Strange Tales
Marvel is proud to present this hotly-anticipated anthology schowcasing its greatest characters re-imagined by the best, most exciting cartoonists working in independent comics today. Featuring the long-awaited Peter Bagge "Incorrigible Hulk."COLLECTING:Strange Tales #1-3, The Megalomaniacal...
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Marvel is proud to present this hotly-anticipated anthology schowcasing its greatest characters re-imagined by the best, most exciting cartoonists working in independent comics today. Featuring the long-awaited Peter Bagge "Incorrigible Hulk."COLLECTING:Strange Tales #1-3, The Megalomaniacal Spider-Man, All Select Comics 70th Anniversary Special
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780785128021 (0785128026)
Publish date: September 8th 2010
Publisher: Marvel
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Strange Tales MAX (#1)
As a child, my primary exposure to comics came from the Marvel stockpile with a sprinkling of DC, Archie, and Richie Rich. Being an Air Force brat living overseas for many of my prime being-brainwashed-by-comics years, I had access to The Stars and Stripes bookstore on base, and not much else. It wa...
A collection of riffs on the Marvel universe. Darker and less family friendly than the Bizarro compilation for DC. Not bad overall, but inconsistent.
This book was a great idea, and it plays out really nicely. Get indie comics creators of every stripe to play around with Marvel characters? It's a fucking win-win, Marvel gets to look like they've got a sense of humor about themselves, fans get weird out-of-universe stories, and non-fans get a book...
Peter Bagge's Megalomaniacal Spider-Man and Tony Millionaire's battle between Iron-Man and a giant Dwight Eisenhower is more than worth the price of the paperback edition.