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Doom's day
Last issue Thing and Human Torch used the Multisect to get to a parallel universe hoping to find the long-missing Richards family. They took along scientist Rachna Koul whose radiation detector pointed them to this Earth's Baxter Building. Then she left them to investigate a weaker radiation source.But it turned out they just met what was left of this Earth's Fantastic Four - Mr Fantastic. Beast explains that Reed Richards failed to stop Galactus when he 1st showed up, and this Earth's Ben Grimm died in that encounter. And it was up to Dr Doom to save the day by taking over Galactus' mind and body. Doom/Galactus then left Earth as the new Devourer of Worlds promising never to eat the Earth. But now he's eaten the rest of the universe and he's still hungry.Reed has since then immersed himself in his scientific work. He's currently working on a project with his robot assistant HERBIE. Angry Thing bursts in and accuses Reed of giving up. He's got to find a way to stop Doomlactus.A voice agrees with him - it's Sue Richards who's now head of SHIELD. (And last issue She-Hulk and Wolverine were SHIELD agents.) After an exchange of greetings Ben asks about their Johnny Storm. And there's an awkward silence.Meanwhile our Johnny contacts Rachna to see if she'd found any sign of his Reed and Sue on her end. But she claimed her reading was false - she'll recalibrate her multisensor for the next try. We see her leaving a hospital room where the patient is on life support (and seems to me to have no legs).Reed, Sue and Ben join Johnny and Beast. Sue and Johnny have a more emotional 'sibling' 'reunion'. Then Sue gets a call to say the invasion has started. Outside the Heralds of Doom have arrived - Silver Surfer figures on their flying surfboards with cloaks and Doom-armour faces. And opposing them are a horde of familiar heroes with SHIELD symbols on their costumes.Ben, Jonny and Sue join the fight, but Reed sits it out. The defenders' spirits are raised by the thought that the Fantastic Four are back in action. Torch wonders if they should waste their dwindling powers (see previous issues) on this doomed universe when they might need them to find *their* Reed and Sue. Thing points out that their Reed and Sue would never forgive them if they didn't do all they could to help.Mr Fantastic runs to warn them how dangerous the Heralds are, but 1 of them grabs him and takes high into the air. Human Torch follows and blasts the Herald, but Reed falls off the surfboard. And then Johnny's flame dies and he starts falling too. Mr Fantastic catches up to him and grabs him and forms a parachute shape to get them down safely.The action seems to snap Reed out of the doldrums. He's now gung-ho to stop Doom. And another voice agrees. This time it's *our* Victor Von Doom in his Iron Man armour. (Last issue Johnny *thought* he saw someone following them on their journey between timelines.) Wolverine automatically attacks but a spell stops him. Doom unmasks and suggests he and Reed do the 1 thing they've never tried - teaming up. Thing reluctantly says Doom *has* been playing the hero recently.Reed says he *may* have a solution with Victor here. SHIELD-boss Sue cedes him authority. He asks her to be ready to launch all the firepower she can muster. Ben and Johnny admit that their powers are waning. Rachna repeats her idea that our FF's powers were linked by their origin and the separation across parallel universes is affecting them. Speculating about this almost makes Reed lose sight of the big problem. But he sends our duo on a recruiting mission ...... to a lonely midwest farm where ex-Silver Surfer Norrin Radd is living with Emma Frost, who appears in her diamond form with a rifle to see them off. (Apparently Norrin and their Johnny did something heroic, presumably back when Galactus called.) Emma is suspicious but she switches to human form so she can read Ben and Johnny's minds - and learns the truth. Silver Surfer is needed again.And in the sky over New York Galactus appears.


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Chasing your monster
Human Torch and Thing are travelling the multiverse looking for *their* versions of Reed and Sue Richards and family. Rachna Koul has tagged along, promising to help them restore their failing powers. Victor Von Doom (in his recent Iron Man role) has come along for the ride also.Rachna is working the Multisect which enables them to move between alternate Earths and home in on any Richards family there. We see some of the previous worlds they've visited. Some are new to us:- Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm fighting monsters, and greeting Atlantean versions of Reed and Sue. We see Victor confronting a villainous Dr Doom from Annual #1, and Rachna on her secret agenda confronting an invalid similar to the 1 in #5.This time she has led them to a world of ruins and desert, and she says Invisible Woman and Mr Fantastic will be inside a tattered sports stadium in front of them. So they join a crowd heading there.Grimm takes Doom aside and asks once again why Victor is helping them. Johnny expects to find his sister and brother-in-law but Ben and Victor 'know' they're dead - Ben lied to Johnny to give him hope. Victor reminds Ben that he's now good (as Iron Man) and as such he's here to see that Ben doesn't get Johnny killed so they can continue their heroic roles back home (albeit with their diminished powers).Once inside the stadium they notice that Rachna Koul has slipped away. Doom casts a spell to reveal the recent history of this world. He learns that there was a (global?) war started by a conflict between Captain America and Iron Man. Someone stopped it by killing Tony Stark and imprisoning Steve Rogers.Before he can learn more a version of Dr Strange (heavily bearded with the Eye Of Agamotto as an eyepatch) floats in with his Cloak Of Levitation and cancels all Doom's magic. He says that magic is banned here, except for his of course. He also disarms Doom by ageing his armour to rust, and captures Thing and Torch with (probably) the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak.Strange recognises that the visitors are from another Earth. He introduces them to the boss of this stadium - a version of Spider-Man (Peter Parker) with Captain America's cowl and Kraven's fur-topped waistcoat. The Spider welcomes them to the Battleworld arena. (Not I think from any Secret Wars.)Meanwhile on Earth-Prime the 'real' Spider-Man drops in to see Alicia Masters to see if she's heard anything from Ben and Johnny - she hasn't. They know about the quest for Reed and Sue, and about Rachna Koul's promise to restore their powers - that's her day job.Coincidentally Mad Thinker has just broken into Rachna's lab with the so-far undisclosed other members of his new 'Fantastic Four'.On the other Earth the 3 nearly powerless heroes are in the arena. Jarviz the Spider's butler announces his master's arrival, and Spider announces the new contest - a reward for the week's hard work trying to scratch a living out of their ruined world. Facing our guys are a huge 6-legged 'tiger', a giant beetle and a large semi-armoured barbarian woman.Thing leaps into the jaws of the beetle, but his waning strength can't keep them from closing. Torch grabs a broken sword to augment his flames and slashes at the beetle. Doom picks up a spear but has to dodge a large metal projectile fired from the woman's gun-arm.Suddenly Rachna leaps from the audience with a cry and pleads with Victor not to harm the woman. Torch uses his flame as a jet to push Koul out of the way. Thing grabs the beetle by the tongue and judo-throws it. Doom hurls his spear into the barbarian's chest. (The tiger seems to have kept out of things so far.)As the woman falls Rachna cries out "Disha!". She admits that this woman is this world's version of her sister. Victor reminds Ben that he suspected Ms Koul had her own reason for coming on this trip - and now it transpires she was looking for her sister. And he decides to bring out in the open that they're not really looking for Earth-Prime's Reed and Sue.Johnny doesn't have time to digest this info as Rachna launches into her own explanation. *Her* Disha is a working mind trapped in a paralysed body. She's looking for an alternate Disha body to transfer her sister's mind into. Johnny is horrified that she would consider overwriting someone's mind. Rachna protests she wouldn't be harming anyone because all the Disha's she located were brain-dead. (The best sense I can make of this is that she can use the Multisect to detect brain-dead Disha's but the previous ones were also crippled like the (legless?) 1 in #3. But that should mean giant-Disha was also brain-dead?)At this point the beetle and tiger make threatening moves. While Thing exchanges blows with both, Doom uses his unblocked mental powers to make Jarviz stab Stephen Strange in the neck. As Strange dies(?) Victor's magic returns and he teleports the 4 out of the arena. Johnny demands answers but Rachna runs off. Victor chases her because she has the Multisect. He caches up with her just as she activates it to find another world with another sister on. And Ben and Johnny are left alone in the wasteland.


