According to Nova's creator, Marv Wolfman, the story of Nova begins around 1966. As the publisher of a superhero fanzine called SUPER ADVENTURES, Wolfman created a character known as "The Star" in issue #3. The Star was a doctor named Denteen who found a spaceship containing alien pills which gave him a different super-power every five minutes. A MAN CALLED NOVA #4 “Nova Against the Mighty Thor!” Writer/ Editor : Marv Wolfman Sal Buscema and Tom Palmer, “artists supreme” Watanabe & Wohl, letters Colorist: Michele Wolfman Who amongst us hasn’t imagined zooming into high school from the skies? Another dreaded math test awaits our patrol-happy hero, who shakes off his grogginess to see girlfriend Ginger crossing the street in front of a huge truck. (Feel free to insert your “daydream of saving cute girl in the row beside you during alien/ villain attack at school” here.) He discovers that bringing a speeding Mack to a standstill is just a bit beyond him (but hey, las...

I'm wrapping up the last part of my trilogy of Marvel/ TRANZ crossover universe tales, as detailed in this blog! The following cartoon is a prototype, utilizing handy resources and simple ideas together with my illustrations. The action sequence in "Ghosts of the Deviant Stronghold!" is the basis for this animation; thanks to Marc Kane for the suggestion! Have a great day, Lue Lyron

Enchantress knows the immobile Destroyer is of little use. “This grotesque form can be resumed easily enough; yet I draw now into my eternally beauteous body” she thinks, transferring back into the body she’s brought back to within an arm’s length, with but a pass of her hand. Before the Enchantress touches the ground, she levitates, fully possessed of her own consciousness, outside the stone-frozen Destroyer. “How much this pleases me,” she coos, “to have you all now beside me, free of that loathsomely obsessed form!” There is no defensiveness in her posture, effortlessly displaying her most charming self as the remaining Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America approach her from thirty or so yards away. She Hulk digs into the stones fallen beside the dazed Grey Gargoyle, who takes several of these to the head. Determined to reach the person on the other side, she quickly excavates Sgt. Holt out of rubble. She also takes a formidable boulder and throws it at sputtering Midnight Sun...