The Marvel Book Expand Your Knowledge of a Vast Comics Universe by Stephen Wiacek

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How to explore this bookThe Marvel Book provides an in-depth look at the concepts that underpinthe sublimely interconnected Marvel Universe (or more exactlyMultiverse), including key events and characters. Supporting the main “in-Multiverse” articles are elements that contribute to the big picture.Introductions frame the subjects being discussed; On the Record boxes offercontext and fast facts; infographics and timelines provide clarification andperspective; topic boxes highlight notable people or themes; and quotesgive a feel for the characters and narrative texture of the source material.This book isn’t a comprehensive examination of Marvel Comics, but anentertaining, insightful guide to a complex and thrilling universe that is bestenjoyed in the pages of a comic book.“Nuff said!”Stan Lee
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTSHOW TO USE THIS EBOOKINTROD
Page 5 and 6: Malevolent manipulator • Norman O
Page 7 and 8: Send in the clones • The JackalSe
Page 9 and 10: Sentinel of the spaceways • Silve
Page 12 and 13: INTRODUCTIONThe multimedia phenomen
Page 14 and 15: “I was tired of doing monster mag
Page 16 and 17: and sales started slowly rising. Le
Page 18 and 19: newcomers, who had grown up reading
Page 22: Inside the BullpenIn 1961, Stan Lee
Page 25: INTRODUCTIONThe totality of reality
Page 28 and 29: A single mistake In the beginning t
Page 30 and 31: When in place, these laws allow cre
Page 32 and 33: Quantum entanglementsLife in the Mu
Page 34 and 35: ON THE RECORDPOWERSBeyond comprehen
Page 36 and 37: “There are worlds beyond... this
Page 38 and 39: Power cut For Ecce, the greatest tr
Page 40 and 41: ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEGalen of TaaA
Page 42 and 43: True colors Galactus has no true fo
Page 44 and 45: As Lifebringer, Galactus works with
Page 46 and 47: gods, demons, and many primordial r
Page 48 and 49: Prime target Earth is the focus of
Page 51 and 52: In every aspect of creation, confli
Page 53 and 54: Fight for lifeThe world fills with
Page 55 and 56: ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONSuper Heroe
Page 57 and 58: Masked marvelsThere have always bee
Page 59 and 60: Trial by combatIn a Multiverse that
Page 61 and 62: dimensional nether-realms by migrat
Page 63 and 64: Church and stateOver millennia, Wak
Page 65 and 66: ON THE RECORDLOCATIONFormerly extra
Page 67 and 68: Twilights of the godsEventually Odi
Page 69 and 70: The Ten Realms World Tree Yggdrasil
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Responding to the arrival of Celest
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aware of the existence of deities l
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ON THE RECORDKEY OPERATIVESTwo-Gun
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Top guns The dauntless Rawhide Kid
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all distinguish themselves in battl
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMESteven Grant
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Beacon of hope Cap’s costume is d
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President Truman orders the inciden
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ON THE RECORDTEAM NAMEThe InvadersK
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In late December 1941, German spies
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Where next? With the war over, ther
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEJames Buchana
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“You did your part, now let me do
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Super-Soldier, exploiting a (cosmic
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMENicholas Jose
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Max firepower Army veteran Fury is
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create more Infinity Formula and wi
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ON THE RECORDOPERATIVESMandarin, Pl
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Red scare Soviet impostor Malik lat
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avoid panic in a world that is on t
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEAdam Brashear
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Ultimate armor Blue Marvel must wea
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Nazi scientists, and led by “Prof
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ON THE RECORDFOUNDING MEMBERSReed R
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exploration and research. However,
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Negative ZoneReed Richards’s atte
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expertise; tactical genius; and con
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The Great DestroyerRuling with an i
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Doom’s worldVictor von Doom’s i
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to save teenager Rick Jones who had
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Nuclear proliferationIn a pitiless
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The MaestroBruce Banner long believ
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A troubled prodigy, teenage Pym is
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Avenging duoWhen the diminutive duo
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Growing legacyHank Pym’s subatomi
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brother Loki, reared by Odin’s wi
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If he be worthy…Gradually, Thor b
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Jane Foster, Mighty ThorJane Foster
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terrorists. He finally makes his wa
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Inner demonsAfter years of playboy
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMENamor McKenzi
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Elemental rivalry In one of many ba
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Dressed to kill In line with his ne
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this strange new world, spearheadin
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Fighting the good fightOver many ye
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Best defense From 1941, Captain Ame
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spread terror, the Red Skull commit
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The Red Skull’s hunger for power
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMET’ChallaALL
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Techno warrior T’Challa’s Vibra
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Earth’s response to a series of g
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCES:Fantastic
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Ready for everything Combining comb
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Masters of EvilOriginally drafted b
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Cosmic AvengersIn the decades befor
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Earning their starsBefore this trag
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Above and beyond Earth’s peace an
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEClinton Franc
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I fought the lawYears later, Clint
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Take a bow Fellow Hawkeye Kate Bish
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMENatasha Alian
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Agent provocateur Despite acquittin
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Love hurts Former lovers Black Wido
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESTemporary a
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A-Force for good Nico Minoru, Dazzl
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Non-team-up All kinds of superhuman
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEPeter Benjami
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Web-shooter The adhesive fluid Spid
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Web of lies Parker spends years hid
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEJessica Miria
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Dark angel Spider-Woman’s origina
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“From now on Spider-Woman fights
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMENorman Virgil
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Air raider Riding his jet-powered,
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Osborn’s ThunderboltsThe original
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Jack tells Murdock she died, urging
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vendetta against seemingly untoucha
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEWilson Grant
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Profit and lossDespite maintaining
