Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

6. Funky Flashman!

Writer/Artist: Jack Kirby

Look, this issue is hilarious. It’s so deeply funny that I can’t believe it exists. It’s 20-something pages of Jack Kirby venting all his anger at Stan Lee, and it’s glorious.

We meet a mysterious charlatan named Funky Flashman, who looks exactly like Stan Lee did in the 1970s. Flashman runs a slave plantation, and uses constant alliteration and flowery prose in his speech. And he literally listens to recordings of his own voice…for pleasure.

He approaches Scott, looking to leech money from him, and Barda and Oberon immediately hate him. Meanwhile, the Female Furies appear to kill Barda for betraying them, and to bring back Scott as their prisoner. So Barda spends quite a bit of the issue saving Scott, who never notices that he’s in danger. It’s great!

Amid the chaos, Flashman steals Scott’s Mother Box. He’s accidentally attacked by the Furies, who are tracking the Box. Scott and Barda save him, and he runs off to come up with new ways to rip people off.

Jack Kirby invented throwing shade, folks.