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Mikros - Titan Microcosmique!

Mikros Created by Marcel Navarro (as Malcolm Naughton) and Jean-Yves Mitton (as John Milton) Appears in Mustang Nos.54-70 and Titans No.35-87 (1980-1986) You may never have read a single issue featuring the so-called “ Microcosmic Titan ,” but everything about Mikros is familiar -- and it’s meant to be ! Mikros and friends, encountering a mirror for the first time since they got their costumes. Mikros and his two equally superheroic allies are frequently found dashing across the Manhattan skyline in their brightly colored costumes, rubbing shoulders with Marvel superheroes ( more or less ), and even saving the world from destruction -- at least twice !  The bold palette and broad melodrama  of the strip meshed perfectly with the bombastic superhero storytelling of Marvel Comics , and the international settings lent the series an unusually  sophisticated gravitas .  There was soap opera, cosmic threat, international intrigue, evil societies , and supervillains aplent...

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