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Sorry to bother you. I was wondering how you organize your backstory information - your bibliography - and do your research. I notice the info on Marvel's minutae is scattered across so many obscure sources. How do you find it all and organize it?
@@DCMarvelMultiverse My starting point is usually relevant articles in Official Handbooks, but those don't list specific sources so I use websites like Marvel Wiki, Marvel Universe Appendix, Marvel Chronology Project, and others to figure out what books are being referenced and potentially get more details. While wiki articles are useful, I won't include any information in a video unless I can find an officially published source.
I'll admit, the Microverse sounds more complicated than I thought it was. Especially since, last I heard, Captain Universe's origin was retconned to be the Beyonders' doing. Speaking of which, a look at the history of Captain Universe would be fun, or if you stick with Microverse stuff, a look at Psycho-Man?
I love how Micronauts were some fairly harmless toys with the gimmick of mix-matching their parts and Mantlo turned it into probably one of the most horrific power systems i've ever seen.
I have this disconnect with both the Marvel and the IDW versions. The toys had these cool little robot people while the two comic versions have mostly flesh-and-blood people. I collect what old Micronauts I can find, especially since delving into it all due to IDW's Revolution.
Does Marvel still own The Micronauts? Or are they solely IDW now? I know that Marvel lost the rights to Rom, but I believe that they still have The Dire Wraiths.
I loved "The Micronauts" when I was little. I had a few toys: Space Glider, Acroyear, and a couple of monsters. The comic was really epic, and the Michael Golden pencils were especially striking. My favorite characters were Marionette/Princess Mari and the rebel leader, Slug. "Slug" was a young woman, a world-class beauty, but no one expected the rebel leader codenamed "Slug" could be a supermodel-looking woman. After the war was won, Slug refused to give up the codename.
The Squadron Supreme/Sinister would be an excellent subject for this channel; especially Hyperion because I've always been sort of confused whenever they've shown up in the stories. To the best of my recollection they were adequately explained back in the 70s when the mini series came out, but later appearances (at least the ones I've read) have me confused and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Plus your channel is more fun than just looking it up on Wikipedia!
There have been many different Squadron Supreme/Sinister variants, all from different timelines. Some more heroic, some evil, some even created by the devil (Mephisto). As with the latest Heroes Reborn with President Coulson in charge of the Squadron in a reality ithout Avengersw
Dude you deserve a medal for trying to make a map of decades of imaginated universes. That somehow had to get grouped together into a universe that made sense. Kudos!
I'd say may favorite toy tie-in comics are the Transformers ones. Also, a video on the various Squadron Supreme/Sinister variants would be interesting.
Haven’t started watching this yet but Micronauts and ROM were two of my favorite titles and it frustrates me to no end both how Mantlo has been forgotten after his tragic accident and also how Hasbro is just sitting on the IPs. Dire Wraiths were some horrific aliens. And Baron Karza was the Dune style MCU villain we deserve.
To answer your question, the Micronauts were my favorite comic book growing up right behind the X-Men. I was so excited when they did the cross-over event and was very sad when the title was cancelled. It was a "must-buy" for me throughout the run and I even collected the toys.
Agreed! It was a great series. I loved many of characters--especially the early ones. The only latter character that thought was really cool was Devil.
Rom was a great book. Similar to the original Silver Surfer in that the characters both had an arthurian nobitity, but without the earlier books obsession with themes over story. And the character Beta Ray Bill's origin is an obvious swipe of Rom's creation tale.
A great overview of an important Marvel reality. I recently read a series of retro review articles on the history of the Micronauts and this video was able to answer some questions that came up in those articles. Thanks for that. Since you asked, my favorite licensed property published by Marvel has to be ROM. i only discovered Rom late in the title's run thanks to the Thor storyline where the Casket of Ancient Winters made it snow in every Marvel comic published that month. But that one issue sparked something in me that made me want to know and read more pf Rom. Seeing them in this video really makes me want a Squadron Supreme/Squadron Sinister video. Although you may need to make it a two parter discussing the evil Squadron in one and the heroic Squadron in the other. As always MAKE MINE THE MERRY MARVELITE!!!!
OMG! ROM space knight was fucking fantastic! Please, Lord--don't let marvel/Hasbro make him into a movie--they will simply mess him up. It'll be a damn mess--you can beleive that.
Yes! K'ai! I would love to see you do a video on Hulk's K'ai story. One of the greatest Hulk stories of all time! I bet a lot of readers are not familiar with it, as it's from the late 1970s.I have a few of those issues, but never got to read it all. I was waiting the whole video, hoping you'd talk about Hulk's K'ai story. Lol
Totally agree. It was at its finest at the end when they met Captain Universe. The latter series were still wonderful and rich, but you're right about that first 12.
Great video! My ears perked up at the mention of Thanos and Baron Karza teaming up to merge the Microverse. My first thought was 'how did I miss this? And if I have it, where is it?' This inevitably led me to my copy of Captain Marvel vol.4 #6 where I saw that this event happened in the one-shot "SMALL X-PECTATIONS." This is where I discovered that this Small X-Pectations one-shot doesn't actually exist and that this one-page reference in Captain Marvel Vol.4 #6 is the only reference to this event. It's a shame as I would've loved to have read this story.
