The Revengers is the name of different fictional teams appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
31-637: The Revengers is a team of supervillains who were formed to fight A-Next in the MC2 series A-Next . They were created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz . The Revengers is also the name of the Avengers in Earth-665, the setting of Marvel's parody comic Not Brand Echh . In September 2011, an Earth-616 version of the Revengers led by Wonder Man appears. They were created by Brian Michael Bendis . In
62-618: A #-1 issue) the second series revisited and revised ideas from volume 1. In volume 2, stories could span multiple issues (every issue of volume 1 contained a complete story). Also, sometimes, the volume 2 stories would offer multiple plots and endings and the reader could decide which one to adopt. For example, in What If the War Machine had not destroyed the Living Laser ? , three endings were offered. The humorous aspect of volume 1
93-897: A Bow and Arrows? Collected in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol 9 What If? Daredevil Had a Dishonest Tailor? What If? the Punisher Got Funky? What If? Ghost Rider Hit a Puddle? What If? Daredevil (untitled) What If... Namor Worked As a Stunt Double for Mr. Spock? Collected in Giant-Size X-Men 40th Anniversary What If? The Human Torch and Iceman were Partners? (humor special with 23 stories) Collected in X-Men: Alterniverse Visions What If? Wolverine Was
124-670: A Real Job? Collected in Secret Wars Omnibus Collected in Marvel Universe by Rob Liefeld Omnibus What If... Captain America Hadn't Been Thawed Out? What If... the Punisher Didn't Use Guns? Collected in Giant-Size X-Men 40th Anniversary What If? The Thing's body kept mutating? What If... The Thing Were an Elvis Presley Impersonator? What If... Hawkeye Used Golf Clubs Instead of
155-644: A new outfit and eventually returns to her old one. Following Spider-Geddon it is revealed that the Multiversal entity known as The Other has chosen and sought Peter as its host, thus resurrecting him. The MC2 Universe also appears in the Secret Wars event in the Spider-Island tie-in backup. DeFalco explained in an interview his views on the MC2 imprint: The Pulse : "A lot of people characterize
186-597: A point where, in the Fantastic Four comic book, Uatu was punished for destroying another Watcher. This made the use of Uatu improbable, so the character was phased out to its last appearance in issue #76. Without a framing device , the stories themselves became the focus. In later series, some writers chose to introduce alternative narrators. For example, in volume 3, in What If Karen Page Had Lived? , What If Jessica Jones Had Joined
217-698: A possible future depicted in Marvel Comics 2 , wherein several Avengers were killed while on a mission and A-Next was formed to replace them, Hank Pym and the Wasp 's children Hope Pym and Henry Pym Jr. use their parents' technology to replicate their powers to oppose A-Next, with Hope becoming the Red Queen and Pym Jr. Big Man . Additionally, she creates the energy-based villain Ion Man and recruits supervillains Killerwatt and Sabreclaw to help them form
248-621: Is a comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics whose stories explore how the Marvel Universe might have unfolded if key moments in its history had not occurred as they did in mainstream continuity. Since What If debuted in 1977, the comics have been published in 14 series as well as occasional stand-alone issues. In 2024, Marvel announced that What If…? would expand to include alternate explorations of continuity within other non-Marvel Universe properties owned by their parent company The Walt Disney Company from its fifteenth volume onwards, beginning with Aliens: What If…? , based on
279-649: The Alien franchise . In 2021, an animated series based on the What If comics premiered on Disney+ , set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 's multiverse . The stories of the inaugural series (1977–1984) feature the alien Uatu , the Watcher as a narrator . From his base on the Moon , Uatu observes both Earth and alternate realities . Most What If stories begin with Uatu describing an event in
310-747: The Cancerverse , the Revengers originally existed as their reality's Avengers before they were corrupted by their version of Captain Marvel , who turned them into servants of the Many-Angled Ones . They are later destroyed by Thanos and Death . In Earth-616, the Revengers exists as an antihero group formed and led by Wonder Man and consisting of Anti-Venom , Atlas , Captain Ultra , Century , Demolition Man , Devil-Slayer , Ethan Edwards , and Goliath . Due to his powers making him believe that
