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Brian Floyd
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Posted: 11 February 2025 at 4:39am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I thought it would be interesting if they did a story where the Leader and Mad Thinker met, and decided to switch foes.

Though I suspect the FF would defeat the Leader faster than the Hulk would.
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Posted: 11 February 2025 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Brian, you just put an idea in my head! Have The Leader, The Mad Thinker, and The (Wingless) Wizard form a villainous group called "The Think Tank." LOL! 
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Posted: 11 February 2025 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Matt - that is funny but there was a team up of villains: Leader, Thinker, Wizard, Modok, Red Ghost and a few more called the "intelligence" in the Jeff Parker Hulk run - great minds :)

I like Jeff Parker as a writer - very old school sensibility. Does not ignore continuity but is not hamstrung by it nor does he make it feel like homework. Worth checking out.
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Posted: 12 February 2025 at 12:27am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Jean, thanks for the info. I had to check on when Parker wrote the Hulk. It appears he was on the book when I still had my brick and mortar shop, and I did order the series, but never got around to reading to issues, it appears. I will have to check them out sometime.
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Posted: 12 February 2025 at 3:16am | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Wasn’t there a Spidey Intellectual Stories in the comedy issue of What If?
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Matt: 
Even though it deals with the Red Hulk for part of his run - I think you will enjoy the Jeff Parker run on hulk - old school style writing with fun ties to Marvel continuity: Machine Man, the Eternals, etc.

I also really enjoyed his various Agents of Atlas mini series which dealt with that 1950s iteration of the Avengers from What if (Marvel Boy, Venus, the Robot, etc). Again a nice modern use of Marvel history in fun stories. Great clean line art by Leonard Kirk as well.
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I would have liked to see The Leader as part of the selected group in Acts of Vegeance.
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