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This issue really stars Victor von Doom with the Thing as his sidekick.It begins with a memory of Victor's youth. His father Werner von Doom hits him with his staff for losing concentration, and easily dodges when Victor strikes back with his own staff. The Zeferi are persecuted in Latveria and they must always be on their guard. They pass a bearded beggar but Werner tells his son they don't have anything to spare to give him - they need what they've got to reach the place where they will meet the rest of their group. Besides the beggar isn't a Zeferi. Victor still wants to give him something but Werner says a few pennies won't really help. Instead they need to change the society that created beggars, and to do that they need power. Victor remembers his witch mother Cynthia who had power, but not enough, and he dreams of having more.Now Victor is travelling the multiverse with Human Torch, Thing and Rachna Koul. They are searching alternate realities for the missing Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman and their children using the Multisect left behind by Reed Richards. Rachna gets reading from the Multisect directing them to likely timelines, but she claims to get 2 hits on each timeline - 1 weaker than the other. She opts to check the weaker leaving the better choice for the other 3, which does lead them to whatever exists of the reality's Fantastic Four.However this time von Doom's alone with Ben Grimm as Johnny Storm has elected to accompany Ms Koul. And the strong reading has brought them to this timeline's Castle Doom. This reality is similar enough to the main Marvel 1 that Victor is able to direct Thing to move a large rock to uncover a secret tunnel to the castle.Victor opines that Torch was wise to go with Koul. Doom knows that Rachna has her own agenda and is deceiving them. And Grimm should know it too. Johnny Storm may think they're looking for his sister Sue Richards and her family but Ben knows he made that up to comfort his friend. Victor and Ben know that the Richards family are dead, so Koul can't be 'finding' their specific energy signatures (as an alternate Reed Richards told Ben in #6). She's really taking them to timelines *she* wants to visit.Ben asks why is Victor along for the ride then? Doom just says he has his reasons. (#6 said he wanted to study the Multisect in action.)Now if Rachna wasn't lying more than usual this strong reading should bring them to this world's FF. And if they're in Castle Doom Victor suggests they're probably in danger. So presumably Grimm wants to save them? Doom tracks the signal and they come across Mr Fantastic's flexibly-extended arm. Following that brings them to a room containing Reed's skeleton and this world's Dr Doom.Thing attacks without thought. Dr Doom easily blasts him backwards saying he just *killed* him, and he wonders where they got this weaker version from. (Our Thing and Torch are losing their powers, ostensibly because of their separation from the teammates who share their origin.)Our Doom stops Dr Doom from firing again. Dr Doom can tell this is a real Victor and deduces they are from an alternate reality. And from an insult Ben Grimm utters he realises they have seen multiple Doom's in multiple timelines.Dr Doom has Thing at his mercy but Victor says he must realise the uselessness of killing another Grimm. He's already killed his mortal enemies the Fantastic Four, but what has it gained him? DrD admits that the momentary satisfaction quickly faded. Victor posits that Doom has achieved so many things that killing another Grimm would be beneath him. What is left for him to do? And Victor answers his own question by saying the only challenge left is to be human.But Doom just thinks that Victor has experienced something that has broken his spirit. However he concedes a modicum of truth in the idea. Not as a moral choice but to prove that he can win without the trappings of his power. And who better to prove himself against than another Doom? Dr Doom removes his armour, exposing his scarred face. He suggests they fight with the staffs of their childhood. Victor agrees, despite Ben urging him to just blast the vulnerable foe, and removes his Iron Man armour (exposing his *not*-scarred face).Thus commences a quarterstaff bout in which Dr Doom roundly beats Victor. Doom accuses his foe of losing the fire which drives him on - helping Thing and dressing like Iron Man. His last blow sends Victor sprawling across the body of Reed Richards. But Vic pulls a strange device from Richards' belt - a device which now has Doom rattled and which suggests to Victor that switching it on might be a good idea.Suddenly Victor finds himself in a black and white space with steps leading up to a door. Through that door he meets 3 versions of Mr Fantastic in different blue uniforms - 1 of which is identical to that of the dead MrF he's just left. 1 of the Reed's assures the others that this Doom isn't a threat, but Victor is concerned that they've rebuilt the multiversal Council of Reeds (invented by Jonathan Hickman in FF#570).They agree that it all went wrong last time (FF#572) but they know how to do better now. The previous Reeds abandoned their lives in order to join the Council, and thus lost touch with their humanity. This time when they come to the Council chamber it is as a *copy*, and the original remains with their family and friends. When the copy returns home it merges with its original which then has both sets of memories.They show Victor that he's also still back in Castle Doom fighting Dr Doom. The Reed copy from that universe is still here, and the Reeds are trying to make it so he can go home in a new body instead of merging with his dead original. Victor suggests a more immediate priority is for the other Reeds to go to that timeline and save him and Grimm from Doom. But they say that this Dr Doom is aware of the Council and has prevented access to the reality by other Reeds.A bearded Reed says he's been watching Victor's life with interest - a Doom who gave up his lust for power and turned to helping his fellow men, and who now has a family (Amara Perera pregnant with his child). This prompts von Doom to continue remembering the event in his early life. Young Victor returns from some errand to see his father being beaten up by 3 anti-Zeferi bigots. He sees them off with his staff and then turns to the bearded beggar who had done nothing to help.Victor now jumps to the conclusion (maybe) that the beggar was bearded Reed, and (definitely) that bearded Reed is the 1 they are searching for. The 1 who survived the death of the multiverse and then Secret Wars III. The 1 who took away Doom's god-power at the end of SWIII and returned him to Earth with a healed face. He accuses Reed of tampering with his mind to make him want to be good.Beardie Reed doesn't deny it but instead takes a device called the Telelacus which is used during the merging of the minds of a Reed and his copy. In this case he's going to repair a dislocation in Vic's memory. The 2 experience a recreation from Doom's fractured memory of his last moments on Battleworld.The (different) bearded Reed of that event has just kicked off the recreation of the multiverse. He and his family are going off to explore it, but he doesn't know what to do with captive Dr Doom. Doom says he's been a god and no longer desires such ultimate power. But he'll never give up being Reed's mortal enemy. Reed decides to solve the problem by making Victor believe he is dead. Without those 2 goals to strive for Vic might have a chance to be a better person.In this scenario Reed is on Battleworld with Sue, Johnny, Ben and the kids Franklin and Valeria. He decides that Thing and Torch would be better employed on Earth to keep Doom in check. So that's how all 3 wound up home believing that the Richards family were dead.Now they continue to watch the Victor/Doom match. And Vic flashbacks again to his father and the beggar who did nothing to help. As Victor struggles and succeeds in his fight we see young Vic takes out his anger against the beggar. It ends with parallel images of Victor/young Vic killing Doom/the beggar with his staff.The Victor copy rejects the Council Reeds' implied criticism of his brutality. He strikes back by accusing Reed Richards (as represented by them) of messing with his memory and of abandoning his 2 teammates. As he rants Beardie Reed sends Vic back to merge with his original.Victor frees Ben Grimm and tells him the dead Reed Richards is *not* the 1 they seek. Meanwhile an expanded Council console bearded Reed that Victor von Doom is obviously too scarred by his childhood to ever be rehabilitated. They remind him that their goal is to make sure no more children suffer as Vic did. And we see Doom and Thing reunited with Torch and Rachna ready to move on.


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The Monster and the Immortal
In the middle of the New Mexico desert, Bruce Banner meets with his beloved Betty Ross and his pal Rick Jones. The reunion is quickly interrupted by a huge drill-like vehicle boring out of the ground; its yellow-skinned inhabitants capture Bruce and knock out Betty and Rick with shock-weapons before disappearing back where they came from. Bruce finds himself in a preserved Roman city, ruled over by the aged Tyrannus, at war with the Mole Man for control of Subterannea. The ruler requires Bruce’s help in creating a weapon to tip the scales of the coming battle, and he shows his captive his great secret: the Fountain of Youth. A drink from this pool rejuvenates Tyrannus and he gives Bruce a few drops to hasten his allegiance. But Bruce refuses to create a weapon so the dictator has him locked in a dungeon. Bruce vents his anger and is surprised to find he doesn’t turn into the Hulk; is the Fountain of Youth a cure for his condition? Meanwhile, Betty and Rick have obtained climbing equipment and descended into the underworld where they are captured and brought before Tyrannus, who uses them as hostages to force Bruce’s cooperation. Tyrannus reveals that he has constructed a gamma bomb from plans stolen from the army base; all he needs is the failsafe formula to activate it. Once Bruce has written down the formula, the dictator sentences him and his friends to be thrown into a lava pit. The sight of Betty in danger finally causes Bruce to become the Hulk. He rescues Rick and Betty and then goes to war against the Tyrannoids. Rick and Betty discover that the villain has activated the gamma bomb, and when the Hulk arrives he tears the enormous weapon to pieces. Tyrannus then enters in a giant mechanical battle suit, which Jade Jaws thrashes mercilessly, causing a cave-in which buries the Fountain of Youth. As Tyrannus goes into the shock of desperation at losing his source of life, Hulk turns back into Bruce and the three friends return to the surface.


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Captive Audience
The Circus comes to a small town in New Mexico but that isn’t cause for joy: it’s the outfit run by the Ringmaster, who hypnotizes the audience with his top hat so his henchmen can rob them at their leisure. Later, a number of the performers, disgusted with their leader’s stingy division of the loot, walk out, leaving the Ringmaster to question the point of his existence. Meanwhile, three members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants—Blob, Pyro and Avalanche—are stuck in the desert after their recent encounter with the X-Men. They come across the circus and Blob persuades them it would make a great hideout, so they join the team. Elsewhere, Bruce Banner is working on a device to control his transformations when he is discovered by a new, gigantic Hulkbuster. The surprise causes Bruce to become the Hulk and he smashes his foe to the ground. As he leaps away, though, he is knocked from the sky by a final shot from the damaged Hulkbuster. Landing near the circus he is befriended by Danny the Dwarf, who introduces him to the other circus performers. Impressed by their acceptance of him, Hulk decides the circus is the place for him, and the Ringmaster hires him as the new strongman. Hulk joins in the performances even though he is unaware of the Ringmaster’s larcenous habits. The three Brotherhood baddies try to make off with the wagon containing the evening’s haul; when Danny spots them in the act, he summons the Hulk, who confronts the mutant menaces. Jade Jaws blows out Pyro’s flames, knocks Avalanche off his feet with a hand-clap, ad goes toe-to-toe with Blob, who can withstand the hardest blows. Hulk rips Blob and the ground up and tosses him for a loop. The mutant trio teams up to knock the Hulk miles into the desert. The vengeful Ringmaster, though, hypnotizes the rogues and turns them over to General Ross, who, unaware that the Ringmaster was the real brains behind the robbery, thanks him and accepts free circus tickets. Hulk has changed back into Bruce Banner in the desert, retaining a hazy memory of being accepted as the Hulk.


