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Welcome to our second site for comics fanfic!  The original site, DarkMark's Domain, had to be divided in two due to overcrowding.  You can still find DC-based stories on Domain I, but this site will contain stories based in the Marvel Universe and other companies' universes.  I've won a number of awards in the fanfic realm, some of which you'll see below, and have had a few pro stories published in comics.  But nothing's been as much fun as my endeavors in this field!

If you have any comments about the stories, you can post a note at DarkMark's Dialogue Domain, or you can drop me a line here.  All feedback is welcome, and don't think I don't read it.  Also, if you wish to know what's new on either Domain, you can check here.  Or if you're wondering where a particular character appears in my stories, try the Character Index.

Also, if you're into data on comics stories, particularly those in the classic DC Universe, check out DarkMark's Comics Indexing Domain.  Definitely worth a look!

Now that we've said all that, let's get down to what you're really here for...the stories!

Magneto:   Devil's Diary   Ever wonder what it's like to be one of the most powerful and tormented super-villains of all time?  This story is a series of excerpts from Magneto's diary, and reveals his motivations, actions, and tortured soul in an untold tale that takes place around the time of his public debut in X-MEN #1.  One of my most popular ficts.  NOTE:  This story has been given a Maggie Award by Alara's Magneto site, for which we are most grateful!

Iceman:   The Iceman Goeth  A conversation between Iceman and Cyclops on the night before Bobby has to leave his hometown and join Xavier's academy.  Set just after Iceman's origin story in X-MEN #44-47.

X-Men 1970:   The Professor and His Pupil   Just after X-MEN #66, the original five X-Men make a decision about what to do after seven years of being super-heroes and teammates.

 Halfway Fallen Angel   In the wake of his father's murder, Warren Worthington learns of the X-Men's breakup, and must decide on his life's course thereafter.

 Bobby and Hank Say, "Farewell, New York", and Other Things  A wedding occurs, and the Beast and Iceman have a last blast at the Coffee A Go Go in Greenwich Village, and then some...

 A Working Class Mutant Is Something To Be  Scott Summers and Jean Grey enter the workaday world and married life, until a crisis on a local campus causes Cyclops and Marvel Girl to make a comeback.

X-Men:   If the Fates Allow...  The X-Men spend what might be a sad Christmas at the Subreality Cafe, but find out about the power of a song and a Christmas wish.  Written for the 2001 Holiday Project.

 Let's RollA story about heroes both real and unreal.  Though that's a quite subjective difference.

Madrox the Multiple Man:   The Problem of Legion (2)(3)Jamie Madrox can turn himself into many multiple beings.  Now he's being asked by a group of alien heroes to help one of their number with a similar power, before that one can die...whether he wants to help, or not.

Emma Frost:   A Friend of the Old Family    A 13-year-old Emma Frost learns that she belongs not to one family, but two...

Cannonball:  Frost and Fear    One night, Cannonball learns that the weapon he must use to save someone is not his power, but his faith.

X-Fluff:  Just my attempt to have fun with some stuff we probably shouldn't take too seriously.
 Weepyangstfic   Jean Grey's thoughts after the demise, cancellation, or enforced abscence of Cyclops. Hankies or paper towels required.
 Wolverine's Rant   Even if you haven't seen that famous Canadian beer commercial with a guy named Joe, you may enjoy this one.
 The Button-Down Mind of Bob Mutant Say, did you ever hear the one about the contractor Professor X called about installing the Danger Room?  Not you, Mrs. Webb, we know you've heard it...
 The Summers Brothers Smothers Show  Mom always liked this one best.  Apologies to Bob Dylan.
 X-Filk   In which DM indulges his Weird Al Yankovic and fanboy obsessions at the same time.  Don't encourage him, he'll just do more.
 Goodbye, Magneto and Toad  Didn't we TELL you not to encourage him??
 Takin' a Life (Disco Sinister)Break out the mirror ball and put on your old copy of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, and boogie down right with Nathaniel Essex.
 Ghost Riders In the StoreSing along with the cowboy classic about the four guys who ride the skies above the comics shop.
 My Name Is Joe  Sentinels have been given a bum rap.  They've never been allowed to tell their side of the story.  It's time this injustice was addressed.  Step up and meet Joe.

Otherfilk:   Gang War / Vietnam Veteran Vigilante    The Kingpin, Elektra, Bullseye, and the Punisher may be murderous, psychopathic hardcases, but don't think they can't belt out a tune with the best of them in their off-hours. ;-)
 Money For Comics   To the tune of an old Dire Straits classic, possibly the thoughts of a lot of comics shop owners.
 You Can't Always Read What You Want  But if you try sometime, you just might find...

