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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785117025
ISBN: 0785117024
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: January 12, 2005
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 231199
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Because you demanded it: The first six awe-inspiring issues of the most awesomely offbeat series off all time - collected in one sense-staggering volume. Six titanic tales of triumph and tragedy in the mighty Marvel tradition! What If? (Vol. 1) #1 - What if Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four? What If? (Vol. 1) #2 - What if the Hulk Had Always had Bruce Banner's Brain? What If? (Vol. 1) #3 - What if the Avengers Had Never Been? What If? (Vol. 1) #4 - What if the Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War II? What If? (Vol. 1) #5 - What if Captain America and Bucky Had Both Survived World War II? What If? (Vol. 1) #6 - What if the Fantastic Four Had Different Super-Powers?
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Just recently I started to read comics again and this series was on my to buy/read list. I ordered this book shortly after and it really was a good book. It consists of 6 what if stories that ask what if something different happened in the marvel Universe. This book has:
What if Spiderman joined the Fantastic 4?: This based off an old issue of Spiderman where he almost joined the first family of Marvel but in the end he didnt. But what if he did. How much would be different? This story ... Read More
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I agree this should have been an Essentials offering. But it's a fun read never the less and it paved the way for stronger stories in later issues. As far as expectations maybe we are too jaded in this new century to appreciate what Roy Thomas and other's were doing. These stories shake the foundations of Marvel legend and take them to another place. I agree that they don't all work but the ones that do are great to visit again.
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What If? was one of Marvel's better ideas from the 70's. The best thing about this concept was that these were NOT "imaginary stories", instead, these stories REALLY occured, just in some alternative universe.
That being said, the early What If stories are somewhat problematic. Too much time is taken reviewing the events that occured in our reality, taking many valuable pages away from what we really want to know - what happens in the alternate universe.
Also, I agree with ... Read More
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WHAT IF? is one of my favorite series from Marvel, the reason being that I loved the concept. It was a great idea from Roy Thomas in which Uatu, the Watcher, would present the events of the Marvel Universe in alternate realities. Even better, these events usually cast a harder or darker aspect on the characters, which, while pretty far-out, always made me happy that we ended up with the Marvel Universe that we did.
While I consider many WHAT IF? stories to be classics, the early issues ... Read More
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