The Marvel Lucky Bag - June 1986.

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I often profess ignorance of most of the movies I mention in my posts but, June 1986 was replete with films of which even I've heard.

It was, when all's said and done, a month that unfurled such cinematic delights as Invaders from Mars, My Little Pony, SpaceCamp, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Belizaire the Cajun, The Manhattan Project, Mona Lisa, Legal Eagles, The Karate Kid Part II, Labyrinth and Ruthless People.

The problem is I don't remember liking any of them. Therefore, it's a struggle to nominate my Steve Does Comics Film of the Month but, if pressed, I shall go for Ruthless People.

The Enchantress turns up in the book dedicated to Marvel's least likely married couple but, not having read this one, I cannot say what she's up to.

I'm going to assume, though, that she will try and make the Vision do her bidding, as that is her usual modus operandi when dealing with men.

But will her powers work on an android?

And, also, will the Executioner show up in his usual huff?

The star-spangled superstar lands himself his eighth annual.

But can he manage to survive it, seeing as he must endure an encounter with Wolverine?

It would appear that someone called the Overrider gains control of a robot created, by the American government, to eliminate super-soldiers.

Given their back-stories, this does sound like the sort of thing that both Captain America and Wolverine would take an interest in.

And the New Mutants too have an annual of their very own.

In this one, a legend is born when Mojo kidnaps Betsy Braddock. A circumstance that leads to her gaining new eyes and the name Psylocke!

In other news, the New Mutants meet Captain Britain, while someone called Cypher merges with Warlock.

That's the robot Warlock. Not Adam Warlock.

Not to be outdone by Cap and the New Mutants, the one and only Spider-Man gets another annual and I have no idea what happens in it, other than that it's forty pages long, is called Ace II and is the brainchild of Peter David and Mark Beachum.

But forget about annuals. Who needs those when a brand new comic hits our lives and features a brand new heroine in the form of Dakota North?

With a name and a front cover like that, I was assuming she'd be a Howard Chaykin creation but it seems she's brought to us - in a tale called Design for Dying - by Martha Thomases and Tony Salmons

All I know beyond that is she is, allegedly, based on Emma Peel and that her comic will survive for just five issues.

Moonshadow hits its eighth issue, with a cover by Jon J Muth and interiors by Jon J Muth.

Not to mention it possessing a J M DeMatteis script titled Candles.

Of course, if he'd had any class, he'd have called it Four Candles.

Regardless, do I know what it involves?

No, I don't.

And let us end with the Avengers' 15th annual. One in which the eastern and western teams take each other on in a baseball game!

Unfortunately for them - but, possibly fortunately for anyone who doesn't like baseball - they're attacked by Freedom Force who intend to arrest them - just as they've also attempted to arrest the X-Men, this month.

Freedom Force are victorious and take their captives to a place called the Vault where they're to be tried for treason, thanks to the testimony of one of their own former members!