Marvel Universe:  FIRE!(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)   If the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men and all the other heroes of Marvel's Silver Age really did begin their careers in the early Sixties...then by 1972, it might be time for...FIRE!

Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD:  Comes the Dawn    Shortly after the Fire, Nick Fury has dinner with his long-estranged sister, with surprising results.  Birthday story for a friend.

Marvels:   Maggie   From the MARVELS series by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, the story that Phil Sheldon left untold until now, of a lonely little mutant girl, the family into which she came, and everything that followed.

Iron Man and Colossus:   The Steel Handshake (2)(3)(4)   Shortly after their origin, the new X-Men team meet the Avengers.  But what happens when Colossus, a Russian super-hero, meets Iron Man, the sworn enemy of Communism?  Winner of the 2001 CBFFA Award:  Best Marvel.

Mutant Hunter:   The Beginning (2)(3)(4)   My first original character story on this site.  In an alternate Marvel Universe future, all mutants are hunted, and Roger Black is one of the Hunters.  But some of his quarry have their own agenda, and it could prove quite deadly to homo sapientes and homo superior alike.  

Screaming Mimi (Songbird) / Shanna the She-Devil:  Cinderella Vindication   Back before she became Songbird in the Thunderbolts, Mimi Schwartz was Screaming Mimi, sometime super-villain and full-time professional wrestler.  But bouts are hard to get when you're the only woman in the promotion who doesn't have super-strength, and Mimi gambles all to become an ally of the loveliest jungle girl in the Marvel Universe and, after helping her on a case, to face off against her in the ring.

Mephisto and Co.:   The Hell With It   A Boys' Night Out with three devils from the Marvel Universe.  This one's a homeuva lotta fun.

Man-Thing:   Several Obscure Characters   In which your humble author pays a visit on a certain familiar swamp and learns that some little-known characters might be better off being left little-known.

 Society's Child   Two characters from the Marvel Universe find out that the only thing they have left to say is goodbye.  A Breakup Challenge fict.

Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu:   The Bargain of Fah Lo Suee   The most famed martial arts hero of Marvel's Bronze Age is now 60 years old and happily married.  But his half-sister reappears after many years to offer him and his wife a devil's bargain.  Written for Falstaff's Old Married Couples challenge.

Ms. Marvel / Binary / Warbird:   A Prize For Three Empires  (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) A tale of Carol Danvers, aka Ms. Marvel, aka Binary, aka Warbird.  She's been through seven kinds of hell, and made several galactic empires very mad at her.  And that can prove to be a quite dangerous thing, when all see you as their pawn.  Guest-starring the X-Men, the Avengers, the Starjammers, and other heroes.

Daimon Hellstrom:   The Dublin Horror  Written for my own Scary Story Challenge.  Something very large and eerie has invaded a Dublin pub-cum-playhouse.  An Irish priest joins forces with an American of some note to try and cast out whatever is inside...the problem is, there's so much of it.  (Language and some story matter may make this unsuitable to younger readers.)

The Black Knight:   An Ending   The fall of Camelot, and what came after, as experienced by the greatest knight of the Marvel Universe.
 
 

Angela is copyright Todd McFarlane.  Image is used without permission, and will be taken down if he requests (or if Scott Fleming, the painter of this image, does).  But we hope they won't!

Angela:   Angela's Story  A venture into the Image Universe.  The lovely wayward angel-being created by Neil Gaiman finds a friend in the wake of a war and goes hunting for big, big game on another planet...only to find herself no longer hunter, but prey.  From the pages of SPAWN.  Another story which has turned out to be among the most popular ones.

 Song in the Darkness   Between worlds, Hilth learns of Christmas, and of Angela's unique perspective on it.  Written for CFAN's Christmas 1999 fanfic cycle.

Astro City:   The Last Fast Blast of the Bouncing Beatnik   From the pages of Kurt Busiek's, Brent Anderson's, and Alex Ross's contemporary classic.  The story of the coolest superhero of the Eisenhower Age, who he is, how he came to be, and all that came after.  Winner of the 2001 CBFFA Award:  Best Story / Series:  Other Comic.

Axel Pressbutton:   Broken Axel    A hero from Britain's Warrior magazine and his own Eclipse Comics title finds out that, the night before you die, the Subreality Cafe isn't such a bad place to visit.

Gen13:  Or Maybe the Story Ends Like This   Did Caitlin Fairchild and company really end up as badly as they did in the comics, or is there another side of the story?  You be the judge.

