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Sky-Wolf!
Sky-Wolf and Sidney “Gaff” Levine have made it into the
Nazis’ Murder Mountain to rescue Matt Slade III but he doesn’t believe they are
allies but some sort of enemy trick When they have convinced him by describing
his father, Slade insists on taking Gretchen Skul, the Nazi commander’s
daughter who has joined his side. Seeing their Flapjack planes in enemy hands,
the guys fight their way through, being rescued by their partner Jesse “Little
John” Johns whom they thought dead. The heroes make it safely away but General
Skul gives orders to let them go as he knows a secret….
The Sky-Wolves reach Lobo One and land aboard the ship; Matt
is welcomed home by his father. Late that night, Sky-Wolf catches Gretchen in
the act of photographing the plans for the Flapjacks. At this time, Murder Mountain,
revealed to be a large construct on tank treads, starts its deadly journey
across the European continent. The Sky-Wolves are dispatched to destroy it,
four craft with Matt III joining the team. The mountain contains anti-aircraft
ordnance leading to a battle. Back at the ship, Gretchen escapes custody and
seizes a fifth Flapjack to return to the mainland. At the battle, Gaff triggers
a device which projects the images of hundreds of Flapjack planes in the sky.
In the confusion, General Skul gives orders to shoot down the only plane that
is easy to detect, unaware his daughter is the pilot. The Sky-Wolves fly into
the hollow mountain, causing destruction and Matt Slade guns down Skul before
they blow up the mountain....
The Sky-Wolves return to the Lobo where Matt Slade Jr.
suggests they stay together as a team, ready to fight for democracy when the
USA formally enters the war….
“A Day in the Life…” 4/5Writer: David Anthony Kraft. Art: Tony Salmons. Colors:
Christie Scheele. Letters: Rick Parker.Synopsis: Bounding
through a wilderness area, a thirsty Hulk stops to
drink from a pond; he soon becomes ill, only then seeing the sign warning of
contamination. The Hulk passes out, complaining about how humans ruin
everything. When he awakes he finds a baby deer caught in a trap; as he tries
to release it, he is accidentally shot by hunters aiming at the doe. Enraged at
the human race’s penchant for destruction, he hurls a rock after the fleeing
hunters. The Hulk then tries to stop two rams from fighting but is not able to
prevent the death of one. He then notices how animals live, like humans, preying
on the other species for food.
A forest fire has broken out as the result of a
cigarette dropped by a panicked hunter, and the Hulk tries to rescue a bear
from the blaze. The bear interprets the Hulk’s actions as an attack and turns
on him, forcing the Hulk to kill it. Trying to leave the area, the Hulk falls
into a tar pit and sinks. Two loggers, seeing the Hulk in trouble, surprise
Jade Jaws by toppling a tree so he can pull himself out. Musing on the
experience, the Hulk realizes all beings do good things and bad things,
misunderstanding one another, even the Hulk. Too much thinking tires the Hulk
out, though, and he goes to sleep.


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With Friends Like These…
A happy Hulk is walking through a wilderness area in
Colorado when he is attacked by US military jets; Hulk uproots a tree and hurls
it at the lead plane, disabling it. The pilot ejects, realizing Hulk aimed at
the wing and not the cockpit, implying he may not be the brute they have always
thought him. Hulk leaps away from the other planes….
A small circus 150 miles to the west is run by the mutant
known as Blob. It houses his friend Unus the Untouchable, whose mutation has
gone out of control causing his force field to constantly expand without his
choice. Only the immovable Blob can fight his way through the force field to
feed Unus. Hulk, meanwhile, has landed nearby and is hungry; the smell of hot
dogs leads him to the circus where he seizes the food cart and starts eating.
The circus people swarm Hulk who bats them all away until Blob shows up. Hulk
batters Blob but the immovable mutant just laughs it off…until Hulk yanks him
up, pulling the ground up with him. Hulk biffs him into the tent where Unus
lives. Unus challenges Hulk for hurting his friend and the force field protects
him…until Hulk is able to move the entire field and Unus inside it. Blob
attacks Hulk, determined to defeat him and Hulk leaps away, taking Blob with
him; Unus runs to catch up with them. Blob pounds Hulk severely with no effect.
Hulk punches Blob in the stomach but when the baddie tries to repel him with
his gut muscles, it is Blob who is hurled backwards, thumping his head on a
boulder. The angry Unus arrives and attacks Hulk, who punches the force field
so hard that Unus is hurled into the distance. Hulk departs. On recovery, Unus discovers
his force field is gone, dispersed by Hulk’s blow. He finds Blob catatonic and
carries him back to the circus…though small stones are being repelled in Unus’
path….
“Bless the Beasts & Children…”Writer: Bill Mantlo. Pencils: George Freeman. Inks: George
Freeman. Colors: Glynis Oliver. Letters: Annette Kawecki.Synopsis: On a busy New York City street, the driver of a
Daily Bugle delivery van suddenly dies and the van careens out of control onto
a sidewalk. Everyone runs for safety but for a boy with a dog. Daredevil swings
down and scoops up the boy but his dog runs away. DD then discovers that the
boy is blind and has a new guide dog; he promises to recover the kid’s dog and
heads out into the big city. Yet there are too many dogs on the streets and in
the homes for him to single one out. He hears a man mistreating a dog and
assaults him, only to find he is from the ASPCA and it’s his job to bring in
stray animals. He refers DD to the nearby animal shelter. Daredevil goes there
and presents his problem—and then finds he was just moments too late to prevent
the guide dog from being put down. He resigns himself to telling the boy that sometimes
superheroes fail.


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Instinct
Similar to the story in The Incredible Hulk #181, but with some differences. Heck, you could probably think of it as Round 2 for these three. Wolverine (without Adamantium) takes a trip to Canada to get away from the X-Men for a while, and get back to his roots. Suddenly, he hears a howl in the distance, and goes to investigate. What he finds is a group of cryptozoologists looking for Bigfoot (or at least that’s what they want everyone to believe). In the group is Heather Hudson, an acquaintance of Wolverine from his past. Wolverine surveys the area and finds a few strands of hair that he determines is Wendigo. He runs off to find Wendigo, with one of the mysterious researchers in tow. As he gets to the cave of the Wendigo, he tells the researcher about the first battle between Wolvie, Wendie, and the Hulk. As he finishes, a very calm and relaxed Hulk appears on the scene. Suddenly, Hulk gets attacked by Wendigo, and they take the battle towards a small town south of their location. Wolvie follows and a very comical battle ensues. The winner… Hulk, if you ask me, for his ability to keep his cool in this issue, even if he resorts to a little bit of violence.


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Fateful Choices
Deathlok the Demolisher arrives in New York from his own timestream; his mission: to prevent a second attempt at Operation: Purge in our timeline. His arrival is detected by SHIELD whose director, Dum Dum Dugan dispatches a team to investigate. They manage to capture the cyborg and return him to SHIELD labs where, over a period of months, they submerge his mind and add some improvements to convert him to the agency’s use.
On this fateful day, as Sam Wilson/the Falcon is resigning from SHIELD service to return to New York, Deathlok escapes, blowing a hole in the wall, clobbering the agents and taking down the Falcon. Meanwhile at Avengers’ Mansion, Captain America receives a visit from Justice Peace, agent of the Time Variant Authority, who warns him of Deathlok’s presence and the threat he poses to this timestream. Peace asks Cap to prevent the cyborg from changing events in this world, or else Peace will be forced to kill Deathlok. SHIELD traces Deathlok to the Brand Corporation and Captain America arrives to team up with his old partner the Falcon to find him, insisting that the cyborg’s intentions are good. At the Brand Building, Deathlok is on a mission of destruction, when the two heroes arrive to stop him. Deathlok creates a disaster, forcing them to rescue staff members and let their quarry go. The heroes catch up with the deadly cyborg and Cap confronts him but they continue to fight. Justice Peace arrives before them and halts the hostilities. Deathlok explains that the evil mastermind—the Red Skull—whose efforts banished the heroes of Deathlok’s world into another dimension, is about to do the same in this timeline. Cap explains that the Red Skull is dead in this world, and it was Deathlol’s previous warning which enabled the heroes of this world to avert that fate. Peace, who has been ordered to kill Deathlok, decides instead that he is still needed to battle the Red Skull in his own world and takes him back there. Cap and the Falcon renew their commitment to keeping the world safe.


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Paranoia is the Para-Man!
Ant-Man and
Wasp, trapped in their smallest sizes are trying to escape a man chasing them
with a butterfly net. They are cornered on the edge of a chasm over of a
shallows steam; Jan tries flying while carrying Hank but she grows dizzy and
drops him into the water and she is then nabbed in the net. Hank throws his
“rope” around a high twig and climbs out, only to be grabbed by the man with
the net and sprayed with a chemical that knocks him out….
When he
awakens, he finds he and Jan are in separate jars, placed there by Boswell, a
fat and nearsighted man who thought they were some sort of insect. A green and
yellow android calling himself Para-Man because he is superior to humans,
enters, demanding to see Boswell’s specimens and flies into a rage when Boswell
can’t identify them. Para-Man then bullies his captive into cleaning up the lab
Para-Man orders him to find out what these new specimens are while the android
sits before a TV screen, a drink of oil in its hand, watching a recording of
how it was created by Boswell and soon became the dominant one. The android
sees that Hank and Jan are unconscious due to lack of air and heads outside to
soliloquize on its loneliness….
Hank
recover sand uses the nail he keeps by his side as a lever to topple and break
the bottle he is in; he frees Jan and they dash toward the door only to be
caught by Para-Man who finally makes the connection that they are tiny humans.
They elude their captor and Hank decides to end it by puncturing a gasoline can
and, struggling to bring down matches from a table top, ignites the gas. It
blows up in Para-Man’s face and sets the lab ablaze. Hank and Jan get out
safely but Para-Man remains to rescue Boswell whom he has realized is special
to him…if inferior. Deciding the tiny humans need to be punished, the android
dashes back into the lab as it explodes. Boswell recovers the android’s severed
head and it demands a stronger body. And then the chemicals she has ingested
cause Jan to mutate into a human-wasp hybrid…and it attacks Hank….


