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Marvel Fanfare Vol 1 013 Mar 1984
Marvel Fanfare Vol 1 013 Mar 1984
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BEING AWAY FoR ALMOST AMONTH ‘L GOT A CHANCE TO GO SWIMMING
WAS NICE AND RELAXING. AND SAILING... SPENT SOME TIME
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QUITE A LITTLE RAT'S NEST My IT's YOU SEE BEFORE YOU THE SLACK
HAVE LED ME TO, WELL PEPHAPS GOTTEN W/DOW -- MOST FEARED SPY_IN
ME CLOSER TO LOCATING (VAN PETROVICH, THE WORLD. SHE OVERCAME S/X
WHO SA//ELD SUSPECTS MAY ASSASSINS... ASSASSINS WHOSE
HAVE DEFECTED TO ( JOB IT WAS TO CAPTURE HER.
THE SOVIET UNION.
LIKE ME, IVAN'S A
RUSSIAN EXPATRIATE.
AND HIS KNOWLEDGE OF
ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE AND.
SS
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WHAT COMPLICATES
MATTERS IS THAT
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fy BREATHING
i ON MY NECK.
DRAN DAMON BRANES He's THE
MILLIO: = MUNITIONS MANUFACTURER
THAT DaReDEVIE AND I FOUGHT
YEARS AGO IN CALIFORNIA.
% HE WAS FANATIC--CONSUMED WITH
THE DESIRE TO SURVIVE THE NUCLEAR
WAR HE BELIEVED WAS COMING-- THE
WAR HIS OWN WEAPONS WERE MAKING
EVER MORE LIKELY.
< SEE THE SHOCK AND DISGUST IN YOUR EYES. AND NOW YOU'VE CAPTURED
WIDOW. YES. IT AM DAMO} N_DRAN. AS YOU KNOW, | | ME--AND PROBABLY IVAN
I ONCE ATTEMPTED TO PHYSICALLY RECON- PETROVICH, AS WELL...FOR
G ies, THE SOVIET UNION “CORRECT 2
HUMANITY. iG OF suR-
VIVING THE INEVITABLE NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST,
BUT EVEN AS I TOWERED ABOVE THE
SPIRES OF SAN FRANCISCO, AN INDESTRUCTIBLE
GOD AMONG MEN, YOU BROUGHT ABOUT MY
MOLENT.MDOWNEALL, NATASHA ROMANOFF..
YOU AND DAREDEVIL DES7/ "ROYED
PROJECT FOUR.
NO, MY DEAR. I_ AM AN
INDEPENDENT. I MADE USE OF THE SOVIETS TO
FURTHER MY ENDS ONLY. YOU WERE N
BECAUSE My LIFE NOW HOLDS OWE GOAL--
YOU THOUGHT
ME DEAD--BUT
I SURVIVED AS
I ALWAYS HAVE!
UNFORTUNATELY, MY.
FACE WAS Fagot
MY:
WHICH FOLLOWED. PARADISE. TOO PEDESTRIAN. WILL BECOME CLEAR, (4)
AND NOW HE |S BEING BROUGHT
HONG KONG WHERE BACK TO AWARENESS BY A VERY
YOU WERE DEFEATED FAMILIAR PAIR OF HANDS~~
By SNAP ee ah
IR S:H,
WOO LIES UNCON
SCIOUS,,yieleniald!
VICTIMO}
MMBAT.
SHAMBLES,"
HARDLY, / REMEMBE ,RTHE
PERHAPS. BUT WON'T MY ] SOVIETS BLAME You
NATIVE RUSSIA WELCOME =
ME BACK WITH OPEN ARMS JassN\ fig | FOR THE KILLINGOF
IF I “SEE THE LIGHT"? A DEFECTED
AMERICAN SCIENTIST
=- UNAWARE THAT
MY AGENTS PLACED
WITHIN THE GB
DID THE ACTUAL A
MURDER.
SS FOR THAT,
= AND YOUR INITIAL
7] DEFECTION, THEY CONSIDER YoU
A TRAITRESS. You've NO ONE |
NaF ‘To TURN TO, YoU SEE. PITY.
IVAN PETROVICH,
AT THAT MOMENT, A SLEEK SHUTTLECRAFT THE PLASTIC SURGERY WAS
CLEAVES THE NIGHT SKY HEAD/NG WES: ID_MY EX-
(ER THE SOUTH CHINA COAS:
TRULY BELIEVES I AM
THE BLACK WiDOw.
MAND
CENTER... A VERITABLE FLYING FORTRESS,
BRISTLING WITH THE MOST ADVANCED
WEAPONRY ON EARTH.
IS EGG ON MY FACE.
