Things you learn (or had forgotten until) reading back issues

[DrNewGod]

For a brief time, The Beast was a better Hulk than The Hulk, and had the whole healing factor thing before anybody ever heard of a wolverine (unless they were U of Michigan fans).

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[K7P5V]

Jason Todd is a fan of chilidogs

[Riv86672]

Peter Parker was molested as a child…:

[babyblob]

Where was that from?

[Riv86672]

Where was that from?

[Alan2099]

Where was that from?

That was from one of those Public Service Educational one-shots.


On another note ... Ace from the Challengers of the Unknown trained under Dr. Strange.

[babyblob]

Thansk guys. I had never seen that. Is it cannon?

[shooshoomanjoe]

Is that canon?

[Alan2099]

Thansk guys. I had never seen that. Is it cannon?

The Spider-man thing? No.

[Riv86672]

The Spider-man thing? No.

^^^It is, according to...THIS VERY SITE (dun dun duuuuunnn)

https://www.cbr.com/marvel-spider-ma...s-story-canon/

[shooshoomanjoe]

That was from one of those Public Service Educational one-shots.


On another note ... Ace from the Challengers of the Unknown trained under Dr. Strange.

I love stuff like this. In my head canon, the Marvel 616 universe and the post crisis DCU (along with others) share the same universe.

[Kirby101]

Re read Spider-Man 1 through 20 recently, and discovered for as a "woe is me", "nobody likes me" teenage agnst boy. Peter was a dick to the girls who liked him.

[Jim Kelly]

I realized that the Zeta Beam which hit Adam Strange and instantly transported him to Rann was sent from Rann years before--about 4 years before, travelling at the speed of light. And every Zeta Beam after that was one that Sardath had sent out 4 years prior, unwittingly, which Adam could then predict where it would arrive at a later date. I had assumed the Zeta Beams went from Rann to Earth almost instantaneously. In fact, while Adam is transported instantly when the beam hits him, the beam has to first travel at the speed of light to get to Earth.

I think once unscientific writers and editors took over, this was changed so the Zeta Beams didn't work according to real physics and instead could be sent like Boom Tubes through hyperspace to hit their target instantly.

Other things I've realized: the Green Lantern Corps wasn't called that in the 1960s (it seems like this became the name for them in the 1970s); Luthor only got a first name in 1960 (twenty years late); yellow sun became an explanation for Superman's powers in 1960 (several changes to the Superman mythology happened in 1960); when Iris West brought her nephew to see Barry Allen, she had pretty much had it with Barry, because he kept standing her up for dates, so Barry might have been using the kid just to get back in her good books.

[CaptainEurope]

I love stuff like this. In my head canon, the Marvel 616 universe and the post crisis DCU (along with others) share the same universe.

That Challengers mini was, I believe, the first collaboration of Loeb and Sale, long before Batman: Long Halloween.

[K7P5V]

That Challengers mini was, I believe, the first collaboration of Loeb and Sale, long before Batman: Long Halloween.

I know, right?! It was even before their Halloween Trilogy for LotDK