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 HERE and HERE.
MICRONAUTS Vol 1 #15 (March 1980)
Title: The Inside Job
Villains: Psycho-Man and the Antrons
NOTE: Technically, the first Micronauts crossover with Marvel characters was in their 7th issue and they encountered the Man-Thing, but I covered that issue in my look at their early stories.
Synopsis: At the Baxter Building headquarters of the Fantastic Four, the quartet notice that their old foe from the Microverse/ Quantum Realm – Psycho-Man – has broken out of his prison and returned to subatomic space.
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.
Psycho-Man uses a tractor beam to bring the Endeavor aboard his own ship and sets his biomechanical Antrons on them. Our heroes fight the Antrons. Elsewhere, the Fantastic Four are searching for Psycho-Man around the Microverse in their Reducta-Craft. Continue reading
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