A Microverse by every other title would odor so candy, however slightly than switching toi the Quantum Realm, Marvel appears to be switching again to the Sub-Atomica.
When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched a brand new actuality accessible by shrinking down, again in Fantastic Four #16, it was dubbed the Sub-Atomica, with Psycho-Man and a shrunken Doctor Doom at play amongst the atoms, later to be a hiding place for the Silver Surfer from Galactus.
Over the years there have been quite a few different tales informed in shrunken-down universes, within the Hulk, Marvel Preview, and even again within the forties for Captain America Comics which had been all gathered collectively for the licensed toyline sequence, the Micronauts. It was later dubbed the Microverse and Sub-Atomica was now one of many many programs throughout the actuality.
Even after Marvel misplaced the license, they stored utilizing the time period “Microverse”, often swapped with “Inner Space”. Now, courtesy of the Marcel Cinematic Universe, and the Ant-Man films, the Microverse has been renamed the Quantum Realm, even because it remained the Microverse within the comedian books, resembling 2018’s Ant-Man And The Wasp comedian guide sequence.
But whereas the Marvel comedian books cannot fairly but deliver themselves to rename the Microverse because the Quantum Realm within the comics, after the discharge of Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania, they will return to a earlier model. From in the present day’s Scarlet Witch #3… the Tinyverse. Okay, no, that is only a throwaway line…
We have returned to utilizing the phrase Sub-Atomica for the worlds beneath our personal. Just as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby meant most likely. Will it catch on? Or will this be a one-off?
Dr Philip Prometheus from the Micronauts as nicely… in fact, he all the time knew it because the Microverse again then… although he did not precisely maintain all of it collectively.
SCARLET WITCH #3
MARVEL COMICS
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(W) Steve Orlando (A) Sara Pichelli (CA) Russell Dauterman
ENTER POLARIS! When Polaris’ go to to her sister’s new magic store is interrupted by a microscopic warrior determined for assist, Polaris and the Scarlet Witch put their very own thriller on maintain to assist on a implausible journey by way of Sub-Atomica! Meanwhile, the darkish previous of Wanda’s enigmatic store clerk, Darcy Lewis, comes back-with a vengeance.
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