"Lee and Kirby set the standard for out-of-this-world imaginative adventure and launched the Marvel Universe in the pages of Fantastic Four. Now, with all the MU super hero players in place, it's time for the FF to run the gauntlet. The Thing throws down with the Hulk in a battle so huge it takes the combined might of the FF and the Avengers to stop it! The Sub-Mariner makes a play for Sue Storm! The FF tangle with the X-Men! Nick Fury drops by in...

Collects Incredible Hulk Annual (1968) #14-15, material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #29. Strange changes for the Hulk! Doc Samson has a wild plan to separate Bruce Banner and the Hulk for good - but can Banner survive without his emerald alter ego? And can the planet survive a rampaging, Banner-less Hulk? As the Avengers battle the behemoth, a new team of Hulkbusters forms - and Bruce, seemingly free at last, finally finds happiness with Betty Ross!...

Collects Iron Man (1968) #310-318, War Machine (1994) #8-10, Force Works (1994) #6-7, Iron Man/Force Works Collectors' Preview (1994) #1, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #169-172. Iron Man vs. War Machine! When Tony Stark tries to take back Jim Rhodes' armor, the only winner in their fight is the one of Tony's oldest enemies! As the Mandarin's sinister plot unfolds, his deadly Avatars attack Iron Man's team Force Works - and wielding the...

Collects Fear (1970) #27-31; Marvel Premiere (1972) #28; Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #15; Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #6-8, 38; Savage She-Hulk (1980) #9-12; material from Vampire Tales (1973) #9-11, Annual (1975) #1; Marvel Preview (1975) #8. The first era in the dark saga of Marvel's living vampire concludes! Morbius must save Martine Bancroft from the other-dimensional clutches of Helleyes, while CIA agent Simon Stroud stalks him at every turn!...

"Cursed by an experiment gone wrong, Dr. Michael Morbius is possessed by an unquenchable thirst for blood, yet his heart beats like any other man. He is a living vampire! From his first appearance and solo color comic through his black-and-white adventures, this Epic Collection begins Morbius' tragic adventure into fear. The sometimes mad, sometimes misunderstood doctor contends not just with super heroes but bizarre cultists and satanic demons. They're...

"He's the best there is at what he does--but what he does isn't very nice. Feeling the urge to cut loose, Wolverine travels to Madripoor and takes on the ruthless crime lord Roche, meets the cunning Tyger Tiger among other bad guys"--

"Chris Claremont reunites with Dave Cockrum for another run of X-Men classics! They put the all-new, all-different mutants they made famous into an action-packed pressure cooker through Arcade, Dr. Doom and Garokk that blows its top with the return of Magneto in an anniversary extravaganza!"--

Throughout his Avengers run, Steve Englehart slowly built the mysterious Mantis into one of '70s Marvel's most intriguing characters. Here, her tale reaches its cosmic climax in a saga spanning space and time: "The Celestial Madonna!" When Kang the Conqueror arrives, the action begins. Before it's over, Kang, Rama-Tut and Immortus will have you time-twisted in two. And that's just for starters! The origin of the Vision is revealed, and he and the...

Collects Avengers West Coast (1989) #53-64, Avengers West Coast Annual (1989) #5, Avengers (1963) #311-313; material from Avengers Annual (1967) #19, What The--?! (1988) #6. The future is at stake in this pivotal tale in the saga of the Scarlet Witch! After months of trauma, Wanda Maximoff suffers a nervous breakdown - and descends into madness. Manipulated by Magneto, Wanda has turned on her teammates! Can the West Coast Avengers save her sanity...