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HellStorm!
Ant-Man,
trapped in his smallest size, returns home to find his lab wrecked and his wife
Jan—the Wasp—unconscious on the floor. The skylight above them begins to
shatter so Hank speedily opens an umbrella over Jan and jumps into a floor
vent. He hears Jan start to wake up but realizes he is trapped in the vent.
Jan’s chauffeur Charles enters the house to check on her and assures her he
will always be there to care for her, barely concealing his desire for her
money. His oily insinuating manner enrages Hank, listening from below the
floor. But Jan brushes him off, offended by the implications and Charles
departs, barely concealing a threat….
Hank calls
out to Jan but she can’t hear him so he throws together a slingshot from a
bobby pin and a rubber band and shoots his helmet where Jan can see it. She
looks in the vents and sees him. Relieved that he’s not dead, she shrinks and
joins him for a happy reunion….
Hank and
Jan get to work searching for an antidote to the chemical which trapped Hank at
ant size and soon, Hank believes he has isolated the relevant factor but they
are interrupted by the entrance of Whirlwind. The villain squirts Jan with
knockout gas, putting her out so he can carry her off but Hank hurriedly throws
the switches sealing the door and shutting off the lights. Whirlwind turns on a
flashlight and is surprised to see Hank, who was thought to be dead. Hank uses
an air hose to fire a projectile, breaking the villain’s flashlight. He strikes
a match and Hank turns on a gas jet, causing a minor explosion. After he
recovers, WW manages to turn on the lights to find Hank and Janet gone so he
leaves.…
Hank and
Jan are in hiding, Jan having shrunk to Wasp-size. Hank suggests that Whirlwind
and Charles may be working together as their greed sounds similar but Jan
rejects the notion. They continue to work on isolating the size-trap factor.
The stress of the project starts to divide them so to show her commitment to
Hank, Jan drinks the “trap factor,” causing her to suddenly grow into a giant
before returning to Wasp-size, leaving her stuck at that size. So they go back
to researching (with Hank still wondering why Whirlwind sounded like Charles) an
antidote with the added burden of having to rework all the lab equipment so
that it can be used by tiny people. There’s a knock at the door and Hank goes
to answer it with Orkie; they are blasted by an oxygen-destroying weapon and
Whirlwind enters, wielding a gun stolen from the Avengers. He fills the room
with oxygen-eating bubbles to force Wasp to return to her normal size. But Jan
dons one of Ant-Man’s helmets which has a beathing unit and avoids the baddie. Unable
to find her, Whirlwind contents himself with killing Ant-Man by setting fire to
the lab and departing. Wasp revives Hank and he turns on a water hose, creating
a stream though the flames and they jump in a box and travel across the room
where the stream ends. Hank begs Jan to fly out and save herself but she
reveals her wings are soaked and can’t fly. Hank and Jan struggle to fill a
balloon with helium and float toward the broken skylight but the balloon snags
on a sharp edge and bursts. The heroes manage to hang on to a fragment caught
on the glass and they climb up to the roof and out onto a tree branch. Jan
slips and Hank panics but she reveals there was nothing wrong with her wings
and she flies back to safety. Hank wants to wring her neck. They make their way
down the tree trunk and fall asleep at the base….
They awaken
the next morning to see the lab destroyed and the headline on the day’s
newspaper announced their deaths….


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Ant-Man No More!
Ant-Man and
Wasp have been captured by mad scientist Doctor Nemesis who spends an entire
day subjecting them to sinister lab tests. At the end, Ant-Man demands to know
what Nemesis is doing and the answer is simple: he has cured Hank of being
stuck at his tiny size. Hank then realizes Doc N must have been a member of
M’Sieu Tete’s gang in issue #4 to have been aware of his problem. The baddie
then reveals his reasons for helping the hero: Doc N now expects Ant-Man to
steal secrets from Avengers Mansion for him—or Jan will die. The bad guy
provides Hank with size-changing clothing and then reveals that he was able to
duplicate Hank’s formula so Doctor Nemesis also has the ability to shrink or
grow. The villain takes Ant-Man through a lengthy tunnel, secretly constructed
and maintained by A.I.M., which leads directly under Avengers Mansion. Ant-Man
then tricks Doc N into turning off his protective force field lest he be
detected by Avengers security devices. Once he does, Ant-Man attacks him and
there follows an amazing battle in which both hero and villain are constantly
changing sizes until Ant-Man stands victor. He removes the size-changing tech
from Doc N’s headgear and grows to full size to alert the Avengers (Black Panther,
Captain America, Iron Man, Vision) that he is still alive. He promises
to give them a full account of his adventures later and, after rescuing Jan,
they decline an offer to rejoin the team. Later, as he tries to write up the
account, Jan distracts him with a promise of “romance” and he takes her to
bed….
“The Itch”Writer:
Unknown. Art: Al Hartley.Synopsis: A
miserly mortician is doused with a chemical that causes a maddening itch all
over his body; he sees a shady doctor who promises relief from the itch—by
grafting another pair of arms on him so he can always keep scratching!
“Hiding
Place”Writer:
Unknown. Art: Tony DiPreta.Synopsis:
George is driven mad by his slow-witted brother Harold’s habit of keeping
venomous spiders and snakes in the house so Harold resorts to hiding them
in a secret place. Unable to find them, George murders Harold by throwing him
out of the window then taking Harold’s bed—which turns out to be the hiding
place of the deadly critters!


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Fear’s the Way He Dies!
Ant-Man,
stuck in his miniature form, is trying to return home when he is attacked by a
goshawk in search of prey. He climbs inside a filthy soda can but the bird
tries to pry him out; Hank removes his shirt and ties it around the bird’s beak
and escapes while the goshawk struggles with it. Trying to cross a small stream
via a fishing line, he is snatched by the predator and carried away, far from
his dog Orkie. He removes a long straight bit of metal from his helmet and
stabs the bird in the claw, causing it to drop him in the stream. He comes
ashore in a junkyard where he hears angry voices. It is his archenemy Egghead
trying to force his niece to do his bidding. Hank calls to the villain,
distracting him enough for the girl to kick him and run. Egghead pursues but he
is tripped up by the tiny hero. The baddie has a gun and starts shooting at
Ant-Man but he is distracted long enough for his niece to bash him in the head
with a club. Ant-Man and the girl, Trixie Starr, hide out in the nearby woods.
She explains how her uncle wants to use her as a guinea pig for an experiment;
Ant-Man tells her how he is trapped in his smallest size and fears he will
never grow again. Trixie sews him a tiny new outfit, complete with helmet, a
nail for a sword, and a coil of wire….
But Egghead
sends out his search-and-capture robots. They locate their quarry, one robot
seizing Trixie with metal tentacles, the other unleashing a powerful vacuum to
suck Ant-Man in. But Hank uses a metal spoon to block the intake and escape. As
the vehicle drives away, Ant-Man leaps aboard and enters via a vent. But it’s a
trap, the chamber sealing and filling with his own growth formula; Hank hurls
his helmet at the wall and discovers it is electrified, exposing Egghead’s plot
to make him enlarge until he is electrocuted. But Egghead doesn’t know the
enlarging gas no longer works. So, Egghead finds the helmet and rejoices in the
assumed death of his enemy….
The vehicle
then folds out into a sophisticated scientific device called the Hypno-Kon,
which is intended to drain the weakened Trixie’s strong intellect to power
Egghead’s own brain. Ant-Man crawls into the works and sabotages the wiring so
that when the villain switches it on, the device shorts out, causing a fire.
Hank hustles Trixie out just before the vehicle explodes. She mourns for the
loss of her uncle, a nice man before his intellect cancered within him, turning
him to crime….
Hank and
Trixie ride the bus away, while she tells him that she was a child prodigy who
ran away because of all the demands placed on her, until her uncle tried to use
her in a scheme to take over the country. When they get to Hank’s home, they
part ways. Hank walks in the door and the first thing he sees is his wife
Jan—the Wasp—unconscious on the floor of the wrecked laboratory….


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Cry, Monster
Frustrated by the prospect of another scheme by Mr. Fantastic to cure him, the Thing is unaware that he is being watched by an old nemesis, Kurrgo, Master of Planet X. Kurrgo has captured the paralyzed Leader and they agree to settle their dispute with a fight between their chosen champions: Thing and Hulk. Things is snatched from home and dropped into a western ghost town by the Leader, who persuades Thing to battle the Hulk by revealing a bomb set to destroy Earth in thirty minutes if he doesn't comply. Hulk appears and the two titans fight, with the Thing holding his own (thanks to strength enhancement by Kurrgo). Things search for the bomb is complicated by the fact that the enraged Hulk does not comprehend the situation. Thing locates the bomb and discovers its a fake. The opponents are taken into Kurrgos ship via a tractor beam. When the Leader discovers Kurrgos cheating, he declares himself the winner. An angry Kurrgo orders his robot to destroy the heroes but they just punch him across the room damaging the ship. As the ship is about to explode, Hulk and Thing escape to the ground leaving the villains behind to their fate. Hulk leaps away into the distance and Thing has a looong walk home.


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“…the Killer is My Wife!
Ant-Man
(Hank Pym) is pursued through a garden by his wife the Wasp, mutated into a
killer wasp creature. Suddenly she convulses and he seizes the opportunity to
use a popsicle stick as a springboard, leaping into a tree…
…where he
finds himself face-to-face with a vicious rat. Hank prepares for a violent
battle—and then Jan stings the rat from behind. Hank fights her off then swings
through the shrubs and comes upon his missing helmet…and then he is stung by
Jan. He is able to snatch up his helmet and summon soldier ants to fight Wasp
while he escapes. She defeats the ants and pursues him to the point of a tiny
promontory where he is trapped….
Elsewhere,
Hank’s assistant Bill Foster confronts Jan’s lawyer Blackburn and chauffeur
Charles Matthews who is secretly Dave “Whirlwind” Cannon. Bill accuses them of
being mixed up in the recent deaths of Hank and Janet, hoping to get their
hands on her fortune. They blow him off, with “Matthews” acting smug….
Bill meets
with Iron Man at the burned-out lab site. Shellhead informs him that the
Avengers have closed the file, determining that Hank and Janet are dead. But
just in case…Iron Man uses the electro-scanner created by Hank Pym and finds no
traces of them in the wreckage, which he interprets as proof they were consumed
in the fire. Bill prefers to see it as their having escaped somehow….
Cornered by
the killer Wasp, Ant-Man turns the power on Jan to see what happens—and she
returns to normal. After recapping the problem, Jan fears she will go killer
wasp again but Hank comforts her. They head for a house trailer nearby only to
be attacked by a cat. Jan mutates into a version of the monster wasp again and
fights the cat. Hank summons ants to swarm over the cat while he tends to the
injured Jan. Then the trailer’s occupant steps out and retrieves his cat—and
Hank and Jan. Hank is startled to see the man dressed in supervillain garb and
calling himself Doctor Nemesis and he says he has plans for them….


