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Marvel Legends
Series Eight

Natasha Romanov is the quintessential spy who came in from the cold. Formerly an agent of the Soviet Union, the felonious femme fatale tangled with a number of heroes – including Iron Man, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Spider-Man and Daredevil. Now, the Black Widow uses her amazing acrobatic abilities and fearsome fighting skills for good. Lured by her beauty, many a man has felt the Widow’s sting.

Natasha Romanov is the quintessential spy who came in from the cold. Formerly an agent of the Soviet Union, the felonious femme fatale tangled with a number of heroes – including Iron Man, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Spider-Man and Daredevil. Now, the Black Widow uses her amazing acrobatic abilities and fearsome fighting skills for good. Lured by her beauty, many a man has felt the Widow’s sting.

A brilliant but arrogant scientist, Victor Von Doom was disfigured when one of his early experiments went horribly awry. Now – his scarred countenance masked by a metal faceplate, his body sheathed in nigh-impenetrable armor – Dr Doom rules the small European country of Latveria with an iron fist. Not content with one nation, his ultimate aspiration is world domination… and the destruction of the fabled Fantastic Four! Dr. Doom possesses the ability, though not-often used, to switch minds with others. Also, he commands a small amount of mystical knowledge.

Once he was Otto Octavius, a brilliant and respected nuclear physicist. Octavius designed and constructed a set of highly advanced robotic arms to assist him in his research. Now able to manipulate radioactive substances from a safe distance, Octavius was dubbed Dr. Octopus by his coworkers. A freak laboratory accident exposed Octavius to intense radioactivity, grafting the mechanical appendages to his body and granting him complete telepathic control over the artificial limbs. The mishap also altered Octavius’ mind, transforming him into a criminally insane megalomaniac. Abandoning his hopes of one day advancing the field of atomic research, Octavius turned instead to a life of crime. Possessed of incalculable power, the formerly timid scientist came to see himself as the most dangerous man alive.

There’s one in every class: a joker with amazing gifts, but lacking the ambition to tap his true potential. One of Professor Charles Xavier’s original students, Bobby Drake found out the hard way that he still had a lot to learn. But once he glimpsed the full extent of his mutant power to freeze water molecules, Iceman returned to the X-Men with evolution on his mind.

The son of a wealthy industrialist, Tony Stark was an inventive mechanical engineering prodigy. He inherited his father’s business at age 21, transforming the company, Stark International, into one of the world’s leading weapons manufactures. While field-testing a suit of battle armor in Asia Stark was struck in the chest by a piece of shrapnel and taken prisoner by the warlord Wong-Chu. He was ordered to create a weapon of mass destruction – only then would he receive the operation to save his life. Along with fellow prisoner Ho Yinsen, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Stark began work on a modified exoskeleton equipped with heavy weaponry. Yinsen designed the armor’s breastplate to sustain the industrialist’s wounded heart. Stark donned the suit in an attempt to escape captivity. Overcoming the warlord’s forces, Stark returned to America and redesigned the suit. Inventing the cover story that Iron Man was his body guard, he embarked on a double life as a billionaire industrialist and costumed adventurer.

Chemist Ted Sallis was assigned to "Project Gladiator", and experiment aimed at recreating the lost "super-soldier" serum that had spawned Captain America during World War II. Sallis attempted to modify the "super-soldier" serum with another serum, one that had historically transformed people into monsters and got close to success. But he was betrayed by his wife, Ellen. To guarantee that the secret would not fall into the wrong hands, Sallis injected himself with the only existing sample of his modified Super Soldier serum, and fled into the nearby swamp. Sallis should have died, but over the course of several hours, mystical forces combined with chemical science to transform him into the monstrous, misshapen creature who would be dubbed the Man-Thing.

Orphaned as a child, Ororo Munroe developed the power to command the forces of nature – and once was worshiped as a goddess in Africa for that very reason. As a member of the X-Men, she wields her unique genetic gifts to protect a world that hates and fears mutants!

Orphaned as a child, Ororo Munroe developed the power to command the forces of nature – and once was worshiped as a goddess in Africa for that very reason. As a member of the X-Men, she wields her unique genetic gifts to protect a world that hates and fears mutants!

In 1940, as America prepared for war, young and frail Steve Rogers volunteered for an experiment that transformed him into the ultimate physical specimen: Captain America. Enhanced by the Super-Soldier Serum, Captain America’s agility, strength, endurance and reaction time were superior to those of an Olympic-level athlete. Cap also mastered a number of fighting forms, including American-style boxing and judo. These abilities, combined with his indestructible shield, made him one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known. Steve Rogers battled the Nazis until a mishap placed him in suspended animation deep within the Himalayan Mountains. Decades later he was discovered by Tony Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a cornerstone of the Ultimate´s.

In 1940, as America prepared for war, young and frail Steve Rogers volunteered for an experiment that transformed him into the ultimate physical specimen: Captain America. Enhanced by the Super-Soldier Serum, Captain America’s agility, strength, endurance and reaction time were superior to those of an Olympic-level athlete. Cap also mastered a number of fighting forms, including American-style boxing and judo. These abilities, combined with his indestructible shield, made him one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known. Steve Rogers battled the Nazis until a mishap placed him in suspended animation deep within the Himalayan Mountains. Decades later he was discovered by Tony Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a cornerstone of the Ultimate´s.