BEN GRIMM & LOGAN "Connecting Flight" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...before The Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, or SHIELD existed, and before Kree Captain Mar-Vell came to Earth, Americans Ben Grimm, Carol Danvers, and Canadian Logan, infiltrated the USSR, where they encountered Natasha Romanoff (who is not operating under her own name)...and since the Russian isn't working with the trio, but against them...it ain't going well!

Sadly, we never see what happens during "Phase Two"!

Written by Larry Hama, penciled by Kaare Andrews and inked by Walden Wong, this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan #3 (2000) is set in the dawn of the Silver Age Marvel Universe, before the events of Fantastic Four #1!

And there's a reason Natasha isn't using her own name...but we never learn what it is!

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BEN GRIMM & LOGAN "Midnight Train to Moscow" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroines and Heroes...

(And yes, that's one of the two heroines in the lower right of the cover)

Logan and Ben Grimm, aboard an experimental flying wing piloted by Carol Danvers, currently in Soviet airspace are forced down by Russian aircraft lead by Natasha Romanoff (who is not currently using that name).

While Grimm and Logan distract the Russkies by doing what they do best...creating mayhem and chaos, Danvers sneaks away...but encounters a threat as dangerous as Soviet soldiers...

To Be Continued MONDAY at...
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Written by Larry Hama, penciled by Kaare Andrews and inked by Walden Wong, this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan #2 (2000) features both Carol Danvers and Natasha Romanoff (along with Grimm and Logan) in their pre-costumed careers!
And there's a reason Natasha isn't using her own name...but we ain't gonna tell you now!

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BEN GRIMM & LOGAN "Mission to Nowhere" Conclusion

Despite the fact the title doesn't have a heroine listed...

...the cover (on the lower right-hand side) shows one of two reasons this tale is being presented here!

What You Need to Know...

Before the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Avengers, or SHIELD existed in the Silver Age Marvel Universe, CIA operative Nick Fury recruited USAF pilot Ben Grimm and Canadian Intelligence agent Logan for a covert mission into the USSR.
After being briefed by weapons manufacturer/technology consultant Tony Stark, Grimm and Logan are taken to their mode of transport...

And now you know why this story is on this blog!

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Written by Larry Hama, penciled by Kaare Andrews and inked by Walden Wong, this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan #1 (2000) features both Carol Danvers and Natasha Romanoff (along with Grimm and Logan) in their pre-costumed careers!
And there's a reason Natasha isn't using her own name...but we ain't gonna tell you now!

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Halloween Heroines LADY LIBERATORS "Come On In...the Revolution's Fine!" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroines (and Heroes)...

...no, this hasn't occurred...yet!

The Wasp receives a mysterious message that directs her to a meeting in Avengers Mansion...but not with the Avengers, but a new group of heroines led by a mysterious woman named Valkyrie!

The team heads for Rutland, where four Avengers; The Vision, Black Panther, Quicksilver, and Goliath II, have already arrived to protect a local scientist with a top-secret invention from a planned kidnapping!

Arriving just in time for the Rutland Halloween Parade (which the professor is participating in) the heroes encounter the Masters of Evil, who are now on the verge of victory...

For the record, the Enchantress did survive.
Bad girls (and guys) have a knack for that sort of thing!
Written by Roy Thomas, penciled by John Buscema, and inked by Tom Palmer, Marvel's Avengers #83 (1970s) introduced the Rutland Halloween Parade into comics lore where it remained for a couple of decades!
At least one comic would set a tale at the parade every Halloween until the mid-1990s!
It's reappeared occasionally since then...
BTW, The Lady Liberators returned almost a half-century later, but that's a story for another time...

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Halloween Heroines LADY LIBERATORS "Come On In...the Revolution's Fine!" Part 1

The very first time the Rutland Halloween Parade (which features comic book characters) appeared in comics...

...was this tale, which didn't even mention the parade itself on the cover...or the fact it takes place on Halloween!

Keep in mind this was 1970, and the Women's Liberation movement was on the rise!

Actually, this sort of lab accident is a lot more common in comics than in real life.

And unlike in real life, in comics it usually results in this...

(Take everything the Valkyrie says with a grain of salt...)

Real-life Parade organizer and comics uber-fan Tom Fagan usually dressed up as Batman for the parade, but since this isn't a DC comic, they put him in the garb of Marvel's "evil Batman", NightHawk of the Squadron Sinister (itself an evil version of the Justice League)!

If you're too young to understand the reference to "Mrs Peel" who was part of the other Avengers, read HERE.

She's a heroine we'll have to do a post or two on in the future!
One other thing, the big guy is not Henry Pym, The Wasp's husband and the original Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/YellowJacket (don't ask) or Scott Lang/Ant-Man II, but Clint Barton aka Hawkeye, who gave up archery for awhile to become Goliath II.
He went back to being Hawkeye a year later.

Things aren't going too well for the superheroes!

So where are the superHEROINES?

Be here

TOMORROW

as they make their decidedly-dramatic entrance!

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