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The Bite of the Blood Brothers!
Ben Grimm, the Thing, stranded in the Southwestern desert at the end of last issue, is walking back to civilization when Iron Man flies overhead. Shellhead can’t stop for him as he is on his way to the ruined base where he first met Thanos (in IRON MAN #55) to see if he can find a way to defeat the alien conqueror who has gained possession of the Cosmic Cube (CAPTAIN MARVEL #28-29). Arriving there, he is spotted by the Blood Brothers who contact Thanos for instructions, then attack Iron Man. The Golden Avenger has a rough time against the monstrous twins and zooms toward the exit—and collides with the Thing who has followed him there. The heroes recover and do battle with the vampiric brothers and teamwork enables them to defeat their foes. Thanos, watching from Titan, teleports his minions away to punish them for their failure. Iron Man, his power low, is unable to carry Ben back to civilization; he jets off, leaving Ben again stranded in the desert.


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?The Incredible Shrinking Doom!
Dr. Henry
Pym is working for Dr. Curt Connors, analyzing American Indian drugs for the US
government. He is assisted by college student Peter Parker the day the
Southampton lab explodes. As they are cleaning up, they receive a visit from a
gangster called Goldie (because of a prominent gold tooth) who informs them
that his buddies have kidnapped Dr. Connors’ son and are willing to trade him
for the drug samples being analyzed. He orders them to be at Eagleneck Point at
ten PM that evening. Peter starts to say something but stops, Hank sensing he
is holding back a secret. But Connors is at his lab in Florida so Hank and Pete
visit Martha Connors and tell her about Billy’s being kidnapped. She makes Hank
promise not to tell Curt. At Pete’s suggestion, Hank becomes Ant-Man and rides
his dog Orkie to the rendezvous while Pete takes the car and stalls the bad
guys. When Ant-Man arrives, he has his ants attack the crooks while Pete throws
punches (and Hank can tell he’s holding back). But the gang boss M’Sieu Tete
forces the heroes to surrender by holding a gun to Billy’s head and informing
them that the boy has been injected with a fatal disease and will die without
the antidote. The heroes are taken to the bad guys’ hideout inside a mountain
where Hank and Pete are taken to a sophisticated lab. But Tete is then told
that Billy has escaped. Pete suggests that he be held hostage while Ant-Man
uses his powers to find the boy. Tete agrees but insists that Pete and Hank
also be injected with the poison (which Hank recognizes from the label as a
deadlier strain of rabies) to ensure their cooperation; without the antidote,
they will die in four hours….
Outside,
Ant-Man shrinks down and rides on Orkie’s back as the dog sniffs out the boy’s
trail. It leads to a construction site where Hank finds Billy at the bottom of
a shaft. He tries to enlarge but discovers he can’t, deciding the rabies
injection must have interacted with his growth formula. His immediate reaction
is panic but he soon recovers and, at his tiny size, he is able to tie a rope
around Billy and attach the other end to Orkie and let the dog pull him to the
surface. He manages to put the boy in a nearby pickup truck (unseen) and drive
it, the dog working the pedals while Hank steers, back to the hideout….
Meanwhile,
Peter Parker, ignored by the crooks, breaks his bonds, changes into Spider-Man
and clobbers the bad guys, claiming to have been trailing them, to throw suspicion
off Peter. M’Sieu Tete flees the lair with the antidotes where Ant-Man is just
arriving in the truck. A sharp turn hurls the tiny hero out of the truck and
Tete is about to step on him, Ant-Man raises a long rusty nail and the villain
steps on it, halting his flight. Spidey dashes back inside to return to his
Parker identity and be “rescued” by Ant-Man. Pete gives Billy the antidote and
takes it himself but Hank declines, asking Pete to take Billy to the hospital.
After they are gone, Hank takes the antidote, neutralizing the poison but he
still can’t grow….
Characters:
Ant-Man (HP), Spider-Man. Doctor Nemesis


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Prelude to Disaster!
A chemical
reaction within her causes Wasp to mutate into a human-wasp hybrid intent on
killing Ant-Man. Hank flees from her through the underbrush when he falls into
a tiny ravine and is knocked on the head causing his mind to range back over
his first meeting with Janet Van Dyne and her origin as the wonderful Wasp…
And here we
have the relevant pages of the classic TALES TO ASTONISH #44 reprinted….
Back to the
present: Hank mentally reviews his and Jan’s subsequent history together.
Coming back to full consciousness, he finds he is again under attack from
Wasp….


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Silver Surfer: Homecoming
Silver Surfer is wandering through space on his Cosmic Surfboard when he gets a brief mental distress call from Shalla Bal, his ex-lover and now Empress of his homeworld Zenn-La. He races there at his top speed (which his presumably Warp Factor something or other) and gets there 2 days later. A female in a spaceship watches him approach and gets her ship's computer to give her (and us) a potted bio:-Norrin Radd agreed to become Herald Of Galactus to save Zenn-La from Big G's appetite. Galactus transformed him into the Surfer and gave him the surfboard and the Power Cosmic. In return SS searched out suitable planets for G to consume. (As revealed in SS v1#1.) A century later he rebelled to help save Earth from his master, and Surfer was left trapped on the planet (Fantastic Four #48-50). He later escaped (SS(1987)#1) and since then has roamed space involving himself with things like a Kree/Srull War (not the 1 back in Avengers #89-97) and the recent Thanos events.Now Norrin arrives home to find his planet gone and only a scientific research satellite remaining. The scientists tell him that the planet just disappeared, and a giant brain, apparently with eyes, appeared temporarily in its place. Then the mystery female joins them. It's Moondragon who Surfer knows is a member of the Infinity Watch personally guarding the Mind Gem. She tells him that the planet has been abducted by a psychic entity. SS can detect no physical trail but MD says she can follow him mentally. So they fly off on Surfer's Board and Moondragon guides him to their quarry. Then SS abandons her on an asteroid and goes to confront the huge (but still sub-planet-size) brain alone.Norrin Radd demands and threatens but the brain, seemingly with eyes closed, ignores him. So Surfer tries a low-power blast which is repulsed by a forcefield. He ups his output but to no avail and returns to Moondragon who has been scanning the foe from the lotus position. She claims that the forcefield is an automatic defence and the brain hasn't even noticed him. It's in a deep alpha rhythm dream state in which it has also been ignoring her attempts at telepathic communication. Zenn-La has been disassembled and now exists as a dream-thought within the entity's mind. Moondragon persuades Norrin to let her project his psyche into the dream-universe.After some disoriention the Surfer finds himself amongst a collection of worlds the entity has gathered, and quickly locates Zenn-La and Shalla Bal. After a passionate reunion she explains how the Great One appeared to the Zenn-Lavians (as a large brain) and told them that he had removed them from their perilous position between the Kree and Skrull empires. They could stay safely here within him but only if they wish it. They took a vote and almost unanimously agreed to accept his offer. Shalla also tells him that as thought patterns they are now ageless and immortal.She also points out that previously it was only Surfer's power that kept the Kree and Skrulls at bay. But also for diplomatic reasons he had to stay away from Zenn-La while she remained as its Empress. However now if he stays too then nothing can keep them apart. And their passionate reunion intensifies. Later Norrin mentally contacts Moondragon to check that he *can* actually stay within the entity, and she agrees to leave the asteroid with his body on within the entity's gravitational pull. So Surfer agrees to stay.We see a montage of happy moments for the couple. Then as they sit beside a woodland pool Silver Surfer experiments and discovers that here he can will himself back to his Norrin Radd form, and so their happiness is complete.But then all the Zenn-Lavians sense that the Great One is coming to pay them a visit. But Norrin finds that he doesn't feel it. A banquet is prepared and the Great One manifests as an oversize Zenn-Lavian. Everything's going swimmingly until Shalla Ball introduces Norrin Radd to him. It is only then that the Great One notices this invader from outside. He grows bigger and attacks Norrin who shifts back to Silver Surfer in defence.To protect Zenn-La Surfer takes the fight into space. Ignoring Shalla's pleas that Norrin is not a threat the Great One follows him and they battle. SS tries to find out what angers the other, but the GO won't talk to him except to threaten him. Surfer fights back defensively but during their battle a moon or 2 are destroyed. And then the Great One seems to have a heart attack and falls back to Zenn-La.Surfer follows him, still asking the dying god why he attacked. He replies that this 'universe' is his mind, and that moon SS destroyed was part of it. Only an outsider could wreak such destruction and that is killing him. Norrin says that if this had been explained he would have allowed the Great One to assimilate him as he did the others. And if that wasn't possible he would have left for Zenn-La's sake. The god admits that he just panicked in fright.SS takes the GO to the Zenn-Lavians for medical help but it's useless, even though he's still breathing and his heart's beating he's in a coma. Then Moondragon beams in telepathically to tell them that when he dies this 'universe' and everyone in it will die too. But she has a plan to get all the planets and their inhabitants back to their original places in reality using the power of the comatose mind itself. She and SS will need to work from the physical universe, but Moondragon needs a conscious mind to stay inside the Great One to act as a conduit to link her to it. Over Norrin's objections Shalla volunteers. Moondragon points out that Shalla Bal need only stay until all the planets have been moved out. Then she can send Surfer in to retrieve his love. But in the meantime Moondragon encloses her in a protective sphere.Moondragon extracts Silver Surfer back to his body. They and the giant brain are orbiting a red giant star. She wants SS to absorb power from the star and fire it into the Mind Gem on her forehead. She shrugs off the possibility of brain damage and gets him to feed more and more power into her mind so that she can contact and take over the Great One. At last at the limit of her endurance she succeeds and the planets are expelled all back to their own orbits.Somehow the duo are transported to Zenn-La back by its own sun. Heather Douglas has a mighty headache but she summons enough power to send Surfer back into the brainiverse. He finds the black space dissolving into whiteness. But he's materialised next to the protective sphere. Moondragon telepathically tells him to reach in and pull Shalla out. He sticks his head and arm in and the lovers stretch to touch fingers. But just then the Great One's heart fails and the 'universe' goes completely white.Surfer is back in reality without Shalla Bal. Moondragon had just managed to pull him out without her. As Norrin Radd sinks in grief the Zenn-Lavians rush up and accuse him of killing the Great One and their Empress, and destroying their utopia. SS flees from the angry mob on his board. Moondragon berates them for ingratitude. It was the Great One's unfounded fear that caused the disaster. And Surfer saved them all from extinction but lost his love in the process.


