All of the Marvels

American Gothics. Note that Grant Wood's painting is of a daughter-and-father pair--that Moon Knight issue concerns his daughter, but I think that's Marlene next to him!

Christian Louboutin sees a Helicarrier crash in The Loubiverse Explodes #1, 2023, by Paul Allor and Nick Roche.

Lois and Clark run into Blackheart, just before Ghost Rider rescues them, in 1995’s Ghost Rider #66, by Howard Mackie, Salvador Larroca and Sergio Melia. (To be fair, they’d probably have been fine on their own.)

Around the time of The Punisher #5, 2009, by Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña, the Canadian metal band 3 Inches of Blood released their album “Here Waits Thy Doom,” whose recording lineup included no original members of the band.

The cover of 1991’s The Punisher #47 has the dubious distinction of being the only Marvel cover I know of with FOUR artist credits: “KK” (presumably assistant editor Kevin Kobasic), “JR SR” (John Romita Sr., almost certainly), Hugh Haynes (who penciled the interior of the issue) and Terry Austin. Operation Desert Storm’s dates were January 17 to April 11, 1991; what we’re seeing here is the Australian printing, but the American edition (with the same cover copy) was cover-dated April, so the cover text would have been VERY current at the time of publication. Interestingly, the letters page includes an ad for 50% off subscriptions purchased for an Operation Desert Storm soldier. Also, what is with the scimitars everybody’s waving around on this cover?

Various demands for SILENCE! from Deadpool: The Gauntlet, 2014, by Gerry Duggan, Brian Posehn, Reilly Brown, et al.

Goodreads is doing an “All of the Marvels” giveaway!

My book “All of the Marvels,” about all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics considered as a single story, comes out from Penguin on October 5! If you preorder it through Books with Pictures, it’ll come signed to you (or to the person of your choice), and there might be a fun little bonus thing in the package, too... the link for that is https://forms.gle/G8377BMrBWiMfdN5A .

Every week, my guests and I will be looking at one of Victor Von Doom’s comics appearances, in the order he experienced them. (That’s different from both publication order and regular Marvel chronology, because, well, Dr. Doom’s the inventor of the Time Platform, which makes things more complicated.)

President Doom demands silence in Doom 2099 #33, 1995, by Warren Ellis, Steve Pugh and Scott Koblish. (The relative silence around here will be broken Tuesday. Just saying.)

Majick and Loss (cf. the 1992 Lou Reed album “Magic and Loss”) confront a dealer/user of the street drug Chain in Doom 2099 #26, 1995, by Warren Ellis, Pat Broderick and John Nyberg.

West Coast Avengers #52, 1989, written and drawn by John Byrne, who apparently didn’t feel like drawing a particularly gory and complicated scene. Inks by Mike Machlan.

Sgt. Fury Annual #6, 1970: Gary Friedrich, Dick Ayers and John Severin poke fun at Roy Thomas’s ridiculous workload at the time.

Midas semi-quotes “Hamlet” in Iron Man #107, 1978, by Bill Mantlo, Keith Pollard and Fred Kida.

“All of the Marvels” will be published by Penguin in fall 2021.

Ms. Lion—the dog from “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends”—gets namedropped in Gravity #2, 2005, by Sean McKeever, Mike Norton and Jonathan Glapion.