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condizioni ECCELLENTI (o anche EDICOLA e/o MAGAZZINO) = si intende un oggetto nuovo e perfetto oppure usato senza difetti e praticamente ancora come nuovo, tenendone per quest’ultimo caso in conto ovviamente la datazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 8,5 e 9,8 (non assegniamo punteggi superiori a 9,8 perchè trattasi di tipi ideali a ns avviso più teorici e scolastici che reali e concreti, ogni manufatto umano in natura ha una percentuale insita e congenita seppur infinitesimale di imperfezione)

condizioni OTTIME = oggetto nuovo (o talora anche usato ma maneggiato e conservato con molta cura) in cui non si riscontra alcun difetto rilevante e degno di nota, tutt’al più qualche minimo segno di lettura o di uso ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 7 e 8,5

condizioni BUONISSIME = oggetto usato (ed in taluni casi anche fondo di magazzino soggetto a piccole usure del tempo) con lievi imperfezioni e difetti poco vistosi, generalmente molto marginali ed appena percepibili ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 5,5 e 7

condizioni MOLTO BUONE = oggetto usato con imperfezioni vistose e difetti abbastanza spiccati, pur se non completamente invalidanti (generalmente specificati nel dettaglio alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto); corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale compreso tra 4 e 5,5

condizioni PIU’ CHE BUONE / MEDIOCRI = oggetto usato con imperfezioni e difetti evidenti, smaccati, madornali ed invalidanti, assolutamente non collezionabile tuttavia idoneo per la semplice lettura o documentazione ; corrisponde a un range di grading internazionale inferiore a 4

per eventuali ulteriori dettagli aggiuntivi e specifici si prega di fare sempre riferimento alla voce CONDIZIONI nella parte inferiore della descrizione di ogni singolo oggetto

Featured Characters:

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Supporting Characters:

• Flash Thompson

Antagonists:

• Legion of Light (First appearance) (Origin revealed)
  • Brother Power (Appears in flashback)
  • Sister Sun (Appears in flashback)

Other Characters:

• Razorback (First appearance) (Shadow only)
• NYPD
• Man-Beast (Unidentified)
• Professor Hutton (First appearance)

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • New York City
        • Manhattan
          • Central Park
          • Chelsea
            • Peter’s Apartment
          • Empire State University
  • Vietnam

Items:

• Web-Shooters

Synopsis

While playing tennis with Flash Thompson (Who is using it as an
outlet for his anger over the fact that Sha Shan is married) the two
find that there is a rally going on for the Legion of Light, a new cult
that has become very popular. 

When Flash recognizes the leaders, Brother
Power and Sister Sun to be Achmed Korba and Sha Shan, he tries to go to
Sha Shan, only to be attacked by the twos light powers. 

Peter changes into Spider-Man and fights Brother Power and rescues
Flash from anymore harm, changing back his civilian identity afterwords. 

When the police arrive, Brother Sun refuses to press charges, wanting
to continue to spread his message. 

Taking Flash back to his apartment to
rest, Peter goes to Empire State University’s sociology professor to
learn the origins of the Legion of Light.

Returning to his apartment, he finds a note from Flash telling
Peter that he has gone to talk Sha Shan into leaving her husband. 

Peter
rushes to Flash’s aid as Spider-Man, where he is over powered by the
combined power of Brother Power and Sister Sun. 

Blown out of a window
into an alley, the daze Spider-Man tries to shake off the effects of the
attack as a new mysterious figure confronts him.

Notes

• Flash Thompson is lamenting over the revelation that Sha Shan is
  married. She saved his life while he was on a tour of duty with the
  army as depicted in Amazing Spider-Man #108–109 (in Italy in URC #109-110). He found out she has married in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #8 (in Italy in URC #238).

• He is also concerned about the relationship of his roommate
  Harry Osborn and his girlfriend Liz Allan. She left him after it was
  discovered that she is the step-sister of the Molten Man as seen in Amazing Spider-Man #172–173 (in Italy in URC #243). This is also the story in which Peter Parker suffered the injuries to his arm that are referenced in this issue.

