So this action figure came out in 2006, and was a Wal-Mart Exclusive. I must have drove my wife crazy with my hunt for this and the day I finally found it, was amazing!
It came with the Giant Man torso and head, of course, I didn’t need all of that.
The Lockheed it comes with is pretty cool
Also a copy of Astonishing X-Men 4 but with the cover to issue 6 which is confusing!
Writers Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Pencils David Lopez
Inks Alvaro Lopez
Colorist Val Staples
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Dated April 2012
The copy that I bought is in Very Good condition, which usually, I never notice anything different (besides it looks a tad lighter or something) but this comic’s cover has this black partial line going down the left side, like an inch from the spin. I can’t tell what it is from.
Inside front cover ad is for Round One of AvX.
This issue opens with Magma getting ready for her date with Mephisto. She has to go on a date with the Devil as he allowed the team to leave Hell during the Fear Itself tie-in arc. Dani really doesn’t want her to go on this date. Dani wants to call Hela, or Cyclops & Beast who can call Doctor Strange or Ghost Rider. The deal was that Magma had to go on one date, so she isn’t that worried.
Sunspot is talking to X-Man about his reasons why Magma shouldn’t go on the date. I sort of love this page, as it really puts Spider-Man’s willingness to make a deal with Mephisto. Mephisto is the Devil Incarnate. The Devil. The Metaphysical Embodiment of the Source of All Evil in the World.
X-Man knows what is up, Sunspot doesn’t like the idea of anyone dating Magma who isn’t him.
Legendary comic book creator, Joe Simon died around this time. 1913 – 2011. Thanks for Captain America!
Mephisto is at the door, he is dressed very well and is ready to treat her like a gentleman. Doug warns her to really pay attention to everything he says and what she says, to look for double meanings and such. Mephisto just wants to have a nice date. Mephisto arrived in a very fancy looking sports car. His other car is a phaeton made of adulterer’s hearts pulled by horses from the abattoir of all pestilence. This is the guy Spider-Man ran to to save his elderly aunt and sacrificed his marriage for.
Five minutes later. Mephisto has taken Magma to hell, the third circle of Hell, to be precise – which is Gluttony, it overlooks the Bay of Agony. DnL sure did their homework on Hell for this issue.
It dons on me now that Mephisto is dressed as a hipster, that makes sense.
Mephisto has arranged for Mounts Etna and Krakatoa to put on a show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Etna
Krakatoa is the big name of the two, I had to look them both up. Krakatoa seems pretty intense and I need to watch one of those documentaries.
Mephisto asks the band to start playing, Magma recognizes the keyboardist (though he is playing a piano, so I don’t know) but I’m not sure who anyone is suppose to be. I couldn’t find any websites that took a guess.
Magma wants the date to be over as this isn’t a real date. Mephisto asks her to chill, which is pretty funny. Magma is doing far too much thinking on this date.
1128 Mission Street, San Francisco, California. Warlock is trying to get his Hel puppy to stay quiet, as the dog is there secretly. Warlock got the Hel-hound during Journey into Mystery 632, thanks Seabass! I miss editor notes.
Dani is trying to call Illyana, she is the master of Limbo so she should be able to watch out for Magma. Doug is trying to contact Doctor Strange.
Mephisto is trying to savage the date. Mephisto tries to tell her that he is a good guy. People come to him due to their own life decisions, he isn’t out there tempting people.
Magma tells him where he went wrong, he went too big. She wanted to be impressed not stunned into submission. She has an idea, she takes him to the restaurant where she tried to get a job at. Mephisto explains how he wants people to live as long as possible, so that they can keep making decisions in life. Heaven favors those who die young and accidentally or impulsively, they were living and not thinking.
The restaurant’s chipotle is way to hot for him, that’s pretty funny.
There is an ad for AvX with Daredevil fighting Archangel. Get it? Pretty clever
Mephisto walks Magma home, and treats her like a complete gentleman. She kisses him on the cheek and goes inside. The team greets her and are glad that she is okay, Dani wants all of the details come morning.
Issue ends with Mephisto throwing pebbles at Magma’s window. He wants to know if he can ask her out again, and she doesn’t know if he can, which is a pretty sweet moment.
This was a pretty fun issue.
I keep having this thought and I just need to jot it down and get it out of my head. I keep thinking about Kitty Pryde being a product of a divorce. I also keep thinking about Kitty Pryde’s creation.
As we all know John Byrne created, for the most part, Kitty Pryde. Then Claremont either scaled back some decisions or fleshed out ideas.
