Mighty Avengers #24: A Medical Review

April 30th, 2009

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

Mighty Avengers #24 “Chasing Ghosts”
Dan Slott, writer
Rafa Sandoval, penciler

In last week’s Mighty Avengers #24, Norman Osborn unearths one of the bones of the dead hero Goliath and brings it back to his headquarters for evaluation:

scene from Mighty Avengers #24
scene from Mighty Avengers #24

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The clavicle, or collarbone, is an s-shaped flat bone that is found in the front part of the shoulder.

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Whatever bone Osborn found looks like a long bone, such as the femur (thigh bone) or humerus (upper arm bone). Unlike the clavicle, it is round, instead of flat; straight, instead of s-shaped; and has knobby ends. If anything, it most resembles those perfectly symmetrical bones that cartoon dogs always carry around. Whatever bone he stole, it is definitely not a clavicle.

Norman Osborn:
Psychopathic megalomaniac
Qualified anatomist

This issue was brought to my attention by snell of Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!!
He was also kind enough to provide the scans of the comic.
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6 Responses to “ Mighty Avengers #24: A Medical Review ”

  1. Bash
    May 1st, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    All that’s needed is….

    Cute Female Lab Tech: “My Mr Osborn, that’s a really big bone you have there. Teehee.”

    Osborn: “Why yes it is, would you help me with it?”

  2. ScienceGiant
    May 1st, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    Scott, what do you know about the rate of decay? I recall that Golith wasn’t placed in a coffin. Just shoved into a shroud, and then into the ground. Since he was NOT embalmed, is it possible that a year after the Secret War Golith would be so skeletal? I mean that bone Osborne has is clean from any and all ligaments.

  3. Aine
    May 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Whilst the dialogue certainly implies that he went to the lab straight from the graveyard (oh god, that’s such a gross thought) maybe he stopped on the way to… de….fleshi…fy (???) it? (is that even a word?).

    And, y’know, stick it through a transmogrifier that changed it into a giant sized chew toy.

  4. Gian
    May 5th, 2009 at 2:40 am

    The strange shape of Goliath’s clavicule is due to the reason of his death: the robot Thor’s death ray obviously deformed Goliath’s chest and gave the clavicule a strange ‘cartoon dog bone’ shape.

    Gian

  5. Chris Arndt
    May 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I just wish someone would have lampshaded the FACT that certainly one of Team Iron Man’s Mad Scientists should have possessed enough working knowledge of Pymtech to decrease the size of a corpse.

    Of course anything Iron Zombie Osborn does to the corpse will bring it more dignity and less desecration than simply dropping it into the ground, poorly wrapped in a big tarp….

  6. Michael
    May 8th, 2009 at 9:46 am

    ‘De-fleshify’= flenche or flense

    Perhaps the clavicle, and other bones, become more rounded as Goliath grows? The larger cross-section would be better able to support a giant.
    Alternately, maybe he was partly supported by tension from ligaments- like a suspension bridge- and once that tension was gone the bone expanded, and expanded relatively more along the minor axis of the oval than the major?

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