Age of Marvels: New Universe – November-December 2023 Entries

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We present to you Age of Marvels: New Universe, a collection of all new fan-made issues on “sale” this month for NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2023!

What is “Age of Marvels” and how does it work?

Age of Marvels is a fan fiction universe and solicitation game that has been in existence on the CBR boards for well over a decade! It has gone through several iterations and has survived forum reboots! The way it works is that “plotters” write short solicitations for monthly comic books! Then participants “buy” the books they want to read! The books with the most buys get rewards. Sounds fun, right? So let’s do this! Which of this month's solicits interest and excite you? Let us know by posting which books you'd pick up in the virtual Age of Marvels Store (this solicitation thread). You can pull as many as you'd like, but also consider your "virtual budget" when making your selections, as sales are used to reward our titles and plotters. Registers are open for a month and sales are tallied on the third Friday of the month.

Absolutely anyone can make purchases right here in this thread - so please do!.
It’s free and is basically just saying “I’d read this” or “I like this!” So let us know! There has never been a more excelsior time to join the fun!

If you want more information on Age of Marvels or are interested in plotting yourself, please visit us at the Age of Marvels Bullpen Thread.

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Behold! Our monthly archive!
This is the repository of our prior work; a compilation of all the monthly solicitation posts since the forum was reset in 2014.

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Age of Marvels and Next Dawn have an OFFICIAL WIKI!

Now, this month’s solicitations:

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ACADEMY X #2
Written by TILLIE WALDEN
Plot by H-E-D
Art by KRIS ANKA
Orientation — Dynasty
Uriel and Eimin Worthington feel like they have a proud legacy to uphold.
But… they’re no longer so certain as to what that legacy *is*, exactly.
They were raised in the AKKΔBA cult, but now they know its teachings were a lie.
Their mother Ichisumi comes from an old family… of convicted war criminals. Plus, their aunt’s house tried to eat Eimin one time. Long story.
Their father, the high-flying billionaire ARCHANGEL, was duped into being a living weapon for Helmut Zemo for years.
Still… the Twins are proud. Always proud.
And so it’s of the utmost importance to them that the Paragons triumph over their rivals, the Dark Riders!
Unfortunately, their efforts to motivate the team to train seem to have backfired.
Of course, Eimin’s first move was to bluntly tell Silhouette to take CHANCE off the team
And SURGE didn’t appreciate being hit with energy blasts while her back was turned.
When Chance and Surge stormed out of the training room, DRAGON followed in vocal solidarity.
Then it was just Uriel, Eimin, and CYLOBEL… who stood around awkwardly for a few minutes before leaving without saying a word.
So much for pride.
How could things get worse?
Find out next month!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

ADAM WARLOCK #5
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by JIM STARLIN
Art by RON LIM
"THE GREATER GOOD"
Adam Warlock vs Him, the very first of his alter egos! Or perhaps, the foundation of who he is.
With the Power Gem, Him is unstoppable. How can Adam Warlock turn the tides? Can Soul defeat Power?
But there is another hand pulling the strings.
Finally, revelations!
The Goddess, Adam Warlock's good alter ego. Or rather, the direct opposite of Adam Warlock's evil alter ego, Magus.
She has the third Infinity Gem, the Mind Gem.
She has taken over the Universal Church of Truth.
She once vowed to eradicate all evil from the universe with the Cosmic Egg.
And now she vows to purge the universe again with the Infinity Gems.
But perhaps not by her own hand.
Behind her, is another cocoon, and Goddess proclaims that is the real Adam Warlock?
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #59
Plot by NX01A
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by TRAVIS CHAREST
Theme Song: Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun
'DEAD OF NIGHT' Part 3/3 Finale 'AGNES ALL ALONG'
•The increasingly less immortal MAHA YOGI finally met his timely end thanks to bullets from JAINE CUTTER's arcane-disrupting Breathing Guns, but someone stole ELSA BLOODSTONE's corpse and its embedded Bloodstone during the fight. The two were so unnaturally enraged that they never noticed the theft!
•All NATHAN GHOST DANCER can do is open a portal back to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Wizardry Alchemy Necromancy Department to meet with fellow Warrior of W.A.N.D. NIGHTWATCH and Necromancy Director AGNES HARKNESS. Nightwatch retrieved DOCTOR VOODOO's corpse, and he theorizes the Lovecraftian energies emanating from it can be used to track Elsa's remains, a suggestion Director Harkness will pass on to the necrotechs.
•Once the trio teleport away to an Irish pub for post-work drinks, Agnes admires the handsome corpses of Voodoo and Bloodstone in the necrolab. Her other operative, one very much off the S.H.I.E.L.D. books, stole Elsa's body, and begins a summoning using the entangled dead lovers as focal points. Agnes Harkness smiles. The entire world will soon be her necrotic playground.
W.A.N.D. Profile
JAINE CUTTER
Affiliation: Warriors of W.A.N.D.
Powers: •Demonskin Armour: Enhanced durability & strength, claws able to slice through most materials and magicks.
•Necrotelepathy: Mental communication with spirits and the undead.
•Breathing Guns: Arcane danger sense; bullets lethal to mystical entities.
Intelligence: •••
Strength: •••••
Speed: ••
Durability: •••••
Energy Projection: •••
Fighting Skills: •••••
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99


