The Marvel Superheroes

Marvel Novel Series #9

by Len Wein (Editor), Marv Wolfman (Editor)

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Genres: Marvel, Comics, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Media Tie In, Short Stories

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1979

About the author

Len Wein was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus). Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen.

Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.

Reviews

[Nicolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This paperback was a surprise find in one of the used books stores I frequent, a paperback that contains the adventures of Marvel’s superheroes prose. It has four stories by writers who have had dealt with the characters in their monthly comic books. It has stories by Jim Shooter, Jo Duffy and Len Wein, it featured, in order of appearance, the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men and the Hulk. This was probably one of Marvel’s attempts in the eighties to expand their audience and attract readers that usually shun comic books for being juvenile.

The stories were pretty straightforward; the writers nailed the personalities of their characters and fought one of their signature villains. This was not in continuity with the comics so there wasn’t any development to the character and the stories ended without any significant changes to the character. But it could be a nice introduction to anyone who read it that had no experience with the comic books.

The Hulk story by Len Wein was the best of the bunch, it featured at least two characters that I don’t usually associate with the Hulk and the writer did not skimp in the setting. It moved from a small town, to the swamp and to a space ship. It had a lot of ancillary characters to contend with the green goliath. This was a story that I wanted to see reinterpreted in comic book form.

This paperback was pretty light reading and was a nice breather from the recent comic book binge I had. It could serve as a nice introduction to the characters as well, especially if you've never read any comic books. It also had a nice cover by Dave Cockrum, and that alone was worth the bargain I paid.

[Neil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, I liked this book. I would say 2.5 - 2.7, rounded up to three. It is an anthology of four short stories involving the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk (the Hulk story is the shortest of the four). It moves at a pretty good pace; I would say most of the characterization is pretty spot-on in regard to the make-up of the teams at the time it was written although the back of the book indicates that Jean Grey is going to be in the X-Men story and she's not in it at all, which was kind-of disappointing. The Daredevil and Hulk stories were probably the best, the X-Men story was okay, and I had mixed feelings about the Avengers story.

The Avengers story, "This Undying Evil," is the first story in the book and the longest story. It involves Ulton, again, trying to go about destroying the human race and the Avengers stopping him (it?) from doing so. The team consists of Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Wanda, and the Vision. The Wasp also shows up, but I could not decide if she and Hank were still on the team or no longer on the team in the story (as Hank has gone on an overseas trip). It has some sexually-charged descriptions of Wanda and Janet van Dyne which seem out-of-place in the story (but make sense, I suppose, when you consider how they are drawn highly sexualized in the comics). Tony Stark comes off as a bit of a sexual predator or something, considering how he is shown regularly looking at his female teammates in sexual terms and getting aroused around them. Janet even talks about how she almost "caught" Wanda and the Vision having sex with Tony later in the story. I cannot decide if I really liked how the heroes were portrayed or not; at some point in time, Tony Stark is hypnotized by Ultron and taken under its thrall. This does make for an interesting twist in the story, as Tony realizes he has reactivated Ultron and tries to defeat Ultron's hypnotic commands and fails to do so; it is Jarvis who "saves the day" (as it were) by subverting Tony's instructions about his "confession" he had given to Jarvis in a sealed envelope to give to Thor in case Tony was completely turned by Ultron (which obviously happens).

It is kind of an odd story in that I recall the Avengers being more pro-active when it came to searching for their foes in the comics whereas in this story, they feel their "best option" is to guard the Scarlet Witch and wait for Ultron to attack. So they stand around and wait. Not only that, but the Vision refuses to let anybody else be in the same room to help him guard Wanda. Their waiting totally gives the initiative to Ultron. Also, Ultron makes the "stupid decision" not to kill the Scarlet Witch after Tony renders her unconscious and brings her to him (even though she was the primary reason he was defeated the last time he battled the Avengers). Hawkeye was over-the-top as a loudmouthed jerk and braggart and Cap just did not seem to be himself. Janet was pretty spot-on in how she behaved, considering how she was written in the comics, yet the author's description of her physical appearance was pretty harsh and jarring. I am not sure what he was going for, there, with how he tried to make her seem not-quite-human, cold, and sexually appealing all at once.

