X-O Manowar Issue 14

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X-O Manowar Issue 14
Published: March 1993
Cover Artists: Bob Layton, Bart Sears, and Jorge Gonzalez
Plot: Bob Layton and Jon Hartz
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciler: Bart Sears
Inker: Randy Elliot
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin VanHook

Title: The Coming of Turok Dinosaur Hunter
Synopsis: One minute, Turok is fighting the bionisaurs amid the Unity War in the Lost Land. The next, he is transported to Columbia, South America on June 10, 1987. In New York, on September 14, 1992, Aric returns from the moon to Orb Industries headquarters. After consulting with Ken Clarkson, his second-in-command, and Randy Cartier, his chief of security, the three fly to a corporate lab in Orlando Florida. Researchers there have discovered infant dinosaurs. Aric travels to South America to investigate where the young Bionisaurs were found. He meets Turok, who helps him wipe out the smuggling operation selling the dinosaurs that were transported through the Time-Rift along with Turok.  

X-O Manowar Issue 13

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X-O Manowar Issue 13
Published: February 1993
Cover Artists: Tom Ryder,Jorge Gonzalez
Writer: Bob Layton
Layouts: Mike Leeke
Finished Art: Tom Ryder
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin Vanhook

Title: The Darkside To Victory
Synopsis: The Spider-Aliens have stripped Aric of Shanhara, his sentient armor. He fights their champion in an arena on their moon base. Solar, Man of the Atom is there as an observer, but cannot interfere. But when Aric defeats their champion, the Spider-Aliens attack him again. So Solar throws him his control ring, and Shanhara flies to him. Together, they kill the Spider-Aliens, and destroy their base. Then Aric destroys the seed Shanhara has produced to ensure that the aliens can never gain control of another set of X-O Manowar armor.

X-O Manowar Issue 12

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X-O Manowar Issue 12
Published: January 1993
Cover Artists: Mike Leeke, Tom Ryder
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciller: Mike Leeke
Inker: Tom Ryder
Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin VanHook

Title: Moonstruck: Seed of Destruction Part 2
Synopsis: The armor takes him to the moon, where Aric finds a base filled with 67,000 Spider-Aliens. The armor informs him that it reproduces every two thousand years, and as it put him to sleep for so many centuries to return him to the present day, it is returning to its own kind to birth a new set of armor. At the base he meets Rexo, a soldier crippled in Vietnam. The Spider-Aliens befriended him, and gave him his own set of armor. Rexo tells him that his armor is not only sentient, but it has a name: Shanhara. He shows Aric an arena filled with human hostages, and demands Aric give up the X-O armor. When Aric refuses, Rexo kills the hostages. Aric fights for his life, kills Rexo and many Spider-Aliens, but he is outnumbered. He flees back to space, but the Spider-Aliens follow. Even in their less powerful armor, they capture him.

X-O Manowar Issue 11

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X-O Manowar Issue 11
Published: December 1992
Cover Artists: Mike Leeke, Tom Ryder, Jorge Gonzalez
Writer: Bob Layton
Penciler: Howard Simpson
Inker: Katheryn Bolinger
Colorist: Maria Beccari
Additional Colorists: Knob Row
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin Vanhook

Title: Alien Whispers: Seed of Destruction Part 1
Synopsis: Aric fights the Spider Aliens that have invaded his house. His armor produces a sword, a weapon he often used while fighting the Romans. After vanquishing the aliens, he (and Ken, his 2nd in Command at Orb Industries) suffers recurring dreams of fighting Spider Aliens in an arena. Then he awakens from one, and finds himself clad in his armor, floating in orbit around Earth.