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Emperor Doom
On the island of Papeete in French Polynesia, Zebediah Killgrave, the Purple Man, lives the good life, using his powers of persuasion to turn the local rulers into his servants. His idyll is interrupted by a mysterious visitor who proves immune to the Purple Man’s powers and he snatches up the villain for use in a scheme of his own….
Manhattan: a disguised Sub-Mariner walks the rainy streets on his way to a meeting at the exclusive Four Seasons restaurant. Entering the dining room, his coat and hat are burned off by an energy blast from his host—Doctor Doom. Namor came because Doom mentioned a plan to free the Atlanteans from the tyranny of the surface-dwellers. Doom points out that no one in the crowded establishment paid any attention to the power blast—and reveals why. He wields a Psycho-Prism, powered by a single hair from the Purple Man, which gives him the ability to control the minds of others. He is now constructing a mammoth version of the Psycho-Prism which will enable him to rule the world. But there are three beings whose artificial nature means the Psycho-Prism has no effect on them; this is where Namor comes in. In exchange for attaching special discs to those three to make them susceptible to the Prism’s influence, Doom offers Namor rule of the oceans. Namor agrees….
In Hollywood, the "King of the Stuntmen" Simon Williams is being blown up for a World War I picture; when shooting ends for the day he heads to the West Coast Avengers’ compound as Wonder Man. There, Tony Stark has set up an experiment Simon has agreed to: in order to study the energy that makes up his body, Wonder Man will spend thirty days locked in a chemical bath inside a sensory deprivation tank. Despite his misgivings, he goes ahead with the deal—after all, as Tony says, what can happen in a month…?
Meanwhile, at Avengers Mansion in New York, Jarvis informs the Vision that he has a visitor—the Sub-Mariner, who has used the small Psycho-Prism to gain entry so he can attach Dr. Doom’s refractory disc on the android’s body. When Vision naturally resists, Namor, has the mind-controlled Starfox threaten to decapitate Scarlet Witch unless Vision submits. Seeing his beloved in danger, the android allows the disc to be placed on his body and the Psycho-Prism takes over his mind. Namor orders them to erase the record of the visit from the filmed record; one down…. The second target is Machine Man, who turns out to be easy: Namor merely commands his mechanic Gears Garvin to place the disc on him during repairs. Two down…. The third is Ultron, who is easily beaten and controlled by the stronger Namor. All three "problem" subject have now been dealt with….
Doctor Doom, meanwhile, visits his private island where he observes the progress on the giant Psycho-Prism with the Purple Man trapped at its center. The imprisoned villain shouts defiance; Doom approaches and removes his mask, standing face to face with the Purple Man, demonstrating that his will is so strong that Killgrave’s hypnotic powers are useless against Doom….
The West Coast Avengers are aware, however, of the happenings in new York since all records entered into the Avengers computers are accessible from both coasts. Investigation of a comment made by Namor on the tape leads them to Doom Island where they attack in force. Doom is surprised but his defense system and cadre of guards are prepared for the invading heroes. The Avengers take them on, until suddenly Doom orders his guards to allow the heroes to enter his stronghold. They find the villain in his control room where he permits them to witness his grand triumph—he activates the giant Psycho-Prism…and in a flash, the Avengers are confused by why they are there. Doom orders them to leave; they apologize for bothering him and meekly comply….
Two days later, Doctor Doom addresses assembled world leaders at the United Nations building in New York. He proposes himself for the position of Emperor of the Earth, and the leaders vote unanimously to give him the throne. Sub-Mariner approaches Doom about their bargain; Doom reneges and reveals that the small Psycho-Prism can control Namor’s mind—bringing the last strong-willed being under his command. The new emperor quickly uses his absolute authority to end wars, famine, injustice, crime, economic troubles, etc….
At the end of the thirty-day experiment, Wonder Man emerges from his deprivation chamber and wonders where Tony Stark is. He finds the industrialist busy converting the space shuttle into the Emperor’s private transport. Captain America and Wasp are redecorating the compound for the Emperor’s visit and Tigra is doing a charity benefit since there is no crime to fight anymore. A confused Simon turns on the TV and sees Doctor Doom being honored in New York; he warns the others—and to his horror they contact Doom and notify him that Wonder Man is a rebel (the Psycho-Prism has no effect on his artificial body) and try to capture him. Wonder Man manages to fight his way to freedom past his comrades and make it to a city—where the loyalist populace, warned of a traitor, mobs him. He vanishes into the sewers and makes his way to the movie studio where he dons an elaborate disguise to blend in. On the run, the depressed Simon has a talk with a blind woman who advises him to use what talents he has for the good of society; Wonder Man realizes he possesses one thing no one else in the world has: awareness, and with a new determination, he heads back for civilization. He researches the Avengers’ tapes of the incident and a close-up of the Psycho-Prism reveals the participation of the Purple Man. Reasoning he can snap his teammates out of their spells, he challenges Captain America to a fight, gets him in a headlock, and forces him to view films of the avengers’ earlier battles with Doctor Doom. The trauma forces Cap back to normal; Cap then conceives a plan to do the same to Iron Man, Wasp, and Hawkeye under the guise of testing a new educational computer, which likewise does the job. With this core team, Cap and Wonder Man are ready to take on Doom—but there is one snag: Hawkeye tries to rescue his wife Mockingbird but she resists and warns Doom of the new situation, ruining their chance at surprise. They assault Doom Island anyway, fighting their way past Doom’s tanks and robot army. The Emperor orders Namor to guard the Psycho-Prism with his life; Wasp enters the chamber and uses her sting to destroy the mini-prism around Namor’s neck but this does not release him from Doom’s control. She then shatters the glass wall, letting the sea pour in; Namor, his full power restored, is enraged at how he has been used. Watching from a scanner elsewhere, Doom allows his finger to hover over a button that will release nerve gas into the Psycho-Prism chamber, but, having grown increasingly bored with rule, he relents. Namor destroys the Psycho-Prism, apparently killing the Purple Man. With the destruction of the Psycho-Prism, the world returns to its miserable normal state. Doom escapes, a bitter Namor heads for the sea, and the Avengers are left to debate the morality of their act. Hawkeye concludes, "We’ve done mankind the greatest favor in history—or we’ve done it the greatest damage. And either way, that’s something we’re going to have to live with—for the rest of our lives."


