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Hidden in plain sight - part 5 of 5
When the Watcher's Eye exploded a building full of people with drug-expanded minds absorbed loads of the secrets released. The villain Hood persuaded Hulkling, Marvel Boy and Prodigy of the Young Avengers to help him extract the secrets, saying that hidden among them could be stuff like cures for diseases. However he double-crossed them by uploading the data to the internet, encrypted with a key only he knew. He intended to make a load of money out of some of those secrets. When Marvel Boy detected this partway through processing the druggies the YA turned on Hood. But he used his demonic powers to KO Hulkling and Noh-Varr and then he made Prodigy continue the processing.Now David Alleyne is dealing with the last 1 with the cut-down Cerebro he created. Hood hasn't noticed that MB is awake and just waiting for Teddy Altman to recover. Which he does now and the pair subdue Hood. Parker Robbins reminds them that he's set a dead-man's switch to release the decryption key to the world so that everybody's secrets will be available to everybody else, including their enemies. But Prodigy figures that he'll have set quite a long time before that happens so they'll bank on beating the location of the switch out of him before it goes off. However Hood turns demon-face again. MB starts to beat him but he uses his magic cloak to turn them both invisible. Hulkling dives on where they were but of course winds up grabbing Noh, and Hood escapes.Prodigy lets the other 2 wallow in their defeat for a minute before revealing that Hood *hasn't* won. He expected (just as they all did) Hood to betray them, so he prepared for it. While he was creating the Cerebrat out of the equipment the villain provided he had plenty of time to examine it and discover the built-in encryption and change it. But not to a different key. With enough computer power even military-grade encryption can be cracked, and the whole world would be trying to crack this. Instead he used a 1-time pad, adding a different random number to every piece of data, so it's uncrackable.Later Hulkling imitates Agent Phil Coulson again and calls SHIELD to look after the junkies. And Prodigy goes home. But when he gets there we learn that he's memorised all those random numbers so *he* can decrypt the data. And now he can search it for cures, even 1 for Hood's mom.Story 1:- How The World Works featuring Nick FuryScript Al Ewing. Pencils Butch Guice. Inks Scott Hanna. Colours Matthew Wilson.Nick Fury's in his secret Man On The Wall space station trying to torture Watcher's secrets out of the Orb, but Dum Dum Dugan interrupts him. Fury's age has caught up with him now he no longer has the Infinity Formula in his blood, and he's dying. Dum Dum points out that *his* Infinity Formula is still going strong so why don't they do a blood transfusion. Orb laughs because DDD obviously doesn't know the truth.Nick leads his old friend to room TACD-66 with passcode Strongman. (TACD stands for Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader Dugan and we'll now learn what the 66 means. And he used to be a circus strongman.) He shows him an LMD under construction labelled Dugan Unit XIV. And he tells Tim that he died in 1966 while the 2 of them were stopping Count Otto Vermis of Hydra using a death ray on Fort Knox. Fury was already the Man On The Wall then and he had alien tech which enabled him to create LMDs much superior to SHIELD's. So he revived him as an LMD to be his conscience to keep him from going too far. And kept doing it each time an LMD died.Dugan tries to shoot Fury but finds he's preprogrammed not to. He declares that he's not Fury's conscience just his hairshirt. He makes Nick feel guilty each time he does stuff like torture or execution without trial, because Fury thinks that feeling guilty means he's still 1 of the good guys. He can't afford to hold the morals and values and rights they fought for in WWII because that's not how the world works. He suggests that Fury himself is the worst threat humanity faces. Then he shoots his own LMD brains out after begging Nick not to revive him again. But Nick says he's sorry, that's not how the world works.Story 3:- The No-Sin Situation featuring lots of peopleScript/Pencils/Inks/Colours Chip ZdarskyNick Fury interviews lots of Marvel chars asking them what secret of theirs the Watcher's Eye may have revealed. He promises them whatever they say will be off the record (despite having a stenographer present). (And he also breaks the 4th wall to say it won't be considered in-continuity.)Gambit admits he's not really French, he just uses the accent to be cool.She-Hulk says she never passed the bar.Rick Jones says he knew about the gamma bomb. Playing his guitar while in danger is his secret fetish.Luke Cage hates sweets and Christmas.Punisher admits it was his idea to go to the park where his family died. And he still likes parks.Storm says that after a romance with a weatherman ended she ruined his career.Magneto admits he doesn't really control metal he just asks it to do what he wants.Black Panther claims to be above regretting actions, even after Fury shows him the Avril Lavigne CDs they found in his possession.Kingpin says he likes Matt Murdock and feels bad about stuff.Beast says he's writing a pitch for a TV cop show called Stars & Garters which he drops hints about by using it as a catchphrase.Teen Jean Grey (currently here from the past) knows that her future self will murder a race of aliens and sleep with Wolverine.Hawkeye says he once claimed to be good at boats when he wasn't.Silver Surfer admits to having snacked on a few planets when he was Herald Of Galactus.Sub-Mariner admits to peeing in the ocean but clams up when Fury suggests he might take a dump there too.Scarlet Witch says she meant "No! *More* mutants!".The Watcher claims to have faked his death.Squirrel Girl says she hates squirrels.Blade admits to sometimes killing people who aren't vampires because he likes killing.Dr Strange says his real surname is Strangowski but he changed it because he wanted to be in a heavy metal band.The real Nick Fury enters and shoots the other guy who's an LMD with the eye-patch on the wrong eye.


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Hidden in plain sight - part 2 of 5
Last issue SHIELD evacuated the whole(?!) of NYC after the Watcher's eye exploded scattering secrets everywhere. Young Avengers Hulkling, Marvel Boy and Prodigy saw a raving woman in 1 apartment building but when they entered it seemed empty. Until invisible criminal Hood attacked them. The intro to this episode says that they now know that he's kept all the inhabitants invisible.They've been fighting the now-visible villain and they've just broken through a wall to the outside. Parker Robbins makes them pause because he wants to tell them something, but then turns partly invisible and 'flies' away. Prodigy theorises that his partial visibility is because they ripped his cloak. But he can only remain invisible while he holds his breath, which is why last issue he had a tracheal tube.Marvel Boy uses his alien insectoid powers to scale a wall after the villain while Hulkling uses *his* alien shape-shifting to grow wings and fly after him. Teddy Altman gets there 1st and grabs Hood's visible leg while an invisible fist punches Noh-Varr in the face. And then 2 invisible guns fire at Hulkling making him let go. David Alleyne has climbed up a fire escape to join them on the roof and points out that Hood isn't actually flying but walking up an imaginary stairway.Angry Hulkling flies after the foe ignoring the ping of bullets. Suddenly Hood becomes fully visible in midair gasping for breath. He's still levitating because apparently that's a function of his magic boots. But Teddy grabs him and carries him down to the others with crushed guns. Parker Robbins then claims that he was keeping a building-full of people unconscious and invisible for their own safety. And he tells them a story ...His cousin John called high on something but begging for help, and he knew stuff about Parker that he'd never told him. So he went round and found a building full of druggies spouting other people's secrets. He pieced together what must have happened from the internet. The Avengers were fighting Exterminatrix and the Watcher was involved. Then something happened which spread secrets the Watcher had observed all over the City. (A brief summary of Original Sin #1-3.) When that wave of secrets hit this building full of drug-expanded minds they soaked the secrets up. Then he heard that SHIELD were rounding people up so he used his power to hide John and his friends so SHIELD would think the place was empty.He now claims that the info in the druggies' brains is killing them but if they could extract it that would save them but would also be good for the whole planet. The Watcher watches the whole universe so buried in all that data is probably things like a cure for cancer. Teddy suggests they just hand them over to SHIELD and *they*'ll do the job but Hood won't hear of that! He turns to Prodigy who he reminds them has absorbed all the knowledge of the X-Men including Charles Xavier. And he pulls out 2 other guns he must have had concealed somewhere and tells Prodigy to build him a copy of Prof X's Cerebro machine to read the druggies' minds with.Story 1:- Black Legacy starring Black KnightScript Frank Tieri. Pencils/inks Raffaele Ienco. Colours Brad AndersonA woman named Rebecca Stevens is banging on Dane Whitman's apartment door standing on a pile of unaccepted newspapers, mail and parcels telling him she knows his secret. She's the author of Black Knight, Black Legacy - a book exploring the history and fates of those who have born the Ebony Blade over the centuries. They met at last year's opening of the Black Knight Museum and she warned him of what lay in store for him. He dismissed her then as a "looney hack". She says that all of them became addicted to killing with the Blade and they all met a grisly end. He seems to be the exception but now she knows he isn't.She was affected by the Watcher's exploding eye (Original Sin #2) and she learned how he stopped a petty criminal in Savage Steel armour and he hacked and stabbed the man repeatedly. Doctors kept the man alive but he may never come out of his coma. And now Dane has shut himself away for weeks as if he's afraid to come out. She says she wants to help him beat the curse. He should give the Blade to the Avengers or SHIELD and get help to beat the addiction.Inside the apartment we see Dane in his underwear with hack marks all over the door and walls. He's holding the Ebony Blade but sinks to the floor. He tells her to go away because he's got it under control.Story 3:- Before Your Eyes starring Howard The DuckScript/pencils/inks Ty Templeton. Colours Paul Mounts.Howard The Duck stopped his car to avoid a squirrel and now his malfunctioning airbag has propelled him through the sunroof high into the air. As he soars he reviews a memory he's just had from the Watcher's exploding eye that as a baby duckling on Duckworld he was a precocious scientific genius. But this just got him beaten up by other ducklings so he eschewed all learning and just got a Liberal Arts degree. Now as he heads towards the ground he drags out his forgotten maths/physics basics, grabs hold of a power pole and swings to bounce off an awning ...... and lands in a dumpster with a broken hip.