That's really interesting. The footnote referencing the non-existent Small X-Pectations one-shot was removed from digital releases of Captain Marvel #6 so I never saw it. When the Official Handbooks referenced these events, they were described as happening "under unrevealed circumstances."
Originally the toys which evolved into the Micronaughts were basically dolls taken from G.I. Joe molding (the full size ones), and could be dressed ahla Action Man into Totokotso costumes. Forgive my misspellings.
Great video, thank you. "ROM Spaceknignt" is by far my favorite licensed comicbook character. I still have all 75 plus the annuals of the single issues. I wish, pray and hope that Marvel and IDW (or whomever) will get it together and publish the Marvel years of ROM into an omnibus or 3 one day sooner rather than later...🙏🤞
9:03 HEY! That's me! I always loved Micronauts. I read them and had their toys as a kid, and I'd really like to hope the new Ant-Man movie leads to them somehow. This video was very enlightening, even for a cosmic being such as I. Thank you.
YmD, I would say since the original Micronauts books started out on Homeworld, then Earth, I felt like it was completely it's own reality, until the Micronauts Annual had the X-Men in it. Then, they teamed up with the Fantastic Four, so there was no question about separated realities. Micronauts was incredible, especially the issues with the Promethius Pit.
@@samfrito My personal favourite was the Acroyear palace intrigue and doomed romance. The scene where Prince Acroyear accepts the traitor's brand... wow.
@@yermatedave4930 it's crazy you say that. I finally met Michael Golden a year ago and he was super nice. I asked him about Bill and he said they haven't talked in years. The two of them shaped my love for sci-fi and all things extraterrestrial. Never shook my love for the Micronauts and still daydream about those first 12 issues.
Love the channel. You ask us to mention in the comments if we want to hear more about something you're giving a brief introduction to. We all know comments help drive the channel and that's why you do it. So I'm going to start commenting yes, I want to hear more about whatever you want to tell me about. These are the most well thought out, informative, and precisely executed videos I've come across on the deep lore of Marvel. And you go deep, and give it all the same importance.
That was fascinating! I’d love to know more about Jarella, the Micronauts themselves, Hyperion and I’d love to finally understand the various Squadron Supremes and the like.
Thanks for this, I got a few "Micronauts: The New Voyages" books back in the day when I was like 7, and to this day I had no understanding as to how it connected to the rest of the Marvel universe. Always wanted to know more as it made an impression - the first issue, where Arcturus Rann is forced to cut off his own hand is one of the most chilling things I've ever seen in a comic. 😬
The Makers looked like a version of the Celestials or different armored Acroyears. I wished they would have had more stories, and explanation in the Marvel Universe.
I forgot Jarella; for a while she was portrayed as Hulks one true (and tragic) love. You could do a series on Baron Karza, since he's a complicated man (despite looking and behaving like a Vader/Doom mash-up). But watching this makes me really miss those old days of the comics, when things were just kinda gonzo weird.
How do you think are the Micronauts similar to the Spaceknights and what do you think would happen if both factions crossed paths with each other? Can you do history of Rom_the_Spaceknight and his fellow Space knights?
I remember reading Rom: Space Knight. I didn't like it as much as I did the X-men and the Micronauts but I easily would put that title in my top 10 "must-buy" comics at the time.
transformers and gi joe was my introduction into comics based on toylines. i would also say the vintage star wars comics as well but, that was a movie long before the comics came out.
Me, thinking the concept of micro verses was pretty simple. This video ends up being a huge deep dive into some of the strangest comic book lore I’ve ever heard. And it only scratched the surface.
Shucks, Merrymarvelite! I couldn't pass a polygraph answering "No" to whether or not my mind was blown by this video.i love the Micronauts (and Shogun Warriors and of course, Gi Joe) so this video really is near to my heart. Thanks. I don't believe I've ever known that the Wayfinder himself was the origin of the Timetraveller/Enigmaforce. The ideas Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden brought to life in my childhood should be credited with my curiosity and wonder just as much as Stan Lee and Jack Kirbys ideas. Great video, and when you do happen to return to Spartak we gotta discuss this Worldmind thing. That's another head-scratcher.
I have loved the Micronauts since the toys and their Japanese counterparts Micromen. Even made my own Heroclixs versions when Bug came out as a Guardian of the Galaxy.
Definitely Transformers - but more the Marvel UK stuff than the US stories. I live in England, and collected the UK Tranfsormers comic from issue 2 (I was too late to get a copy of issue 1) all the way until the end. They serialised the US stories, but we had a different publishing schedule (fortnightly rather than monthly), so the imported strips were broken up into two or three installments of each US issue as a "lead story" and filled out with UK-written Transformers material plus old reprints as a third back-up story (for a long while it was Machine Man, then some random ones, before settling on Action Force/GI Joe until they eventually merged the two titles completely for the rest of the run). The UK Transformers universe diverged from the US one pretty quickly, with a different continuity which meant that UK stories often contradicted the US ones (which led to some mental gymnastics when trying to reconcile the two strips in each issue!), and often concentrated on characters who weren't featured in the American storyline to try to avoid too many clashes; this meant that we got some really good character work in the backups involving some of the more obscure and less-popular Cybertronians which turned them into fan-favourites over here. The UK comics were, of course, also the starting point for the '90s character Death's Head, who was used as a springboard to launch a whole range of Marvel UK-produced comics which had almost nothng to to with what was going on in America in that decade - Marvel UK had the licence to produce Doctor Who comics, for example, and there were plenty of crossovers between characters introduced in that book with Death's Head's solo book, which then crossed over with various _other_ new books like Dragon's Claws and so on. A completely separate Marvel imprint came into being and survived for a few glorious years, and I was loving every minute of it. I had some idea of what was going on in the US 616 continuity because I was also reading Secret Wars II, which (for us) was not just the actual limited series but also many of the tie-ins to other US properties (and sometimes, completely unrelated stories - including much of the John Byrne run on Fantastic Four), so I was able to keep up with that side of comics as well. In fact, I remember one of the Secret Wars II arcs reprinted the Hate Monger and Psycho Man storyline (including Sue Storm being possessed by Malice), and there were a couple of issues involving the FF shrinking down to fight Psycho Man on his own turf. That was my first introduction to microverse-style (lower-case) storylines, although not the Microverse (capital letter) that the Micronauts originated from...
