The 5 Most Depressing What If…? Issues

To a casual observer, the comic series What If? might seem like Marvel’s version of DC’s Elseworlds. The big difference is that while Elseworlds stories usually reinvent a character from the ground up (say by placing Superman in Soviet Russia instead of the U.S.), What If tales usually focus on a specific event in Marvel history and how things could have gone in a much different direction.

While the series has has a grand tradition of humor — ranging from quirky back-up stories for padding out an issue to full blown special issues devoted to nothing but jokes — What If could also go to some pretty dark and disturbing places. For example…

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