My Friend, My Foe!
Writer: Mantlo
Artist: Buscema
Inker: Hunt
Letterer: Rosen
Colorist: Beveridge
Originally published: May 1978
The resolution to this whole thing was fairly unsatisfying. In the end, though, Bobby Drake is back to normal and the real bad guy is defeated. At the end there are some epiloguey pages with White Tiger going to ESU (booo) and somebody mysterious [...]

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Whatever Happened to the Iceman?
Writer: Bill Mantlo
Artists: Sal Buscema, David Hunt
Letterer: Bruce
Colorist: Janice
Originally published: April 1978
Spidey’s in LA! Apparently the Champions are splitting up, and Pete’s there to cover it. Unfortunately, Iceman is zombified into being a bad guy. The issue ends with a tense standoff.
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Tigra Tigra, Burning Bright!
Author: Chris Claremont
Artist: John Byrne
Inker: Dave Hunt
Letterer: A. Kawecki
Colorist: Dave Hunt
Originally published: March 1978
Great, fucking Kraven the Hunter. Blurgh. Also, man, the Cat was really cool when she started. As Tigra she’s lamesauce.
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Murder World
Author: Chris Claremont
Artist: John Byrne
Inker / colorist: Dave Hunt
Letterer: Tom Orzechowski
Originally published: February 1978
Captain Britain and Spidey sorta team up here, but they’re mostly separated for the whole issue. Pretty much the whole thing takes place in Arcade’s “Murder World” funhouse. It’s not bad or anything, but I was hoping for some more interesting [...]

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Introducing, Captain Britain
Author: Chris Claremont
Artist: John Byrne
Inker / colorist: Dave Hunt
Letterer: Bruce P.
Originally published: January 1978
As the title indicates, this was basically an introduction to Captain Britain. A good chunk of it was a flashback to his origin. He seems like an interesting enough character, though there wasn’t much room in here for an actual, [...]

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