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The Golem Walks Again
Gassed last issue, the Invaders awaken
to find themselves prisoners of the Nazi commander Colonel Eisen,
called “The Face” because the right side of his head is covered
with a leather mask. Captain America and Bucky are in chains,
Spitfire is strapped to a rack, Human Torch and Toro are submerged in
a tank of water and Sub-Mariner is encased in concrete with heat
lamps to keep him dried out. Eisen has orders to send the prisoners
to Berlin where they will be paraded like animals....
In his shop, scholar Jacob Goldstein
studies ancient texts until he uncovers the means to recreate the
legendary Golem. Mixing clay with heavy water stolen from the
Germans, he shapes a figure with “emeth,” the Hebrew word for
“truth” on the figure's forehead. A bolt of lightning hits at
that moment, fusing Jacob and his creation, creating a ten-foot-tall
monster with a grudge against the Nazi occupiers. It stalks through
the streets, clobbering soldiers and rescuing Jews from danger,
crashing through the Ghetto wall and smashing its way into Nazi
headquarters. Col. Eisen flees, protecting himself with Cap's shield;
the Golem heads to the dungeon where it frees the captive Invaders,
who head through the building fighting the enemy. The Golem captures
Eisen on the top floor; the Nazi tries to bargain with it but the
clay monster hurls the baddie off the roof to his death. After this,
the Golem rubs its forehead and accidentally erases the first letter
of “emeth” to leave  “meth,” Hebrew for death. The creature
turns back into Jacob Goldstein who refuses to return to England,
preferring to remain in Warsaw to protect his people....


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Red Skull in the Sunset!
A newly-built US defense plant is
destroyed by the Invaders—Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, the
Human Torch and Toro—while proclaiming their allegiance to the
Third Reich! That night, the Red Skull interrupts the regular radio
programming to boast about how America's greatest heroes now serve
him in the goal of destroying the United States. In the White House,
President Roosevelt asks FBI Agent Bill Stuart how this all happened;
Stuart fills him in...
...a few days earlier the Invaders were
summoned to Washington to participate in a new bond drive. Cap,
Namor, and Torch agreed while Bucky and Toro were reading the latest
comic books and drew the adults into a debate over the usefulness of
the lesser-known heroes of the day, a debate that is highly offensive
to the bond parade's sponsor Bettman P. Lyles. The parade proceeds
the next day, with the heroes riding on a huge float, when they are
attacked by Nazi agents. Cap and company easily defeat the armed
goons but the sky opens up and the face of the Red Skull appears in a
circle in the sky, demanding the Invaders come over to his side.
Torch and Toro fly into the funnel and do not return; the arrogant
Namor flies at the opening and likewise vanishes. Cap hurls his
shield but the portal sucks him in too. Bucky challenges the Red
Skull who mocks him as not being worth the trouble which sends the
proud boy hero into shock...
...recovering, Bucky bursts into the
Oval Office with an idea as to how the other Invaders might be
rescued—but FBI man Stuart rebuffs him as only a kid and the
President concurs. Disappointed and humiliated, Bucky leaves....
Story continues in MARVEL PREMIERE #29.


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The Ring Of The Nebulas!
The Invaders take on Nazi dive bombers amid the Battle Of Britain (Part I).  Captain America rescues a mysterious gold-haired woman (Hilda) amid the rubble in the London subway who has a bit of amnesia, while British Intelligence has had no luck locating the German enemy Brain Drain.  Hilda thinks she has heard of such a man, checks out a map and recognizes where she might be from and it is deep behind enemy lines. The Invaders decide to take her with them in hopes she can lead them to Brain Drain. Bucky stays behind as a liaison for the British (Part II). Flying in Namor's finned airship,  the Invaders head into occupied France where the ship is hit on the starboard wing by a large axe. Namor orders everyone to bail out even though the airship has an automatic "Fall-Safe System" that kicks in causing it to land safely. Namor wanted to take no chances. On the ground, the Invaders are confronted by three "Gods" who order them to turn back or face the lightning bolts of  the Great God Froh, the searing flames of Loga, God of Fire and the axe-weilding wrath of Donar, God of the Raging Thunder! (Part III)...continued next issue.


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Blitzkrieg At Bermuda
The Invaders, flying in Namor's airship, are headed across the Atlantic to Washington D.C., to meet with a Mr. Stuart about giving their aid to make sure Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets back to Great Britain safely. While en route, they discover a U.S. merchant ship that is being torpedoed by a German U-Boat. Namor jumps from the airship in order to deal with the U-Boat while Human Torch and Toro assist the sailors of the merchant ship with extinguishing the flames brought on by the torpedo. After sinking the U-Boat, Namor takes its captain prisoner and brings him back to the airship. Once in D.C., they find top secret papers on the U-Boat captain which they give to Mr. Stuart. They uncover a Nazi plot to foil Churchill's return to Great Britain! Also, Mr. Stuart shows them a video of a group of frogmen, lead by U-Man, attacking a U.S. naval base in the Caribbean. It is believed that they are part of a renegade faction of Namor's undersea race that have sided with the Nazis, who are also involved in the discovered Nazi plot. Namor becomes enraged, vows to deal with this traitor of his people, alone. The rest of the Invaders try to convince him (by force) not to go it alone. At the last minute, Bucky decides to go with Namor and they escape in his airship. The rest of the Invaders make plans to pursue...


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The Short, Happy Life of Major Victory!
Steve and Bucky are at a London movie
palace, watching newsreels of their exploits as Captain America and
Bucky. But there's an American soldier present who is much more
enthusiastic about the film, annoying the other cinema-goers by his
loud commentary as his girl Julia tries to quiet him. Steve and Bucky
leave the theater after the show and suddenly the lights go out,
usually the sign of an impending air raid. They quickly don their
hero costumes and hear a cry for help. Rushing to the scene, they
find the American GI and his girl surrounded by hooded Nazi agents.
The GI helps Cap and Bucky fight off the thugs and he tries to get
his girl to safety but it tuns out she is a  Nazi agent too.
Threatening to shoot the GI, she holds Cap and Bucky at bay until all
of the gang escapes with their captive....
Cap and Bucky arrive at Allied HQ along
with Sub-Mariner, Human Torch, and Toro, where they learn that the
Nazis were plotting to abduct an American soldier; Cap reveals that
they failed to prevent the abduction of Private Biljo White. Bucky
and Toro recognize that name: the captive GI is a comic book artist,
famous for creating the patriotic super-hero Major Victory, whose
origin is nearly identical to Cap's, even down to mentioning the
Super-Soldier formula and naming Dr Reinstein. Deducing that the
enemy captured White on the assumption that he knows something about
the real-life serum, the Invaders (without Spitfire who left the
group last issue) head to the continent in Namor's flagship, arriving
soon at Berchtesgaden, Hitler's fortress estate. Their ship is shot
down by Master Man whose power has been enhanced so that he can
overcome all of the Invaders at once. They soon find themselves in a
dungeon where they come face to face with their captor: Adolf Hitler....


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The Making of Warrior Woman, 1942!
At Berchtesgaden, the captive Invaders
come face to face with their captor, Der Fuehrer Adolf Hitler
himself. He speaks to them using a translator invented by the late
genius Brain Drain, who also created the formula that gave Master Man
his power. Captain America notices that Hitler is holding a copy of
MAJOR VICTORY comic book by the imprisoned GI Biljo White, and tries
to get him to reveal its importance. Hitler doesn't fall for the
trick and leaves with Master Man and Sub-Mariner trading threats....
Elsewhere in the castle, Madame Ratsel
(“Mystery”), who had captured the American disguised as his
girlfriend Julia, now presides over his brutal interrogation. She
wants to learn what he knows about the Super-Soldier Serum he
mentions in his comic book but Biljo White denies knowing anything,
having only used a phrase that was going around as a rumor. She
hypnotizes him, which leads him to reveal he did know a scientist on
the Super-Soldier project who mentioned Potassium as a key
ingredient. Elated, she rushes to her lab to add the chemical to
Brain Drain's formula which created Master Man. She intends to test
the new formula on herself, wanting to prove superior to the men she
despises. A quarrel with another officer leads to an explosion and
Ratsel, enveloped in a gas, suddenly grows more powerful. The
Invaders, hearing the explosion elsewhere in the castle, manage to
escape their bonds and battle the Nazis; Namor and Master Man do
battle while the Human Torch and Toro pursue Hitler. They have Der
Fuehrer cornered when Madame Ratsel, now called Warrior Woman, blasts
them with a fire hose and then punches them out. She dashes to the
main fight and decks Bucky with a single blow, then picks up Cap and
hurls him from the battlements. She and Master Man together take down
Namor as Hitler gloats, ordering the four remaining Invaders (they
assume Cap is dead) taken to Berlin where they will be publicly
executed....


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Havoc in Hollywood
The injured
Miss America crashes through the window of Liberty Legion headquarters, surprising
the visiting Invaders. She tells of how she and Whizzer were waylaid by Battle-Axis
and Whiz captured; she also heard the baddies mention Los Angeles and Dr. John
Goldstein as their next stop. Thin Man has to stay behind but offers to contact
other heroes out west and ask for their aid. Miss America joins Captain America,
Sub-Mariner, and Human Torch in their Atlantean airship as they head to
California….
In Hollywood, a
pair of police officers spot a dirigible and go to investigate; they are
distracted by Spider Queen and electrocuted by Volton and their car stolen. Dr.
Death, Strongman, and Human Meteor (with an unseen ally) head out for the next
step in Operation Mojave, while their pilot, Sky Shark, itches at playing such
a subservient role….
In L.A., Namor and
Torch arrive at the home/lab of Dr. John Goldstein and discover Dr. Death is
already there—with Goldstein’s brother Jacob, who turns into the Golem, now
serving the Nazis. Golem battles the two heroes, knocking them both out as the
house catches fire. On Dr. Death’s orders, Golem carries off the Human Torch,
leaving Namor to die in the blaze. He is rescued by the Blazing Skull,
contacted by the Thin Man about aiding the Invaders. Skull caries him to safety
and Namor topples a water tower to regain his strength and they head out to
find the Torch….
Captain America and
Miss America have gone to the UCLA science labs where they find Strongman,
Spider Queen, and Human Meteor have killed some staff and are planning to steal
a huge oscillotron. They burst in and there is a battle with Cap and Miss A
being overpowered and knocked out. Then the baddies are confronted by the
Silver Scorpion, a female hero who is unused to the costume and about to be
overwhelmed when Cap and Miss A recover and send the bad guys fleeing without
the huge machine but believing they learned enough from the scientist before
they killed him. Cap and Miss A ask Silver Scorpion who she is; she tells them
she is Betty Barlow, secretary to private eye Dan Hurley (and in love with him)
who has just been killed along with Professor Carson who created the suit. While
quite inexperienced, she insists on coming with the Invaders as she overheard details
of the baddies’ Project Mojave….


