The Marvel Lucky Bag - May 1982.

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What is best in life?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women.

It's a philosophy I still follow, to this day. 

And it was taught to me by Genghis Khan.

Either that or by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And he may have taught it to me in May 1982 because that's when the first Conan movie escaped into our cinemas.

However, Arnold wasn't the only one to have a film released that month. We also saw it unveil Annie, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and Rocky III.

I'm going to be controversial and say it right here. Of those four movies, Annie is the best.

And I'm sure Genghis Khan would agree with me.

Dazzler and Spider-Woman are still teaming up in order to tackle whoever it is they're teaming up to tackle.

Whoever it is, it's clearly a sewer point for them.

Here's a thing I never expected to see. Fred Hembeck brings us Fantastic Four Roast #1.

I say it's issue #1 but, as far as I can make out, it's also the only issue.

It's the team-up we've all demanded, as Benjamin J Grimm collaborates with Scott Lang.

Judging by the cover blurb, I'm assuming it's happening on a microscopic world.

Which does make me wonder if it's the same one we saw in Fantastic Four #16 when Hank Pym's Ant-Man first encountered the gang.

I must confess it's a bit of a shock for me to see Rom reaching his 30th issue.

But perhaps I shouldn't be shocked at all. A modicum of research tells me his book will manage to make it to issue #75 before folding, forcing me to realise he must be more popular than I ever dreamt of.

Plotwise, it's Christmas Eve and Rom modifies the Torpedo's visor so he's able to see through the Dire Wraiths' disguises.

But there's far more to consider than that. After all, our hero must also battle the Metal Master who wants to use his armour's alloys to conquer Earth.

What's this? Dennis the Menace with spider powers? It can only lead to trouble.

And it does. For, it would appear that, when he's invited to a romance-themed Halloween party, he decides to go as Spidey and starts spraying webbing on everything.

Speaking of Spider-Man. The wall-crawler and Wolverine are attacked by modern-day Roman soldiers who work for the mysterious Professor Power.

And they're faced with a dilemma. They can either go after the Professor or save innocents from the Roman forces.

Except there are two of them. So, I would have thought one of them could do the first task, and the other perform the second.