#2
In the Grip of the Spider,
The Ghost Invasion
March 1986.
SBP Strips
In
the Grip of the Spider
Skeletor sends Webstor to Eternos, who swings building
to building until he reaches the palance. Once he arrives,
he goes straight to Adam's room. Adam awakens and goes
for his sword, but Webstor -- who believes he is just
going for a sword, not the sword -- is faster. He yells
for help from the Royal Guard, but Adam is taken hostage
anyway and imprisoned in a far-away mountain, in hopes
that He-Man will come to rescue him. Meanwhile, Stratos,
flying high in the air, spots Adam with Skeletor. Knowing
this is bad news, he reports it to Randor, who sends
Man-At-Arms, Teela, Ram-Man, and Stratos himself to
the rescue. Once they arrive, however, they can't get
in because of a magic force field around it. Back inside
the mountain, Skeletor puts Adam in a room full of enormous
spiders, and the spiders are closing in. The evil leader,
meanwhile, activates a holographic display outside of
the mountain to show Adam's suffering, but they can't
do a thing. Suddenly, Man-At-Arms gets an idea: to have
Stratos notify the Soceress. Following that, she flies
to the palace in the form of Zoar to get the Sword of
Power, and flies to the mountain, where she creates
a magical portal through the field and gives the sword
to Adam. Changed into He-Man, he disposes of the spiders
and goes after Skeletor, who is surprised to see He-Man.
Skeletor tries to kill our hero with his newest cleverly-named
invention: the Anti-He-Man Energator. However, the blast
is deflected by his sword back to the weapon, which
is about to explode! Skeletor and Webstor save themselves
in the Roton, but He-Man must run, and in doing so warns
the others to escape as well. The mountain explodes,
and Skeletor is once again defeated.
The
Ghost Invasion
Far away from Eternia, a gigantic, mysterious titan
from the Dimension of Madness is planning to take control
of the entire universe, beginning with Eternia. Mekaneck,
flying through space in the Talon Fighter, sees giant
monsters on their way to destroy his planet and quickly
returns to Grayskull to inform He-Man. Without hesitation,
he jumps into the Talon Fighter along with Teela and
Man-At-Arms in the Battle-Ram, which apparently can
travel through space as well. When they get there, they
see the monsters and attack -- but the weapons travel
straight through them! He-Man, however, has an idea;
he flies to the source of the negative energy. When
he arrives, He-Man fires a salvo of lasers into the
titan, but it likewise has no effect. The titan moves
to attack, but He-Man fires a blast from his sword into
the Dimension of Madness, the source of his power. Suddenly,
all the monsters fade away into nothing, and the gate
to the other dimension closes.