WOMEN OF MARVEL (in comics and behind the scenes) Appreciation 2019

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Uncanny X-Men #177 Jan 1984
"Sanction"
Mystique is in a Circus when Wolverine ambushes her from behind. She dodges, but he still draws blood.
After a quick but brutal fight she slits his throat and he bleeds out.
Kitty Pryde phases up out of the ground moments later, and seeing Wolverine down, rushes over to him.
Its not Wolverine - its Mystique playing dead - and she's just gutted the girl.
Suddenly the building behind Mystique explodes as a huge hurled stone strikes it, sending her flying.

Colossus confronts her in a rage, and she realizes Cyclops is also there as he clips her from behind - she retreats into a funhouse hall of mirrors.
The fun house is really a carefully constructed trap, and she uses it to focus Cyclops optic beam and amplify it until it can penetrate even Colossus's armored body!
Cyclops, distraught over Peter's death, doesn't notice Mystique as she comes up behind him and garotte's him.

Having changed into a combat suit, Mystique gets confronted by Storm. But the suit absorbs her lightning, and lets her channel it back at Storm.
Storm dodges, but Mystique wasn't aiming at Storm, but at the tank of gasoline behind her!
No longer held aloft by Storm's winds, she falls through the big top, and catches the bars - only to have Rogue try to bring the house down!
Mystique pulls a blaster on her, and it actually finishes Rogue.
In agony over having killed her foster daughter, she's totally unprepared for Nightcrawler's attack, however his multi-porting doesn't phase Mystique at all!
She draws a dagger for the kill, but finds herself unable to follow through - and Nightcrawler knocks her out.

She comes to with Destiny looking over her. Arcade and Miss Locke come in to celebrate her performance.
Mystique wants all the Brotherhood to train in Murderworld - same deal, one of the robots will be set to kill.

Mystique asks which was in hers, and Arcade tells her it was Rogue.
After Arcade and Miss Locke leaves, Irene tells Mystique that her vendetta against the X-Men is a mistake.

Salem Center. Kitty is about to leave her dance lessons, and she starts to talk
to Stevie about Ororo's change in personality when Ororo comes to pick her up.

But Kitty doesn't want to talk to Ororo right then, and walks past her.

The Starjammer. Charles and Lilandra say there goodbyes, and Corsair bids his sons farewell.
The Starjammers leave earth with Lilandra to reclaim her throne.

Kurt, Amanda Sefton, Kitty and Peter go to see the Royal Ballet at Lincoln Center.
Peter drops Kurt and Amanda off, then he and Kitty go to park the car.
Kitty and Peter finally park the car and are walking towards Lincoln Center when they see an explosion on top of a nearby building!
Colossus rushes up to save anyone he can from the fire while Kitty runs off to call help. However, Colossus finds no fire, only Blob!
Blob punches Colossus through the wall where he is caught by Pyro's firebird!
Pyro heats him till he's red hot, then throws him to earth in the midst of semis with liquid nitrogen tanks!
Avalanche's tidal wave effect sweeps the trucks towards Colossus.
Kitty rushes towards the scene at the sound of his howl of agony, only to find him a frozen statue!

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr.
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The Silver Age of Marvel Ladies and they Look Like Movie Starlets!

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Uncanny X-Men #240 Jan 1989
Inferno: Part 1 of 7 - "Strike the Match!"
Alex Summers and Madelyne Pryor have decided to spend the evening at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan.
They have a romantic evening and can't help but notice that the place is empty and that the weather in Manhattan has been unseasonably warm.
Their evening is interrupted by a group of paranormal investigators who have come to set
up equipment to monitor the Empire State Building, which they believe is growing in size.
Their disturbance upset the owner of the shop and the scientists are kicked out.
As they enter the elevator they are surprised when the walls come to life and attack them.
While Havok talks to the owner, Madelyne examines the Empire State Building through binoculars and sees it as it really is and is happy.
When Alex rejoins her the two decide to return home to their secret hideout in Australia.
As they enter the elevator, Alex finds one of the scientists pairs of glasses and wonders what happened.
Madelyne, noticing the scientists are now part of the demonic mural in the elevator, dismisses their abrupt departure
and the two are soon teleported back to Australia by Gateway.
When Alex tries to spend more time with Madelyne, she decides to have some alone time and is teleported away by Gateway.
Realizing she's upset, Alex thinks he can come up with a way to help her and rushes towards the X-Men's base.

Madelyne, having adopted her Goblin Queen persona has come to Bard College where she finds the grave of Jean Grey.

She is angry that her husband Scott Summers supposedly got over his love of Jean when they married and angrily destroys Jean's tomb stone.
Coincidentally, Jean's parents John and Elaine had come to the grave site and mistaking Madelyne for Jean,
they are easily overpowered and transformed into demons, something she finds incredibly funny.
When N'Astirh joins her, she demands that he bring her to her son otherwise face her wraith.
N'Astirh complies and the four beings are teleported away.

