eves, MARVEL COMICS GROUP.BILL FOSTER—Dr. William Barrett Foster, DSc, PhD—a child of the GHETTO who has pulled himself up out of the Los Angeles siums to become director of one of the natigh’s most prestigious research tabs. A man whose research has given him the power. to, instantaneously grow to a height of FIFTEEN. FEET ah 6 ive a TUE SANTA Sie Stes te Meco ¥ Ment CHRIS CLAREMONT KENTA POLARD L.WATANABE BONNIE WILFORD X ARCHIE GOODWIN ARTIST LETTERER COLORIST: EDITOR: SIF THERE 15 A WELL UN THIS UNIVERSE, THEN 175 NAME (5 THE BiLE- TE Sar, - Biaenauias rs A Woe 0 OF TOTAL DESOLATION. publisher by MARVEL COMICS GROUP. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 675 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y, 10023. Published bi-monthly. Copyright (1976 by Marvel Cornies Group. A Division of Cilence Induitres Corporation. All rights reserved 876 Madison As New York, N.Y. 10022 Vol. 1,.No. 5, November, 1976 isue, Price 304 per copy in the U.S.and $4.00 for 12 sues. Canada, $6.00, Foreign $6.00, No sfmilarity between any of the names, characters, person “ 19 0 dead _erson or institution is intended, ind any such similarity which may exist & purely coincidental. Printed in the USA,IE A LONG WAY, HAVENT YOU, & FEEL THE AWESOME POWER & B Een ALD ‘ TT 7 fe th Cv wy ah J irs KAY THERE ( (Ex were oN SS = age Ee [HOPING Ai YOU'D FIND SHELTER SOON. YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD FOR A MOMENT, UNTIL THE HEAT TOOK YOUR BREATH AWAY.SUT FOR Now sLeEP/s TiN "DBRATH'S (0G? THE ALIEN THE IMPORTANT THING. 5 MAMMAL'S SKIN (5 FIERY TO "BUT TWAT /S ALL. T DARE NOT WAKE HIM == HS STRENGTH AND POWER COULD REND ME LIME ROM LIMB. DOMINATED BYA FEAR SHE RUGGLES NOT TO SHOW. HAS COURAGE, THIS ON! "IT MUST BE DONE QUICKLY. DAWN Wilt BE HERE SOON ENOUGH AND TAM NEAR THE END OF MAY ENDURANCE, "BUT HERE, NOW, COURAGE WB NOP ENOUGH: Pe SOO i GOLIATH! Gat q a CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGEacne. (ETF , 3 (OOD LORD! GET KEITH tt BACK OUT OF THE WAY! MAMMALS WiLL * cA DESTROY ME! eee » THING =! ty Re 4 al WANE no K i 7 ‘you | [eae avi BN conse REALLY, GOLIATH. Sel | 1 YELLED ‘Cauice us | WAS SCARED. Oy BION sou abet COME FORWARD? WERE OUR POSITIONS REVERSED, GO"LI-ATH...| WOULD YOU HAVE COME OPENLY 70 ME?] THAT I ‘MOS ASSIMUATE ~ RECEPTIVE TOMY. LANGUAGE.