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===Artwork and technical errors=== |
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*Myriad U.S. spellings slip through this issue, including "realize", "utilizes", "realizing", "ionized", "pulverize", and "energize". All the z's! |
*Myriad U.S. spellings slip through this issue, including "realize", "utilizes", "realizing", "ionized", "pulverize", and "energize". All the z's! |
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*On the first page, "monstrous" is misspelled as "monsterous". |
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*It's probably an over-correction that a sign outside a New York-based facility reads "Alternative Resources Centre" rather than "Center". |
*It's probably an over-correction that a sign outside a New York-based facility reads "Alternative Resources Centre" rather than "Center". |
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*As Machine Man dodges Ion in the meat market, his "She's right" is missing an ending punctuation mark. |
*As Machine Man dodges Ion in the meat market, his "She's right" is missing an ending punctuation mark. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics | |||||||||||||||
| Published in | The Transformers issue 10 issue 11 | |||||||||||||||
| First published | 26th January, 1985 (part 1) 9th February, 1985 (part 2) | |||||||||||||||
| Writer | Tom DeFalco | |||||||||||||||
| Artist | Steve Ditko | |||||||||||||||
| Colours | Doc Martin | |||||||||||||||
| Letters | Parker | |||||||||||||||
| Editor | Dennis O'Neil | |||||||||||||||
| Editor-in-chief | Jim Shooter | |||||||||||||||
A conventionally attractive physicist accidentally turns herself into a gruesome gaseous being and decides to make it everyone else's problem.
Synopsis
Part 1
Part 2
Featured characters
| Regular cast | Antagonists | Incidentals | The Fantastic Four |
|---|---|---|---|
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Delmar Insurance |
Quotes
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Notes
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Original printing
- Machine Man (vol 1) issue 14, June 1980
This was Tom DeFalco's first issue penning Machine Man. The credits are drawn into the opening splash page, appearing on diegetic pieces of rubble.
Edits
- Pages 1-2 and 6-7 of part 1 are printed in black and white.
- The side bar on the first splash page has been altered from "special guest star issue" to the plural "issues".
- "Doc Martin's" credit is changed to "colours" from "colors", which required a little more effort than is usual due to the aforementioned diegetic pieces of rubble.
- On page 3, "caliber" is corrected to "calibre".
- Instances of Dr Todd's workplace read "Alternative Resources Centre", as opposed to "center". On page 6, "analyze" becomes "analyse".
- Pages 1-3 and 6-8 of part 2 are printed in black and white.
- "The Muppets" is changed to "Dallas", and "KISS" is changed to "ABBA". (See #Real-life references).
Artwork and technical errors
- Myriad U.S. spellings slip through this issue, including "realize", "utilizes", "realizing", "ionized", "pulverize", and "energize". All the z's!
- On the first page, "monstrous" is misspelled as "monsterous".
- It's probably an over-correction that a sign outside a New York-based facility reads "Alternative Resources Centre" rather than "Center".
- As Machine Man dodges Ion in the meat market, his "She's right" is missing an ending punctuation mark.
- The Human Torch's fireballs pass straight through Ion, because she is "a gaseous being of charged hydrogen". In real life, hydrogen is hella flammable.
- In the meat locker, Ion's speech bubble splits the word "destruction" over a line break, transforming it into "des-tructruction".
Continuity errors
- The previous story had a plot point whereby Peter phoned Aaron from his apartment. This story begins with the two of them getting ready in tandem, Peter referring to Aaron as his roommate. (Oh my god, they were roommates.)
Continuity notes
Real-life references
- The narration compares Ion to a will-o-the-wisp.
- Aaron quips that if he dies, he'll have seen his last episode of Dallas. In the original U.S. version, he would instead have seen his last episode of "The Muppets".
- The narration refers to the Fantastic Four as "the most famous foursome in the world! (No, we don't mean ABBA!)" Again, the U.S. version featured a different reference in the form of KISS.
