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The Jack of Hearts is Wild! (The Incredible Hulk #214)

The Jack of Hearts is Wild! (The Incredible Hulk #214)

This book features, Marvel Z-lister, the Jack of Hearts taking on on the Hulk in a spectacular battle. I really liked this story as a kid because it was a normal-sized guy taking on a wrecking machine like the Hulk.

The Incredible Hulk meets the Angel of Mercy! (The Incredible Hulk #338)

The Incredible Hulk meets the Angel of Mercy! (The Incredible Hulk #338)

This book was an unusual take on the Hulk because not only is he grey but his speech is different. He’s far more articulate than he is often portrayed as and sounds like the Thing. I’m not really sure why the grey Hulk speaks like this, but he does.

The Spider-Man Christmas Special! (Marvel Team-Up #127)

The Spider-Man Christmas Special! (Marvel Team-Up #127)

It’s Christmas-themed team-up where the Watcher enlists Spider-Man to intervene and help someone during Christmas. 

The Punisher Hits Manhattan! (Sensational Spider-Man TPB pt. 1)

The Punisher Hits Manhattan! (Sensational Spider-Man TPB pt. 1)

Doctor Octopus hatches a plan to poison five million New Yorkers and it’s up to Spider-Man to team with an unlikely ally, The Punisher, to stop him!

 

Two-In-One: Captain America: Traitor and Iron Man Gets Whipped! (Marvel Double Feature #15)

Two-In-One: Captain America: Traitor and Iron Man Gets Whipped! (Marvel Double Feature #15)

Red Skull acts just like a Bond villain of the time. He comes up with this elaborate plan to kill Captain America, but doesn’t even stick around to get the satisfaction of watching him, his mortal enemy die. He also doesn’t take away the shield, his one weapon! Even on the Batman TV show from the 1960’s they’d take his utility belt. Just dumb.

Pro-Registration Captain America? (Captain America #346)

Pro-Registration Captain America? (Captain America #346)

John Walker was a replacement hero and it’s interesting to see how he handles things compared to the original. He’s a rageaholic and a government pawn, something Rogers would never be. It’s also interesting to see the government Cap siding with registration, something that 20 years later the original Captain America is famously not in favor o

Spider-Man takes on Captain America? (Spectacular Spider-Man #138)

Spider-Man takes on Captain America? (Spectacular Spider-Man #138)

The refugees being detained after fleeing their country and fearing the US is relevant today, as we have candidates running for President on platforms of walling off our borders keeping out immigrants from Latin America and banning refugees of certain backgrounds all together. It’s interesting to see Peter and Mary Jane looking into Amnesty for an undocumented alien in the 1980’s, not a system you would expect to be in place in the 1980’s and something we still debate today.