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Your Young Men Shall See Visions
The Human Torch
finds himself the prisoner of Battle-Axis along with Whizzer and burns his way
out of the tube he is held in and aims to take on his captors but he is drenched
in water and subdued. Torch demands that Golem, a Polish Jew, explain why he is
helping the Nazis but Golem doesn’t answer. Torch then confronts Dr. Death, who
explains he is Dr. James Bradley, former partner of Torch’s creator, Phineas
Horton. The two fought over their handling of their creation and Bradley quit
and took a second, incomplete android with him, becoming a crime fighter but
eventually joining the Nazi cause. The other Battle-Axis members chime in:
Spider Queen’s husband was killed by the Russians so she joined the Nazis to get
revenge. Strongman gained his powers and decided he would be more at home among
the Nazis who worshipped strength. Human Meteor is Irish and so naturally hates
the British so he joined the Nazis. Amnesiac Volton just feels right as a Nazi.
Dr. Death also explains their big scheme, Project Mojave. They are under the
California desert and have built an oscillotron which they will use to create a
massive earthquake, devastating the US West Coast and knocking the USA out of
the War….
The Invaders
(Captain America, Sub-Mariner) and allies (Miss America, Silver Scorpion, Blazing Skull)
head west in Namor’s airship. Silver Scorpion explains how she was a friend of
Professor Carson who created the armor for her though she is still unused to
wearing it but the Battle-Axis killed her boss/crush Dan Hurley and she needs
to avenge that. Meanwhile, Blazing Skull explains himself: he was a reporter
who found an underground race of “Skull-Men,” was given their powers, and sent
back to the surface world to fight for peace. Cap adds very brief versions of
his (Super-Soldier Serum), Namor’s (born that way), Miss America’s (electrical
accident), and Whizzer’s (transfusion of mongoose blood) so that everyone is
caught up. SS confesses that she doesn’t know the location of the baddies’ secret
lair, only that it’s under a dead lake; she lied so that they would bring her
along. Namor’s ship uses sonar to see which lake is camouflaged. A huge gun
rises from the ground and fires on them, bringing down the aircraft but Miss America
is able to fly out and enter the base through the gun’s hatch. She fights a
bunch of Nazi guards but is captured by Human Meteor. Then the rest of the team
arrives and there is a big battle. Dr. Death forces his top scientist to turn
on the Dimension Smasher which opens a gateway to another dimension and brings
through the Vision, an alien named Aarkus, Destroyer of Evil. He surprises everyone
by using his freezing powers to subdue Namor—because he knows Dr. Death
controls the machine that can send him back to his own dimension. Aarkus then
freezes Silver Scorpion and Golem bashes the distracted Captain America and Blazing
Skull, leaving all of the heroes at the villains’ mercy….


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“...And a Hero Shall Die!
The Battle-Axis
have captured the Invaders (Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch) and
their allies (Miss America, Whizzer, Blazing Skull, Silver Scorpion) and sealed
them inside glass tubes. The heroes try to talk their way out and learn that
Aarkus (the original Vision) is aiding the bad guys because they control the machine
that can return him to his home dimension; the Golem (Jacob Goldstein) is helping
his natural enemies because they have his brother Jonathan Gold prisoner.
Doctor Death explains his scheme to use the oscillotron to cause earthquakes to
destroy the American West Coast and he adds the detail that his own allies don’t
know: there is a cache of poison gas buried in the desert and the earthquake
will release it, killing millions and forcing the USA out of the war, allowing Germany
the break it needs to defeat Russia. The good guys try to break free so
knockout gas is pumped into the tubes. It takes longer to affect the Human Torch
who burns his way out but he is seized by Volton and clobbered, followed by
Aarkus freezing him and replacing him in the tube.  Dr. Death gloats that he will gain the recognition
that was denied him for helping to create the Human Torch….
Dr. Death and some
of the others go to another part of the lab to pick up the final component of
the oscillotron; on his way out, Dr. Death tells Jonathan Gold that his brother
is there, in his Golem form, which shocks and angers Gold. Back at the tubes,
Cap and the others tell Volton (guarding them along with the Golem) that he is
the android stolen by Dr. Death, explaining his lack of memory, the fact that he
wasn’t burned when touching the Human Torch, and why he doesn’t shave. Volton
refuses to believe it until he stabs himself through the hand with a shard of
glass from one of the broken tubes. While he is distracted, Cap escapes and
moves past Volton to regain his shield, hurling it to smash open all of the
tubes. The freed heroes join the fray: Silver Scorpion knocks out Volton with a
dart. Cap reminds the Golem of what the Nazis are doing to his people and he
switches sides. The heroes invade the main lab and a big brawl breaks out.
Torch melts the handle of the oscillotron; Dr. Death heads to the machine to
start it manually, Dr. Gold tries to stop him and is gunned down by Sky Shark.
Seeing his brother die, the Golem goes berserk and smashes all of the guards.
Dr. Death hits the secret button and is electrocuted by the angry Volton—who won’t
let them turn off the machine. Namor smashes the oscillotron but Miss America
sees that some poison gas has been released. Aarkus, freed from the bad guys’
control by the destruction of the Dimension Smasher, opens his own gateway home
and draws all of the poison gas with him where it will be neutralized. The
Battle-Axis members surrender and the heroes rush to the surface to ensure
there is no threat from the gas. Cap calls Dr. Jonathan Gold a hero though
Blazing Skull is a bit more skeptical….


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The Invaders Return
On June 22, 1942, a
Nazi U-boat near New York fires a torpedo at a freighter and the Invaders—
Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch—fly into action (Cap’s in an Atlantean airship).
Namor seizes the torpedo and turns it around so that it strikes the U-boat, forcing
it to surface. Torch burns the big gun aboard. They think their mission over
when suddenly the Battle-Axis appears, a team of American-born Nazi superheroes:
Strongman (strength), Human Meteor (speed), Spider Queen (web-shooters), Volton
(electric powers), and Dr. Death (tranquilizer darts). The two teams fight and
the Invaders lose, Namor is beaten down by Strongman, Torch shocked senseless by
Volton, and Cap tied up by Spider Queen and shot with a hypnodart by Dr. Death.
Cap’s unmanned ship circles back and hits the U-boat, knocking the three unconscious
heroes into the ocean. The bad guys take off, having achieved their goal of
protecting the U-boat. The water revives Namor and he rescues his two
compatriots. The three reach land and head to the headquarters of the Liberty
Legion where they are at first attacked by the Thin Man who mistakes them for
enemy agents until he gets a good look at them. Thin Man tells them that most
of the other Legionnaires are in Miami; he also recognizes the names of the bad
guys and shows the Invaders his files on these American heroes who had dropped
out of sight. The Invaders vow to stop them….
In a Manhattan park,
Bob “Whizzer” Frank and Madeline “Miss America” Joyce are on a date when they
spot a U-boat on the East River; changing into their hero identities, they
pursue the ship and encounter the Battle-Axis. Whizzer is knocked out by Human
Meteor and Miss America overpowered by Spider Queen—but Miss A recovers quickly
and flies off, hoping to get help for her partner. Volton and Human Meteor
pursue her, quickly overtaking her; she grabs the two guys and slams them into
each other and they create an explosion. Thinking she was killed in the blast,
they head back to the others as Miss America hides among the spires of St.
Patrick’s Cathedral….


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War Ghosts Part IV
Nay Peterson tells Captain America and the Human Torch about
the Sub-Mariner’s long history with her family: After the War, Namor couldn’t
adjust to life on the surface or life underwater, the only safe place he found
was the Petersons’ home on the Maine coast. Eventually the duty of Atlantis
called him back and he left. Many years later, when Nay was an adult and
pregnant, an amnesiac Namor found his way back to them; his memories slowly
returned and he helped raise Nay’s son Roman. But then Charles Xavier arrived;
he told Namor he had been searching for mutants like himself and Namor was the
first one he found. He soon persuaded Namor to help him in his search, though Nay’s
father Randall didn’t trust the arrogant visitor….
Namor and Xavier searched the world for mutants, following
up clues from the news and rumors (a clawed fellow in the Canadian woods hid
from them). Namor was going increasingly short-tempered at the lack of success
in their mission. Then in the town of Stony Plain, they were looking into reports
of people acting like cats and dogs. There was a mutant named Tim Rhodes who
could alter the species of any living creature. Xavier saw this as a way to turn
humans into mutants; Namor thought it more likely that the government would use
him to turn mutants into humans. While they are bickering, the police shoot and
kill Tim Rhodes. Namor turns on them but suffers a breakdown. Xavier enters his
head and discovers Namor’s pain over what happened to Tommy Machan; Xavier converts
Tommy’s memory into a presence in Namor’s mind as an ongoing therapist. Eventually
Namor wandered the world, was discovered by Johnny Storm (FF #4), restored to
health, returned to the Petersons and now Nay is worried that Namor is planning
something bad….
At the military base, Winter Soldier discovers the weapons
components Namor is seeking, but the scientist Anna shoot shim in the back of
the head with his own gun. She then contacts her true leader, Roman Peterson,
who is planning with the Navy to destroy Atlantis….


