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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 goes behind the Iron Curtain! (The Incredible Hulk #258)

The Incredible Hulk goes behind the Iron Curtain! (The Incredible Hulk #258)

This was an interesting glimpse into how comics handled the cold war. The Soviet Super Soldiers were not portrayed as bad guys but as heroes (except Dynamo, who’s just a jerk) doing what they think as best for the state. This is probably reflective of the time books featuring communists in the 50s and 60s would be much more judgmental of ‘commies” than we would be in the 80s as the cold war was starting to wind down.

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.