Marvel Tales Featuring Spider-Man #250 (of 291)
Karma! She Possesses People!/While The City Sleeps
June 1st, 1991
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250
(of 291)
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Karma! She Possesses People!/While The City Sleeps
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Cover date:
June 1st, 1991
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Unknown
A reprint of Marvel Team Up issue 100 featuring the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and introducing the (soon to be) New Mutant, Karma with a back-up story featuring Rocket Racer.
Using a portable Cerebro, they locate one of the mutants to a church and Spider-Man charges in attacking Father Bowen. However, the Human Torch is then possessed and the two heroes begin to fight inside the church until the Invisible Woman separates them with her force shield.
There they meet Xi'an Coy Manh, a mutant refugee from Vientnam. She tells them the story of how her twin brother Tran works for her uncle, who happens to be an evil crime lord. All the heroes team up and attack Vietnamese smugglers. The attack is foiled when Tran knocks his sister unconscious and possesses the Fantastic Four and forces them to attack Spider-Man.
Karma slowly regained her consciousness and begged her brother to stop. When he refused, she used her power to possess him, and absorbed him body & soul. The Fantastic Four regained their own consciousness and re-united Xi'an with her younger siblings. She leaves telling them that "Karma" (her new codename) will always be ready to help them in future.