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Dead in the Water Part VI
Captain America’s mind drifts back to the time Sub-Mariner
discovered him frozen in ice in the Arctic…and he is interrupted by Spitfire
who also recalls the good and the bad of the World War 2 era. The other
Invaders—Human Torch, Toro, Winter Soldier—are monitoring the situation and
Machan/Roman Peterson is flooding the entire planet; Namor explains that they
are using a portal to the alternate world of Vodan and draining the water from
that submerged world—leading the surface-dweller to beg for the Genus Compound.
Cap has notified America and other heroes (we see Spider-Man and Thing) are
trying to save other so they are not available to aid the Invaders. Namor accuses
the others of driving him to formulate that plan but Torch shuts him down,
reminding that they are coming to his rescue….
Machan/Roman with the Serpent Crown has his device protected
by a force field, pumping water to flood Earth. The Invaders arrive and Machan
raises giant octopi and the vicious fishmen from the other world to battle them
in a frenzy of violence. Water-breathers like Namor can pass through the force
field and he does, hurling himself into the crowd of Atlantean troops and
shutting it off. Machan then captures Namor’s mind with the Serpent Crown and
has him first protect him (Machan) from Cap and then to fight Cap. As the two
heroes plunge into the ocean, Cap feels him fighting back and soon the memories
of being wartime comrades comes to the surface and Namor and Cap return to the
fray. Spitfire rescues Bucky and Torch goes underwater to drive off the ocean
creatures with a blast of light. Then with the cry “Namor, King of Atlantis…takes
commands from NO ONE!” he smashes Machan. Namor promises to repair the machine
to send the excess ocean back to Vodan and to take Machan back to Atlantis for
execution. Cap won’t let him: unless they take the villain back to the surface
world, everyone will still think Namor was behind it all and attack them. So
Cap tells Namor he must make the sacrifice of his need for vengeance in the
interests of his people....
Two weeks later, Steve, Jim, and Bucky talk matters over,
with Steve reporting that Namor is demanding the extradition of Machan and both
Atlantis and the USA claiming to have destroyed all the Genus Compound. Jim has
given up work on his memoirs because he is still angry with Namor. Steve
reminds him that they all went through the war together and under it all, Namor
is an Invader.


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War Ghosts Part III
Captain America and Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch)
are on their way to the Naval Base in Bristol because they believe Namor the Sub-Mariner
will attack there to get the components for his big bomb. On the way they argue
with Iron Man who thinks they should attack Atlantis immediately while Cap
wants to try a peaceful solution first. Cap and Jim meet with Admiral October
and warn her about Namor’s threat and ask her to wait while they try to work
things out; the Admiral rejects the idea of doing nothing while facing a threat
and questions Cap’s patriotism for wanting to protect Namor. She refuses to
listen and tells Cap to go to a photo session with the troops…
…which was an old trick used to create a distraction and now
Winter Soldier has infiltrated the ship for the next part of the plan. While
signing autographs, Cap is confronted by an angry seaman who questions whether he
is the real Cap or Hydra Cap and wondering if there is a difference. Cap wishes
there was more he could do in this situation. He leaves and joins up with Jim
and they head out….
In Atlantis, Namor is informed that the missiles are ready,
needing only one more component; he also knows that Cap achieved nothing in his
visit to the Naval Base. Again, his adviser Machan points out that Cap is now
heading to see the Petersons and that Namor should deal with them….
At the Base, Bucky is caught by a guard and he overpowers
the man and continue with the mission—but a scientist named Anna has also seen
him; Bucky explains that they have to stop Namor and gives his gun to Anna,
telling her to shoot him if she thinks he’s wrong….
Cap and Jim arrive at the Peterson home in Maine where Cap
talks to the gravely ill Randall, wanting to know if the old soldier can help him
learn why Namor want to go to war with the surface world again. Meanwhile, Nay
is trying to convince Jim that Namor is a good man unfairly treated by his old
friends—but Cap catches her signaling Namor through the fish tank and suddenly
the Sub-Mariner is smashing through the wall and hurling Cap into the distance
so that the Human Torch has go after him. Namor, meanwhile, confronts Randall,
accusing him of failing to destroy all the “evidence.” Randall insists he’s
tried to protect Namor—and then he collapses and dies. With tears in his eyes,
Namor heads back to the ocean. When Cap and Torch return, Nay promises to tell
them who Namor really is….


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War Ghosts Part VI
Flashback to the War: In the city of Eisenach, the Invaders battle
the Super-Axis and retreat as Allied bombers destroy the city; Sub-Mariner and
his pal Tommy Machan mourn the civilians who perished in the attack….
Now: Namor has launched his missiles at the Maine coast and
Captain America sees that the missiles contained a chemical weapon that is
turning the surface people into blue-skinned water-breathers. Cap, donning a
breather, breaks open a fire hydrant to spray the suffering humans with water.
Iron Man sees Namor controlling the sea to have it wash over the land and goes
to stop him but Captain Marvel heads him off: now that the humans breathe water,
inundating the town is the only way to keep them alive. Shellhead and Carol go
to the Navy base while the disembodied head of the Human Torch asks Cap to
rescue Nay Peterson so Cap heads off by motorcycle to her home….
At the Navy Base, Roman Peterson transforms into a
water-breather but not his two henchmen: he learns that they were Atlanteans
altered to resemble humans and with the inrush of water, they drown, having given
their lives for their nation. Namor arrives and embraces Roman….
At the Peterson home, Cap finds Nay who has collapsed trying
to get to the water. He picks her up and jumps into the ocean with her,
reviving her. They look up to see Namor and Roman and Machan watching them,
backed by the Atlantean army….
Several days later, Winter Soldier calls Tony Stark to say
he can’t find Cap. Tony blames Cap for allowing the disaster to go as far as it
did: an entire town is submerged under water, three thousand people now breathing
water. Tony has Torch’s head hooked up to machinery to keep him alive, while
Bucky plans vengeance against Namor….
Flashback to the War: Bucky joins Tommy Machan and Namor as
they ponder the civilian casualties at Eisenach; talk soon turns to what they
want to do after the war. Namor says “I will make a world where this cannot
happen again. I will make a better world.”


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Dead in the Water Part V
Shortly after returning from his icy prison, Captain America
asked Iron Man to fly him to Bucky Barnes’ grave, where he saw an unusual
flower that looked familiar….
Now, Cap and Namor are stranded on a desert island with a
bitter Subby becoming irritated at Cap’s optimism; Cap tells him that kings don’t
give up, especially when people are in danger….
Long ago, Cap sailed out into the ocean to meet with Namor,
reminding them that they had once been allies and showing him the Atlantean
flower from Bucky’s grave….
On the island, Namor confesses to Cap that he believes he is
responsible for “Machan’s” plans but Cap would not put him in a category with
other deadly dictators. The debate is cut short by their discovery of a science
lab on the island. Sneaking in they find Roxxon scientists experimenting with
hybrid monsters and now turning their attention to the Genus Compound. Enraged,
Namor attacks and is met by a man in a battle suit; the two heroes take him on,
the now-human Namor suffering injury, so Cap hurls a vial of the Compound,
restoring Namor’s powers and the Atlantean tears the battle suit apart. While
Cap collects the vials of compound, Namor frees the scientists—and then, to Cap’s
horror, he frees the monsters to pursue their tormentors. Cap tells Namor he is
no better than the Red Skull he once fought for the same reason (issue #7); Namor
wants to abandon the fight but Cap says he can’t, reminding him of a promise
made many years ago to team up again to fight would-be dictators for “once and
Invader, always an Invader.” And then the rest of the Invaders—Human Torch,
Toro, Spitfire, Winter Soldier—arrives for them….


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Dead in the Water Part II
In the wake of Atlantis’ attack on the US, a talk show
brings in two guests to discuss the issue. Paul Wright, Secretary of Homeland
Safety, promises to stop Atlantis while Roxxon executive Simon Kaito offers
generous help from his corporation to the affected citizens, called “The
Sunken.” Away from the cameras, however, everything changes: Wright turns out to
be working for Roxxon and Kaito orders him not to attack Atlantis until they
have their hands on the compound for transforming air-breathers into
water-breathers….
At Stark Industries, Human Torch, now in a body created for
his disembodied head that resembles the Iron Man armor built by Tony Stark, is
angry at Namor. He is determined to stop the rogue Invader at any cost and he
flies off. Toro goes after him and when he catches up, Toro promises to support
him as part of their old team….
Winter Soldier arrives at a bar in Saujon, France, for a
meeting with Namor the Sub-Mariner. Namor wants to explain to Bucky why he is
pursuing his course of action: he explains how Charles Xavier created a second
identity under his primary one, based on wartime friend Tommy Machan, as a form
of therapy. But eventually Machan began a sinister plan without Namor realizing
it, to use a drug based on the mutant Genus to change humans into Atlanteans.
Torn between Bucky and Machan’s voice in his head, Namor goes berserk and Bucky
calls in his back-up: Sue Richards, Invisible Woman, who traps Namor in a force
field and tries to reason with him….
In Wakanda, Captain America stands by in a lab as
Black Panther and Shuri study the Genus Formula and learn how to duplicate it but
still can’t find an antidote. Cap blames himself—and then T’Challa breaks the
news: the transformed humans will eventually die from it….
At the bar, Namor overcomes Sue and Bucky because he is wearing
the invisible Serpent Crown, giving him control over people’s minds. But Namor
is distracted by Machan and Sue blasts him through a wall with her force field
but Namor recovers, overpowers the both of them and whispers the big picture to
the plan before dropping Bucky and flying off. Sue runs to Bucky and he says, “It’s
worse than we thought….”


