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The Return of Black Widow!

Peter Silvestro By Peter Silvestro
July 24, 2025

And so, after a hiatus, we resume covering the career of everyone’s favorite ex-Commie spy with BLACK WIDOW (2014) #1! Here, she starts a business as a killer-for-hire!

A new and improved entry for INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #18 (1992) guest stars Thing and the Defenders!

THOR (1998) #14 teams the God of Thunder with Iron Man against the Absorbing Man!

SECRET DEFENDERS #17 has the non-team members fighting over a magical McGuffin that can alter history! Then things get really Strange! With Deadpool and Luke Cage!

GHOST RIDER (2011) #4 wraps up FEAR ITSELF by sending the new Ghost Rider into outer space!

And Anthony Silvestro brings us UNCANNY X-MEN #198, the classic Lifedeath II, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #94, featuring the Beetle, and DAREDEVIL #192, Ben Urich in danger!

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And so, after a hiatus, we resume covering the career of everyone’s favorite ex-Commie spy with BLACK WIDOW (2014) #1! Here, she starts a business as a killer-for-hire!

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A new and improved entry for INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #18 (1992) guest stars Thing and the Defenders!

THOR (1998) #14 teams the God of Thunder with Iron Man against the Absorbing Man!

SECRET DEFENDERS #17 has the non-team members fighting over a magical McGuffin that can alter history! Then things get really Strange! With Deadpool and Luke Cage!

GHOST RIDER (2011) #4 wraps up FEAR ITSELF by sending the new Ghost Rider into outer space!

And Anthony Silvestro brings us UNCANNY X-MEN #198, the classic Lifedeath II, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #94, featuring the Beetle, and DAREDEVIL #192, Ben Urich in danger!

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1939, 1940, and 1941: Marvel's First Baby-Step Years

Julio M2 By Julio M2
January 8, 2025

Marvel Comics exists because of Superman!? DC’s iconic character ignited the comics industry explosion in the late 1930s. And Marvel Comics, called Timely Publications then, jumped into existence. Interesting facts like this one fill the all-new Marvel Year by Year section. A work-in-progress, this historic journey of the House of Ideas now has pages for 1939, 1940, and 1941, where the marvel began. For subscribers only.

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Avengers, The #356
Avengers, The #356
(November 1992)
4 stars
Iron Man #10
Iron Man #10
(September 2025)
4 stars
Daredevil #192
Daredevil #192
(March 1983)
4 stars
Black Widow #1
Black Widow #1
(March 2014)
4 stars
Thor #14
Thor #14
(August 1999)
3.5 stars
Ghost Rider #4
Ghost Rider #4
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