It's the celebratory 250th issue of Moon Knight, and Marc Spector celebrates the same way he mourns, broods, or has fun: with violence.

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils and inks: Bill Sienkiewicz

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Sunspot and Magma gave been kidnapped to fight in an arena.

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Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

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Scott and friends seek shelter in a hotel for the night and are mistaken for a group of gangsters.

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Writer: Mark Waid

Pencils: Andy Kubert

Inks: Jesse Delperdang

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Parnival enacts his master plan.

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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils: Luke McDonnell

Inks: Bob Smith

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The President has shut down the Justice League due to mounting pressure from Glorious Godfrey and his cronies.

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The day my little boy came home from nursery -- and I've never shown him any my comics, he was three at this point -- and he goes, "Daddy, I'm a superhero," and he runs around the house punching stuff and breaking things. And I'm like, oh shit, I have appeared to have built a career around the fact that moral righteousness is who can hit the hardest, who can break things the most. And that really, really staggered me, and I had to really think about it. -- Si Spurrier

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Because, while I do think we're pretty radical, and it's pretty different, at the same time, if I'm drawing from anything, I'm drawing from those early Detective Comics stories, and going back to that. And that was a version of the Martian Manhunter who was kind of mysterious and almost mystical in his abilities, in the sense that he could seem to really do anything, whatever the story called for, and his perspective on humanity was really important. -- Deniz Camp

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Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani

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The Hulk is captured by a bunch of weirdos in a submarine.

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I had a yen to go through Starlord's backstory and apparently it's even more of a mish-mash than most comic book characters, with retcons having consigned his original origin story to an alternate reality. Still, I find Marvel Preview 4 an interesting taste of seventies sci-fi, with its zeerust futurism, hints of astrology, In Search Of The Unknown UFOism and NASA worship coupled with the usual capes and lasers.

(Yes, there are capes. It's the future, jabroni.)

This is SF coming out of the same primordial soup as Star Wars (which would premiere two years later) and it's just fascinating to me how it's simultaneously so modern and yet so of-another-time.

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