It was somewhat amusing how the Vision was continually being described as "inhuman" and "lacking emotions" one moment, and then being described as exhibiting emotions moments later, how he was filled with hatred for Ultron for endangering Wanda like he did or justifying his showing of emotions as being the logical consequence(s) of data input received and determining how he should react/respond, yet the rest of his team also noticed his emotional displays of anger and hate. The Vision tends to get the most "short-thrift" from Tony, but it was amusing to see how the writer tried to write the Vision as "logically emotional" and then fail at justifying the Vision's responses/reactions (or, maybe he was trying to say there was more going on with the Vision than humans could perceive or understand? I doubt it, hahahah!).

Ultron seemed incredibly stupid; the Avengers seemed incredibly stupid and antagonistic with each other (which did not make sense, considering the make-up of the team in this story and how long they had been working together). The ending was "meh." I liked some of it (most of it, I guess), but it was still a bit rough around the edges.

The Daredevil story was fun to read and read better than I expected it to. Granted, I didn't expect Matt to have a lover in the story, either, and it turns into a bit of a heart-break for him (and he tries to take out the hurt from her betrayal upon his lover at the end of the story). He is one of the "more human" characters, and it was interesting how the author described his powers in the story. They probably translated "the best" in terms of the written word. At the same time, it is amusing when the author writes that Matt can tell what time it is based on how the air tastes at a given time. I thought the author did a good job of taking Matt's abilities and "powers" and then extrapolating from there to describe how they worked or might work. I am sure it is based on the comics, too; I did not follow Daredevil as closely as I followed the Avengers in the 70s (which included the Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor comics). I thought it was pretty funny how the Owl did not remove Daredevil's mask out of "respect" for his captured foe; that really did not make any sense to me, but, again, it might have fit in with the Owl's behavior and the "relationship" between the Owl and Daredevil over the years.

The story revolves around Foggy taking on some clients who are murdered before they can testify in a case against their former employers who were a front for various criminal organizations (apparently the wife was too smart, too observant, for her own good!). The crime bosses cannot find whatever it is they are looking for to keep their case out of court, so they decide to kill Foggy Nelson as well. Daredevil tries to stop the assassins from whatever bomb they plan to plant in the law office and is captured during the fight; I am sure if this were written today, he wouldn't have been captured like he was. In any case, he is tortured to see how much he does not does not know but refuses to talk. The Owl promises him a painful death and leaves him hanging in an elevator shaft. However, Daredevil somehow manages to use the pain from his injuries to give him the strength to escape the deathtrap and turn the tables on his captors. When he returns to his law office, he changes back into his "civilian clothes" in order to freely search the office. His lover shows up and he realizes she has been providing information to the criminals who are trying to kill his best friend (he figures out the bomb is in Foggy's clock and she freaks out when he reaches for it). The story ends on a bittersweet note and two broken hearts.

It does have the "prerequisite retelling" of the various origins of the characters, but I felt the story about how Matt got his power plus how he came to know Foggy blended in well with the overall narrative. I did not think it slowed the story down or took anything away from the story. I also enjoyed the explanations of how Matt's powers and abilities worked as well as how he refused to be treated like he was blind; he demanded those around him treat him as if he were "normal" like everybody else and most, if not all, of his friends and peers treated him that way (i.e. - as if he were not blind). I also thought it was interesting that it sounded like the law firm of Nelson and Murdock was actually more profitable than it is portrayed as being in the comics. They have secretaries and assistants and paralegals and a whole bevy of employees who work for the two attorneys. I was really surprised when I read that, because I always had the impression they were always two pennies above being broke. It was an interesting perspective, to say the least.

The X-Men story was probably the weakest story of the batch. I figured out the villain the moment the first missile went off course (well, I successfully guessed which villain it would be). The story starts out by talking about how the X-Men came to be, how Xavier supposedly has had several successful classes of graduates before the team that is in the book. It is also funny to think of Sean Cassidy and Logan as "students," considering how much older they are than the rest of their teammates. Scott was one of the first graduates and he stayed on, partly to work with the professor in training future teams and partly because he was afraid he'd never be able to fully control his powers safely in public.

I did like the observation that Nightcrawler never took the training sessions seriously because he could always teleport out of the Danger Room to safety, so he never felt like he was ever truly "in danger" (despite his antics in the training session in the story putting his other teammate at risk). It was an interesting perspective and great insight about Nightcrawler; something I had never truly considered.