Back in Australia, Rogue has taken to wearing some of Dazzler's clothing and trying to teach Longshot how to roller skate.

When Dazzler jealously confronts her, she upsets Longshot when she suggests that he is her own private property,
not realizing that while she loves Longshot he only regards her as a friend.
Seen on the monitors by Alex, he comments to himself how Longshot should be careful with Dazzler's feelings.
Using the devices, Alex manages to track down the Marauders.
When he realizes that Wolverine and Storm have sneaked up on him,
he tells the two that he has tracked the Marauders to the Alley where they had originally slaughtered the Morlocks.

Meanwhile, N'Astirh has teleported the Goblin Queen to a complex below an orphanage in Nebraska
where she finds a device similar to the Creche she saw in Genosha.
Wondering what it is, she gets a vision that suggests that she was grown in there.
When she looks at the plaque she finds that the experiment inside was called "Madelyne".

While in the Alley below Manhattan, the Marauders are settling into their new headquarters
when Blockbuster runs into the X-Men down one of the darkened alleys.
He is knocked flat by Colossus, starting the X-Men's ambush on the group.
The X-Men are out for blood and attack savagely, taking the Marauders by surprise.
In the confusion of battle, Blockbuster is surprised when the wall behind him suddenly comes to life and swallows him whole.
The battle takes another turn when Polaris uses her powers so snare Colossus and she gets into a "tug" of war with Storm,
who pits her wind generating power against Polaris' magnetic abilities -- the loser would be pummeled to death by Colossus's body.
However Polaris turns the tables by causing Colossus to smash through the top of the tunnel allowing the Marauders to escape to the surface above.

When the X-Men follow after them both groups are shocked to see the entire city has undergone some transformation.

Back in Nebraska, the Goblin Queen is furious over the lack of answers that N'Astirh has provided
when they are both confronted by Mr. Sinister who tells Madelyne that he is her father.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by Marc Silvestri and Dan Green.

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Mary Jo Duffy: Editor Extraordinaire
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Mary Jo Duffy TeeKay-421 Interview: 28.01.11

In January 2011 Mark Newbold of Jedi News interviewed former Marvel Comics editor and writer Mary Jo Duffy on behalf of Belgian magazine TeeKay-421.
An annotated Flemish version of this interview can be found in issue #55 of Teekay, and the audio version lives on Jedi News.

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Ka-Zar #1 Jan 1974
"Return to the Savage Land"
Ka-Zar and Zabu return to the Savage Land

where the Red Wizard tells him he is to be sacrificed

along with Shanna the She-Devil!

Script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Paul Reinman and Mike Royer, inks by Royer.

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My tribute:







Marvel, I'm still waiting for an Invisible Woman solo/leading a new team book written by a female writer.


I voted for Sue on the poll because of course I did. Also because I honestly think she should lead the MCU Fantastic Four to further separate it from the Fox versions and because she deserves it.

Not only the MCU Sue Storm, but also the MCU Storm leading the MCU X-Men, is to me the way to further separate the character from the Fox versions. Especially after 17 years of the Fox version never being appointed the leader of any Fox X-Men super hero team.

[Celgress]

Probably Invisible Woman or Storm I would guess.

[Crimz]

A new team called the Daughters of Liberty were revealed in Captain America #7



They may appear in Captain America #8 out this week.

If the dynamics are fun and interesting then hopefully they'd have a book is on the horizon.

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Uncanny X-Men #178 Feb 1984
"Hell hath No Fury...!"
Shadowcat has just stumbled upon the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants handiwork
- Colossus super-heated and then flash frozen to near-absolute zero -
a condition which almost certainly means Peter's death! Desperate, she mentally calls out to Professor X for help.

At the mansion, Professor X hears, and knowing that it is the Brotherhood, is careful not to alert Rogue.
In the Danger Room, Storm and Wolverine are testing Wolverine's precision

- he manages to nick her cape from her as she flies by at high speed without hitting her person.
Storm is talking much like Yukio. The Professor contacts them, but their telepathic discussion is cut short by a powerful psionic scan.
Storm carries Wolverine to quickly cover the distance between Salem Center and New York City.

Kitty is pulling herself together where Colossus stands as a mute statue when she remembers
Reed Richards had a recent device documented in Scientific American that might help.
She tries calling ahead from a pay phone only to discover the Fantastic Four aren't in.
She hops in a cab and tells the driver to head for the Baxter Building.

Elsewhere, the Morlocks Callisto, Masque and Sunder stand about the body of a homeless young woman in an alley.
Callisto enigmatically predicts there will be one more Morlock before the night is through, and Masque goes to work on the corpse.

