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The Marvels Project analysis

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Brubaker has characters appearing months after their comics appearance (like Bucky and Toro between Summer and Dec 41), Namor in captivity from summer 41 to Dec 41!


Marvels Project 1
1938
Cast: Matt Hawk
Dr Thomas Halloway


1-5 1938, Matt Hawk is dying in a hospital and he tells the future to come to Dr Thomas Halloway over the course of several visits. At his death he wills him his mask and guns.
4:4 flashback Two-Gun Kid in the old west
5:1-2 flashback Halloway's boyhood in his father's prison where he reads every book in the library and more.

cast: FDR
Kermit Roosevelt
Vincent Astor

6-7 1939, on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, FDR, Astor and Kermit talk about their project in Brooklyn, but the synthetic man keeps catching fire. The Germans have a Project Nietszsche and drop depth charges in Bermuda.

Cast: Sub-Mariner
8-11 Sargasso Sea, northeast of Bermuda. A German ship drops depths charges.
Dead Atlanteans (Mirella, Stacian and Rodis) appear among dead fish. Hans, Tanner and other Germans are attackd and presumably killed by Namor.

Cast: Human Torch, Pr Horton, James Bradley
12-13:3 "A few weeks after the intelligence briefing"
Pr Horton unveils his synthetic man.
12:3-4 flashback Dr James Bradley argues and quits shortly before the unveiling.

13:4 A protest in the street against the fire-man

14 Astor asks Pr Horton to encase Human Torch in cement.

15:1 HT is encased in cement
cast: Abraham Erskine, Hans Bruder
15:2-16 Erskine and his assistant, Hans Bruder, read newspapers about the fire-man. They experiment on dead Atlanteans. They won't get more.

17 London, England, two agents (Pervis named) decode a message
Cast: Steve Rogers
18 New York, Dr Halloway watches newsreels of the Nazis. Steve Rogers is in the theater
cast: Nick Fury
Red Hargrove
Sam Sawyer
Colonel Ellis
19-21 Red Hargrove and Nick Fury meet Lieutenant Sawyer and Colonel Ellis who need their assistance to help a German scientist to defect to America.

22-28 The Flaming Man escapes and provokes a fire in New York. Halloway intervenes to help a woman against gangsters. He keeps helping people through the night. Back home he opens the box Matt Hawk left him.

#2
cast: The Angel
Human Torch
Abraham Erskine
Hans Bruder
John Steele
Sam Sawyer
Nick Fury
Red Hargrove
Fiery Mask
Phantom Bullet
Mister E
Monako the Great
Major Albrecht Kerfoot

1 "early days of 1940", New York
Newspaper states "Human Torch sighting in Yonkers" Halloway puts on the Angel costume.
2-3 Frankfurt Germany Feb 40 Erskine and Hans talk about a WW I soldier, John Steele. Erskine is about to leave for Luxembourg.
4-7 Sawyer, Fury and Hargrove are in a plane. They jump and extract Erskine.
8-9 The Angel stops mobsters in a getaway car and presents himself to reporters.
10 Newspaper is dated Dec 1941??, cameo of Fiery Mask, Phantom Bullet and Mister E
11-15 In a farm in the countryside, Human Torch learns to control his flame and saves an undercover policeman from being executed by mobsters.
16-18 Winter turn to Spring. Monako the Great performs in Times Square. The Angel surveys as two policemen find the lifeless body of the Phantom Bullet "only active a few months"
19-20 Major Kerfoot under the alias of Pr Hamilton makes a radio report to his contacts and kills the charlady when she overhears.
21 Halloway goes to the ceremony of Allan Lewis the Phantom Bullet, a reporter from the Daily Bulletin.
22 The Human Torch asks how to join the police force.

#3
Cast:
The Ferret
Sam sawyer
Nick Fury
Human Torch
Angel
Namor
General Phillips
Kermit Roosevelt
Hans Bruder
John Steele
Abraham Erskine

1-2:4 Summer 1940 New York
Ms Portnoy, the daughter of the murdered charlady contact the Ferret for the disappearance of her mother.
2:5-3 "Pr Hamilton" is contacted by a general for a new project.
4-5 England, secret air base outside London, Sawyer proposes to Fury to find some hidden nazi fortresses.
6-7 Officer Hammond is on the streets. His chief tells him to take a day off at Coney Island.
8-10 Angel investigates Phantom Bullet's death.
11-18 Namor arrives at Coney Island and attacks to be fought off by HT
19 General Phillips and Kermit go to meet Pr Zogolowski
20-22 Planes bomb Frankfurt's facility. Hans flees. Steele is freed.
22 Erskine completes his super-serum