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Dead in the Water Part III
Namor the Sub-Mariner is taking steps to battle the surface
world, commanding Roman Peterson to gather the troops for their upcoming
attack. Machan opposes Namor’s plan to attack Roxxon but Namor insists he is king…
Germany 1942: The Invaders attack German forces to prepare the
way for a major offensive. Namor goes berserk, hurling a ruined tank at a
house; Spitfire uses her super-speed to rescue an old man and a young girl from
the place before the projectile hits. She then calls Namor an idiot for
endangering the lives they are supposed to be saving….
In the present day, Captain America, Human Torch (now with
an Iron body), and Toro meet with Jacqueline “Spitfire” Falsworth in London
where she shows them what British Intelligence has discovered about Namor’s
plans and they realize he is going to attack a fleet of Roxxon ships….
Soon, Namor’s troops, including Tiger Shark and Orka, are
attacking Roxxon’s ships and Namor is shocked to see the soldiers killing crew
when he wanted to save them with the Serpent Crown; Machan tells him he did
order the atrocities. The Invaders arrive: Cap, Torch, Toro, and Spitfire and
there is a battle. Namor seizes Toro and threatens to kill him if Torch doesn’t
back off. Torch tries to reason with Namor but he is overruled by Machan’s
voice in Namor’s head. Namor hurls Toro into the water and flies off, his soldiers
going with him. He returns to Atlantis, fighting Machan’s voice in his head; he
finds himself back in the war, talking to Tommy Machan who reveals he has
turned into a separate entity but not strong enough to overcome Namor’s
control. He shows Namor that young Roman Peterson is also in his head—and that
with the Serpent Crown Machan is in control. He knocks Namor out and Peterson
seizes the crown and makes off with it….
Black Panther, Cap, and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier are discussing the Genus formula
and its ability to change a recipient’s species. And they realize that there is
now only one way to stop Namor. So, as Roxxon prepares to invade Atlantis,
Steve and Bucky have T’Challa transform them into water-breathers….


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War Ghosts Part II
As a suspicious Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch)
leaves the Maine home of his old comrade Randall Peterson, the latter’s
daughter Nay taps a coded message on their fish tank…
…which message is picked up by Namor the Sub-Mariner as he
leads his new troops, the Sea Blades, to Atlantis….
Captain America recalls a time when he and Bucky stole
aboard a Nazi ship to make off with some top-secret battle plans but they were
caught and Cap almost went to a watery grave until Namor rescued him. And now
Cap in a diving suit is approaching Atlantis for a meeting with his old wartime
pal but he is caught by guards Tiger Shark and Orka who would like to tear him
apart but Cap merely reminds them of Namor’s wrath and they lock him in a cage
until Namor’s return. Cap recognizes the man in the adjacent cell: it’s Spidey
villain Hydro-Man….
Back at his office Jim Hammond is pondering the mysteries of
how Namor met Charles Xavier, why their meeting was kept secret, and why the Petersons
would be hiding it from him….
In 1945 at a memorial service for the (presumed) dead Cap
and Bucky, Namor berated a general for his perceived lack of respect for the
fallen heroes for his plan to recruit two new volunteers to wear their uniforms.
And now a chained Captain America is brought before Namor, who had once
threatened him with death should he ever return to Atlantis. Now Cap tries to
talk Namor into calling off his war, speaking as a friend. Instead Namor beats
Cap with his own shield, insisting that the threat to his kingdom and his
people override all other considerations. Namor breaks Cap’s diving helmet open
and then Cap realizes that Namor has cleared the space of water, concluding
that Namor has somehow taken Hydro-Man’s powers from him. Returning to his ship,
Cap contacts Winter Soldier who was secretly underwater for another purpose….
Cap recalls how after his wartime rescue (see above), he
spoke to Namor about the drowning death of a Nazi soldier and Namor rebuffed
him, noting that war has no place for kindness….
Cap meets with Jim and Bucky. The latter reveals that while
Cap was distracting Namor (by almost getting killed), Bucky was invading Namor’s
quarters to discover what he is planning: Namor is building a bomb designed to
kill only humans….
Namor visits the Peterson home in Maine and Nay reveals that
Jim saw the photo of Namor with Professor X. Namor’s aide Machan takes him
aside and advises Namor to kill the Petersons as a potential threat to his
plans….


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Dead in the Water Part I
Roman Peterson goes on television and takes full responsibility
for the Navy attack on Atlantis, claiming that he saw it as a patriotic act….
Captain America is in Atlantis, distributing supplies to transformed
surface people. They don’t believe that the Avengers didn’t know their town
would be attacked. Cap is called back to the surface where he learns that Atlantis
is doing a better job of caring for the affected humans that the US government.
Iron Man punches Cap in the face, blaming him for not stopping Namor;
Winter Soldier tries to stop him at gunpoint and there’s a squabble. Tony jets off
promising to take revenge against Namor. And Cap blames himself….
While the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations calls for
a strike against Atlantis and the Atlantean delegate snaps back. Bucky is
trying to track down the Atlantean moles in the Navy when he gets a message to
meet with Namor….
In WW2, the Invaders (Cap, Namor, Bucky, Human Torch)
investigate a German lab searching for the kidnapped Spitfire and Toro). What
they find is a lab where the Red Skull is creating animal-men. As the Skull
engages with Namor, the villain claims to have gotten the idea from Subby: half-man
half-fish….
Namor ponders his actions while his non-existent counsellor
Machan assures him everything he did was right. Roman, now a water-breather,
comes to Namor, delighting in his new life; he reports on the success of the
second attack on a Russian city transformed into water-breathers. Namor wants
to know who gave the order; Roman says Namor did….
At Stark Industries, Tony is attaching Jim Hammond’s head to
a new body when Bethany Cabe summons him to deal with an intruder. The intruder
turns out to be Toro/Thomas Raymond who demands to know what happened to Jim.
Jim arrives and we see he has a body resembling the Iron Man armor….
The WW2 flashback shows an enraged Namor wanting to kill the
Red Skull and having to be stopped by his allies….
In Atlantis, Namor accuses Machan of deceiving him while
Machan claims to be merely keeping Namor’s mind clear for important matters.
Namor is then delivered the Serpent Crown and Machan tells him he is now
invincible….“No title given”
Writer: Clay McLeod Chapman. Art: Brian Level. Colors:
Jordan Boyd. Letters: Travis Lanham.
Synopsis: Zombies—human and animal with many rats and
snakes, emerge from the sea and march on Avengers Mountain in the Arctic, some
muttering the name, “Rogers”….


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[War Ghosts Part I]
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, is on a WW2 battlefield under
fire. His friend Randall Peterson is okay but he asks Namor to find their other
pal Tommy. Namor, weakened from having been out of water so long, finds Tommy
just in time to see him gunned down by Nazi troops. Namor goes berserk and
kills the two enemies before collapsing. He awakens to Captain America's giving
him a drink of water and telling him the battle's over and they won...
...and Namor awakens from his recurring nightmare as his
aide Machan offers comfort and assurance that his plans for conquering the
surface world are ready....
While Captain America fights a horde of virtual villains in
the Avengers' training room, he chats with Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch)
who is writing a history of the Invaders and he can't count on his own
memories as his creator included the ability to forget to make him more human.
They move on to their concern that Namor is at war with the surface world again
and Jim pleads with Steve to help their friend....
WW2: in the aftermath of the battle, Cap learns that Subby's
pal Tommy was killed. Hearing that Namor will not attend the burial service,
Cap tracks him down at a cafe where he finds Namor canoodling with a local
girl. Cap tells him that this behavior is inappropriate for one who lost
friends and comrades that day; Namor counters that he is not human and is
coming to resent having to protect frail humans (and he picks up a random guy
by the throat to illustrate) when he should be out killing Nazis. Cap reminds
him that Tommy was his friend and he should pay his respects and walks out,
spotting Bucky in the bar and telling him to come along too....
Namor and Machan take a swift seacraft to the land of the
Sea Blades, another renegade Atlantean splinter group that Namor wants reunited
with his people for the coming war. Parleying with their leader Karris, Namor
demands they return to their rightful home under their rightful king. Karris
refuses, even pricking Namor's chest with a dagger to release a few drops of
blood. With a wave of his arms, Namor parts the waters before him, leaving the
Blades gasping on dry ground. Defeated, Karris gives in to Namor's demands....
As Namor explains that he now has power over water itself to
Karris, we see Namor, in US military uniform, attending the memorial....
Jim Hammond visits his old comrade Randall Peterson at his
home on the coast of Maine. The elderly and infirm Randall helps Jim with his
memories of the Invaders and gives him a large photo album to help with his
research. Outside of her father's earshot, Randall's daughter Nay (named Namor
after her father's friend) asks Jim to return the album as the contents are
personal. As he hands it over, a few photos fall out; picking them up Jim sees
that one is a picture of Namor with Charles Xavier....
Cap announces his intention to visit Namor alone which Tony
Stark thinks is a foolish idea; Steve contacts Bucky, the Winter Soldier, for
help in persuading Namor not to start a war....
Underwater, Karris explains to his aides Namor's audacious
plan of conquest but they are concerned as Namor is standing by his ship and
apparently talking to himself....


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War Ghosts Part V
1945: The Invaders are planning a mission but the Sub-Mariner
objects to Captain America’s plan to sneak into an enemy installation when they
can just awe them with power; Cap’s plan will minimize civilian casualties and
Bucky Barnes suggests a disguise for Namor. Through his inner voice Machan,
modern Namor ponders the necessity of the upcoming deaths….
Cap races to the military base where Winter Soldier is a
prisoner in their sick bay, having been shot in the head with a blank from his
own gun (last issue) by conspirator Anna. Bucky mentions hearing the name Roman
from Anna—and now Cap knows that Roman Peterson is the traitor who gave the
weapons components to Atlantis….
Cap calls Human Torch in Maine, telling him to warn the Navy
and find Roman, while Cap will assemble the Avengers. Torch takes off but is
intercepted by Namor and his men and there is a spectacular fight wherein Subby
knocks the head off his android ex-partner.
Meanwhile, the Avengers (Iron Man, Captain Marvel,
Black Panther, She-Hulk) have found Atlantis on lockdown via a powerful force field.
Iron Man is mad at Cap for having tried and failed at a peaceful solution with
Namor. Cap calls Admiral October at the base and warns her that Roman Peterson
is a double agent for Atlantis, to prevent the US from retaliating after an
Atlantean attack. When the Admiral confronts Roman, he and his men kill the
Admiral and the staff of the control room….
Cap arrives in town to see the US missiles streaking toward
Atlantis. He is met by Namor, bearing the severed head of the Human Torch. As
they battle, Cap realizes that, with the Avengers in place to stop the missiles
from hitting Atlantis, Atlantis could retaliate against the “unprovoked attack,”
justifying what happens next. But the Avengers will stop Atlantis’ missiles too,
right? No, Namor’s weapons weren’t in his city. They are launched and they strike
their targets….