} MIND-TAP,AM OF THE A/ASKVARI/ MORE THAN THAT T 1 AM CALLEO DERATH, AND LIKE T UNDERSTAND, FRIEND CE-LA, TAN AN EXPLORER, YOURSELVES, 1 ———4 WILL NOT TELL. ONE WHO. AM STRANDED BUT ON KIRGAR SEEKS LIFE ON THIS HADES: ~=MOST ESPECIALLY .. SAVE THAT WE ‘ON OTHER F A PLANET... ON SWARRA’S: ARE A PEACE:LOVING| | WORLDS. FORGE--ONE MOVES PEOPLE. THOUGH, IN AT NIGHT OR NOT MY CASE, L MEANT TO COME HERE 20 WE HAVE TO START AGAIN? UM SO TIRED. ANINTER- $0 GO ON, DERATH -- sretear cuirueet WHERE'RE' YOU FROM? THATS INCREDIBLE. AN? WHAT ARE YOU? mal NOT REALLY. MINE (5 A MODEST RACE, CONTENT TO LIVE IN, THE SHADOW OF SUCH, IMPERIAL STATES-. Ou Yes, THIS DUSTBALL WAS ONCE THE THRONE- WORLD OF A MIGHTY EMPIRE WHICH COLLAPSED A ULC CEE ‘AS RIGEL AND THE KREE. AND KIRGAR. = LEAVING ALL ITS GLORIOUS CITIES TO CRUMBLE INTO DUST. Bs > : WOW’ INDEED, YOUNG KEITH. EXCEPT THAT I--THE FOREMOS! SCOUT IN THE A'ASKVARIT FLEET: GOT CARELESS THIS TIME OUT... +ANO, ERASHED. 50 HOW D-DO WE CELIA, EVERYTHING WILL BE SURVIVE, THEN? ALL RIGHT, JUST YOU WHAT EL YOU'RE SHIVERING, HONS HERE YOUR SuGH TEST MISTAKE IS VERY OFTEN YOUR tas? WHY Séf-SHOULONT. T_B-BE SHIVERING? IT-1T'S Coto!CURSE ME FOR A AFTER ALL, I'VE MET ENOUGH MAMMALS GP it thy case, THe CONVERTOR PROVIDED ME WITH A Mocé- CULE-THIEK SKINSUIT THAT PRESERVE Boy’ ASERVES 1 5 ESSENTIAL MO/STURE. ‘OH,YEAN? I'VE SEE STRING. THAT BOY 16 THAT FELT MORE SWé UNBELIEVABLE. HERE WE ARE, STUCK HEAVEN KNOWS WHERE 2 INTHE UNIVERSE-~ “AND MY NEPHEW. IS HAVING THE T/ME OF H1S £1Fé‘OH, GOLIATH, I WAS HOR-HORR/BLE? THAT SE. IT'S OKAY NOW, BABY, NP” A [15 RARELY EFFEC- f TivVE'AGAINST AAACK TalSN Te OF THEM DeeaTH? BP FOR 7) 48 MOMENT, Ys Se ‘ny FRIENC..) fMEANWHILE, BACK ON EARTH, THINGS AREAS THE SAYING GOES, TUMPING. =~ SR/LT-MAN, CONTINUED HIS ONE-MAN CRIME WAVE TODAY... “ESCAPING USCATHED EACH TIME DESPITE MAs‘S/VE POLICE EFFORTS 10 APPREMEND HIM. PUGS WHERE I MURTS! ALL JOLT’ TERRY WASHINGTON CARES ABOUT IS THIS BOX... SOME KINDA £/GHP-— SHOOTIN’OUTTA THE Box. ONLY TOFADE ||| Almay 70 NOTA... AS ELE HAD NEVER BEEN. — iz — a \—q IT SHALL FP iN abe Z a si i =—\ . Ny i Bade of Tie He loucer. eee St es he gh Bt, FLOOR OF TH BUT We've GOT eee BETTER ONES , ‘ONE! ARTH. eM REGEN AGAR iE--BUT 50 Was KiRGA UNTIL I ROUND IT, THIS STRONGHOLD HAS STOOD gh THE TEST OF TIME.aN aN < 1 S> WHERE ARE We, Y ACCORDING TO MY YA LOT OI THATS) 1s THAT IG ALLY THEN WHY, DERATH? WE'VE BEEN } SENSORS, SHO! S Is THAT TROUBLES | DON'T T TUR ING (s IN ROM NO 4 7S AND NO- YOU, MY THEM ON? FOR HOURS. HOU ve eM FRIEND? Ri CENTE - a ¥ i lA‘ 2 i : ne, We g f 4 a FOUND TOOK EVEN BRCATY Away a “KILOMETER UPON CUBIC KILOMETER OF MACHINERY AND INSTRUMENTATION, ae STRETCHING OFF INTO EVERY DIRECTION, ‘ALL FUNCTIONING AG PERFECTLY TODAY: AETER ABONS OF INACTIVITY-AS oy THE DAY THEY WERE FIRST ACTIVATED,T HATE TO BURST ANYONE'S. BUT WE'RE STUCK UP THA PRO THESE MODULES CAN BE EASILY ADAPTED TO OUR PURPOSE $0 ALL WE HAVE 70 DO IS ATE THAT EFFECT IN REVERSE... BUBBLE. 