AMAZING FANTASY #44
featuring BARBIE and G.I.JOE
Writer: MARGOT ROBBIE
Artist: JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
Plotter: CAPTCLEGHORN
“SOMEONE SAID ‘GET A LIFE’. SO WE DID.”
When you are one of the biggest doll (OK, action figures, get over yourself fanboys) brands or THE biggest, your schedule is extremely busy and sometimes you need a weekend off. Joe and Barbie are at that point and the weekends they desperately seek coincide.
Two dolls looking for a fun weekend, a nice looking sweet toy car, and a trunk full of plastic weapons. What could possibly go wrong?
Don’t dare say anything has ruined your childhood until you’ve bought and read this book.
We’ve warned you, pilgrim.
32 PGS./ Rated M for Mature Readers...$2.99

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CAPTAIN AMERICA #60
Plot by EXCITER
Written by FRANK MILLER
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY
“LIBERTY OR DEATH”
Five years of Captain American Exceptionalism… straight to the face of tyranny!
Storming the beaches of occupied Madripoor! Steve Rogers’ hand-picked squad of Invaders assemble to liberate the island nation from the foul grip of the Mandarin and his elite “China Force” - the Zhōngguó Duì!
As the two opposing squads clash, literally the biggest battle is Fing Fang Foom versus American Kaiju: an epic scale monster throw-down in the South Pacific! Which titan will emerge victorious?
Meanwhile, Captain America and Tyger Tiger make their way to the island’s seat of power: Hightown Palace! There, Steve finally confronts the man whose machinations have bedeviled him for decades! Since their first encounter as uneasy allies during World War II (see CAPTAIN AMERICA #11), Steve Rogers and Tem Borjigin have been ideological opposites and bitter rivals. It was the Mandarin who funneled funds to Omega Red, helping him steal the mantle of Captain America. It was the Mandarin who used dark money to help create the “Dark Avengers” - villains disguised as heroes. It was the Mandarin who first attempted to seize control of Madripoor during the Negation event, and who finally succeeded during World War Zemo. Now, it’s the Mandarin who must answer for his crimes!
It all comes down to this! Shield versus rings! Liberty… or death!!
Plus: A Frontlines Op-Ed by Sally Floyd: “Sultan Magus Was Right? Why the So-Called ‘Supervillain’ is Enjoying a Surge in Popularity on TikTok.”
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

CAPTAIN UNIVERSE: BEYOND #10
Plotted by CAPTAINUNIVERSE
Writing and Art by PATRICK GLEASON
'HOMESTEAD' Finale: "Thanksgiving Special"
Thanksgiving is around the corner and with the dual threats of Beyond's Sandwich Room and HYDRA's Gamma Irradiated experiments having fully been dealt with, Captain Universe and friends get some much needed R&R before the big day of feasting.
32 PGS./ Rated T+...$3.99

THE ENIGMA CORPS #12
Plotted by CAPTAINUNIVERSE
Written by JIM KRUEGER & ALEX ROSS
Art by IBAN COELLO
'A SPIDER-GIRL IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT' Part 2 "Anachronism"
Mayday and Benjy Parker's journey to recover the legendary blade known as Excalibur takes them to the ruins of...ARMOR? Here? On the English Isles? But how can such an advanced facility exist in a world where the Dark Ages never ended and the world that we knew never came to be? What trickery is this? And who...or what is behind it?
32 PGS./ Rated T+...$3.99