Magnus, Robot Fighter:   The Steel Child (2)(3)  An untold tale of Magnus's eighth year of life, when his life with 1A on the bottom of the sea was interrupted by a new arrival...a robot.  

Mighty Crusaders:   War With the Wizard  (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(meta) Years ago, one of the great super-heroes of World War II inexplicably became a villain.  Now the Fly, Fly-Girl, the Black Hood, the Shield, the Comet, the Hangman, and other heroes must learn why (or if) the Wizard turned evil...if they can keep him from killing them all first.

THUNDER Agents:   Spiderweb(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19) Dynamo, Lightning, NoMan, Raven, and other agents of THUNDER face a world-threatening menace from the evil organization SPIDER, and are forced to take on a super-powered Russian agent as their partner.  If they fail, the Tower Universe may not see 1971!

The Rocketeer:   Return of the Rocketeer  The high-flying, jet-powered hero of the 1930's hasn't been seen in decades.  But when his daughter is kidnaped, the latest scion of the Secord family learns about his true heritage for the first time.  Based on the character created by Dave Stevens.

The Spirit:  Return of the Spirit  NEW STORY  8/15/06   Will Eisner's classic masked crimefighter of the Golden Age returns in a story set  just after the last Spirit Section in 1952.  The Spirit is back from the Moon, but finds trouble as usual in Central City...and an old enemy is kidnapping his friends.

Pogo:   A Probable Pogo Christmas   Our Christmas tale for 2002.  On Yuletide night, Pogo Possum finds that some deadly things can disturb even the brightest of holidays.  Based on the timeless characters created by Walt Kelly.

Subreality:   Four Legends   An excerpt from a Subreality Cafe Round Robin.  A writer is on trial for writing fanfic, but four unexpected witnesses for the defense make an appearance.

 Subreality?    The Subreality Cafe is usually a fine place to visit, full of cameraderie, good friends, fine music, and a general good time to be had by all.  This is about one of the times it isn't.

 Pictopia II(2)(3)(4)(5) Based on a story by Alan Moore and Don Simpson.  The heroes of the 1930's comic strips may have been ghettoized and all but forgotten by their successors.  But what happens when the super-heroes are all gone, and Nocturno the Magician and his friends are the only ones left to save them, if they can?

 A Summer of Wendy (2)One summer, a young man comes upon the girl of his dreams.  But there's more to her than he ever dreamed of...

 The Return of Wendy (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)   It's been over a year since the summer when Bill met Wendy.  There would seem no way they could be reunited.  That is, unless Bill can discover the one way possible, and learn what has become of Wendy. 

Discworld:   Death and the Catslinger   A non-comics fict, based on Terry Pratchett's fine and fun series of Discworld novels.  Death finds himself a bit boxed in, a wandering wizard takes advantage of the situation, and Corporal Carrot and a new arrival must take things in hand before Discworld is totally afflicted with non-Death.  (A story in progress.)

Airboy:   The Airboy Saga  (2)(3) Part Two UPDATED 2 / 21 / 06 From the Golden Age to the modern age, the story of comics' finest boy aviator, his son, and their allies Valkyrie, the Heap, Hirota, and Skywolf, banded together one final time to stop their archfoe Misery from destroying the Earth.  (A story in progress.)

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movieverse):  Mina's Story  An untold story from the LXG movieverse, of what happened to Mina Harker between the events of DRACULA and her appearance with the League. 

Rumble Roses:  Reiko's Story   Our first and only video game fic.  Wrestling queen Reiko Hinomoto must win her next match to get a chance at love, but greatest enemy has another outcome in mind. 

Tribute ficts:  Everybody's Gotta Leave Sometime   What happens to a group of phenomenally popular comic strip characters, when their artist can no longer draw them and they have to find a way to grow up?

 And Some Things the Poets Sing For   All things must pass.  But still...

Surprise story (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(meta)  We'll let you discover on your own the characters of this magnum opus.  Trust us, you won't be disappointed...and it's complete.

Article:   It Didn't Start With Us   An article about superheroes and how they've been presented in professional prose texts, both in comics and elsewhere.  Hope you enjoy it.

Once more, a reminder!  If you're looking for DarkMark's DC Comics-based fict, go here.

A Final Note:  I'm pretty easy with allowing stuff to be archived, but PLEASE do not archive without asking permission.
    Also do not link without asking and receiving permission, but feel free to ask.
    It would also really be nice to hear from some of you folks re: the stories.  I try to answer my e-mail, so if you feel like it, once again, drop me a line at  darkmark90@yahoo.com .
    And thanks!