Issue(s): Marvel Comics Presents #105 (Thing story only)
Cover Date: 1992
Title: "Crystal quest!"
Credits:
Skip Dietz - Writer
Joel Zulueta - Penciler
Tim Tuohy - Inker
Mark Powers - Assistant Editor
Terry Kavanagh - Editor

Review/plot:
The Thing has been sent into the Negative Zone to investigate a new power source.

He finds a crystal that looks straight out of the Questprobe video games, but before he can take it he is challenged by a Shogun Warrior.

I was waiting for the Human Fly and the Micronauts to show up next.

But instead he just fights the Shogun Warrior for a while.

The Thing defeats the Warrior (whose real name is Vigil, although the Thing keeps calling him Virgil) but declines to kill him, which actually proves that he's worthy. It's said that Annihilus has tried and failed to get the crystal three times.

And it turns out winning a crystal is like winning one of the little teddy bears at the boardwalk. Virgil's got hundreds of 'em.

Which is probably for the best, because i don't think anything is every done with this crystal. I assume Mr. Fantastic just tosses it in a junk drawer when the Thing gets home.

Weird kind of cartoony art which i actually kind of like.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: Mr. Fantastic has sent the Thing into the Negative Zone. He doesn't appear at all in this story, but i figure he must be behind the scenes.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A