Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles

By Stan Lee

Book Overview

Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles 1978 trade paperback 1st printing This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671243918
• ISBN13: 9780671243913
• Release Date: November 1978
• Publisher: Fireside
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The superhero vs. superhero battles are pretty good

The idea behind the issues of Marvel comics selected by Stan "The Man" Lee for "Marvel's Greatest Superhero Battles" is simply to answer those questions that have driven Marvel fans made for years: who is stronger, The Hulk or The Thing? Who talks funnier, The Silver Surger or The Mighty Thor? You get the idea. Consequently, collected within these pages are the following: "Fantastic Four" #25, "The Hulk vs. The Thing!" by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, which continues in FF #26 "The Avengers Take Over!"; Daredevil #7, "In Mortal Combat with...Sub-Mariner!" by Lee and Wally Wood; "X-Men" #3, "Beware the Blob!" by Lee and Kirby; "The Silver Surfer" #4, "The Good, the Bad and the Uncanny!" by Lee and John Buscema, where Loki gets the Surfer to tangle with Thor; a three-part confrontation between Iron Man and the Sub-Mariner in "Tales of Suspense" #79, "Diaster!", #80 "When Fall the Might!" and #81 "The Power of Iron Man" by Lee and Gene Colan (with some help from Kirby); Dr. Strange versus Baron Mordo in "Beware...! Dormammu is Watching!", "The Pincers of Power!" and "Let There be Victory!" by Lee and Steve Ditko; and "The Amazing Spider-Man" #69, "Mission: Crush the Kingpin!" by Lee and John Romita (Sr.). As you can see the collection gets off to a good start with the Hulk and the Thing getting it on, but the X-Men, Dr. Strange, and Spider-Man stories do not fit the spirit or the letter of the book's title. The idea here is supposed to be Marvel's superheroes fighting other Marvel superheroes. The Blob, Baron Mordo and the Kingpin do not count as superheroes. Granted, the Kingpin would go on to become one of the most intriguing villains in the Marvel universe this side of Victor von Doom, but there is no reason for any issue involving the Blob to be reprinted in color like this when there is an issue where the X-Men and the Avengers go toe-to-toe. Spider-Man has tangled with the Human Torch, the Hulk, and Daredevil, all within the first two years of his existence. The bottom line here is than Lee had a great idea and then somehow managed to make some mistooks in the execution.