NO IVAN...NO NOTHIN.
WELL, SHE’S
GONNA HEAR ABOUT
IT... LEMME TELL YA,
MEANWHILE, nee REAL SHE CAN WAIT, «BUT THERE THEY REMOVED MY
NATASHA ROM, THOUGH. 7S ANICE, WRIST BRACELETS, ie
AWARENS IN PLACE OF PROBLEM NUM- INVITING WINDOW COURSE... AND ONEOf
CONFINEMENT. BER ONE |S ABOUT TWELVE THEM CONTAINS Fue.
GETTING our, widow's LINE I USE
OHH... THAT'S THE FOR CLIMBING, THERE'S
SECOND TIME SNAP NO WAY IC AN GEAP
DRAGON'S TAKEN. Qe THAT
OUT. IT OWE _HER
AND THE
WIDOW.
ALWAYS. PAYS
HER DEBTS.
Hee:
HMMM... VERY DECEPTIVE, AND NEITHER IS SAV/EZLD.
HERE I THOUGHT I WAS H IGi-- dq THE PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE
AND THE WINDOW'S AT GROUND @) I'M ACTIVATING INSIDE
LEVEL...AND LOCKED. THIS ARROWHEAD SHOULD.
DO THE JOB.
T
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THE
LASS
IS ALSO
THICKER THE BLAST
THAN A OUTWARD, SO
IND ~ THEORETICALLY,|
SHIELD. THE LEDGE
DRAN'S
TAKING NO.
CHANCES,
MAKE- NO-SUDDEN-
MOVES-OR-I- WILL-
STOP-YOU. THOSE
ARE -MY- ORDERS.
EYES EASES
SPEECH IS STILTED.
PERHAPS IT IS TIME
ON PUNISHMENT BECAME
RI B SEVERE, SNAP DRAG!
DOUBLE...IMMEDIATELY/ I RCOME BOTH HE LET HER KNOW PAIN...
HAVE TO: Bence THE COMMAND DO NOT KILL
TER, 9
SWIFTLY,
SILENTLY,
SHE TURNS
AND. MOVES
1N SEARCH
OF HER
QUARRY. NOT
FOR HER,
aaah
XE
Le,
- 4 Now, BE OFF
WITH YOu!
SUPERLATIVE.
T HAVE BEEN
IN COMBAT WITH
I'VE GOT
E _TO FEIGN
SURRENDER...
AND THEN MOVE «+. TURNING IVAN
— INTO A VEGETABLE
YOU SAID YOU "ROBBING HIM
KNEW ALL ABOUT OF HIS MIND--
ME, SNAP DRAGON? HIS W/LE/
DID YOU REALLY
ZZ AND FOR
WHAT ? SO YOUR
“MASTER! CAN HAVE
VENGEANCE ON ME/
YOUR SCREAMS OF
AGONY WILL SOOTHE MY
RUFFLED PRIDE. NOW...
ABOUT THAN
WOUNDED PRIDE,
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WAIT--SOMETHING’S COLONEL. URS Z
GONE WRONG! WHAT'S
DRAN DOING?
~ THEN OPEN
(OULD BE ALL THE
HEADSTART SHE'LL NEED,
== DESTROYING THE Je WAN QUICKLY]
MAMMOTH CANNONS MERE COME WITH MES
SECONDS BEFORE THEY CAN (he MAIN
BE FIRED. |
A BARRAGE OF SHELLS
DETONATE
ON THE TARGETED COULD HAVE
AREAS-- |
=~ GONE WRONG/?
THE MAOMAN'S TORMENTED CRY
SOON MIXES WITH THE DEAFENING
ROAR OF THE /SLAND'S DEATH
THROES, m ary
WHEN A WOMAN
LIKE THAT SETS
HER SIGHTS ON
SURVIVIN!
NOTHINNS
GONNA STOP.
HER!
/ERILY! 'TWOULD
TAKE MORE THAN A
SKITTERING STAG TO
4 SHORT-WIND
FANORAL'S we
-BeILLEID of the
IRRIORS Ge
MORE ZeaLouetyTHAN EITHER
IFYOU-- WHAT
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ALAN ZELENET2Z: !STORY/ CHARLES VESS: “ART TIM NOVAK (LET ETE CHRISTIESCHEELE: COLOR
MY LADY, ZDUNN, WHAT 0, PASHING FANCRAL,
EVER IS THE MATTER? MY HUSBANP BRAGI HAS
DISAPPEARED.
TONIGHT IS ALL-
FATHER ODIN'S'
GREAT MIP-SUMMER
CELEBRATION ~~
‘AND BRAGI, AS
BEFITS THE GOP OF
POETRY, |S To RECITE
AT THE FESTIVITIES
IN COURT.
