Description

Marvel Graphic Novel Issue #16: The Aladdin Effect                            Magazine-sized Soft Cover
Writers: David Michelinie & Jim Shooter
Artist: Greg LaRocque
Inker: Vince Colletta
Editors: Lynn Cohen & Jim Shooter
Cover by: Greg LaRocque

The graphic novel, some would say, is what comics were truly meant to be, and Marvel’s incarnation of them seems largely to live up to that hope. The Marvel Graphic Novels feature book-length (OK, short book-length) stories with top-notch writing, and are propelled by the visual impact of comics. Freed from the poor quality printing and length restrictions of comic books, the creative teams of a graphic novel can be truly at their best.

Featuring a story with Marvel’s female heroines, the cat-like Tigra, the Sensational She-Hulk, the weather goddess, Storm, and the whimsical Wasp, in an all girl team-up vs. A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics). They all team up to save a small town from A.I.M after a girl named Holly Ann Amber wishes them there with her under-developed mutant power. All the heroines are portrayed accurately for the time frame this was published in the mid 80s and was sadly never reprinted.

Story/Spoilers
The town of Venture Ridge, Wyoming was located near a secret AIM base, where the organization performed research into new power sources. When the head of the base, Timekeeper, realized that there was a powerful energy source within the town itself, he sealed off the town to the outside world so it wouldn’t be seized by others, leaving the people inside at the edge of starvation and anarchy.

Local Sheriff Joseph Ember’s eight-year-old daughter Holly-Ann Ember idolized superheroines, and made a wish on her newspaper clippings scrapbook for the heroines in question to come to her rescue. The heroines in question – Storm, Wasp, Tigra and She-Hulk were suddenly torn from their normal lives and transported to Oak Ridge, feeling a touch of amnesia. The heroines soon discovered the town was surrounded by an invisible barrier.

The heroines were soon tormented individually by the locals, the Timekeeper, the Timekeeper’s girlfriend, and AIM. AIM have been developing various radiation weapons here for decades. The heroines discovered that Holly-Ann was the source of power that AIM sought, and they vowed to fight to protect her. The women battled AIM soldiers and a giant robot under their control with the aid of some of the townsfolk. Soon the villains were turned over to S.H.I.E.L.D., and the town and its inhabitants were saved. Storm left an Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters card with the mutant Holly, should she wish to explore her power further.

Magazine-Sized Soft Cover is bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 1985
Format: FC, 64 Pages, TPB, 11″ x 8.25″
ISBN-10: 0871350815
ISBN-13: 9780871350817

Collectible Entertainment note: Magazine-Sized Soft Cover is in Very Fine condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Storm, Wasp, Tigar, She-Hulk and/or Marvel Universe collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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