The Marvel Lucky Bag - August 1984.

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What would one find upon entering a zeitgeist-happy cinema in August 1984?

You'd find not a single movie I've ever seen but you would locate The Philadelphia Experiment, Cloak & Dagger, Red Dawn, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Woman in Red, Sheena, Tightrope and Bolero.

I really couldn't even hazard a guess as to which of those films would be the best.

But I'm guessing it's not Bolero.

The New Mutants hit their 18th issue and do it bearing a cover by the now almost-inescapable Bill Sienkiewicz.

Not only that but he draws the inside of it, as well.

From what I can gather, Danielle Moonstar's decided the Demon Bear that killed her parents is coming for her.

Elsewhere, Rachel Summers, still in the wrong time period, tries to contact Professor X.

Warlock tries to escape his father who appears to be called Magus. Which seems odd, bearing in mind the links between the other Marvel character called Warlock and his future self the Magus. Is this coincidence? Is a plan afoot in the head of writer Chris Claremont?

And that pesky Demon Bear does indeed show up and, having showed up, decides to critically wound Danielle.

A brand new book hits our spinner racks - and our eyeballs - as Amazing High Adventure is unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.

It would appear to centre around tales that draw upon real life history.

And, so, blessed with 52 pages at its disposal, it brings us such yarns as The Pike, Gold, Ambrose A Abernathy's Amazing Adventure Apparatus and Death Stroke, featuring such people as the Aztecs, Inuits, Russians and even Oliver Cromwell.

The mag that won't stop asking me questions I don't know the answer to is at it again.

This time, it's demanding to know what would have happened if Uncle Ben had lived.

Presumably, our cast would never have been short of rice.

On a more tragic note, it seems that, while Uncle Ben survives this tale, Aunt May doesn't.

I can only assume her death spurs our hero to fight crime, rather than remaining the high-salaried entertainer he always wanted to be.

The Avengers get their 13th annual.

And it's unlucky for some - including them - as Roger Stern and Steve Ditko serve up an epic that, if its cover's to be believed, sees the world's mightiest team confront one hundred Hulks.

From what I can make out, they're clones, and the Fixer and Arnim Zola are mixed up in it all.

Is that the Fixer who Daredevil killed in his first appearance? Because, leaving aside that he's dead, getting mixed up in cloning Hulks doesn't really seem to lie within either that character's style or his skill set.

A comic with a terrible title smashes its way into our lives.

And that smashing is being done by the Hulk.

All I know about this one is it runs for three issues and is the brainchild of Scott Adams, John Byrne, Bill Mantlo, Mark Gruenwald and John Romita.

Also, I know that someone called The Chief Examiner is out to study the Hulk and his powers.

For what dread purpose, I cannot say.

And yet another new title appears as if by magic. This time, I do believe, it's aimed at the less sophisticated reader.

That, therefore, will be me.

On his way to Earth, a Kymellian called Whitey's attacked by the evil Snarks, causing his ship to crash near the home of the Power family.

There, to save them from the deadly Snarks, Whitey bestows superpowers upon the family's four children.

As the cover informs us, a large percentage of the world's abducted heroes are trapped beneath a mountain, with only the Hulk to keep it from crushing them.

It's all the fault of the Molecule Man who's done it to impress a woman.

Elsewhere, the X-Men decide to join forces with Magneto; in the process, allowing the Wasp to escape his clutches.

I do believe that, even as this is occurring, Galactus and Dr Doom are each concocting a scheme for dealing with the Beyonder.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume this is Marvel's adaptation of the film of the same name.

It's credited to a combination of David Michelinie, George Lucas, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz and Butch Guice and spans 64 pages.

It's another impossible-to-ignore cover from Bill Sienkiewicz, while Mark Bright draws the insides.

Apart from that, all I know of this issue is Alison lands a job in a music video which bears an uncanny resemblance to the one for Michael Jackson's Thriller.