The first issue of Stan Lee’s The Traveler introduced one of Lee’s new superheroes–a masked man who calls himself Kronus and possesses some degree of power over the flow of time–and the end of the issue saw him witnessing the death of Agent Julia Martin. But not everything is as it seems, as we find out in this exclusive preview of issue #2, by writer Mark Waid and artist Chad Hardin, courtesy of Boom! Studios. The issue’s due out December 22; watch carefully for a cameo appearance by a very familiar-looking older gentleman.
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