It ’s been over 50 years since Marvel effectively start the SilverAge of funnies , and while the company has had its ups and downs , their outputcannot be denied : Spider - Man , X - Men , Fantastic Four , the Avengers — theircontributions to pop culture have been tremendous . But not every comic Marvelpublished was a chef-d’oeuvre — in fact , some are n’t even good . And some are sobad that Marvel would like to guess never existed at all . Here are 10 ofthem .
1 ) U.S. # 1
It only took five years after the success of thecross - nation truckin ’ movie Smokey andthe Bandit for Marvel to capitalize on the hit movie by introducing UlyssesS. Archer to the Marvel universe . I take over most of that time was spent trying to figure out a direction toseamlessly summate a super - powered hand truck driver alongside Spider - Man and CaptainAmerica , until they just said “ fuck it ” and give him a metal head that pickedup C.B. radio waves . Oh , and his pal was an evil teamster who call off himselfthe Highwayman , was given powers by extraterrestrial , and ended up crash his truckinto the moon . Here ’s how fondly Marvel loves U.S. # 1 : The Highwayman in reality made an visual aspect in Ghost Rider a few years ago , while thecomic ’s title of respect character does n’t even have an official bio pageboy .
2 ) Avataars : Covenantof the Shield
The Shaper of Worlds , the Living Tribunal , and a few otherMarvel divinity fudge were tire one day when they decide to essentially play Dungeons & Dragons . Rather than pluck out a bag of d20s , they created Eurth , afantasy edition of Marvel Earth , where Captain Avalon and the Champions of theRealm ( a.k.a . the Avengers ) ran around fighting bad medieval bozo . This is thesort of ludicrous idea that can either be great or terrible ; since Avataars was planned to be a 12 - issueseries and petered out at three , I assume you know how it ended up . It didn’thelp that when Marvel write it in 2000 , it was already preposterouslybroke . They should n’t have spent all that money putting an extra “ A ” in“Avatars . ”
3 ) Onyx : Fight
Was there any musical group more pop in the ’ 90s thanOnyx ? Yes . There were many of them , in reality . And yet Marvel chose to draw acomic about the post - apocalyptic adventures of rapper Sticky Fingaz , FredroStarr and Sonsee as they defend alien and unsound guys in the ruins of New YorkCity , give ear with “ The Gurlz , ” and rap , amidst a bevy of ebonics - laden narrationboxes . Against all betting odds , somehow Onyx ’s battle lasted only a single government issue .
4 ) fuss
This 2005 comic is so aptly refer it ’s almost unfair . Marveltried to do two thing with Trouble:1 ) contribute back romance comics , which had n’t been popular since the ’ 50s , and 2)re - jiggermast Spider - Man ’s origin for … for some reason , I infer . They failed onboth enumeration , despite hire noted romantic and purveyor of beauty Mark Millaras writer . The comic was about Peter Parker ’s parents , as well as Aunt May andUncle Ben , as teenagers who fucked a great deal . Despite completely corner the“people who want to read about Aunt May having sexuality ” marketplace , the risible endedafter five issues .
5 ) woolgatherer
More like “ Feverdreamers . ” That ’s the only style anyone wouldthink to team up up Reed and Sue ’s super - mutant boy Franklin Richards , Howard theDuck , Artie the mutant that peach in images , and Man - Thing together . The comictook position after Onslaught basically killed most of Marvel ’s heroes , includingFranklin ’s parents ; then he was sent to Xavier ’s School for talented tiddler , met up with this multicolour crew , and basically ended up in a virtual realitycreated by Franklin ’s mind ( power - wise , Franklin make Phoenix look like U.S.#1 ) , full of terrible , Marvel - esque mockery or The Wizard of Oz , Dr. Seuss , and more . It ’s all an attempt byFranklin ’s head to accept his parents ’ death , personified by a “ Dark Hunter”that keeps endeavor to kill everybody . Marvel thought they had a striking on theirhands when the Daydreamers came together in GenerationX , and hold the scamp their own series , which was immediately canceledafter military issue # 3 .