I also thought the team's reaction to Nightcrawler's "accusing" Xavier of using his powers to "further benefit the team" to be pretty funny. He wondered aloud if Xavier used his ability to control minds and make mental suggestions to constantly give the X-Men the "special, top-secret clearance" they constantly get from governments to perform the missions that they do. The rest of the team seems aghast that he would suggest such a thing, but the comics show that Xavier has a history of making such suggestions to help the team out or erasing specific memories from individuals in order to protect the team and his school. Scott, of all people, should know that he does this! (Unless, of course, Xavier is also wiping the memories of his actions and imposing his will upon others from their minds as well, but doing so "off-page").

I was surprised to read Magneto wondering what would happen if he pulled Wolverine's adamantine skeleton out of his body. I did not remember him ever thinking such a thing prior to it actually happening in the late 80s (early 90s?). It was also kind-of-annoying how much of a "wimp" Magneto is in the story (and in the comics). He is presented as always being so quick to kill normal humans but never really seems to try to kill the X-Men. I mean, he could easily have ripped Wolverine apart and killed him in this story, but he chooses not to. I think it was also written before he started using the iron in a person's blood to control people or knock them unconscious or even kill them by stopping the flow of blood; otherwise, it would not have made any difference if Colossus remained in his metal-form or not.

I know the "students" were always graded by Xavier, but it still seemed funny and strange to hear him telling Cyclops, Wolverine, and Banshee they had received "failing grades" for their performance in the Danger Room the previous day. I mean, they are all adults and all capable of doing quite a bit of damage and had "survived another session" in the Danger Room (which was supposed to be capable of killing them), so how could they have truly failed? It just seems silly, to receive "failing grades" and how hung up they would sometimes get for it.

I assume this was written around the time the team was still "working out their kinks" and getting to know each other, based on the animosity between Scott and Logan alone, but I still found it hard to believe that Xavier and Scott would not have assumed Magneto was their opponent based on how the missiles reacted. I know Magneto said he tried to keep his "mutant footprint" as small as possible and thought he had succeeded, but it still seemed to me that the two of them should have recognized "the team's regular sparring partner."

Logan's attempting to flirt with two college-students at a local bar was funny, as was the "fact" that it devolved into a barroom brawl after one of the friends of the girls insulted Logan by laughing at him. There was a moment, too, where Logan was mocking Scott about how Scott keeps caving in to Xavier that I thought was pretty hilarious, too.

Even though the "fight" with Magneto felt pretty anticlimactic, I still did not expect it to end the way it did. That was pretty surprising to me, to be honest. I kept expecting his "metallic shelter" to break through the ice and sink to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean (especially after Pete broke through in his metallic form after they abandoned their plane before it crashed). So it was amusing and "clever" that Magneto misjudged what his taking control of Scott's visor would do and how it caused an avalanche of ice that buried everybody, the stolen missile, and Magneto's "lair" under a bunch of ice and snow. Even then, though, I kept expecting to read that his "lair" had disappeared underwater. Ah, well. I did miss Jean Grey in the story, but she might have been "too strong" as the Phoenix if she had appeared. In any case, the X-Men seemed deliberately "more stupid" in the story, and I did not think it worked that well. I will say this, though - it was amusing to read about the struggles of Nightcrawler and Colossus in playing Scrabble! Who would have thought!

The final story about the Incredible Hulk takes place in Florida (for some reason, I thought it was in New Orleans when it started - not sure why, hahahah!). He is on top of a building and being harassed for just being there. He is eventually gassed, grabs hold of a helicopter, is carted out over the Everglades, loses his grip, and comes to a wet landing. He is then promptly attacked by a batch of alligators, followed by a large snake (either a boa constrictor or anaconda), and wins his fight by tying the various reptiles into a ball and launching them deeper into the Everglades. He then falls asleep after encountering the Man-Thing, briefly. When he awakens, he is Bruce Banner and befriends an old, greyish man who turns out to be SOMETHING ELSE sought by the Collector. A band of pirates attack the old man, trying to capture him, when Bruce does something that seems totally out-of-character and attacks one of the pirates. As the pirate horde attacks him, he turns back into the Hulk and is promptly captured by the Man-Thing and the Collector. The Collector turns the grey man into the original Jewish Golem and takes all aboard his space craft. The Hulk turns back into Bruce Banner, who leaves his cage and starts freeing other specimens. By the end, the Collector is implied to have been killed and all of the specimens die of old age. The Man-Thing leaves, and the Hulk is left alone..