Though I loved Rom (and owned the toy - and didn’t know how to change his sound pattern for almost a year) the Micronauts were then, and still are, my favorite of the licensed properties Marvel turned into a comic. Bug and Acroyer are a wonderful duo and I cried when Bug sacrificed himself at the end of the series. I also was floored when they killed Jasmine. I think that was my first honest moment of sorrow from a comic book. Too young for the Gwen Stacy death but just right for the death of Jasmine.
First off, I'd like to say thank you for making a video on the Microverse. I've recently taken an interest in it after learning about Psycho-man and his abilities (especially after playing as him in Marvel's Contest of Champions). With that being said, I am a little confused because Psychoman is considered a microscopic being but according to your video, the Microverse isn't actually tiny, it's just a separate dimension. If the Microverse isn't small, would it be safe to assume that the citizens within it would be the same average height as humans/aliens? If so, then why does Psycho-man need to wear a specialized suit to interact with our world? The way I visualize our world compared to the Microverse, is similar to MIB 2. When K opens the locker door at the end of the movie, we see massive aliens. We are still pretty small in comparison so it would be appropriate to say we are a smaller universe. Alternatively, if we were entering a new dimension via shrinking, it would be no different than traveling through a portal to an alternate dimension/parallel universe. Upon entry, we would revert back to our regular size. So which one is it? Like MIB, is the Microverse a smaller universe or are we just going through a nexus point but remaining the same (if it's the latter, does P.M's microscopic nature contradict this?)
Are you going to do history of lesser known characters like Rom_the_Spaceknight, Stingray, Ultimo, Inferno, Zora_Vukovic Victorious, Flerken, Blacklash, Deathlok, Elematrix, Vertigo, Titanium_Man, Crimson Dynamo, Dreadknight, Deathcry, Kobik AKA the Cosmic Cube, Blizzard, Quasar, Starbrand, Nightmask, Bastion, Master Mold, Nimrod, Starhawk, Fixer, Whirlwind, Chemistro, Whiplash, the Controller, Madam_Masque, Count_Nefaria, Ava Ayala the White Tiger, Crossfire, Living Laser, Century, Lore and Technovore?
What do you think is the best thing about the Microverse and the Micronauts in the comics? Which universe in the Microverse and it's residents do you think is the best? Will we see all of this being explored in the MCU? How come the city of Chronopolis is not mentioned in this video? Is that city part of the Microverse or not?
Can you do history of Master Pandemonium, Sleepwalker, D'Spayre, Chthon, Mephisto, Black heart, Dormammu, Clea, Nightmare and Pkzkrfmknna along with Firestar and Vance_Astrovik AKA Justice?
Favorite licensed comic title: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (the one done by Larry Hama). It far surpassed the original source material in depth and complexity.
Awesome research and presentation. I really liked the Micronauts comic once I started reading it and almost never missed an issue for a stretch there in the middle of their original run, but boy was I annoyed at the toy-line which had some characters but not all of the key characters. Almost worse than never having the line. I'm guessing that that was the frustration that the generation that grew up on Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors felt. Oh and in reply to your question: I really like product/franchise tied comics; Rom wins that one thanks to the years and effort put into it, but Shogun Warriors was a close second. (Though Godzilla faced the Champions, so that series is neck and neck).
What do you think is different about the Microverse and Macroverse from the Multiverse? Who do you think is the best character from the Microverse and Macroverse?
What all facts from the Microverse from this video do you think is going to take place in the Quantum Realm during the upcoming Antman and the Wasp Quantumainia movie?
I believe, from the previews, I seen a multitude of different denizens/species, so we might see an Insectivorid, but I'm sure hoping they don't bastardize it and put a being like Dormammu to connect it to a previous point in the MCU. The Namor from Wakanda Forever still sits a little weird with me.
Licensed comics? I had every issue of the 1977-1986 Marvel run of Star Wars. I collected a lot of comics but that was my favourite. My younger brother Tim loved Shogun Warriors and Godzilla. A hidden gem that ran for a couple years in the 80s that I had every issue of was ATARI Force based on the comics you could order with ATARI games in the late 70s and early 80s, or like me send the game's proof of purchase to ATARI HQ and 2 weeks later a comic book arrives in the mail, folded and crumpled because we had a small apartment building mailbox. I had them all too. In one issue of ATARI Force (DC Comics) there's a short two page story of two aliens that sit down on a rock for a few seconds and one of them sees a tiny explosion on the ground at their feet, turned out it was two microbic cultures that destroyed each other over thousands of generations fighting over which of the two aliens was the most powerful of their "gods". There should be an edit to an old saying; "Space/Time is relative".
