Stålmannen [julalbum] #1978

What if Stålmannen had landed on Earth in 1976? In this alternate 1977 tale, the arrival of the alien infant sparks a global race between American and Soviet forces, with the U.S. claiming him first. By 1990, Cold War tensions ignite into full conflict—only to reveal a third force manipulating both superpowers. As Skypojken intervenes to destroy the weapons, he retreats to 2002, where the android Moka arrives, pretending to be the true savior of Earth.

In "Kapitel ett: Viggen slår till," the rogue scientist Virveln unleashes his weather-controlling androids, Viggen and Åskan, on V.T.A.F.-laboratorierna in a bid to steal weather-manipulating machines. With Metropolis in peril and the city’s skies turning storm-laden, Stålmannen must race to stop the storm-born threat before Virveln’s weather bomb brings the city to ruin.

In "Kapitel två: Åskmolnen laddar ur," Åskan attempts to halt Stålmannen with a nerve gas attack, but the true danger lies in a revelation: Stålmannen tells Viggen he is a weather-controlling android, a truth that sends Viggen into a frenzy. As the storm of betrayal and identity erupts, the line between ally and enemy dissolves—leaving Åskan, Lois Lane, and Virveln caught in the chaos.

In a chilling tale from Stålmannen’s 1977 holiday album, Stålmannen confronts the legacy of Doktor Troy Magnus—a 17th-century London physician whose desperate quest to conquer death with a miraculous cure instead bound him to an immortal curse, turning him into a walking plague. As the past collides with the present, the hero must unravel a centuries-old secret buried within the walls of a forgotten tower.