341-523: The Avengers are not helping the world, Wonder Man forms the Revengers to stop them. In pursuit of his goal, he leads the group in attacking Avengers Mansion and Stark Tower and defeat the New Avengers . However, Iron Man traps Wonder Man in a stasis container before Thor teleports the Revengers to Citi Field to minimize casualties. There, the Avengers, New Avengers, and Secret Avengers defeat
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#1732773058941372-675: The Avengers? and in Daredevil (2005), Brian Michael Bendis , the writer himself, makes a cameo as narrator. In the early 2006 series, a hacker , whose online alias is "the Watcher", opens each of the six issues. Marvel has given several What If stories official numerical designations to make them contiguous with the Marvel Multiverse and differentiate them from the main Marvel Universe of Earth-616 . Marvel Comics occasionally issued backup features, Untold Tales from
403-542: The Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol 5 Collected in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol 6 Following the cancellation of the original series, Marvel published a one-shot What If? Special (June 1988) with the story "What If Iron Man Had Been a Traitor?". It is collected in What If? Into the Multiverse Omnibus Vol 1. From July 1989 to November 1998, Marvel published 115 monthly What If issues (114 issues plus
434-542: The MC2 universe as having an 'old school' feel. Why do you think "modern" comic readers want to read something that feels like the best of the Silver Age?" DeFalco : "We are 'old school' because A) our heroes act like heroes…B) we don’t believe in decompression …C) we tell single-issue stories with subplots that build from issue to issue… and D) there’s a lot of action and angst in every issue." What If (comics) What If , sometimes stylized as What If…? ,
465-561: The Marvel Universe . These stories explained the origins of some of Marvel's superhuman species. The initial 47-issue series ran from February 1977 to October 1984. The first What If story was "What If Spider-Man had Joined the "Fantastic Four?". It presented an alternate version of events seen in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (1963). What If #24, which is titled "What If Gwen Stacy had lived?" and focuses on
496-453: The Revengers before she and Pym Jr. lead them in attacking surviving Avengers. However, A-Next's reserve members defeat the Revengers, with Pym Jr. turning himself in and helping defeat Hope. As of Last Planet Standing , the Revengers have replaced Pym Jr. with Magneta and resumed their fight with A-Next until Galactus arrives to destroy Earth. Most of the Revengers escape, though Sabreclaw defects to A-Next to help them fight Galactus. In
527-806: The Revengers, who are imprisoned in the Raft . In New Avengers vol. 4, the Maker forms the New Revengers to battle the eponymous New Avengers, initially recruiting Asti the All-Seeing, Paibok , Vermin , White Tiger , alternate universe variants of Angar the Screamer and Skar, and O.M.N.I.T.R.O.C.U.S. Amidst a battle between A.I.M. and S.H.I.E.L.D. , the Maker sends the New Revengers to attack
558-548: The book was again canceled due to low sales. A third title, The Spectacular Spider-Girl , was then launched. Initially a digital exclusive, the Spectacular book was incorporated into the Amazing Spider-Man Family anthology magazine. After Amazing Spider-Man Family and its successor, Web of Spider-Man , folded, a final four-issue Spectacular Spider-Girl mini-series was produced, allowing many of
589-602: The collapse of a deal to sell the comics in Kmart and Target both Fantastic Five and Wild Thing were canceled after five issues, leaving Spider-Girl as the only title in the MC2 Universe still published. A few spin-off limited series were launched during the time Spider-Girl was published, such as Darkdevil and Spider-Girl Presents The Buzz . The Spider-Girl title was nearly canceled several times due to low sales. Each time, campaigns by Tom DeFalco and fans of
620-1390: The consequences of Spider-Man's secret identity being publicly exposed, is one of the most highly regarded What If stories. Collected in Invaders Omnibus Collected in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol 4 Collected in The Eternals: The Complete Saga Omnibus Collected in Phoenix Omnibus and Dark Phoenix Saga Omnibus Collected in Marvel Masterworks Daredevil Vol 16 and Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Omnibus Collected in Marvel Masterworks: Dazzler Vol. 2 and Dazzler Omnibus Collected in Marvel Masterworks Daredevil Vol. 16; Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson; and What If: Dark Avengers Collected in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus Vol Collected in Nova: Richard Rider Omnibus Collected in Conan