I loved the Micronaausts. One my favorite comic series as a kid. I actually had the original toys, which had a different storyline. Marve's version was far better and richer. Acoyur and his people were my favorite (maybe bc they reminded me of African Americans--my people), proud, smart and tough. He was actually betrayed by his own wife to Karza's forces--who enslaved them. Bug was my second favorite character, then Mari...great series. When they came into the Marvel universe (Upverse?) they hooked with everyone from the Avengers to SHIELD (best splash page is when SHIELD and HYDRA was fighting in orbit and the Micronauts was with them)!
I was wondering if you could do a video on the character Captain Ultra because I’ve only known him from the fantastic four cartoon and nothing else and he seemed pretty interesting
07:24 This video helped me understand what happened to Janet in the Ant-Man and Wasp movie. I thought it was odd that Janet shrank subatomic over Russia, and they found her exact microscopic location after going subatomic in a California lab decades later. The movies did not explain it well at all. I still think it's a poorly thought out concept, but it's science fantasy, so whatever.
One of those comics that I'd really love to actually read some day But like ROM Spaceknight, Marvel's Transformers or Godzilla, it's a pain in the ASS to actually FIND and streaming it? Fuggetaboutit.
Was HOPING To See #Micronauts Within AM3; #Quantumania As The Closest We Have Of Them in ANY Digital Medium is A #32X Game Called: #CosmicCarnage; Where It's More Like NolanRadd (#SilverSurfer...Sans Board) Vs #TheMicronauts... Juat Change Language To Japan🇯🇵 & It's A TOTALLY DIFFERENT Game!
I'm still not clear on this. What is the scale of the Microverse? If it's a universe you access by shrinking, you shouldn't just suddenly grow on the other side, or else the visitors would've noticed. So if the micro verse is still small, what's the point of making it a separate universe instead of being in the atoms of Earth 616? Sounds needlessly complicated.
Can you do history of the Living_Brain, the Elementals, Cyclone, Hydro Man, Molten Man, the Spot, Sandman, Rom_the_Spaceknight, Stingray, Quasar, Starbrand, Nightmask, Ava Ayala the White Tiger, Crossfire, Living Laser, Century, Lore and Technovore?
Can you do history of Ironheart, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, Arno_Stark Iron Man, Squirrel_Girl, Constrictor, Deathlok, Amadeus_Cho, the Griever, Pepper Potts AKA Rescue and the Agents of Atlas along with Crescent, Morgan_Le_Fey, White Fox and Luna Snow?
#Psychoman. COULD ALSO Be Yet ANOTHER Version Of #KANG? As There Have Been MANY Throughout Parallel Dimentions! So It Wouldn't Be Out Of The Realm Of Possibilities!
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Sorry to bother you. I was wondering how you organize your backstory information - your bibliography - and do your research. I notice the info on Marvel's minutae is scattered across so many obscure sources. How do you find it all and organize it?
@@DCMarvelMultiverse My starting point is usually relevant articles in Official Handbooks, but those don't list specific sources so I use websites like Marvel Wiki, Marvel Universe Appendix, Marvel Chronology Project, and others to figure out what books are being referenced and potentially get more details. While wiki articles are useful, I won't include any information in a video unless I can find an officially published source.
I'll admit, the Microverse sounds more complicated than I thought it was. Especially since, last I heard, Captain Universe's origin was retconned to be the Beyonders' doing. Speaking of which, a look at the history of Captain Universe would be fun, or if you stick with Microverse stuff, a look at Psycho-Man?
I love how Micronauts were some fairly harmless toys with the gimmick of mix-matching their parts and Mantlo turned it into probably one of the most horrific power systems i've ever seen.
Absolutely! Bill was a fantastic story writer!
I have this disconnect with both the Marvel and the IDW versions. The toys had these cool little robot people while the two comic versions have mostly flesh-and-blood people. I collect what old Micronauts I can find, especially since delving into it all due to IDW's Revolution.
I get them crossed all the time and I'm still not sure they aren't the same thing.
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@@NTGNickGreer Fancy seeing you here, sir.
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Does Marvel still own The Micronauts? Or are they solely IDW now? I know that Marvel lost the rights to Rom, but I believe that they still have The Dire Wraiths.
I loved "The Micronauts" when I was little. I had a few toys: Space Glider, Acroyear, and a couple of monsters. The comic was really epic, and the Michael Golden pencils were especially striking. My favorite characters were Marionette/Princess Mari and the rebel leader, Slug. "Slug" was a young woman, a world-class beauty, but no one expected the rebel leader codenamed "Slug" could be a supermodel-looking woman. After the war was won, Slug refused to give up the codename.
Yeah, I become a big fan of Mike Golden bc of the 'Nauts.
The Squadron Supreme/Sinister would be an excellent subject for this channel; especially Hyperion because I've always been sort of confused whenever they've shown up in the stories. To the best of my recollection they were adequately explained back in the 70s when the mini series came out, but later appearances (at least the ones I've read) have me confused and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Plus your channel is more fun than just looking it up on Wikipedia!
The 1985 squadron supreme run is a good read!
