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

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Savage She-Hulk #1 Feb 1980
"The She-Hulk Lives!" Guest-starring Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner goes to Los Angeles in order to meet up with his cousin Jennifer Walters
because she is the last person he can turn to for a hideout.
He finds Jen at her office and they have a happy reunion, but Bruce tells
her that he is the Incredible Hulk and how he became the green power house.
Jen decides to take her cousin home with her and she talks about her current case while on the way there.
They are followed by two goons because Jennifer made up a rumor about
how she has secret evidence providing Trask murdering his own bodyguard.
When they arrive at her home Jen is shot in the back by one of Trask's men
and Bruce defends his cousin by spraying the hitman with a hose in order to escape. Bruce finds a doctor's shingle

and breaks in so he can perform a blood transfusion on Jennifer.
When she wakes up Bruce knows Jen will be alright so he calls the police
and Jen gets taken to the hospital, while Bruce is brought in for questioning.
At the police station Bruce fears the D.A. will find out who he really is so he turns
into the Hulk while the cops aren't looking and escapes by bashing through a wall.

Trask's men show up at the hospital to attack Jen, but when they try to use chloroform on her

she turns into the She-Hulk for the first time and starts to beat them up.
She-Hulk chases the fleeing criminals through the hospital until the thugs get out and try to get away in their car,
but She-Hulk throws a "No Parking" sign and it takes off all of the wheels. She-Hulk makes them fess up
and they tell her that they were hired by Trask to kill Jennifer Walters so they get arrested.

Her power fading, She-Hulk returns to the hospital using the fire exit in order to keep her identity of Jennifer Walters a secret
and she realizes the blood transfusion turned her into a monster like Bruce, but says she'll learn to deal with it.

Story by Stan Lee. Art by John Buscema and Chic Stone.

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Uncanny X-Men #258 Feb 1990
"Broken Chains"
Wolverine has been captured by The Hand, a mysterious ninja organization that works for The Mandarin.
He is in a state of stasis as the mind controlled Pylocke monitors his psychic condition, which is not well.
He is at a point of psychic despair, as he is in a similar state to the state he was in during Weapon X.
His bestial form is about to come out due to the circumstances.
Jubilee is also captured by Matsuo Tsurayaba.

A brief escape attempt by Jubilee gets foiled by The Mandarin who also attacks Matsuo and the Hand,
as they attempted to command him around in his own house. Matsuo apologizes and is rebunked.

On Muir Isle, Banshee, Forge, Sharon Friedlander and Moira MacTaggert are training.
All of them seem to be tired and wary of their situation. Lorna Dane is trapped in Proteus' old room,

and cannot escape as Legion has trapped her there.
Back in Hong Kong, Jubilee is presented to Mandarin.

Psylocke is still fiddling with Wolverine's mind, showing him
phantom versions of Marvel Girl, Mariko Yashida and Yukio.
Wolverine defeats her in pyschic combat,

and breaks free from the cage.
After defeating him once more, Psylocke presents
him to Mandarin, but Jubilee manages to get free.

Psylocke reveals that it was all a ruse, and her and Jubilee attack Mandarin.
With the help of Wolverine, all three of them defeat Mandarin and get on a ship,
sailing to an unknown location. Psylocke reveals her story as well.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by Jim Lee and Scott Williams.

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X-Factor #51 Feb 1990
"Home!" First appearances of Opal Tanaka and Charlotte Jones.
In New York, two surviving Morlocks, Mole and Chicken Wing, are hunted by Sabretooth.
Chicken Wing is killed, but Mole uses his power to escape into a building.
Watching from Apocalypse's base in the Himalayas, Caliban yearns to go to New York
and use his new powers to kill Sabretooth, but Apocalypse insists he must have patience.
Meanwhile, X-Factor returns to Earth, and Ship lands himself upright
where the old X-Factor building was, transforming himself into a skyscraper.
Elsewhere, Opal Tanaka

discovers Mole in the basement of the record store where she works, but agrees to let him stay.
Back at Ship, X-Factor's return has caught the attention of the press and the police, but their helicopters are caught in a scrum

and X-Factor springs into action to rescue everyone, including police officer Charlotte Jones.

