Issue(s): Marvel Two-In-One #10
Cover Date: Jul 75
Title: "Is this the day the world ends?"
Credits:
Chris Claremont - Writer
Bob Brown - Penciler
Klaus Janson - Inker

Review/plot:
Pursued by terrorists, the Black Widow crashes into the Thing in Central Park. Both she and the Thing are captured.

The terrorists are part of a group called the Sword of Judgment, which is comprised of oppressed people from all over the world. They've got a giant H bomb. The Widow and the Thing put a stop to it, of course.

It's a good early Claremont story. Higher quality than you would expect from a book like Marvel Two-In-One. But it's marred a little bit by the complete mismatch of Klaus Janson inking Bob Brown.

Both are enjoyable artists, but together this book isn't sure if it wants to be clean super-heroics or a dark atmospheric spy story.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP places this during FF #160 but it seems to fit fine between FF #157-158 along with MTIO #8-9 and a few other Thing appearances.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

The Brown/Janson team also results in the Thing having weirdly long fingers at the start.

maybe the sword of judgement later became ultimatum.

I just don't get Ben covering his eyes!

I actually kinda like Brown and Janson in this issue.

I haven't seen a lot of Bob Brown art's but I'm starting to kinda like it. Here I like the way he and Klaus Janson are letting Brown's style seep through the Marvel house style, giving us something a little different than the average super-hero sameness which usually seemed so prevalent in 1975. Thing and Widow are easily recognizable as who they are, but still don't look quite like the status quo versions of themselves that I tend to expect in a Marvel Two-In-One.