WE SHALL
SEPARATE
|THE
BETTER To.
SEARCH ASGARDIS
GOLDEN REALM.
By MAYHAP BRAG! WAS CARRIED
BY JEALOUS DWARFS,
FOR THEY ADMIRE GOOD
POETRY AS MUCH AS DO.
> THE GODS--
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WILL YOU ACCEPT THE = = i BY THE TREASUREOF THE
CUTTING EDGE OF MY i DWARF KING, LET US FLEE,
BLADE, YOU MISSHAPEN, Z Tol A “ BROTHER /
p CHURLS /? >
LL
7 A THOUSAND
PARDONS FOR MY
ap} clumsiness!
GUT WED NOT PART WITH YOU DWARFS ARE GREEDIER THAN
ANY OF OUR SONGS AND TOLD ||SQUIRRELS WITH ACORNS--WHAT
HIM TO SEEK VERSES AMI COST TO YOU TO SHARE MERE
THE BRANCHES OF worps 2
BY QUEEN KNORDA'S
BEAUTY/'TIS A TINY
GOCLING ING I ILL KNOCK YOU
TRAPPED WITHIN SENSELESS,
MY DRINKING LITTLE ONE, THEN
GOURD! ROAST YOU ON AN
OPEN SPIT!
IOH/ MY BONES FEEL, AND YOUR TOPKNOT WILL HANG FROM MY BELT IF ITOLD HIM TO.
BENT AND BROKEN / YOU PON'T ANSWER AT ONCE -- HAVE YOU SEEN SEEK SONGS AT
< THE GOD OF POETRY THIS DAY= THE FOOT OF THE
WORLD-TREE.
Ae pesSoeun A
t 'TIS PLAIN
: THESE ARE
AT THAT MOMENT. // DAM ISELS OF
GOOD SENSE,
AND THE
DAUGHTERS OF
AEGIR RETURN
YOUR GREETING,
HANPSOME
HORSEMAN.
WATCH HOW
RANA SHALL TEASE
THE VOLUMINOUS
ONE; SISTERS.
eons
/ N va
! p's BLOOD!
YOUVE TUMBLED).
Waa MEVIXEN! 7
BUT WE COULD
7 GIVE HIM NAUGHT, |
FOR A SEA-
P MAIDEN'S SONG
—=\ HAS NO MELODY
ON SHORE.
. > WE ADVISED
QJ
en HIM THE WORLD-
“ TREE'S WHERE
. POETIC
INSPIRATION
MIGHT BE
Be WELC
HOGI
YOU'VE HAP THE
SAME REPORT
AST.
AND EVENING
DRAWS ALREADY
NIGH, FANDRAL.
GRIM HOGUN SHALL Mal HARK-- ‘TIS BRAGI'S VOICE,
#)\ LEND ASSISTANCE, RG. THOUGH, BY YMIR'S ICY VEINS, [8
DASHING ONE. ; T SEE HIM NOT.
FOR WE
HAVE GIVEN THE
GODDESS IDUNN OUR
TROTH AND PLEDGE.
Hi
IN BAGLE'S GUISE,
TANGLED IN THE
WORLD-TREE'S FOLIAGE!
THAN EVER
SUPPOSED --UNPH!
NOW HE KNOCKS.
THE DEADLY SNAKE y “AND WE'RE
FREE
UNCONSCIOUS ~~
BRAG|
SHOULP BE
| SOMEWHERE
NEAR THIS:
TREE
EE THINE, AZ|
THERAVE ‘\ VERY LAST
wal
IRRIORS, 7 SUNSET.
Se,
Se 7)
G
SURELY YOU HEARD us
CALL THEE /
SHAME CRIMSONS
THESE PALLID CHEEKS
THAT EVER Z HID FROM
SUCH FAST FRIENDS! /
“BALLAD OF
BEFORE OPIN'S ASSEMBLED COURT,
THERE ese THREE WwapRions CLIMBED Py
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POWN A OW, HEY DOWN fev DOWN A GOWN
THANK YOU Ne
AH, POETRY. 'TIS A MYSTERY EVEN MY LIEGE. WHEN ONE
BEYOND THE ALL-FATHER'S KEN.
YOUR FANCIFUL FLIGHTS OF ly Bi i One NEVER
GENTLE BRAGI, ARE EVER PLEASING. AYE, FOR
THE ENDLESS FABRICATIONS SoU. SPIN SO INSPIRATION.
DELIGHTFULLY_ OUT OF THIN AIR NEVER,
CEASE TO AMAZE US.
MARWEL Fal
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