The channel CosmicComics has produced some good, informative content about The Squadrons
There have been many different Squadron Supreme/Sinister variants, all from different timelines. Some more heroic, some evil, some even created by the devil (Mephisto). As with the latest Heroes Reborn with President Coulson in charge of the Squadron in a reality ithout Avengersw
You should create a playlist for the Microverse. There’s A LOT of lore to cover and that’s gonna take A LOT of vids to do.
Dude you deserve a medal for trying to make a map of decades of imaginated universes. That somehow had to get grouped together into a universe that made sense. Kudos!
I'd say may favorite toy tie-in comics are the Transformers ones. Also, a video on the various Squadron Supreme/Sinister variants would be interesting.
I remember Micronauts vs. Xmen ,& collecting the toys in the late 70s & 80s....
Haven’t started watching this yet but Micronauts and ROM were two of my favorite titles and it frustrates me to no end both how Mantlo has been forgotten after his tragic accident and also how Hasbro is just sitting on the IPs.
Dire Wraiths were some horrific aliens. And Baron Karza was the Dune style MCU villain we deserve.
To answer your question, the Micronauts were my favorite comic book growing up right behind the X-Men. I was so excited when they did the cross-over event and was very sad when the title was cancelled. It was a "must-buy" for me throughout the run and I even collected the toys.
Agreed! It was a great series. I loved many of characters--especially the early ones. The only latter character that thought was really cool was Devil.
Rom was a great book. Similar to the original Silver Surfer in that the characters both had an arthurian nobitity, but without the earlier books obsession with themes over story. And the character Beta Ray Bill's origin is an obvious swipe of Rom's creation tale.
Rom was a rip-off of silverhawks
My favorite toy tie in is Rom, he was the silver knight a true hero.
A great overview of an important Marvel reality. I recently read a series of retro review articles on the history of the Micronauts and this video was able to answer some questions that came up in those articles. Thanks for that.
Since you asked, my favorite licensed property published by Marvel has to be ROM. i only discovered Rom late in the title's run thanks to the Thor storyline where the Casket of Ancient Winters made it snow in every Marvel comic published that month. But that one issue sparked something in me that made me want to know and read more pf Rom.
Seeing them in this video really makes me want a Squadron Supreme/Squadron Sinister video. Although you may need to make it a two parter discussing the evil Squadron in one and the heroic Squadron in the other.
As always MAKE MINE THE MERRY MARVELITE!!!!
OMG! ROM space knight was fucking fantastic! Please, Lord--don't let marvel/Hasbro make him into a movie--they will simply mess him up. It'll be a damn mess--you can beleive that.
Yes! K'ai! I would love to see you do a video on Hulk's K'ai story. One of the greatest Hulk stories of all time! I bet a lot of readers are not familiar with it, as it's from the late 1970s.I have a few of those issues, but never got to read it all. I was waiting the whole video, hoping you'd talk about Hulk's K'ai story. Lol
I've been waiting for someone to notice the Micronauts. It was my 1st comic book as a child.
That is hard, man. They are really really small
Great story! More MAN-WOLF please!!! Do his story!!!
Thanks for this video! I had Micronauts back in the day!
The first 12 issues of the Micronauts is one of the best runs of any comic ever.
Totally agree. It was at its finest at the end when they met Captain Universe. The latter series were still wonderful and rich, but you're right about that first 12.
I was totally immersed in the words and pictures.
It’s actually much better than Star Wars. Yes, it’s that good.
Great video! My ears perked up at the mention of Thanos and Baron Karza teaming up to merge the Microverse. My first thought was 'how did I miss this? And if I have it, where is it?' This inevitably led me to my copy of Captain Marvel vol.4 #6 where I saw that this event happened in the one-shot "SMALL X-PECTATIONS." This is where I discovered that this Small X-Pectations one-shot doesn't actually exist and that this one-page reference in Captain Marvel Vol.4 #6 is the only reference to this event. It's a shame as I would've loved to have read this story.
That's really interesting. The footnote referencing the non-existent Small X-Pectations one-shot was removed from digital releases of Captain Marvel #6 so I never saw it. When the Official Handbooks referenced these events, they were described as happening "under unrevealed circumstances."
Originally the toys which evolved into the Micronaughts were basically dolls taken from G.I. Joe molding (the full size ones), and could be dressed ahla Action Man into Totokotso costumes. Forgive my misspellings.
Great video, thank you. "ROM Spaceknignt" is by far my favorite licensed comicbook character. I still have all 75 plus the annuals of the single issues. I wish, pray and hope that Marvel and IDW (or whomever) will get it together and publish the Marvel years of ROM into an omnibus or 3 one day sooner rather than later...🙏🤞
18:17 - 19:02 - The idea of the Fire Flights and Devils is super cool, I love that sort of cycle existence
9:03 HEY! That's me! I always loved Micronauts. I read them and had their toys as a kid, and I'd really like to hope the new Ant-Man movie leads to them somehow. This video was very enlightening, even for a cosmic being such as I. Thank you.
Have to go with the eponymous Micronauts. The two Marvel series were the first two books I ever collected. I'd love more Micronauts content.
YmD, I would say since the original Micronauts books started out on Homeworld, then Earth, I felt like it was completely it's own reality, until the Micronauts Annual had the X-Men in it. Then, they teamed up with the Fantastic Four, so there was no question about separated realities. Micronauts was incredible, especially the issues with the Promethius Pit.