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Hidden in plain sight - part 4 of 5
The demonic villain Hood found a building full of junkies whose 'expanded' minds had been filled with secrets spilling from the Watcher's exploded Eye. He used his invisibility cloak to hide them from SHIELD Agents. But when Young Avengers Hulkling, Marvel Boy and Prodigy turned up he persuaded them to help him extract all those secrets (from all over the multiverse) on the grounds that some of them might include stuff like cures for diseases. Prodigy built a cut-down Cerebro from bits and pieces and they tried it on the 1st druggie.They continue to process the junkies. 1 of them seems to know what happened to the Marie Celeste. From another we hear that an early Doombot went back in time and broke down and it inspired the design of the Antikythera device. Meanwhile Marvel Boy texts Kate Bishop and America Chavez but can't persuade them to join the gang. And Teddy Altman texts Billy Kaplan and encourages him to continue his studying.But eventually Noh-Varr's advanced Kree cellphone detects what Hood is secretly doing and he hits him. He tells them that the parts the villain supplied to build the Cerebrat from have taken the Watcher data from the subjects' minds, encrypted it and uploaded it to the internet. Now MB threatens Hood to get the decryption key.Hood claims he really does want the info for medical cures, especially for his mentally ill mother. But he admits he *also* wants it for other secrets that he can use for nefarious purposes. He's not only uploaded the files but he's made them generally available. Loads of people have probably copied them already. He's also set up a dead man's switch so if anything happens to him the decryption key will be broadcast too. All the people, governments and organisations with big secrets that might be in there will be highly motivated to keep him alive.But the YA don't care about that so Hulkling and Marvel Boy attack him anyway. However he turns on his demon face and powers and zaps the pair. And tells Prodigy to keep on processing the druggies.Story 1:- Checkmate featuring Dr DoomScript:- James Robinson. Pencils/inks Alex Maleev. Colours Cris Peter.A sleazy investment broker named Gil Carmichael tells his friend Jerry Patton that he's come into possession of secret that will turn him from a millionaire to a billionaire. He'd heard that James Tanner had committed suicide after losing everything though following his advice, but not before Gil had his commission. Then he happened to walk past a superhero battle in midtown. He tried to back away from it but was caught in the blast from an explosion. And he suddenly found himself with memories belonging to Dr Doom with which he can blackmail him for a lot of money.Jerry thinks it's madness to think he can outsmart Doom. From what he's heard Doom will have a counterplan in place before Gil has even worked out what he's going to do. But Gil says he's left evidence with his lawyer, his wife, his mistress and his bank manager and he'll let Doom know it without specifying the people involved. Then he calls to make an appointment with the villain himself.When he gets to the Latverian embassy the receptionist tells him that Victor Von Doom has flown in specially from Latveria to meet him. While he's waiting he gets a call from his lawyer's secretary to say that he's committed suicide. He calls his mistress but silence answers the phone. He calls his wife to tell her to get away but she tells him that a suicide bomber blew up his bank, and then her phone goes dead. He calls Jerry to go to his apartment and check his wife's OK but a cop answers.And then he's taken in to see Dr Doom.Story 3:- Catharsis featuring an unnamed characterScript David Abadia & Pablo Dura. Pencils/inks/colours Erica Henderson.A man is attending the 4th Annual We Can Be Heroes Parade in Alacantown NY when he sees someone dressed as Captain America at the same time as getting a memory (courtesy of the Watcher's Eye?) of an Inuit boy (himself) relieving himself against a block of ice. Then the boy looks up and sees Cap frozen in that ice (see the original Avengers #4). Now in the present he's ashamed of what he did.


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Hidden in plain sight - part 1 of 5
In Brooklyn Teddy Altman (Hulkling) learns via the internet about Exterminatrix fighting loads of heroes in Manhattan (see Original Sin #2-3). He contacts fellow member of the Young Avengers David Alleyn (Prodigy) by text message and they agree that Noh-Varr (Marvel Boy) should be told what his ex-girlfriend is doing. But MB doesn't respond to text or even to an actual voice call.We see that Noh-Varr (an alien Kree from another timeline) is in his space station drowning his sorrows in pizza and sad music over breaking up with Kate Bishop (Hawkeye). But genius Prodigy hacks into his space shuttle and gets it to pick him and Teddy up and take them there. They show Noh what's happening and he decides to go down to investigate. David wants to stay in space but Noh's not happy leaving someone in his 'house'.They're in the shuttle but the fight's over and SHIELD have New York City cordoned off. Noh persuades Teddy to use his half-Skrull shape-shifting to imitate SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson to get them permission to land. 'Phil' butters up the Agent in charge and the ploy succeeds.On the ground they find the area deserted apart from a mad woman who comes out of her home to declare that 1 of them is a liar and she doesn't want to catch a disease if they touch her. Teddy bulks up to his Hulking body, shredding his normal clothes but revealing his expanding uniform underneath.They enter her apartment building and find all the rooms a mess and seemingly unoccupied. Then suddenly someone invisible kicks Hulking and Marvel Boy in the head. And the demonic gang boss Hood appears out of nowhere hovering near the ceiling. His levitating cloak has long strips of cloth attached, some of which have the woman tied up and gagged. He removes a mask from his face and a breathing tube from down his throat. Then he says he's glad to see them, especially Prodigy.Story 1:- Terminus introducing Deathlok (Henry Hayes)Writer Nathan Edmondson. Pencils/inks Mike Perkins. Colours Andy Troy.In an MTA Metro North station Henry Hayes chats to a fellow vet with a plastic prosthetic leg. He advises him to contact Biotek who gave *him* a cybernetic version. Now he works for Doctors Without Borders.Then he is approached by SHIELD Agent Seth Horne who tells him he was present when the Watcher's eye exploded (Original Sin #2) spraying secrets everywhere. He says he got to see that Hayes is really a Deathlok cyborg soldier/assassin. SHIELD has been hunting the Deathlok for a while, but personally he's a fan. Henry doesn't know what he's talking about and walks away.But a surveillance guy has been alerted to the exchange and his boss tells him to take care of it. A destination board in the station clears and displays the trigger phrase Whiskey David which is detected by HH's cybernetic eye. He follows Horne into a deserted washroom and kills him.Then he walks back out as Henry who doesn't remember what he just did. He takes a pill and rings his daughter Aria offering to get takeout for them.Story 3:- Buried Memory starring LockjawWriter Stuart Moore. Pencils/inks Rick Geary. Colours Ive Svorcina.The Watcher's exploding eye gives the Inhumans' dog Lockjaw a forgotten memory of his own. He teleports around trying to get someone to help him but everyone's too busy. Some like Captain America, Ms Marvel, Human Torch and Spider-Man are doing random stuff, but some are involved in scenes from Original Sin #2. Luke Cage is fighting Mindless Ones. Black Panther and Emma Frost discover dead monsters in Subterranea. But he eventually persuades Iron Man to help him. He teleports them to the Moon where they excavate a hole for the dog to retrieve a giant bone.


