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  • A throwaway line in Paul Cornell's Captain Britain refers to Merlin as one of the Higher Evolutionaries, acknowledging the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip's presence in the Marvel Universe for the first time since Alan Moore was writing both characters.
    • In one issue of Excalibur Kitty and Rachel are being accosted by Daleks while queuing at a bureaucratic office
    • Plus, Merlin's appearance in Cornell's series looks to be a Call-Back to the way he looked in the DWM strip.
  • Blaze of Glory: In Issue #2, Clay Harder mentions how he buried Matt Hawk and the Two-Gun Kid, and asks Marcel what became of the other Sunset Riders. Both of those are events that occurred in the series of the same name, though its canonicity to this one is debatable.
  • In the prologue to the Assault On New Olympus arc of The Incredible Hercules, Spider-Man got stuck under a bunch of cars he had brought down on Hercules' head before. Looking straight at the reader, Spidey references Amazing Spider-Man #33 and goes:
    "You think this is a lot of wreckage? This is nothin'! This one time, Doc Ock dumped his entire underwater headquarters on me! Water was rushing in... But I never gave up! I never gave in! I have to be equal to my strength... or else I don't deserve it! Nnnnn! The strain! —Nnnnnn! It's unbearable — but— BUT— Umm... yeah... actually, I can't lift this. Little help over here?"
  • A subtle one from The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #55: Peter Parker, currently working as a teacher at his old high school, talking to the school secretary (or administrator?) who remembers him from when he was a student:
    Peter: Good afternoon, Maude. Looking beautiful as always.
    Maude: Oh Peter, you lie beautifully darling, have ever since the ninth grade, so don't stop.
    Ninth grade was when Peter was about 15, i. e. when he became Spider-Man and had to lie to maintain his secret identity.
  • In a scene in X-Men #3, Professor Xavier privately refers to Jean Grey as "the woman I love." This plot point was quickly dropped until thirteen years later, in #101, when Professor Xavier talks to to Moira McTaggert and bemoans that his telepathic powers "cannot help this girl I once thought I loved as much as you.". After which it was dropped again until almost twenty years later, when Onslaught shows the original scene to Jean in an attempt to prove the hypocrisy of humanity.
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