CRAPTACULAR B-SIDES #1#2#3 - MARVEL COMICS (2002) 433189

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The Craptacular B-Sides is a three issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics in 2002. The series is set in Raven's Perch, New Jersey, a fictional town renowned in Marvel's main shared universe for having a far higher percentage of superhumans than any other small town in America. The three members are disenfranchised youths with little
direction in life until they are approached by a man named Charley
Huckle. He proposes that they become "The hottest new superhero team
since the New Warriors". Jughandle, Fateball, Mize and Feeva are best friends that have just
graduated from high school. However, Feeva lost the favor of her friends
when she tricked them into a mission intended to gain her acceptance
into the Pegasus Institute. The other three friends are left in Raven's
Perch without direction. They receive mysterious invitations to meet at
the local bowling alley, only to be surprised by Charley Huckle (a local
con man). Huckle explains he wants to organize them into a local superteam
(in his own efforts to make desperately needed money). The friends agree
and become the Craptacular B-Sides. After Huckle takes them to their
new headquarters – a deserted warehouse – he gives them their first
mission: capture Doctor Dark. He was Huckle's first foray into creating a
superhero, but things didn't go well and now Doc Dark has a bounty on
his head. Locating Doctor Dark at the bowling alley, the B-Sides engage
him. But Doc Dark turns out to be more than they bargained for, and the
B-Sides are in over their heads. The Fantastic Four
arrive just in time to stop Doc Dark and save the B-Sides. Huckle
argues with the Fantastic Four to get the bounty on Doc Dark paid to
himself and the B-Sides instead. Thing agrees, and the B-Sides intend to go on their way. However, it turns out the Fantastic Four were actually in town to
see Jughandle, not Doctor Dark. Jughandle's ability to step outside the
timestream is equated to poking a needle through a large tapestry;
doing it a few times has no negative effect, but repeated events could
put holes in the fabric of time. Jughandle then drinks a glass of
"juice" from the Invisible Woman.
Before they can finish talking and thus fully understanding each other,
the teams are then are called off on another local crisis. At a nearby diner, a man is holding two cats hostage in a microwave. Jughandle correctly identifies the cats as Skrull
shapeshifters, and the two superteams head off to stop him. Thanks to
an earlier adventure, Jughandle recognizes both Skrulls and Kree at the scene. The B-Sides and the FF stop the situation before it can escalate into a minor Kree-Skrull War repeat. But after saving the day and going their separate ways, Jughandle
is disenchanted with the Fantastic Four. Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four
are marooned on the New Jersey Turnpike after Mize sabotaged their ship and the Human Torch had left on a date. Mister Fantastic
explains to Ben and Sue that the "juice" he gave Jughandle actually
rearranged his molecular structure to stop the destructive nature of his
timestream powers. Reed wished that he had gotten the chance to tell
Jughandle that before the Fantastic Four left Raven's Perch. The B-Sides receive media recognition in an error-ridden newspaper article.