Featured Characters:

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Supporting Characters:

• Razorback (First full appearance)
• Flash Thompson

Antagonists:

• Hate Monger
• Legion of Light
  • Brother Power (Appears in flashback)
  • Sister Sun (Appears in flashback)

Other Characters:

• Bobby Sue Hollis (First appearance)
• The Holy One (Only in flashback)

Locations:

• New York City
  • Manhattan
• Vietnam

Items:

• Spider-Man’s Web Shooters

Vehicles:

• Razorback’s Truck, the “Big Pig”

Synopsis

Before Spider-Man can recover from an attack from Brother Power and
Sister Sun, he finds himself attacked by a man called Razorback. 

However, after a brief battle, Spider-Man is told by Razorback, that he
is actually a would super-hero from the south, who has come up to New
York to learn how to be a real super-hero and he just assumed that it
was standard practice that upon first meetings super-heroes had to fight
each other. The two then go to check on Flash and find that Brother Sun
and Sister Sun have escaped. 

Razorback offers his aid and gets his
truck the Big Pig so that they can go after them. 

Meanwhile, Brother Power and Sister Sun meet with the mastermind
behind the Legion of Light movement, the Hate-Monger, who punishes
Brother Power for his insubordination.

Spider-Man, Razorback, and Flash
track down the headquarters of the Legion. 

There, they try to free Sha
Shan but are easily incapacitated by the followers of the Hate-Monger. 

The three would-be rescuers are then chained up in a dungeon with a bomb
ready to blow, as the Hate-Monger boasts how he will use a televised
rally to spread his message of hate to all who watch.

Notes

• Spider-Man thinks the Hate-Monger is the original who died facing the Fantastic Four. That happened in Fantastic Four #21 (in Italy in F4C #16).
  However, Spider-Man is unaware that this was merely a clone of Adolf
  Hitler, whose mind would be transferred to a new body upon death , as
  explained in Super-Villain Team-Up #17 (in Italy in MARVOMN-SUPERVILLAIN TEAM-UP, 2017) and had been active since. However, this is not the original Hate-Monger, but an impostor, as revealed next issue.

Featured Characters:

• Hulk

Antagonists:

• Absorbing Man
• They Who Wield Power
  • Des (Shadow only)
  • Keeper of the Flame (Shadow only)
  • Prince Rey (Shadow only)

Other Characters:

• Doctor Druid (Shadow only)

Locations:

• United States of America
  • New York State
    • New York City

Items:

• Absorbing Man’s Ball and Chain

Synopsis

Continued from last issue…

The Hulk and the Absorbing Man begin to fight, damaging the building’s structural integrity.

Soon the building starts to collapse and as they fall, the Absorbing Man reaches out for metal to take the form of. Unfortunately, his aim is off he touches glass turning into that instead, causing him to shatter into pieces when he hits the ground. 

The Hulk emerges from the rubble more-or-less unscathed. Watching from their secret hideout are They Who Weild Power. They are unphased by this latest setback but are looking forward to plotting against the Hulk in the near future. Meanwhile, the jade brute pulls himself from the rubble and stumbles away. Exhausted form his ordeal, the Hulk collapses in a nearby alley where he instantly falls asleep, triggering a change back into Bruce Banner. As Banner slumbers, he is unaware that yet another shadowed figure has found him and now stands over him.

Notes

• The identities of the They Who Wield Power is revealed in Incredible Hulk #234 (in Italy in URCSETT #3). They explain some of their past plots in this story:
  • Outfitting the Orb with weapons in Marvel Team-Up #15 (in Italy in URC #144).
  • Providing a flying ark to Stegron the Dinosaur Man in Marvel Team-Up #20 (in Italy in URC #148).
  • And lastly insigating a revole among the Lava Men in Marvel Team-Up #26 (in Italy in F4C #132).

• The Absorbing Man recounts how he got his powers from Loki in Journey into Mystery #114 (in Italy in THC #18).

