Contents

Our Warriors
Skeletor and his Allies
"The Traveler"
"The Shrine of the Iron Mountains"
"The Fight for Prison Star"
He-Man's Vehicles
"The Time Portal Opens"
"The Lodestone of the Iron Forest"
"The Crown of Tarn"
The Race to Castle Grayskull

(The first annual dated 1984, but released in late 1983, was very much like the early minicomics that came with the figures. The stories were very He-Man/Skeletor orientated, and included characters such as Tri-Klops, Trap Jaw and even Faker acting as cold-blooded warriors. Prince Adam was in the stories, but not like his cartoon self. He is slightly more heroic. Orko, too, appears in this book, but only in a few stories, and his name is "Gorpo." Gorpo was the original name of Orko as dictated by the He-Man bible. This means that this book was based around the series bible in some aspects. Very interesting things to note in this particular book. Prince Adam can only become He-Man by striking his sword against stone! I don't know where they came up with this origin, but it was never seen anywhere else. This book features some excellent shots of the action figure prototypes. I'm not sure why they chose to have shots of the toys that did not resemble the final ones, but they did. The artwork in this book isn't too bad, but it's strangely printed mainly in black, white, and shades of red and pink. The color pages are the prototype action figures and few of the actual art pages.)