Greetings, Groove-ophiles!
Omega the Unknown #8 (February 1977) was second of two infamous fill-in issues. Writer Roger Stern and Penciler Lee Elias don't seem to have gotten the memo about not making waves, continuity-wise, during their filler ish, as we get some new faces from
Omega co-creator Gerber's cancelled
Man-Thing mag. Perhaps Gerber and fellow writer/co-creator Mary Skrenes were at least in on what was going on, as this ish smoothly segues into next issue (with the return of Gerber and Skrenes at the typewriter). Regular artist Jim Mooney supplies the inks, by the way, keeping some continuity going for this fill-in.
What Ol' Grovoe really gets a kick out of is the appearance of
Captain Marvel villain
Nitro. Only in a classic Marvel mag would a villain show up to fight a hero in the wrong hero's mag! And
Omega, being a hero (or whatever he was), was obliged to duke it out with our explosive bad-guy. Another irony (we didn't know about at the time) was the fact that
Nitro was out to kill
Mar-Vell--not knowing that their first battle back in
Captain Marvel #34 was actually slowly killing our
Kree Captain....
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| Cover art by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia |