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Hell’s KitchenIn New York City, p
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malicious masterminds and many gove
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Assassin nationAssassins have alway
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Noble ninjasNot all hired killers a
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which he uses to escape. Unknown to
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Family valuesAfter becoming an Aven
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The CrewThe Crew is a loose band of
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As a young girl, Jessica Campbell h
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The parent trapAccepting she has th
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Uncanny detectivesEven in a world w
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extortion, and torture to achieve h
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEMarc SpectorA
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Night moves Khonshu’s chosen one
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Although utterly amoral, he needs t
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Better read than deadDeserting Vane
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Mercenary callingBeing a mercenary
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foursome Power Pack (pictured above
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We are the ChampionsSuch is the cas
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New WarriorsA victim of crime, youn
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deceit and death.” However, to sa
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEDaniel Thomas
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Training day Danny Rand and Pei, th
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father. Deeply traumatized, she van
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMESColleen Wing
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Sister act The Daughters of the Dra
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sects, secretly manipulating global
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but with access to robotics, clonin
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONStrategic H
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Sons of FuryFury is also aware that
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Chains of command The second Nick F
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ON THE RECORDCAUSESIdeology, misund
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Whose side are you on?A turning poi
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESTemporary,
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“Oh my! Gosh!... I’m in a Spide
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Red onslaught A Red Skull clone sub
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEDoreen GreenA
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Heroic tails Raised on comic books
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harsh Initiative program that follo
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In the hands of super-geniuses or e
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“Science. Now that’s as real as
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Growth Hormone (MGH), anyone can br
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innovations and improvements of sci
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Smartest guys in the room?When most
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The BridgeWidely regarded as the sm
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Earth’s mystic realms, and Sub-Ma
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Solution focusedThe Illuminati’s
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Forward thinkingEarth has produced
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Doxie, or Monica Rappaccini, who le
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Bright sparksLafayette is far from
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Junkyard geniusesIntellectual creat
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are afflicted with impatience and p
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Singly, these malcontents have impe
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Hard time When super-criminals emer
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selection into modern humans; genet
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONInhumans (I
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Royal vision Rulers Crystal and Gor
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extraterrestrials usually produces
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First ClassDespite initially workin
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CyclopsFor most of his life, Scott
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to Russia. After offending Soviet o
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Starting overMagneto is restored by
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ApocalypseEn Sabah Nur (“the Morn
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Marvel Girl’s life changes foreve
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEOroro MunroeA
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Storm surge Despite her incalculabl
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result in expulsion from Oxford Uni
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEOwen ReeceALL
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Harsh realities Reece has to accept
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Many humans, such as scientist Bruc
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEJennifer Walt
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You’ve been served She-Hulk’s e
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way to regenerate his missing arm a
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Super-Soldier misfiresThe search fo
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Accidents will happen Not all advan
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incentive to work harder in the “
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Science firstWhen not attempting to
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESMasters of
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Malevolent designs Ultron aims to s
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Family feud The marriage of flesh t
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESAvengers, D
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Cold hands, warm heart Although cla
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Man plus Constructed as an artifici
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEJames Howlett
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Unknown to all, immortal schemer Ro
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Out of the blue Returned to life an
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONArtificial
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Reconstructed hero Built as a serva
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his own brain has resided in a mech
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEMiles WarrenA
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Playing god Warren realizes it’s
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York. Warren’s first—qualified
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONStrategic H
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Smooth ride Agent Coulson’s flyin
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Castle in the air More effective th
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ON THE RECORDCOMPANY NAMEStark Unli
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ON THE RECORDCOMPANY NAMEDamage Con
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Big help Before rebuilding can begi
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VibraniumIn prehistoric times, a hu
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Anti-MetalThis unusual mineral come
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Adamantium A steel-based alloy of t
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Terrigen An artificial compound cre
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continental drift. In 200,000BCE, s
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Pangea and the Savage LandTerritori
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INTRODUCTIONReality begins with the
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time is coming when Earth and the w
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Divine intervention Knowledge is po
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Lore abidingBeyond a certain level
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESEternity, L
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Rage on Death’s Earthly agents su