So which one is the mother of Kitty Pryde?
I’ve also been trying to take more credit in the ‘creation’ of my son with my wife. Which is really where all of this comes from.
Without my involvement, the boy isn’t born. There I said it. Now, I fully understand that she did all of the extremely hard work and sacrifice that came after me doing my tiny portion. Tiny but super important, least we forget.
So here’s the thing. Did John Byrne give the concept to Claremont to nurture and then left; abandoning Claremont after a year or so to raise Kitty all by himself (and of course with the help of other artists such as Cockrum, Smith and Romita Jr.).
Thus, Byrne’s seed to Claremont’s egg – making Byrne the dead beat father in this scenario. Which he might be, as he never really came back to the character.
Or did Byrne do all of the hard work and Claremont did the quick job of approving the majority of the character and then got the opportunity to raise her as he would have intended. Thus, he is the father that stuck around after the mother … I don’t know, this side of the scenario I clearly haven’t given as much thought as the first one. Let’s say the mother died, somehow, but not horribly tragic (sure?) and Claremont had to raise Kitty the best he could.
Ooof, I was hoping to make one a positive for Claremont and one positive for Byrne but Byrne not coming back hurts him as Claremont has come back for Kitty on several different occasions – Excalibur (where he never really left her, just moved her from X-Men to England) then came back for Mekanix, X-Men 100, his brief return to the Wolverine title, portions of X-Treme X-Men and X-Men Forever.
Also, both of them are pretty father centric, but I suppose that’s just my world view at this time.
If I thought about it more, I should figure out a way to work Terry Austin into the mix.
http://secretsbehindthexmen.blogspot.com/2012/03/kitty-pryde-and-substitute-x-men.html
This must be the article I read that has been bouncing around in my head.
So Byrne came up with the name, her age, her appearance, the concept that she should be young and a student. Claremont changed her original power so that she was the one who phased as well as making her a genius.
I don’t believe that changes anything I originally thought, I think my super awkward metaphor still exists.
I’m more leaning towards Byrne is the father of Kitty Pryde and Claremont is the mother as that seems like how babies are actually made and the other scenario doesn’t quite work for me.
I own this :
and it came with Lockheed!
Look how cute they look! I wish they would make more of these with Kitty!
Writer Jonathan Maberry
Artist Laurence Campbell
Color Art Lee Loughridge
Letters Dave Sharpe
Cover Dated August 2011
I bought Marvel Universe v Wolverine 1 for Christmas, as I’m sure either Marvel Database or comicbookdb stated Kitty was in the issue but now, either claim that she is. I’ve debated it as Wolverine clearly kills brunette that really angers Colossus. The costume is wrong and she is never named, and I’m sure if Wolverine killed anyone in front of Colossus, he would get mad. What really decided it for me, is that Wolverine claims he killed all of the X-Men BUT in Marvel Universe v Avengers 1, Kitty Pryde shows up there. She can’t be killed in one and appear in the other so I’m putting this issue on the sell stack to Lonestar Comics – which I’m hoping to do one of these days soon.
I wish I knew who he killed though, as I’m sure the writer meant it to be a brunette X-Man and there really isn’t that many of them but none wear like an all black outfit with yellow gloves. It has to be Kitty but the characters are cannibals in this universe and not zombies so dead must mean dead. Marvel Universe vs Wolverine / Punisher / Avengers, are all written by Jonathan Maberry, so he must have been keeping track of which characters are dead and which ones had made appearances.
Kitty’s appearance in Marvel Universe vs Avengers 1 is on my wishlist, I’ll have to buy that one day and see if any of these dead X-Men are on that list, as that would settle it. Though I don’t know, Cyclops is shown to be dead in vs Wolverine 1 but Marvel Database states that he dies in vs Avengers 1.
Now I’m not sure again. So I’m just including it has, it has to be Kitty. What do you think?
Whatever X-Man is a brunette woman with a dark blue outfit and yellow gloves? It has to be Kitty, I’m sure of it.
I do like the reference to how Wolverine has been to Hell and back, literally and this is much worst.
Colossus freaks out and start wailing on Wolverine. Wolverine ends the fight with three claws into Colossus’ head through the throat.
Five weeks ago. Wolverine and Colossus are trying to enjoy a hockey game. Suddenly, Spider-Man and Rhino come crashing into the arena. I like how the announcing duo recognizes Spider-Man but not Rhino, that seems realistic. Can people in the Marvel Universe keep track of all of the costumed villains, or do they blend together? One of them does recognize Rhino. To make matters worst, Spider-Man starts chewing Rhino’s face. I like Wolverine’s narration, yesterday was the last normal day.
