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The 1960s were when Marvel Comics began publishing its superhero comics, and some of its early breakout heroes were the mutants known as the X-Men. During this decade, some of the X-Men’s most notable villains debuted, with names like Magneto, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Juggernaut, the Blob, and the Sentinels making their debut.…

Stuck in that summertime loop of having actual daylight to play with, and so presumptuously booking in social events and excitement and merriment, and then being confronted with the sticky reality of attending said events in 99.73% humidity anddissolving into a puddle ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze before even reaching the…

Batman is one of the world’s greatest superheroes, but not even he can do everything alone. He’s a master of just about every relevant crime-fighting skill under the sun, but at the end of the day, he’s just one man. Despite his reputation for being a loner, he’s almost always operated with a partner of…

Marvel Comics in the ’60s was something fresh and new in many ways, including the art. Jack Kirby’s energetic pencils took the de facto method of drawing superhero musculature – characters were big, but they weren’t what you would call cut – and tweaked it, like he did everything else. There was a sense of…