@@samfrito My personal favourite was the Acroyear palace intrigue and doomed romance. The scene where Prince Acroyear accepts the traitor's brand... wow.
@@yermatedave4930 no kidding. The idea of thrusting your forehead onto a raised hot stone emblem - wrenching!! And your brother being you dire enemy.
@@samfrito George RR Martin ain't got nothing on Bill Mantlo in his prime...
@@yermatedave4930 it's crazy you say that. I finally met Michael Golden a year ago and he was super nice. I asked him about Bill and he said they haven't talked in years. The two of them shaped my love for sci-fi and all things extraterrestrial. Never shook my love for the Micronauts and still daydream about those first 12 issues.
Love the channel. You ask us to mention in the comments if we want to hear more about something you're giving a brief introduction to. We all know comments help drive the channel and that's why you do it. So I'm going to start commenting yes, I want to hear more about whatever you want to tell me about. These are the most well thought out, informative, and precisely executed videos I've come across on the deep lore of Marvel. And you go deep, and give it all the same importance.
That was fascinating! I’d love to know more about Jarella, the Micronauts themselves, Hyperion and I’d love to finally understand the various Squadron Supremes and the like.
Thanks for this, I got a few "Micronauts: The New Voyages" books back in the day when I was like 7, and to this day I had no understanding as to how it connected to the rest of the Marvel universe. Always wanted to know more as it made an impression - the first issue, where Arcturus Rann is forced to cut off his own hand is one of the most chilling things I've ever seen in a comic. 😬
The Makers looked like a version of the Celestials or different armored Acroyears. I wished they would have had more stories, and explanation in the Marvel Universe.
I wish Marvel would get the rights to the Micronauts back
Yes, you have to explore all these microverses. Jarrella's, the one tied to the Man-Wolf, and the Various Hyperions & Squadron's Supreme/Sinsiter.
I forgot Jarella; for a while she was portrayed as Hulks one true (and tragic) love. You could do a series on Baron Karza, since he's a complicated man (despite looking and behaving like a Vader/Doom mash-up).
But watching this makes me really miss those old days of the comics, when things were just kinda gonzo weird.
Yes, please make future videos for all of your ideas that you mentioned in this video. We want to know all about the Marvel Comics!
How do you think are the Micronauts similar to the Spaceknights and what do you think would happen if both factions crossed paths with each other? Can you do history of Rom_the_Spaceknight and his fellow Space knights?
I remember reading Rom: Space Knight. I didn't like it as much as I did the X-men and the Micronauts but I easily would put that title in my top 10 "must-buy" comics at the time.
transformers and gi joe was my introduction into comics based on toylines. i would also say the vintage star wars comics as well but, that was a movie long before the comics came out.
The Micronauts comic was epic. Needs it's own deep dive video.
Please Do that Hulk Ka'i Microverse storyline.
My favorites were The Micronauts and Rom the Space Knight.
Me, thinking the concept of micro verses was pretty simple. This video ends up being a huge deep dive into some of the strangest comic book lore I’ve ever heard.
And it only scratched the surface.
I'd have to say Rom is my favorite comic book based on a toy line with Transformers being a closed second.
Shucks, Merrymarvelite! I couldn't pass a polygraph answering "No" to whether or not my mind was blown by this video.i love the Micronauts (and Shogun Warriors and of course, Gi Joe) so this video really is near to my heart. Thanks. I don't believe I've ever known that the Wayfinder himself was the origin of the Timetraveller/Enigmaforce. The ideas Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden brought to life in my childhood should be credited with my curiosity and wonder just as much as Stan Lee and Jack Kirbys ideas. Great video, and when you do happen to return to Spartak we gotta discuss this Worldmind thing. That's another head-scratcher.
Micronauts are My favorite
Well done sir, that was a hell of a deep dive!
I thought i knew what i knew but you've taken me into places i wasn't dumb too..
Yes to a video about the many iterations of Hyperion! :)
I have loved the Micronauts since the toys and their Japanese counterparts Micromen. Even made my own Heroclixs versions when Bug came out as a Guardian of the Galaxy.
Squadron supreme yes thx
Definitely Transformers - but more the Marvel UK stuff than the US stories. I live in England, and collected the UK Tranfsormers comic from issue 2 (I was too late to get a copy of issue 1) all the way until the end. They serialised the US stories, but we had a different publishing schedule (fortnightly rather than monthly), so the imported strips were broken up into two or three installments of each US issue as a "lead story" and filled out with UK-written Transformers material plus old reprints as a third back-up story (for a long while it was Machine Man, then some random ones, before settling on Action Force/GI Joe until they eventually merged the two titles completely for the rest of the run).
The UK Transformers universe diverged from the US one pretty quickly, with a different continuity which meant that UK stories often contradicted the US ones (which led to some mental gymnastics when trying to reconcile the two strips in each issue!), and often concentrated on characters who weren't featured in the American storyline to try to avoid too many clashes; this meant that we got some really good character work in the backups involving some of the more obscure and less-popular Cybertronians which turned them into fan-favourites over here.
The UK comics were, of course, also the starting point for the '90s character Death's Head, who was used as a springboard to launch a whole range of Marvel UK-produced comics which had almost nothng to to with what was going on in America in that decade - Marvel UK had the licence to produce Doctor Who comics, for example, and there were plenty of crossovers between characters introduced in that book with Death's Head's solo book, which then crossed over with various _other_ new books like Dragon's Claws and so on. A completely separate Marvel imprint came into being and survived for a few glorious years, and I was loving every minute of it.