The Fantastic Four have Spider-Man in a dark cell. Wolverine, being the best hero hunter tracker guy, is enlisted to figure out where Spider-Man has been. Reed is experimenting with Spider-Man’s blood, it has been chemically changed.
Everyone wants to think that this is an isolated situation. One day, in the sewers, Psylocke and Wolverine are trying to get away with some documents in a briefcase. Psylocke gets to the surface first and is eaten. Wolverine feels pretty responsible.
There is a two page ad about all of the different styles the Honda Civic comes in – HF, 44-MPG-City Hybrid, Sedan, Si and Coupe.
One hour later. Reed is also on the scene, Wolverine knows this new threat can fly.
24 hours later. Reed explains away what I’ve been thinking this is. I’ve been thinking that this is a lame way to make two Zombie universes but Reed states that Spider-Man is operating on a primitive level, he is a cannibal. Susan comes in, turns on the television and the news reports that Blob ate 25 people at a restaurant.
Hours later. Wolverine calls Beast, who tries to explain the science aspect of what is happening. Wolverine only wants to know how he can track whoever is responsible. He can sense something similar about the situation. Beast tries to explain that those infected by this plague are also victims but Wolverine considers them dead already.
After talking to Beast, Wolverine hears a domestic disturbance. He tackles the man but turns to see the woman is a cannibal now. He takes care of her and the husband gets to raise his baby in a crazy world.
It is spreading, people are eating flesh all over the place. Wolverine locks children cannibals into a school bus.
An hour later. Hank Pym has joined Reed in researching the plague. They make a point of not calling it, a virus. Wolverine asks how Angel’s research helped. Reed hasn’t received it. Angel should have been there yesterday, Cyclops – on the phone – confirms that Angel did leave yesterday. Cyclops provides a way to track Angel. Which Wolverine does, and sees that Angel is a cannibal – so he ate his ex-girlfriend, Psylocke. Wolverine wastes no time cutting Angel into four pieces – two wings and across the stomach.
Wolverine heads to Utopia and sees that the X-Men have been infected. If that isn’t Kitty in the middle panel (repeated from the first page) could that be her in the second panel? I suspect so!
Issue ends with Wolverine killing all of the X-Men, on Utopia. Colossus, Storm, Pixie and Cyclops and several other X-Men that I can’t identify.
I hope to get Marvel Universe vs Avengers 1, and if if that issue contradicts this issue and maybe then I will get some answers and sell this issue.
This was part of an X-Men Collection pack. Thanks to eBay, I just had to buy the one I wanted.
Art and Words by Michael Wm Kaluta
Designed by Randall Dahlk
Edited by Scott Dunbier
Cover Dated December 2012
In 1985, Kaulta sketched Magik. He references the finished project :
Sorry for not having a better image of the sketch, the sketchbook is pretty large.
That finished product is amazing.
Other sketches include – Man-Thing, Green Hornets, eight pages of Rocketeer, Spider-Man and various covers for Marvel including Fear Itself and Chaos War.
I’m sure when I moved out of my parents house and into our first place with my wife, that I kept the Wolverine action figure with this but the last I saw, I only really kept the Kate Pryde figure.
I’m not that familiar with Marvel Select, does it predate the Marvel Legends toys?
http://www.toyark.com/marvel-select-vs-marvel-legends-20655/
Well looks like one was meant just for the comic book specialty stores (Select) and there is for the mass market (Legends).
Cover Dated June 1983
I own this issue for the Kitty Pryde page of Butch Guice’s portfolio section in the back.
Other characters in the Portfolio – Wolverine, Luke Cage & Iron Fist and Howard the Duck & Beverley. There is also a picture of the Inhuman, Gorgon but I had to look that up, as I couldn’t tell if it was a new take on Hercules or if it was Hogun of Warriors Three. oh, I see the hoof feet now.
The main story of the issue is a Man-Thing comic by JM DeMatteis. There is a Jungle Book side story by Gil Kane, titled – Mowgli’s Brothers – which makes more sense now that Marvel is owned by Disney.
Once Kitty Pryde was announced at the Toy Fair to be part of the next wave of Marvel Universe toys, I went crazy looking for it at Target every other week.
Then I gave up and one day at ShopKo, there it was!
She is the 17th action figure made in the line, that’s pretty impressive!
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