E⨂CELSIOR #10
Plot by NX01A
Written by BRANDON THOMAS
Art by JESÚS SAÍZ
Theme Song: Pegboard Nerds - BAMF
'DARK OCEAN' Part 2/3 'FAITH'
•Despite being King of the Outer Sphere's Ashen Court, NIGHTCRAWLER doesn't want praise, much less worship, but he wishes he could get some from the mutant Pan-Asianist secret society holding him at gunpoint. The GEN'YŌSHA want to depose LADY KWANNON as Kaiwann's regent but the anti-monarchial movement is spreading much too slowly for their tastes. They've had to spread something else to help it along.
•W16, a weaponized strain of homopathogenic fungus C. militaris, can be tweaked to induce specific behaviours in humans. In this case, Gen'yōsha's W16 incites revolution against rulers, eventually resulting in regicide and the deaths of those infected. Pity Kurt's just been outed as king of something.
•Antimonarchist bullets, mutant blasts, brimstone bamfs, and adamantium snikts fly as Ashen Knight X-23 provides a distraction but can they warn Kwannon in time to save her and the thousands becoming increasingly violent and sick?
•And did we mention Gen'yōsha's mutant ninjas? One must never forget mutant ninjas.
Outer Sphere Profile
NIGHTCRAWLER
Name: Kurt Wagner
Affiliation: Outer Sphere (Ashen King)
Powers: •Teleportation
•Prehensile tail
•Shadow cloaking
•Wallcrawling
•Peak human agility and reflexes
Intelligence: ••
Strength: ••
Speed: ••[•••••] *Teleportation
Durability: ••
Energy Projection: ••
Fighting Skills: ••••
32 PGs./Rated T+...$3.99


HULK INVERSION #2
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art by ED McGUINNESS
“LORD AMERICA”
Professor Hulk and America Chavez have chased Baron Strucker to the Inversion Universe, where Strucker has formed an alliance with the Aggrievers: a darkly mirrored reflection of the Avengers! Their leader is “Lord America” Steven Rogers, and like our guy, he too enjoys giving speeches…
“Mercy? You think this ‘A’ on my forehead stands for Germany? No. If you’re strong, then you have earned the right to dominate the weak. If they didn’t want to be dominated, then they shouldn’t have chosen to be weak in the first place. And because they’re weak, dominating them is usually pretty easy. I, personally, can do it all day! That’s what it means to be American. That’s the dream. And I’m loyal only to the dream. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to have sympathy, your job is to plant your fists in faces and tell the whole world — ‘No, f$&@ you.’”
After watching that, Hulk and Chavez decide that they definitely like their home universe better. But when they try to go back for reinforcements, they find that Chavez’s inter-dimensional powers are blocked… by a signal emanating from Aggrievers Tower! This is obviously a trap to lure them out, but what choice do they have? They’ll be stuck in the Inversion Universe forever unless they destroy that Portal Jammer!
At the Tower, Lord America assembles the Aggrievers: Thunder King (the deity who sees Midgard as his rightful plaything)! Tech God (power-armored, arrogant control freak)! Black Divorcée (the nefarious spy who takes more than half, she takes everything)! Marksman (gun-toting mass shooter that never misses)! Captain Binary (likable, popular cosmic powerhouse)! And the Summer Commando (once a brainwashed hero, finally returned to his true fiendish self)! How can Hulk and Chavez possibly prevail against Earth’s Mightiest Villains?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

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THE MIGHTY THOR #60
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ALAN MOORE
Art by MIKE MIGNOLA
“THE HEL-SWORN THOR” part three “SEE YOU IN HEL”
Five years of Unrelentingly Thunder!
Ye loyal readers know that the mighty Thor hath won much… but so too has he lost. He has oft desired a reunion with departed family… even if just for a few moments. Fortunately, Thor’s quest into the afterlife on Hela’s behalf offers more than mere violent confrontation with the likes of Ares and Vanthitrius. Nay, it also affords him the precious opportunity to have words with the honored dead of Valhalla!
In life, Odin abdicated his throne and chose his son Thor to replace him as King of Asgard. While Thor was occupied, the Enchantress orchestrated a battle between no-longer-All-Father Odin and the troll Ulik… and Odin was shockingly slain (see ULIK THE TROLL: WORLD WAR ZEMO #4). Now, in his father’s great Hall in Valhalla, will Thor grant his father a posthumous boon? Will he swear… to avenge him?
Thor’s mother, the elder goddess Gaea, is also present. She sacrificed herself to defeat Chthon (see FEAR ITSELF #3, THE MIGHTY THOR #45), yet her evil brother continues his malfeasance even from beyond the realms of death. With his accumulated knowledge and power, Chthon poses the greatest threat to Hela’s reign in Hel. Gaea knows that the only way to finally be rid of him forever is to expel Chthon from existence itself. Can the Father, the Son, and Mother Earth unite to accomplish this?
Perhaps they could do it alone, though an unexpected ally arrives with a more specific and magical plan ripped from the pages of the Darkhold itself. Can the first family of Asgard trust…. Malekith the Accursed?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


