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![]() An extremely packed issue this week, with format changes, new characters, expostion galore, the first letters page and special guest star Marc Singer. All in: The New Order Part One.
8 Comments
12/10/2012 09:31:29 pm
"Machine Man sees him face off against a Halloween costume themed villain with a flying hover-board who is in no way like Green Goblin. Jack O'Lantern probably didn't go down as they greatest new addition to the Marvel roster of baddies."
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Stuart
13/10/2012 01:34:29 am
Blimey, I'd had no idea Jack was a proper Marvel villain, I'd have thought he'd have been buried in a deep dark hole after this.
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15/10/2012 01:23:57 pm
Few Marvel villains go unused and he was a Steve Ditko co-creation so the Spider-Man titles must have found using him irresistible and picked him up almost immediately. And they were certainly aware of his less than stellar status as Jack O'Lantern, aka Jason Philip Macendale, was generally treated as a third rate villain who usually complicated clashes with other foes rather than presenting a major threat in his own right. However thanks to some major editorial cock-ups and miscommunications the original Hobgoblin got killed off and Jack O'Lantern became his replacement. For about nine years he roamed the Marvel universe generally treated as a massive loser with multiple attempts to boost his power (including for a time being fused with a demon!) until he was finally killed off by the return of the original Hobgoblin.
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Stuart
16/10/2012 01:11:11 am
I must admit my knowedge of the wider Marvel Universe is functional (and overly geared towards early Clearmont X-Men) so that's pretty interesting stuff.
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Colin H
27/2/2018 08:33:38 am
What I'd never noticed before is that the Honeymooners isn't completely supplanted by V; it's still there on the third page. And something that I remember impressed me at the time is the Decepticon version of the logo - as if invading the Ark and trashing the Autobots wasn't enough, they'd started taking over the comic itself. Good stuff!
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Felicity
29/10/2019 11:34:02 pm
That’s neat that they replaced “The Honeymooners” with “V” as a more contemporary show of more interest to our generation. I love “V.” Of course the idea is that Shockwave is watching *bad* TV programming so he jump to the conclusion that humans are dumb, so the thousandth rerun of an old corny sitcom works better with this than something cool like “V.” Notice that he also sees a game show where contestants dress up in silly costumes and a sinful soap opera. There’s a pattern here! He’s lucky it’s only 1984 so he didn’t have to experience “reality” TV.
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Snowkatt
6/4/2020 02:01:20 am
Honestly using V works just as wel.l
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Snowkatt
16/5/2024 07:07:58 am
10 years later.
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