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Stargirl vs. Nebula Man. Huh. Let's just see if I can dig out those comics, or if that issue was in the batch already packed up for when I move next month.
Got it. Okay: It was actually #8, not #7, of Stars and STRIPE, and this was when Courtney Whitmore went by "Star-Spangled Kid," rather than Stargirl. Basically, the Nebula Man uses the remains of Wing's body to return, and everybody starts to freak out as a result, Pat Dugan consults with the Golden Age Robotman to rebuild the Nebula Rod used to stop the NM the first two times, and works hard to keep Courtney out of it as usual.
Only the Nebula Man is attracted to the cosmic emanations of Courtney's cosmic converter belt, tracks her and attacks her in the middle of gym class. She ends up defeating him by overloading him - throwing the converter belt through him. The Nebula Man collapses into himself, possibly shifting in time again, and then everybody in the superhero community shows up to "help" - one second to late.
It was a fun story and undercut the knee-jerk superhero "Crisis" melodramas. I'm not sure how exactly it would fit in with the current rendition of Neh-boh-loh, but I'd suggest that perhaps after the events of SEVEN SOLDIERS he ends up going back in time looking for Seven Soldiers, much weaker for being defeated, et cetera. Depending; it's very unclear whether the Nebula Man that Ramon met was from before or after this version of the Huntsman - past or future, which get all screwy with sideways time-travel.
#9 had a retelling of the original battle with the Nebula Man, and a really swell cover depiction of the original Soldiers, which number Seven with the inclusion of Stuff the Chinatown Kid and Wing (notably absent is the Spider, one of the villains of the piece). |
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