On the ground, they hold a press conference, where Beast is reunited with Trish Tilby.
But Archangel is uncomfortable with the attention, and feeling his wings responding to his fury,
he flies off before he hurts someone. The press is dismayed, but Charlotte Jones sticks up for him.
Sabretooth watches from a nearby rooftop as Archangel flies by,
while in the Himalayas, Caliban disobeys Apocalypse and teleports himself to New York.
However, this pleases Apocalypse, who wanted Caliban to take the initiative, believing that,
in time, Caliban's predations will cause all mutants to come together in strength to stand against him.

Story by Louise Simonson. Art by Terry Shoemaker and Al Milgrom.

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Avengers #314 Feb 1990
"Along Came a Spider" Guest-starring Spider-Man.
What if the universe disappeared for just a split second? That would be frightening!
And what if the awesome weapon that could make that possible…fell into the hands of a sinister super-villainess?
That would be terrifying! Unfortunately for Earth's Mightiest Heroes…the former and the latter are now both reality!
At the Polydyne Industries laboratory in New Jersey, the genocidal Nebula
has seized control of Professor Harker's incredible compressor unit!
But even Nebula isn't exactly sure what the compressor unit can do!
The Avengers fear the worst and ask Sersi and Spider-Man to help them!

With Cap, Thor, Sersi, Jarvis and the wall-crawler gathered in the underground control room,

the universe disappears again!

But the five heroes still remain! Now what?

Script by John Byrne. Art by Paul Ryan (breakdowns) and Tom Palmer (finishes).

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X-Men The Hellfire Club #2 Feb 2000
"Toll the Bell Liberty"
Irene Merryweather is in Philadelphia to meet a Professor Thornton Fieldish.
Instead, she meets Archangel, who offers her a story about the Hellfire Club in the 1780’s, off the record.

His tale begins in 1780.
Lady Grey wants a protégé to acquire military secrets from Major-General Wallace Worthington.
She finds a young girl called Elizabeth Shaw and, in her, she sees the ambitions and desires necessary for the job.
She takes her in and offers her the privileges that the Hellfire Club can offer to its loyal servants.
At a glamorous party, Elizabeth introduces herself to Wallace Worthington, who is there with his good friend, Captain Rogers.
They dance together and their romance begins to blossom.

Before long, they are married, but Elizabeth makes the mistake of forgetting

her duties to Lady Grey and, instead, falls in love with her husband.
Lady Grey isn’t best pleased and takes matters into her own hands.

She has two of her men grab Worthington and beat the information out of him.
They then torch his house, with him inside it.
Captain Rogers arrives to meet him and sees the burning building.
Revealing himself to be Captain America,
he rescues his friend from the house, but Worthington’s injuries are severe.
His wife arrives and apologizes for betraying him, but he dies in her arms.

Archangel ends his story by likening Elizabeth’s blind ambition to Irene’s.
She thanks him for the story and asks him to pass on her thanks to the professor.
Warren replies that he can’t.
The professor is dead, as is anyone who gets too close.
He asks if her story is really worth dying for.
To Irene, it probably is.

Writer Ben Raab. Artist Charlie Adlard.

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The comicbook character Lady Grey is presumably one of the comicbook character Marvel Girl’s ancestors The physical resemblance is very close...

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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Happy International Women's Day!

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Marvel Celebrates International Women's Day!

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Comics marketing that didn't work: it's Dazzler the movie!

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More women superheroes, is it an emergency or not?

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This Avenger Is Reportedly Making A Return In She-Hulk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDlKGewMU3g

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Marvel Premiere #21 Mar 1975
"Daughters of the Death-Goddess"
Batroc becomes enraged when the Meachums refuse to pay him for failing to kill Iron Fist;
Iron Fist arrives at the Wings to find dead cult members lying in rubble but no sign of his friends;
Misty Knight arrives and attacks Danny

whom she suspects has done something with Colleen;
Iron Fist follows the Ninja to the underground Temple of Kali where he finds Lee and Colleen in chains;

He battles the daughters of Kali,

but the Sacred Volume of Kali is burned up in the conflict.