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Toads’ Night Out!
On their way home to Florida, Bruce Banner and Betty Ross’ car breaks down on a lonely road in North Carolina. Bruce carries the car to a nearby town, Blackberry, and, disguised with bandages, drops it off at a service station. There, Betty is warned by a creepy old man to flee the “bad doin’s” coming that night. As they explore the town, Bruce and Betty find everyone to be odd, sinister or unwelcoming. That night, after Bruce is asleep at the motel, Betty sees seeing weird lights at a steel mill on a hill and sneaks out to investigate. She overhears the sheriff plotting with his deputy and hurries back to the motel to warn Bruce. The Toad Men then burst in and Hulk chases them off, then heads with Betty to the steel mill. There they find the townspeople lining up before a huge teleporter, waiting to be sent to Toadworld. As Hulk crashes their party, the Toad Men use one advanced weapon after another against Ol’ Greenskin, but the Professor defeats them with ease, as he does their giant Toad champion. He tosses the alien menaces into their own teleporter and sends them back where they came from. Bruce and Betty then receive a shock: the people of Blackberry wanted to go to Toadworld, since it would be a lot more exciting than the boring town they’ve been living in. The Banners, abashed, head for home, as the Toad Emperor appears to warn readers that the Toad Men are soon coming to “your pathetic little town!”


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An Exemplary Day [The Eighth Day Part 3 of 4]
Continued from IRON MAN (1998) #22.In the jungles of Thailand, vandal Tom Somchart is fleeing police and enters a hidden temple to be transformed into…[and they don’t tell us yet….]Meanwhile, Spider-Man carries his wife Mary Jane Watson to a roof to settle a dispute. She is angry because Peter promised to give up web-slinging and he is angry because MJ did not tell him she is being threatened by a stalker. They head to Jill Stacy’s home in Queens to make sure she is safe after her meeting with the stalker. Spidey goes out looking for her father Arthur who is out looking for her, which Peter finds crazy since it’s his wife who is in danger….Peter stops by the Daily Bugle offices which is in the midst of a power failure. J. Jonah Jameson is yelling and Robbie Robertson is trying to keep everything running smoothly. A weird noise triggers Pete’s Spider-Sense and he goes down to the basement to investigate. Opening a mysterious door, Spidey discovers a secret underground lair of high-tech machinery. He confronts the only person he sees and it is the final Exemplar Stonecutter (we met him on page 1) building the Godmachine. He is nabbed by the rest of the Exemplars, led by Juggernaut but manages to escape and heads out to call in the Avengers….After running into trouble with the security system at Avengers Mansion, Jarvis admits him and Spidey explains the situation to Thor and Iron Man who tell him to stay behind while they go into action. Dr. J. Vernon Mann thinks he would also be helpful and departs. Alone, Spidey ponders the threat and decides to call in a “wild card.” Soon, Spidey and the astral form of Professor Charles Xavier (and Juggernaut’s stepbrother) are on their way to the Godmachine. On arrival they find Iron Man, Thor, and Dr Mann having a bad time of it. Mann tells them the priority should be stopping Stonecutter from placing the last component of the Godmachine into the structure. Spider-Man distracts the baddies allowing Thor and Iron Man to recover somewhat and Professor X to do mental battle with Juggernaut. Spidey then webs up a tunnel to prevent pursuit and seizes the component but it is too strong to break. So he tosses it to Decay  and touching the Exemplars hands, the component explodes. But Professor X’s physical self is pulled to the site and he is captured along with Spidey, Thor, and Iron Man. The Exemplars head for the North Pole to use the Earth’s ley lines to compensate for the ruined component. So it’s not over yet….Continued in JUGGERNAUT (1999) #1.2nd story:- Fast Lane Part 1 of 4: Media BlitzWriter: 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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Denial
In Peter Parker's apartment, his aunt May has gathered his friends and coworkers to mourn the memory of Peter's wife, Mary Jane. But Peter has not come to himself over his beloved wife's dead. He has instead jumped into battle with the Hulk on some railroad tracks. While battling, Peter manches that his wife is dead, Hulk says that his wife also is dead. Suddenly the night train arrives, to his horror Spider-Man sees that the tracks have been broken because of them. As he tries to but them back, Hulk feels bad for him and helps Peter in the last minute. Later that night, Peter returns home to his aunt, where they talk.


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Sister act
Last issue Spider-Man learned about villains using hacked Stark phones. The only hacked phone an associate could track was in Chicago. Spidey went to the address and said he was here to arrest the user. And Ironheart answered the door.So now it's time to apologise and ask for an autograph for Normie Osborn (Green Goblin's grandson). But Ironheart reacts by taking SM into the sky. And *he* reacts by webbing her armoured legs together and pulling her feet back so her jets send her crashing to the ground. (Something he says Tony Stark's knee-joint locks would have prevented.) IH says she was just trying to take them out of her neighbourhood to protect her secret identity.A hologram of Ironheart's Tony Stark AI manifests to assure her that it's the real Spider-Man they're facing (he can tell by the bad jokes). Peter explains about the villains using hacked Stark phones with a replaced operating system which makes them untraceable. IH says she hacked a Stark phone herself to make her armour's comms system. She suggests he leave the phone he found with her to look at.Spidey agrees and sends her his phone number. And then notices loads of missed calls from Human Torch who he was supposed to be going to a movie with. It's too late for that but Johnny Storm says he's let Pete's sister into his apartment. Ironheart gives him a lift back to New York, strapped by webbing to her back.Peter Parker gets back to the apartment to find confused Torch with 'sister' Teresa. Pete stumbles through an explanation why a normal guy like him knows a member of the Fantastic Four, but Teresa says she knows he's Spider-Man. Peter's response is "You remembered?". He then explains to an even more confused Johnny the plot of the Amazing SM: Family Business GN.Teresa Durand is a CIA Agent who contacted Peter because of his deceased CIA Agent parents. Apparently they had hidden some Nazi gold and the key to accessing it was Richard Parker's biometric readings. Kingpin was after the gold and needed Richard's son Peter to get it. Teresa was here to protect him, and herself because by-the-way she was his sister. But it turned out that Kingpin had used Mentallo to make Teresa *believe* she was the Parker's child so she would bring Peter with her and locate the burial place of the gold. However along the way Teresa and Kingpin discovered that Peter is Spidey.They opened the tomb and Spider-Man fought yet another of Red Skull's Sleeper robots. But Mentallo rebelled against Kingpin and his mental blast made Teresa and Kingpin forget Peter's secret. (An epilogue suggested that Teresa might *really* be Pete's sister, but that isn't mentioned here. Except for the hint at the end of this issue.)Teresa now claims that seeing Peter and Spider-Man in the news together (because SM supposedly now 'works' for Parker Industries in the ASM series) made her remember their real connection. Peter hopes Kingpin doesn't have the same flash of inspiration.We learn that since the Nazi gold adventure she's quit the CIA and joined a SHIELD black ops division called the Gray Blade. There she uncovered their Project Twilight, a plan to kill all super-characters, villains or heroes. Her Gray Blade boss told her to ignore it so she copied and deleted the files and tried to take the info to SHIELD proper. But the Gray Blade/SHIELD have ordered her to be killed, so she's come to Peter instead. The data is stored in a nanofluid in her bloodstream.While exhausted Teresa gets some sleep, Peter leaves her in the care of Torch while he nips out to get on with another bit of his private life. Last issue he arranged a 'date' as Spider-Man with stand-up comedian Rebecca London in the Coffee Bean. It doesn't go too well but Rebecca gets some good material for her stand-up. Spidey annoys an obnoxious customer who then outs him for bringing in his own food. Torch turns up (after getting Karnak to watch over Teresa) and makes a move on Rebecca when Spidey gets a phone call from Ironheart.She's been working on the hacked Stark phone. Although *it* is untraceable, it still records where it's been. And it seems to have originated in or near the HQ of Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin. (And we get to see him - a heads-up for next issue's plotline.)And Teresa Durand still has a photo of herself as a baby with the Parkers - which was supposedly something that she only imagined due to Mentallo's influence.