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Of Monsters and Magicians
Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, receives a visitor at his Greenwich Village domicile: Bruce Banner. Banner explains his problem and appeals to the magician for help in controlling the Hulk within. Strange agrees to this. Elsewhere, the immensely powerful villain Juggernaut is wasting away, consumed by the energy within him. His pal Black Tom Cassidy tells him of rumors that the Ruby of Cytorrak, which granted Juggernaut his powers, is now in the home of Dr. Strange, and the two set out to steal it. Under Strange’s tutelage, Bruce learns to control his anger through mediation, so that he no longer becomes the Hulk, even when confronted by muggers. The two villains break into Strange’s home, take his servant Wong hostage and demand the gem to replenish Juggernaut’s power. As Juggy seizes the gem, a hole opens into another dimension and Bruce, trying to stop the baddie, accidentally launches himself and his foe through the opening. On the other side, Juggernaut is restored to his full strength and attacked by Strange, who has followed in his ectoplasmic form, but none of the magician’s spells can stop the rampaging menace. Bruce forces himself to turn into the Hulk and gives battle to the villain. Strange manipulates the fight so that Juggy is thrown near an idol of Cytorrak. Juggernaut seizes the enormous gem on the altar and increases in strength, so much that the power overwhelms him and he fades away. Hulk turns back into Bruce and Cytorrak, grateful for an earlier service by Strange, grants them permission to return to their own realm. Back on Earth, they find Wong has overpowered Black Tom and Bruce, appreciative of Strange’s help, takes his leave


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A Titan in Torment!
As the Hulk pounds on the granite door sealing him inside a secret cave, his only friend, Rick Jones, recalls the accident that turned Bruce Banner into the green-skinned behemoth. Meanwhile, at the Hulkbuster Base, another “Hulk” bursts in and kidnaps Betty Ross, taking her to a secret installation in the desert where she meets…the Leader. This gamma-spawned super-genius reveals that the Hulk that captured her is merely a robot, and the villain’s purpose is to lead the real Jade Jaws into a trap, to be used to further the Leader’s plans for world domination. The second part of the plan concerns Emil Blonsky, who is transformed by a dose of gamma radiation into the monstrous Abomination, unaware that the radiation exposure will lead to his early death. Rick Jones arrives at the Base to reveal that the Hulk is Bruce Banner and to ask for General Ross’ help in finding a cure for his friend. Instead, Ross sends his most powerful forces to capture Banner. The sight of the Hulkbusters triggers Banner’s transformation into the Hulk and he wrecks his opponents easily. The Abomination suddenly arrives and persuades Hulk that he is his friend and can take him to Betty; Hulk agrees. At the secret lab, Hulk meets the Leader and is shown the captured Betty, then the villain turns a paralysis ray on Jade Jaws and he is a prisoner. When the Leader gives the Abomination permission to kill Betty, who has served her purpose, Hulk’s rage enables him to break through the ray and attack the Abomination. The two gamma-spawned giants clash until the radiation effects cause the Abomination to fall ill. Realizing what has happened, he vows revenge against the Leader, and sets off in search of him; instead, in a remote part of the lab, he meets up with a strange (and unseen) character who teleports him away. Hulk frees Betty and delivers her to her father. Betty intercedes for Hulk and Ross calls off his forces until he can decide what to do next. Hulk, feeling betrayed by everyone, including Rick Jones, returns to his cave, where once more he becomes Bruce Banner.


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Analyze Smash This
In the New Mexico desert Doc Samson has tracked down the Hulk. Samson has experimented on himself using Banner's gamma ray research, he is now very powerful. As the Hulk, Rick Jones and Monkey are going to land from one of the Hulk's incredible leaps, Samson attacks the Hulk, knocking him down. Samson catches Rick and Monkey. Doc Samson and the Hulk begin to fight again and Betty Ross appears and gets the Hulk to calm down. Hulk changes back into Bruce Banner as introductions are made. Bruce explains to Rick that Samson is a Psychiatrist and they have known each other for some time. Betty and Samson have been trying to find a cure for Bruce and have been working together. Betty and Samson lead Bruce, Rick and Monkey to a military base where they have a machine that they think will help Bruce. Doc Samson tells Bruce that he would like to give him gamma treatments in conjunction with counseling sessions. So, Samson and Bruce start in a session and Bruce finds out that he can get a little upset without turning into the Hulk. Samson says that the more sessions they have, the better Banner's control will be. As Bruce leaves the office to rest, Samson starts to counsel Rick who isn't impressed with him in the least. Bruce finds Betty and says he's glad they can be together; Betty says she needs to tell him something. At that moment, Rick and Monkey show and interrupt them. Betty says she's tired and needs to go to bed. So, Bruce and Rick decide to check the gamma equipment that Samson has been using on Bruce to make sure everything’s ok with it. As they walk into the office, they find Betty and Samson about to kiss. Betty tells Bruce she's sorry, and that while working on his cure she and Samson had fallen in love. Samson tries to talk to Bruce, but it is too late. Bruce changes into the Hulk and attacks Samson. In their battle the gamma equipment is destroyed. Hulk defeats Samson and Rick tells Samson that people don't like to be lied to from their "friends". Hulk, Rick and Monkey leave them there.


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In the SOL Solar System, near Earth, the Silver Surfer and Terrax are fighting. The Silver Sufer was the herald of Galactus and has the power cosmic that allows him to travel through space. Galactus is the destroyer of worlds and was going to devour Earth. When the Silver Surfer knew of that, he left Galactus and Galactus found a new herald... Terrax! Terrax considers the Silver Surfer a traitor. On Earth in the Arizona desert... Bruce Banner, Rick Jones and Monkey are sitting under the stars stargazing. They see what appears to be a falling star land near them, but in fact it is the Surfer and Terrax. Terrax plans to steal the Surfer's board and trap him on Earth. Then Terrax intends to go into space and bring down large asteroids and destroy Earth and the Silver Surfer. Bruce, seeing that the Surfer is losing the fight tells Rick to hit him so he'll turn into the Hulk. Rick refuses, so Monkey pokes Bruce in the eye and Bruce turns into Hulk. Hulk asks who poked him and Rick blames it on Terrax. Hulk and Terrax fight and the Hulk starts to win until Terrax notices that Hulk has Rick and Monkey as friends. Terrax then opens a hole in the ground to swallow them, but the Hulk jumps in after them and saves them. While the Hulk is busy saving his friends, Terrax defeats the Silver Surfer and steal his surf board. Terrax heads into space, while a defeated and exhausted Silver Surfer gives his powers to the Hulk, Rick and Monkey. The Hulk is now intelligent because of the power cosmic. Silver Surfer hopes the Hulk's power and his own cosmic power will be enough to stop Terrax. Hulk, Rick and Monkey fly into space and catch Terrax on his way back to Earth with asteroids in tow. Hulk, Rick, and Monkey attack Terrax. Hulk knocks out Terrax and Terrax floats away into space. Hulk, Rick and Monkey come back to Earth and give the Silver Surfer back his power. The Surfer is grateful for the help and pledges his help in the future.


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In a small town in New Mexico, we find Bruce Banner, Rick Jones and Monkey on the run. General Ross and his armored "Hulkbusters" are there looking for Banner. Bruce sacrifices himself to save Rick and Monkey by running out into the street in front of Ross. Bruce is hit with knock-out gas and is captured and brought back to "Hulkbuster" base. Rick then sneeks in and frees Bruce. A guard sees them and Banner turns into the Hulk. Armored Hulkbusters arrive and attack the Hulk. As Hulk fights them, he accidently destroys a door holding a prisoner named Dr. Lu, also known as the Radioactive Man. The Radioactive Man has the ability to absorb and generate radiation. At this time he cannot generate radiation since he is wearing a harness with a device that stops him from doing so. But, he can absorb it, so he absorbs radiation from the Hulk and Hulk changes back into Bruce. Bruce, Rick, Monkey and Radioactive Man steal a jeep and escape. Radioactive Man purposely crashes the jeep and they jump a train. Later they end up at a diner where Radioactive Man purposely pushes Rick into a bully. The bully threatens them and Banner starts to change. Then the Radioactive Man absorbs the radiation from Bruce and he doesn't change. Later at an inn, Rick tries to convince Bruce that Dr. Lu is up to no good. Rick points out that it seems that Dr. Lu is trying to make Banner mad so he can absorb radiation. Ross and the Hulkbusters show up and demand Bruce to give himself up. Radioactive Man provokes Bruce to get mad again and starts to absorb more of Bruce's radiation. At that point, Radioactive Man has absorbed enough radiation to free himself of the harness which keeps him from generating radiation. Bruce then starts to get mad again and tells Rick to keep Hulk mad. Hulk and the Radioactive Man start to fight while Rick taunts Hulk to keep him angry. While the Hulk keeps getting angrier, he produces more energy and the Radioactive Man cannot syphen it away fast enough to turn the Hulk back to Banner. Hulk then knocks out Radioactive Man. The Hulk, Rick and Monkey escape from the military by one of Hulk's mighty leaps.


