The Forgotten & The Forsaken: Awesome characters sadly unremembered or demoted

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Rom #1 Dec 1979
"Arrival!"
Deep in space two centuries ago a decisive battle between the forces of good and evil was fought.
The brave Spaceknights of Galador defeated the evil sorcery and super-science
of the Dire Wraiths and scattered them to the furthest reaches of the galaxy.
Now in present day their eternal struggle has spilled over to Earth.
Rom, greatest of the Spaceknights, has arrived in Clairton, a small West Virginia town.


Frightened by the arrival of a 7' alien,
the people of Clairton call in the National Guard.

Can Rom convince those he came to save that the true enemy resides in their very ranks?

Story by Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema.

[TheRay]

Emplate. He sucks out the bone marrow of young mutants to survive, turning them into his mind-controlled slaves in the process. How does he NOT make more appearances in youth X-Men titles

Because he doesn’t target X Men anymore.

[Gaastra]

Again wish marvel would put the female yellowjacket on a hero team. She is the "meg from family guy" of the avengers. Treated poorly by marvel writers. She was great in gotg and they had her come back just to kill her in the avengers kitchen and the avengers acted like they didn't care at all. Then she came back to life and marvel never used her again! Her and the first miss America have to be two of the worst treated female heroes by marvel!




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Again Robyn hood who would work great in champions.

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[TheRay]

Also, the characters needn't all be from the earliest era of comics. Those from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's and even 00's are good, too

Okay, then, how about Kid Colt?

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Machine Man #3 Dec 1984
"Rime of the Ancient Wrecker!"
Hired by Sunset Bain, the Iron Man of 2020 looks to follow Hassle to Sanctuary,

the stronghold of the Midnight Wreckers...

where he plans to attend to Machine Man.

Appearance by Jocasta.

Script by Tom DeFalco, breakdowns by Herb Trimpe, finishes & colors by Barry Windsor-Smith.

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Quasar #4 Dec 1989
"Quantum Theory Made Easy"
Looking for the cosmic menace foreseen by Eon, Quasar's search for extraterrestrials on Earth brings him into contact with the Aquarian

and Quantum


Script by Mark Gruenwald, breakdowns by Paul Ryan, finishes by Danny Bulanadi.

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Quasar #5 Dec 1989
"The Absorption Principle"
The Absorbing Man poses an even bigger threat than usual

when he absorbs the quantum-bands' power.


Script by Mark Gruenwald, pencils by Paul Ryan, inks by Danny Bulanadi.

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Fantastic Force #2 Dec 1994
"Zarathustra"
Eight miles beneath the Arctic Circle exists a massive complex called Heaven.
Inside the warrior woman known as Zarathustra battles against a number of men, easily defeating them before
her master Lord Moses, who tells her that she is ready to go outside and carry out a mission in his name.

Meanwhile at the Manhattan headquarters of the newly formed Fantastic Force,
Psi-Lord introduces his team to their training room.
While Devlor is sufficiently impressed, Vibraxas is not
and prepares to storm out when Franklin uses his powers to shut the door in front of him.
This angers Vibraxas who wishes to go about as he pleases despite T'Challa's insistance that Franklin keep an eye out for him.
When Vibraxas insists on going out for evening air, Psi-Lord conceeds and allows the hot-headed youth to go.
This leads to recriminations from Huntara who tells Franklin off for coddling his teammates,

an action unbefitting of a Psi-Lord and she also storms out.

Meanwhile at the newly rebuilt campus of Empire State University, Daily Globe reporter Paul Alvarez meets with Professor Issac Sandor
to interview him on his recent invention, the Omnivirus, which he believes will be able to cure all illness that threatens the human race.
Alvarez questions the ethics, asking Sandor what about the dangers of playing God.
Sandor admits that the discovery could be misused, but insists that this is a great discovery for man.
Their interview is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Zarathustra who has come to collect the Omnivirus for Lord Moses.
She confronts Professor Sandor and demands that he hand it over to her.

Back at the Fantastic Force loft, Huntara is pushing Devlor to discover the upper limiths of his strength
when suddenly Psi-Lord's "Hound Scars" appear on his face warning them of nearby danger.
Huntara also detects a dimension interference with her Psychthe.
Deciding the two are connected, Huntara uses her weapon to cut open
a portal in time and space to take them to the location of the danger.
They arrive in the middle of Zarathustra's interrogation of Professor Sandor and a fight breaks out.
Outnumbered, Zarathustra calls for reinforcements who begin pouring in through another portal.
While Psi-Lord and Devlor fight off the arriving army, Huntara goes after Zarathustra.
With the odds against them, Franklin wishes that Vibraxas had not stormed off earlier as they could use his help.

Elsewhere in the city, Vibraxas is walking through the streets questioning
his king's judgement in pairing him up with the rest of Fantastic Force.
Wandering into the middle of the street he answers the blair of a car horn
and racist epitaths of it's driver by using his powers to destroy the engine.
Suddenly Vibraxas' attention is turned toward nearby Empire State Univeristy
as Huntara and Zarathustra come smashing out of a wall and out into the street.
When he tries to use his powers agianst Zarathustra, she retalliates with an electrified whip.
She downs both Vibraxas and Huntara and is about to land a killing blow
on the latter when Psi-Lord and Devlor join their teammates on the street.
However, Zarathustra manages to overpower them all

and with the only sample of the Omnivirus, she teleports away.
Devlor tries to chase after her, but the portal closes before he can pass through it.
This leads to Vibraxas being hard on Devlor again, and Huntara responds by knocking him out.

In the aftermath of the battle, Psi-Lord apologizes to Professor Sandor for losing the sample of the virus, but Issac is
not overly concerned as it can be recreated, but Franklin vows that they will try to recover the stolen sample anyway.
He secretly hopes that they can succeed in order to expunge the fiasco of their second mission.

Back in Heaven, Lord Moses is pleased that Zarathustra was able to recover the Omnivirus.
However he is troubled when he plays back the footage of the battle
and notes that Franklin Richards is using Psi-Armor from Elsewhen.
He vows that while Richards and his Fantastic Force intend to battle for the
greater good, they will be cut down by the greater agenda of Lord Moses.

Written by Tom Brevoort & Mike Kanterovich. Art by Dante Bastianoni, Ralph Cabrera and Sandu Florea.

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Oh NO!!! the wild and wacky future of 2018?!?!

I always find it kind of funny reading dates like that in past comics. I'm still a little stunned when I realize that Iron Man 2020 is just about here...

Okay, we need a gag panel next year of Tony wearing this very same suit. lol

And then getting beaten up by Spider-Man!

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Top 10 Heroes Ready To Join the MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE https://www.newsarama.com/15675-10-b...movie-yet.html

[TheRay]

I only started reading comics in the '90s and never really bothered to go back... ^_^;;

I definitely suggest checking out The Rawhide Kid and the other western heroes.

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Krugar had a cameo in one of the mid-credit scenes in GUARDIANS Vol.2. In the movies I know, but I was very pleasantly surprised to see him with the old gang.

Me as well!

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Marvel Boy and Firestar defend themselves against a corrupt X-51..


..to no avail

From X-51 #4. Art by Joe Bennett

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Vision battles X-51..

..and later lures him to Avengers Mansion

..to find out what is wrong with him

From X-51 #5. Art by Joe Bennett https://www.revolvy.com/page/Joe-Bennett-%28artist%29

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Red 9
Geiger
Butterball
Batwing

Isn't Batwing a DC character?