WOMEN OF MARVEL (in comics and behind the scenes) Appreciation 2020

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Janet AVENGER van Dyne..

..Wasp LEADING the way!

by The CosmicBeholder

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Marvel Studios' Black Widow | Special Look

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Uncanny X-Men #129 Jan 1980
The Dark Phoenix Saga: Part 1 of 9 - "God Spare the Child..."
The X-Men bid their friends farewell as they prepare to depart Muir Island. Banshee chooses to stay behind.
Having lost his sonic scream ability, he feels his usefulness to the team is limited
whereas Moira needs his support while she recovers from her recent traumas.

Cyclops extends offers to Madrox, Havok and Polaris to join the X-Men as Banshee’s replacement.
Each of them respectfully decline and so the X-Men leave.
Phoenix leaves with them, however, having finally rejoined the team.

As the Blackbird cruises over the Atlantic, another private jet owned by the Hellfire Club transports Jason Wyngarde to the States as well.
He once again causes Jean to experience hallucinations of being an 18th century noblewoman who is in love with his own ancestor.
This time, he creates an illusion that they are crossing the ocean on a ship together.
Jean had previously assumed her visions were some manifestation of Proteus’s reality-warping ability, but now thinks to herself
that her Phoenix abilities may be causing her to experience actual timeslips, perhaps experiencing the life of an ancestor of hers.

Scott’s approach snaps her out of this supposed timeslip and the two discuss their relationship.
Jean lets him know that she’s gotten glimpses of Colleen Wing from the other X-Men’s thoughts.
Scott assures her that his brief “romance" with Colleen Wing only happened
because he thought Jean was dead and that Colleen is a friend, nothing more.
The two confess their love for each other and share a kiss.

As the Blackbird approaches the X-Mansion, the team is alerted that the security perimeter has been breached.
Storming into the school, the X-Men are surprised to find that their mentor, Charles Xavier, has returned to Earth.

Over the next few days, Scott and Jean spend a lot of time catching up.
Jean ponders to herself how she “overheard” the Professor’s thoughts and knows that he returned due to concern for her new powers.
The couple are approaching the Danger Room when Wolverine suddenly storms out of it.
Scott realizes that Professor X who has had very little time actively leading the new team is using
the same heavy-handed methods he used to mentor the original team.
Scott advises him that the new team is not a group of teenagers and that he’s learned that he must use a different approach with them.
Xavier dismisses this advice, suggesting that Cyclops’s own confessed inability to discipline the team was a failure of leadership.

Before their argument can continue, Cerebro alerts them to the existence of two
new mutants whose powers have manifested, one in Chicago and the other in New York.
The Professor mobilizes the X-Men to investigate the two new mutants:
he will lead half the team to Chicago while Scott takes the other half to New York.
The team is unaware that they are being spied on by the inner circle of the Hellfire Club, which includes Jason Wyngarde.
The shadowy members of the Hellfire Club want to acquire these mutants before the X-Men do.
The Club’s White Queen is dispatched to deal with the one in Chicago, while Jason Wyngarde is sent to deal with the one in New York.

In the suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, thirteen-and-a-half year old Katherine "Kitty" Pryde returns home from ballet practice to find her parents
meeting with Ms. Emma Frost the White Queen in her civilian guise, who is headmistress of the exclusive Massachusetts Academy.

Kitty instinctively dislikes Ms. Frost and realizes that the fact that her parents are
discussing sending her to a private school means that her parents intend to split up.
She lays down on her bed in her upstairs bedroom to rest as a migraine hits her.
After enduring the pain for a few moments, she opens her eyes to find herself on the floor of the living room!
Baffled, she rushes back up to her room just as her parents see Ms. Frost out and welcome their next visitors:
Charles Xavier, accompanied by Ororo, Peter and Logan. Like Ms. Frost, Xavier is seeking Kitty as a student at his own school.
Kitty spies on Xavier and his students and decides they are much more interesting. In particular, she thinks that Peter is “cute!”

While Charles talks with Kitty’s parents, the rest of the team take her down to a local malt shop to get acquainted.
Kitty strikes up an instant friendship with Ororo, who confides to her that they are the X-Men, much to Kitty's surprise.
Meanwhile, Logan and a flustered Peter check out a few girly mags in the store’s racks.
Just then, three armored mercenaries barrel through the storefront window and attack the three X-Men.
Each of the X-Men’s attackers has armor specially equipped to neutralize their abilities.

As the fight erupts, Kitty cringes in fear and is extremely surprised when she passes right through the outside wall,
landing in the alleyway behind the shop. Before she can fully comprehend what happened, she passes out.

Storm hasn’t noticed exactly how Kitty departed but is relieved to see that she’s gone.
Meanwhile, the X-Men realize that they can defeat their enemies if they switch opponents;
they then easily trounce their attackers. Their victory is brief, though, as they are then struck down
by a powerful psionic bolt from the White Queen. She orders more minions to take the X-Men prisoner.

As they all speed away, the Queen detonates explosives laced within her defeated minions’ armor, killing them as the penalty for their failure.

