Introducing Machine Man: Difference between revisions

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===Original printing===

This story repurposes a sequence from the ''Machine Man'' story "Renewal!" (see box at right). In that issue, the two pages of exposition are a flashback from the perspective of Dr Broadhurst as he performs surgery on Machine Man, who is injured and set to detonate after nearly draining all of his power in an altercation with the [[Hulk]].<ref>{{Marvel|Incredible_Hulk_Vol_1_237|''Incredible Hulk'' vol 1 issue 237}}</ref> The first page of "Introducing Machine Man" is repurposed from a schematic of Machine Man's fixed body, as presented by Broadhurst, whose hand is visible in this UK printing even though all of his dialogue is removed. Said dialogue concerns the alterations made to Machine Man to remove several "extraneous testing devices" – i.e., some of his superpowers – in what is presumably a way for the new creative team of [[Marv Wolfman]] and [[Steve Ditko]] to limit the amount of abilities Machine Man displayed under the pen of his creator, {{Marvel|Jack_Kirby|Jack Kirby.}}