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Dead in the Water Part IV
During a lull in the War, Captain America, unwilling to
return to the US for a rest with the other Invaders, accepted an invitation to
visit Namor’s home, Atlantis….
Now, Cap and Winter Soldier, turned into water-breathers by Black
Panther’s science, are going undercover in Atlantis to recover the Genus
Compound. But Cap has another mission first: he frees the captive Hydro-Man
from his cage just as an explosion rocks the city. Roxxon troops are attacking
and Namor goes out to face them—but Bucky knows this is a distraction. He and
Cap find a smaller Roxxon squad searching the lab for the Compound. A diver
locates it and begins swimming toward the surface….
Meanwhile, Machan/Roman Peterson with the Serpent Crown is
preparing his device to turn all air-breathers into water-breathers when he
detects intruders. On the surface he confronts Human Torch and Toro and uses
his mind-control abilities to send Toro flying straight up into space, forcing
Torch to pursue him. After a few pages, the lack of oxygen extinguishes Toro’s
flames and Torch is able to catch him and return him to the ground….
Cap reaches the deck of the Roxxon ship and signals for a
drone to drop him his costume and shield. Cap crashes in, seizes the bag with the
compound and then heads for the sea but he runs into Namor who wrongly
concludes that Cap was behind the scheme to steal the Genus Compound. The two
end up fighting the Roxxon mercenaries together and a stray bullet pierces the
Compound’s container, spraying it on the heroes. Namor falls overboard and Cap pursues….
When Roxxon’s Simon Kaito learns of the success in stealing
the Compound, he gives orders to find Cap and Namor….
When Namor awakens, Cap informs him they are stranded on an
island—and the Compound has turned them both into air-breathers….


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The Thrill of the Chase! (Eighth Day Part 2)
Continued from THOR (1998) #17At the Temple of Balthaak, Inferno attacks the archaeological party (J. Vernon Mann, Abner Little, Princess Zanda, Count Andreas Zorba) until Iron Man recovers enough to seize her and carry her up into the sky; She throws him off and by her complaints about the cold, Shellhead recognizes her as Samantha McGee, Tony Stark’s hired pilot. She blasts Iron Man hard enough to blow his circuit breakers and jets off to meet the other Exemplars. IM’s system reboots and he contacts the other Avengers; Jarvis fills him in on Thor’s battle with Juggernaut and the appearance of Conquest and Bedlam (THOR (1998 series) #17)….At a Stark-Fujikawa platform near Tahiti, executive Yoshiro Hachiman is overcome by an odd call and dives into the water where he finds the Temple of Valtorr; touching the Verdant Vial transforms him into the next Exemplar, Decay and he kills everyone on the platform….In Australia, Game Warden Nicolette Giroux enters a cave where she finds the Waterfall of Watoomb; standing under it turns her into Tempest….On his way to the action, Iron Man calls Pepper Potts and has her take care of important matters that will have to be postponed. As Tony Stark he arrives back at the archaeological site and they all go to the Andes where fellow Collector Col. Nigel Pigman has discovered a temple and Count Zorba is transformed into Carnivore. Tony dons the armor and battles the new villain while Dr Mann discovers some runes that explain everything that has been going on. Once upon a time, eight great mystical entities entered into the Wager of the Octessence to determine who was greatest: they each created a totem which would transform a human into an Exemplar…. Meanwhile, Tempest and Decay stop by to pick up Carnivore who wants them to wait while he kills Iron Man—but then Thor arrives. Impatient, Tempest tears a chasm in the earth and the two Avengers are swallowed up while the trio of Exemplars take off. Thor and Iron Man bust out but the bad guys are gone. Dr Mann finishes his account: once all eight Exemplars are empowered, they will create a great mystic engine to destroy free will among humanity. They will then divide the Earth into eight parts, one for each of them to rule—and then they will go to war until there is only one left…. Continued in PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN v.2 #11.2nd story “Fast Lane Part 1 of 4: Media Blitz”Writer: Glenn Herdling. Pencils: Gregg Schigiel. Inks: Richard Case. Colors: Paul Mounts.Synopsis: An anti-drug public service announcement featuring Spider-Man appearing in several Marvel comics this month.


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At Stark Tower, Tony Stark meets with
his team to decide what to do about the rebels against the Superhuman
Registration Act, led by Captain America. It is decided that Reed
Richards will try to break the code Cap’s team is using for their
transmissions which will give them an edge in the civil war among the
heroes. Tony’s day is a busy one: he stops by to oversee the
training of new heroes for the 50-State Initiative, visits the
criminal rehab unit, then ends up at the hospital where his old
friend Happy Hogan lies in a coma. Happy suffered brain damage at the
hands of the Spymaster (last issue) protecting Tony and the prognosis
is not good. Happy’s wife Pepper talks to Tony afterward and
describes a visit she once made with Happy to the Cauliflower Club, a
get-together of ex-boxers. There they saw Cobra McCoyle, a fighter
who was severely brain-damaged after too many blows to the head.
Pepper recalls that Happy said he never wanted to end up like that.
She appeals to Tony to use his new Extremis armor to shut off Happy’s
life support and give him a merciful death. Tony refuses and she
stalks out angrily.

Later, Tony rigs up a transmitter to
send Captain America a message to meet him at Yankee Stadium at
night. Cap arrives and Tony wants to know if Cap had anything to do
with what happened to Happy Hogan. Cap denies that he or any of his
team had anything to do with it. Suddenly the lights come on and Tony
is attacked by several renegade heroes. As Silhouette pulls Cap to
safety, Tony changes to Iron Man and easily takes out Luke Cage and
Ultragirl. In combat with Spider-Man, Iron Man reveals he was able to
manufacture his own “spider-sense”—and give Spidey a false
positive, distracting him long enough to blast him with his
repulsors.

Tony Stark returns home and pours
himself a drink of Scotch—which is suddenly knocked from his hand.
Invisible Woman appears before him and accuses him of manipulating
Reed, leading to the trouble in their marriage. He insists everyone
has paid a price in this civil war and she brings up Happy, which
sends Tony into a rage, putting his fist through a glass door. He
begs her to leave.
That night, as Tony Stark prays and
heroes all over the city try to snatch a few moments of peace from
the turmoil…Happy Hogan’s EKG flatlines….


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We start this issue with the ongoing flashback to what happened in the An Hu Po state asylum in Mongolia when the bad guys found Mandarin. Last issue he was given new plain rings to replace those in the possession of his son Temugin. He has no hands to wear them, so this issue we see Darius Faraz heating the 1st of the rings and plunging into Mandarin's spine (!). He expresses sorrow for the way he treated his son. We are left to assume the other rings are also attached to his spine.The rest of the issue is set in current time.Tony Stark is reviewing with Dum Dum Dugan what they know about the spree of seemingly-unconnected terrorist activities from previous issues. They have discovered that Faraz is supplying the terrorist groups with money and hi-tech weapons. He works for Karim Mahwash Najeeb, but both were previously last known going to the An Hu Po place some months ago. (They don't know that Faraz killed Najeeb and transferred his allegiance to Mandarin.) Stark says he can't get authorisation for a SHIELD mission into Mongolia.Dugan is more concerned about Tony's relationship with convicted terrorist Maya Hansen. Cut to a TV chat show about them, involving Miriam Sharpe who came to prominence after the Stamford disaster that kick-started the Civil War and formed the Victims of Superhuman Violence Foundation. And Maya herself gets a phone call from Secretary of Defense Jack Kooning asking for a meeting about her invention Extremis.Kooning asks her about her latest (supposedly-secret but leaked) Extremis report suggesting she can reduce the fatality rate from the high 90%'s to the 60%'s. He offers to give her a lab and a new identity where she can develop her ideas for the government. But Maya turns him down, because Stark got her out of prison.Tony's pacifist pal and X-O Sal Kennedy unexpectedly supports the idea of taking extreme steps to stop the terrorists who keep showing up with cyborg enhancements. He tells Tony it's either follow the trail to Mongolia or use Maya's ideas to produce something to trump the terrorists' bio-weapons. He accuses Stark of keeping Hansen close to suppress her Extremis research. Tony counters that they're now living together.Director of SHIELD Stark decides to authorise a Mongolian expedition off his own bat. He contacts Dugan, guessing correctly that Dum Dum has a plan already worked out. He arranges 'routine manoeuvres' for the helicarrier in the Sea of Japan. The 1st stage of the operation is depicted with Dum Dum describing the plan as a voiceover - until reality diverges from that plan.SHIELD is still expecting to find Najeeb in Mongolia. Iron Man and the armoured Alpha Team are taken there by stealth helicopters. They descend in camouflage mode and take out the guards with repulsor rifles set to stun. Their nano-cams won't work in the cold so they rely on the armour's phera-sense.This is where it starts to go wrong. The place seems deserted inside. They find Najeeb's body in the morgue. And a smelting forge in the operating theatre. Then they're attacked by inmates with cyborg enhancements, in berzerker mode because their minds have been slaved to a common purpose. The stun guns are ineffective so the troops switch to kill mode.Meanwhile Najeeb's body is airlifted to the helicarrier. Maya does an autopsy while Sal records the findings. She finds something has been surgically implanted in his chest. Suddenly a mass of red tentacles erupts.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark part three
The last 2 issues have been mainly about the recording Tony Stark's father Howard left which explained how Recorder 451 had modified Tony in Maria Stark's womb to save his unborn life, but also to give him gifts that would make him the man he grew into. The man capable of building weapons to keep Earth safe from aliens. But some Grey Aliens knew at least something of what was going on, and 451 persuaded Howard that he had to kill them to protect his family. Howard made the recording just before going on that mission in case he didn't make it back.Now 451 tells Tony what happened next. But we see it 1st-hand of course.The Grey Aliens are gathered in their Las Vegas casino Area 52. They had originally captured 451 and were intending to make money from the knowledge he contained. They really only want him back, and don't know anything about baby Stark. (451 was manipulating Howard for his own ends.) Although the boss is starting to think the child must be important, and intends to pass the information to his offworld superiors.In #10 Howard assembled a team to rescue 451 from the Greys. Now he calls on the same team to hit the aliens.Nessa the Kitten alerts the Grey boss to Howard and 451 outside Area 52. The other female team member known as the Bear sets off some explosives high up in Area 52's tower, which starts an evacuation of the building. Meanwhile Nessa bribes the Mayor's office to ignore what's happening as a publicity stunt. Including Dum Dum Dugan, Jimmy Woo and Thunderbolt Ross shooting at the tower from a fake flying saucer.Bear is holding the elevator for Stark and 451. But a grenade from a Grey kills her pet dogs. Then we discover why she's really called the Bear. She's some sort of were-bear, and cuts the attacking Greys to pieces. Then she calmly takes her 2 allies up in the elevator to the boss's office.Howard shoots the Grey boss, and 451 deletes the message he was about to send to his superiors, along with all data about the Starks. 451 persuades Stark that it's safe to let the other Greys go in their real UFO - they know nothing. But he's secretly booby-trapped the saucer to kill them all when they're far enough away. (He knew he couldn't convince Stark to kill them.)451 leaves for deep space, and Tony Stark is born.In the present day 451 has kidnapped Iron Man by controlling his space armour's AI PEPPER. We now learn more about his ulterior motive for designing Tony. He's going to create an ultra-deterrent for the protection of Earth.He tells his captive that he found a weapon left over from a very old war against the Celestials. He's been repairing it. The last piece he needed was the Heart of the Voldi, acquired in #8. Now all it needs is a pilot - Tony Stark.Part of his enhancements before he was born caused Tony to be interested in powered suits of armour. Now he's going to get one that's 5 miles tall, called the Godkiller.