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Welcome to Sakaar's Great Games
Welcome to Sakaar’s Great Games in the name of our glorious Emperor! In your hands/claws/tentacles/waldoes you find a guidebook for visitors to our fine world, featuring information on the planet’s geography, history, and culture, designed to make your stay a pleasant one; plus a program for the games themselves, with an outline of the rules of the contest and profiles of the chief combatants to enhance your sporting enjoyment. Now, let the games commence!


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Hardball
Luke Cage is in the interrogation room at the police department, being questioned by Captain Chris Keating, Sergeant Tyrone King, and DA Blake Tower. They intend to put him away for good. During a break, King, the only sympathetic face in the room, asks Cage to repeat the whole story to him….
Three days ago at the Meadowlands Sport Complex, Power Man and Iron Fist were playing a charity game against the Chicago Bears, while their boss, Maxine Walter, is dodging personal questions by the press. The two Heroes for Hire win the game 73-13, delighting the underprivileged kids who were in the stands. But a sinister figure watches from the sidelines, John Lumus, who blames the two heroes for the death of his brother Stanley and has just escaped from prison to take revenge….
While the heroes are celebrating with the kids after the game, Lumus, wearing his brother’s high-tech armor, destroys the restaurant with a rocket. After the heroes rescues the victims of the explosion, Lumus continues to fire upon Power Man as he dashes through the streets but it gives Iron Fist time to reach the rooftop where the villain is standing. The two fight, with Iron Fist taking damage from the suit’s weaponry. Finally, Iron Fist concentrates, powering his signature move, which he uses to knock his enemy over the edge of the roof to land in the street below. Then he notices that his normally green costume has turned red, indicating impurity in his mystic forces….
Later, Danny Rand explains to Maxine he has been publicly shamed. She confesses that Iron Fist’s encounter with the assassin (last issue) was a set-up created by her and Luke to overcome his obsession. When Luke enters the room, Danny denounces the two of them for misinterpreting his problem and interfering in his life that way. Maxine is shocked at her colossal blunder, while Luke angrily storms out of the room past waiting reports, announcing that Heroes for Hire is finished….
Danny then gets a call from the Falcon summoning him to the hospital. Arriving there, he is met by several of the Avengers. Twelve-year-old Bobby Wright, who transforms into Captain Hero, is dying and since he tried to join Heroes for Hire, they thought Iron Fist would want to know. Reed Richards and Hank Pym tell him the boy’s condition is hopeless but Iron Fist refuses to believe that; he rushes to Bobby’s bedside and comforts the boy but while he is there Bobby passes away. The hero seizes the boy’s hand and wills his chi into Bobby’s body until he starts breathing again. In the waiting room, the Avengers speculate that the Nega-Bands of the original Captain Marvel may stabilize Bobby’s condition and Hank Pym heads back to his lab for his notes….
Meanwhile, as Power Man sits in his office over the Gem Theater, John Lumus is on a rooftop across the street, plotting to fire a rocket at him. He decides to get a little closer, unaware that he is being watched by a police SWAT team working with Cage. A gun battle erupts in the street and Cage takes on the killer hand-to-hand but it is Cage’s pal Gordy (of S.M.I.L.E.) who takes down the villain by hurling his special phone to short out Lumus’ armor. Cage then beats the villain through the ground and into the subway. Lumus regains his power and the two engage in a violent slugfest in the tunnels. The villain, his armor badly damaged by Cage’s blows, falls immobile into the path of an oncoming train. As Lumus pleads for his life, Cage calmly ignores him—it turns out that Cage has flipped the switch so that the train will miss Lumus, though the bad guy didn’t know that….
Luke Cage heads to the hospital and stops by Bobby’s room; he finds the Fist performing his healing maneuver on the boy. As Cage sits with his friends from the Avengers, Iron Fist continues to pour his chi into the dying boy’s body, and at his lab Hank Pym races to recreate the Nega-Bands. After twelve hours Pym arrives with the completed devices and they are placed on Bobby’s wrists. Immediately the child rests easier, on his way to recovery. Late that night, the exhausted Fist is deep asleep by Bobby’s bedside when the boy wakes up with severe pain. He calls for help but there is no answer. He switches to Captain Hero but the pain only increases so the superbeing removes the bands and nearly goes out of his mind with pain. Desperate and near insane he tries to wake up Iron Fist, shaking him—then hitting him—until he has beaten the sleeping hero to death. Cage returns from getting a snack in time to see Captain Hero disintegrating into tiny particles, and blowing away. Then he finds his partner’s body….
Now in the police station, Cage is the sole suspect in the murder of Iron Fist: the killer had super-strength, Cage and Iron Fist had an argument earlier, Danny left all his fortune to Luke, Cage is a notorious hothead. Unable to stand this, Cage punches a hole through the wall and runs. Tyrone King resigns rather than stop him and Gordy tells Keating he also believes Cage is innocent.
The next day, Danny’s funeral is held with many heroes and civilians attending. Colleen Wing confronts Maxine Walter, blaming her for Danny’s death. As Maxine drives off, a bomb placed in her car earlier by Lumus explodes, killing her. Later, Tyrone King mounts his bike and rides away and a similar bomb detonates—but King merely brushes the flames off his body like so much dust and heads home….
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In Washington DC, Captain America is on his way to a late-night meeting with the President. As he vaults the fence of the White House, he feels a sudden disorientation//as he lands on the other side he is confronted by armed Secret Service agents who do not recognize him. Dodging their fire and disabling their weapons, Cap makes it into the Oval Office, where a surprised President Clinton orders the ultra-hero Prime to defend him from this gaudily-clad intruder. Cap hustles the President to safety and then engages the humongous hero, the battle spilling through the window to the lawn outside (no idea where the Secret Service agents went). After a bit of discussion they realize they are heroes from different dimensions, one that seems vaguely familiar to Cap (see AVENGERS/ULTRAFORCE). Clinton orders them both to investigate rogue government projects at the Roswell Building. Arriving there they are attacked by an evil version of Prime who is backed up by a patriotic hero called Liberty….
Within the complex the sinister government operative Shoat watches via viewscreen. He recalls how he experimented with a probe to another dimension (Earth-616) and ended up entering a third reality where he met doubles of people from his own world. Locating a roguish version of Prime and a sleazy Bill Clinton who became a slick government lobbyist. Shoat persuaded them to come back with him to participate in a scheme to replace the President and the ultra-hero to gain control of the country….
The battle on the roof continues, with Liberty becoming increasingly uncertain that their opponents are bad guys. Prime, losing energy and his body starting to dissolve, seizes the unconscious Cap and flies away. As they near Kevin’s home, Cap awakens in the decaying Prime’s arms; seeing he is held by someone green and muscular, he thinks it is the Hulk and panics, lashing out and hurling both of them to the ground. Coming fully to his senses he wonders why the ground is covered in green goop and is even more amazed when a boy pops out of it. Kevin gives him the short version of his growing of Prime bodies and takes him in the house to meet his mother….
At the White House, Bad Bill is setting into the Oval Office and preparing to name Shoat Secretary of Ultra Affairs. Liberty bursts in demanding answers to some questions…including why President Clinton is bound and gagged. Shoat spins a tale of the government being infiltrated with evil doppelgangers (shades of Secret Invasion!) but the impatient Rogue Prime tries to shut him up with a slap. This only further convinces Liberty that something is wrong…and righting wrongs is why he allowed Shoat to transform him into an Ultra-Soldier (PRIME #10). But the smooth-talking Shoat persuades him that he must serve his country….
Later in the Oval Office the villains’ captive scientist, Dr. Finkel, warns them that the vibratory matrices are unstable and that the bad Prime and Bill need treatment to enable them to remain in the dimension. At this point Liberty arrives, bringing a young woman named Chelsea…who is confused by the leering appreciation Bill and Prime are giving her…. Suddenly Captain America and the real Prime crash through the window. The two Primes battle, while Cap tackles the still confused Liberty. When Bad Bill tries to escape Shoat stops him and they struggle, giving Liberty enough time to realize the true situation and krak their heads together. Prime defeats his evil twin and pulls the other Kevin out of the green goop. Cap frees the real President and he proves his identity to Chelsea and the Secret Service. The vibratory matrices collapse and Bad Bill and Rogue Prime are pulled back to their own dimension. Since Shoat is missing, they assume he was another evil duplicate and vanished with the others. The President offers Liberty a position in his administration as he has proved his heroism. As Cap starts to fade back to his own world, he expresses his admiration for the Ultras of this world. Meanwhile outside, Shoat, who managed to escape in the confusion, plots to claim he was imprisoned by an "evil Shoat" so he can destroy Prime….


