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[color=blue]> From: dartvax!mwm (Mark Modrall)[/color]
[color=blue]> well, i don't think marvel is really even going to try to dump[/color]
[color=blue]> the wwII business.... if any of you remember the sphinx saga from[/color]
[color=blue]> around issue 216 of the ff??? when the sphinx make reed, sue and ben[/color]
[color=blue]> around 90 of[/color]
[color=blue]> or a 100 years old???/ and then johnny finds the mysterious youth ray,[/color]
[color=blue]> and changes them all back to say, 30 years old??? the make the comment[/color]
[color=blue]> specifically that they are all a lot younger than when they started,[/color]
[color=blue]> hence eliminating the need to forget wwII....[/color]
I wasn't talking about what Marvel may do or is thinking of doing, I was
mentioning WHAT MARVEL HAS ALREADY DONE. They've stated, in print (unfortun-
ately, I don't remember where I read it, I'm not sure I would even have the
comic anymore), that the story which placed Reed and Ben in WWII *did not*
happen!
[color=blue]> other characters can't get away from it either..... xavier, capt. america,[/color]
[color=blue]> wolverine, nick fury and others.....[/color]
Capt. America has already been explained away: he was frozen until his return
in THE AVENGERS #4. No conflict there. In MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #31, it was shown
that somewhere along the line, Nick Fury took an experimental immortality
serum (I don't recall the details, but I think he still has to take boosters
every now and then). No conflict there. Xavier never served in WWII, but in
Korea. No conflict there. Wolverine has never been said to have served in
WWII, though I recall a comment made by Claremont in an interview somewhere
that he and Byrne had thought about having a scene in which the X-Men run into
Cap, and Cap recognizes Logan as someone he knew in WWII. The idea is, of
course, that Logan's healing factor increases his life span. That incident
never came to pass, and I believe that Claremont has dropped the idea com-
pletely, thus, no conflict there.
[color=blue]> one explanation that i have heard from marvel people is that in marvel time,[/color]
[color=blue]> it really is about 1970... and that their years are longer than ours...[/color]
I've never heard this one. It certainly doesn't jive with various cultural
references (like the Newties going to see E.T., or Illyana sporting a "Team
Banzai" hat). The story that *I've* heard is as I mentioned before, that
the events that started the current Age of the Marvel Universe (FF #1),
happened around 1971 instead of 1961. This still conflicts with certain events,
but since most of the old stories are long out of print, most of the current
readership doesn't know or care about them. It's easier to rewrite past history
than current history.
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
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