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Believe 1: Demons and genies
Tony Stark's having a mid-life crisis. Pepper Potts complains that he's left her to run the Reslient company for weeks now, and there's no sign of him coming back to work. But Tony's questioning the whole basis of his life. Which doesn't stop him from picking up a girl in a bar.In Buenos Aires Maya Hansen is killed by an AIM agent. But not before she triggers a failsafe message which interrupts Tony's latest fling. The pre-recorded message indicates that someone has made her tell them about the Extremis process.Stark infiltrates an auction where AIM is selling Extremis. They tout it as a treatment that can be programmed to modify people in any way you choose. They detect him invading their system with a computer virus.Tony's briefcase contains a type of memory plastic, which expands to form a version of his new Iron Man armour. He faces some generic demo examples of Extremis-modded agents, just enhanced strength and speed with fiery breath. But Stark has had years to develop countermeasures to such simple versions, and takes them down with tasers.He persuades the AIM auctioneer to admit that they have already sold Extremis 4 times.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark: The best offense part four
We learn from Recorder 451's memories that it was witnessing the genocide of a peaceful race by the Skrulls that set him on his path to make a better universe. That path led him to interfere in the birth of Tony Stark, to make him a suitable pilot for the Godkiller. Now that his plan has failed, 451's only redeeming option was to send the giant Godkiller out of this universe, with himself and Stark aboard.The robotic 451 has now committed suicide, and is deleting his databases (which is a neat trick if you can do it after you're dead). The Godkiller is building up a space-time distortion to exit the universe, with the obligatory countdown clock. Iron Man understandably wants to escape, but only 451 knew the code to get the Godkiller to let him out.Tony gets his armour's AI PEPPER to fly him and 451's body to where his Armoury is parked in Godkiller's 'mouth'. There the intelligent vehicle/workshop starts to hack its way into 451's system. But PEPPER works out they don't have anywhere near enough time for that.Stark suddenly has an idea. He flies 451 to Death's Head's ship nearby, and gets that to continue the cyber-invasion. Tony remembers how the robot bounty hunter was evasive (in #9) about where he got his advanced tech from. He now gambles that Death's Head got it from 451 as part of the price for delivering Stark to him. He's right, and 451's own tech is able to extract the required info from 451's brain.Iron Man with 451's body and the Armoury are able to escape the Godkiller just as it pops out of our ken. And Tony gets PEPPER to contact the Guardians of the Galaxy to pick them up.3 months later Tony is saying goodbye to the Guardians to return to Earth. It seems he hasn't told them about the 'secret origin' part of his 451 adventure. He flies back home in the Armoury, with the body of 451.Back on Earth IM's priorities are a pizza, then contacting Pepper Potts. Pepper immediately claims there's a crisis he needs to deal with. When he gets home he finds that the 'crisis' is a hurriedly-arranged birthday party.After changing out of his armour, Tony meets Pepper's new fiancé Marc. But Stark ducks out of the party to go to the family vault where he searches through lots of old documents. Then he suits up again and flies off to investigate his suspicions about what really happened when his parents let 451 genetically modify him.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark: The best offense part one
The robot bounty hunter Death's Head pays in his reward for capturing Iron Man for Rigellian Recorder #451. While he's at the galactic mercenaries' bank he inquires if there's a bounty for any Rigellian Recorder, and discovers there's an enormous one outstanding for a few centuries for 451. Apparently he downloaded the whole Rigellian database, destroyed all backups and deleted chunks of it to cover-up what he was interested in.451 and Iron Man approach a Dyson sphere (an artificial sphere completely enclosing a star). It was built by the Aspirants, a race who we learned last issue challenged the Celestials cosmic ages ago. The Recorder says that they almost won. Before the war decimated them the Celestials were as numerous as the stars.On a planet inside the sphere stands the Aspirants' final weapon, the giant armour called the Godkiller. Recorder found the Godkiller in the Rigellian database, and in the centuries since he's been hunting missing components. The last one was the Heart of the Voldi that he acquired in #8.  And when he modified Tony Stark before his birth (in the last 3 issues) he made him into a pilot for the weapon.The Rigellian robot intends to put the Godkiller on Earth as a deterrent to stop aliens crushing humanity. He sees Earth and humanity as the source of a future empire to bring universal peace. (Yeah, history says that's a likely outcome!)451 controls the Iron Man armour via its PEPPER AI, and makes Tony put the Voldi Heart in place within the Godkiller. He activates the armoured giant, which immediately blasts off into space, wrecking the world and the Dyson sphere. It needs a pilot to reign it in.The Recorder explains that the Aspirants designed the Godkiller to prevent its pilot from using it against them. I think this also involves some of the genetic tampering 451 did to Tony the foetus. But even if Stark overcomes all that and uses the Godkiller to kill 451, another genetic tweak should ensure that Tony will carry out the Rigellian's plan anyway, because it makes sense to him.But before 451 can give Iron Man control of the really big giant, the much-smaller giant Death's Head enters to 'arrest' the Recorder. 451 uses PEPPER to defend himself with Iron Man's weapons, until Stark tells Death's Head to blast him out of the room with his big gun.With Iron Man out of reach 451 has to fight Death's Head his own way. He dodges the bounty hunter's blasts as he mentally tries to defeat his hacking defences. Eventually he gets through and freezes Death's Head in his tracks.Meanwhile PEPPER is helping Stark, as long as it doesn't contravene the prohibitions imposed on her by 451. He can't attack 451 or the Godkiller, or attempt to leave. So instead (I think) they search for a place where they will be shielded from his direct control.


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The godkiller conclusion
In the last 2 issues, on his space trek, Iron Man saved the Voldi Tear spaceship/world from robot space pirates, but was then sentenced to death by the Voldi for killing one of their gods, the Phoenix Force (in Avengers vs X-Men). Rigellian Recorder 451 advised him to opt for trial by combat. Tony Stark defeated a series of Voldi champions (using moves taught him by Captain America among others), while the Recorder went in search of the Iron Man armour. But then the Voldi played their trump card, Death's Head the 30ft robot bounty hunter. And the Recorder went after the Voldi Heart, which we have learnt protected the Voldi from cosmic beings, rather than the armour.Unarmoured Stark spends the latest bout barely managing to dodge his opponent. He tries complaining that the Voldi have cheated, because his opponents were supposed to be unenhanced (and Tony couldn't use his armour). Death's Head reasonably points out he's not using any of his weaponry, but his 30ft metal body is him.Recorder 451 is about to leave in his spaceship with the stolen Heart. But before he goes he activates Stark's armour and tells its PEPPER AI to rescue Tony. The armour breaks into the combat arena, blasts Death's Head, enclothes its master and they make their escape.Iron Man heads back to his mobile armoury, followed by Voldi Mechanohoplite robots. Tony messages ahead to tell it to ready the warp-homer gun. On arrival Stark adds the gun to his armour, and starts potting the robots.Meanwhile the Voldi Tear gets a visit from Celestials, who they know as Star Giants. Normally this would be a time of joy, but this time the Celestials attack the spaceship. The Voldi Supreme Justicar goes to check on the Heart, which should be protecting them, and of course finds it's not there.At the same time the remaining Mechanohoplites stop dead, and PEPPER tells Tony she detects an attack on the Tear. Despite the fact they wanted to excute him, hero Iron Man heads back to help the Voldi. But a message from the Recorder warns him not to bother.We learnt last issue that the Voldi drain energy from powerful beings like the Celestials. 451 makes clear that the Heart kept such beings from noticing. Now that he has taken the Heart, the Celestials can sense what the Voldi are doing. The Recorder likens them to a parasite such as a leech. The parasite may well honour its host as a providing god. (The Phoenix Force was another of the Voldi's energy sources.) But the Celestials are now squashing the parasite.By the time Iron Man reaches the site there are no survivors and the Celestials are gone.Recorder 451 explains that this whole 3-issue story was engineered by himself to get hold of the Heart to use as a cloaking device. He arranged for the robot pirate attack to get Iron Man into the Voldi ship. Then he told the Voldi about the death of the Phoenix Force, to use the trial-by-combat as a distraction.He reminds Stark that this Recorder has pledged to act rather than just record, to combat evil. The Heart will enable him to be much more effective. The death of the Voldi was justified by the good he will do.Recorder 451 takes his leave. But Iron Man swears to get justice for the Voldi. (But not, I think, in the storyline starting next issue.)