OGHT (Original Gangster Human Torch): Jim Hammond…Commie Smasher! #1 of 4
Story: Roy Thomas
Art: Phil Hester
Plot: CaptCleghorn
The original Human Torch, an android who has taken the name Jim Hammond was fighting “Black Widow” robots resembling human women. They were weapons of the Soviet Union attacking the European country of Latveria in the year 1953. An accident sent him bouncing through time, (see Hot Time in the Timestream, Old Moon Crone, Fantastic Four, and F2). Now he’s back where he started facing a robotic threat from Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov, desperate to fill Stalin’s shoes.
But, in his adventures in the future he had spent time in Latveria, learning something about the mystical forces so powerful there. Can our hero use that knowledge to stop a Soviet move across Eastern Europe? And will he find out why he took such a long, convoluted journey back and forth along the timestream?
Guess what kids. You know the routine. Buy the book.
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

SILVER SURFER #5
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by RON MARZ
Art by CHRIS BACHALO
"THE GATHERING"
Nova arrives to save the day!
Richard Rider is able to save the Silver Surfer from the Tyrant's grasp!
But can the combined powers of Nova and Power Cosmic be enough to stop the Tyrant?
Silver Surfer may need to gather all the Heralds of Galactus.
Will they be willing to help despite their past differences?
And what if they learn the truth about their creation?
That they are nothing more than pawns for the Great Devourer?
Tyrant's plans finally revealed? And what is Galactus planning?
30 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

SPELLBOUND #22
Written by VITA AYALA
Plot by H-E-D
Art by PEACH MOMOKO
“Syntropy” – Part FIVE
MIRACLE
Jennifer Kale has been on death’s door since muster all her might to save reality from Xorr the God-Jewel.
Now, the Spellbound have restored the Blue Flame of Atlantis, the only thing that can restore her.
But the Spellbinder has spent a lot of time on the other side… can they coax her back through the Pillar of Smoke, back to this mortal world of tribulation and strife?
But as it turns out, in the beyond… Jennifer faces trials as well.
The ENTROPIC MAN has been floating though nothingness since his defeat (see issue #5!).
In the Pillar of Smoke, oblivion and the afterlife intertwine.
If Jude Yagzan has his way… oblivion will be all there is.
Jennifer must team up with all those she’s lost, including her mother Evelyn, for one last fight against nihilism!
It’s the grand finale, folks!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


UNCANNY ⨂-MEN #59
Plot by NX01A
Written by KURT BUSIEK
Art by STUART IMMONEN
Theme Song: Adam Freeland - Mind Killer
'FEET OF CLAY'
•With the shocking announcement that CYCLOPS and PHOENIX are having a baby, PROFESSOR X decides to proactively keep them safe. Wearing experimental telepathy-powered Psi-Armour, Xavier intends to remove one threat himself.
•When old age crippled neuroprosthetics pioneer ALDO FERRO's body, he had already prepared a slew of bionic upgrades for his fellow researchers to install. When old age began to cripple his brain beyond the capacity of cognitive prostheses to compensate, the new PSI-BORG knew where to get replacement wetware.
•Despite all the secrecy and clandestine cell systems Ferro employed, Professor X still caught mental wind of the plan to kidnap the telepath and slice out brain segments. Such a plan obviously involved going through the X-Men, and Charles won't put them at risk for his own peace of mind.
•Professor X takes the fight to the Psi-Borg, taking out rented AMERICOPS with brutal efficiency. With most of his mental capacity powering the Psi-Armour, Charles has no time for finesse. Will the mounting strain and brain drain overcome Xavier before he can overcome the Psi-Borg's own eerily familiar psionic and bionic enhancements?
•Next issue: The Mutant War® begins!
X-Men Profile
PROFESSOR X
Name: Charles Xavier
Affiliation: X-Men (Founder)
Powers: •Telepathy: Xavier can contact and manipulate minds out to lunar orbit.
•Hover-Chair: Transportation, deflector shields, limited weaponry.
•Psi-Armour: Powered by his telepathy, this exo-skeleton lets Xavier walk, increases his strength and durability, and concentrates his remaining mental energy into explosive psi-bolts.
Intelligence: •••••
Strength: ••[• Psi-Armour]
Speed: ••[• Hover-Chair]
Durability: ••[• Psi-Armour]
Energy Projection: ••••••
Fighting Skills: ••
32 PGs./Rated T+...$3.99

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SAMPLE NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2023 PULL LIST

Below is a full list of Age of Marvels Solicitations for NOVEMBER-DECEMBER. Feel free to copy/paste and edit with your personal buys at your convenience. Post the issues you’d pick up in this thread. Sales close on DECEMBER 22.