The Hellfire Club’s vehicle speeds away while the White Queen orders the X-Men to be stripped out of their uniforms.
When asked what she intends to do about Kitty, she dismisses her, convinced that she can get her any time she wants.
Unbeknownst to them, Kitty has used her newfound phasing ability to sneak aboard the hovercraft.
She wonders how she can possibly save her new friends all by herself.

Story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin.

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Meet The Legendary Creator of Famous Daredevil Foe Typhoid Mary

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Top 10 Super Powers You Didn't Know Emma Frost Had

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Top 10 Super Powers You Didn't Know Wolfsbane Had

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Scarlet Witch Moves to California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDAu67-AePQ

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Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #9 Jan 1985
"Assault on Galactus!"
The battle-wounded Colossus exits the rustic building he is healing inside to see Galactus starting up his machine to devour the planet.
He re-enters the building to tend to the unconscious Zsaji. He tells her he loves her and goes out to help stop Galactus.

Meanwhile, the X-Men and Magneto try to attack Galactus. An energy ball appears

and blocks them from continuing up the mountain.
In the village, Hawkeye, Captain Marvel and Wasp watch the X-Men try to battle it when
suddenly a large blast on the mountain makes them think the X-Men have been defeated.

At Doombase, the remaining heroes try to return to the battle that is going on on the mountainside.
They take a ship from the base and begin to travel to the battle.
Hulk is distraught over his new "intelligence" of Bruce Banner's mind in his body.
Ben Grimm suddenly regains his powers as the Thing.
Iron Man ponders what Spider-Woman's true intentions are.
Spider-Man meanwhile, is glad to have his webs back since he has donned the new "black costume".
Mister Fantastic thinks of a reason as to why they are all there in the first place.
They reach the mountain and are hit by Galactus' beams.
They crash into Colossus, who braces their ship from impact.

The heroes exit the ship and begin their fight to reach Galactus.
As they get closer, Mister Fantastic realizes a meaning to this conflict and tells the heroes NOT to stop Galactus.
He says the only way to stop Galactus is to let him win.
In doing this the Beyonder will grant him his wish of freedom from his planet-consumption hunger.
As they all agree to stop fighting, Reed suddenly vanishes along with Galactus and the construct Galactus built.
Reed appears on Galactus' homeworld which is housed in his spaceship in space.

There Galactus shows Reed a vision of his pregnant wife and their child, Franklin.
Then Galactus tells Reed to listen to what he is about to tell him.

Inside the containment unit in the Doombase, Doctor Doom determines that he needs to get to Galactus' homeworld and he breaks free of his cell.
He ignores the pleas of the other villains who are still trapped and releases only one other, Klaw.

On the mountainside, Colossus frees the trapped X-Men from beneath some rubble.
They all journey into the village and Colossus realizes Zsaji is awake and runs not to him, but to Human Torch.
While they are all discussing what to do, Mister Fantastic reappears in the village.
He says Galactus told him that Reed was a "Champion of Life". This emboldens him not to fight Galactus. The Avengers decide otherwise.
Galactus reappears on the mountain and turns on the machine again. The Avengers then head back toward the mountain.
Doctor Doom watches the battle from inside the Doombase where he cuts up Klaw into tiny disc-shaped lenses.

The battle continues and Mister Fantastic realizes he must stop Galactus to be able to see his baby born.
He tells the heroes to stop Galactus from leaving and they cannot.
He flies off to his homeworld where he begins to devour it and creates a huge energy field.
Doom sees this as his opportunity to "steal" the energy of that homeworld by using the Klaw-discs as a siphon...

Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck and John Beatty.

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Emily Blunt Met With Marvel Studios? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6OcGEawrY

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New Mutants #23 Jan 1985
"Shadowman"
Selene and Emmanuel da Costa are added to the Hellfire Club's inner circle.
Near the X-mansion, Peter Rasputin is playing chess against Harry's Hideaway's owner
when Molly the waitress asks him to go into the bar to talk to Bobby,
who apparently wandered in a few hours ago and just sits there.
Colossus tries to talk to him and Bobby attacks him.
Bobby fights like Cloak, and eventually Colossus is forced to knock him out.
In the Bermuda Triangle, Lee Forrester sails Magneto back to his island.

Back in the X-mansion, Professor X is examining Sunspot.
Sam and Dani discover Rahne is missing,

and go looking for her - flying into New York City
following Dani's psychic connection with her,
and find her downtown in a posh hotel.

The newspaper the next morning fills in the final clue - Rahne's fairy tale apparently
actually happened, as Cloak and Dagger are in the hospital, and without powers!
Before they can inform the others, Sunspot wakes up and attacks Professor X.

Script by Chris Claremont, art by Bill Sienkiewicz

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Peter Parker vs Bounty, a renowned extra-dimensional bounty hunter..

..who, weather she's tracking her targets between solar systems or buildings,

..ALWAYS gets her man.

From Peter Parker Spider-Man Annual 2000. Art by Joe Bennett

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Spider-Man & Black Cat vs Hydro-Man!



From Peter Parker Spider-Man Annual 2000. Art by Joe Bennett https://www.revolvy.com/page/Joe-Bennett-%28artist%29

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Top 5 Character Saving Changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1J9wdoUvmQ

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New Mutants: Set Visit Interview With Anya Taylor Joy https://screenrant.com/new-mutants-s...asputin-magik/

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