Assorted Crisis Events 1

Assorted Crisis Events 1

Mar 2025

Apocalypse Wow!

by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadski, Jordie Bellaire, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

44 pages

Ashley lives in a time of crisis. The worlds is going to pieces. Weird things are happening. Her parents disappeared. She has no idea what happened to them. A company is filming a movie on her block. Vibrations from the set of the movie make the whole building shake. Her clock broke.

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 95

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 95

Jul 1980

...And No Birds Sing!

by Steven Grant, Jim Janes, Bruce Patterson, Barry Grossman, John Costanza

Peter Parker is getting ready to head home from Kennedy International Airport when he stops to change his clothes and help Mockingbird fight off a trio of men who attack her as she is headed to her car. Mockingbird explains that the men were from SHIELD but doesn’t take the time to explain what she’s up to before ditching the wallcrawling superhero.

Queen & Country: Declassified (2002) 2

Queen & Country: Declassified (2002) 2

Dec 2002

Operation: Landslide (Part 2)

by Greg Rucka, Brian Hurtt, John Dranski

Crocker meets with Don Weldon (at that time the number two man in Prague) who explains the plan to him for extracting Karpin. Crocker moves ahead with the extraction plan but things go south quickly. Karpin was under surveillance and then he and Crocker almost get captured at the meeting place. Crocker gets shot escaping from the trap.

Crocker and Karpin hole up in a safe house. Francis Barclay, the number one man in Prague, has no interest in sticking out his neck to help Crocker. Barclay starts to draft a message to the home office blaming Crocker for going ahead with the extraction despite a (nonexistent) warning from Barclay. 

JLA (1997) 61

JLA (1997) 61

Feb 2002

Two-Minute Warning 

by Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke, Tom Nguyen, David Baron, Ken Lopez

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Flash (Wally West), Martian Manhunter, and Plastic Man deal with an infestation of kaiju that seem intent on battling one another in the North Atlantic Ocean.

They find that Abra Kadabra is the one controlling the giant monsters but something doesn’t read right about that to Batman. He calls in Plastic Man and has him retrieve the living creature of unknown origin or classification that is controlling the supervillain.

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 92

Marvel Team-Up (1972) 92

Apr 1980

Fear!

by Steven Grant, Carmine Infantino, Pablo Marcos, Carl Gafford, John Costanza

Spider-Man runs into Hawkeye who is scared out of his mind. Hawkeye has just fled the scene of an attack on an armored car. Hawkeye was in the vehicle when it was attacked. It was transporting something of value for his employer, Cross Technology Enterprises (CTE). Mister Fear robbed the armored car and took a device that he expects will help him to build an atomic bomb.

Spidey and Hawkeye go looking for Mister Fear once the effects of the panic inducing gas wear off. They track him down to a penthouse apartment that overlooks the East River. They are ready for his tricks but Mister Fear still gets the upper hand momentarily. Hawkeye almost gets killed but in the end the heroes stop Mister Fear, recover the missing tech, and turn supervillain over to the police.

Queen & Country: Declassified (2002) 1

Queen & Country: Declassified (2002) 1

Nov 2002

Operation: Landslide (Part 1)

by Greg Rucka, Brian Hurtt, John Dranski

Minder Three Paul Crocker returned empty handed (but alive) from East to West Berlin, in 1986. He was stopped at the border by the KGB but then allowed to pass through. Minder One Lindsay Mills didn’t make it back from a mission in Ukraine. Crocker was home for less than a day when he was sent back out on a mission to Czechoslovakia to pick up a KGB agent who wanted to defect.

James Wason, Crocker’s boss, advised him to be extremely cautious, given the state of affairs, including the death of Mills. A Russian KGB agent who stopped Crocker at the border had the would-be defector, Valery Karpin, in Prague, under surveillance.

Adam Ames (Part 4)

Adam Ames

by Elliott Caplin and Lou Fine

Part Four: Wendy Bakin

May 11 - Oct 4, 1960

05/28/26

May 11, 1960 - Miss Blue, one of Joel’s teachers, catches him drawing in class while staring at one of his classmates.