NOTE: First appearance of Misty Knight

Script by Tony Isabella, pencils by Arvell Jones, inks by Vince Colletta

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Uncanny X-Men #131 Mar 1980
The Dark Phoenix Saga: Part 3 of 9 - "Run for Your Life!"
Kitty Pryde is being chased through the streets of Chicago by minions of the Hellfire Club.
Just when it seems they have her cornered, Phoenix intervenes and demolishes
their car while Nightcrawler grabs Kitty and carries her up to the roof of a warehouse.
Scott is upset at the force Phoenix exerted in taking out the Club’s minions,
but she counters that she herself was upset at just how much they terrified Kitty.
Dazzler, meanwhile, cannot believe she is tagging along with a bunch of real superheroes.

Phoenix then spirits all three of them to the rooftop where
Nightcrawler relates how Kitty used her phasing ability to elude her.
Panicking, Kitty tries to hide from the X-Men until Phoenix approaches her and wins her trust.

In the Hellfire Club’s hovercraft which has been commandeered by the X-Men, Cyclops tends to Kitty’s wounds
and listens to her recount how the other X-Men were taken prisoner by the White Queen.
Nightcrawler silently laments that Kitty seems afraid of him.
Cyclops formulates a plan to rescue the captive X-Men and asks for Kitty and Dazzler’s assistance.

Soon enough, the car used to tail Kitty pulls up to the gates of Frost Industries’ Chicago branch and the Club's soldiers
sent out after Kitty appear to have captured the remaining X-Men Cyclops, Phoenix and Nightcrawler as well as Dazzler.
It’s all a trick, however, as Phoenix is telepathically causing the guards to see what she wants them to see.
The car is allowed entrance to the base’s grounds.

Observing this on a monitor, the White Queen is suspicious but not immediately alarmed.
Confidant that if it is a trick, she can easily defeat the other X-Men,
she resumes her painful telepathic interrogation of Storm.

Meanwhile, Kitty uses her phasing ability to once again sneak into the room where the other X-Men are held captive.
With Storm gone, she manages to free Wolverine by phasing her hand through his cage’s lock.
As she helps a still-groggy Wolverine out of his cage, she is waylaid by a guard

who then orders Wolverine to get back in the cage. Instead, Wolverine pops his claws and advises the guard to say his prayers.

At the same time, the free X-Men drop the facade and go on the offensive.
Cyclops blasts the roof off the car with an optic beam. Dazzler quickly springs up
and uses her light-show powers to overwhelm the guards’ senses, leaving them in a catatonic state.
A battle erupts between the X-Men and the Hellfire Club.

The White Queen is outraged and tells Storm that as payback for the X-Men’s attack,
she intends to wipe her mind clean, leaving her a drooling zombie. Before she can carry out this threat,
however, Phoenix confronts her and challenges her to a one-on-one duel.

Colossus carrying a dazed Kitty and Wolverine join the others as they fight their way out of the complex
while Phoenix and White Queen are locked in a telepathic battle. Phoenix quickly
overpowers her opponent but Storm is nevertheless unnerved by Phoenix's show of power.

Outside, the other X-Men have dealt with the rest of the troops and are searching for Phoenix and Storm
when suddenly the complex explodes. Cyclops momentarily fears the worst, but then Phoenix emerges
with Storm in tow, both of them unharmed. The White Queen, according to Phoenix, was not so lucky.

Having witnessed the battle from the sidelines, the Professor commends his X-Men for a job well done.
The next day outside of the Pryde residence, Charles offers Dazzler a place with the X-Men.
She politely declines, telling him that she was born to be a singer not a superhero.
After she departs, Scott wonders aloud if they can trust her with their secrets. Xavier assures him they can.

Kitty's frantic parents emerge from the house. Kitty's mother is in tears, relieved that her daughter has been returned home
safe and sound, while Kitty's father demands answers from Xavier about what they’ve been doing with his daughter all night.
But then they quite abruptly change their tone and invite them all inside to discuss the school. Professor X appears as baffled
by the about-face as everyone else. Jean confesses to Scott that she used her telepathic powers to alter the Pryde’s thinking
and make them agree to let Kitty study at Xavier's school. She assures him there’s no real harm being done.

Alone with Ororo, Scott expresses his fears that Jean is using her powers far too casually. Ororo concurs
and confesses that she was terrified to see the Phoenix at full force in her battle with the White Queen.
As they rejoin the others, Storm opines that something, or someone, is exerting an unnatural influence
on Phoenix and that they must do something before the power of the Phoenix consumes her.

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

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Smart Hulk Will Create She-Hulk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2-14KM70M