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Is he man or monster or... is he both?
This is (Marvel Adventures) Hulk's origin issue. It starts at Gamma Base's Research and Development facility in the Nevada desert. Bruce Banner is the inventor of the Gamma bomb, Betty Ross is his assistant and Rick Jones is an intern. They are going to test the bomb on a fake town they've set up, along with a live test subject... A monkey. The bomb is supposed to be non-lethal and only destroy inanimate objects while leaving living things safe and unharmed. General Ross (Betty's father) is overseeing the event for the military. Betty cares for Bruce, but it's obvious that Betty's father has no respect for Bruce. The monkey is caged and left outside the protective bunker that the others are in. The clock starts to count down, but Rick feels sorry for the monkey and worries that it'll be hurt. So Rick runs outside and grabs the monkey but the timer is almost to zero. Bruce sees Rick outside and tries to pause the countdown only to find out that it won't pause. Bruce runs outside to save Rick. Bruce has time enough to push Rick and the monkey inside a protective barrier only to be caught in the blast of the bomb himself. Smoke engulfs Bruce as Betty runs out after the blast to see if he is alright. As the smoke clears, Betty comes across Bruce, but he has now transformed into the Hulk. She sees Bruce's

 I.D. badge attached to the Hulk's pants and realizes the Hulk is in fact Bruce Banner. The Hulk transforms back into Bruce Banner and passes out. He later awakens to find himself strapped down to a table with General Ross, Betty, Rick and the monkey standing over him. General Ross starts yelling at Bruce and calling him a failure. Bruce tries to control his anger but to no avail and changes into the Hulk again. The Hulk slaps General Ross and crashes through the wall to the outside. Military men with tanks try to subdue the Hulk. As the Hulk fights the tanks, a piece of rock hits Rick. The Hulk protects Rick and destroys the tanks. Then, the Hulk leaves and Rick and the monkey go with him, vowing to stick with him and help him. General Ross pledges to get the Hulk no matter what.


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Small Doubts
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The Hulks Take Manhattan
Bruce Banner and Rick Jones find themselves in Manhattan where they hire Jamie Madrox (aka the Multiple Man) to find a scientist friend of Bruce's named Professor Singh. While on their way to pay Madrox, Bruce and Rick are about to be mugged by some punks when Madrox shows up. Madrox's power is the ability to make copies of himself whenever he is hit. The copies are him, but a different side of his personality. So, the Multiple Man sends the punks packin' and brings Bruce and Rick and the monkey to his office. Bruce gets the address to Professor Singh's lab and sneeks inside to use his equipment to hopefully cure himself of being the Hulk. As Bruce positions himself under the laser, a copy of Madrox shows up. The copy believes Bruce is trying to turn himself into a super villain. The copy of Madrox tries to pull Bruce out from under the laser. But, it is too late.. The laser fires and Bruce and the copy are caught in the beam. Bruce then turns into the Hulk. The real Madrox arrives and tells the copy that he figured out Bruce was trying to cure himself. As the Hulk smashes the wall to leave, an unexpected side effect happens. Where there stood one Hulk, there are now two. Having the copy of Madrox in the laser blast has given the Hulk the power to be copied if hit. The real Hulk tackles the Hulk copy and they both fall to the sidewalk. At that point, more Hulks appear. The Hulks start to fight each other causing property damage and scaring people away. One of the Hulk copies jump back up to the lab... It is a Hulk with the personality of Banner. The "smart" Hulk readjusts the laser and says he can undo the damage if he can get the real Hulk under the laser. Monkey is able to "sniff" out the real Hulk out of the many Hulks in the street. So, the "smart" Hulk grabs him and kicks him back into the lab. The real Hulk goes to smash the laser and his fist is zapped by the laser. All the other Hulk copies are instantly drawn back into the real Hulk. Hulk then turns back into Banner. Bruce and Rick decide to leave before the authorities show up. The Multiple Man stays behind as copies of him start to clean up the mess the Hulks made.


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Attack of the 50 Foot Girl!
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Cowboys and Robots
Bruce Banner is traveling through Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when he comes to a van that has had a breakdown. The occupants are a boy, Mitchell Hall and his mother Amy, who turns out to be an old high school classmate of Bruce’s. They were on their way to visit Billy the Kid’s grave when the van broke down. When the tow truck arrives, Amy invites Bruce to join them for dinner at a local diner, unaware that they are being watched by a man in the sky, who reports their location to his boss. At the diner, Amy tells Bruce that they are running from her husband Jason, a robotics expert who has enhanced his own body with high-tech grafts and was planning to experiment on Mitchell, so Amy took the boy and the data discs and fled. At his moment, Jason and his two enhanced henchmen burst into the diner and capture Amy and Mitchell. Assuming Bruce is Amy’s new lover he orders Scout One to take care of him. The baddie blasts Bruce into the kitchen and follows to finish him off but is thrown across the room seconds later as the Hulk bursts from the next room. Jason and Scout Two find their power weapons are ineffective against the Hulk and Jason takes Amy prisoner while Scout Two switches to a more effective sonic weapon—at least until Hulk shoots him down with a parking lot sign. Hulk takes on Jason and wrecks his energy cell and, believing him a robot, goes to finish him off, but Mitchell pleads with Hulk to spare his dad. Jade Jaws mutters, “Hulk didn’t start fight.” And wanders off. The next morning Bruce finds Amy and Mitchell, who tell him that Jason will be getting treatment. Mitchell gives Bruce his cowboy hat as he says goodbye.


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The Abomination!
From a motel room in New Mexico, Bruce Banner watches a TV news report with film of a large green monster on a rampage in Texas—and he’s never been to Texas. Bruce then heads to the scene of the disaster to investigate and finds a massive amount of property damage, and a message: “What’s up, Doc?” Following the monster’s trail he comes to a cave where he finds his former co-worker Emil Blonsky, now transformed into the giant scaly creature known as the Abomination. Blonsky explains how, after Bruce’s accident, he attempted to recreate the experiment out of jealousy, and ended up with similar results, and now he wants Bruce to cure him. When Bruce explains the he can’t even cure himself, Blonsky flies into a rage and causes a cave-in, partially burying Bruce, while he goes out to wreak more havoc. The pain and the fear for the innocent cause Bruce to transform into the Hulk and he pursues the Abomination, battling him on the streets of a Texas town. At first Abomination holds the upper hand for his greater intellect and strength, but as Hulk gets madder he gets stronger, finally beating his scaly foe. Later, agents from the Project collect the unconscious Abomination and vow to continue the search for Banner.


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Big Green Men
Camping in the mountains of New Mexico, Bruce Banner has a nightmare that he is being pursued by a murderous Hulk and is awoken by a UFO landing nearby. The next day he comes to the city of Roswell where all the citizens are wandering around in a trance. A normal girl, Krislyn Smith, warns Bruce about the patrols and they hide in a local supermarket, where she tells him about seeing invading green aliens arriving at her parents’ home the night before so she went into hiding while she thought of a way to rescue them. What she doesn’t know is that her parents, Bryn and Cassandra, are Skrulls, part of an advance force stranded on Earth twenty years ago, posing as humans and awaiting the arrival of the Skrull warfleet. Well, the Skrulls have arrived and are in the process of constructing a portal to teleport warriors from the home planet. Skrull searchers find Bruce and Kris in the supermarket and put a control collar on Bruce, who starts to turn into the Hulk. Seeing him turn green, Kris believes Bruce is one of the invaders and flees. Hulk smashes the control collar and then attacks the Skrulls. Kris is reunited with her parents who tell her she is also a Skrull and remove her necklace to restore her true form. Kris and her mother, who consider Earth their home, want to oppose the invasion but are arrested as traitors. Hulk arrives and Bryn asks his help in rescuing his wife and daughter. Hulk tosses the invaders through the portal then destroys it to prevent further arrivals. The next morning Kris sees Bruce off down the road, informing him that she is learning to control her shapeshifting and encouraging him that maybe someday he will too.


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Bugs
Bruce Banner arrives at a small western town and stops in at a diner for a meal. There he is recognized by a young scientist, Dr. Tim Collins, who has attended Banner’s lectures. When Bruce strongly insists that Tim has the wrong man, the young scientist leaves in embarrassment, forgetting his experiment notes. Bruce soon arrives at Tim’s home to return the papers and must confess he really is Dr. Banner and points out some defects in Tim’s experiments for accelerating crop growth. The two men collaborate on correcting the errors and the next morning, before Bruce wakes up, Tim tests the growth formula on a wheat patch. When Bruce awakens, they discover that the wheat has grown tremendously—but so have the grasshoppers sitting on it. Bruce and Tim track the giant bugs to the nearby school, which is closed but some kids are playing in the playground. The scientists arrive to rescue the kids, with Bruce attracting the bugs to him so Tim can get the kids into his pickup. The insects’ attack causes Bruce to become the Hulk and he wipes out the bugs and leaps away. Later, Tim and the kids find Bruce some ways away. Bruce explains his dual identity and realizes he must now move along because his secret is out. As Bruce heads off down the road, Tim returns home to find that Bruce has left him some notes to lead him on the right track in his experiments.