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The Sensational She-Hulk
The shadowy people who give SHIELD their orders pressure
Nick Fury into taking action against She-Hulk, citing the threats caused by her
cousin, the Hulk. Fury balks, citing Reed Richards’ obvious approval of her to
join the Fantastic Four. The powers wave that away, telling him that this order
comes from the Commander in Chief himself. Fury decides to take a vacation
rather than deal with this….
Jennifer “She-Hulk” Walters is relaxing at home when her
boyfriend, Wyatt Wingfoot, arrives. Jen explains she is distracted, thinking
about her late cousin Bruce Banner as the next day was his birthday (Hulk/Bruce
is wrongly believed to be dead at this time). He comforts her by reminding her
that without the Hulk, she would never have become She-Hulk and they would not
have gotten together. They make plans to go out that evening but first, they
head for the bedroom….
Dum Dum Dugan supervises the surveillance of She-Hulk though
he does not like it any more than Nick Fury did….
They get ready to go out and Jen is dressed in an
abbreviated version of white tie and tails, exposing a lot of green flesh. She
defends it by saying that as people are going to be staring anyway, she might
as well be comfortable. They take a cab to the East Village and Jen explains
she has always preferred being She-Hulk because of the excitement. Near the
theater, three SHIELD Mandroids teleport in and announce that Shulkie is under
arrest. She fights them, with Wyatt and some passers-by trying to help but not
doing much. Jen is shot with a Neuro-Stunner and halts it by hitting the
Mandroid with a car. The lead Mandroid contacts base to request an emergency
pull-out full quadrant teleportation. And so She-Hulk, Wyatt, and several
civilians finds themselves in a SHIELD base with the Mandroids. She clobbers
the Mandroids and tries to lead the civilians to safety, tearing a massive hole
in a wall leading to a maintenance tunnel. The agents spray gas in the tunnel,
taking down the civilians so Jen makes another exit, where she and Wyatt find
an airfield. When they finally get a look outside, they discover they are
aboard the Helicarrier, with nowhere else to go. So they surrender to an armed
party of agents, led by Agent Roger Dooley; Dooley orders Jen to strip, threatening
Wyatt with death when she balks. So Jen removes all of her clothing, denouncing
SHIELD as a bunch of bad guys. Dum Dum Dugan arrives and is shocked; he rebukes
Dooley, reminding him that strip searches are to be carried out in private by
an Agent of the same sex as the prisoner. Dooley is unrepentant. Dugan orders
Dooley away but the agent mutters threats about his friends in high places….
Jen is given a smock and Dugan speaks to her and Wyatt in
his office, apologizing for the incident. Dugan also explains that some
higher-ups think she poses a threat and he is confused about what SHIELD is
turning into. And then he gets a call telling him he is being reassigned to
Washington and Agent Dooley is now in charge at the Helicarrier until Nick Fury
returns. Dooley has Wyatt locked up and escorts Jen to a lab where she is
subjected to a thorough and invasive examination by an apologetic Sidney “Gaffer”
Levine. She is all wrung out when she is put in a cell with Wyatt. When she has
recovered a bit, she asks about the cell. The bars are adamantium and there is
a weight-sensitive alarm system which releases cyanide gas should the weight in
the cage vary even a little. So Jen has Wyatt press the equivalent of her wight
in the floor while she transforms back into normal Jennifer Walters and slips
out between the bars and shuts off the weight alarm. She walks through the
halls trying to find a way out but her lack of footwear is noticed and an alarm
is sounded. Agent Dooley responds but he is seized by an elderly homeless man
who was one of the civilians brought aboard with Jen and Wyatt; he sucks the
life out of Dooley then replaces it with its own consciousness, manipulating
Dooley’s corpse into leading them to the ship’s central control room. Jen has
found her way to Dooley’s office and when he leaves (undead, remember) she
enters as She-Hulk and finds the recording Dooley made of her examination and
destroys the tape. And then the Helicarrier flips on its side, the possessed
Dooley having cut half the rotors though everyone assumes it was She-Hulk who
did it…..
With carrier tilted, two jet aircraft slide off, one
crashing to the ground on top of a donut shop. With the other one, the pilot
manages to land the jet on its tail but it topples over and explodes. Back in
the carrier, Jen discovers the corpse of the homeless man, looking like it has
been dead for a century. An Agent arrives and shoots Jen before another Agent
can explain that it’s Dooley who is the bad guy. Good thing Jen is largely
bulletproof. They go to the control room where Dooley has locked himself
inside. Jen is told by Sidney Levine that the door is booby trapped against
forced entry. So Jen goes outside and walks along the upended side of the ship
and breaks in through a window. She is seized by Dooley which thinks she would
be a much better host for them. Jen slams him against a wall which causes him
to burst open, releasing hundreds of sentient cockroaches. Agents try to
restart the engines and the ship explodes, plummeting to the Earth. The Agents
escape in their pods but Shulkie wants to rescue Wyatt. Levine orders the
lifters on the other side cut, hoping the gyroscopes right the carrier’s
position. They do that and the Helicarrier crash lands on its bottom in the
desert. Jen emerges with a battered Wyatt. Levine explains the bad part: the carrier’s
atomic pile is about to explode in twenty minutes. Only She-Hulk can shut it
down as she is the one with the most likely chance of surviving the extreme
radiation. She makes her way through the ship and she is swarmed by the
roaches, which she does not like…. Minutes later, she emerges, having shut off
the reactor but covered with the detritus of dead bugs….
Epilogue 1: Jen is checked out by Reed Richards who wishes
he had specimens of the sentient cockroaches for study. Then he reveals the bad
news: because of her exposure to the radiation, she can no longer transform
back into Jennifer Walters. She responds, “So what’s the bad news…?”
Epilogue 2: Jen and Wyatt talk and she explains that she
much enjoys being She-Hulk so she won’t miss never becoming normal again. One
thing does worry her: how did the sentient roaches know what SHIELD was
planning?


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Revenge of the Living Monolith
Growing up in the suburbs of Cairo, Ahmet Abdol endured much harassment for his desires to be like one of the Pharaohs. As he grew up, his studies in history and genealogy led him to the discovery that he was indeed descended from the ancient rulers of Egypt. As an adult he married his childhood sweetheart Filene and they had a daughter Salome and he took a position as a college professor. Trouble came when he revealed his theory that the ancient Pharaohs were mutants; he was mobbed for his blasphemy. In trying to escape he crashed the car, killing Filene. Enraged at the hostile crowd who refused to help save her, he lashed out, unleashing his own destructive mutant powers. Approached by a cult, he became the Living Pharaoh and sought his destiny as a god on Earth. This led to a conflict with the X-Men and defeat….
Today, Abdol is a convict in prison, his guard being Hassan, his childhood bully. With patience, Abdol has been burning through the electronic shackles that suppressed his power. Now he is free and he summons his followers who rescue him from jail and they take Hassan along as prisoner to witness the triumphs of the Living Pharaoh he had mocked, as he reassembles his cult and prepares to conquer the world….
In New York, a woman is attacked by Egyptians in front of the Baxter Building and is rescued by the Human Torch, who takes her inside to relate her story to the rest of the Fantastic Four. She explains that she is Fayah Sahid, a former follower of Ahmet Abdol, who broke away when she discovered that his plans including brainwashing the world with a mind control device; she escaped and brought a key component of the machine to Reed. It’s all a ruse however: once several aircraft are in position, Fayah activates a device which creates a pyramid-shaped field within the lab which teleports Reed, Sue and, Johnny to the Lair of the Living Pharaoh. They battle the villain’s minions but he absorbs their cosmic power into a weapon which he uses to defeat them. He is then informed that Fayah Sahid has been captured by She-Hulk at the Baxter Building; Abdol is shocked to discover that Fayah is his daughter Salome, who joined his cult under an assumed name. Normally he would press the button which eliminates a failed minion but she is his daughter… The immobile Hassan mocks him as a wimp so in an act of madness he triggers the device which electrocutes Salome and returns to his headquarters where, driven by madness and grief he drains the power of the Fantastic Four and channels it into his own body, growing into the massive Living Monolith. He announces his first act will be one of revenge for his daughter’s death: destroying New York City….
With the Fantastic Four missing, She-Hulk contacts the Avengers and explains the situation to Captain America. But all the other team members are in California visiting their West Coast counterparts so Cap insists on investigating before any plans are made. In need of a scientist, Cap calls in Spider-Man (via Peter Parker at the Daily Bugle). At the Baxter Building, Spidey gets to work and manages to recreate Abdol’s teleportation device. He volunteers to test it and find the Fantastic Four but Cap stops him, insisting that the much stronger She-Hulk be the one to walk into danger. Meanwhile, the Living Monolith has arrived by plane in New York and is going on a rampage through the city as he continues to grow. When word reaches the Baxter Building, the heroes postpone their expedition to find the FF and rush to the disaster scene. Only Shulkie has the strength to cause the giant Pharaoh pain and Cap is busy rescuing bystanders, so Spidey, feeling out of his class, heads back to the Baxter Building and teleports to Abdol’s Cairo headquarters. There, he defeat the guards and discovers the FF hooked into the cosmic ray device. A technician warns him that if the nuclear reactors are shut down, the result will be a holocaust that will devastate the complex and the city above….
In New York, the Living Monolith is suddenly halted by the sight of a school, reminding him of his happier days with Filene. Cap takes the opportunity to remind him that this violence is not solving anything, that he is merely killing others as his own family was slain. Just as the villain is almost convinced, the military arrives and opens fire. Convinced that Cap was merely trying to trick him, the Monolith continues his destruction as he withstands air attacks from the USAF. A damaged electric cable gives Cap an idea: he has She-Hulk press the broken end of the cable against the giant’s ankle just as Con Ed turns the power up all the way. The Living Monolith falls to the ground and does not rise….
Spider-Man then arrives with the three rescued FF members. He explains how he turned up the nuclear reactors so that they burned themselves out, saving Cairo. It is then that they discover the Living Monolith is still growing, at a rate at which he will soon cause Manhattan to sink, due to his increased ability to absorb cosmic energy directly. Cap calls in the rest of the Avengers and they try to find a way to move the giant before he gets much larger. All attempts to raise him fail…just as his army of followers attacks the assembled heroes. The fallen Pharaoh is confused that ordinary citizens are willing to sacrifice their lives to aid the heroes; Cap gives him a talk on how people are much better than the embittered villain gave them credit for. Shocked, he calls on his minions to stop and exerts his strength to aid Thor who tries to pull him into space with the power of Mjolnir. This time it works and the massive megalomaniac is sent out of Earth’s orbit as the hammer returns to the Thunder God.
Epilogue: As the emergency teams deal with the fallout of the attack, Cap worries over how he made the decision to kill the enemy if need be and Spidey has learned a lesson that there are some things he just can’t handle.
Post Epilogue: Floating in space, Ahmet Abdol is pulled into orbit around a distant star. The alien sun causes vegetation to sprout on his body, turning the Living Pharaoh into a Living Planet….


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Transforme (One of Four)
In Paris, a young woman named Dyane sees a man floating in
the Seine; she recognizes him from having seen him on the Metro, looking
distressed. Now she pulls him out, seeing that he has a gunshot wound. The next
day, the man wakes up in the attic of Dyane’s uncle George who resents this man
being in his home. The man confesses he doesn’t know what city he is in or even
his own name. She takes him to the Seine to jar his memory but it doesn’t; he’s
clearly an America and she calls him “Gavroche” and he has a nagging feeling
that there is something worrisome about him—a big green monster we all
recognize….
Two sinister men visit George’s gallery and once they have
confirmed that his niece Dyane is with the mystery man, they kill him and head
out looking for the couple. They locate Bruce Banner in a bar and try to seize him
but, unable to transform into Hulk, he swipes one of their guns and shoots an
agent before fleeing. The agents contact their superior, Nikoleta Harrow, and
she approves use of the serum. The agents inject themselves with a chemical
that transforms them into giant versions of the Hulk and they pursue Bruce
through the Paris streets. Bruce fires at them but the bullets have no effect.
He runs down to the metro and boards a train, belatedly realizing he has doomed
everyone there. The hulk-agents tear up the train, hurling the car with Bruce
hundreds of yards to crash down in a city square. Harrow has been watching via
televisor and gloats that, as a splinter group of A.I.M., they have surpassed
their parent organization. She gives the order and the two hulk-agents,
clutching Bruce Banner, explode like a pair of Gamma bombs….


