Tag: Marvel

Final Fantastic Four FF #588

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Marvel Media Release — The end of the Fantastic Four is here! Huge choices that dramatically impact the Marvel Universe are made this February in Fantastic Four #588, from the superstar creative team of Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta and Mark Brooks! Following up on the sold-out hit Fantastic Four #587, Marvel is pleased to present your first look at the FINAL issue of the long-standing series, guest starring all your favorite Marvel heroes! But the story isn’t over yet because where one door closes, another opens. It’s now up to…

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Fantastic Four 587: Casualty

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Jonathan Hickman discusses the death in Marvel’s first family WARNING SPOILER Who Dies. The tragic saga of “Three” has come to an end in the pages of FANTASTIC FOUR #587—and The Human Torch has fallen. John Storm sacrificed himself so that his niece and nephew as well as his best friend, The Thing, could escape the Negative Zone. “Day one, word one,” he says of when he became aware of Johnny’s imminent demise. “When [Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing and FANTASTIC FOUR editor] Tom [Brevoort] asked me to pitch…

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Silver Surfer #1 2011 Preview

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The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jack Kirby. The character first appears in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), the first of a three-issue arc that fans call “The Galactus Trilogy”. Originally, Norrin Radd, a young astronomer of the planet Zenn-La, made a bargain with the cosmic entity Galactus, pledging to serve as his herald in order to save his home world from destruction. Imbued in return with a portion of Galactus’ Power Cosmic, Galactus also created for Radd a surfboard-like craft – modeled after a childhood fantasy…

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Fear Itself Press Conference Marvel

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After a week of images depicting the greatest fears of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Cyclops, Thor, and Iron Man Marvel Comics unveiled the details behind the upcoming “Fear Itself” event at New York’s Midtown Comics. Joe Quesada, Tom Brevoort, and Axel Alonso showed two teaser videos and announced that Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen will be the creative team on the core seven-issue miniseries, with Ed Brubaker and Scot Eaton tackling the prologue issue, which hits stores in March. The seven-issue monthly miniseries Fear Itself launches in April and…

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Death of Spider-Man Ultimate Marvel Comics

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Media Release — Marvel is proud to announce that every issue of the hotly-anticipated DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN will be available day & date on the Marvel Comics app, available via iTunes for the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch. Superstar creators Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar, Leinil Yu and Mark Bagley bring you the most controversial comic book story of the century! DEATH OF SPIDER-MAN launches in February, running through issues of both Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate Avengers vs New Ultimates and changing the way you see the Ultimate Universe…because there…

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Age of X: Alpha the new X-Men Saga

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Marvel has released information on their new X-Project called Age of X: Alpha the new X-Men saga I will show the release for my readers. Check out previews in Age of X: Alpha Previews recent entries. Walt Media Release — Mutankind’s final war starts here in the X-Event that has everyone talking! Age of X: Alpha #1, from the creative team of New York Times Best-Selling writer Mike Carey and rising star artists Mirco Pierfederici, Paul Davidson, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Harvey Tolibao and Carlo Barberi, kicks off the next big…

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Fantastic Four 587 Media Release Date

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This is a Update on Fantastic Four 587 I give to my readers for information with no personal comment at this time. Release for First Print is 1/26/11 Original Post: Fantastic Four No More – Walt Media Release — In an effort to keep the last remaining and critically acclaimed issues of Fantastic Four on shelves, all issues of Three – the biggest Fantastic Four event ever – are going back to press and returning to comic shops everywhere! The critically acclaimed, superstar creative team of Jonathan Hickman and Steve…

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Big Event Comics: Chaos War vs Brightest Day

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When I first started reading comics there were very few crossover events and most comics finished the story within the pages in your hands. Big event comic themes were not the norm and most stories did not last very long. Comic editors had more say how stories were formed and story lines concluded. Then in the sixties Marvel Comics with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby with Steve Ditko and many others brought a explosion of unfettered talent and created stories that tied together for many issues and brought the reader…

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Mark Ruffalo will be Bruce Banner/The Hulk in Avengers Movie

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Versatile actor Mark Ruffalo is set to play the role of Bruce “the Hulk” Banner in the upcoming movie “The Avengers”. At the Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday, Samuel L. Jackson announced the upcoming movie before a crowd of about 6,000 who were present at the conference. The Avengers movie is set for release in 2012 after two other Marvel superhero movies in 2011. The Avengers movie brings together superheroes of Marvel Comics including Ironman, Captain America, Thor and Hawkeye. Other superheroes included are yet to be confirmed. Robert…

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Venom “He’s Back” Marvel Comics

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Venom is back with an all-new mission and all-new human host, but just what does this mean for the Marvel Universe? Find out in Venom #1, kicking off a new ongoing series from red-hot creators Rick Remender (Uncanny X-Force) & Tony Moore (Frankencastle), with major repercussions for Spider-Man! In this shocking direction for everyone’s favorite symbiote, the government now has Venom as their own Spider-Man, complete with a new look and new mission—eliminate threats to America as a covert agent. But can anyone control the destructive force of Venom? And…

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Fantastic Four 587 “Four No More”

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This January Fantastic Four #587 marks the end of the Fantastic Four and the last issue of Marvel’s longest running series. This ends the “Three” storyline by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting, this issue arrives polybagged in comic shops to avoid spoiling the cataclysmic ending of the Fantastic Four. The Artist John Cassaday provides a shocking “spoiler” variant cover to the issue which ships after the release of Fantastic Four #587 to help preserve the surprise events that lead to the disruption of Marvel’s first super hero team. In addition,…

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X-Men First Class Movie

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It’ll be months before we see the first X-Men: First Class trailer. The movie, which is a prequel to the 2000 X-Men film, is currently shooting with James McAvoy as a young Professor Xavier and Michael Fassbender as a young Magneto. Release Date: June 3, 2011. Studio: 20th Century Fox and Director: Matthew Vaughn. Plot Summary: “X-Men: First Class,” following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men…

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Amazing Spider-Man #650 Big Time

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I don’t usually preview upcoming comics but this one looks interesting. The new Big Time story line has been a welcome change to Spider-Man. His life is changing a new suit and new job, fighting a new HobGoblin. Who could ask for anything more. The last page of Amazing Spider-Man 649 left Spider-Man in a fix with a hipper sonic HobGoblin about to cut off his head. Crime-fighting has never been so tough. And on top of all that on December 15 release date it looks like he will have…

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The Heroic Age of Marvel

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“The Heroic Age” is a 2010 comic book storyline that runs through a number of books published by Marvel Comics. It began in May 2010, marking a major change in the status quo of the Marvel Universe after the events of the “Siege” crossover event, much as “The Initiative” and “Dark Reign” dealt with the aftermath of “Civil War” and “Secret Invasion“, respectively. According to Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, “Heroes will be heroes again… They’ve gone through hell and they’re back to being good guys — a throwback to…

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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

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Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Steve Rogers is inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, Rogers gets rejected, but later offered the opportunity to take part in a special experiment called Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers is administered the Super-Solider Serum and bombarded by “vita-rays,” awakening from the treatment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America embarks on a war against evil. The cast to this Marvel Entertainment movie includes: Chris…

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