CAPTAIN MARVEL #51 (1977)

We start with humor.

And Rick Jones has a new music manager.

Captain Mar-Vell is solicited by Mercurio. Instead of politely declining, he hits Mercurio, so they fight. Mercurio wants Mar-Vell’s hope powering up a device that will enable him to communicate with the rest of his race, so he can invade Earth. So I guess Mar-Vell was right to punch him.

Then Minerva kidnaps Rick Jones. Because if he can’t swap bodies with Mar-Vell, he’s gotta be a hostage. None of that seems to matter though, since Mar-Vell rescues him pretty easily and then quickly is jumped into a war between the Kree and Skrull races, where he fight alongside the Inhumans.

This didn’t make a lot of sense to me, and it was wrapped up in less than one issue, so how much of a “war” could it really have been?

But it’s still sowing the seeds of Kree/Skrull hostilities so it gets the “k-s war” tag.

And with that, we close out 1977. It’s a good end of the year for Mar-Vell, whose comic went from unreadably bad to average-or-better with the addition of Scott Edelman.

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