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Punisher: war criminal part 4
Last issue Black Widow and Winter Soldier joined Punisher in his war against Hydra. Now they are in an empty diner where Frank Castle is as usual trying to fix his battered War Machine armour. The manager sends a young 'waiter' to tell them to leave. Widow gives him $1000, $500 to rent the place and $500 for himself. Castle warns him not to call the cops.Frank and Bucky Barnes rub each other up the wrong way while Natasha Romanoff tries to keep the peace (and get them to eat some food). Castle is suspicious of their motives. Why did they defect from the superhero gang Nick Fury Jr sent after him. Natasha says Fury thinks he can solve things by being the hidden mastermind. She and Bucky prefer to take direct action. Plus they sympathise with Castle's anger at being 'tricked' into working for Hydra in Secret Empire - they know what that's like.Widow leads them to a maximum security prison in the desert where they see a large armoured truck break through the gates and spew Hydra troops. War Machine (with mended armour!) flies Black Widow into the scene and she shoot Hydra agents from the air. But her target is actually the control tower, already under Hydra control. WM blasts a window and throws her in, guns blazing.But a dying agent hits a button which starts to vertically open a door into the main prison building. Natasha starts closing it again. A few Hydra men get through, some are squashed by the door, but most are trapped outside with War Machine and Winter Soldier. After disposing of them all Punisher makes his own entranceway.Frightened prison guards shoot ineffectually at the armour. Frank just asks for directions to 'him', and the guards point the way. As he walks past occupied jail cells he's joined by Bucky and Natasha. Then Baron Zemo's voice comes over the PA system. As new 'warden' he's decided to release all the prisoners and switch off the power dampeners. But Punisher just enjoys the exercise/practice as he starts slaughtering the inmates, with Widow and Winter Soldier helping out.But they're increasingly outnumbered and overwhelmed as more prisoners join in. War Machine flies up with his compatriots and throws them onto the now deserted upper landing. Then he drops back down to continue the fight.But very soon the battle is halted by a blast from Captain Marvel. And BW and WM have been joined on the balcony by the rest of Fury's gang. They start to capture the escapees non-fatally. But Frank gets a comms message from Natasha to say they can't get away, so it's up to War Machine to stop Zemo. Punisher leaves, brushing off attempts to stop *him*.Baron Zemo with a pair of picked Hydra soldiers is making his way down into the bowels of the prison. Killing any guards along the way the reach the cell of Supreme Commander Steve Rogers, the Hydra Captain America from Secret Empire.War Machine is heading their way but he's stopped in his tracks by the sudden explosive arrival of Iron Man.


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Punisher: War Machine part 2
Last issue Nick Fury Jr told Punisher how to get hold of the War Machine armour and asked him to go on a mission to Chernaya to get rid of the military coup led by General Petrov.Some of Petrov's soldiers turn up at a lonely farm to claim it for the new People's Republic. The old farmer resists and is about to be shot when something lands with a loud sound-effect a few yards away. War Machine stalks out of the cloud of dust and tries to shoot the leader, but the armour's gun won't fire. Emboldened the soldiers fire at him but he kills them all - but not without wrecking the old man's tractor (which didn't work anyway).Frank Castle takes his helmet off and asks what was going on. The farmer says they wanted to steal his crops - which were blighted and due to be burned anyway but he objected to the way they asked. Castle says he'll go on his way to Petrov, but the farmer says more soldiers will come looking when this lot don't report back - so Punisher says he'll wait for them.1st he digs a big hole to hide the bodies in. While he's doing that he learns that the man's name is Vakha. He was a soldier for a long time, and he's seen men like this before who have lost their humanity in the process.They discuss the War Machine armour's weapons not working and Vakha asks if he's  switched the safety off. Frank doesn't believe something like this would *have* a safety switch, but he asks it and the AI confirms there is. Frank tells it to take the safety off, and various parts of the armour light up.They, mainly War Machine, lay traps for the enemy and then wait. Soldiers come with the night. Castle tells Vakha to stay indoors and sets off to kill *this* lot. Felled trees have prevented their vehicles from getting through so they're approaching on foot through a field. He confronts them and asks them to take him to Petrov. They of course refuse so he shoots the leader (this time it works). Then he sets light to the diseased field which he had previously soaked with petrol.Leaving the soldiers to burn Punisher goes after the vehicles. A troop carrier is still stuck but a tank approaches and manages to hit him with a shell before he has time to tell his armour to take ant-tank measures. The system will take some time to get back up to full strength but that doesn't stop him throwing the tractor at the tank. Then he's back to full power and shooting the accompanying soldiers.A couple of soldiers have slipped past him and enter the farmhouse to be met by the farmer wielding his scythe.Meanwhile Punisher finishes off the troops and leaps on the tank. Ripping open the hatch he fires a burst of flame inside. Then he fires a missile at the troop carrier.His AI reports that there are no lifesigns left in the vicinity. But Castle realises what that means and rushes back to the farm where he finds Vakha dying next to the 2 dead soldiers. (So the AI wasn't strictly correct.) The ex-soldier is glad to have gone down fighting, but now he can join his wife and son in the afterlife. He suggests Frank take over the farm and keep it safe - and pretend the world doesn't need him anymore.Later War Machine jets away, watched by 2 cloaked ex-SHIELD Agents (part of the local group who defected to Petrov after SHIELD was disbanded).