Overall, it was a fun book to read. Dated, but fun.

[Ekenedilichukwu Ikegwuani · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm gonna review each short story individually.
The Avengers - this story is really bad. I don't get why the Scarlet Witch and the Wasp have to be unnecessarily sexualized (especially Wasp who is made to seem like a weak woman that focuses too much on makeup and her appearance), but the story also doesn't make sense. Ultron is much more stupid than he usually is, and the Avengers themselves almost seem incompetent. Hawkeye is especially annoying in this one.
Daredevil - This story is really good! It was nice that he was going up against a smaller threat instead of a huge villain, and the way the story is written felt like a true Daredevil story.
X-Men - This story is also bad, but mostly cause the X-Men are stupid. I figured out who the villain was going to be before the story even started, and even when they were fighting him they couldn't figure out how to properly fight him... it was weird. Also Wolverine is a creep in this story, and the emphasis on the school and grades was... weird.
Hulk - I was actually charmed by this story. I didn't like where it started, but as it developed it actually showed it's worth as a good Hulk story.

[Benn Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I had to guess, when this series of books came out, Marvel may have felt emboldened by the recent transition of their comic book characters the Hulk and Spider-Man to prime time television shows, felt it gave them a sense of legitimacy. Comic books are now on TV. Now let's conquer the print medium with our characters. Of course, given that the shows appealed primary to kids, it shouldn't be too surprising the Marvel Novel Series weren't exactly Dickens.

This book, the 9th volume of the series, called "The Marvel Superheroes", is a collection of four novellas written and edited by some of Marvel Comics' writers and editors. They're a mixed bag.

The first tale, starring the Avengers, is "This Undying Evil", written by Jim, er, James Shooter. At the time, Shooter was Marvel's Editor-In-Chief. (Ironically, I believe he was the 9th person to hold that position.) Prior to this, Jim Shooter had written a pretty good run of the comic book series, "The Avengers", so he would certainly know the characters fairly well. Unfortunately, "This Undying Evil" is pretty mediocre, even for comics. The story is a flat, routine comic book story about the Avengers fighting Ultron. Again. Yawn. Nothing really special about it. And how it's hard to say which is worse, how creepy and lecherous Shooter's Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) is in this story or how Shooter treated the two female Avengers. Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, possibly the only Avengers who might be able to take out Ultron (in this tale anyway), is quickly rendered unconscious so she's not a factor in the fight. Meanwhile, Janet Van Dyne, aka the Wasp, is an annoying stereotype. "Oh, dear. My hair got singed in a fight with one of Ultron's robots. I'm going home to fix it!" Really, neither of the Avengers women matter much in this fight. Wasp does momentarily distract Ultron, but that's just so the big boys, the Avengers who matter, you know, Thor and Iron Man, can take out the evil robot. Oh, and I guess Captain America, the Vision and Hawkeye can help, too. Again, this story would be just passable as a couple of issues of "The Avengers", but as a novella written by the then current Marvel E-I-C, who should be showing all the other writers how to tale a story? Bleh.

Next is "Blind Justice", a Daredevil story written by Martin Pasko using the pen name, Kyle Christopher. I suppose because Daredevil's superpowers aren't anywhere near as flashy and outlandish as the other characters in this collection, Daredevil works better in prose. And Marty Pasko actually does a wonderful job in this story pitting DD against one of his primary enemies, the Owl. There's only a couple of iffy parts of "Blind Justice": Daredevil can tell the time of day by the taste in the air. Uhhh, sure. And I really wish Pasko hadn't had Daredevil call Owl, "Cuddles". Yeah, that kinda worked in Silver Age, Bronze Age comics, but it doesn't work well in print.

"Blind Justice" is also notable for Pasko being the first to attempt to give the Owl a civilian name. "Orson Doyle" isn't too bad. Unfortunately, a few years Marvel officially gave the Owl the real name of Leland Owsley. Nice try, Marty.

