This is free to all to chat Voltage, I only mentioned Darthsickle by name as I was told he knew about this sort of stuff.
My only real exposure to Marvel was the british black and white reprint marvel comics, which also had in them other series, the one which had the biggest impact was the micronauts, when I discovered they not only had a magazine just for them in america, but was in colour, and didnt have random planels deleted, I had to get every one.
With the usual crossovers, I also got to know about the fantastic four, ant man, the avengers, the x men, sheild, Dr Strange, and various other characters.
A year ago I bought a Cd of star wars comics off ebay, and recently I have been discovering some scanned comics on torrent.
I dont really know enough about the characters to say they were not themselves, although it did surprise me that they would send the hulk off world.