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Stars, Stripes, and Spiders!
Spider-Man swings through the city while wondering what he will write for his school essay on "civic duty." Suddenly, a yellow-costumed character comes crashing through a bank window; Spidey picks him up and heads inside to investigate. What he finds is Captain America in combat with several more of these fellows (A.I.M. operatives, since you can’t see the pictures). Spidey, who has never worked with Cap before, takes down a baddie sneaking up behind the patriotic hero—not that Cap needed the help but he’s nice enough to thank Spidey. Cap interrogates one of the captives and reports to Nick Fury that this was a diversion from their primary objective and announces he is heading there right away. Spidey offers to help but Cap turns him down, citing national security issues. Which, of course, doesn’t prevent the Webslinger from following at a distance. Which, likewise, doesn’t prevent the Super-Soldier from knowing he’s there and disapproving. Cap allows Spidey to join the stakeout, explaining that the criminal group A.I.M. is planning to send in an operative called the Grey Gargoyle to hijack a secret weapon. Cap warns Spidey that the Gargoyle can turn people and objects to stone with a touch of his right hand, the effect lasting an hour. As they wait for hours on the rooftop, Spidey and Cap converse about the older hero’s background and his motives. Cap explains that, to him, America is about the freedom to make changes and make a difference…. At this point they spy the Grey Gargoyle and follow a trail of petrified security guards into the lab where they confront the villain—who reveals he has also brought back up: a score of A.I.M. agents. While Cap is occupied with the ground troops, Spidey faces the Gargoyle on the balcony. The villain hurls a petrified henchman at him to distract the Wall-Crawler while he turns a cabinet to stone and drops it on Captain America. Spidey manages to web the stone block to the ceiling but this gives their foe the opening to turn him to stone. Cap leaps to the balcony and into the waiting hand of the enemy…. Some time later, Cap and Spidey awaken and break free from their chains, surprising the Grey Gargoyle that their superhero metabolisms caused them to recover sooner than he expected. Cap reveals that the weapon the villain stole—the second half of the Super-Soldier Serum—is a fake, intended only to lead the Gargoyle into a trap. And at this point Spidey’s web dissolves, dropping the stone cabinet on the villain’s head. As SHIELD takes the Grey Gargoyle away, Cap thanks Spidey for all his help—while Spidey thanks Cap for giving him material for his school essay….


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Top of the World
Wolverine and the Mimic battle on a mountain road, with the Hulk handy to rescue a car and driver forced off the road into a chasm. Hulk stops the fight and gives the Mimic tranquilizers to calm him down. The sun rises and Hulk becomes Bruce Banner. Hitchhiking, the trio is picked up by some of the rock fans who had given Bruce a ride earlier (issue #56), hoping to get back to Dr. Rankin’s cave (fortunately near the site of a Grateful Dead concert). On the trip, Bruce has a bit too much to drink and, on arrival, sunset turns him into a nasty version of the Hulk, who leaps atop a tower and starts to rip the roof off.


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As usual this anthology contains 4 8-page stories with no adverts.Wolverine/Typhoid Mary in Typhoid's Kiss part 2 of 8: A Killer's RightsWriter Ann Nocenti. Pencils/Inks Steve Lightle. Letters Bill Oakley. Colours Kelly Corvese.Last issue Wolverine was attacked in a motel room by a man named Roberts who at the same time asked for his help. He claimed to have been turned by the Project into a killer who gets his orders via an implanted radio receiver in his head. But now he's being told to kill Project members. He suspects Logan may have been a Project subject too. But Roberts has been working with another subject Mary Walker and they've compiled a dossier. He asked Logan to go help her bring the Project down.Now Wolverine has left Roberts chained up in the motel room (because he kept attacking him). This issue's tale has parallel tracks following Wolverine and Roberts. I've separated them out.Roberts muses that he wasn't evil as a kid so he can't be held responsible for what the Project programmed him to do. Unless he was a latent killer all along. But now he turns his anger against Wolverine and schemes to get free. He phones an animal shelter to say a dog's trapped its foot in a racoon trap. They send someone with some tools to free it but Roberts KOs him and starts to saw through his chain.Logan meets Mary Walker in a diner. She claims to be innocent but has blackouts and nightmares and wakes up in unfamiliar situations. Roberts suggested that her mind might have been tampered with by the Project and she wants to help him, but Logan doesn't want to get her hopes up. She takes him back to her place to show him the stuff Roberts mentioned. But when they get there they kiss.Nightcrawler in Night Of The RipperWriter Barry Dutter. Pencils Mark Runyan. Inks Tim Tuohy. Letters Michael Higgins. Colours Dana Moreshead.A modern-day Jack The Ripper is stalking London's streets, but this time he's killed 3 pimps rather than prostitutes. Nightcrawler thinks he's spotted a pattern and is waiting for the next attack. He sees the Ripper stabbing his next victim and bamfs to the rescue. But a leg injury (from Excalibur #43) slows him and he gets an added arm wound as the villain escapes. A crowd grows and of course blames the demon-looking hero, but others recognise him. A Dr Jacqueline Davenport happens to be on hand to help the victim but instead she sneakily finishes the job. Then she bandages Kurt Wagner's wound and they go for a drink. They see a well-known pimp Harry Flanagan who Jackie suggests will profit from the decrease in competition. They follow him but Jackie tells Kurt she hears a nearby scream. Nightcrawler goes to investigate and Jackie The Ripper prepares to kill her next target. But Kurt had been suspicious of her all along and he stops her. Jackie tells him about her prostitute sister who died of a drug overdose. The police take her away and Nightcrawler warns Flanagan he'll be watching him.Ghost Rider/Werewolf in Return Of The Braineaters part 4 of 6: Undercover At The Black Moon Bar & GrillWriter Chris Cooper. Pencils John Staniski. Inks James Palmiotti/Ken Branch. Letters Steve Dutro. Colours Fred Mendez.Last issue Ghost Rider and Werewolf fought the biker werewolf Braineaters on the Brooklyn Bridge as the villains chased young Billy Baldwin who had seen their human identities. Jack Russell was knocked off the bridge into the river and Ghost Rider surrendered to the bikers because they had Billy hostage.Now we see that the gang have GR chained to 4 bikes in a vacant lot. They rev the bikes and try to tear him limb from limb, but he just holds on until the chains snap. Lupe is the only female member of the gang (and I'm not sure she's actually a werewolf). She's been a moderating influence on them so far, and this time she persuades them to leave before GR recovers and keep Billy the kid alive as insurance. Werewolf survived his dunk in the water and gets here too late. But GR has a cunning plan and reverts to Dan Ketch to haunt biker bars until he gets a lead which leads him to the Black Moon Bar & Grill. Lupe checks him out and Danny tries to get through to her better nature but the boys take him outside, beat him up and leave him for dead.Thanos in I, Thanos part 3 of 4: Death's Dark DomainWriter Jim Starlin. Pencils/Inks Shawn McManus. Letters Michael Higgins. Colours Kevin Tinsley/Sarra Mossoff.When Death dragged Thanos' spirit into her realm he expected her vengeance for his action in the Infinity Gauntlet event. But instead she spoke to him directly for the 1st time. Now they are having a meal together (albeit at each end of a long table). She suggests she might forgive him if he will prove himself again her faithful servant. But 1st she reminds him of his betrayal. Before the IG event she gave him the singular honour of resurrecting him to be her agent again, but instead he sought and gained omnipotence to become her superior. And she was only rescued from that subjugation by Adam Warlock, which now puts her humiliatingly in that hero's debt. She is not allowed to strike at him directly so she wants Thanos to kill him for her, and in return she will be his love forever.


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Splashdown
Hulk as Joe Fixit pays a call on Jonas Marlin, who owes quite a bit of money to Mickey Berengetti. Marlin, unable to pay the full amount, tries to talk Hulk into accepting an interest in his nautical theme park Marlinworld to cover the rest. Marlin gives Hulk a tour of the park, and Hulk is not impressed. As they watch the Shandu the Killer Whale show, the orca goes berserk and kills its trainer then leaps out of the pool to attack some kids, Hulk literally leaps into action, knocking the whale to the ground and beating it into unconsciousness. Hulk takes a large bribe from Marlin to hush up the incident then carries the whale off to sea. He spots an Atlantean sub, where the undersea dwellers are testing a machine that causes sea creatures to go berserk, paving the way for invasion. Hulk drops Shandu on the sub, totaling it, and chases off the Atlanteans. Recovered, Shandu likewise heads off to sea.


