It’s the creme-de-la-creme from the 1996 House of Ideas! Witness Wolverine’s first meeting with Elektra! Captain America and Sharon Carter bid a bitter farewell! Mourn with the web-slinger over a shocking death from the pages of Untold Tales of Spider-Man! Tremble as Onslaught rocks the foundations of the Marvel Universe! Plus more!
Deadpool & Cable – Split Second Infinite Comic #3
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
Watch Deadpool & Cable go back in time…again…and again…and again- you get the picture. And, find out just who is the mysterious Split-Second!
Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #5
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
The final fate of the future Recorder is revealed! Will the forces of good prevail? But more importantly–will the Mercs get their Money?
Doom – The Emperor Returns #1 – 3
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
This 3-issue miniseries is a follow up to 2000’s ‘Doom’ and, predictably, stars Dr. Doom.
Essential X-Men
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
These phonebook-sized, B&W, value-priced collections contain about 25 issues each of consecutive continuity; picking up from the X-Men’s “relaunch” in 1975’s “Giant-Sized X-Men #1”.
Heroes Reborn – The Return #1 – 4 (1997)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
Franklin Richards has visions of being in a life raft as New York floods, while accompanied by a woman who ominously tells him of choices he must make. He wakes up in the Everglades where the Man-Thing has been watching over him. He inadvertently knocks his ball into the water, and it is snapped up by a hungry alligator. Franklin becomes angry, and using his powers destroys the reptile to retrieve the ball that is so important to him.
Operation Zero Tolerance (Story Arc)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
“Operation: Zero Tolerance” was a crossover storyline that ran through Marvel Comics’ X-Men related titles during 1997. The story followed from the “Onslaught Saga” and focused on individuals, including Bastion and Henry Peter Gyrich, within the United States government and their attempts to use their positions to hunt down all mutants across the country. Within the story, the program is known as “Operation: Zero Tolerance”.
Psylocke & Archangel – Crimson Dawn #1 – 4
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
In an alley in New York’s Chinatown, Kuragari murders Proctor Tar, a guardian of the barrier between Earth and the Crimson Dawn. But before Tar dies, he contacts Gomurr the Ancient, the other guardian on this plane. In their Soho loft, Warren Worthington III and Betsy Braddock (Archangel and Psylocke) are at an impasse in their relationship. He tries to get her to open up, but since being mauled by Sabertooth and then cured in the Crimson Dawn, she has lost her sense of self, and doesn’t know what to tell Warren. In the Crimson Dawn, Kuragari assigns his Undercloaks to present a mystic ring to Psylocke. Back on Earth, a visit from Logan helps Warren cope somewhat. At the same time, Psylocke runs a holographic training program, then the Undercloaks appear.
Strong Guy
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
Straight from the pages of X-Factor! Strong Guy’s out of his coma – sounds like it’s time to team up with his ol’ pal Lila Cheney to go on a rip-snorting, galaxy-spanning adventure! Why, you ask? Well, to save the universe from warring alien races, of course!
Thunderbolts #2
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
A group of reformed (are they reformed?) super criminals protect a facet of immense power while hunting down and destroying bizarre, mind-bending threats to the world — What could go wrong? A gut-wrenching battle for leadership; an alien threat; and the Thunderbolts caught red-handed by…well, read our pulse-pounding second issue and find out!
Thunderbolts Vol. 1 #1 – 174 (1997-2012)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
“No one ever said being good would be easy”. The much acclaimed saga of Marvel villains becoming heroes. After 81 issues, the series took a brief hiatus. A few months later, the Thunderbolts returned in the mini-series Avengers/Thunderbolts before returning fully in the ongoing New Thunderbolts series with a new number one. The original numbering however is also visible, making that issue 82 – 99 of the collective Thunderbolts series. The series returned to its original numbering with issue 100 in Thunderbolts (2006). The series had two annuals,Thunderbolts ’97 and Thunderbolts 2000 and an annual-like special in 2001 named Thunderbolts: Life Sentences.
Untold Legend of Captain Marvel #1 – 3 (1997)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
A three part mini series released in 1997, a year after the cancellation of the first Genis-Vell Captain Marvel title. This series was set before Marvel Super-Heroes #12 and chronicled Mar-Vell’s missions before he was sent to Earth. Here we see his first encounters with the characters who would later go on to be some of Mar-Vell’s most infamous enemies: Kree Officer Yon-Rogg, Galactus, the Silver Surfer, the Shi’Ar Imperial Guard, and the Brood.
X-Men – Operation Zero Tolerance (TPB) (1997)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
A rogue faction of the U.S. government, backed by powerful international forces and led by the man known only as Bastion, is about to launch a massive strike against the X-Men. The strike has one goal: the extermination of the entire mutant race. This is the X-Men’s darkest hour.