#4
cast:
Kerfoot
Heinz Kruger
The Ferret
Steve Rogers
The Angel
John Steele
Nick Fury
Red Hargrove
Abraham Erskine
general Phillips

1-5 Fall 1940 New York Kerfoot meets Kruger to give him his papers as Frederick Clemson. The Ferret is seen trailing Hamilton and is murdered.
6 Kruger: Kerfoot knows the Americans have found a test subject. He studies the entire dossier on Rogers that Kerfoot copied.
6fb pn5 Rogers as a kid selling fruits on the street
7fb Rogers sick in bed with his mother; bullied by other kids; studying illustration; at the deathbed of his mother 3 years earlier; washing dishes at age 16
8fb pn1-3 in the theater; pn4 trying to enlist
9fb pn1 told he's 4-F; pn2 General Phillips asks to see Rogers' paperwork; pn 3-5 goes to see him in the bar where he works
10fb pn 1-3 undergoes testing for 2 months;
10 4-5 Kruger finishes reading the dosier and burns it.
11-12 Angel finds the body of the Ferret and takes his pet Nosie with him. He sees firemen fighting the fire consumint the Ferret's office.
13-16 In Nazi-ocupied France, John Steele fights nazis and meets Fury and Hargrove.
17 NY City. Kruger has had access for a week but hasn't found an occasion to kill Erskine as he's rarely alone.
17fb pn3-4 Erskine with assistants, with General Phillips
18-20 Kerfoot has already succeeded in copying the formula. Americans plan to test the formula tomorrow.
21 "Clemson" shows his papers and gets in. Arrives behind the glass where General Phillips already is.
22-23 Sees the room with big machinery.

#5
Cast: Steve Rogers
Heinz Kruger
Abraham Erskine
Kerfoot
Gal Phillips BTS
Red Skull
Fury
Hargrove
Steele
Sawyer (BTS)
The Angel
Hans Bruder
Pr Burstein
Thin man
Hurricane

1:1-2 Steve Rogers training
1fb pn3 Rogers drinks from a test tube
pn4 he's irradiated by vita rays
2fb pn1-2 he looks at his new physique
pn3 Erskine is shot 3 times
pn4 Kruger shouts "Long live the third Reich"
3fb pn 1 Rogers jumps to get him behind the shattered glass
pn2 throws him into the room
pn3 Kruger hits eletrical equipement and dies
pn 4 Rogers holds the dead body of Erskine in his arms
4 Rogers trains in gymnastics, self-defense, presses a barbell, karate
pn 2-3 as he dresses he gets told General Phillips has something he needs to see
5 "in the days after Erskine's assassination" New York, Albrecht Kerfoot fled his appartment, staged his death in a car accident
6-7 Other Germans knock at his door, kill him, and send his books to Germany
8-9 A week earlier Angel found the Ferret's last client. He interrogates criminals and Kellerman a Bugle journalist.
10-11 Nazi-occupied France, the Red Skull massacres a town
12-13 "Days later" Fury, Hargrove and Steele walk into town. Sawyer ordered the Sky Devils to go back.
14-15 Just outside Berlin, Hans Bruder and Pr Burstein (father of Noah Burstein from Luke Cage, Hero for Hire) have a chat
16 Rogers dresses as Captain America
16 pn 5 cameos of Thin Man and Hurricane
17 pn 1 in full costume
pn2 on his motorcycle going after nazi spies "that night"
18-22 Angel arrives and sees Cap breaking in and attacking the nazis (same as those who killed Kerfoot), they meet. The nazi leader escapes.

#6
cast:
Namor
Human Torch
Fred Raymond
Nora Raymond
Thomas Raymond
Steele
Red Skull
Eric Schmitt
Bruder
Burstein
Meranno
Angel,
Thin Man,
Electro,
Mister E,
Patriot,
Hurricane
?
?
Captain America


Summer of 1941, New York
1 Namor walks in the city
2 HT
2fb pn2 fights mobsters, pn3 fights a costumed crook
3fb finds a photo of Fred Raymond with Horton 1933, with HT in the background!
4-6fb Visits the Raymonds. Toro turns into flame.
7 Steele in Germany spying on a facility
7fb he spent the spring crossing into Germany and fighting troops
8 the Red Skull sends Pr Eric Schmitt to a camp. Bruder and Burstein are shocked.
9 Steele enters as guards take Schmitt away
10 Red Skull introduces Meranno to the scientists after berating them for the delays
11-17 HT decides to return to the Raymonds' home but is seen by Namor who attacks him as a giant wave hits the city
18 Angel, Thin Man, Electro, Mister E, Patriot, Hurricane, plus one in a cape seen from behind and a head shot either of Mister E or Phantom Reporter help rescue people from the flood
19-22 HT and Namor keep fighting until Captain America's shield stuns Namor.