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Transforme (Four of Four)
A vision of all superheroes dead at the hands of the Hulk….
At Gamma Base, Bruce Banner recalls how he and
Nikoleta Harrow met: he was kidnapped on her orders and taken to their satellite lab
where his DNA was harvested and, when Hulk went mad, he was ejected and fell to
Earth. Harrow explains that she has again lured A.I.M., led by MODOK on a
mission to destroy her, into a trap. She reveals she has created a gamma bomb
of her own and detonates it, destroying much of the A.I.M. army. The building
collapses on Bruce, forcing a change into the giant Hulk and he battles the
remaining enemies. Harrow injects herself with her serum and becomes a giant
female Hulk. She fights and defeats Hulk, all to demonstrate to MODOK she could
succeed where they failed: controlling Hulk. Then Hulk assaults her and, as the
serum causes her body to break down, she asks how Banner contained the Hulk.
She explodes, leaving Banner to answer the question, that it’s not about
control, it’s that Hulk is the strongest there is. A SHIELD team arrives, led
by Agent Molly Fitzgerald, and takes him into custody….
We see Doctor Doom and Doctor Midas at a chessboard,
indicating that what we have seen was merely part of a game between them, and
Doom has won….
Banner broods over all the deaths caused by Harrow and Hulk.
He mentions Dyane who was nice to him; learning she survived, Bruce goes to
Paris, apologizes to her in French, and departs….


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Transforme (Three of Four)
A vision of Hulk destroying the world….
Nikoleta Harrow recalls her early history. Known as Project:
Miru, she was created by A.I.M. to be the perfect assassin, the mix of DNA of
Dr. Jonas Harrow and his wife Gail, but she would not be controlled. A.I.M.
head MODOK quarreled via viewscreen with Doctor Midas who was paying for a
deadly agent; Doctor Doom sat in on the meeting, partner to Midas. Midas told
MODOK to destroy Nikoleta and they would take their business elsewhere. Then
Nikoleta escaped from her cell, killed everyone in the lab, and fled….
And now Nikoleta Harrow watches in satisfaction as the giant,
mad Hulk destroys the forces A.I.M. has sent against her. As it now obeys her
commands, she sees no need for Doctor Mantlo and kills him. She calls him off
the attack and takes him away….
Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is trapped in a fever dream: Here, he
managed to make it into the ditch with Rick Jones so he was never the Hulk. But
exposure to a lower level of radiation gave him improved health, so on
government orders, he and his wife Betty were kept prisoners in a house
surrounded by high walls and high security on a military base. Brooding over
his complicity in creating a weapon responsible for the deaths of multitudes, after
Betty’s death from gamma poisoning, he tried to escape and, again on government
orders, he was shot down by guards….
This hallucination triggers Hulk’s transformation back into
Bruce Banner and he regains his lost memories. He is in a craft with Nikoleta
Harrow and she shows him where they are going: the desert base where Hulk was
created….


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Transforme (Two of Four)
SHIELD Agent Molly Fitzgerald arrives at the site of the
massive explosion that destroyed a large Paris square. She meets with Detective
Doinel and surveys the corpses of the two hulkified agents but her real
interest in in Bruce Banner, who survived. As they head to the hotel where
Bruce is being guarded, the building explodes and a sleek aircraft zooms away.
Fitzgerald contacts Maria Hill to report….
Nikoleta Harrow has Bruce Banner a prisoner board her ship,
which teleports to Pripyat, Ukraine. She wants Banner to transform into the
Hulk but he isn’t cooperating. The ship, unable to withstand the second jump,
breaks up. A giant robot reaches down picks up (literally, in one hand) Bruce
and Harrow, and carries them the rest of the way to her headquarters. There,
they are informed that A.I.M., which they have broken away from, are coming to
battle them. So, they try multiple methods of making Bruce angry thus forcing a
transformation into the Hulk but nothing works. They decide that if they can’t
break the Hulk they’ll destroy him. Bruce is bound and gagged and placed in a
sensory deprivation tank; he is injected with the baddies’ serum derived from
Hulk’s own DNA, which includes a drug to ensure loyalty to Harrow alone, mainly
hallucinogens, and the tank is sealed….
Within, Bruce has a fever dream of his origin which results
in the Hulk taking over and growing into a giant. Harrow and Dr. Mantlo,
wearing battle armor are amazed as Hulk starts smashing everything around but
when Nikoleta Harrow defies him, Hulk kneels before her. So, she dispatches him
to destroy the attacking A.I.M. forces….


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The Battle that Time Forgot
Eons ago, in the Valley of Flame, the peaceful Small Folk were oppressed by their savage neighbors, the Killer Folk, until one day a champion arose to protect them: a crimson T. Rex known as Devil Dinosaur. The Killer Folk flee from its savage jaws and peace settles on the primeval valley. The scene is observed by two members of the starfaring race known as the Celestials; One, Devron, is impressed that the Small folk have compensated for their disadvantages by this alliance with a more powerful denizen of the valley. The other, Gamiel, disapproves of this deviation from the expected pattern of development, so, as the Killer Folk pray for a deliverer, the reactionary alien provides one for them: the Hulk, plucked out of his timestream and plunked down in the valley. The Killer Folk, insisting that they wish only to be left alone, strike a responsive chord in the Hulk’s breast, and he agrees to become their champion. Hulk leads the savages to reclaim the valley and the battle between the behemoths green and red is on. Hulk clobbers Devil Dinosaur into unconsciousness but when Moon-Boy vows to give his life to protect his thunder lizard friend, Hulk relents, choosing to leave his foe alone, and preventing the Killer Folk from slaying it as well. Devron, observing Gamiel’s interference with the natural development of this world, is forced to intervene as well to correct the deviation. He does this by mutating the T. Rex into a massive monster, which attacks Jade Jaws. Realizing the release of energy will call attention to their misdeeds, the two Celestials teleport the monstrous antagonists up to their ship and cage them. Unfortunately for them, Hulk and Devil Dinosaur break out of the cage and lay waste to the ship, stopping only when Hulk breaches the bulkhead, sending the four into the airless reaches of outer space. The Celestials’ superiors intervene, sending Devil Dinosaur and Hulk back where they belong, and propose a less demanding assignment for the unseasoned pair: observing the first meeting of the Skrulls and the Kree. “After all, how much trouble could they possibly get into there?”


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Good Monsters!
Whatever happened to the giant monsters that once regularly terrorized major cities? Here we learn that the Collector keeps them in his secret museum. When the Mole Man attacks the Collector’s base, the monsters are inadvertently set free… Meanwhile, a derelict Bruce Banner arrives at the Baxter Building to seek the help of the Fantastic Four. The Thing, there alone monitoring Reed’s trip to the Negative Zone, admits Bruce and gives him a meal. While they are eating, news comes on the TV that giant monsters are rampaging through New York. Knowing that both the Avengers and the X-Men are unavailable, Thing recruits Bruce for the mission—by “doiking” his nose until the anger turns him into the Hulk. Thing tries to talk Hulk into fighting monsters, but Hulk reasonably points out they are monsters too. So Ben persuades his fellow “good monsters” to go clobber the “bad monsters” and they're off. After mixing up with their oversized opponents, Thing realizes they may be outnumbered. Luckily, Giant Man and the Beast arrive to join the fray. With some teamwork (Hulk firing Thing like a missile through the slimy Taboo; Giant Man wrestling Gargantus to the ground, etc.), the heroes defeat their massive foes. As Ben ponders what to do with their vanquished foes, Beast reveals that he has been in contact with Reed Richards, trapped in the Negative Zone, and together they have created a temporary entrance to the Zone. Hulk lifts the pile of unconscious monsters and tosses them into the Zone, as Reed pops through the other way, a bit miffed with Ben for forgetting about him. The Thing offers to treat Hulk to some six-foot party subs.


