Showing posts with label feb 1970. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feb 1970. Show all posts

Friday, April 12

Feb 1970 - Spider-Man

Spidey land a paying appearance on a late-night talk show and is so nervous he screws up a date w/Gwen by threatening to beat Flash senseless. J.J.Jamison conspires with Electro to unmask Spidey on live TV. Chaos ensues, Electro is defeated, Spider-Man doesn't get paid, and somehow J.J. doesn't get in trouble for his scheme; even though he admitted his part in it to Captain Stacy.

Feb 1970 - Sub-Mariner

Afrer weeks of wandering NYC, the Sub-Mariner returns to Atlantis to get his gills fixed. While sedated, he is possessed by Dr. Strange (who is wearing a silly mask) to go and retrieve an ancient idol. Namor heads to Boston, meets a young lady who helps him find the idol. Dr. Strange shows up, and the young lady turns into a cat/demon and uses the idol to open a portal to some hellish dimension. Namor and Dr Strange go through the portal and get in a fight w/a bunch of demons. Dr. strange kicks Namor back through the portal so he can fight the demons alone. Namor goes back to Atlantis like nothing happened, evidently not caring what happens to Dr. Strange.

Namor’s kind of a dick.

Friday, April 5

Feb 1970 - X-men

Prof. X returns from the dead (again) just in time to unite all of humanities minds together and funnel them through Cyclops’ optic beam to strike a Pluto sized planet being piloted by evil aliens. The optic beam somehow transmits all of humanities happy thoughts to the aliens who then give up and fly their planet away.

Feb 1970 - Teen Titans

The grownups are pretty pissed off at the Teen Titans after they kill the most recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. No one believes he was a sociopath bent on causing a Holocaust; the Titans should have gotten proof. Teenagers, go figure.

Feb 1970 - The Hulk

Hulk trashes suit…Raaargh!!!
Bruce Banner now thinks he can control his rampaging id, and asks Betty to marry him. He then asks Betty's dad, who has spent a few years actively trying to destroy Banner's alter ego, agrees. Cue the villain team-up to ruin the wedding.

Friday, March 29

Feb 1970 - The Flash 194

The Flash rescues a tourist while fighting a gang of thugs with an owl theme. The tourist is possessed by the ghost of a woman who died a century earlier and thinks the Flash is her fiancée. Somehow she has a marriage ceremony w/the Flash and then drags him to the afterlife. Flash vibrates himself invisible and ditches her by, predictably, running away real fast.

Feb 1970 Daredevil 61

Daredevil's would be GF, Karen, knows that Daredevil is Matt Murdock, and now now has to get overemotional when DD goes to fight villains. Nevertheless, DD goes to a carnivale rented by three old foes to kick the crap out of them; but not before the kill the Guy who owns the carnival that lured DD into a trap. Karen shows up after the battle and lets DD know he forgot her birthday, and that he is a horrible, horrible person for forgetting.

Thursday, March 28

Feb 1970 - Iron Man 22

Well, the brain damaged boxer that Tony hired to be Iron Man didn't die, and Tony decides that despite the fact that he has a synthetic heart that could fail at any moment, he will be Iron Man himself. He then, of course, gets into a big fight with two different villains involved and Tony's current GF seemingly dies via electric shock from one of the villains. I can't remember which one, but he was wearing fancy armor.
Anyways...now Tony has a broken, synthetic heart.

Wednesday, March 27

Feb 1970 - JLA

Green Arrow, while fighting villains in heavy smog, fires a flare arrow so he can see the villains, and sets a river ON FIRE. I fell I must mention that again. The Green Arrow set a river on fire while trying to see in heavy smog.
This comic seems to have an environmental message...
Anyways...The JLA gets a brand new clubhouse satellite, but seem to be unimpressed by it. No one seems to take any time to memorize the complex floorplan/diagram.
For some reason Superman and Green Lantern go off into space and find a planet that has been polluted to death, and now suspect aliens are making humans do the same to Earth.
  • Historical Note: In June of 1969, a river in Cleveland, Ohio caught fire.