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Black Shadow! White Shadow! Part 2: The Shadows Strike!
Wolverine (as Patch) is
fleeing the Hong Kong police in the wake of an incident wherein a city street
was vaporized. He is taken in a woman named Mai who leads him into a secret
grotto used by smugglers. Told the Black Shadow responsible for the street’s
destruction is outside, Patch goes to battle it and it freezes his arm and
thrashes him around. Then a White Shadow appears to fight the black one…and
Patch is in the middle….“Stardust Miseries Part
2: Tonight’s the Night”Writer: Michael Higgins.
Pencils: Javier Saltares. Inks: Jose Marzan Jr. Colors: Tom Vincent.Synopsis: Wonder Man
wakes up to find a gorgeous woman he doesn’t remember in his bedroom. She calls
herself Amora Lorelei, an actress on the same film Simon is auditioning for.
They go to the studio together and she persuades the director to hire Simon. Amora
shows Simon around the studio, introducing him to his robot stunt double. Late
that night a huge intruder attacks and kills the director….
Simon and Amora appear
on THE TONIGHT SHOW with Johnny Carson but the show is interrupted by police
wanting Simon for the murder of the director. Amora persuades Simon to destroy
them all—and then special guest Beast shows up…. “All in the Family! Part
1: Mother’s Day”Writer: Bob Layton. Art:
Bob Layton. Colors: Brad Vancata.Synopsis: On the planer
Wilamean, Hercules and his son the Emperor Arimathes team up to defeat and band
of space pirates. Herc’s pal Skyppi the Skrull has been secretly playing cards
with the Emperor’s imprisoned mother; she wins this time and Skyppi must take
on the form of her son the Emperor. He does and she zaps him with a device that
puts him under her control. She uses the fake Emperor to escape from her
apartment and join up with a band of armored mercenaries hired to kill
Hercules….“With Liberty and
Justice for All”Writer: Bill Mumy.
Pencils: Aaron Lopresti. Inks: Sam Grainger. Colors: Evan Skolnick.Synopsis: Spider-Man
catches a team breaking into one of the University science labs. Turns out they
are a band of animal-rights activists rescuing the animals used for experiments.
Spidey agrees with their ideals but can’t let criminals go free so he pretends
to fall down and knock himself out, allowing them to escape, then with a clear
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As usual this anthology contains 4 8-page stories with no adverts.Wolverine/Nightcrawler in Male Bonding part 8 of 8: Together Forever ... A PairWriter Scott Lobdell. Pencils Gene Colan. Inks Al Williamson. Letters Michael Higgins. Colours Kelly Corvese.In this story Nightcrawler took time off from Excalibur to return to the German circus that raised him, and Wolverine took time off from the X-Men to visit him. They discovered that Jutta and other mutated members of the circus were determined to kill a band of 'monsters' disguised as humans. When the peaceful monsters were exposed the local villagers grabbed pitchforks and flaming torches (as they do) and chased them to a (convenient) ruined castle which caught fire. Last issue Kurt Wagner went to save the monsters while Logan dealt with the circus folk.Nightcrawler bamfs into the castle where the monsters explain they are Neuri who left their people to study humanity. But now they just want to die together as a family. Hearing some humans trapped in the burning castle with them Nightcrawler and 1 of the Neuri go and help them escape. The villagers think they are attacking the humans until the saved ones explain the truth. But Jutta arrives and uses her flame power to kill the 'monster'. Then Wolvie catches up and kills (I think) her. The villagers douse the monster's flames but he tries to crawl back into the castle to his family. Kurt teleports him there and Logan follows the hard way. All the Neuri are dead so the heroes port out again to deliver the moral of the story.Young Gods in Against A Rogue God part 8 of 9: Nauda's TaleWriters Gerry Conway/Eric Fein. Pencils Scott Kolins. Inks Jonathan Holdredge. Letters Michael Higgins. Colours Tom Smith.The Young Gods have been captured by the rogue god Nauda and he now has the 3 Black Stones he needs to restore his power.But for this issue he tells them his history. He led the Tuatha De Danaan to Ireland to take it from the Fir Bolg and their gods the Fomorians. They won but Nauda lost his right hand until Dian Cecht replaced it with a hand of silver. The Fir Bolg/Fomorians were confined to Connacht but rebelled and in the 2nd war Nauda was killed. He recruited followers in the Underworld who created the Black Stones and planted them in the Middle East to gain power from hate, guarded by a robot which the Young Gods destroyed in Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8. So his followers separated the Stones for safety, but now the YG have gathered them together and it's time for Nauda to use their power to rule the world (of course).Ghost Rider/Werewolf in Return Of The Braineaters part 2 of 6: Claw And BoneWriter Chris Cooper. Pencils John Staniski. Inks James Palmiotti/Ken Branch. Letters Steve Dutro. Colours Fred Mendez.Last issue Jack Russell (Werewolf By Night) followed a gang of biker werewolf Braineaters to Prospect Park in Brooklyn where he was too late to save their latest 2 victims. The killings were witnessed by young Billy Baldwin who saw the the villains in their human forms. He also saw Ghost Rider (Dan Ketch) attack Jack thinking he was the murderer.Billy watches them fight until they spot him. Then he blurts out that the Werewolf is innocent and runs away. Ghost Rider drives off. We see that the bikers are at Billy's house. They've killed his parents and now his sister because they can't tell them where the son is. So they wait until he comes home but Billy sees them. Meanwhile our Werewolf tracks Dan Ketch to Cypress Hills Cemetery.Thanos in I, Thanos part 1 of 4: Into The AbyssWriter Jim Starlin. Pencils Larry Alexander. Inks Tim Tuohy. Letters Michael Higgins. Colours John Kalisz.Thanos and the Infinity Watch (Adam Warlock, Drax, Gamora, Moondragon and Pip The Troll) have tracked a mysterious energy through dimensions to what turned out to be just a repeater station (in Infinity War #3). Now they are waiting while Thanos' teleporting 'chair'/platform recalibrates to follow the trail further to its source, the universe-threatening Magus. Even though he has given up his goal of universal domination (after he gained it in the Infinity Gauntlet event and found it unsatisfying) he still fancies stealing whatever power Magus has. But his thoughts are interrupted when his spirit is taken by Death through a dimensional rift to a large red crystal which is an entrance to her realm. Thanos thinks his spirit wouldn't survive the passage so he blasts a hole in the gem and enters on his own terms. He enters Death's skull-shaped abode prepared to suffer her vengeance, the 1st phase of which is an attack by her Legion Of The Doomed.


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You Can Run… But You Can’t Hide
Wolverine, fleeing the murder charge, stops to look at a newspaper and sees a photo of himself holding hostages at a pharmaceutical factory and decides to go back to investigate. Meanwhile, at the factory, Hulk is battling the false Wolverine, a fight that gets increasingly violent until the fake Logan breaks down in a panic and runs off. Hulk takes the opportunity to free the hostages and then follows his foe to find him calmer for having ingested a large amount of tranquilizers. The impostor decides to confide in Hulk but he recognizes him first… as someone he thought was dead.


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Old Friends
The false Wolverine reveals himself as Calvin Rankin, the Mimic, who reviews his history for Hulk (and the reader): How he inhaled chemicals used by his father and gained the power to absorb other people’s abilities. How his father took him to live in a cave where his father was accidentally killed. How Calvin met and battled the X-Men until Professor X erased his mind. How his powers were restored and he joined the X-Men for a short time, etc. Eventually and during a confrontation with the Hulk (TIH #161), he absorbed Jade Jaws’ radiation and apparently died. Instead, he lay in a coma until Wolverine happened by; Cal absorbed Logan’s healing factor and recovered with the side effect that he was now permanently Wolverine’s double. At this point the real Wolverine arrives and offers to help Rankin, but the Mimic's only intent is vengeance against the one he blames for all his troubles: Wolverine!


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The Main Event
Wrestling champ Hulk Hogan wins his latest match and the referee proclaims him “the one, the only, HULK!” A disgruntled Joe Fixit leaps into the ring to challenge Hogan for the right to use the name, “Hulk.” Our Hulk smashes the pretender around the ring then hurls him through the roof so that he comes down in the home of a fan many miles away. Hulk then challenges all the other wrestlers pretending to identities they don’t deserve—Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man. They wisely decline and Joe Fixit is proclaimed the new champion, the real “Incredible…you-know-what.”


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Not Interested
A bored Selene, Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, is walking the streets of New York in search of excitement. The sudden ejection of three tough guys from a bar promises much so she enters to see the Hulk sitting alone at the bar. She buys the Hulk a drink. Hulk replies, “Not interested.” She reveals her identity as a goddess and offers to make him her consort. Hulk’s response, “Not interested.” She attempts to seduce Hulk. Hulk’s rejoinder, “Not interested.” She delivers a veiled threat by sucking the life out of the hapless bartender. Quoth the Hulk, “Not interested.” She knocks Hulk down with a psychic blast. Hulk shouts, “Not interested.” Realizing she’s riled him, Selene tries to bribe him into leaving. Hulk responds that there’s a reason he’s not interested… Later, at the Hellfire Club, Magneto is waiting impatiently for Selene and when she arrives she mentions she’s learned a lesson about arrogance and he needs one too. When he demands her attendance at a meeting, Selene calmly replies, “Not interested.”


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Art for Art’s Sake
Joe Fixit arrives at the offices of Bone Marrow Management, a music company, to collect a large gambling debt from the boss, Gruska. After dealing with security, he dangles Gruska out of a window until the mogul agrees to write him a check. As interest, Mickey Berengetti has demanded Gruska arrange for Brian Newman to play a concert at the Coliseum. Gruska tells him that Newman is a recluse, having given up performing. On Berengetti’s orders, Hulk pays a call on Brian Newman who turns out to be a musical genius, embittered over how Berengetti and partners manipulated his career, forcing him to play mediocre pop tunes, when he wants to compose a symphony. Hulk asks to hear the symphony. He then phones Berengetti and tells him to forget about Newman until he’s finished the symphony. Why the turnaround? Because music really does have “charms to soothe the savage breast,” as Hulk says.


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Death Don’t Have No Mercy
At the coroners’ office, Wolverine wakes up during his autopsy and escapes from the hospital. Hulk, driving Wolverine’s pickup, hears on the radio that someone fitting Wolverine’s description is holding hostages at a pharmaceutical factory, and decides to investigate. At the site of the standoff between the maniacal Wolverine double and the police, Hulk smashes though the roof and is shocked to find the enemy actually seems to be Wolverine. The villain, who has met Hulk before, assures Ol’ Grayskin that he is not Wolverine and then he attacks Hulk.


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The Long and Winding Road
On a rainy night in the Carolinas, Wolverine is driving down a country road, having just checked out another false report on the whereabouts of the missing X-Men. He comes upon a traveler being attacked by a bear and leaps into action, killing the beast and aiding the wounded man. Instead of thanking him however, the surly hitchhiker demands to be let out of the pickup. Minutes later, we see someone who looks exactly like Wolverine tearing someone apart with his claws. The real Wolverine, concerned, follows the hitchhiker a few minutes later and comes to a cave where he suddenly confronts…the Hulk!


