Appearing in "Book IX: Look to the Skies...!"
Featured Characters:
- X-Men (Main story and recap)
- Professor X (Main story and recap)
- Cyclops (Main story and recap)
- Ice Man (Main story and recap)
- Angel (Main story and recap)
- Vulture (Main story and recap)
- Spider-Man (Main story and recap)
- J. Jonah Jameson (Main story and recap)
- Flash Thompson (Main story and recap)
- Liz Allan (Main story and recap)
- May Parker (Main story and recap)
- Kree (Main story and recap)
- Cotati (Main story and recap)
- Dorrek (Main story and recap)
- Skrulls (Main story and recap)
- Fantastic Four (Main story and recap)
- Mr. Fantastic (Main story and recap)
- Invisible Girl (Main story and recap)
- Human Torch (Main story and recap)
- Thing (Main story and recap)
- Red Ghost (Main story and recap)
- Super-Apes (Main story and recap)
- Puppet Master (Main story and recap)
- Sub-Mariner (Main story and recap)
- Thor (Main story and recap)
- Radioactive Man (Main story and recap)
- Tinkerer (Main story and recap)
- Mysterio (Main story and recap)
- Wasp (Main story and recap)
- Ant Man (Main story and recap)
- Vernon van Dyne (Main story and recap)
- Kosmosians (Main story and recap)
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
- Captain America (Main story and recap)
- Hercules (Main story and recap)
- Captain Marvel (Main story and recap)
- Black Knight (Main story and recap)
- Sub-Mariner (Main story and recap)
- Mad Thinker (Main story and recap)
- Awesome Android (Main story and recap)
- Dr. Octopus (Main story and recap)
Synopsis for "Book IX: Look to the Skies...!"
In this ninth issue of Marvel Saga, the following events are recounted:
- The recruitment of Angel into the X-Men.
- The first appearance and origin of the Vulture, Spider-Man's first encounter with the foe, and Peter Parker getting a job as a freelance photographer for the Daily Bugle.
- The origins of the Blue Area of the Moon and the birth of the Kree/Skrull conflict.
- The Fantastic Four's first trip to the Moon, subsequent battle against the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes, and their first encounter with the Watcher.
- The origin of the Watchers.
- The Fantastic Four's battle with a Puppet Master-manipulated Sub-Mariner.
- Thor's first encounter with the Radioactive Man
- Spider-Man's first encounter with the Tinkerer, and "aliens" who turned out to be really actors, one of whom was Quinten Beck, who would eventually become Spider-Man's long-time for Mysterio.
- Henry Pym's first meeting with Janet van Dyne, and her transformation into Ant Man's sidekick the Wasp during their battle with Kosmos, a creature responsible for the death of Janet's father.
- The Fantastic Four's first encounter with the Mad Thinker.
- The birth of Dr. Octopus, and his first battle with Spider-Man, which led to Spidey's first defeat.
Notes
- This issue features a supplement feature on the inside cover called "Continuity Corner". In this issue it glosses over where various Thor, Human Torch, Iron Man, and Ant Man stories from issues of Journey into Mystery, Tales to Astonish, Strange Tales and Tales of Suspense fit into continuity.
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See Also
- 1 image(s) from Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe Vol 1 9
- 1 reprint(s) of Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe Vol 1 9