Mary Jo Duffy's X-Men entry, "Children of the Atom" appeared at a time when Chris Claremont and John Byrne's classic run on "Uncanny X-Men" was turning the mutant team into the hottest item in Marvel Comics. Sadly, Duffy's story is weak and displayed many of the character cliches already in use in the comics. One of the more interesting thing is the part where Wolverine got into a barroom brawl. It's an idea Duffy must have liked alot because she later recycled it for an issue of "Marvel's Treasury Edition" where Wolverine *and* Hercules get into a barroom brawl.

"Children of the Atom" finds what was then known as "The New X-Men" battling Magneto. It's a good thing the Marvel Novel Series were largely out of continuity and not canon (there are maybe two exceptions) because it'd be really hard to place this story. By this point in the comics, the new X-Men had battled Magneto twice. This story makes it seem like they've never faced him before. But what's really bad is that X-Men team leader Professor X and his right hand man, Cyclops, had, according to the story, fought Magneto with the original X-Men. This serves to make both men look stupid when two nuclear are controlled by magnetism and Professor X thinks a mutant might be responsible. Gee, guys, you don't think it could be Magneto doing it, do you?

Like I said, the Marvel Novel Series are pretty much not canon. There are two exceptions. Maybe. The first novel of the series, "Mayhem in Manhattan", starring Spider-Man did get a reference in a mention in a footnote in an issue of "Amazing Spider-Man" and then there's the final tale in this collection. The late Len Wein's "Museum Piece" starring the Hulk and the Man-Thing is sort of kind of in continuity in that it's actually an adaptation of "Incredible Hulk" #197 and 198, which Wein himself wrote a few years previously. It's a decent enough tale, but one that's anchored down by it's origin as a couple of issues of a comic book. It reads too much like the issues that were adapted and Wein used the writing style he had for comics.

Flawed as it is, "The Marvel Superheroes" is still an entertaining bit of fluff, a relic of the Bronze Age.

[Deenur · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is exceptional. But viewed in the modern era of MCU adaptations, I can understand why some people criticize. I bought this in 1979 when it came out. I was shocked to see it sitting on a shelf in B. Dalton's. Full novels with comic book characters was a rarity back then. Marvel started something new, and didn't disappoint. This particular volume has 4 short stories, each with their own variances on quality. The Hulk story and X-Men story were standard fare for their fans, but plenty of action. The novel format allowed us as readers to explore and digest some of our favorite characters with a greater depth. Both "B" ratings.

The Daredevil story was the B+ of the group, giving us plenty of backstory and character analysis, along with action, action, action that had not been seen in 1979. Remember this was right at the genesis of Frank Miller's Daredevil.

The Avenger's story is where the book really shines. Pitting them against Ultron (who was actually invented by Hank Pym, not Tony Stark), the team has to find away to overcome all the things that make them different individuals and defeat a foe that one one of them could stand against on their own. FYI, No Hulk in this one. I'm doing this by memory so forgive me if I miss somebody but the lineup was Cap, Thor, Ironman, Wasp, Hawkeye, Vision and Wanda. I have read a few of the reviews here and people are berating the treatment of Hawkeye and Wasp, but like I said, this was before MCU. So yeah, Hawkeye was a self-centered jerk (who always fought with himself in his mind about if he was better looking than Cap, more effective than Cap, better than Cap, your get the idea). And Wasp was heiress Janet Van Dyne, quite a capable heroine who was more concerned with her femaleness than her heroness. But she was an heiress, and it was completely in line with the way that Marvel was presenting the Avengers in the late 70s.

The best part of the story was the creative ending- no spoilers, but this is the was Avengers- Age of Ultron should have been scripted (Spader's voice notwithstanding). No bazillions of Ultron clones, no wand-out-of-the-unicorn's-butt solutions, just a group of individuals who had to stop a foe that was completely unbeatable all by himself. A foe who may not have been able to be stopped even if the Avengers could work as a unit. It's exceptional. A+.

