Appearing in "My Mother, the Badoon!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Starhawk (Name revealed)
Antagonists:
- Brotherhood of Badoon (Main story and flashback)
- Zoms
- Goozotians
- Emperor Goozot
- Mon-Tee (First appearance)
- Emperor Goozot's blonde courtesan (Unnamed)
- Goozotian robots (guards and assassins)
Other Characters:
- Barbara Denton (Mentioned)
- Enchantress (Mentioned)
- Sisterhood of Badoon (Main story and flashback) (Name revealed)
- Queen Tolaria (First appearance)
- Zinnia (Only in recap)
- Anthos (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Badoon (Main story and flashback)
- Humans
- Mutants
- Pluvians
- Jovians
- Centaurians
- Goozotians
- Kree (Mentioned)
- Skrulls (Mentioned)
Realities:
- Earth-691 (Year 3015 A.D.)
Locations:
- Milky Way (Mentioned)
- Solar System
- [[Earth]|Earth/Sol-III]]
- Earth Orbit
- A city on Earth (Unnamed)
- Pluto (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
- [[Earth]|Earth/Sol-III]]
- Capella System (Name revealed)
- Swampworld (Main story and flashback)
- Venesia (First appearance)
- Palace royal (First appearance)
- Venesia (First appearance)
- Swampworld (Main story and flashback)
- Unspecified star system (Unnamed)
- Goozootian world
- Centauri-IV (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
- Planet-home of the Brotherhood (Referenced) (Unnamed)
- Solar System
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Synopsis for "My Mother, the Badoon!"
While Yondu and Hulk are forced to partake in the "Super-Death Sweepstakes" game on the planet ruled by Goozot. While Hulk is still under their mental control, Yondu battles in the games, destroying all the robots sent as a challenge.
While on the home world of the female Badoon, Starhawk brings Valkyrie and Vance to the city of the female Badoon, there they are told the secret of the Badoon race: That the males and females could not live together, so the women were exiled to one planet while the men dominated the universe. The men would come to the females planet only during mating season then leave. After the revelations are made, Starhawk departs from the scene.
After all is revealed, Val and Vance are contacted by Dr. Strange who has finally found them, and teleports them to Earth where the Badoon as just about to execute Nighthawk, Martinex and Charlie-27.Appearing in "When Calls Jonah...!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Jonah (Shadow only)
- Anthony Gardenia (First appearance) (who also assumed the title of "Jonah")
Other Characters:
- Franco (First appearance)
- Lee (First appearance)
- Frankie Majors (First appearance)
- Frizzo (Shadow only)
- Johnny (Behind the scenes)
- Louise (First appearance)
- NYPD
- Mac (First appearance)
- O'Shaughnessy (Behind the scenes)
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Items:
Synopsis for "When Calls Jonah...!"
Appearing in "Watch Out World, the Sandman is Back!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Crimebuster (First appearance)
- Yellow Claw (in the shadow)
- Karl von Horstbadden
- Spider-Man (Main story and flashback)
- Fantastic Four (Main story and flashback)
- Mister Fantastic (Main story and flashback)
- Human Torch (Main story and flashback)
- Invisible Woman (Main story and flashback)
- The Thing
- The Hulk (Main story and flashback)
- Samuel Burley
- Doctor T'Kora
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Locations:
Synopsis for "Watch Out World, the Sandman is Back!"
As Richard rushes to school in time for his psychology class, the Sandman is visited by Karl von Horstbaden, an agent of Yellow Claw, who is posing as a psychologist offering to help the Sandman get over his problems so that he can be a more successful criminal. However, Sandman is exposed to a device that puts him under the Yellow Claw's control, who has Samuel Burley (father of Richard's classmate and antagonist Mike Burley) hostage.
Meanwhile, Nova is back on patrol, and he tries to stop a bunch of kidnappers from making off with T'Kora, a UN representative from Wakanda. In stopping the crooks, Nova is once more pitted against Sandman, and after a brief battle, Sandman is able to knock out Nova. Sandman and von Horstbaden take Nova and T'Kora back to Yellow Claw's headquarters where both are sequestered to holding cells. Sandman is then sent to Harry S. Truman High to capture Samuel's son Mike.
This story is continued next issue...