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You may want to scroll down to the paragraph that starts “Rant over…” because I need to vent a bit before we begin.

So, I was trying to find a second issue for Legions Of Power, the next mini-comic on the list. Trying to find that only brings up a few auctions, stuff on the toy itself, and my review of the first issue. Look up “Legion Of Power minicomic” on Google and I’m second on the list, right after an eBay listing and if it wasn’t for eBay I would dominate the image search’s top line. It’s such a cold topic that Google is throwing in Legion Of Super-Heroes just to have something to talk about.

So I went to the next series on the list, the second series of Masters Of The Universe minicomics. Now I actually own “The Ordeal Of Man-E-Faces” but my copy is so old and overread that I wanted to find a better quality scan than I’d be able to do, though I’ll probably use some shots from a Friday Nights Fights I did with the comic years ago. Well, that was a chore. He-Man.org took all their minicomic scans down, probably because they worked with Dark Horse to produce the hardcover collection (I would rather have the actual minicomics I’m missing), but what gets me is that unless you just like the forum there is nothing on that site any more. All the toy archives, all the lists of books and audio dramas, it’s all gone. Just a forum, a shade of it’s former self. Long rant short it took me forever but I found a decent scan to use for this article, which is still one up on Legions Of Power, which I may never get to finish reviewing.

Rant over and now it’s time to get to the review. If you bypassed the rant we’re on Masters Of The Universe series two and “The Ordeal Of Man-E-Faces”, one of the two action figures I got the Christmas my grandmother ended up in the hospital. Thankfully this wasn’t the year we lost her but it makes him and Ram-Man (I’ve already reviewed that comic) a bit more special because despite being sick she still made sure us grandkids got something on Christmas. I had the best grandparents on both sides of the family and I miss all four. Additionally this is one of the first two minicomics and first two Masters Of The Universe action figures I ever owned. It’s also surprisingly important to Man-E-Faces history because how he’s introduced here has for the most part made it into other incarnations, despite being his only major appearance in the minicomics as far as my collection knows. So let’s see where he came from.

Masters Of The Universe series 2 #2

DC Comics/Mattel (1982)

“The Ordeal Of Man-E-Faces”

WRITER: Gary Cohn

PENCILER: Mark Texeira

INKER: Tod Smith

COLORIST: Anthony Tollin

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