X-O Manowar Issue 0

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X-O Manowar Issue 0
Published: August 1993
Cover Artists: Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti, & John Cebollero
Writers: Bob Layton & Jorge Gonzalez
Penciler: Joe Quesada
Inker: Jimmy Palmiotti
Colorist: John Cebollero
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Kevin VanHook

Title: Retribution Prologue
Synopsis: This origin story transports us to 399AD, when we meet Aric as a boy, and watch an event that prompts him to become a leader in the Dacians fight against the Romans. Then it jumps forward a decade, when he meets Diedre, who will become the love of his life. Months later, the Spider-Aliens attack Aric's group, and imprison him in their spaceship. Ultimately, we learn how Aric found the X-O ring which gave him control of the X-O Manowar armor, as well as the involvement of Solar, Man of the Atom, who unknowingly provided the Aric the opportunity to do so.

X-O Manowar Issue 18

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X-O Manowar Issue 18
Published: July 1993
Cover Artists: Jim Calafiore, Tom Ryder, Jorge Gonzalez
Writer: Jorge Gonzalez
Penciler: Jim Calafiore
Inker: Tom Ryder
Colorists: David Chlystek, Knob Row
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Bob Layton

Title: Operation: Deep Freeze Part 1: Ultimatums
Synopsis: Aric's armor, and his battles, have not gone unnoticed by the United States government. A Senator on the Appropriations committee, and a member of the Internal Revenue Service, meet quietly with Aric. When he refuses to hand the armor over, they send representatives to Orb Industries. Ken, Aric's second-in-command, refuses to help them, and Aric throws them out before they can intimidate more staff. So they hold Randy, Aric's Head of Security, hostage in her own home, and order him to meet them at a prearranged location and hand over the armor or they will kill her. After the phone call, Randy's friend bursts in and frees her. The villains flee, but they take with them a tracking device. Randy and her friend follow the signal to King George Island (the largest of the Shetland Islands lying 75 miles off Antarctica's coast). Then Aric appears, and a battle between the X-O Manowar armor, and the U. S. Government, commences.

X-O Manowar Issue 17

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X-O Manowar Issue 17
Published: June 1993
Cover Artists: Jim Calafiore, Bob Layton, Jorge Gonzalez
Writer: Jorge Gonzalez
Penciler: Jim Calafiore
Inker: Rodney Ramos
Colorists: Knob Row
Letterer: Ken Lopez
Editor: Bob Layton

Title: Push And Shove
Synopsis: When the mob learns that Orb Industries plans to develop an area in which they've buried bodies, they threaten Ken Clarkson, Aric's second-in-command, to leave the land alone. Aric meets with them to discuss the situation rationally, and they try to kill him. So he calls on the X-O Manowar armor and attacks them. Later, upon reflection, the mob decides to dig up the bodies, and allow Orb Industries to develop their land.

X-O Manowar Issue 16

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X-O Manowar Issue 16
Published: May 1993
Cover Artists: Ted Halsted, Rom Ryder
Writer: Jorge Gonzalez
Penciler: Jose Delbo
Inker: Andrew Pepoy
Colorist: Eric Lusk
Editor: Mark Moretti

Title: Family Matters
Synopsis: When Ken, his second-in-command at Orb Industries, is kidnapped by gun runners, Aric must put a stop to a thriving trade in alien weaponry.

X-O Manowar Issue 15

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X-O Manowar Issue 15

Published: April 1993

Cover Artist: Bart Sears

Writer: Bob Layton

Penciler: Bart Sears

Inker: Randy Elliot

Colorist: Jorge Gonzalez

Letterer: Ken Lopez

Editor: Kevin VanHook

Title: Concrete Jungle

Synopsis: When a Con Edison crew is killed, Aric and Turok battle bionisaurs in the tunnels, and eventually the parks of New York.