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The secret origin of Tony Stark part two
The largest part of this issue is the continuation of the flashback story of Rigellian Recorder #451 and Tony Stark's parents. It's bracketed by modern-day scenes of a minor space battle and some chat between 451 and Tony.In the flashback Maria Stark is pregnant with the future Tony, but there's a genetic problem which means the baby probably won't survive the birth. Last issue Howard Stark rescued 451 from a gang of grey aliens on Earth, expecting that the robot's fund of advanced alien tech will include a solution for their problem.The Recorder tells them he can cure the child. But he has conditions. He explains that alien empires and powers (not the grey aliens who aren't worth thinking about) have noticed Earth, and its burgeoning nuclear power, mutants and supernatural beings. By the time their son has grown up these aliens will be poised to crush the Earth in a preemptive strike. And humanity won't have developed weapons advanced enough to stop them.451 can't openly give humans advanced weaponry, or the alien powers will strike now. But he can modify the Stark foetus to make Tony an even greater inventive genius than Howard. Stark Sr is understandably worried that the robot will secretly do other stuff to their baby. 451 can't prove that he won't. But he'll show Howard everything he does. And the Recorder also admits that he has an ulterior, but altruistic, motive. He believes that Humanity will be a great force for peace and good in the universe. And their son can ensure that this happens.Over the next 5 months leading up to the birth Recorder #451 performs a series of genetic modifications. As well as fixing the original genetic disorder, he makes the baby as clever as its species will allow, including installing the 'Leonardo assembly' which presumably makes him a polymath like Da Vinci. Some particular enhancements bring with them side-effects. Concentrating on practicality (ie engineering rather than pure science) degrades his sense of wonder (?!). And sensory enhancements make him susceptible to addiction.As Tony is being born, some of the grey aliens Howard liberated 451 from find them. Stark and the robot deal with them, but not before they report back to their base. The Recorder informs Howard that the aliens will now be after his son. And Stark Sr prepares to go after them and wipe them out.In the present 451 has Tony Stark captive in a stolen Badoon warship. He has taken control of the Iron Man armour and its AI PEPPER, but allows Tony some freedom of action. The robot needs Stark for some big plan.They are approaching an unspecified destination, but are detected even through the ship's  cloaking device. They are attacked by a bunch of drone ships. 451 believes Iron Man stands a much better chance of destroying the unmanned drones that the whole Badoon warship. And Tony could do it much better than 451 operating the armour remotely. Stark doesn't want to help whatever 451 is planning (given that it already involved the genocide of the Voldi in #8). But the robot plays on his ego by suggesting that surely he'll be able to outwit 451 later if he keeps them both alive now. And anyway, 451's plan is important for the good of the whole universe!So Iron Man nips out and blasts all the drones to smithereens.Back in the spaceship Tony still doesn't believe what the video recording told him (the flashbacks in this and last issue), despite the fact that the information was narrated by his father, with 451 standing by his side. 451 insists that he designed Tony to be a genius who could make weapons that could defeat alien armadas. He contrasts him with other superhero geniuses like Reed Richards and Hank Pym who are men of peace. And people like Dr Doom and AIM can't hold a candle to him.451 also confirms that he built something else into Stark as well. Something that is necessary for his own plan.We learn that the video that is the source of the flashbacks was recorded by Howard Stark just before he went off to fight the grey aliens, in case he didn't come back. So we now know everything that was in it. But 451 now prepares to tell Tony what happened next.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark: The best offense part two
Rigellian Recorder 451 designed Tony Stark from birth to control the enormously-big Godkiller robot left over from an aeons-old war against the Celestials. He wants the Godkiller to protect Earth from alien empires so that humanity can one day have its own galactic empire which will be a force for peace and goodness (yay us!). But Tony doesn't want to play ball. Unfortunately 451 has hacked PEPPER, the AI of the Iron Man space armour, so he can make Tony do whatever he wants.Fortunately 451 has a price on his head, and the just-plain-big robot bounty hunter Death's Head has come to take him in for the reward. During the fight Iron Man arranged to be pushed down a miles-long lift shaft inside the Godkiller, to get away from the Rigellian robot. But 451 has now managed to hack Death's Head, and now controls him. Now read on.Tony tells PEPPER to switch off, leaving the Iron Man armour under his manual control. Then he discards the helmet with the AI in it (presumably so 451 has no chance to regain control).451 only has limited access to Godkiller's systems, unlike what Stark would have. But he now has control of Death's Head. The situation is akin to what he had with Tony and the Iron man armour. He can make Death's Head's body do whatever he wants, but the bounty hunter still has independent thought and speech. Specifically, as with PEPPER, Death's Head must follow orders and not attack 451.The 2 robots seem to find Iron Man quite quickly, and 451 sets his slave to capture Stark. During the chase Death's Head gets chatty, and informs Tony that he tracked them to the Godkiller by using a homing device in Stark's mobile armoury. He also tells him where it is within the Godkiller. This is good news for Tony, and 451 orders the bounty hunter to stop talking before he (deliberately) gives their prey any more helpful information.Iron Man hops on a service elevator platform, heading for his armoury up in Godkiller's mouth. 451 and Death's Head follow on another platform. Apparently manual control doesn't allow Tony to use any of his armour's weapons (or his boot jets). But a bit of hotwiring gets his palm repulsors working, and he blasts one of 451's arms off, and 451 off his platform.451 doesn't care because he can fly. But Death's Head sees another opportunity to use a loophole in 451's commands. He leaps and enfolds the Rigellian in his arms, and his weight sends the 2 plunging back down the shaft. He claims he's using his own body to protect 451 from more blasts from Iron Man.451 orders Death's Head to let him go, and flies upwards leaving the big robot to his death-plunge. But Stark has disappeared and 451 can't find him again without Death's Head (presumably with some sort of general bounty hunter tracking skill). And if Stark reaches his armoury he will have a stash of weapons at his disposal.The Recorder tries another tack. He uses his limited access to order the Godkiller to destroy Hope's Pustule (the mercenary planet where Death's Head learned of the bounty on 451's head last issue). He lets Stark see what is happening, knowing that he'll try to stop it. Tony knows 451 is fully willing to go through with planet-cide as he already caused the destruction of the Voldi world in #8.Tony tries to disable the Godkiller by removing the Heart of the Voldi which powers it (which 451 stole from the Voldi in #8), but to no avail. Then, as 451 expected, Tony reluctantly puts the planet-busting robot's control device on his head. (It was established last issue that linking himself with the Godkiller will make Tony take on the Godkiller's role, partly because of what 451 did to Tony as a foetus.)However Tony finds that he doesn't get control of the Godkiller. But 451 thinks he's bluffing. Even when Godkiller destroys the planet.451 believes he needs to raise the stakes to get Stark to stop 'bluffing'. So he aims Godkiller at Earth.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark prologue
The Guardians of the Galaxy have been looking for Recorder 451 for weeks, to bring him to book for the destruction of the Voldi last issue. Now Iron Man takes leave of Star-Lord to continue the search on his own. He's arranged to meet the robot bounty hunter Death's Head on a planetoid called Hope's Pustule.Death's Head was on the Voldi Tear worldship with Iron Man when 451 stole the Heart of Voldi, the cloaking device which kept cosmic beings like the Phoenix Force and the Celestials from noticing that the Voldi were siphoning power from them. Then the Celestials squashed the Voldi like a parasite last issue, wiping them out.The 30ft robot bounty hunter agrees to track 451 for Iron Man, after receiving an advance payment. The pair take Death's Head's ship to the ruins of the Voldi Tear, and follow the trail of 451's ship from there. The trail ends at a drifting Badoon warship. Before they go in the big robot confirms that Iron Man sanctions killing 451 if necessary. (He also checks that the Armoured Avenger isn't a robot racist, who only agrees to the kill because 451 is a mechanoid.)Inside the warship they find the Badoon have all committed suicide. There's neuro-active gas in the air, do 451 probably caused this. They spot the Recorder approaching, and lie in wait. But when 451 draws level with them, he greets Death's Head and hands him a payment. And Tony Stark finds his armour obeying the Recorder's commands. (Presumably 451 tinkered with the PEPPER AI when he retrieved the suit for Stark last issue.)It turns out that the bounty hunter was working for the Recorder all along. Stark offers to double what 451 paid, but Death's Head returns Tony's downpayment saying that he's an ethical robot who can't be bribed.After Death's Head leaves, 451 explains that he had to get Stark to come here voluntarily, or the Guardians would come to rescue him. This is all part of the big plan he mentioned last issue. And he's been working on that plan for a long time.The Recorder now shows Tony a recording of Tony's father Howard Stark. Howard addresses his son, and says that he and Tony's mother did something for the sake of Earth's future. And now Tony needs to hear about it. And the old film recording pans back to show Recorder 451 standing by Stark Sr's side.