I get the impression that Miss Blue teaches something other than art.

Underworld (1987) 4

Underworld (1987) 4       

Mar  1988

Getting Steven

by Robert Loren Fleming, Ernie Colón, Jerry Serpe, John Workman, Len Wein

Brian Doyle, a priest, searches for Steve, his brother. Steve murdered his wife Meredith and their two children. The police are aware of what happened but not why it happened or where Steve can be found. Clover, the uniformed police officer who was run over and almost killed in the previous issue, grew up with Brian, Steve, and Meredith. 

Brian eventually catches up to Steve at the top of the Empire State Building. The two brothers have it out. Brian was in love with Meredith and never really stopped caring for her in that way. He resented Steve for luring her away from him.

Avengers (1963) 189

Avengers (1963) 189

Nov 1979

Wings and Arrows!

by Steven Grant, Mark Gruenwald, Roger Stern, John Byrne, Dan Green, Jim Novak, Ben Sean

Hawkeye finds himself temporarily out of a job after he is replaced on the Avengers roster by Falcon. Hawkeye leaves Avengers mansion disgruntled but before long he lands a job at Cross Technological Enterprises (CTE) as their new security chief.

Deathbird breaks into Warehouse 12 during Hawkeye’s first week on the job. Hawkeye confronts her and they fight inside the warehouse. Deathbird seems to be too much for the archer to handle but Hawkeye evens the odds and defeats her. She is hauled away by CTE security guards but not until after Hawkeye kisses her, which enrages her.

We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us 6

We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us 6

Nov 2025

Chapter Six

by Matthew Rosenberg, Stefano Landini, Jason Wordle, Roman Titov, Hassan Otsman-Elhaou

Annalise takes the fight to Rook who has taken over Lord Mortus volcano stronghold. Annalise is a killing machine. She eliminates many of Rook’s troops. Eventually she locates Rook who is in the process of interrogating the Roboman. She and Rook fight. They talk. She gets the upper hand. He gets the upper hand. She gets it back.

Rook escapes using a jet pack. Annalise returns to her mother. For a brief time they get along but then they get into an argument and the rebuilt Roboman murders Nina. Annalise becomes the new tsarina. She calls the Roboman father but in the epilogue it is revealed that her father’s memories were never successfully transferred to the Roboman.

Underworld (1987) 3

Underworld (1987) 3

Feb 1988

Saving Grace

by Robert Loren Fleming, Ernie Colón, Jerry Serpe, John Workman, Len Wein

Clover gets run over but miraculously survives the incident. Valdez and Chapel go to extreme lengths to keep a civilian, William Grace, from killing himself not long after he saves the life of a young boy. . 

Thoughts

I like the street level aspects of much of this issue but the things that Valdez and Chapel did to save Grace from himself, on two separate occasions, were a bit too much and seemed out of character with the rest of the story. 

Tara in Thrilling Comics 71

Thrilling Comics 71

Apr 1949

Satellite of the Moon Spiders

by Gene Fawcette

9 pages

Tara, Robin, and Malo go on a mission to Mimas, one of the moons of Saturn. They take Timo, Haneesh’s timid nephew, with them. Timo screws everything up and jeopardizes the success of the mission but in the end he redeems himself by saving them all from the deadly moon spiders.

Marvel Super Action 1

Marvel Super Action 1

Jan 1976

Red-Eyed Jack Is Wild!

by Mike Friedrich, George Evans, Frank Springer

Huntress (aka Bobbi Morse) travels to Mexico City. She was sent there by Congressman Kirk and Doctor Wilma Calvin, who fear that SHIELD has been infiltrated by rogue elements. She is on the trail of SHIELD agents who may have betrayed the agency when she encounters an old friend, Scott Lawrence, one of SHIELD’s agents in Mexico.

Huntress and Lawrence work together to figure out what SHIELD agent Rico Santana is really up to. The story ends with Santana and Lawrence dead and Huntress branded a traitor by the agency she seeks to help.