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Punisher: war criminal part 3
Punisher has the War Machine armour and he intends to use it to make amends for siding with Hydra during Secret Empire. He's currently invading CIA HQ to get information on where the Hydra leaders are hiding. While 1 man phones his boss a female Agent tries to shoot Frank Castle but the bullet ricochets of his armour and wounds her. The man directs him to the room with the Hydra files.With a lot of help from the armour's AI Castle manages to download all the info (and erases all data on himself as a bonus). As heavily armed and armoured Agents prepare to break in on him he flies out through a wall and away. Another Agent contacts *his* superior - Baron Zemo of Hydra.4 hours later 2 Hydra Agents are standing on a rooftop looking out for Punisher when he turns up and kills them. Then he blasts through the roof, kills some more guys and destroys some escaping cars with missiles. He confronts Zemo who shelters behind a force field and offers him tea. And unveils his counter-plan - Crossbones, Ghost, Taskmaster and some Agents with big guns.Crossbones and Taskmaster are faster than armoured Punisher even though Zemo has provided them with (lighter) armour. Crossbones tags him with a bomb on the back of his armour. Then Taskmaster tries to behead him with his sword, but the neck armour holds up long enough for War Machine to knock him out and use his sword to kill the Hydra Agents. Crossbones attacks with more special weapons finishing with plastic explosive on WM's helmet. But Castle still has Crossbones on the ropes until Ghost intervenes. His intangibility protects him from Frank's weapons and then he sneaks up through the floor to cause the suit's AI to malfunction. And the War Machine armour falls to pieces.Taskmaster pins Castle's hand to the floor with a knife, and Crossbones prepare to shoot him in the head. But Zemo wants to savour the moment (typical villain mistake). While Taskmaster tales a selfie with Frank, Zemo prattles on about how working for Hydra was the only time Castle was on the winning side. And soon their Steve Rogers will be out of jail and Hydra Nation will rise again. *Then* he says Crossbones can kill Punisher.But it's too late as an acid arrow hits CB's armoured mask. Black Widow, Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Winter Soldier have taken over the room. Castle stabs Crossbones in the foot and Widow punches him out. Bucky Barnes takes on Taskmaster while Hawkeye and MB face Baron Zemo and more Hydra goons. But Clint Barton complains when Punisher just shoots the goons. Ghost ghosts out through the ceiling and kills the lights. When Hawkeye gets a flare arrow going they find that Zemo has gone.Castle loads the pieces of War Machine armour into a bag he finds lying around. Hawkeye says Nick Fury Jr sent them to get the armour back. Frank says he needs it to kill everyone in Hydra before they stage their comeback. Clint says he can't let him do that. Then Black Widow zaps Barton unconscious with her Widow's Bite, followed by Mockingbird. She says she's not following Fury's orders, and Winter Soldier seems to be with her. They'll join Punisher on his mission.


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Punisher: war criminal part 1
In the 1st arc in this Legacy series Nick Fury Jr gave Punisher the War Machine armour and told him to take down the military dictator of Chernaya. Well, Frank Castle did that - but he didn't give the armour back. He's got better uses for it back in New York.Our scene is the Bar With No Name, a haunt for super-powered criminals. A headless body is thrown in, followed by the armoured Punisher who proceeds to lay waste to the patrons. A guy aptly called Steel-Jaw rushes him but Castle sticks an armoured fist in his mouth and fires a repulsor through the back of his head taking out someone else behind him. Soon there's only the barman left alive and Frank forces him to show him the door to the room where the bigger fish party.Inside we see yet another Scourge of the Underworld playing cards with Bullseye, Grizzly, Rhino and Sandman. As War Machine breaks in Rhino makes a large hole in the back wall and they escape. They pile in to Grizzly's van, him and Bullseye in the front. War Machine gives chase, flying horizontally with his jet boots. Grizzly complains they're too heavily loaded so Sandman and Rhino throw Scourge out of the back of the van. Castle rockets through him ripping him to shreds.War Machine has almost caught the van when suddenly a blast knocks him to the ground. It's Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers). Last issue Fury told her Punisher was on the loose with the armour that used to belong to her lover James Rhodes (killed in Civil War II but just resurrected in Iron Man #600 - I suspect this new Punisher arc happens before that). Now she's come to take it back.Castle says he hasn't time for the good guy vs good guy fights the superheroes seem to enjoy - he has bad guys to catch. But Marvel attacks him anyway and Frank tells his armour to shoot back but avoid lethal force. The inbuilt AI recommends withdrawal so Punisher flees with CM in pursuit. The resulting midair clash of energies is seen by many NY heroes (Iron Fist, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Luke Cage & Jessica Jones, Speedball, Daredevil, Hellcat and Spider-Man (Peter Parker)).Carol challenges Frank's claim to be a good guy since he fought on the side of Hydra in Secret Empire. War Machine's answer is a rocket in her face. That still doesn't stop her for long after they both fall to Earth. But Punisher gets up 1st and slinks away to hide.But he's found by Daredevil. They've clashed in the past because their methods and philosophies differ, but DD opines that Castle has surely broken even his own rules lately:- working for Hydra, assassinating a foreign ruler, appropriating a dead hero's weaponry. Frank tries to just walk away but DD challenges him to a fight. Frank warns him off because the WM armour is out of his league. When the Devil persists Punisher blasts him (mildly) in the chest and flies off (hid AI has told him Captain Marvel has left the area).Nick Fury is coordinating the hunt and asks over comms if anyone can see War Machine now. Hawkeye spots him and looses off an arrow which lodges in the back of the armour. So Punisher zooms back and steals Clint Barton's pizza.Castle makes it to a safe house (some kind of abandoned warehouse/factory). The arrow is still stuck in his armour and the AI tells him Hawkeye must have known about that weak spot. Frank wonders why didn't use an arrow that was actually dangerous. On a hunch he calls for a full diagnostic and the AI reports that the arrow delivered some trackable nanites. the heroes know where the armour is ...... and War Machine finds himself facing Captain Marvel again. And this time she's brought help:- As well as the aforementioned Luke Cage and Spider-Man we see Beast, Cannonball, Falcon (Sam Wilson), Hercules, Quake, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Thing, Tigra and U.S. Agent.


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Punisher: War Machine part 5
OK, Nick Fury Jr. has given the War Machine armour to Frank Castle to go to Chernaya to depose General Petrov, leader of a military coup. Fury's own agenda is that when S.H.I.E.L.D. was disbanded (after Secret Empire) the local Agents went rogue and aided Petrov in his coup. Punisher has finally flushed Petrov out of hiding but he's got his finger on a nuclear button. Fury tried to call his dog off but Punisher doesn't quit.Petrov is holding a rally of his army to celebrate the world recognising him as the legal government. When War Machine drops a tank on some of the troops. And he starts blasting the rest of them. They start shooting back. As Frank continues his slaughter Fury calls him again to repeat his order to leave the country. Castle doesn't believe Petrov's nuclear threat because he hasn't used it, and he thinks Fury doesn't believe it either or he'd have found some way to *stop* him. He gets the suit to close the comms line.Petrov has the (surviving) SHIELD Agents on the stand with him. He tells them to suit up in *their* versions of the WM armour and go stop Punisher. Fury didn't mention that Castle would be killing the accredited ruler of a country. Petrov does through the public address system, but Frank doesn't care. But as Punisher keeps punishing his men the General appears to do the brave thing and steps forward telling Castle to leave his men alone and kill *him*.But as War Machine jets forward the armoured SHIELD Agents drop a truck on *him*. As he gets his breath back and his armour self-repairs Castle tries to talk his opponents down. But the Agents explain that they need the rep of killing or capturing him. They only helped Petrov for money when their jobs disappeared. Now they're mercenaries and need to attract new clients.Frank appears to be surrendering. But the team spokesman has his faceplate open for the chat. And when Punisher gets close he sticks some plastic explosive in his face and closes the visor. Exit 1 enemy leaving 4 (incorrectly shown as 3?). Then he blows up the truck and the resulting explosive fire covers his escape.The SHIELD Agents figure the only place he can be hiding is in the tank he dropped earlier. 1 of them looks in the open hatch and WM pulls him in. The other 3 blast the tank despite the presence of their comrade. The tank tips over but when they look inside they see no Castle but a hole in the bottom. He tunnelled his way out.The War Machine emerges from the ground where the tank had been. He grabs the broken-off tank turret by the gun barrel and uses it as a bat to send 1 of the men out of the ground. Then as the remaining 2 shoot at him he uses the bat again to smash down on 1 of them. Who survives totally unmarked.The fight continues but Petrov panics. He launches a nuclear missile. And even though the WM AI says his armour is failing Frank Castle launches himself after the rocket. And Nick Fury breaks into communication again to 'cheer' him on.