I had some idea of what was going on in the US 616 continuity because I was also reading Secret Wars II, which (for us) was not just the actual limited series but also many of the tie-ins to other US properties (and sometimes, completely unrelated stories - including much of the John Byrne run on Fantastic Four), so I was able to keep up with that side of comics as well. In fact, I remember one of the Secret Wars II arcs reprinted the Hate Monger and Psycho Man storyline (including Sue Storm being possessed by Malice), and there were a couple of issues involving the FF shrinking down to fight Psycho Man on his own turf. That was my first introduction to microverse-style (lower-case) storylines, although not the Microverse (capital letter) that the Micronauts originated from...
Though I loved Rom (and owned the toy - and didn’t know how to change his sound pattern for almost a year) the Micronauts were then, and still are, my favorite of the licensed properties Marvel turned into a comic. Bug and Acroyer are a wonderful duo and I cried when Bug sacrificed himself at the end of the series. I also was floored when they killed Jasmine. I think that was my first honest moment of sorrow from a comic book. Too young for the Gwen Stacy death but just right for the death of Jasmine.
Ayyyy i needed this breakdown & info dump matey 👍🏾
My favorite comic based on a toy series is The Micronauts!
Thanks for the video
First off, I'd like to say thank you for making a video on the Microverse. I've recently taken an interest in it after learning about Psycho-man and his abilities (especially after playing as him in Marvel's Contest of Champions). With that being said, I am a little confused because Psychoman is considered a microscopic being but according to your video, the Microverse isn't actually tiny, it's just a separate dimension.
If the Microverse isn't small, would it be safe to assume that the citizens within it would be the same average height as humans/aliens? If so, then why does Psycho-man need to wear a specialized suit to interact with our world? The way I visualize our world compared to the Microverse, is similar to MIB 2. When K opens the locker door at the end of the movie, we see massive aliens. We are still pretty small in comparison so it would be appropriate to say we are a smaller universe.
Alternatively, if we were entering a new dimension via shrinking, it would be no different than traveling through a portal to an alternate dimension/parallel universe. Upon entry, we would revert back to our regular size. So which one is it? Like MIB, is the Microverse a smaller universe or are we just going through a nexus point but remaining the same (if it's the latter, does P.M's microscopic nature contradict this?)
Are you going to do history of lesser known characters like Rom_the_Spaceknight, Stingray, Ultimo, Inferno, Zora_Vukovic Victorious, Flerken, Blacklash, Deathlok, Elematrix, Vertigo, Titanium_Man, Crimson Dynamo, Dreadknight, Deathcry, Kobik AKA the Cosmic Cube, Blizzard, Quasar, Starbrand, Nightmask, Bastion, Master Mold, Nimrod, Starhawk, Fixer, Whirlwind, Chemistro, Whiplash, the Controller, Madam_Masque, Count_Nefaria, Ava Ayala the White Tiger, Crossfire, Living Laser, Century, Lore and Technovore?
And yet Wyatt Wingfoot gets left out again...
Awesome video, very informative. 👍🏽
By chance did you happen to make a video on the MICRONAUTS?
They're amongst my favorite marvel characters
I would love to see the Micronauts in the Microverse... One of my favorite teams.
Do part 2. Please 🥺
What do you think is the best thing about the Microverse and the Micronauts in the comics? Which universe in the Microverse and it's residents do you think is the best? Will we see all of this being explored in the MCU?
How come the city of Chronopolis is not mentioned in this video? Is that city part of the Microverse or not?
Can you talk about the two most underrated but very powerful superheros in the marvel universe
Hyperion and Blue Marvel please and thank you
Love if you could do an episode of Hulk's ally, Rick Jones.
I would very much like to watch one of your deep dives on the subject of Squadron Sinister/Supreme
Can you do history of Master Pandemonium, Sleepwalker, D'Spayre, Chthon, Mephisto, Black heart, Dormammu, Clea, Nightmare and Pkzkrfmknna along with Firestar and Vance_Astrovik AKA Justice?
Favorite licensed comic title: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (the one done by Larry Hama). It far surpassed the original source material in depth and complexity.
Awesome research and presentation. I really liked the Micronauts comic once I started reading it and almost never missed an issue for a stretch there in the middle of their original run, but boy was I annoyed at the toy-line which had some characters but not all of the key characters. Almost worse than never having the line. I'm guessing that that was the frustration that the generation that grew up on Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors felt. Oh and in reply to your question: I really like product/franchise tied comics; Rom wins that one thanks to the years and effort put into it, but Shogun Warriors was a close second. (Though Godzilla faced the Champions, so that series is neck and neck).
ROM was very good, one of the best comics of it's day. I read the whole series, and I don't think I did that with many other titles.
Shamrock (Molly Fitzgerald). 🍀
Can you do history of the characters mentioned in this video?
What do you think is different about the Microverse and Macroverse from the Multiverse? Who do you think is the best character from the Microverse and Macroverse?
A video on the Gruenwald Squadron Supreme run would be pretty cool.
I wonder when will the MicroVerse will be introduced in cartoon shows?
I also wonder when might the Micronauts, heroes will be shown in cartoon shows?