651-663: The definitive continuity of the MC2 Spider-Man timeline. However, the Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man strips were quickly ended so the Spider-Man Family title could make room for the relaunched Spider-Girl book. American Dream has appeared in both her own 2008 limited series and the 2011 five-issue limited series Captain America Corps , marking the first time an MC2 character has met or teamed up with characters from
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#1732773058941682-471: The former and the New Avengers. However, Toni Ho kills Skar while A.I.M. and the New Avengers defeat most of the New Revengers, though the Maker escapes. Marvel Comics 2 Marvel Comics 2 was an imprint from Marvel Comics whose comic books depict an alternative future timeline for the Marvel Universe . The imprint was spun off from the events of What If? #105 (February 1998), which
713-551: The line was to produce comic books that were more accessible to a wider audience than Marvel's main line of books and weren't entrenched in years of continuity, which was later repeated with the Ultimate Marvel imprint. Three MC2 titles were launched in October 1998 as twelve-issue maxiseries: A-Next and J2 ended after twelve issues and were replaced by: Spider-Girl meanwhile continued publication. However, with
744-458: The long-running plot threads from the book to be tied up. The final MC2-oriented story to date, a one-shot called Spider-Girl: The End , was published in 2010, which gave the title character a happy ending while leaving the door open for further adventures. In 2008, a prequel strip, Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man , was launched in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man Family . DeFalco confirmed on the official Spider-Girl boards that this strip would serve as
775-466: The mainstream Marvel Universe, then introducing a point of divergence in that event and then describing the consequences of the divergence. Some stories diverge from another divergence, such as What If Vol 1 #43 ( Conan the Barbarian remains in the modern era), which diverges from #13 (Conan travels to then returns from the modern era). Uatu was used similarly in the second series (1989–1998) until
806-666: The mainstream Marvel universe. Spider-Girl returned in the Spider-Verse storyline in 2014. During the story, it was revealed that when she traveled back in time to meet Spider-Man in his youth in her original series, she had entered Earth-616, the mainstream Marvel universe, before the point which it branched out into the MC2 universe. Her father, however, unfortunately died protecting May and Benjy from Daemos. As Daemos drained Peter's life force, May fled with Ben in her arms. Upon May's return home, Mary Jane passes Peter's former costume down to her, though Mayday eventually begins wearing
837-543: The new character was popular enough for a spin-off series. From this, the MC2 line of publications were developed. For a brief period between 1995 and 1996, all What If? stories were labeled as Marvel Alterniverse which included the likes of Ruins , The Last Avengers Story and Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe . What If... Franklin Richards Had Found the Hammer of Thor? What If... Wolverine Got
868-446: The title prevented cancelation. Fans created a webpage, savespidergirl.com, to help drum up support for the book. In an effort to boost sales on the title, Marvel reprinted Spider-Girl in small " Digest-sized " trade paperbacks . A five-issue limited series set in the MC2 Universe titled Last Hero Standing was printed. In 2006, Marvel released another limited series set in the MC2 Universe titled Last Planet Standing . The series
899-408: Was intended to wrap up all the loose ends in the MC2 Universe and destroy it at the series' conclusion. As a result, Spider-Girl was slated to be canceled at issue 100, where the character would die. Due to backlash from DeFalco and fans, Marvel quashed the move and announced the relaunching of Spider-Girl under the title of Amazing Spider-Girl . The "Amazing" title lasted until early 2009, when
930-435: Was retained through volume 2, particularly in issue #34, an all-humor issue containing a number of single-page gags and two complete stories. Starting with issue #87, the issue titles stopped being questions that were answered by the story, and instead the covers were presented as "What If? Starring…" whatever character was being highlighted in the given issue. In issue #105, What If introduced Spider-Girl (Mayday Parker);
961-428: Was the first appearance of the character Spider-Girl , Spider-Man 's daughter from an alternative future. This Earth has been designated as Earth-982 . The MC2 Universe was conceived by writer/editor Tom DeFalco as a possible alternate future for the Marvel Universe, set in the present day, with the first appearances of most Marvel heroes having taken place fifteen years earlier than in main continuity. The goal of