Kang is awesome!

Have you ever seen Strange Tales #134, where Kang fights the Human Torch and the Thing? It's so dumb in so many ways but you can't beat that wonderful Wally Wood art!

Not that it'll make you like the character any better, but Grim Reaper next appears in Avengers 160, "The Trial", which is one of the best single-issue
Avengers stories ever. It also puts a spotlight on Wonder Man that might change your perception of him. I'd like to know what you think after you read it.

They do have younger Cyclops around already.. I'd imagine they'll just go with him... but I'm sure if the X-office calls, the space Phantom will be ready!

Concerning Immortus, I recently had reason to ask, "In Byrne's mind, is Immortus actually Tom DeFalco?" I was recently reading Byrne's late 80s run on Avengers/West Coast Avengers for the first time, and one of the long running threads was a Dark Wanda scenario hatched by Immortus, but I also detected a note of satirical entendre in the plot and dialogue.

Basically, Immortus has been taking it upon himself to veto various possible continuities on the grounds that this is the job that his bosses gave him. He gets into battle with the Avengers while complaining that he doesn't really see himself as the bad guy. But then at the end his bosses show up and tell him that he's been doing a terrible job editing continuity, and has overstepped his bounds. After arguing with them a bit, he finds himself paralyzed, effectively relieved of duty. The heroes then give some snide asides about what happens when somebody gets too big for his britches.

This made me think of Sean Howe's "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story," which posits that the Beyonder is basically a stand-in for Jim Shooter, a nominally omnipotent being who tries to create interesting an interesting scenario for the heroes and villains to fight, only to see them all turn on him and try to usurp his benevolent plans. This in turn made me wonder whether Byrne (who started the plot threads, though Roy Thomas appears to have finished it all up) was using Immortus as a jab at Marvel editorial staff and their relationship with both the creative types below them (our heroes) and the corporate owners above them (the three keepers of eternity). I've seen and read about other examples where office politics got written into the story, so this one made me say, "Hmmm.."

I might be misremembering this but didn't the Grim Reaper have a few different attachments he could interchange?

OK, I must have been thinking of something else.

Although, there's nothing to prevent all these characters from having special, uh, "bathroom attachments" that are never seen.

You and Matt Helm.