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Richard Rider was just an average teenager until a dying alien transferred the Nova force to him, making him Nova Prime. After some heroics on Earth, Nova was called to Xandar to serve in the Nova Corps. Later, he became a founding member of the ill fated New Warriors.

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Nova Classic Volume 1

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Born on a collective farm in The Soviet Union, Piotr Rasputin always preferred the quiet life. When he was 13 he discovered a mutant ability to transform his body into a powerful metallic form. Charles Xavier came to Russia to recruit him for an important rescue mission, and his life was forever changed.

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Trapped in a world he never made! Howard was taken unaware from his home in Duckworld by an evil overmaster, and showed up at the Florida Everglades courtesy of the Nexus of all Realities. He met Man-Thing, then moved to Cleveland. He met a nice girl named Beverly, ran for President, and had many other absurd adventures.

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As is tradition, Jess joins me for the annual Halloween episode. This year we are talking about Marvel's Dracula. Once the Ruler of a European Principality, Vlad was mortally wounded by his enemies, the Ottoman Turks. Though he seemed to be bound to die, a gypsy curse transformed him into a dark, undead monster.

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Ray Palmer was a physicist with a passion for white dwarf star matter, and it's size altering properties. During one ill fated spelunking adventure he discovered that he could use it to alter his own size and became the mighty minuscule man known as The Atom, protector of Ivytown. 

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This week Marty drops in to discuss Alfred. Everyone knows him as Batman's butler but there is much more to him. He has been an actor, a spy, an outsider and he has defeated Superman in single combat.

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Buddy baker was a punk rocker, a stunt man and an avatar for the red. What more could you ask of a superhero? Spending time with the Forgotten Heroes and Justice League Europe, he is probably best know for his militant animal rights activism. He is also one of those rare characters that has met his writer, Grant Morrison.

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Though she first appeared in comics in 2001, it turns out Jessica Jones had been in the Marvel Universe the whole time. She saw Peter Parker get bitten by that fateful spider, and she witnessed the defeat of Galactus at the hands of the Fantastic Four. An accident gave her powers of her own, and she enjoyed a brief super hero career until she fell into the clutches of the Purple Man. Despite her many trials she has emerged as a hero, a mother and a survivor.

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By request this is a third installment of Regrettable Heroes found in The League of Regrettable Superheroes by Jon Morris.

Characters discussed include Bozo The Iron Man, The Face, Man o' Metal, Funnyman, Sonik and more.

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This is part 2 of a 2 part episode. Dr. Henry Pym was a brilliant scientist that discovered the eponymous Pym Particles that allowed him to change size to become Ant Man. He was a founding member of the Avengers, but suffered a bit of an identity crisis causing him to repeatedly change his superhero persona. He also created his own worse enemy as well as crossing a line from which he could never return.

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