith church and gets and adorably sinister chest hidden under the floorboards.

The two duke it out until Doc finally overwhelms him. Once N'Gabthoth is subdued, we get murder number two!

Doc reunites with his underlings to check out the cute chest. Johnny frets about losing Deborah after all the lizard-folk retreat to the hills. Then feels that his problems aren't really a big deal compared to the man in the cape who just murdered his opponent. Don't worry, when we return to this scene next issue Johnny will have disappeared as if he'd never existed. Doc, Clea and Wong check out the parchment in the adorable chest. It's got a drawing of Stonehenge on it. Guess where we're heading next!

This is a fun one. Gardner Fox displays his usual funky weird style here. He doesn't have the greatest grasp on Doc. Doc has said at least once, but probably multiple times that he is pledged never to take a life. He murders twice in this issue. I can maybe excuse Sliggith because Doc, lacking most of his power, saw no other way to stop him. It's still a lame excuse. For the Shambler, he was at full strength and could have banished him (see next issue for more of this.) Even The Ancient One, who's been a bit shady in the past, seems out of character with the vicious "kill him" attitude.

I don't know why Johnny Frames was introduced. He's completely unnecessary. He doesn't even consume any real estate to stretch the story. A copy of a character introduced two issues ago just gets shoehorned into the story. He even completely vanishes by the next issue. Perhaps Fox just wanted a normie in the story.

Overall, it's a good middle-arc story. We get a couple of one-shot monsters who are mildly interesting, but, fortunately, won't show up again because they're not that interesting. We get an ending that moves the plot. The story doesn't lag and has some good action. We get more evidence that even bereft of magic, Doc has the ability to handle the situation.

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I love him sm. 😭💀

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Cover of the Day: Marvel Premiere #45 (December, 1978) Art by George Pérez and Bob McLeod

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This World Gone Mad! Tell us something we don't know. The Avengers No. 93, week ending 28 June 1975. The cover, by Barry Windsor-Smith as Barry Smith, was originally used on Marvel Premiere No. 3 (US, 1972). Marvel UK.

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Marvel Premiere #21 by Tony Isabella, Arvell Jones, Stan G., Vince Colletta, and Joe Rosen

It was 50 years ago today, on December 24th, 1974, that Mercedes "Misty" Knight first flying-kicked her way into the Marvel Universe, appearing in the pages of Marvel Premiere #21! In this story arc, part of Danny Rand's origin series, Danny's dear friend Colleen Wing and her father have gone missing. While desperately searching for clues to their whereabouts, he runs fists-first into Colleen's other best friend and longtime business partner, whom he has never met before and who has no idea who he is. Misty is not messing around-- someone she loves has vanished and she fears the worst, and so she comes in swinging. We learn two things about Ms. Knight in this initial encounter: she is beautiful, stubborn and unyielding to a fault, and a force to be reckoned with. We will learn a whole lot more about her in the years that follow, as she grows into the powerfully complex and compelling character that she is today.

If you want to get very technical, this is not actually Misty's first appearance. A few years later, a brief exchange between her and Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up #64 suggested that she was actually an at-the-time-unnamed woman who Spidey and Johnny Storm saved from a mugging way back in December 1971:

Marvel Team-Up (1971) #1 by Roy Thomas, Ross Andru, M. Esposito, and Artie Simek

Misty's original (and more official) first appearance packs far more of a punch, but I have a soft spot for this retconned intro as well, which contains so much of Misty's personality as we will get to know her-- unflappable but caring, with a funny, understated sense of humor. Either way, late December belongs to Misty Knight, and we are all better off for it.

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Original Art - Marvel Premiere #56 Pg 30 (1980) by Howard Chaykin And Terry Austin