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Believe 3: It makes us stronger
As we saw in the last 2 issues, Tony Stark has left running the Resilient company to Pepper Potts, and is spending his time tinkering (this time he's invented  a new(?) way of making a toasted cheese sandwich). More significantly, as we have also seen, he's moved away from the morphing Extremis-type armour to a modular form. He now explains that he can custom-make each modular unit better than the liquid-metal Extremis system could. But the downside is he has to decide what modules to incorporate before going on a mission. (Unless like last time he can take a stockpile of spare modules.)Another thing we learned at the beginning of this run was that AIM sold Extremis technology to 4 customers (before Iron Man shut them down), after killing its inventor Maya Hansen to get it. Tony took the tech back from one customer in #2, now he's going after another. Once again Pepper asks him why he doesn't just leave it to SHIELD. His reply this time is that he owes it to Maya.This time the Extremis signal (planted in the tech by Maya) is coming from the estate of Colombian drug boss Juan Carlos Valencia. There was a transmission from there some days ago, but it stopped. Maya's signal indicated the user died. Now there's another occurrence.Tony plans to infiltrate Valencia's compound, and steal Extremis back. So he chooses stealth modules (including silent weaponry), leaving behind the big guns and all but limited defensive capabilities. Once again he's dressed in the armour by the new version of the JARVIS AI, which has improved its speech a lot since last issue.Iron Man sneaks into the compound using a lightbender function to blend into the background. He overhears an exchange of passwords. Then he uses a hologram function to simulate one of the guards, and the password to get inside the house.Maya's signal can't tell him where the Extremis tech is kept, only where the user is. So Tony homes in on that. Another function gets him through a lock, and he finds a female hospital patient. Figuring she's being experimented on against her will, he offers to help her escape. But she calls for guards.These guards aren't just the mercenary types he passed on the way in. Valencia knew Stark was hunting Extremis users, and was prepared for Iron Man. Tony is attacked by Living Laser, followed by Firebrand and Vibro. Still sporting their specialised suits upgraded by Ezekiel Stane (with non-Extremis Stark tech) in the Mandarin storyline that occupied Iron Man's title since Fear Itself.This version of the Iron Man armour doesn't have the raw power to defeat these 3. But gas takes out Firebrand and Vibro. Laser's photon body isn't susceptible to this. But this armour's weak repulsors are still enough to knock him down (though they'd be useless against armoured foes like Titanium Man).Tony figures that the trio were really here protecting Extremis itself. So he tracks back the holes in walls Living Laser created on his way here, and Iron Man finds the tech he came for. And finds Valencia as well. Laser comes in for another round, but Valencia chooses instead to throw himself on Iron Man's mercy.It turns out Juan's daughter Juliana is dying from a form of cancer that corrupts the body's repair function. But Extremis works by overwriting that repair function with one which gives selected superhuman abilities. All Valencia wants is to give his daughter back an ordinary repair function.Valencia tried the approach on 2 patients with similar problems. One was too ill and died. The other has recovered. But Juliana is too much like the first guinea pig, and isn't doing very well.Stark tells Valencia that Maya had an improvement to Extremis that AIM didn't get. And Tony has access to it. They do a deal. Stark cures Juliana, and gets the Extremis tech. And Valencia voluntarily goes to jail.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark: Conclusion
Tony Stark is listening to a recording left for him by his dead father, while driving to the Maria Stark Foundation Hospice. Howard Stark is trying to find the words to confess something to his son. But Tony cuts it off when he arrives, because he's already been through it before.Cut to a flashback to #11 where Howard and Maria Stark were considering whether to accept Recorder 451's offer to save their unborn son's life by advanced genetic manipulation, and at the same time make him a genius who would build weapons to defend Earth from aliens. We now see what we didn't then, that the couple didn't trust 451 but they'd accept his offer and Howard would keep a close eye on what the Recorder did.Near the end of the process Howard noticed that 451 had sneaked in an extra modification. He couldn't work out what it would do, but could tell that it would switch on during maturity. He feared that 451 had installed a suicide switch to limit the child's life. But whatever it was, if 451 kept it secret then Howard didn't want it, so he negated the mod without telling his wife. And 451 left without detecting the change.The baby was born in #12 and the initial sequence ended with 451 gone and the parents considering the baby's name. But the flashback now continues with the baby quickly getting ill. The diagnosis was that he'd need continuous medical support to live. Howard had to confess to Maria what he'd done, which didn't go down well. They realised they'd have to keep the baby hidden so that 451 wouldn't find out.In the present Tony is in the Hospice remembering more of what Howard's recorded message had said. How they needed another baby to cover for their son's absence. The problem that they'd originally brought 451 in to solve meant that they couldn't have another child naturally. So they had to adopt - Tony.And Tony enters a hospice room containing a man in a life support machine. Arno Stark, a brother he never knew he had.Arno can't speak, and has to communicate by keyboard. But otherwise he looks OK, just a bit haggard. And he turns out to be even more of a genius than his brother.They discuss stuff. Tony now realises why Howard had always been distant from him. He tells Arno that 451 is dead, so he doesn't have to be a secret any more. And Arno has lots of ideas, that he and Tony will now be able to realise together.


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The secret origin of Tony Stark part one
Last issue our space-going hero tracked down Recorder 451 to bring him to justice for the Voldi genocide in #8. But 451 turned the tables because he had previously infiltrated the armour's AI PEPPER. So now he has captured Iron Man in his spacecraft. And the alien robot started showing Tony Stark a video recording he made with Tony's father Howard a long time ago.As this issue opens Tony has finished watching the recording, protesting that he can't believe what he's heard. We will only learn part of what it contained this issue, framed by hints of the Recorder's current plan.In the flashback Howard and Maria Stark are expecting a baby, but are told that there is something wrong with it. It is unlikely to be born, and that might be the preferable outcome. Howard won't accept this, and seeks help from any source including the High Evolutionary on Wundagore Mountain, Isaac Newton in the Eternal City, and a representative of the 7 Cities of Heaven. But none can offer him a solution, at least not without unwelcome side-effects.At last he gets a promise from Rollo, a low-ranking member of a group of disguised 'grey aliens' who secretly run the Area 52 casino in Las Vegas. The greys have captured Recorder 451 and they have him in restraints, but he's powered himself down inside a force field they can't crack. However, recently 451 woke up and offered Rollo a personal deal in return for contacting a load of specific humans, one of which was Howard Stark. And Rollo says the Recorder is a mine of technical info. If anyone knows how to cure the Starks' future son, he will.Stark puts together a crew to steal the robot. He recruits Jimmy Woo of the FBI, Dum-Dum Dugan of the CIA (Nick Fury wasn't available), Lt Thunderbolt Ross of US Special Forces, along with 2 females we've never seen before:- Nessa the Kitten and a demolitions expert called the Bear. Together with Howard and Rollo they are the Stark Seven.Nessa, Dugan and Ross openly enter the casino, and then slip out of sight. This alerts security. The big boss calls in Rollo as the grey most likely to have betrayed them. Under pressure Rollo admits to giving the team the security codes to get to the Recorder. A security camera shows that 451 isn't in the shackles that held him. The boss can't believe this because only he has the final code to release the robot. But he rushes there to confirm it. Rollo volunteers that he's due to meet the thieves to get his payoff and all the greys hurry off, disguising themselves with image inducers.After they've gone Stark and Woo appear in the room. They were there all the while, hidden by image inducers Howard copied from Rollo's. Recorder 451 is also still there in his restraints, also rendered invisible. This was all a ploy to get the boss's code. Jimmy radios the other 'distraction' team to escape, and then they bring in the Bear to blow up 451's shackles. The bast also blows a hole in the roof, and Maria Stark picks them up in a helicopter.On the way out 451 asks Stark what happened to Rollo. Howard says that the alien will pretend that he's been double-crossed by the humans. The Recorder doesn't think that'll work. Indeed the boss has Rollo killed, for either being a fool or a traitor.In the present the Recorder gets the spaceship moving (its AI is a bit uncooperative because it's a Badoon warship, and 451 killed its crew last issue). We've had hints that the robot had a hand in Tony's birth. And now Iron Man will be part of the Recorder's big plan to save the universe, which included causing the Celestials to destroy the Voldi last issue.


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Believe 5: Men of the world
Reslient CEO Pepper Potts shows Tony Stark the new Resilient phone, but Tony wants to know whatever happened to the idea of free energy via repulsor technology that he promised the world (back in Iron Man (2008) #25). Pepper says they're working on it, but meanwhile they need the phone to make the money to support the research.Pepper changes the subject to the last detectable batch of Extremis users. She's worked out that they are in orbit. Tony says he'd already figured that out, and admits he'd been reluctant to go after them because he's guessed who they are. But now he straps on his modular Iron Man armour and heads into space.It turns out that the orbiting space station is run by an old friend Eli, who was young Tony's mentor after his father died. Eli had always had a dream of getting into space.Stark accuses Eli of buying the Extremis process off AIM, who had tortured Maya Hansen to get it. Extremis is too potentially dangerous to leave in anyone's hands. Iron Man is here to destroy it.Eli counters that he didn't pay AIM anything. He stole Extremis, as he has most of his other technology. He likens himself to Robin Hood, stealing from the present rich to give space travel to future generations. He reminds his friend that the US government stopped exploring space after the Moon landings. They and big business are too short-sighted to do it. He claims that only super-heroes have been back to space since then. But it's Eli's vision that will propel mankind itself to its destiny in the stars.His crew is a mixture of scientists and thieves, and they have all been modified by Extremis to survive better in space. E.g. they have radiation resistance. Later they will add adaptations to enable them to live on individual other planets and moons.Stark is very sympathetic to Eli's goal. But he can't afford to leave Extremis where someone like Dr Doom might get hold of it. So he still going to destroy their source of the virus/process.Eli and crew draw their weapons and attack Iron Man. But with no effect. Stark had reasoned that they wouldn't risk explosive weapons on a space station. So he had correctly equipped his armour with counter measures to an ECM (Elrectronic Counter Measure) assault.Iron Man disables his opponents with tasers. Then he destroys their Extremis device. But he leaves them with their current modifications, so they can continue to explore space.Weeks later Tony and Pepper discuss Stark's recent feeling that he's been wasting his life. Whether for good or ill, all the characters from these last 4 issues were at least pursuing their goals. And Eli's dream struck a chord with Tony, so he makes a decision. He dons another armour, this one specifically designed for extended space travel. (The AI in this suit seems to be different from JARVIS of the previous issues, and is called PEPPER.) And Iron Man heads out for deep space.