This happened to me, I think there is a gap between the quest npc and the quest area where you can phase out of the quest, so you lose the item. Just have to go and y'all to him again to get another.
Not directly related, but I can recommend SFDebris' 'Rise and Fall of the Comic Empire' basically covers the time period where Marvel is bought by New World to when they were bought by Disney in 13 10-15min segments.
Comic History
Finally saw this, and wow that who "battle" was terrible, was like watching an episode of the A-Team, bullets and explosions everywhere, and noone getting hurt.