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Story 1 NYSE (framing story interpolated between the others)Writer Nick Spencer. Artist Luke Ross. Colours Lee Loughridge. Letters Clayton Cowles. Editors Tom Brevoort, Lauren Sankovitch, Jake Thomas.Head of SHIELD Maria Hill has pulled Nick Fury Jr and Phil Coulson from the Leviathan Operation for another job. A mystery man caused havoc in the New York Stock Exchange during the day by consistently making perfect choices and causing every other broker to follow his lead. SHIELD arrested him and learned that he's from 100 years in the future. And he insists on only talking to Fury, but Coulson joins the interrogation too. The man tells them that in general the USA is going to fall apart, and the problems aren't the ones SHIELD is currently worried about. In particular he mentions troubles from space.Story 2 Guardians Of The GalaxyWriter Brian Michael Bendis. Pencils Steve McNiven. Inks John Dell. Colours Justin Ponsor. Letters Cory Petit. Editors Stephen Wacker, Sana Amanat.This is an origin for Star-Lord set 25 years ago in Wisconsin. Young Peter Quill gets home from school and his single mom notices he's been fighting. He says he was defending a girl who was being picked on by a boy. She accepts his explanation and sends him in for dinner. But before she can shut the door lights appear from the woods and she thinks it's someone she's been long expecting. But it's 2 aliens (Badoon) who kill her with ray guns in the cause of eliminating the Spartoi bloodline. Peter sees them and runs to his mom's bedroom where he know she keeps a double-barrelled shotgun hidden on the top shelf in her closet. He kills the aliens but finds a strange handgun also in the closet. More lights appear and he runs out of the house with the gun as a spaceship destroys it behind him.Story 3 DiamondheadWriter Jeph Loeb. Pencils Ed McGuinness. Inks Dexter Vimes. Colours Marte Gracia. Letters Albert Deschesne. Editors Stephen Wacker, Sana Amanat.New Nova Sam Alexander is zooming across the skies of the US from New York, exhilarated because Thor asked him to be an Avenger. He's heading home to Arizona but as he crosses Monument Valley a guy with a jetpack rockets up and punches him in the face. This is the villain Diamondhead who expects Nova to recognise him. But on the other hand he believes all the Nova Corps are dead so who's this 1? They slam into a mesa and both survive (DH because of his diamond body, Sam because of his Nova helmet) but the jetpack doesn't. This may be a new Nova but DB still wants revenge for stuff. The newbie is losing the fight until the villain threatens to take the helmet, which is all that Sam has of his dad's. He emits a (temporarily) blinding flash and flies off, leaving DB to find his own way home.Story 1 continuedThe mystery man from the future comments on what Marvel are calling the (post Dark Reign/Siege) Heroic Age and how the heroes spend most of the time fighting each other. Outside the interrogation room Maria Hill is getting impatient for actual facts, and asks her SHIELD staff to bring her everything they've got on time-travellers. The man mentions just 1 actual prediction, the Ascendant (who will be a hero group in the Avengers World series as part of SPEAR, the Chinese equivalent of SHIELD, but not until 2014). But then he talks more generally about young heroes.Story 4 The new worldWriter Kieron Gillen. Artists James McKe;lvie, Mike Norton. Colours Matthew Wilson. Letters Clayton Cowles. Editors Lauren Sankovitch, Jake Thomas.America Chavez is on Earth-212 in flying to a Korean Barbecue restaurant in Manhattan to reluctantly meet Kid Loki, who tells her she needs to return to Earth-616. She refuses to explain why she doesn't like that Earth, nor why her Teen Brigade team there broke up. He shows her a vision of teen Billy Kaplan/Wiccan, 'son' of the Scarlet Witch and with a destiny she knows about, and he suggests that for the good of the multiverse Billy should be removed from it. Angry America commences beating him up but he escapes using Runic magik. She warns him that she'll be watching both him and the boy to make sure Loki doesn't harm him. And then she flies away. But Loki ticks her off on his list of prospective members of the Young Avengers (he's already added himself as a member), and he breaks the 4th wall to remind us that putting Avengers together is Loki's greatest hit.Story 5 It's artWriter Matt Fraction. Artist Michael Allred. Colours Laura Allred. Letters Clayton Cowles. Editors Tom Brevoort, Lauren Sankovitch, Jake Thomas.We start with a flashback to Scott Lang with his young daughter Cassie, trying to explain why Marcel Duchamp drawing a moustache and beard on a postcard of the Mona Lisa was art. Her response is to similarly decorate a photo of them both.Then we skip forward to the end of Avengers: Children's Crusade where teen Cassie as Stature of the Young Avengers has just rescued him from having been killed in Avengers Disassembled, but then she herself gets killed by Dr  Doom.And now as Ant-Man he's sneaking into an art show at the Latverian Embassy. He's mite-sized and clinging to an eyelash of pop star Darla Deering who's there with her boyfriend Human Torch. After fighting off some Demodex mites he enlarges himself a bit and exits the eye on his Micromag Rig which causes her some discomfort. But the Embassy's nanosecurity detects him and sends a horde of tiny hunter/killer drones after him, until he lures them into bored Johnny Storm's yawning mouth. The duo leave and Ant-Man shrinks down to microbe size and flies to do what he came for.Later we see police investigating the crime of a moustache and beard having been drawn on a self-portrait of Doom.Story 1 continuedCoulson and Fury are getting fed up with these seeming irrelevancies. The man says that even if he told them important stuff they wouldn't believe him. And anyway the disasters of their past were almost always obvious beforehand but still nobody tried to stop them. But he reminds them that there's at least 1 other man from the future around currently, with an eyepatch like Fury.Story 6 Crazy enoughWriter Dennis Hopeless. Artist Gabriel'Hernandez Walta. Colours David Curiel. Letters Joe Sabino. Editor Nick Lowe, Jordan White.Forge is digging his way through the ruins of his base on Wundagore Mountain, and literally talking to himself and telling himself he's not insane. Then he comes to a large machine made of a mixture of clockwork and other technologies. He's sure he never built it, but he's equally sure he can make it work. But that of course means 1st taking it apart. However the machine starts closing in on him as if trying to stop his interference. But fix it he does, and whatever it's meant to do it begins doing it. Then he hears a noise from behind some metal panels. Which burst letting out an enormous quantity of brain folds. He's not capable of fixing brains so he runs away past ever increasing amounts of brain matter to a big lever. He moves the lever and metal panels move to suppress the brainstuff.A voice greets him and tells him that the machine he 'fixed' was his own brain. This voice has an actual person to go with it, and it's a somewhat physically damaged Cable (as usual with an eye-patch and a big gun) asking if Forge can fix *him* now.Story 1 conclusionThe man from the future senses that the news about Forge and Cable has stirred the hornet's nest, and when he adds the word Kobik armed troops enter the room. But Fury and Coulson simultaneously call out to the listening Commander Hill that "It's not him, it's inside him". And a soldier shoots the man, and then another shoots *him*. It becomes difficult to tell who's shooting who and why, until Phil Coulson shoots 1 soldier and it all stops. Whatever was inside the man had been taking over the soldiers, leaping from 1 to the next. But Coulson had noticed pupil dilation as each takeover happened, and had killed the next man it happened to. Hill enters the room and Fury wants to know what Kobik is. She ignores the question and says his next mission will involve the Avengers Initiative.


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The Jack of Hearts!

Jack of Hearts flies through a heavy storm crossing Long Island Sound. He passes a
Coast Guard cutter on a search-and-rescue mission and can hear the captain
telling his mate that superheroes live in their own world and don’t have the
time for ordinary people. So Jack locates the capsized yacht and lights up to
guide the rescue ship to their location. On the ship, he lets the captain know
he heard what he said earlier and slips his calling card into the man’s pocket:
the Jack of Hearts….
He
arrives home at his New Haven, Connecticut, estate and is greeted by his new
butler, Martins, selected by SHIELD. He gives Martins some instructions,
including leaving untouched the room where his father was murdered. Martins has
had another batch of calling cards printed up, which causes Jack to have
flashbacks to his previous adventures, bringing the reader up to speed. He
informs Martins that the Zero Fluid has been absorbed into his every cell,
necessitating his wearing the elaborate armor to prevent destruction. Tony
Stark and SHIELD have devised the Neutro-Mist which renders him powerless for
an hour, permitting him to relax without his armor. But there’s nothing that
can be done about the radiation burns on his body which appear to be spreading.
Jack receives a letter informing him that the Corporation that had his father
dead can order his death as well, ending with a challenge from “Hemlock.” He
decides to go once his powers return…
At
his palatial home in Ithaca, New York, Jonathan Hemlock, a cultured fellow who
wears an all-black costume with mask, lectures his two henchmen on his plan to
take Jack of Hearts alive and so gain the secret of the Zero Fluid….
Jack
of Hearts arrives at Hemlock’s mansion and the villain greets him in his
garden, offering to purchase the Zero Fluid for his employers; Jack refuses so
Hemlock tosses him a gas bomb before attacking. Jack has trouble seeing in the fog-filled
room. Jack is assaulted by the baddie’s henchmen and easily defeats them. The
fight spills over into Hemlock’s greenhouse and he is angered that his beloved
plants are endangered. He sends out a trowel, which is actually a heart-seeking
missile. Jack flies away but leads the trowel back to blow up the prize
orchids. This drives Hemlock insane and he determines to kill Hemlock, against
the Corporation’s orders. The two engage in a brutal hand-to-hand fight which
ends when the villain uses a small hand blaster to knock out the hero. Hemlock
then tries to cut open Jack’s armor—and the sudden release of energy devastates
him. Jack awakens, surveys the situation, leaves his calling card, and goes
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The Spoon Job
A Hydra chemist has
developed a means of injecting poison that overcomes a victim’s healing
abilities so they try to test it on Wolverine. A gang of agents ambush Logan at
an outdoor market, shooting him full of holes. The chemist injects him but
Logan jumps up and cuts down the gun agents while the chemist flees to the
subway. Logan pursues him through the underground system until the chemist
manages to trick Logan into missing the train. At the airport booking a flight
to St. Thomas, the chemist discovers he lost his meds in the battle; if
Wolverine finds it, he has the chemist’s name, address and access to the
antidote. He calls home…and Logan answers….
“Into the Tomb” 3.5/5Writer: James Felder. Pencils:
Jose Ladronn. Inks: Juan Vlasco. Letters: Richard Starkings.Synopsis: Seeking to
learn if Dracula is alive again, Blade travels to a village in Eastern Europe
intending to go to Castle Dracula. He finds all the villagers dead, impaled on
huge stakes with only a priest, Father Nicolas, alive. The priest warns him to
leave but, seeing his determination, chooses to accompany him to the castle.
There they find the corpses of a band of villagers who sought to destroy
Dracula. The men are attacked by two of Dracula’s brides and kill them after a
battle. But there is a third bride who appears to be Blade’s long-dead mother;
they struggle and Blade is seriously injured; Father Nicolas ministers to him
and places his cross around Blade’s neck. The priest is then decapitated by
Dracula and revived so that the zombie snatches his cross back. Dracula appears
and promises a gruesome death to Blade. And the tomb is closed again….
“Prisoners of the Red
Ghost/Trio of Terror” 3.5/5Writer: John Rozum. Art: Wilfred
Santiago. Letters: Richard Starkings.Synopsis: Captain Marvel
is trapped in the Negative Zone while the Red Ghost has Rick Jones a prisoner
in his lab on the Blue Area of the Moon. Red Ghost is trying to duplicate the
Nega-Bands so that he can free his allies Annihilus and Blastaar from the
Negative Zone and conquer Earth. Mar-Vell battles the two villains aboard
Annihilus’ ship while Red Ghost succeeds in duplicating the bands. RG clicks
them together and is transported to the Negative Zone (where he is clobbered by
Blastaar), which sends Mar-Vell to the Moon so he can free Rick. He then
returns to t eh Zone to confront the Ghost who turns intangible…making his
Nega-Bands fall to the floor. Mar-Vell picks one up and destroys it, trapping
Red Ghost in the Zone with his sorely disappointed allies. Rick returns to
Earth as Mar-Vell destroys the last remaining fake Bands….
“Strange Reflections”
2.5/5Writer: Michael Golden. Pencils:
Michael Golden. Inks: John Beatty, Al Milgrom. Letters: Richard Starkings.Synopsis: A largely
wordless story contrasts Doctor Strange battling various occult fiends in a
mystic land with a little boy watching television all day. At the end, Strange
defeats his foes and appears as the boy’s reflection on the TV screen after he
has turned it off.
Pin-Up: Captain Marvel, Doctor
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Spotlight on Captain America
A list of all collected edition of Captain America comics available at the time of writing.


