typical stories and name transpositions included ironed man (iron man) vs. magnut, robot biter (gold key comics' magnus, robot fighter); "best side story", with dr. deranged (dr. strange) in a "west side story" pastiche; "the origin of...stuporman", a superman takeoff recalling wally wood's influential "superduperman" in "mad" #4 (may 1952); the ecchs-men in "if magneat-o should clobber us", parodying not only the x-men and magneto, but also the high melodrama of 1960s marvel titles; and marvel characters visually standing-in for the baseball-player protagonists of the otherwise faithfully rendered famous poem "casey at the bat". events took place in the "marble universe", a play on the marvel universe.