As the title suggests, please share your favourite fight in Marvel History.
As the title suggests, please share your favourite fight in Marvel History.
My Top 3:
1. Daredevil VS. Punisher
2. Punisher VS. Wolverine
3. Wolverine VS. Captain America
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Elektra v Bullseye and Daredevil v Bullseye in Daredevil #181 by Miller and Janson
Shang-Chi v Shen Kuei in Master of Kung Fu #39 (Fight Without Pity) by Moench, Gulacy and Adkins
-- Daredevil versus Namor. (by Wally Wood)
-- Thor versus Jormungandr. (by Walt Simonson)
-- Thor versus The Mangog. (by Kirby)
-- Thor versus Ego the Living Planet. (by Kirby)
-- The Thing versus Doctor Doom in "The Battle of the Baxter Building". (by Kirby)
-- Doctor Strange versus Dormammu in the "Pincers of Power". (by Ditko)
-- Reed Richards versus Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four #352 (by Walt Simonson)
-- Doctor Doom versus The Beyonder (Secret Wars 1984)
-- The Hulk versus everyone (World War Hulk)
-- Spider-Man versus The Juggernaut (by JRJR and Roger Stern, ASM#229-230).
-- Cyclops versus Storm in Uncanny X-Men #201.
-- Wolverine versus the Hellfire Club (in The Dark Phoenix Saga, by John Byrne).
-- Magneto versus the Cotati (in X-Men #12, by Leinil Francis Yu)
-- Apocalypse versus Melody (in X-Men #7, by Leinil Francis Yu)
-- Black Panther versus the Skrulls (in "See Wakanda and Die")
-- Black Panther versus the Fantastic Four (by Kirby in Fantastic Four #52)
-- Doctor Doom versus the Beyonders, the Phoenix, Thanos, and Reed Richards in Hickman and Ribic's Secret Wars 2015.
-- Thor versus Gorr the God Butcher in Aaron and Ribic's "The Godbutcher", and then again in "The Godbomb" and "King Thor".
-- Daredevil versus Nuke in Daredevil: Born Again.
-- Captain America versus Doctor Doom in Secret Wars 1984
-- Captain America versus Thanos in The Infinity Gauntlet
-- Captain America versus Iron Man in Civil War and Time Runs Out
-- Captain America versus Helmut Zemo in Under Siege.
-- Spider-Man versus The Kingpin in Back in Black.
-- Spider-Man versus Doctor Octopus in The Owl/Octopus War.
Fantastic Four #112
The Best Thing/Hulk Battle.
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Wolverine vs Sabretooth at the X-Mansion during the Mutant Massacre (Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 # 213)
X-Men vs Freedom Force during Fall of the Mutants
If not the best the most entertaining!
I'm not sure I have one favourite. One that has really stuck with me, though, is the Avengers vs. Nefaria from the seventies:
Sometimes watching heroes lose a fight can be as awesome as watching them win one. In this case watching them struggle against the unstoppable force that Nefaria has become is enthralling, and I especially like seeing Wonder Man overcome his fear and step up against a foe more powerful and dangerous than anybody he'd ever faced before.
Spider-Man vs Hobgoblin: ASM #250 and #251
You gotta give Stan & Jack a shout out for the Thing's epic battle gainst Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four #40. It goes on for 6 or 7 pages of just Ben vs Doom, after Doom has taken on Daredevil (who had come to the FF's aid) and the FF, who had lost their powers in a battle with the Frightful Four The great thing about this story is that it has an unusual ending. There is no celebration....Ben quits the team in frustration and it is immediately followed by a rematch with the Frightful Four in 41-43
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A more modern example, the fight between Iron Fist and Elektra in the short-lived Defenders book by Bendis, while maybe not the important fight in Marvel history, is beautifully drawn by David Marquez. The whole fight is fantastic, here a few panels:
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Iron Man vs The Mandarin in Director of SHIELD. Gloriously brutal fight!
Secret Empire was crap but it had this awesome splash page of Black Widow fighting Punisher:
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Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.
Both parts of Punisher vs Barracuda in Garth Ennis' Punisher MAX. Savage.