This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at one of the further adventures of the Micronauts. (My final Micronauts post.)
MICRONAUTS Vol 1 #29 (May 1981)
Title: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Villain: Nightmare
NOTE: This issue picks up roughly three days after the end of the previous story, which saw Baron Karza’s second fall from power. In the process the planet Spartak was rendered uninhabitable, the Micronaut Biotron was slain, as was Queen Esmer of Kaliklak and Micronaut Arcturus Rann was left in a coma.
Synopsis: Colonel Nick Fury delivers the eulogy for the hundreds of dead S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and hundreds of dead Microverse warriors who perished in the battle at Fantasy World.
Acroyear’s wife, Cilicia, condemns her husband for using the Worldmind against Karza, thus causing so much damage to Spartak that it is now uninhabitable. Even now, the survivors must be leaving the planet to find another home elsewhere in the Microverse/ Quantum Realm. Cilicia quits the Micronauts in disgust.
Doc Samson, Hulk’s sometime ally and sometime enemy, tells the Micronauts that he can try to bring Commander Rann out of his coma the same way he brought Glenn Talbot out of his coma long ago in Hulk #200.
He will shrink them down to nearly sub-atomic levels and inject them into Rann’s brain so they can restore contact between his brain’s right and left hemispheres. Marionette, Bug and Acroyear enter Arcturus’ brain, while the roboid Microtron guards Rann’s unconscious body. Continue reading
LONGSHOT Vol 1 #1 (September 1985) 
At length, Longshot escapes through a random portal and ends up on Earth. We readers learn he has lost his memory and has two hearts and only three fingers and a thumb on each hand. His first superpower (aside from his incredible agility) is revealed to be incredible “luck” and that luck prevented his pursuers’ blaster fire from actually hitting him and instead hitting everything around him. 
CAPTAIN BRITAIN Vol 1 #28 (April 20th, 1977) 
A very eccentric old professor, Robert Willard Scott, has retired from the university and lives alone with his hawks. When those birds die, Brian Braddock uses his scientific genius to construct a large hawk-shaped remote-controlled android to keep Professor Scott company. 
This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at the stories in which Marvel’s licensed toy I.P. the Micronauts interacted with established Marvel characters. My look at the early Micronauts stories can be found 
MICRONAUTS Vol 1 #15 (March 1980) 
Meanwhile, back in the Microverse/ Quantum Realm we join the current roster of the Micronauts – Commander Arcturus Rann, Princess Marionette, Bug, Acroyear, the roboids (Biotron and Microtron), Cilicia (Acroyear’s wife, at right) and Jasmine (Bug’s girlfriend). The escaped Psycho-Man shows up in his vessel which dwarfs their own, called the HMS Endeavor. 
CAPTAIN BRITAIN Vol 1 #16 (January 26th, 1977) 
Reluctantly, Captain Britain uses some of his super-strength and agility to break free of the cops before they can unmask him. The other police on hand start shooting at C.B. when – out of nowhere – Captain America intervenes. He’s used to authorities in the U.S. often being wrong about superheroes so he offers to fight off the cops while Captain Britain escapes. 
CAPTAIN BRITAIN Vol 1 #1 (October 13th 1976)
Synopsis: British college student Brian Braddock was working as an assistant to Dr. Hugo Travis at the Darkmoor Energy Research Center, a scientific organization probing the supernatural energies and anomalies of the Darkmoor area. 
The Amulet of Right and the mystic Quarterstaff turned Brian into the costumed superhero called Captain Britain. Stragg and his men had not seen Braddock’s face clearly, so his real identity was safe. Using his new powers – flight, a skin-tight force field, enhanced senses and enough strength to lift a couple tons – the hero defeated Stragg’s armed thugs. 
FANTASTIC FOUR Vol 1 #166 (January 1976) 
CAPTAIN AMERICA Vol 1 #193 (January 1976) 
This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at some of the stories Marvel Comics created around the licensed I.P. of Micronauts toys. 
BARON KARZA – The evil, black-armored Baron Karza was a very impressive villain, despite being one of the most blatant Darth Vader ripoffs this side of Japan’s Swords of the Space Ark movies.
SPACE GLIDER ARCTURUS RANN – The leader of the Micronauts. Rann was the very first Micronaut (the Microverse’s version of Astronauts), who was placed in suspended animation and sent out in a spaceship called The Endeavor on a 1,000-year mission of exploration throughout the Microverse. 
DAZZLER Vol 1 #1 (March 1981) 
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