After some dithering Odin buys Idunn back from the Storm Giants in exchange for a ring of incalculable power. Then he casts a spell to make everyone forget the preceding events, thus sowing the seeds of Ragnarok. All because he wanted to stiff some laborers. Thor #295, 1980.
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Richard Rider's father plans to turn state's evidence on the shadowy criminal conspiracy that lured him into crime, so the first thing he does is to go meet them alone in the middle of the night to tell them that. Nova #20, 1978.
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Nova breaks into the apartment of a couple minor criminals (through the wall) and tortures them for information. Earlier that day he was celebrating barely passing a high school math test. Nova #20, 1978.
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"How do you filthy murderers plead?" The Skrulls are conducting a show trial for the Fantastic Four again. Fantastic Four #206, 1979.
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Terrorists from Definitely Not Saudi Arabia bomb multiple New York landmarks. Power Man and Iron Fist #59-60, 1979.
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Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are kidnapped by dad #2, the gypsy shaman Django Maximoff. (Dad #1 was Bob Frank, the original Whizzer.) Avengers #182, 1979.
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Bill Foster, Black Goliath, changes his name to Giant-Man (the original Giant-Man, Hank Pym, goes by Yellowjacket now) at the suggestion of the Thing, who notes that "it's pretty obvious that you're black". Marvel Two-In-One #55, 1979.
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Jean Grey kills five billion innocent (alien) people and the X-Men stand together to defend her from the alien empire whose people she slaughtered. Uncanny X-Men #137, 1980.
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"If believing in your god, Nightcrawler, means accepting the existence of this place, I am now glad I was raised an atheist." Colossus, touring hell in Dante's footsteps with the rest of the X-Men. X-Men Annual #4, 1980.
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Chris Claremont, author of this issue, is murdered by a ghost pirate, chained up in a hell dimension, and transformed into the Man-Thing, in which form he destroys a primordial evil, thus restoring his life and human form. Then his editor cancels the book. Man-Thing #11, 1981.
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My god. 11 years before Animal Man met Grant Morrison.
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The first two volumes of Man-Thing are really ahead of their time. Kind of amazed they got published.
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