Their battle against Bi-Beast and Man-Beast over (or so they
think), Iron Man takes Thor to see the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral
and the Thunder God is impressed. Thor turns back into Dr. Donald Blake and
Shellhead arranges for him to take the tour accompanied by Diane LaMarr….
Out in the swamps, Man-Thing rescues Man-Beast from the quicksand
and deposits him near the space center. When M-B awakens he is surprised that
he has made it to his destination and forces his way inside, firing blasts of
his hate-ray at everyone he sees and setting them to fight one another….
At lunch, Diane tells Don that because of budget cuts she is
being dropped from the astronaut trainee program; Don can sympathize as he
explains he lost his clinic position the same way. They go out to watch the
launch of a satellite but Man-Beast is discovered on the base; Diane rushes off
to help and Don changes into Thor. Moving past the humans locked in combat,
Thor spies Man-Thing but determines that this is not the monster causing chaos.
Man-Beast intends to board the rocket and head to Counter-Earth to destroy it (unaware
that the planet has been moved from its former position in MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE
#61-63, as we are informed in a footnote). While Man-Thing leads Thor after the
monster, Diane dons a space suit and pursues said monster to the rocket. She then
goes up in the elevator trying to stop Man-Beast but Thor sees him now and
flies to the top of the gantry and battles MB; Man-Beast shoves Thor out of the
rocket as the door closes sealing Man-Beast and Diane (and Mjolnir) inside. The
rocket launches and Thor leaps onto the side of the rocket and pulls his way up
to the entrance as his sixty-second countdown begins. To stop the monster, Diane
blows the hatch, sending Mjolnir, Man-Beast, and herself out into space—but her
lifeline snaps and she drifts out into the void. Thor regains Mjolnir just in
time and beats Man-Beast sending him into space. He hurls his hammer and Diane
is able to grasp it and be pulled back to safety. Returning to the Cape, Diane
and Thor explain what happened and Diane is told she will be kept in the
training program….
And Man-Thing wanders off into the swamp….