Rune/Silver Surfer #1

Issue Number 1----Issue Date 04/1995----CGC 7.5

 Prestige Format

Plot: In the aftermath of the Godwheel storyline, Thor attempts to open a portal back to the marvelverse. Rune attacks him trying to usurp his powers but Thor knocks him with Mjolnir. The crackling energies of Mjolnir send Rune to the Marvelverse where he immediately encounters Powderkeg (an old Capt. Marvel villain) and slays him, drinking his blood. The feeding invigorates him further into sensing the infinity gems. He finds Gamora and uses his mesmerizing power to get her to reveal information. She tells him everything she knows about the gems including the owners and their locations. Rune then first approaches Maxam and steals the time gem. He commands the time gem to stop time and steals the other gems. When he tries to steal the soul gem, a fail safe action trips, and Rune is transported to soul world where time has no effect. Warlock begins battling him, but the soul gem betrays him wishing to control and be with a bearer that desires and hungers for vengeance. And so Rune obtains all the gems but struggles for control and domination over the soul gem. The Living Tribunal perceives the problem and goes to get help. As Rune struggles with the gem, the Silver Surfer appears and blasts Rune's hand knocking the gems away and into the forming vortex. Rune himself falls into the vortex as the soul gem vows to get revenge on him

Barry Windsor-Smith Cover