1M A SCIENTIST, DERATH, BUT MY TRAINING IS T IN THE LIFE SCIENCES, NOT PHYSICS. EVEN IF 1 UNDERSTOOD THE LANGUAGE HERE, TO BEGIN WIT! Bi 7 UNDERSTAND 17) GO-LI-ATH--AND AMA A PHYSICIST. VEN THE MATERIALS AND SOME BASIC TOOLS, T CAN CON: STRUCT A FUNCTIONAL STARSHIP FROM SCRATCH.IN THIS PLACE, CAN DO MUCH MORE. NOT QUITE THAT SIMPLISTIC,GO-LI-ATH, GUT YOU HAVE THE GENERAL IDEA. ~“THAT MAIN POWER CABLE HOLDING 1S CONNECTED TO FUSION REACTORS IN THIS PLANET'S CORE. AKE A WRONG MOVE AND YOU'LL NEVER LIVE TO KNOW fT.IT LOOKS AN UMWOLY | Mess=-BUrT 1 THINK THE OIMENSIONAL TRANSPORTERS | Fi WA] IT'S FUNNY 1 DIDN'T TRUST DERATH | YD AT FIRST-- BUT NOW THAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH 50 AAUGH TOGETHER... JUDGE SOMEONE BY WHAT HE /S,. Y) INSTEAD OF WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE? Sime Sat/a74-- 1 Syrah Cetra EPSLAM MORTAG, \_/--AND IT IS MY WARLORDS COMMAND THAT ALE WHO Z ONS a Ly Y wa GOUATH-- LOOK OUT! mG ms Bs ( Xi \\ pe we 1G COMING SET TO DELiVE OE GRACE... 7 CLOSE, MORTY- AS 5" BABy--BUT cs NO CIGAR.AND THAT LEAVES MoRTY 79 WITH ALL THEACES. STRENGTH, SPEED, AGILITY, AND HE'S FRESH AS A DAISY. o ert tt BUT AGAIN, YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE GUAROIAN'S PHENOMENAL SPEED... sy NI NSS tHE same as ai YOU FIGHT WELL, INTRUDER-~ okMORTYS _\--80 1F I SHRINK 1, POP, STRAIGHT UP AGAIN AND PLANT A KAYO PUNCH RIGHT ON HIS UGLY KéSSER “NOL STUNT LTRIED| | GOLlATH-- ZGAINST ATOM-| HE DUCKED UNDER MY ASHER! PUNCH 1! WIDE OPEM!_) BINGO! ANO_ONCE TUM ON THE THAT GIANT--HE'S HIRING GOLIATH! AND, NO MORE 7RIGKS, INTRUDER . THERE'S NOTHING I FIRST 1 WILL TERMINATE YOU. 2 ro SO HARD TO WO4D: ITS | MADE FORA HUMAN HANO- ey 1 NEVER MORTAG INTO THAT POWER MEANT 70} B0nRD-- y 4 ROBOT! DERATH WA’ KILLED BY A LOU: 7 THE CIRCUITS ARE RX EXPLOONG. AND HIM RQALONG WITH THEM £ 2 PREM Mine Wi m WHY. GOLIATH? TELL ME WAY? “THERE'S NOTHING MoRE ll “OERATH'S LOG: AL... H...MY NAMES KEITH JACKSON, AN' I'LL WE CAN 00 WERE, SON. BE KEEPING THIS LOG UNTIL I CAN RETURN IT 70 DERATH'S i HOME. SO TLL BE ABLE TO TELL HIS PEOPLE--h/S FAMILY“HOW HE LIVED. AN’... HOW HE DIED. le 17'S, TIME WE WERE fre: HOME. 1...CAN'T | EXCEPT THAT HE KEITH. '* DIED Sal