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Instant Karma
Wolverine and Mimic climb to the top of the tower to stop the drunken rampaging Hulk. After some struggle, Hulk is attracted by a beacon in the distance and leaps off in its direction, with Wolverine and Mimic grabbing on for the ride. The beacon is coming from Dr. Rankin’s cave where Hulk is first restored to sanity and then to his Bruce Banner form. A hologram of Mimic’s father appears and explains that the machinery in the cave was designed to keep his power in check, but when he wandered outside its range, he lost control over his abilities. Now the equipment is breaking down and the hologram fades. Banner offers to repair the machinery but Cal Rankin considers that being dependent on a machine is almost as bad as being dependent on drugs. Wolverine suggests an alternate method: as the story ends we see Calvin restored to his true form by the practice of yoga and meditation.


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Masks
Doctor Doom attends a performance of a Russian symphony orchestra held in his kingdom hall in Latveria and a young viola player catches his eye. He approaches her privately later that evening and reveals that he knows she is Karen Sutter, recruited by NATO Intelligence and surgically enhanced to resemble Doom’s lost love Valeria. This makes her an enemy of the state and she should be executed. Karen protests that she is only a news reporter trying for an inside story on the dictator; no says Doom: she is a psychological assassin sent to drive him over the edge and the scheme has failed. After much verbal sparring, she points out that, if she was no threat to him, Doom need only have ignored her; he must still miss Valeria. He tells her he will decide her fate at dawn. She challenges him to do his worst. He does: he removes his mask. When she awakens from her swoon the next morning, she finds Doom on the terrace. She realizes belatedly that she was a weapon against Doom and that she has destroyed the last shred of humanity he had left. "I’ve taken something from you, Doom…I have to give it back." And she leaps from the terrace to her death. "Of course…Doom could have saved her."


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Spinach
[The story is told in an elliptical style which requires that much of the plot be inferred, so I’ll just tell it straight through] Before the story begins, a young man with bright green hair showed Bruce Banner a pint of Jen Walters’ blood and threatened to drain more if Bruce did not cooperate with him. Bruce agreed, so the young man allowed him to contact Betty Ross with directions to Jen’s location. What Bruce didn’t know was that Betty also called her father to help find Bruce….
As the story opens, the truck carrying the young man has been stopped by the Highway Patrol on a desert road, and General Ross and his soldiers are summoned. The young man grabs a spray tube labeled "Spinach" and squirts a blast in his mouth. Suddenly he is endowed with super-strength and he beats down the patrolmen. One of the cops squeezes off a shot that hits the truck, causing the Hulk to burst free from the trailer, scattering tubes of Spinach all over. [The Hulk’s blood was going to be the main ingredient in the drug, therefore the kid needed to keep him prisoner as a source.] Angered that the kid sought to exploit the Hulk’s strength, Jade Jaws smashes the kid around and leaps away. Ross and his men arrive to destroy the supply of Spinach to prevent the proliferation of little Hulks.


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The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
After watching a TV news report about a terrorist bombing,
little Franklin Richards asks his father, Mr. Fantastic, about God. Reed uses
his pseudo-reality synthesizer to give the boy an illustrated lecture on the
supposed origins of religion and science and how some believe they are closely
related while others believe they are opposites. Franklin then asks if his father
believes in God. Reed does, citing Galactus (!) as evidence of a higher power
that unites science and religion. He then calls love the bridge that connects
science and religion. Reed describes his love for his family as proof God exists.
Franklin then asks where babies come from; Reed passes that one on to Sue….
“Who Let the Dad Out?”Writer: Sean McKeever. Pencils: Darwin Cooke. Inks: Mike
Manley. Colors: Loughridge.Synopsis: Scott Lang is worrying himself to death over his daughter
Cassie’s first date. He conjures up all sorts of scenarios about a boy named “Stang”
and this party she is going to. He also objects to her skimpy outfit. When
Stang arrives, he is a normal eleven-year-old boy so Scott questions him and
leaves with a threat. After they leave, he gets to thinking about the party games
he played as a kid, panics, changes to Ant-Man and flies Mara (a winged ant) in
pursuit. An accident drops him into a spider’s web on the lawn and brings him to
the attention of the family dog. Spying on Cassie, he realizes he needs to trust
her and goes back to playing with the dog.


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Man of Iron
Tony Stark muses on the classic poem “Richard Cory” by
Edward Arlington Robinson; it concerns a wealthy and popular fellow who is
admired by all—and the shock to the community when he suddenly and inexplicably
commits suicide. As Iron Man, Tony flies over to the lab of inventor Gabriel
MacGregor before changing back to Tony. MacGregor lives alone, surrounded by
robotic servants and constantly mumbling to himself. Tony needs MacGregor’s
signature on some paperwork but the inventor is clearly unstable, referring to
his new project as “she.” He has created “Iria” to be his companion and he
removes the sheet covering her…to reveal a pile of random junk. Tony tells him
there’s nothing there. A few days later Tony learns MacGregor has killed
himself.
“The Bottle Imp!"Writer/Art: Michael T. Gilbert.Doctor Strange comes upon a street hustler showing
a little girl the shell game; Strange spoils the game by revealing the secret:
misdirection. He tells the girl a story from his earlier life: two kids on a
beach, David and Janet, find a magic bottle. When they open it, they are sucked
inside and Strange jumps in too to rescue them. He faces the Bottle Imp,
punished for offending a greater demon, spending his eternity by trapping and torturing
other curious souls. Strange casts a shatter glass spell on the bottle…but it
fails. He then casts a similar spell on the demon…and it fails too. The demon
douses Strange with honey and then unleashes the bees, then flattens him and
folds him. And then Strange catches on—the demon is not the villain facing him
but the bottle itself. So Strange casts the demon shattering spell on the bottle
and it is destroyed. Strange wraps up his tale by revealing that Janet is now
in school and an amateur magician—and David is the professional magician David
Copperstone.


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The Clash – Part Two
As Doctor Strange confronts Xandu, the Thing and the Hulk duke it out, with the battle spilling into the street. Xandu’s mind-spell slows the Hulk’s reactions, though, allowing the Thing to hold his own against Jade Jaws, and to hope for a possible victory. Realizing this, Xandu removes his spell from the Hulk and transfers it to Strange’s servant Wong, who overpowers his master. The Hulk/Thing battle proceeds under its own momentum, through the streets, sewers, and to the waterfront. An imprisoned Strange contacts the Thing to warn him that Xandu is trying to merge with the Ruby, which will enable him to control the universe. The Thing hurries back to Strange’s mansion with the Hulk in pursuit. On a rooftop, the Thing goads the Hulk into attacking him, and the force carries them through the mansion window. Taking Xandu by surprise, the Thing smashes the Ruby. Freed, Strange captures Xandu and places the Hulk under a sleep spell. The villain is exiled to a nether dimension and Strange arranges to transport the Hulk to the desert and the Thing back to a hot bath in the Baxter Building. Unfortunately, the exhausted Strange gets this last part exactly backwards…


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To Steal the Sorcerer's Soul!
Late one evening, Dr. Strange is unable to sleep because of a foreboding in the air. Clea persuades him to relax and return to bed…. In the street a little girl rushes through the rain to hammer on Strange’s door. As the sorcerer goes to answer, suddenly a bright light fills the room. Opening the door he discovers the girl paralyzed from an enemy’s spell. Casting a protective aura, he carries her inside and discovers that her psychic aura has been drained from her. As Clea leaves the house to pursue a hunch, Strange leaves Wong to guard the girl while he enters the Astral Plane to investigate. Moments later, however, the little girl emerges from the protective spell, overpowers Wong, and opens the front door to admit the sorcerer Nicodemus, who plots revenge against Dr. Strange. Elsewhere, having recognized the spell on the girl as something that had once happened to her, Clea has come to an abandoned church where she was held prisoner by Nicodemus in order to steal her occult power (DEFENDERS #53). At that time she overcame her foe and Strange erased his memory. She now enters the church and falls into a trap as the building explodes. Sensing something is wrong with his beloved, Strange hurries back from the Astral Plane and is ambushed by his foe who steals most (but not all) of his power. Strange escapes into the Astral Plane with Nicodemus in pursuit. Clea arrives (having used the Shield of the Seraphim to protect herself from the explosion) and receives Strange’s message implanted in the girl’s mind, an enigmatic reference to the villain’s defeat lying in his heart’s desire. Clea realizes that Nicodemus sees magic as a tool, a means to power (his heart’s desire) rather than a source of wisdom. She calls Strange out of the Astral Plane and uses a spell to transfer Strange’s remaining power to Nicodemus. The sudden inrush of power but without Strange’s experience and wisdom to control it knocks the villain unconscious That was Dr. Strange’s plan: to heal his enemy rather than destroying him by showing him the folly of his lust for power. The little girl recovers and is sent home.


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The Goblin Spree
After escaping from the Sea of Nothing, John Tyndall, Velanna, and Mud-Butt find themselves back in Lord Raven’s castle, learning the tale of the Glorywand, the most powerful magic device in Weirdworld. The Glorywand has been split into two pieces and Raven has one. Meanwhile, an army of human barbarians with a goblin guide are on their way to the castle to seize the artifact for their own ends. An irritated Raven, learning that the trio has escaped from the Sea, begins searching for them so he can recover the half wand in their unwitting possession. Velanna’s mystic vision leads them to a door in the floor but when it is opened the Brides of Lord Raven emerge, three kidnapped dwarf women held in trances and endowed with magic powers. The trio hurls their magic-bolts at our heroes…and it goes over their heads to destroy the goblins sneaking up on them. Taking the Brides with them, Tyndall and company continue to search the castle for a way out. The vengeful Lord Raven steps out of a mirror before them, as the rampaging goblins arrive behind them. A furious battle breaks out but the heroes manage to stay out of the way as the goblins swarm over the evil wizard. Escaping upstairs to where they can climb over the outer ledge to safety, they are confronted by Raven who overcame his horde of foes. Mud-Butt makes to give back the item he stole earlier and it turns out to be half of the Glorywand. Velanna uses it to blast Raven through the wall to his apparent death. The party makes their way out over the ledge, while Tyndall and Velanna make plans to search for the other half of the wand and use it to end all evil in Weirdworld. Final revelation: Raven survived his fall by transforming into the flying namesake.


