#5: “What If… Captain America Hadn’t Vanished During World War Two?”.#4: “What If… The Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War Two?”.#3: “What If… The Avengers Had Never Been?”.#2: “What If… the Hulk Had The Brain of Bruce Banner?”. Continued in What If? (1989) #21, 35, and Paradise X: Heralds (2001).#1: “What If… Spider-Man Had Joined The Fantastic Four?”.Our full list of recommendations is at the top of this guide, but I’ve marked a few special issues below in bold. Meanwhile, Mark Gruenwald & Ron Wilson pushed the bounds of What If comics by connecting issues #23-28 into a cinematic saga featuring The Eternals!įor What If comic collections, check out What If…? Classic (reprints the full 1977 run), What If…? The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (reprints the full 1977 run), and Best of What If…? (reprints material from 1977 #1, 8, 24, 27-28, 32, 34, 36). For actual stories, two major standouts include What If #32 and #44. One of the most famous examples is What If #34, a single issue bursting with seventy-five absurd realities. The official What If comics series wouldn’t debut until 1977… and while it started out earnestly, the series quickly devolved into wacky chaos. And remember, these are just imaginary stories… But aren’t they all?įor more related to What If comics and the multiverse, check out our other reading guides, including Multiverse of Madness, Kang the Conqueror and the Spider-Verse!īefore What If, Marvel tested out a number of satirical series which turned the Marvel Universe on its head (these issues have been included in the “ What The–?!” parody section below). Many of these stories also have sequels in other comics, which have been marked as well. Many of the issues have multiple stories, which are all marked below. In the guide below, we will try to make sense of the nonsense. But with so many relaunches and renumberings, it can be confusing to keep track of all these wacky What Ifs! That might look like a lot, but that’s just because they’re all so good! The best What If comics are Marvel masterpieces that re-examine the heart of a well-known story or character through a new lens. Hero Initiative: Mike Wieringo (2008) #1.Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe (1995) #1.What If…? Iron Man: Demon in an Armor (2010) #1.What If…? Spider-Man: The Other (2006) #1.What If… General Ross Had Become the Hulk? (2004) #1.What If… Aunt May Had Died Instead of Uncle Ben? (2004) #1.Gathered below are the answers to the above and more, along with over 500 hokey hypotheticals to inspire your multiversal meditations! What If…? Comics Recommendations: If you’ve ever asked yourself these deep, thought-provoking questions, then this is the guide for you. Welcome to the world of What If, where we ponder the question “What If…?”Īs we travel deeper into the MCU’s Multiverse Saga, now is the perfect time to wrap our minds around the prisms of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities: What if the Fantastic Four were bananas? What if Aunt May was Ant-Man? What if all the Watchers watched Watchers watching Watchers? While seldom a top-selling character on his own, Nova remained a fixture of the Marvel Universe via membership in The New Warriors and a featured role in the epic cosmic miniseries Annihilation.Time. But one image caught fans especially by surprise: An unnamed, untitled, not-otherwise-identified piece of art credited to Francesco Mattina bearing the words "Coming Soon" and the golden helmet of Richard Rider - the original Nova.Ĭreated by Marv Wolfman (adapting an earlier concept from his days in the comic-fanzine scene) in 1976, Nova was essentially a thoroughly Marvel-style riff on DC's Green Lantern concept: Richard Rider was an unlucky teenager who found himself struck by a bolt of energy from deep space, which imbues him with the powers and Centurion armor of The Nova Corps - the intergalactic police force who played a prominent role in Guardians of The Galaxy. By the time Marvel saw the mass-leak of a huge number of covers and teaser-art for upcoming "Marvel NOW!" initiative last night, many of the (identifiable) twists and reveals had already been teased or guessed at elsewhere.
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