Astrovik) is an Earth-born, twentieth-century astronaut recently awakened from a cryogenic suspension that has given him powerful psionic abilities while dooming him to live out his life inside a protective suit that keeps him from aging naturally. To thwart the Badoon occupying Pluto, Charlie-27 and Martinex work together to sabotage the planet’s industrial infrastructure before teleporting to Earth, where they meet Vance Astro and Yondu. Teleporting to Pluto, he encounters that world’s only survivor, Martinex (a crystalline human, genetically altered to survive the frigid Plutonian environment). Charlie-27, a human soldier who has been genetically enhanced (with gigantic muscles and natural body armor) for life on a Jupiter colony, returns from offworld duty to discover his Jovian home overrun by Badoon forces. The Badoon invasion brings together a disparate group of humans who hail from points all across the solar system and beyond, echoing Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1954 film The Seven Samurai (and its 1960 American clone The Magnificent Seven). By this time, Earth, the other planets of the solar system, and the human colony at Alpha Centauri have all fallen under the dominion of the Badoon, a hostile race of sentient alien reptiles. 1 #18, 1969) by writer Arnold Drake and artist Gene Colan, carries this time-honored tradition forward into the year 3007 C. The Guardians of the Galaxy, originally created for a one-shot Marvel Comics story (Marvel Super-Heroes vol. Superhero comics have long provided a natural stage for stories of such underdog heroes.
The idea of comrades-in-arms struggling against tyranny is a mainstay of fiction and folklore older than Robin Hood.
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