ACADEMY X #2
ADAM WARLOCK #5
AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #59
AMAZING FANTASY #44
CAPTAIN AMERICA #60
CAPTAIN UNIVERSE: BEYOND #10
THE ENIGMA CORPS #12
E⨂CELSIOR #10
HULK INVERSION #2
THE MIGHTY THOR #60
OGHT (Original Gangster Human Torch): Jim Hammond…Commie Smasher! #1
SILVER SURFER #5
SPELLBOUND #22
UNCANNY ⨂-MEN #59


Additional titles may be added, so check back.

Registers are now open!

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This should be stickied soon to replace last month’s thread.

[Micabe]

This thread is a goof, right?

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This thread is a goof, right?

It's a forum game. Been going on for over a decade, all explained right in the first post.

[Marvell2100]

No coal in my stockings this year!

ACADEMY X #2
ADAM WARLOCK #5
AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #59
AMAZING FANTASY #44
CAPTAIN AMERICA #60
CAPTAIN UNIVERSE: BEYOND #10
THE ENIGMA CORPS #12
E⨂CELSIOR #10
HULK INVERSION #2
THE MIGHTY THOR #60
OGHT (Original Gangster Human Torch): Jim Hammond…Commie Smasher! #1
SILVER SURFER #5
SPELLBOUND #22
UNCANNY ⨂-MEN #59

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Starting off twelve days of Christmas with more than twelve purchases! My pulls:

ACADEMY X #2 (so hard to adjust to new social settings when you come from a family of war criminals)
ADAM WARLOCK #5 (it’s modern Adam Warlock in that egg: He/Him!)
AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #59 (ugh… dealing with the necrotech department is always like “did you try turning off his life and then turning it back on”?)
AMAZING FANTASY #44 (my G.I. Joes were constantly trying to get some from my sister’s Barbies… and now it’s a book!)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #60 (five years of writing Cap!)
CAPTAIN UNIVERSE: BEYOND #10 (could go for another feast right now)
THE ENIGMA CORPS #12 (the mystery of the ancient ARMOR)
E⨂CELSIOR #10 (mutant ninjas. Never forget.)
HULK INVERSION #2 (I was trying to invert some of Cap’s best lines here!)
THE MIGHTY THOR #60 (five more years! Five more years!)
OGHT (Original Gangster Human Torch): Jim Hammond…Commie Smasher! #1 (loving this entire concept and can’t wait to see it play out!)
SILVER SURFER #5 (Herald get-togethers are always fun!)
SPELLBOUND #22 (nihilism cannot prevail!)
UNCANNY ⨂-MEN #59 (peace of mind… or piece of mind???)

[CaptCleghorn]

All the books must be bought!

ACADEMY X #2 (Uriel and Eimin are tough names to grow up with. If they grow up to be villains, we should cut them some slack.)
ADAM WARLOCK #5 (Pronoun jokes about Him are OK, right? They wouldn't be considered insensitive?)
AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #59 (Mom! Can I take my bike down to the necrotic playground? All the kids are gonna be there!)
AMAZING FANTASY #44 (Kenough, Cleghorn, Kenough.)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #60 (If Sultan Magus was old, he'd be on Facebook.)
CAPTAIN UNIVERSE: BEYOND #10 (Beyond's Sandwich Room sounds like a good place. If they are villains, I'll hit them with bad reviews on Yelp.)
THE ENIGMA CORPS #12 (High tech lab? There's some computer nerd there who can help you scour the web for Excalibur.)
E⨂CELSIOR #10 (Weaponized strain of homopathogenic fungus C. militaris sounds way scary. Is this a book I need to slab in mylar?)
HULK INVERSION #2 (Black Divorcée makes me curious. Are the lawyers she hires for her nefarious schemes good?)
THE MIGHTY THOR #60 (I'm no expert in how to be popular, but being called the Accursed isn't likely to spark trust in anyone.)
OGHT (Original Gangster Human Torch): Jim Hammond…Commie Smasher! #1 (How many books is this guy in, anywho?)
SILVER SURFER #5 (How many of us can hang with the people who took our jobs?)
SPELLBOUND #22 (At least Jennifer is together with her mother.)
UNCANNY ⨂-MEN #59 (Will the location to get replacement wetware be in the book? I'm looking myse... errr, for a friend.)

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Remember to get your purchases in during the next week! Don't want to forget due to the holidays!

[guanlishabi]

One of everything for me please.
I see this one still haven't got stick yet, lol.