Story #2Can You Top This?
Writer:
David Wohl. Penciler/Inker:
. Colorist:
Unknown.
Synopsis
A bunch of bad guys are sitting around in a bar, exchanging stories about their fateful encounters with Iron Man. Each tale is shown by a full page pin-up by a well-known artist—Jackson Guice, Gene Colan, John Byrne, Keith Pollard, and Bob Layton. The villains are Half-Face (TALES OF SUSPENSE #92-94), the Space Phantom (AVENGERS #2), Inoshiro Kondo (MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990 series) #15), Irina Tarasova (IRON MAN #218), Beetle/Blizzard/Blacklash (IM #223-224), Crimson Dynamo (IM #229), ending with an account by a woman whom Shellhead talked out of suicide. When Iron Man walks in, the baddies all run off.
EnemiesPlus: Beetle (
Abe Jenkins), Blacklash, Crimson Dynamo (
Dmitri Bukharin), Half-Face.
Story #3There are No Wire Hangers Underwater
Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Penciler/Inker:
Don Perlin. Colorist:
T. Fine.
Synopsis
Hearing reports that Namor may have been killed in Panama, Andromeda returns to Atlantis where she is halted by guards who try to arrest her. She fights them but is stopped by Colonel Dakkor who is sympathetic to her. She reveals that she has come to end this war between Atlantis and the surface world. She confronts the usurper Attuma and during their duel she reveals that she is his daughter. This just enrages Attuma even more and she escapes with a vow to overthrow him. Dakkor joins her in her mission.
Story continues in X-FACTOR ANNUAL #4.
Characters
Good (or All)
Andromeda (Andromeda Attumasen).
Story #5The Saga of the Serpent Crown: Blood Feud
Writer:
Peter Sanderson. Penciler/Inker:
Mark Bagley. Colorist:
Marc Siry.
Synopsis
Story continues from SILVER SURFER ANNUAL #2
In prehistoric times, the world was ruled by dinosaurs and Set fed on their violent energies; Gaea decided that the future lay with mammals and shifted evolution in their favor. Set responded by compelling the dinosaurs to kill all the mammals. When Set tried to kill Gaea with a demonic dinosaur, she summoned her son Atum, God of the Sun to fight for her. Atum defeated the demon and he absorbed its powers to become Demogorge the God-Eater. He battled Set but with every head he lost, two grew in its place. This cataclysmic war of the gods killed all the dinosaurs and Set retreated to his own dimension. Atum resumed his true form and returned to the sun and Set remained the enemy of mammals and, later, humanity.
Story continues in X-MEN ANNUAL #13.
Characters: Atum, Gaea, Watcher
Villains: Set
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Atun, Gaea (
Mother Earth).
Enemies
Set.