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#14 is a really important issue. The introduction of Bolivar Trask and the Sentinels-integral elements of X-MEN #97.

I’ve successfully reread #1-10, and now onwards for a very long time with #11–wherever I end up by my life’s end.

One more issue and I am finished re-reading Fantastic Four #1-10, and ready to progress forward with #11-18 and beyond. I could’ve read those already, but why not re-read them when it’s been a while and I’m not that far in. Just wanted to show myself it’s okay to return issues to previous issues.

Sensation Comics #7-8. Baroness Paula Von Gunther

Diana returns to Paradise Island in the now established Invisible Jet (then Plane) where her mother gives her what will eventually be known as the Lasso of Truth. The Baroness is another member of Diana’s Rogues Gallery.

Doctor Death, Jabah, and the Monk are Batman’s earliest villains. Similarly, Lex Luthor and Doctor Poison are early villains of Superman and Wonder Woman.

1940 New York World’s Fair issue, and I have 36/96 pages divided inside two different collected editions.

Batman meets his first villain—Doctor Death and his willful sidekick, Jabah—an Indian medium.

My comic book journey with Batman has begun! Commissioner Gordon also present in Detective Comics #27!

Tales of Suspense #41-42: It appears that Doctor STEPHEN Strange was originally Stan’s idea for a super villain before recycling the character as a hero instead. The Reb Barbarian and Actor villains—Actor discovers Iron Man’s alter-ego but is gunned down by machine gun fire.

Sub-Mariner is the best example of the anti-hero, for someone like me who hasn’t fully understood what that term implies…that is, until now. An anti-hero will collaborate with our heroes or villains. They choose whatever side fits his or her goals.

Reed, Ben, and Johnny time travel back centuries in Victor Von Doom’s Time Machine, in order to retrieve a treasure chest filled with mystical jewelry, powerful enough for Doctor Doom to realize his ominous plans for world domination!

This where I will pick up in Spider-Man, after some time has passed and I’ve finished Epic Collection volumes of my other favorite characters.

The Golden Age of Marvel meets the Silver Age in this epic edition between the Sub-Mariner and Fantastic Four.

X-MEN #11-13. Fired on all cylinders from start to finish! The original X-MEN series is the most underrated Marvel Comics run of all time.

X-MEN #11 is a thriller! Magneto, Toad, and Mastermind have exited; Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have abandoned the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

Wonder Woman rescues a submerged submarine magnetically controlled by Nazi antagonists; simultaneously, she clears an American man’s name in the process. The 2017 movie perfectly adapts her Diana Prince secret identity so well.

The Fantastic Four square off with the Miracle
Man in issue #3. The return of a Golden Age character next ish.

Tales of Suspense #40: Iron Man spray paints his armor gold; the Golden Avenger fights the robotic Neanderthal known as Gargantus, powered by aliens, who disguised their UFO as a motionless dark cloud.

Wonder Woman becomes weak when a man chains her bracelets. Etta Candy and her Holliday College sorority girls are Diana’s Golden Age companions. Much like Rick Jones and his Teen Brigade in the Marvel Silver Age.

Tales of Suspense #39 is a phenomenal first issue of Iron Man. Jon Favreau directly adapted the origin story of Anthony Stark into the 2008 film, albeit recontextualizing the story in Afghanistan instead of Vietnam because of 9/11 and the War on Terror.

Continuing where I left off in Masterworks. X-MEN #11-23, here I come!

Read #1-2 today for the second time. First time re-reading previous comic book issues. The Skrulls make their debut appearance in #2.

Wonder Woman possesses a power I didn’t know about. She can telepathically communicate through a radio transmitter. Another sensational read with Sensation Comics #3!

Sensation Comics #2–Wonder Woman enlists an all-female marching band from a local college in her quest to rescue Steve Trevor from Doctor Poison—a male character cosplayed by a female underneath the mask. Loved it!