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Punisher: war criminal part 5
Punisher has the War Machine armour and Iron Man wants it back.They are currently at the secret prison where Frank Castle and his allies Black Widow and Winter Soldier have come to stop Hydra liberating their Supreme Commander, the evil version of Captain America from Secret Empire. But Tony Stark arrived with a lot of other heroes led by Captain Marvel to take Castle in for international war crimes he committed  while in the armour (given to him by Nick Fury Jr specifically for that purpose), and for previously supporting Hydra  during Secret Empire.Now Iron Man and War Machine/Punisher are face-to-face. Castle asks Stark why he's stopping him from stopping Hydra. Stark says he can do both things himself. So Frank gives him something else to think about by lighting a trail of oil that he says will incinerate many prisoners. Iron Man zooms off down a passage to save them and War Machine sends a missile to bring the roof down on him.Meanwhile Baron Zemo and 2 Hydra troopers bring Steve Rogers to the roof where Ghost and a pilot are waiting with a helicopter. But as they take off War Machine busts up through the roof and fires another missile which destroys the tail rotor and sends them crashing to the ground. 1 trooper is thrown clear but only survives until Punisher lands on his head. Castle takes down the other trooper, and the pilot seems to have been killed in the crash.Zemo emerges unharmed and offers to fight Frank to the finish. But he has an ace up his sleeve as the Ghost envelops him and makes *him* intangible too. He's immune to WM's fire but can shoot back. And he can use Ghost's tricks like sinking into the ground and emerging behind you to plunge his hands through your chest. Ghost's technological variation on the Vision's tactic disrupts electrical systems like Frank's armour.Of course during all this Zemo is chatting away. He says Supreme Commander Rogers admired Castle's determination. Zemo didn't buy it but the addition of the War Machine armour has made all the difference. However Punisher has now turned his back on Hydra, so Zemo and Ghost will take the suit off him.But Castle grabs a handy broken electrical cable and shocks himself with it. The armour transmits the electricity to Ghost and Zemo. All 3 collapse, but it is Frank's determination which makes him the 1st to get up again. His weapons are offline so he just uses an armoured fist to beat Zemo's face to a pulp under his hood.However his fun is interrupted by Iron Man who escaped from the collapsed tunnel (which extinguished the fire). Luckily War Machine's systems are back up so he can fight back, and a repulsor blast knocks IM down. But Castle figures the best bet is still to leave his fallen foe and deal with Zemo and Rogers.But Stark grabs him by a boot as he tries to fly away and throws him against an armoured van. Which War Machine picks up and drops on him from the air. Unfortunately giving Ghost time to spirit Zemo away. IM crawls out from under the van as WM peppers him with bullets. But then a new player enters the game ...... it's James Rhodes in the tinker-toy vehicle he recently adopted in Tony Stark, Iron Man #2, which proves invulnerable to the War Machine weapons. And then it stomps on the armoured Punisher with a tank tread. Rhodey raises the 'foot' after proving he could hold Castle down for as long as he liked, and then steps out of the vehicle to confront his opponent.Frank recognises him and they greet each other by army rank. Rhodes says he wants the suit back. Castle says he thought Jim didn't want it anymore. Rhodey says the suit is his legacy and Punisher has been tarnishing its image. Castle claims he's been cleaning up the mess the heroes wouldn't, meaning Hydra and 'Steve Rogers'.James does the "that's what separates the good guys from the bad guys" spiel. The good guys rely on right not might, because there's always someone mightier (he's referring to Thanos who killed him at the start of Civil War II). And because he believes Frank is deep-down 1 of the good guys he's asking him to surrender the armour rather than taking it off him with his new ride. And Castle opens the armour and steps out.In the background troops have been cuffing Steve Rogers who's presumably been unconscious since the copter crash. Now they make Punisher lie on the ground and cuff him too. Rogers says there's still a place for him in Hydra when their inevitable plans mature.Nick Fury Jr has turned up with agents to collect Castle. He tells Rhodes about Punisher using the armour to almost start a nuclear war (in the previous story arc which he refers to as happening while Jim was dead) but doesn't admit that it was he who gave Frank the armour. When he and Castle are out of earshot of the others Fury says they could have been a good team if Frank hadn't gone rogue (in this arc).Castle is driven off in a different armoured van. But it is waylaid by Black Widow and Winter Soldier who want Punisher back.


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Punisher: War Machine part 3
Punisher has been sent by Nick Fury Jr to Chernaya to oppose the military dictatorship of General Petrov. Fury provided him with the War Machine armour to help him achieve his goal. Fury's agenda was that the regime was being supported by the local S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents who had gone rogue after SHIELD was disbanded (after Secret Empire).3 Chernayan soldiers arrest a youth in need of 're-education'. His mother objects and a soldier threatens to shoot her. War Machine lands with a thud amongst them and demands to know where he can find Petrov. The soldiers disrespect him so he takes 1 for a high-speed ride in the sky. When he returns the unconscious man to the ground the other 2 have gone leaving the young man with his mother.Punisher breaks the boy's handcuffs. As the mother goes to fetch food in thanks the youth tells Frank Castle he was being arrested for being gay. He leads Frank to the concentration camp where 'undesirables' are taken.War Machine politely asks the guards to surrender. When they refuse he lobs missiles into the compound and forces open the gate. He kills all the guards who don't run away and frees the prisoners. But they tell him there are many more camps. So Punisher decides to liberate those too, as a way of attracting Petrov's attention.A 2-page montage shows him doing just that.He lands in another camp at night to find it apparently empty. But someone blasts him from behind. It's a SHIELD Agent in an allegedly superior version of the WM armour who tells him to surrender or leave the country. Castle refuses. The SHIELD guy runs rings round him and damages his arc reactor. But Punisher grabs his leg and climbs up the flying foe until he can gouge his eyes out through his transparent visor (1 of those supposed improvements).They both land heavily and Frank finds himself with crippled armour surrounded by 4 more WM suits. After the obligatory surrender request they attack with repulsor fire. But Frank gets *his* repulsors back online and shoots back. Then he dives at 1 foe, breaks his visor and pulverises his face with repeated blows - ignoring shots to his back..By now his suit has flight capability again and he takes off. The remaining 3 follow him. He can't escape so he does an emergency brake manoeuvre, smashing into 1 of them. The other 2 send missiles his way which hit, and War Machine plummets into water below. The enemy can't detect any power in his falling armour.


