Almost forgot about this one! (BOO!)

A couple months ago, we may have disparaged the Forgotten One's finest hour by suggesting no one read that, so of course I did have a copy in my garage! From 1977, the Eternals #13, "Astronauts" Written, drawn and edited by Jack Kirby; inks and letters by Mike Royer.

That title could apply to a few here: the Deviants are sending up some of their guys, in a massive bomb-ship, on a suicide mission to blow up the Celestials. General Kro wonders if they aren't blowing their wad too soon, but is overruled by their leader, Great Tode. Meanwhile, in America, the humans have sent a shuttle up, to take pictures of the Celestial mothership. And in the Eternals' Olympia, Sprite is suddenly regretting volunteering to stay behind on monitor duty. The rest of the Eternals were forming the Uni-Mind, except for one other: the lonely and nameless Forgetten One!

F-O had once been a mighty champion, known by many names throughout history, but Sprite says he was banished for his pride. But maybe a selfless act could make amends, and besides, "if Zuras is absent--his edict is absent." Altering some molecules here and there, Sprite sets him up with a spacesuit and a ship, and sends him to stop the Deviants.

The American astronauts are confused as hell: they have no idea what's up with the Celestial ship...or the ship coming after it...or the third ship coming after the second. The Celestial "One Above All" has a surprisingly expedient solution: "The crews are in the wrong ships..." The Deviants are moved over to the shuttle, and take a shot at the Americans before they're sent to the Forgotten One's ship. And the Forgotten One is sent to the Deviant ship, which he detonates early in a massive fireball. The Deviants, unfamiliar with the shuttle's controls, finish at least one part of their suicide mission by crashing into the ocean; and the Americans wonder how they're going to explain returning in a different ship than they left in! Well, it may be a nicer ship, but all their photos were gone as well. And lastly, as we saw before, the Celestials recover the Forgotten One, since he had lived up to his heroic legend.

I went through a ton of boxes this weekend, and this was just one of the many, many random comics I found to blog. From one disorganized pile to another...