{"id":4297,"date":"2012-07-13T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2012-07-13T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:57:32","slug":"guide-to-marvel-comics-presents-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/guide-to-marvel-comics-presents-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Marvel Comics Presents #70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\"><em>Marvel Comics Presents <\/em> launched in 1988 as an ad-free anthology showcasing four eight-page features, stuffed inside a wrap-around cover. This guide will tell you everything you wanted to know about the series &#8211; and more!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/mcp\/marvel-comics-presents-070.jpg\" alt=\"Marvel Comics Presents #70\" title=\"Marvel Comics Presents #70\" ><br \/>\n<strong>Cover Date<\/strong>: 1991 | <strong>Cover Price<\/strong>: $1.25 | <strong>Cover Artist<\/strong>: Rob Liefeld<\/p>\n<table border=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<center><br \/>\n<strong>Wolverine<\/strong> in &#8220;<em>Acts of Vengeance<\/em>&#8221; part 7<br \/>\nwritten by Howard Mackie<br \/>\nart by Mark Texeira<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Ghost Rider <\/strong>and <strong>Brass <\/strong>take the easy way to the top of the building while <strong>Wolverine <\/strong>and <strong>Yuji <\/strong>(Brass&#8217;s father) take the stairs up. They both meet in the middle and find Brigitte and Jack bound in a room &#8211; surrounded by dozens of armed men. Their leader, <strong>Langley<\/strong>, claims to have orchestrated the whole thing. But, before the men can kill our heroes, <strong>Deathwatch <\/strong>comes across the scene &#8211; wondering why his men have been commandeered without his approval. Bad news for Langley!\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<center><br \/>\n<strong>Shanna<\/strong> in &#8220;<em>The Bush of Ghosts<\/em>&#8221; part 3<br \/>\nwritten by Gerard Jones<br \/>\nart by Paul Gulacy<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Dubose Wilson<\/strong>, jive-talkin&#8217; black marketeer, tries to find the leader of the black diamond market in Zanzibar but doesn&#8217;t get much help from the locals. Meanwhile, his quarry, <strong>Sir Guy Cross-Wallace<\/strong>, prepares for Shanna to find him. And, as predicted, <strong>Shanna <\/strong>is currently breaching his mansion.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<center><br \/>\n<strong>Daredevil<\/strong> in &#8220;<em>Redemption Song<\/em>&#8221; part 2<br \/>\nwritten by Sandy Plunkett<br \/>\nart by Sandy Plunkett with Dwayne Turner<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Daredevil <\/strong>quickly subdues <strong>Ellington <\/strong>and demands a further explanation of his experiment-gone-wrong. He explains that he tested the intelligence-boosting formula on himself and it had granted him the ability to read minds. Now his company, <strong>Octagon<\/strong>, has a warrant out for his arrest and the experimental dogs are after the scientists who created their torment. <strong>Ellington <\/strong>doesn&#8217;t want this power to fall into Octagon&#8217;s hands because he feels it&#8217;s run by greedy men without morals. When the dogs arrive at the lab, <strong>Daredevil <\/strong>confronts them &#8211; and, with DD and the dogs distracted with each other, Ellington slips off into the night with his notes.\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<center><br \/>\n<strong>Dark Star\/Starlight\/Black Widow<\/strong> in<br \/> &#8220;<em>One Into Three Won&#8217;t Go!<\/em>&#8220;<br \/>\nwritten by Robert Campanella<br \/>\nart by Larry Alexander<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSergei Krylov, the <strong>Presence<\/strong>, believes himself to be so powerful that he considers himself a god. And, after all, shouldn&#8217;t a god be granted multiple female companions? It&#8217;s with this in mind, that he takes possession of <strong>Starlight <\/strong>and sends her to capture the <strong>Black Widow <\/strong>and <strong>Darkstar <\/strong>to be his love-slaves. The Black Widow and Darkstar win the ensuing catfight by freeing Starlight&#8217;s mind. Interestingly enough, her heart still belongs to the Presence.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people like to hate on Rob Liefeld but, this is one cool-looking cover! Finally, the title of the Wolverine\/Ghost Rider story starts to make sense. Acts of Vengeance was a crossover where villains took on heroes they didn&#8217;t normally fight in an effort to disorient and defeat them. It&#8217;s finally made clear here that, although Deathwatch&#8217;s goons were being used, Deathwatch wasn&#8217;t the one giving the orders. That was a neat twist to the story &#8211; especially after so many issues seeming to imply that Deathwatch was in charge. The elements of the Shanna story all seem to be coming together nicely &#8211; and the same goes for Daredevil&#8217;s. The events of the Black Widow story take place after events in <em>Quasar <\/em>#19-24. This story goes to show how, clearly, the Presence is completely out of his mind. He sends Starlight to make Darkstar one of his female concubines &#8211; even though she&#8217;s his daughter! 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