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Given the nature of the comics with their explicit visuals, with quality drawing and coloring, creating a story about the characters that is expressed only in text is a complicated and difficult task. In this case, the editors and writers do not completely succeed. There are four stories featuring separate heroes or superhero groups. They are the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.
Restricted to textual descriptions of the action and the dialog, the stories do not have the impact of those expressed in comic or graphic novel form. The stories are good, but they do not cause you to fixate over what is going to happen next. Most of the textual descriptions of the action is nowhere close to the power of the visuals and the textual sound effects of comics. Although I must confess that I had a powerful urge to search for the comic form of the stories.

[Tim Deforest · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was part of the Marvel Novel series published in the late 1970s. Most of these were indeed novels, but this is four short stories featuring different heroes.

"The Avengers: This Undying Evil," by Jim Shooter, pits Earth's Mightiest Heroes against the indestructable robot Ultron, with one of the Avengers held hostage and another hypnotized into changing sides. It's a fun story with a great action set piece at the climax. Hawkeye acting like a jerk through much of the story is a bit overdone, but it does serve a purpose in that it emphasizes the fact that he is indeed a hero and willing to sacrifice himself for his teammates when the chips are down.

"Daredevil: Blind Justice," by Kyle Christopher, takes too much time recounting Daredevil's origin before finally getting on with the story. Because of this, the pacing of the story seems slow. Since those reading this book are going to overwhelmingly be fans of Marvel comics, it would have been better to assume we already know the character and just move on with the story. All the same, that story is a pretty good one, with Daredevil going up against the Owl as he races to prevent his best friend from being murdered.

"The X-Men: Children of the Atom," by Mary Jo Duffy, makes the same mistake of taking up too much space in a short story to recount origins of the various characters, though to be fair Duffy does this succinctly and adds a Danger Room sequence to keep the pace relatively fast. And when we do get to the final battle between Magneto and the X-Men, it is an excellent action scene.

"The Hulk: Museum Piece," by Len Wein, might be my favorite of the four. Wein assumes we know the characters and the universe and jumps right into the story, throwing in guest appearances by Man-Thing and the Golem from Jewish legend as Hulk raises violent objections to being made the part of an alien museum collection. The ending is sad, but appropriate to both the character and the story being told.

[Michael P. · Rating 2 out of 5]

The series was an interesting experiment in paperback marketing. For the first time a series of books featured different characters from a comic book publisher, making the publisher's brand the star of the series. The idea was ahead of its time. Similar series became popular in the nineties and after the turn of the century, but those books are not better written, for the most part. The world was just not ready for this idea and the series ended after 21 months and just eleven titles. (A previous series of two books in 1968 did not brand itself with the publisher's name.)

The quality of the stories did not help. Many paragraphs are spent telling those who may encounter these heroes for the first time just who they are and what they can do. These paragraphs do not contribute to the story at hand and make dull reading for the (surely, vast majority) of readers already familiar with these characters.

This anthology contains four stories, one each about the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men, and the Hulk. None of of these stories are bad, though all have bad things in them. None of these stories are good, and can't be since there is nothing particularly good about them. This series and this book is considerably more interesting for what it tried to achieve than for its literary or entertainment quality.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book collects four original short works featuring Marvel characters. I don't think that any of them fit very well into the canonical continuity of the time (it was published in 1979), but the Avengers story was particularly fun with some excellent dialog, and the Daredevil was pretty good. None of the Pocket series from the late '70's were particularly well-edited, but one of the worst mistakes has to be in this volume's Hulk story, in which he is attacked by a herd of crocodiles in the Everglades. Still, it's a quick, fun book.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Avengers story is a hoot, most notably when Tony Stark is lusting for the Scarlet Witch. "His eyes lingered a moment on the soft, ample roundness of her breasts, and the interesting way that her tiny waist curved into the fullness of her hips." Whoa, looks like Iron Man's got a heavy-metal hard-on for Wanda Maximoff. The remaining three stories aren't very good. Altho Jo Duffy's description of Wolverine is worth a quick mention. She calls him "the little Canadian." haha!

[John Desmarais · Rating 3 out of 5]

I moved recently and while unpacking boxes of book I'm came across this series of books. Books I'd not seen in decades. This particular one is a lot of fun as it is a collection of shorter stories - a Hulk story, and Avengers story, and Daredevil story, and an X-Men story. The Avengers story was later adapted for the Avengers comic book series.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good novel adaptation of the comics. if you are a comic super hero fan these are Very recommended.

[Mark Ricard · Rating 4 out of 5]

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