Outside Lincoln Center. Kurt and Amanda are making out, when they realize that everyone has gone inside and the plaza is empty.
They wonder what happened to Peter and Kitty, when they are suddenly attacked by a great bird of fire!
Kurt's quick porting saves them from Pyro's creature and Avalanche, and then Amanda counters the fire creature with sorcery.
Blob, however, gets the drop on them,

and only the sudden intervention of Storm prevents their deaths.

The Baxter Building. Kitty heads inside and phases through the robot secretary,
disorienting it long enough to keep her ahead of the security systems.

Lincoln Center. The X-Men and the Brotherhood are fairly evenly matched -

until Storm opens up the heavens and makes it rain so hard the combatants have problems standing.

Baxter Building. Kitty grabs the device and heads up to the roof. A little worried about the height,
she tries to take it slow, but gets startled by something behind her as she's stepping out into oblivion!

Lincoln Center. Nightcrawler uses Avalanche to trap Blob, and the Brotherhood surrenders?

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Rogue brings Prof X tea, except its not Rogue!
Xavier notices the psionic damper, and beats it at the last second to change what would be a fatal shot into a grazing hit.
The real Rogue walks in on Mystique getting ready for the kill, and they have a confrontation. Rogue pours her heart out.

Lincoln Center. Mystique contacts the X-Men and offers to trade Xavier's life for the freedom of her Brotherhood.
Storm agrees, and Blob laughs about how they still nailed Colossus.
Destiny makes a dire prediction about Kitty Pryde and the Baxter Building.

On a sidewalk outside the Baxter Building, Kitty Pryde lies broken from the fall.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr., Bob Wiacek and Brett Breeding.

[Phoenixx9]

Pink Wanda makes me mad lol. C'mon, she's literally called the SCARLET Witch.

Yeah...and she never had blue gloves nor blue cape either!

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Uncanny X-Men #241 Feb 1989
Inferno: Part 2 of 7 - "Fan the Flames!"
Madelyne refuses to believe that Mr. Sinister is her creator.
Instead she and her pet "Grey" demons attack him, because he is the mastermind behind the Marauders, who stole her baby.
But the orphanage is Sinister’s headquarters, he has built in defensive systems, that chain the Goblin Queen
and use her own energies against her. She calls to N’astirh for help, but he remains hidden in the shadows.

In the transforming New York, the X-Men continue to fight the remaining Marauders.
Colossus is shocked to see Riptide among them, for he killed him during the Mutant Massacre.
The police, riding demon-transformed police cars, interfere.

Polaris / Malice destroys one of the vehicles and hurls the debris against the X-Men,

while Vertigo uses her powers to create a general nausea. The X-Men are almost defeated when Longshot
throws randomly a blade, which hits a sign over Vertigo's head; it falls down and knocks her out.

The fight continues and the X-Men fight more aggressive than ever. Havok even uses his power in full force.

The Goblin Queen continues to ignore Sinister, she thinks of herself as a normal person with parents and a past.
Mr. Sinister asks her that she tell him of her past memories to prove it.
Madelyne tries to remember and comes up with an incident at the age of ten;
she was playing with her best friend Annie, but suddenly she was hit by a car.
Mr. Sinister finishes the story, the ten-year old redhead holds her friend in her arms,
and suddenly she found herself in her friends head, sharing her last thoughts as they went out. Madelyne asks how he knows.
Mr. Sinister explains that this is a memory of Jean Grey, actually it is the day when Jean’s power manifested.
Back then Jean was put in the care of Professor X who trained her.
Originally Sinister had planned to kill her parents, that Jean would have been brought to the orphanage,
but he was too late, so he came up with the plan to steal a blood sample of Jean and clone her.
Later though, when the clone hit puberty he was disappointed to see that she did not develop mutant powers.
Then one night her incubation chamber exploded in a bird of fire, and the clone shouted "Scott" before passing out.
In the shadows N'astirh thinks that if he saves Madelyne, she would be totally under his control, he leaves.

In Manhattan some of S'ym's techno-organic demons recognize the X-Men and the Marauders; they join the fight and shoot Prism.
The X-Men kill off the whole squad, besides one who is captured by Colossus. He recognizes the species from his stint in Limbo.
Colossus interrogates the demon and is surprised to hear that his sister Magik is no longer Limbo's ruler, because she was overthrown by N'astirh and S'ym.
They also plan to transform the whole earth into Limbo, casting a special spell on the Empire State Building.
Colossus smashes the demon to pieces and as his teammates cheer at him, he realizes that the demonic surrounding has a bad influence on them,
only he is protected by his armored form, because iron shields against magic. He decides to search for his sister, because saving her might end Inferno.

