In Squadron Supreme #4 Stanley and Emil Burbank are engaged in a discussion about world domination in which Emil (SS "villian" character and world's smartest man)seems to be presenting the group with his typical and cynical "pearls of wisdom".
The conversation goes as follows.
Stanley: You just think you've got all the answers to life, the universe and everything. Don't you?
To which Emil smugly responds
Emil: 42
Consequently 42 is the name of Marvel's world's smartest man (Reed Richards) "solution" to the uprising in Civil War, a disk which includes plans for a holding base and implementation of policies. Since I have no idea whether 42 is code for something else involving Universal mysteries, I have no idea whether or not it is a crack or allusion to Civil War...but maybe.
The other point to note is SS is about a world where Superheroes have to work for the Government.
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