George of G.I. Jigsaw delivered a powerhouse of Marvel characters for wave eleven. It definitely solidified my wants, desires, and need to have a Marvel Universe, and not just a Spider-Man series. Now, I just have to convince George.
While all of these characters were either mainstay's in other seires, or had their own ongoing title, what made them part of the Spider-Man collection was their frequency in which they crossed over to the various arachnid titles.
Kicking things off this round was Black Widow. Starting with issue 81 the pages of Daredevil, The Man Without Fear, became a team-up book featuring the two characters. With issue 92, the series even received a title change to Daredevil and the Black Widow. It would revert back to "The Man Without Fear" with issue 108, with the team up staying in place through 124.
A surefire way to turn the pages of Spider-Man into oddity was to include Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts into the mix. He frequented the pages of Marvel Team-Up, but admittedly, with it came very drab stories that didn't personally interest me. Still, I dig the character a lot, and George's rendition is spot on.
Alcoholic billionaire, turned super hero, Tony Stark filled the pages of both his own ongoing series, Iron Man, as well as graced the pages of The Avengers. He comes in many differnt armor variations, but I like mine pure vanilla, thank you. His red and yellow suit is classic, and iconic for a reason.
He's the original super hero of Marvel Comics, and the one on this list who's been around the longest of them all. Captain America not only headlined several golden, silver, bronze, and current age comics, but even found time to lead The Avengers in their ongoing series, beginning with his ressurection in issue 4.
The villanous Doctor Doom makes his long awaited Peg People debut. He was the ultimate thorn in the side of the Fantastic Four, and the self imposed leader pulling the strings of all the villainous characters stranded on Battle World during the original Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars.
The symbiote stalked the streets of New York after escaping the capsule prison imposed upon him by Reed Richards. His goal was simple. Find, and rebond with Peter Parker. After his final defeat in the pages of Web of Spider-Man issue 1, the alien would eventually find the much more agreeable host, Eddie Brock, becoming the deadly Venom. I wondered how George was going to pull this one off, and let's just say, he didn't disappoint - not that he ever does with these "figures".
The Man Without Fear comes to Peg People, endowed in his classic red suit. Now the question remains, will George make a yellow and brown "mail away" variant?
Introduced in the 2007 Free Comic Book Day, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Mister Negative's origin came from the same series of expirements that created Cloak and Dagger. Harnessing both light and dark, he used his powers to take over the Chinese gangs to become a criminal mastermind.
Allstair Smythe is a unique character in the Marvel Universe. Unlike most, he was not created for American audiences. Instead, his first appearance was in the Yugoslavia released series, Eks almanah, published by Dečje Novine. He would become a mainstay in the American Spider-Man The Animated Series, as well as cross over to several Spider titles throughout the 90's and beyond. He met his fate in the pages of Superior Spider-Man issue 13 in 2013.
Allstair's father, Spencer, on the other hand, was a mainstay in the original pages of The Amazing Spider-Man, making his debut all the way back in 1965 with issue 25. He would die in issue 192, blaming J. Jonah Jameson for the cancer he contracted. Smythe was the mastermind behind all the Spider-Slayers, and stated that all the units Jameson hired him to building caused him to be continuously exposed to dangerous materials, which caused his disease.
We jump back over to The Avengers to welcome The Mighty Thor, another character who was featured in the team pages of the series, as well as headlined his own monthly title. Oh, boy. It just popped into my head how amazing it would be for George to make a tiny frog Thor Peg People. Thor was changed into the enchanted creature by his brother Loki in the pages of The Mighty Thor 363 - 366, a classic story arc by Walt Simonson.
Next up was the large size Peg People Hulk, or The Incredibl Hulk if we're speaking formalities. Much like Iron Man, there are a ton of itterations you can choose for him, but for me, it's all about the classic green (ok, occassionally grey, especially if in his Joe Fixit outfit).
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Another larger figure in the bunch was the Infinity Gauntet weilding Thanos...sans his gauntlet, so...nevermind. Though he's mostly known for his quest to obtain all of the cosmic gems and form the afformentioned gauntley, Thanos actually began his Marvel history in the pages of Iron Man.
Then it was time for this batch's mystery "figure", which turned out to be a two for one. George has been knocking these out of the park, all of them, but especially the mystery charactes, which I so look forward to receiving. This time around, he produced the tiny, and I do mean tiny, Ant-Man and Wasp.
These two are litterally a fraction of the size of everyone else.
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Once everyone was accounted for, it was time to update ye ol' checklist. One of the things that had been bothering me for the longest time with theis...Well, since wave two, was the size difference of the "figures" from wave one. Trial and error was the name of the game back then. I took the time today to revist this, adding all the pictues of the original characters again, and resizing them to match. It was bothering my OCD, and looks so much better to me now.
Page two is fleshing out nicely! It almost looks as great as page one!
I also wanted to get away from the original "mail away" format for the mystery figures, and better track them long term. While I came up with the below as an initial format, I'll probably work on this a bit more to make it pop in the future. For now, it serves its intended purpose.
George is absolutely cranking these out, and I love every minute of it!
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Mr. Negative was my favorite of this bunch.
ReplyDeleteI gotta go with the symbiote.
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