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act is permanent and creates diverg
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ON THE RECORDNAMEThe VishantiMEMBER
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War of Powers The Vishanti bestow g
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champions also serve, each working
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEStephen Vince
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Magical thinkingMoving to New York
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The Eyes of AgamottoTibet.More than
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Ones and a portion of Dormammu’s
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESSix-Fingere
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Deal with the devil In Las Vegas, t
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a hostage, a spoil of war, or to fu
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Finding his own pathUnable to decid
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Hela, Goddess of Deathdeath.Every p
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disasters with a gesture. With supe
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The Winding PathStruggling to balan
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QuicksilverPietro is the elder of t
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The originators of the term are ang
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEEric BrooksAL
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Bite me Even before his Dhampir pow
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Ebony Blade, aka “Chaos the Doomb
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMESDaimon and S
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Kiss of evil Satana feeds on the so
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force, time-travel, teleportation,
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Asgardian alchemyOther Asgardian ar
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Cutting edge The devastating Axe of
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONSupernatura
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Full moon madness Lycanthrope Jack
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connected to primordial powers thro
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Life abounds everywhere, sharing th
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many planets perish because ambitio
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONProtectors
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the secrets of building Cosmic Cube
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“Earth is significant... the axis
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managed to keep close family with t
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Respect your Elders Although usuall
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intergalactic trading empire. A mat
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESConstantly
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arsenal includes body-modification,
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ancient Egypt, covert planetary def
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Monstrous mash-upsThe years followi
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Impossible ManMost human interactio
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leading an interstellar pirate army
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“All life is a distraction. There
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ON THE RECORDCOMPONENTSInfinity Gem
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See the light The Illuminati swear
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Grip on power Individually powerful
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONThe Klyntar
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Dark cravings Despite trying to ref
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moves to other hosts, but after bon
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMECarol Susan J
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Call of duty Danvers’ life of ser
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heartbroken at the human cost, she
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEMar-VellALLEG
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Not fade away An honorable soldier
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Photon, he dies when his chronally
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEPeter Jason Q
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develops a loathing of bullies and
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The stars my destinationA cosmic wa
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESGuardians o
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Fire away Rocket is as fast on the
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interstellar wanderer. Eventually,
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESGuardians o
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Soul destroying Gamora’s dreams o
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When his daughter Heather, the psyc
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ON THE RECORDALLEGIANCESAvengers, G
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Lone rider With the Corps wiped out
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Human rockets Young Sam is delighte
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMENorrin RaddAL
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Cosmic bonds Galactus imbues the Su
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roam the stars. A second attempt go
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Although Prime Earth is fulcrum and
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Magik). In “true” Limbo, all po
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONParallel wo
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divergent timelines. More a supervi
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Alternates Assemble! The heroes of
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This, added to the persistent threa
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Sole survivorKang is driven by thre
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Identity crises When Nathaniel Rich
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on him until he is rescued by Scott
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEGuardians of
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Generation games Guardians from thr
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transcendental psychic network call
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A worldwide webSo great is the allu
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEMiles Morales
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Ham-fisted Tentacles of evil prove
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Sparky spider As well as producing
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ON THE RECORDNAMEWeirdworldLOCATION
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Weird and wondrous Goleta the Wizar
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Thunderbolts as a method of rapidly
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONCollective
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Bite club Nobody, not even Super He
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Guardian Roma, her father Merlyn, a
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ON THE RECORDREAL NAMEJonathan Rave
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Mars attacks Resistance fighter Kil
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remaining organs are sealed inside
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ON THE RECORDFOUNDING MEMBERSCaptai
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“We’re the Ultimates. The Ultim
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problems. One such task force is th
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ON THE RECORDDESIGNATIONEnd of the
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Existential Doom Reality’s last h
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survivors of the previous existence
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GLOSSARYAbstract entities (also abs
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Cyborg A living organism significan
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Hellfire (also soulfire) Mystical e
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Nega-bands Power-enhancing wrist ba
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Reality warping Ability to alter re
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Time stream Multiverse-wide phenome
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CONTRIBUTORSSTEPHEN “WIN” WIACE
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