Let me change the question, then. Anybody got clever ideas for Marvel alternate-reality stories, set in the Victorian era?
* From a quiet glen in upstate New York, an intrepid team of four voyagers attempt an early, Jules Verne-esque moon launch, using a primitive cannon-like device. Leading the mission is a nebbish inventor and physicist; he is joined by a schoolteacher (who hopes to bring the great American way to the savage "moon peoples"); her brother, a fiery steam engine driver; and a Russian-Jewish emigre machinist. But things don't turn out the way you expect them to, in this cautionary tale of the perils and wonders of discovery.
* A fiesty Negro, a ne'er-do-well hillbilly con artist, and a short-tempered Chinaman decide to become "heroes for hire", dispensing hypocritical "justice-at-a-price" to those who are prepared to feed, clothe, and shelter them, as they make their way Eastwards across the US. Will their travels make them into genuine champions of the oppressed in the so-called Land of the Free? Or will they choose self-interest and pursuit of the dollar? It's a Very American Story, exploring the intersections of multiculturalism, capital, and frontier mythology.