Yes bro. Do the different versions pf Hyperion explained and where they all ended up!
What all facts from the Microverse from this video do you think is going to take place in the Quantum Realm during the upcoming Antman and the Wasp Quantumainia movie?
I believe, from the previews, I seen a multitude of different denizens/species, so we might see an Insectivorid, but I'm sure hoping they don't bastardize it and put a being like Dormammu to connect it to a previous point in the MCU. The Namor from Wakanda Forever still sits a little weird with me.
This 30 minute video is actually more interesting than Quantumania.
More of the Hulk in K’ai please, I remember reading that story when I was younger but never found that story nowadays.
Licensed comics? I had every issue of the 1977-1986 Marvel run of Star Wars. I collected a lot of comics but that was my favourite. My younger brother Tim loved Shogun Warriors and Godzilla. A hidden gem that ran for a couple years in the 80s that I had every issue of was ATARI Force based on the comics you could order with ATARI games in the late 70s and early 80s, or like me send the game's proof of purchase to ATARI HQ and 2 weeks later a comic book arrives in the mail, folded and crumpled because we had a small apartment building mailbox. I had them all too. In one issue of ATARI Force (DC Comics) there's a short two page story of two aliens that sit down on a rock for a few seconds and one of them sees a tiny explosion on the ground at their feet, turned out it was two microbic cultures that destroyed each other over thousands of generations fighting over which of the two aliens was the most powerful of their "gods". There should be an edit to an old saying; "Space/Time is relative".
I loved the episode of transformers where Rodimus fights those monsters in the micro verse
Please do a two hour video detailing every foe spider man ever fought all 200 including the wall and the ringer
I'm 53 and I remember when the Baron blaster Sunspot in the face. And wanted these subjects for his Bodybanks.
I loved the Micronaausts. One my favorite comic series as a kid. I actually had the original toys, which had a different storyline. Marve's version was far better and richer. Acoyur and his people were my favorite (maybe bc they reminded me of African Americans--my people), proud, smart and tough. He was actually betrayed by his own wife to Karza's forces--who enslaved them. Bug was my second favorite character, then Mari...great series. When they came into the Marvel universe (Upverse?) they hooked with everyone from the Avengers to SHIELD (best splash page is when SHIELD and HYDRA was fighting in orbit and the Micronauts was with them)!
I'd like to hear more about John Jameson's the Man Wolf @MerryMarvelite
that was very interesting
I was wondering if you could do a video on the character Captain Ultra because I’ve only known him from the fantastic four cartoon and nothing else and he seemed pretty interesting
I used to love the Micronauts
If I were in charge of Marvel's licencing dept, I'd start with the Fringe team, and then get Brian Finch from Limitless to join them.
Y'know... listening to this it occurs to me... comics can get weird, can't they?
07:24 This video helped me understand what happened to Janet in the Ant-Man and Wasp movie.
I thought it was odd that Janet shrank subatomic over Russia, and they found her exact microscopic location after going subatomic in a California lab decades later. The movies did not explain it well at all. I still think it's a poorly thought out concept, but it's science fantasy, so whatever.
One of those comics that I'd really love to actually read some day
But like ROM Spaceknight, Marvel's Transformers or Godzilla, it's a pain in the ASS to actually FIND and streaming it? Fuggetaboutit.
Are you going to do history of characters from the Microverse like the Psycho Man in your next video?
MICRONAUTS....YES!!!!!
Was HOPING To See #Micronauts
Within AM3; #Quantumania As
The Closest We Have Of Them
in ANY Digital Medium is A #32X
Game Called: #CosmicCarnage;
Where It's More Like NolanRadd
(#SilverSurfer...Sans Board) Vs
#TheMicronauts... Juat Change
Language To Japan🇯🇵 & It's
A TOTALLY DIFFERENT Game!
I'm still not clear on this. What is the scale of the Microverse? If it's a universe you access by shrinking, you shouldn't just suddenly grow on the other side, or else the visitors would've noticed. So if the micro verse is still small, what's the point of making it a separate universe instead of being in the atoms of Earth 616? Sounds needlessly complicated.
Can you do history of the Living_Brain, the Elementals, Cyclone, Hydro Man, Molten Man, the Spot, Sandman, Rom_the_Spaceknight, Stingray, Quasar, Starbrand, Nightmask, Ava Ayala the White Tiger, Crossfire, Living Laser, Century, Lore and Technovore?
Can you do history of Ironheart, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, Arno_Stark Iron Man, Squirrel_Girl, Constrictor, Deathlok, Amadeus_Cho, the Griever, Pepper Potts AKA Rescue and the Agents of Atlas along with Crescent, Morgan_Le_Fey, White Fox and Luna Snow?
#Psychoman. COULD ALSO Be
Yet ANOTHER Version Of #KANG?
As There Have Been MANY
Throughout Parallel Dimentions!
So It Wouldn't Be Out Of The
Realm Of Possibilities!
You know what Tim Boo Ba calls his sibling?
Sis Boom Ba.
HA! I kill me.
Hmm, I was hoping the Makers were 'the Mykars' from the Incursion event.
My first ever US comic was an issue of Micronauts
Ah, lot of talk about SHRINKAGE in this video!
We need a part 2
Huh. My favorite comic based on a licensed property? Gee that's a tough one.
13:15 yes please