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Kevin Pierce
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Here are two of my favorites


Although this story is a mute point, because the clone never died

I thought this one could have been better
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Wayne Osborne
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The first 10 or 12 in the first run were all pretty sweet, especially the Avengers all in Iron Man armor.

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Fernando Carvalho
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Kevin,
my all-time favorite was the one where JB tells us what if the FF got no powers, the monster's hunters scenario, the mole man. Surely Fantastic.
My second favorite was the one where Doc Doom is a hero not a villain.  The NOVA what if got the Walter Simonson's chapter that always keeps me wondering what if MARVEL gives him the Character to rebuild...what if ?
Don't forgetting the one story that is validated in the current universe,...what if Elektra didn't died.
The most ambitious what if, one of my favorite runs, is Reality X (earth X/universe X/paradise X), massive but worth reading.  Even considering that the ending never was what Jim krueger meant to be.

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Michael Norton
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The one where Matt Murdock was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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I agree with Wayne -- "The Armored Avengers" was
the best the series ever produced.
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Eric Kleefeld
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My top three:

1. "What If The Original Marvel Bullpen Had Become The Fantastic Four?"
by Jack Kirby.

2. The one by JB about the FF never getting their powers.

3. The one where Korvac defeats the Avengers and makes them his
pawns, written and laid out by Mark Gruenwald.


Man, What If was a great series. I learned a lot of Marvel continuity just
from reading that title.

I also loved the one-page joke What Ifs, like "What If Tony Stark Had An
Eating Problem Instead of a Drinking Problem?" and "What If Blackbolt
Talked In His Sleep?"
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Joe Zhang
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I didn't like it as a kid. Most of the stories ended in a bad way. 
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Brian Miller
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The Spider-Man clone was my first issues of the series. The JB-penned/ drawn FF with no powers is a favorite as well as Frank and Terry's Elektra living one. The armored Avengers one was pretty cool.
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Brian Miller
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3. The one where Korvac defeats the Avengers and makes them his
pawns, written and laid out by Mark Gruenwald.

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And every character was inked by a different inker. JB did Zeus, IIRC. There were some inkers that got more than one character, tho.

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Eric Keelfeld: 1. "What If The Original Marvel Bullpen Had Become The Fantastic Four?" by Jack Kirby.

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Bit of useless information: apparently, that story was originally supposed to be "What if the Fantastic Four Had Become the Original Marvel Bullpen".

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Noah Smith
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One day when I was home sick from school, my father brought me this, based on the supercool cover:

I didn't understand the "What If?" concept and, since the only Captain America story I'd ever read was the origin of the Red Skull from Bring On the Bad Guys, I hadn't known Captain America HAD been unfrozen and was "alive today."  I thought all his adventures took place in WWII and this was a real story, in continuity, that would allow him to take part in the upcoming "Secret Wars" story I'd heard about.

Well, I eventually figured it out, and, even though I wasn't familiar with the evil replacement Cap who'd been retconned in to explain the 1950s stories, I still love this issue.

Some other faves:

Three a student teacher of mine from fifth grade lent me:

And some I dug during the revival (which was basically "What excuse can we use to kill Spider-Man this time?"), albeit with a grain of salt, now:

 

 

 
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Thomas Mets
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Bit of useless information: apparently, that story was originally supposed to be "What if the Fantastic Four Had Become the Original Marvel Bullpen".

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I'd have really liked to see that one.

I really like these two.

Just an excellent horror story.


Excellent companion to Daredevil #181, and I'm really glad it was reprinted in the third issue of Frank Miller Visionaries.
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