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A Terrible Thing to Waste
An elderly Indian waits in the desert for the Hulk who
arrives and instinctively wants to smash the old man. But the Indian says the
word “friend” and Hulk suddenly calms down. [At this time Hulk has been
separated from Bruce Banner and is supposedly mindless.] The man lights a
brazier of incense and that keeps Hulk calm, thinking about all the people he’s
ever known. The Indian goes into hiding and soon Hammer and Anvil arrive and
attack Hulk. Hulk naturally knocks them down, surprising them because he is
supposed to be mindless. Before the battle gets too intense, though, the Indian
shoots Hammer in the face which, because of their deep link, leads to Anvil’s
death too. The Indian shouts “Justice is served!” (identifying him as Scourge of the Underworld)
and escapes, leaving his disguise behind. Hulk picks up the mask
and wonders “Friend?”
“Story”Writer: Norm Breyfogle. Art: Norm Breyfogle. Color: Bob Sharen.
Letters: Norm Breyfogle.Synopsis: Outside a public school, a bully waits for a smart
kid to walk by then knocks his books out of his hands, and then knocks him
down, slapping his face. Criminal “Colossal” Craig, pursued by Captain America,
smashes up his car then scoops up the two kids as hostages and dashes into the
school. Cap pursues him and they engage in a drawn-out battle, the kids getting
away and watching from a safe distance. Cap beats the guy and the kids cheer.
Later, we see the bully studying science and the smart kid exercising.


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Home Fires!
Captain America rushes to the scene of the sixth fire in as many weeks to join in the rescue operation. He learns from the mayor that the arson fires are part of an extortion scheme by a group calling itself "We the People." That night, Cap tears through the city’s underworld, questioning crooks and lowlifes, trying to get a lead on the extortionists. While on the lookout, Cap sees a nice family as the kind of people he is trying to protect; what he does not see is that the father, Hal Brady, is a leader of We the People. Later that night, Brady gathers other disaffected working class men for a mission to burn down a nursing home; when one of the guys, Don, balks, he is threatened with death. Captain America is again at the scene of the blaze to save lives but he is not always successful. A police badge dropped at the scene leads Cap to Don who is forced to yield Hal Brady’s name and address. Cap drags Brady out of his home in front of his family—the ones Cap thought were ideal earlier. Cap takes Brady to the club where the other guys are meeting and when they refuse to fight Captain America on Brady’s orders, the bitter leader blows himself up with a firebomb. Cap makes sure all the other men are safely out—and then rushes back in to rescue the American flag. His final words: "America doesn’t hand you things on a silver platter. Sometimes all she offers is hope" before heading off to break the news to the Bradys.


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A Plague of Frogs
In downtown New York, Captain America arrives just in time to stop an assassin from gunning down the visiting Bagwan Sri Ananda. The guru invites Cap to visit his movement’s center, and Cap, going by instinct, plans to come.
Later that evening, teen hero wannabe Frog-Man witnesses a man about to be murdered in an alley to prevent him from warning people about "the final days." Frog-Man leaps (literally) to the rescue and finds himself in a lot of trouble—until Captain America comes to the rescue. The idol-worshipping Froggy wants to be Cap’s new partner but Cap, who has heard about this kid from Spider-Man, just sends him home. On his way, he spies the man he rescued being carried off in a car, and finds a matchbook as a clue. At home, Frog-Man (actually Eugene Patilio) confesses to his dad, the former villain known as Leap-Frog, what he has done. Later, Eugene dons the frog suit once more and visits the diner. Breaking in he discovers it is a front for an underground lab full of giant vermin. He overhears the killers reporting to their boss—the Bagwan Sri Ananda—that they have killed the FBI agent who infiltrated the group. Then the fool is caught….
The next night, Cap visits the Bagwan’s Manhattan Center where he is invited to a private meeting with the Bagwan. Cap is overcome by the incense in the room and realizes that the Bagwan is the Yellow Claw in disguise. He tries to fight back, but drugged he is no match for the villain, who stands over him laughing in triumph….


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Is This the Way the World Ends?
The Yellow Claw transports the unconscious Captain America and the captive Frog-Man to his underground base in upstate New York. The villain unmasks Froggy and discovers him to be just ludicrous super-hero wannabe Eugene Patilio. Savoring the irony, Yellow Claw outlines his sinister plan to the boy: having survived his previous encounter with the Avengers, he decided to adopt the guise of legendary guru Bagwan Sri Ananda. Having predicted the destruction of New York by earthquake and tidal wave, he plans to appear before a gathering of his disciples using a mind-amplification device to harness their psychic energies and direct it to cause the prophesied disaster….
Elsewhere, Eugene’s worried father contacts Spider-Man and asks for his help in locating his son and Captain America….
Meanwhile, Cap, still under the influence of the villain’s drugs, awakens in a dungeon. He is found by an elderly man who comforts him and fills him in on the Yellow Claw’s mad scheme. The mystery benefactor present Cap with his shield, which the hero uses to smash his way out of the dungeon. At the same time, Froggy finds himself trapped in a clearing and menaced by giant frogs…until he discovers that the frogs like him. Thanking the higher power who gave him a second chance, Eugene vows to become a real hero….
The next day, the Yellow Claw, in his Bagwan guise, appears before 200,000 followers and is "crowned" with the mind-control device. Captain America, shedding his disguise as one of the Bagwan’s retinue, rips the mask from the Yellow Claw’s face and denounces him to the crowd—but his is too late: the villain has already captured their minds. The Claw focuses their mental energy to create a giant hand to crush Cap—when the cavalry arrives in the form of Frog-Man and his froggy allies, followed by the real rescuers: Spider-Man, the Human Torch and the X-Men’s Angel, Beast, and Iceman. The heroes overpower the Claw’s army and Cap smashes the mind-amplification device, releasing the crowd from the villain’s control. The Claw escapes by jet-pack and Cap thanks Eugene for providing the necessary distraction for Cap to overcome his foe. Eugene’s dad also praises him for his heroic actions.
Epilogue: Cap researches the real Bagwan Sri Ananda, who has not been seen since 1939—and recognizes his mysterious benefactor from the dungeon.


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Renovation
J. Jonah Jameson is touring a depressed area of South Bronx
with Councilman Wade who advocates demolishing the area and building a new neighborhood;
Jameson is concerned about the locals who would be displaced. Peter Parker is
along to take photos despite being seriously ill with a cold….
Bruce Banner is in space with Nick Fury, aboard a SHIELD craft.
An agency satellite needs repair but is bathed in gamma radiation. The only one
who can repair it is the Hulk now that Banner’s mind is in control. As Hulk is working
on the device, an alien slime enters his suit, leaving Fury to call for help….
Aboard the Helicarrier, Hulk is studied by scientists, who know
that the alien bio-plasm is trying to attach itself to Hulk’s nervous system.
Hulk awakens, goes insane, and crashes out of the sickbay, knocking Nick Fury out
cold in his rampage. Quartermaster Waldo claims the command with Fury out so,
on his orders, Hulk is trapped in an airlock and ejected from the carrier. Hulk
crashes to the ground in the South Bronx neighborhood, scaring off a bunch of
punks who were trying to rob Peter Parker. Pete changes into Spider-Man and discovers
the Hulk…
Quartermaster Waldo is surprised to learn the Hulk survived
the fall which brings him a rebuke from Contessa Valentina de la Fontaine,
questioning his fitness for temporary command. Waldo reasserts his authority
and dispatches a trio of destruct-drones to deal with Hulk….
Spidey is dismayed to learn that Banner is not in control
and the old rampaging Hulk is back. Spidey’s reflexes are slowed because of the
cold and he is having a great deal of trouble facing Hulk. Then the destruct-drones
strike…
…while Waldo defends his use of them, insisting the drones
are programmed to contain Hulk without causing damage to the surroundings…
…while Spidey is rescuing people from the havoc and hustling
them to safety. Hulk’s battle against one of the drones destroys a large swath
of the neighborhood. Hulk crashes out against the remaining two drones and
Spidey spies a mother with a small child on an upper floor of the wreck. He
manages to take hold of them as that section of the building is blown up…
…shocking Waldo who only now learns the drones had never
been tested in combat….
As the second drone falls to the Hulk’s fury, the third one
opens fire regardless of Spidey and the two innocents in his way. He manages to
hide in a stairwell where he finds a terrified wino. Spidey webs up the stairwell
to provide protection for his three charges….
Waldo discovers that the drones have changed their own
programming to terminate Hulk….
Hulk, sounding like Bruce Banner again, and seriously ill,
collapses near Spidey. Pete spots the alien organism on the back of Hulk’s neck
and realizes it is dying. Nick Fury and the Contessa arrive….
A rescue/disaster control operation is put into place. Peter
Parker reports to Jameson that the alien organism was killed by the cold Spidey
had inadvertently infected it with. He also reveals that the incompetent junior
officer in command is in trouble and that Councilman Wade got his wish, the
neighborhood was razed but he will not be reelected. Peter goes home to recover
from his cold….