• The Absorbing Man re-appears in Avengers #183 (in Italy in URC2S #8-9)

Featured Characters:

• Hulk

Supporting Characters:

• Doctor Druid
• April Sommers

Antagonists:

• Maha Yogi (in flashback)
• Mongu (in flashback)

Other Characters:

• King Arthur (in flashback)
• Merlin (in flashback)
• Ulysses Bloodstone (Recap)
• Thor (Recap)
• X-Men (Recap)
  • Cyclops (Recap)
  • Angel (Recap)
  • Beast (Recap)
  • Iceman (Recap)
  • Marvel Girl (Recap)

Locations:

• Egypt (in flashback)
• England (in flashback)
  • Camelot (in flashback)
• Italy (in flashback)
  • Rome (in flashback)
• United States of America
  • New York State
    • New York City

Items:

• Bloodgem Fragment (Hellfire Helix/Jewel of Jeopardy)
• Mjolnir (in flashback)

Synopsis

Waking up in an alley after a transformation into the Hulk, Bruce
Banner is startled to find a man in a cloak watching over him. 

The
mystery man reveals himself as the mystic known as Doctor Druid who
requests the Hulk’s aid stoping a great menace. Banner tries to explain
that he can barely help himself but gives in an invites Druid back to
his home. Using a spell to mask his costume and Banner’s tattered
clothing, the pair return to the rooming house that Banner calls home.
There his landlord, April Sommers, is happy to learn that Bruce is alive
an unharmed after she heard that the construction site he was working
on was wrecked in a battle between the Hulk and the Absorbing Man. When
Banner excuses himself and goes back up to his room, April can’t help
but wonder what sort of secrets her new tenant is trying to keep. 

Once in the privacy of his apartment, Banner asks Doctor Druid what
the problem is. Druid explains that there is a danger that threatens the
entire world. He explains how ten thousand years ago a ceremony to try
and control the Hellfire Helix backfire and the powerful mystical gem
exploded into fragments. One such fragment, he explains, came into the
possession of a savage that later would become the great monster hunter
known as Uylsses Bloodstone. Another fragment ended up in the hands of a
“mutant” who used the fragment’s power to prolong his life. From there
he watched the pyramids being built and the fall of Julius Caesar. 

Later, this man managed to trick King Arthur and his knights that he was
Merlin the Magician. However, when the real Merlin returned to Camelot
he used his powers to put this impostor into a state of suspended
animation and sealed in a crypt. Druid goes on to explain in more recent
times the crypt was accidentally opened and this “Mad Merlin” battled
Thor, who thwarted him. Escaping again and reinventing himself as the
Maha Yogi, this menace clashed twice with the X-Men.

The Doctor concludes his tale by explaining that the Maha Yogi
had remained in hiding ever since and amassed an army including the
loyal warrior known as Mongu and that he plots to take over the entire
world soon. With the story done, Banner refuses to become the Hulk even
if it means the end of the world, as he is trying to keep the monster
dead and buried.

Continued to next issue…

Notes

• This story states that the past adventures of Doctor Druid can be read in Weird Wonder Tales Vol 1. That series featured reprints of all of Doctor Druid’s early adventures (when it was named DROOM) that were first published in Amazing Adventures #1,2,3,4,6 (in Italy in MARVOMN AMAZING FANTASY and in MARVOMN RARE E MAI VISTE, the last one first published in THC #152).

• Here are some facts about the Maha Yogi as they are explained in Dr. Druid’s flashback:
  • The scene where the Bloodstone shatters was originally depicted in Marvel Presents #2 (unpublished in Italy).
  • Doctor Druid incorrectly refers to Maha Yogi as a mutant. This is
    actualy revealed to be a false assumption. As later revealed in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #27 (unpublished in Italy), the Maha Yogi was actually given his powers by the Caretakers of Arcturus, as such he isn’t a naturally born mutant.
  • This story also clarifies the appearance of “Merlin” in Journey Into Mystery #96 (in Italy in THC #6),
    explaining that the Maha Yogi was merely posing as Merlin until he was
    uncovered and banished by the real being. This story also states that
    any statements that the Maha Yogi made about being the real Merlin
    himself are based on delusions the Maha set up for himself.
  • The flashback also references the Maha’s two battles with the X-Men in X-Men #30 (in Italy in CAPC #32) and 47 (in Italy in CAPC #48).

• The being known as Mongu should not be confused with Boris Monguski who wore a mechanical suit that greatly resembled the real Mongu in Incredible Hulk #4 (in Italy in URC #62).