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Solitaire Rose Knows Comics, just ask him!

 
  

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Spaniel
15:21 / 16.10.05
Stoat, I've always thought it would have to be less than a millimetre thick - so, yeah, it would add up, but not too much. Just enough, in fact, to ensure Wolvie's hella strong status.
 
 
Benny the Ball
16:12 / 16.10.05
X-Babies were from the mojoverse as well as Longshot - they were baby versions of the X-men created by Mojo to appear in high rating adventures to be shown to the masses on television, or something
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
14:45 / 27.10.05
I looked up Wolverine in my old "Handbook of the Marvel Universe" and they list him as having super-strength just below Spider-Man's. Which fits, since he has gone toe-to-toe with the Hulk before.

I also read an article by Len Wein talking about his ideas when he created Wolverine. The claws were on his gloves, he was about 18 or 19, and his only mutant power was to be able to take a beating and keep coming back. Len Wein isn't a GREAT writer, but he seems like a nice guy and from all indications was an editor who was able to get the best work out of people. He was one of Marvel's many "Editor in Cheif"s during the 70's when they went through at least 5 head editors from 1974 to 1976. It's amazing anything got published by them during those years.
 
 
The Falcon
15:01 / 27.10.05
Oh God, I was just thinking today, 'yeah, man, there's no way Wolverine could've taken on the Hulk in his first appearance without some superstrength.'

Did Herb Trimpe co-create the Canuck?
 
 
Just Add Water
16:00 / 27.10.05
According to wikipedia, "Wolverine was created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr., with some additional influence by Herb Trimpe."


Link to article
 
 
Tim Tempest
01:50 / 16.11.05
In an old issue of Spider-Man, there was a villain who was a living bomb. I forget the guy's name, but he worked as a merc for hire and tried to kill Osbourne and Spidey in an issue called Freefall. What was his name and where else has he appeared? Nitrus or something along that line.
 
 
Spaniel
10:38 / 16.11.05
Cor, this thread brings out the geek in me.

I would've thought "super strength just below Spiderman's" would be pretty useless against the Hulk - if we're being all realistic, like. I mean that would make the hulk about 25x stronger than him - when he wasn't too angry.
I just assumed he could take on the Hulk because he's very fast, very agile, won't go down (ever), and - crucially - has claws that can cut through anything, including Hulk hide.
 
 
_Boboss
11:21 / 16.11.05
Raaa! - That's what we be talking about.

now, ok, there's a thing about super strength innit - if your skeleton won't break and youyr arms won't wrench from their sockets, and your tendons and muscles can heal almost instantly, what is there to stop you performing spidey-size feats like lifting a car?

nevertheless, i ardently geek maintain that wolverine(ripped fer sher, i ain't saying he aint) does not have super strength like, say, warpath does, i.e. it's not an effect of his mutattion. any appearance of super strength-like properties, i.e an exaggerated momentum when it comes to smashing doors and stuff, mad arm-wrestling skillz etc. is a combined effect of his mutation and the surgery. pre-adamantium little jimmy howlett (howlett the moon - oh shit me i just got that) could not, by Eternity and the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, perform the bench pressy, car lifty, thing-chucky superstrength feats that you associate with spidey and similarly-endowed (fnarr) extra-strongies like usagent and the wrecking crew.

who's stronger, sheer bench press power now, out of beast and wolverine? i'd say beast...



that was fun. come on!!!
 
 
Aertho
12:38 / 16.11.05
Dear Solitaire Rose:

What was so cool about Alan Davis's version of Hawkgirl in "The Nail" and/or "Another Nail"? How does this characterization differ from the JLU's animated Shayera, and the current Kendra incarnation?
 
  

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