The Defenders: 30 Best Easter Eggs In Netflix's Marvel Universe (So Far)

13. Timely Comics - Luke Cage

Luke Cage Timely Trash
Netflix

As well as the nod back to Marvel Comics' past with the Atlas Comics reference in the first season of Daredevil, there's another Easter Egg calling back to an earlier version of the imprint.

In episode 8 of Luke Cage, when villain Diamondback uses Misty as a hostage, he takes her into a back-alley to threaten her and behind her there's a dumpster with a logo on the side reading Timely Trash. Alongside the name is the unchanged, recognisable Timely Comics shield logo.

Like Atlas, Timely was the fore-runner to Marvel Comics as it is now - the name change came in the 1960s.

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