#7
Cast:
Pr Schmitt
Brian Falsworth
Steele
Red Skull
Human Torch
Toro
Bucky
Sawyer
Angel
Meranno
Atlanteans

1 "months passed quickly as summer moved to fall and fall rushed toward winter"
Namor has been in prison all this time! Captain America asks the military if he spoke. They assume he's a foreign agent (didn't Betty Dean inform them?)
2 In a concentration camp, Pr Schmitt gives a super-serum to Keen Marlow alias Brian Falsworth
3 pn 1 Union Jack I in the trenches during WWI
3 pn 2 Falsworth captured in Germany
3-6 Escapes from the camp. Schmitt is killed and buried.
7-10 Steele invests a fortress where he sees Red Skull with a Japanese General. Finds nazi plans to attack Hawaii and Washington DC. Leaves fortress.
11 HT teaches Toro how to fly
11fb pn2-4 12fb pn1-3 train wreck where Toro is the only survivor.
12:4 HT and Toro flying.
13:1-2 Bucky dresses
13fb pn3 Bucky starts a fight in the canteen. He's been trouble for some time.
14 fb pn1 "months of training" for Bucky
pn2 movie dramatisation of Bucky discovering Rogers' identity in a theater.
14 3-5 Captain America and Lieutenant Sawyer discuss Bucky before his first mission
15 Angel on the track of nazi spy master. Goes to sea shore.
16 Nazis meet Meranno and Atlanteans
17-22 Cap and Bucky attack. Meranno escapes. An Atlantean is captured.

#8
Cast:
Human Torch
Toro
Namor
Atlanteans
Meranno
Steele
Fury
Sawyer
Captain America
Master Man
Dum Dum Dugan,
Gabe Jones,
Rebel Ralston,
Pinky Pinkerton
Angel,
Red Raven,
Citizen V,
Dynamic Man,
Patriot,
plus two

Jason Halloway
Matt Hawkins
Steve Rogers

1 HT and Toro racing across the Atlantic
2fb Namor interrogates the Atlantean captive
3fb The Atlantean speaks
4:1fb Steele informs the French resistance of the plans he uncovered.
4:2-6fb Fury tells Sawyer he's not going to enlist like Red. Sawyer gets a dispatch from Steele. Asks to speak to general Phillips.
5:1-4fb Cap informs HT of the Axis plans.
5:5 HT and Toro flying
6-7 they see the Japanese planes
8-17 Namor, Cap and Bucky escort the British Prime Minister and stop an invasion by Meranno and Atlanteans while HT and Toro fight at Pearl Harbor
18 pn1-2 FDR meets Invaders in his office, Namor pardoned if he joins the team.
pn3 Invaders vs German army
pn4 "behind enemy lines" in a medieval castle Namor vs MasterMan, and Human Torch
19 pn1 Fury at Hargrove's burial.
pn2 Fury fighting along Howlers (Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Rebel Ralston, Pinky Pinkerton)
pn3-4 Steele fighting nazis, disappears without a trace after the invasion of Normandy
20 in New York, Angel, Red Raven, Citizen V, Dynamic Man, Patriot, plus two I don't recognize
21-22 Steve Rogers meets Jason Halloway, and gives him the case with the mask and guns along with The Marvels Project memoir. Rogers meets Matt Hawkins on the outside.
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Re: The Marvels Project analysis

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Hey, Leoparis!
On May 1, Paul Bourcier wrote:Your notes are appreciated, although Col_Fury did sign up for this one.
On May 7, Paul Bourcier wrote:please use this forum to check with anyone who's signed up for an analysis and ask if they wouldn't mind your doing it instead. For all we know, that person may have spent quite a bit of time working on an analysis and was ready to post only to discover you beat them to it. Following this protocol would be the courteous thing to do. Thanks, man.
-Jeph!
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