Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: Reed and WWII Message-ID: <492@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 06:58:56 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.492 Posted: Fri Feb 8 06:58:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 15:32:29 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 50 > From: dartvax!mwm (Mark Modrall) > well, i don't think marvel is really even going to try to dump > the wwII business.... if any of you remember the sphinx saga from > around issue 216 of the ff??? when the sphinx make reed, sue and ben > around 90 of > or a 100 years old???/ and then johnny finds the mysterious youth ray, > and changes them all back to say, 30 years old??? the make the comment > specifically that they are all a lot younger than when they started, > hence eliminating the need to forget wwII.... I wasn't talking about what Marvel may do or is thinking of doing, I was mentioning WHAT MARVEL HAS ALREADY DONE. They've stated, in print (unfortun- ately, I don't remember where I read it, I'm not sure I would even have the comic anymore), that the story which placed Reed and Ben in WWII *did not* happen! > other characters can't get away from it either..... xavier, capt. america, > wolverine, nick fury and others..... Capt. America has already been explained away: he was frozen until his return in THE AVENGERS #4. No conflict there. In MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #31, it was shown that somewhere along the line, Nick Fury took an experimental immortality serum (I don't recall the details, but I think he still has to take boosters every now and then). No conflict there. Xavier never served in WWII, but in Korea. No conflict there. Wolverine has never been said to have served in WWII, though I recall a comment made by Claremont in an interview somewhere that he and Byrne had thought about having a scene in which the X-Men run into Cap, and Cap recognizes Logan as someone he knew in WWII. The idea is, of course, that Logan's healing factor increases his life span. That incident never came to pass, and I believe that Claremont has dropped the idea com- pletely, thus, no conflict there. > one explanation that i have heard from marvel people is that in marvel time, > it really is about 1970... and that their years are longer than ours... I've never heard this one. It certainly doesn't jive with various cultural references (like the Newties going to see E.T., or Illyana sporting a "Team Banzai" hat). The story that *I've* heard is as I mentioned before, that the events that started the current Age of the Marvel Universe (FF #1), happened around 1971 instead of 1961. This still conflicts with certain events, but since most of the old stories are long out of print, most of the current readership doesn't know or care about them. It's easier to rewrite past history than current history. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA