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Marvel ExtrasIf you have anything not accounted for here and have access to a scanner, feel free to email me the pics (generally, I do the cover and one or two interior scans), publishing/author information, and a summary of the issue. I'll be happy to give you credit, of course, complete with links back to your site if you have one. Thanks! SPRING SPECIAL: INVASION PT 1 & 2 
Issued March 1988 Script by Ian Rimmer. Art Griffiths, Hine Collects the tales in UK comic #11 and #12, which was about how the Berzerkers captured the Thundercats and Lion-O had to figure out how to rescue them without being captured himself. See the UK comics section for more information. THUNDERCATS IN ASTRAL PRISON AND OTHER STORIES 
Issued 1989 Various artists/writers. Download the book in PDF format (18MB) This book features three Marvel Thundercat adventures. The first is the full story called Waking Nightmare ( first released as UK comics #9 and #10). The second story is called The Memory Crystal, and I believe it's also a reprint from the UK issued books. Anyway, it involves Bengali and the Berbils mainly. Apparently, Bengali is starting to remember how he was rescued by Berbil technology from Thundera which is actually a bad thing. Robearbill shows Bengali an underground cavern under the Berbil Village where the little bears store amazing technologically advanced gadgets and a memory crystal. The function of the Crystal is to erase the memomories of Berbil technology for anyone who has come up against it. Berbils, it's explained, used to be evil and used their know-how to bring much harm. Now that they're peace loving, they wish to forever hide their great technology from others so that no one can ever use it for evil again. But if the crystal isn't healed, everyone will get their memories back (as Bengali had) which could spell disaster. The only thing that can heal the crystal is the Eye of Thundera, so Bengali agrees to steal the Sword of Omens to help. He's caught trying to by Lion-O and after a struggle, Lion-O gives Bengali the Star of Thundera instead as its more powerful than the Sword. In the end, the crystal is healed and everyone once again forgets how swell Berbil technology is. Lastly, there's the Marvel version of The Astral Prison. However, it is vastly different from the televised version. In this tale, Jaga is tricked into an Astral jail cell by Mumm-Ra and can only be released if one finds the master key buried deep within Third Earth. Trouble is, to free Jaga one also frees unmentionable evil also trapped in the cell (apparently, it's easy to get in the cell, but once in you're trapped w/o the key. Hence why Mumm-Ra never attempted to free the evil before). Meanwhile, Lion-O dreams of a lady called Gemini (as with the TV version, this lady helper is Mumm-Ra in disguise just like the Netherwitch) who shows him Jaga's predicament and what he must do to free him. Lion-O awakes and heads to the Cave of Sorrows, where the key is supposedly hidden - a place so fearsome Mumm-Ra dares not go there. Either way, Mumm-Ra figures the ThunderCats are finished. Despite being warned to preserve the Sword of Omens' powers, Lion-O drains it fighting off the beasts in the cave but he does succeed in getting the key. Once he grabs the key, he's transported to the Astral Plain where Jaga warns him not to use it to free him. It would seem Lion-O decides he can't risk releasing the evil and throws away the key. Mumm-Ra gloats that he's still won, as Jaga is trapped...until Lion-O puts the Sword through the bars of the prison and Jaga funnels into the Eye while Mumm-Ra was distracted by the tossed Key. Then Jaga uses his own powers to make Mumm-Ra believe the Sword is back at full power. He flees and all is well. THUNDERCATS POCKET COMIC 
Issued May 1990 Various artists/writers: see below. A "pocket sized" book (although you'd still need a pretty large pocket for this!) released in the UK that collects several early Marvel issues together. Stories include "Survival Run", "Tears of Sunrise", "Jaga Quest" and "Siege In Silver and Stone". More on those stories can be found here. SPRING SPECIAL: COLLECTED COMICS 4 
Issued Spring 1992 Special thanks to Spaced Angel for the scans and information on this issue. Stories include 'Snarf Takes Up The Challenge' and 'The Memory Crystal' by John Freeman (script) and Martin Griffiths (art), where Bengali discovers the truth of about the Berbils and attempts to help them keep their secret by trying to steal the Sword of Omens to heal their broken memory crystal. WINTER SPECIAL: COLLECTED COMICS 5 
Issued Winter 1992 Special thanks to Spaced Angel for the scans and information on this issue. Stories include 'Year of the Cat' by Steve Alan (script) and Stephen Baskerville (finished art), where Lion-O finds himself feeling old before his time and Cheetara and Slithe get to take a dip in the Fountain of Youth! Also, 'Unforgettable Snarf' by Ian Rimmer (script), Martin Griffiths (pencils) and Robin Bouttell (inks), a short story where Snarf loses his memory after a brief run-in with the Mutants.
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