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Monsters Among Us!
The story opens with Savage Hulk locked in combat with a green behemoth not unlike him, except that this creature has distinctively large hands. Hulk therefore refers to him as Big Hands, thus giving the monster a name. As we are launched straight into this fight sequence at the beginning of the comic, it leaves the reader thinking how the Hulk came to be in this situation in the first place. Cue a flash-back to events that took place twenty minutes before Bruce is locked in a heated argument over research time and funds with a certain General William Rigby. He is impatient to try out a new gamma generator created by Banner to better understand the effects of gamma radiation. Our scientist is strongly opposed, claiming that it would be dangerous to even think about testing it so early in its development. Outraged, the General slams his fist down on the control panel, inadvertently activating the machine, causing large amounts of gamma rays to leak into the room. Banner immediately herds everyone into the nearby decontamination chamber, hoping he can save them before it is too late. It seems though that one of the generals assistants has already begun to be affected by the mutating energy. Just as Banner is about to shut the decontamination chamber door however, we see that Rigby has also taken a turn for the worse. Now possessed of super-human strength and sporting green skin and giant hands, the arrogant military commander bursts open the door and charges at Banner. In his panic, Bruce begins a transformation of his own. Enter the Hulk! This brings us neatly back to the beginning of the tale, with the Hulk trapped in the crushing grasp of Big Hands. The Hulk, in serious danger of having the life squeezed out of him, gets angry. And the angrier Hulk gets, the stronger he gets, as we all know. Summoning all his strength, the green giant explodes out of the grip of his assailant, punching him so hard that he flies straight back where he came from - into the decontamination chamber. You dont have to be like the Hulk Big Hands No-one should be like the Hulk! After slamming the chamber door and hitting the switch, Hulk smashes through the ceiling and leaps off into the distance. Later, under the watchful eye of base security, the general and his staff are led out of their confinement - fully healed. Meanwhile, in the desert far from the lab, Banner awakens to an all-too familiar situation


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Death to the Beyonder
The heroes watch in horror as Galactus’ worldship vanishes, yielding up its energy to be absorbed by its master. Suddenly, the energy is diverted in the direction of Doombase. Captain America dispatches Captain Marvel, the fastest among them, to reconnoiter. Seconds later she arrives to see the energy passing through a series of huge lenses to penetrate the body of Doctor Doom. Back at the village, Professor X uses his psychic abilities to enable Reed Richards to see through her eyes to understand what is happening. Doom, with the powers of Galactus, finds he is now omnipotent and omniscient, possessing an empathy with all things…and he detects the presence of the spy. When the link through Marvel is suddenly cut off, the assembled heroes, including the X-Men and Magneto, hurry to Doombase. There, Doom is preparing for himself an energy-draining weapon with which to challenge the Beyonder. When the heroes arrive, they find Captain Marvel frozen into a living hologram, and Klaw’s disembodied head. The villain fragment explains where Doom is as a massive shockwave shakes the planet. Doom is challenging the Beyonder face-to-face. The heroes narrowly evade the falling debris as further shocks rend the building. In space, Doom is engaged in a furious cosmic battle with the Beyonder and is nearly overwhelmed. During a lull in the combat, Doom appears to the heroes and appeals to them to lend their power to his to defeat their common enemy. Magneto steps forward to take Doom’s hand but is prevented by the intervention of some Avengers. Captain America halts a fight between the X-Men and the others by pointing out that all were tempted to accept Doom’s offer and Magneto was about to stop himself anyway. In space the Beyonder defeats his foe and examines Doom, reading his mind and stripping him of his armor, learning all he can. Then Doom changes…. As Doombase collapses, the heroes release the imprisoned villains and flee to safety. Outside they behold as a form appears in the sky above the—it is the now-gigantic Doctor Doom. As the heroes gear up for the battle of their lives, Doom shrinks to their size and explains that the Beyonder is no more and Doom has been reborn: the war is over. Then he removes his mask….


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Tempest Without, Crisis Within!
As a violent storm rages outside, Magneto releases his "guest" the Wasp from her metal prison. He brought her here to discuss a truce. Meanwhile at the heroes’ citadel, the fury of the storm causes a massive rock to fall toward the building and only Thor can shatter it with the power of Mjolnir as he exults in the unbridled elements. Inside, the heroes assemble technology for Mr. Fantastic to monitor Galactus and the villains’ fortress. Elsewhere in the building, Spider-Man has discovered that the X-Men have established a separate HQ apart from the rest…and are talking about joining Magneto. When Spidey is detected, the mutant heroes attack; he manages to fight them off and escape to tell Reed about the perceived betrayal but suddenly he can’t remember what he was going to say (thanks to the mind manipulation of Professor X). Xavier tells his team that he has discovered a jet that operates by psychic control so they board and head off to Magneto’s fortress. Meanwhile, Magneto has rejected an offer to join Doctor Doom’s team and continues to explain his position to Wasp—and two find themselves attracted to one another….
At Doombase, in exchange for their pledge to serve him, Doom subjects two Earth women to a device that will grant them superpowers (it will later be explained that these women are from a section of Denver, Colorado, drawn from Earth to form part of Battleworld): Marsha Rosenberg gains fiery powers and renames herself Volcana, and her friend Mary "Skeeter" MacPherran becomes the superstrong Titania. The two superwomen are introduced to the rest of the villains; Titania tries to pick a fight with Absorbing Man to test her new strength but the villain doesn’t see the point of fighting before the next day’s battle. Meanwhile, Volcana is attracted to Molecule Man, finding him kindly and sensitive, despite his great power and allegiance to Doom.
At the heroes’ citadel, Thor releases Enchantress from her healing capsule, needing another immortal to talk to. At dawn, Captain America wakes up late because the Hulk, distracted by problems of concentration, failed to alert him. The villains launch their attack, taking them completely by surprise. Several of the heroes are overpowered and the rest retreat to regroup. Doom and his forces declare a victory….


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Berserker!
At the alien village, the heroes discover they are being watched by a new Spider-Woman. She explains she is from the suburb of Denver that was brought to Battleworld by the Beyonder, and when she offers to join the team, the others fill her in on the situation. Suddenly the village is invaded by the Wrecking Crew’s tank; they toss out the body of Wasp and leave. Wasp is rushed to Zsaji, but there is nothing the healer can do: the heroine is dead. The heroes want to assault the villains’ fortress immediately but their leader Captain America vetoes the idea, saying they must maintain their vigilance of Galactus, in order to fight him when he begins to devour the world….
Professor X orders Cyclops, Rogue, and Wolverine to pursue the villains fleeing from the volcanic region, while he and the other X-Men will try to intercept the baddies from the other direction. Aboard the villains’ ship, they are concerned about the gravely inured Molecule Man; Volcana, his lover, learns of this from the monitors at Doombase and makes an unwise deal with the Enchantress to teleport her to Molecule Man’s side. Their ship is brought down by the assembled X-Men and a battle erupts between the mutant heroes and the bad guys (Dr. Octopus, Titania, Absorbing Man). After some furious action, the villains get away (Volcana and the wounded Molecule Man as well)….
Doctor Doom, aboard Galactus’ space station/home searches for a way to gain the alien being’s power but Galactus finally detects and expels him from the craft….
The villains make it back to Doombase for medical attention. An enraged She-Hulk invades the building and takes on the Wrecking Crew as payback for their murder of Wasp. Soon Titania and Doc Ock join in and overwhelm the lady Avenger. Meanwhile, Enchantress watches in shock as the badly injured Doctor Doom staggers in and collapses on his bed….
At the heroes’ camp, they discover that She-Hulk is missing but again, Captain America says no to a rescue mission. Professor X contacts him and offers to have the X-Men maintain the watch over Galactus, so Cap immediately assembles the heroes for an attack on Doombase….


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...And Dust to Dust!
Doctor Doom unmasks before the heroes to reveal his face is now unscarred. The villains watch from a distance, confused. Molecule Man works himself into a lather over Doom’s apparent betrayal of them and uses his powers to strand the heroes atop a mountain while he confronts the "traitor." As Molecule Man launches into a tirade, Doom removes the mental block of fear and self-doubt from his antagonist, allowing MM to understand and accept the power he has been given. Molecule Man returns to the villains and announces his plans to lead them. They start by returning to Volcana’s apartment in the Denver suburb which has been trapped on Battleworld. After some discussion they decide to go home to Earth. Molecule Man then encloses the city in a protective dome and launches it through space toward its destination….
That night at the heroes’ base, Colossus leaves quietly to find Zsaji and confess his love for her. At the same time, a small burst of energy enters the building and possesses the sleeping Hulk, causing him to walk the halls toward a mysterious goal. Spider-Woman spies him and, realizing something is wrong, stops him with the webbing. The interloper transfers itself to her and sends her to the lab where she locates Klaw’s disembodied head. Suddenly a flash of light overwhelms her…. Her scream awakens the other heroes who come on the run. Spider-Woman explains that Doctor Doom restored Captain Marvel, reassembled Klaw, and departed with him, leaving a message for them to appear at his newly created tower the next day.
At the appointed time, the heroes arrive for their audience with Doom. The former villain explains to the heroes that he has destroyed the Beyonder and absorbed his power and now he is above all petty mortal concerns in his omnipotence. He wishes to right all the wrongs he has committed. He begins by resurrecting Kang and sending him home; he also mentions that he has rescued Galactus and turned him over to his herald Nova. He offers to do for them anything they ask but they decline the offer; Doom then warns them not to bother him again on pain of death. They leave but then notice that Spider-Woman is not with them. Captain America returns to Doom and explains his concern. Doom dispatches Klaw to search for the missing heroine and chats with Cap, revealing his desire to free his mother from the clutches of Mephisto. Elsewhere, the energy burst which has been possessing Spider-Woman now transfers itself to Klaw. The confused heroine is reunited with Cap and the heroes return to their base. There they have a summit meeting, discussing the newly omnipotent Doctor Doom. Cap argues that the Latverian monarch is at peace now but what if he should be overwhelmed by his newfound power and return to his old villainy? The others vote to go to war against him. Suddenly a bolt of flame falls from the sky and incinerates them all….