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Quote1 Praise the gods we're not back on Earth! Quote2
—unspecified Micron

Appearing in "Child Eyes!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Micronauts #18

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  • Helen

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  • Helen's mother

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Synopsis for "Child Eyes!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Micronauts #18
The Endeavor warps back into normal space, but the Microns have no idea what world they're reached. The huge vegetation looks like Earth's. They bury Jasmine, Bug's "lady-bug," in Rann's hibernation couch, where he spent a thousand years in suspended animation. When Mari asks why, he says, "I plan to spend the rest of my life awake!"
Mari (Earth-616) from Micronauts Vol 1 18 001

You rang?

Bug wanders off to grieve. Biotron and Microtron stay with the ship to make repairs. Rann and Mari use glider packs to explore, while Acroyear and Cilicia follow in the Star Searcher. Mari spots a normal-sized house. When she and Rann go inside, the door swings shut behind them. When a butler appears, Mari touches his shoulder and he collapses. When a giant eye appears in a mirror, a rattled Mari blasts the mirror. In the drawing room, they find more people, but they seem lifeless. Upstairs, the revived butler overpowers Mari.

Acroyear and Cilicia find the same house. A car almost runs them down. Inside, they find Rann pinned down by a bookcase. The figures in the house surround them, trying to subdue them by weight of numbers, but with little effect. Suddenly a force beam cuts through the ceiling, moving towards them ... and just as suddenly it disappears.

Outside, a woman takes her daughter Helen away from her doll house for supper. Helen says, "I found some new toys today neater than the rest! They moved by themselves! But when I tried to play with them, they got mad!"

The Microns find Mari senseless in the grass. They shrug and head back to the Endeavor.

Appearing in "The Dying Sun!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Premiere #41

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Synopsis for "The Dying Sun!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Premiere #41
Marvel Premiere Vol 1 41 001

Appearing in "The Concise History of the Galaxy"

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  • Rev Starkey

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  • Fred Phut
  • Rev Starkey's Family
    • Mum
    • Dad
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    • Uncle Frank

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Synopsis for "The Concise History of the Galaxy"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "In Manhattan, They Play for Keeps"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Premiere #43

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  • Phantasm's unnamed gunmen

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Synopsis for "In Manhattan, They Play for Keeps"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Premiere #43
Paladin has been hired by Marsha Conners to protect her. Defending her from being abducted by armed gunmen, he then confronts Phantasm, who turns out to be an old lover of Marsha's. He has modeled his costume on the original Mr. Fear. He is also dying of radiation poisoning.

Paladin, going against his established customs, succumbs to his attraction to Marsha, and vice versa. Phantasm causes a blackout, and is able to get the drop on Paladin. Recovering consciousness, Paladin is horrified to find Marsha apparently dead. Enraged, he tracks Phantasm down and, during a Chinese New Year's parade, managed to render the villain helpless.

The gun-for-hire is about to kill Phantasm for murdering Marsha, when the trapped villain confesses that he merely rendered the woman unconscious: at the crucial moment, he was unable to take her life. Ashamed, Paladin returns to her apartment, where she drily welcomes him back. He tells her that when he thought she was dead, it was as if "the lights had shut off...in my mind." They embrace.

Appearing in "And Men Shall Call Him... Warlock!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Premiere #1

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Synopsis for "And Men Shall Call Him... Warlock!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Premiere #1
We open the story on an asteroid drifting through space which is actually the High Evolutionary's ship. The High Evolutionary is recording his memoirs on miniaturized tapes. He speaks of Project Alpha and his reason for recording this is so that others may profit from his mistakes. The High Evolutionary thinks of the time when he created the Man-Beast and when he employed the Hulk to destroy his New-Men. He remembers how he became the Ultimate and how it drove him to the brink of madness.

However, his train of thought is broken when he is interrupted by Sir Raam and requested to come to Level 10. An unidentified object is floating outside the ship. It is brought inside. The High Evolutionary uses Psyche-probes to conjure an image of the living being inside the "cocoon". He fantasizes how the being inside is the ultimate new-man which would have made a son he never had. The being inside hears this and replies that he is nobody's son. The High Evolutionary is shocked that it can hear him. "Him" tells him about his birth and rebirth because he senses him to be noble and powerful. "Him" asks The High Evolutionary to restore him to space as it is not his time to emerge. The High Evolutionary agrees because he is not a threat to Project Alpha. He also tells "Him" about the project. It is revealed that the High Evolutionary plans to make another earth which is perfect. He plans to make this "counter-earth" with the help of a rock from earth whose genetic code will allow him to duplicate it.

The High Evolutionary throws this rock into the sun and the process starts. "Him" discourages this idea but it works and Counter-Earth is created. The High Evolutionary then uses his magnificent brain to create life and advance it by a billion years. He then creates man, man as he should have been. Man is then deprived of his killer instinct and then, due to the stress upon his body, the High Evolutionary falls asleep.

Elsewhere, Man-Beast attacks the High Evolutionary's ship and Raam is the first casualty. Man-Beast then revives the killer instinct in man with no-one to stop him. Counter-Earth then follows the same history as Earth and Man-Beast is satisfied but the High Evolutionary wakes and strikes him. Man-Beast calls his allies but the High Evolutionary kills them all. However, Man-Beast assaults him with a mind blast. "Him" watches this all and decides to emerge. He emerges and threatens Man-Beast but his voice goes unheard. As he comes to destroy them, Man-Beast and his allies flee to Counter-Earth. The High Evolutionary dissatisfied with it and is about to destroy it when he is stopped by Him. He offers to find Man-Beast and kill him. The High Evolutionary is reluctant at first but agrees. Before sending him to Counter-Earth, the High Evolutionary gives Him a gift in the form of an emerald on his brow. He lands on Counter-Earth and he has been given a name: Warlock.

Appearing in "The Saga of Star-Lord"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Spotlight (Vol. 2) #6

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  • unnamed astronauts
  • Sylvana (Only in recap)
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Synopsis for "The Saga of Star-Lord"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Spotlight (Vol. 2) #6
Star-Lord returns to the Master of the Sun just as the aliens that killed his mother are about to take him away for crimes against their people. Star-Lord fights the aliens back, but the Master turns down his help and agrees to go with the attackers, revealing himself to be Ragnar, the greatest of their scientists. He leaves his creation, Star-Lord to accomplish the good he hoped to bring to the universe.

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