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Death Of A Hero
All that is now left to say of the Kree Captain, by way of a eulogy is to paraphrase George Harrison, "Mar-Vell is a dead man…miss him…miss him." ********** We wanted to reprint this article now, especially given that we recently learned that two other comicbook superheroes are stricken with cancer; Joe Martino's The Mighty Titan, and[...]
The Response To A Superhero With Cancer
As it turns out, the entire event was (at best) a great tale that was told and (at worse) a calculated marketing event designed to separate rubes from their money. Still, it set a tone, and it got other creators to wondering, what would happen if a hero died? For writer/artist Joe Martino (who was diagnosed[...]