6 ) NFL Superpro
Man , Marvel must have thought they ’d hit a gold mine in 1991 whenthey team up up with the NFL to get together on a unexampled football - theme superhero . Kids loved superheroes . Tons of masses loved pro football . How could NFL Superpronot be a success ? Because people who like football generally do n’t give a shitabout comic strip , and vice versa , I hypothesize . It did n’t facilitate that writer FabianNicieza did n’t give a diddly about the series either , fully admit later thathe created the serial publication solely to score detached football game tickets . uproariously , the comicsmarket in 1991 was still so laughably strong that NFL Superpro made it 12 full issues before he was sacked , never toreturn .
7 ) Marville
In 2002 , Peter David and Bill Jemas had a wager to see whichof their series was more democratic — David ’s CaptainMarvel serial , or Jemas ’ comical industriousness parody serial Marville . Eventually , new chairperson Joe Quesada got in on theaction , defend new author Ron Zimmerman ’s Ultimate Adventures , but more onthat in a sec . Marvel put it to the fans with their “ U - Decide ” movement , whichleft the pick of which comic would survive in their hands . I feign theythought the fans would vote for which comedian would stay , but the fans actuallydecided to take out the middleman and plainly refused to buy Marville . Trying to summarize Marvilleis sample to summarize shooting diacetylmorphine directly into your adrenal gland;suffice it to say it starred Kal - AOL Turner , son of media mogul Ted , RushLimbaugh , some odd opinion on religion , Greg Horn ’s preposterously terrible cheesecake book binding ( none risky than the one at the top of the page ) , and , most inexplicably , thesubmissions guide to Marvel ’s former Almighty - owned label , Epic . It is also about500 % less interesting than I ’m make it sound .
- UltimateAdventures
The sole Ultimate risible series that was not a reimaginingof regular Marvel eccentric , UltimateAdventures was the brainchild of Howard Stern writer Ron Zimmerman , whotook the opportunity to write about a Batman and Robin mockery , where Batman was evenmore psychotic than usual and Robin was unbearably obnoxious . It ’s not theworld ’s most cagy estimate , but it could be just if handled correctly ; Zimmermandidn’t , taking almost a twelvemonth and a half to release six outlet of the mediocrecomedy . give that Zimmerman may have already been the most hat man in comicsat that pointedness for his unpopular Spider - Man story about Kraven the Hunter ’s sonbeing a Hollywood grown - shot and his willingness to debate with fans on theinternet , Quesada ’s championing of Zimmerman was basically just a huge fiascofor him during his early days as EiC.
9 ) The SwimsuitIssues
I do n’t lie with for sure that Marvel is ashamed of the four different“swimsuit issues ” they published in the ’ 90s , but I sense they should be . I acknowledge drawing Jean Grey , She - Hulk , Storm and the residual of Marvel ’s superheroines in tiny swimsuits andeven more physically unsufferable aphrodisiacal poses that they ’re usually put in madethem some serious bank , but at what cost to their souls ? I assume someone thereknew it was sketchy , because 1 ) they lay off take a shit them in 1995 , and 2)they’ve never collected them . About the best thing you could say about them wasthat the manlike superheroes also bust evenly tiny , revealing , ridiculousswimsuits . But if Marvel does n’t finger ashamed of the swimsuits issues in general , then they still definitely need to be ashamed of the picture above .
10 ) Billy Ray Cyrus
In the ’ 90s , Marvel try out with publication comics ofpopular musicians with their Marvel Music embossment . Most with reasonablybiographical , and then some were more out there , like the aforementioned Onyx : Fight . But nothing was moreridiculous than the 48 - page chef-d’oeuvre of madness simply titled Billy RayCyrus , which featured the country music star and future terrible fathertraveling through clock time to fight ghosts , dragon , and evil horse , with nothingbutthe greatest mullet that has ever been have in the comics medium . Iassume Marvel is less than enthused to have written a comedian where a countrymusic star meets Merlin and drags a random couple into basically doing afrontier life LARP with him , but honestly , this comic should be celebrated forthe mullet ’s sake , if nothing else .
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