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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Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
My god. 11 years before Animal Man met Grant Morrison.
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Replying to @St_Rev
The first two volumes of Man-Thing are really ahead of their time. Kind of amazed they got published.
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Replying to @GrumplessGrinch @St_Rev
"murdered by a ghost pirate" seems oddly specific
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Replying to @random_eddie @St_Rev
The ghost pirate in question was a Florida sheriff possessed by a magic sword. I ran out of characters though.
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