Mr. Sinister continues his story. He researched that the exact instant "Jean" aka Phoenix sacrificed herself on the moon
and it was the moment when the bird of fire appeared at the clone tube. He thought that they were connected like twins
and now with potential powers he wanted to create the perfect child with her and Cyclops, so he designed a cover identity
and memories for Madelyne and organized for the pair to meet. Everything happened as Sinister foresaw and wanted,
untill Jean Grey was found alive at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. He knew that if the two would ever meet,
Jean would telepathically discover the truth, so he ordered the Marauders to kill Madelyne and steal the baby, but they botched the job.

In New York, the X-Men dealt with all Marauders except for Polaris/Malice who got away.
Longshot is concerned, how his teammates become more and more bloodthirsty.
Suddenly N'astirh appears and bites him in the arm.
Havok tries to nail him with a blast, but the demon vanishes, promising to feast on the X-Men’s souls like he just had Longshot.
During the fight, Dazzler seems more concerned with her beauty.
The X-Men prepare to follow N'astirh, but suddenly Wolverine’s senses pick up someone he knows.

In the orphanage in Nebraska, Sinister tells Madelyne that the failed assassination did not matter since she died a short time later in Dallas.
To his surprise, she is now back alive and invisible to all technical sensors as well as she has displayed powers he never knew that she had.
He plans to dissect her, to discover what changed her. The Goblin Queen gathers more and more energy till she overloads Sinister's defense systems.
Before the two start a fight, N'astirh, now techno-organic, arrives on the scene again. He hands the baby over to Madelyne.
The Goblyn Queen is thankful and loyal to N'astirh, she tells Sinister that she will destroy the baby, for it represents all of Sinister's manipulations
and all of Scott Summers' hopes and dreams, and with this sacrifice she will give herself completely to the fire, to Inferno.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by Marc Silvestri and Dan Green.

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Ka-Zar #1 Jan 1974
"Return to the Savage Land"
Ka-Zar and Zabu return to the Savage Land

where the Red Wizard tells him he is to be sacrificed

along with Shanna the She-Devil!

Script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Paul Reinman and Mike Royer, inks by Royer.

Shanna looks so good there, and not just because she is tied up, lol! In fact, the art in general is great as is the text.

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X-Factor #37 Feb 1989
Inferno: Part 3 of 7 - "A Matter of Honor!"
The team fights more demons to follow Christopher's trail. Not very far away N'astirh reassembles himself after he was torn apart in an explosion,
shortly after his infection with the techno-organic virus. He orders his lesser demons to bring him baby Christopher.
The demons recognize the change in N'astirh, and he tells them that since he absorbed the spell computer and his abilities, he now is magic.
Marvel Girl picks up Christopher's thoughts overhead. She telekinetically levitates the team in the air,
where the demons hand over baby Christopher to N’astirh. But before they can do anything about it, he teleports away with the boy.

The demons around continue to fight X-Factor. Suddenly the Goblyn Queen appears.
In her arms the baby, behind her are N’astirh and the "Grey demons".
She orders the demons to stop their attack on X-Factor, because they are hers.
X-Factor is surprised to see Madelyne alive, they thought she died in Dallas.
Cyclops asks what she plans to do with Christopher, but Madelyne replies that she does not call him by that name anymore.
She prefers Nathan, because Scott hates it.
The Goblyn Queen starts to fight Cyclops. She is mad at him, because he never loved her. He only married her because she resembles Marvel Girl.
During the fight the baby starts to cry, but as MG telepathically calms him, Madelyne gets even more mad.

N'astirh fears that Madelyne will kill X-Factor and the baby too early. While he shields them from her attack,
he reminds Madelyne that he was always loyal to her and that he awakened the powers in her.
Madelyne is really angry. She doesn’t want to be only N'astirh's puppet, she has powers that make her his equal.
N’astirh sweet-talks, he says he cannot control one of her mastery, but he can advice as a loyal ally.
He warns her that the X-Men are nearby and about to meet X-Factor and it would be wiser to influence that meeting.
Yet his true purpose is that she sacrifices the baby on top of the Empire State Building,
for there he can cast a spell using the baby’s powers to create a permanent hole to Limbo. N'astirh leaves.

Madelyne and the demons continue to fight X-Factor. She orders the "Grey" demons to grab Marvel Girl.
Upon their touch, MG recognizes that this pair of demons are her transformed parents.


The battle culminates in a big powerful blast from Madelyne towards X-Factor.
As the dust settles, the team finds itself unhurt in the crater the explosion left behind.
Next to them is Madelyne, suddenly she wears normal clothes and asks Scott why he wants to take her baby away.
The X-Factor members wonder what happened.

Wolverine arrives on the scene. He touches Marvel Girl and says he has to make sure she is real.

Story by Louise Simonson. Art by Walter Simonson and Bob Wiacek.

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