Iceman #2 [Newsstand]

(February 1985)

Instant Karma! (Table of Contents: 1)

Iceman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

J. M. DeMatteis (credited)

Pencils

Alan Kupperberg (credited)

Inks

Mike Gustovich (credited)

Colors

Bob Sharen (credited)

Letters

Janice Chiang (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Somewhere that has no time nor place, beyond the ken of mortals...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Madeline Bass (Earth-8501) (first appearance); Madeline Bass-Drake (mainstream) (also in flashback); William Drake (mainstream) (also in flashback); William Drake (Earth-8501) (first appearance, death); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (mainstream) (also in flashback); Idiot (mainstream) (villain, also in flashback); Kali (mainstream) (first appearance, villain); Oblivion (mainstream) (villain); Marge Smith (mainstream) (also in flashback); White Light (mainstream) (villain, also in flashback); Ralph Ratchit; Leo; Mary (flashback); Joel (flashback); Mrs. Bronte; Walter Smith; Mr. Smith; Mrs. Smith; Huntz Ratchit; Captain America (cameo on a poster)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream; Marvel : Earth-8501

Synopsis

Iceman's father is furious as he has engaged in a super battle in front of all of their relatives and destroyed the neighbor's house. His mother lays on an even harsher guilt trip by telling Bobby that his father has a heart condition. Bobby finds himself mysteriously transported to 1942. A cop shoots him in the arm. Bobby awakens to find himself being nursed back to health by his parents, but forty years in the past. They are attacked by the strange being, Kali. William Drake tries to help Iceman and is cut down. Bobby' father dies right in front of him, decades before he was ever born.

Reprints

• in Un Récit Complet Marvel (Editions Lug, 1984 series) #13 - Iceberg (1987)
• in X-Men: Iceman (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
• in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #7 ([May] 2013) [black and white]
• in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #8 - The New Defenders (2018)