When Nova Fought Megaman On Star Trek!!

You know who really freaked me out as a kid?

THIS guy freaked me out.

 All right, all right, make your Capcom video game hero jokes. Get it out of your system. This was a full decade earlier!

So who was Mr. No Face?

Well, about 6 months ago, Caps Cooper and his uncle Nat were hiking in the wilderness, when they stumbled upon one of those incendiary time-portal pools that you hear so much about:

Fortunately, when he wakes up a kajillion years in the future...where Marv Wolfman...ahem...homages...about three different Star Trek episodes:

That "we don't know how to rebuild humans properly" is straight from The Cage/The Menagerie...

Well, Nat manged to sneak away and come back to our time, where he called himself Megaman, and tried to get back with his awful wife and family.

Let's emphasize that the helpful molecule was a female molecule, just so we can crib from another Star Trek episode, Metamporphosis...

After a couple of issues of pointless fisticuffs, we completely and totally using the ending from Charlie X:

For comparison...the end of Charlie X:



All righty then.

Megaman turned up quite awhile later in a Quasar story, because of course Mark Greunwald lived to revive obscure Marvel characters. Then he had a teeny tiny cameo during Secret Invasion. Since then...nothing.

C'mon, Marvel...bring back the no-face who freaked me out as a kid. There are generations who haven't been freaked out yet (and hundreds of more Star Trek episodes to borrow stories from)!!

From Nova #8-9 (1977)