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Punisher: War Machine part 4
Nick Fury Jr has given Punisher the War Machine armour so he can overthrow the military coup led by Gen'l Petrov that has taken over Chernaya. Fury has his own reason for wanting this. He had set up a SHIELD base in the country. When SHIELD was disbanded the local Agents went rogue and helped Petrov. After dealing with some of the military forces Frank Castle was set upon by these SHIELD Agents in their own (inferior) versions of the WM armour. And Frank ended up in the sea with heavy crippled armour.Now a Chernayan fishing boat catches him in its net. The fishermen get War Machine's faceplate off as Castle gasps for air. Then he ignores his AI's suggestion that he needs medical attention, and asks the men to take him to shore.Later we see some Chernayan soldiers trudging through snowfall in a forest, accompanied by 1 of the armoured SHIELD guys. Who goes off to 1 side to take a leak. (He could do it inside the armour but he never liked the idea of it being recycled.) Armourless Punisher sneaks up behind him and threatens his exposed member, getting the Agent to remove his own suit. The guy tells Castle he can't use it because it's biometrically bonded only to him. Frank just wrecks it and makes the Agent come with him as his prisoner.As Punisher and the nearly-naked SHIELD Agent walk on through the snow we see that Castle now has his own armour in a sack on his back. The Agent claims he can fix Castle's armour at their old SHIELD base. So that's where they go.When they get in sight Frank leaves his armour and the Agent tied to a tree. He scales a wall, throws a guard off it and 'persuades' another to unlock the gate (before presumably killing him).Meanwhile a patrolling soldier finds the Agent. But before he can do anything Punisher appears behind him and stabs him through his ear. Castle now takes his armour and leads the shivering Agent into the base. The Agent directs him to the engineering lab, assuring him it won't be guarded. Punisher shoots the 2 guards the Agent 'forgot' about.Inside they find a scientist having a sandwich. Frank spreads the War Machine armour on a table and tells the Agent he's got 1 hour to fix it. But they're interrupted by a holographic call from Fury. When Frank tells Nick that Agent Saporta (at last he gets a name) is going to mend his armour, Nick informs him that Saporta couldn't fix @#!$. So Punisher shoots the redundant Agent in the head. And he tells the scientist to take over the fixing.Meanwhile Frank and Nick have a chat. Fury wants to know if Castle is still going after Petrov and the rogue SHIELD Agents. Castle thinks Fury is more worried about being blamed for the activities of the rogues than about Petrov  doing the dictator thing. Fury counters that Punisher's methods aren't exactly compassionate. Frank agrees to continue (he was going to anyway) but wants 2 things from Nick:- A check that the scientist is doing a good job, and info on all the rogue Agents. Fury says they'll have gone to ground, so Castle asks for info on Petrov's right-hand men instead.Next we see Frank back in the WM armour picking up 1 of those right-hand men. And dropping him from a very great height, as a message to Petrov. Then he finds another 1 in a military vehicle and flies it into a tree at deadly speed. A 3rd is fishing through a hole in an ice-covered lake when War Machine bursts up out of the water. He catches a 4th coming home for the evening with his date, and rips him on 2.But Fury contacts him again with a video broadcast by Petrov. He's holed up in a missile silo near Vilna and threatens to use the nukes unless Punisher leaves the country immediately. Nick says he's got to get out. But Frank is just happy that he now knows where Petrov is. And jets off in that direction.


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Punisher: War Machine part 6
Nick Fury Jr. gave Punisher the War Machine armour and sent him to Chernaya where General Petrov had staged a military coup with the help of rogue ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents. Now he's regretting it because the situation has escalated and Frank Castle won't stand down. Petrov's government has been recognised by the United Nations. And now Petrov has launched a nuclear missile as a last ditch defence. And War Machine is chasing it ...... but he's losing the race. And the armour's AI tells him it's too dangerous to shoot the rocket. So Frank decides to ditch his big guns to go faster, and then non-essential bits of armour too. He catches up with the missile ...... and the 2 surviving SHIELD Agents, in their versions of the WM armour, see it explode (just the fuel not the atomic warhead). And something plummets to Earth. When they get to the impact crater they find WM/Punisher holding the warhead nosecone over his head (with Nick still kibbitzing in his ear). Castle tells the Agents to remove their armour or he'll set the bomb off killing them all (and Petrov in his nearby bunker). The Agents try to to talk him down but he powers up a gauntlet to carry out his threat ...... so Fury remote-triggers a failsafe EMP which depowers the armour and also those of the 2 Agents. All the armours fall off so Punisher just hits 1 of the Agents with a rock in his fist and then stamps on his throat. The other Agent attacks him with a knife. Castle takes it off him and stabs him with it.Taking the knife and a rifle (he finds lying around somewhere) Frank now goes after Petrov. He can't get through the bunker door. But luckily Petrov comes out to meet him. Unluckily he's wearing 1 of the SHIELD War Machine armours - and this 1's working and fully armed.Punisher hides behind a tank. And when Petrov approaches he throws a tank shell at him. Which Petrov automatically fires at, and the resulting explosion does *him* some damage. Castle then runs up and uses his knife to expose some of the vulnerabilities of the SHIELD version of the WM armour. He prises away an eye-shield and stabs Petrov in the eye. Then he inserts the blade into a chink between a wrist gun and the armoured hand, and severs some arteries. Frank dodges a blast and then chops the hand off completely.Petrov tries to escape using his boot jets. But Punisher uses the tank as a springboard and grabs an armoured ankle. Using the knife as a piton thrust into armour joints he climbs up Petrov's back. Petrov flies higher expecting Castle to die of cold and lack of oxygen. But Punisher pries open a bit of the front of the armour and yanks something out trailing wires.Petrov's armour fails and he starts to fall. Punisher falls too, now separated from his target. Frank desperately fiddle with the piece of armour he grabbed. Petrov slams into the ground. But at the last minute Castle gets his object to send a blast towards the ground, slowing his fall. (I guess the bit he has is the equivalent of Iron Man's chest unibeam.)Later Fury is watching a news report of the incident when he gets a visit from Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers). Fury has to tell her that they haven't found Punisher or James Rhodes' War Machine armour. And Nick doesn't know what Frank will do next.We see some gangsters having a meeting/meal in the Bronx. Punisher/War Machine smashes his way in and blows them up.


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Punisher: war criminal part 2
Punisher is using the War Machine armour in his war against criminals .(Nick Fury Jr lent it to him for a job and he didn't give it back.) Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is unhappy about Frank Castle tarnishing the memory of her dead lover James Rhodes, the real War Machine, so she's organised a troop of superheroes to bring him in. Last issue Hawkeye planted a tracker on the armour and now Carol's group are outside Castle's safehouse calling him out.Frank has a map of New York on the wall with various locations circled. He tells the armour's AI to memorise the map before he burns it. And then goes out to meet his opponents, but not to surrender.A grenade scatters them. Captain Marvel flies at him but a flash blinds her and she runs into a wall. Spider-Man (Peter Parker) tags him with a web but War Machine whirls him around his head and throws him into Beast, at the same time downing U.S. Agent with an armoured punch to the shield. Tigra leaps on his back to take his mask off but gets a repulsor blast in the face. Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) congratulates Quake on fracturing the ground beneath Castle's feet, but he just flies into the air where Falcon distracts him while Cannonball slams him back to the ground.Hercules, Luke Cage and Thing stand over War Machine. Frank blasts Ben Grimm and then rockets into him but Thing just grabs him in a bear hug until WM's shoulder gun peppers his rocky face with bullets. Cage tears the gun off but Castle just jumps on the fallen Thing and jack-hammer pummels him in the face until Herc and Luke pull him off. So Punisher fires stuff at both of them (not doing any harm). Captain Marvel has recovered and knocks War Machine through a wall into the safehouse, which then explodes.When they clear away some rubble they find that Castle has escaped down an access to the subway tunnels. And we see him in full armour in a subway train.Next War Machine hits a series of sites that were presumably the ones on the map he burnt. He's looking for someone who can repair his armour. The heroes are still tracking him but he's appearing all over the place so the heroes split up hoping that someone will be near enough to catch him. Captain Marvel coordinates. But they keep arriving too late.He targets a gang-with hi-tech weapons in the Bronx - Cage gets there to find them all dead. Then an arms-dealer (who presumably supplied them) in Jersey City - Spider-Woman sees a body burnt in his bed. A gang of ninjas in the financial district are next - I think Cannonball takes *them*. Frank stops off for a meal in Harlem and Spider-Man finds it half-eaten. Castle goes looking for the Tinkerer in Staten Island and Quake finds his non-informant burnt up in his car. When Punisher tackles 2-men with big guns and small brains in Long Island City he just leaves them for Cage, Cannonball and U.S. Agent to deal with.Finally in Brooklyn War Machine gets shot at by a weapon outside of his AI's database. This looks promising. He storms in and finds it to be an AIM base. The young scientists claim to have been recruited recently from college - it's just a job to them. Castle asks them what they studied at school. He shoots all the 1's with useless subjects and takes the 1 who majored in robotics engineering.6 hours later Punisher has him working on the armour. They're working in the large freezer of a condemned fast-food place. The AIM guy has disabled most of the nanobots that the heroes are tracking and done something else to the armour's GPS system. Frank is satisfied.In a van in Brooklyn Nick Fury is keeping in touch with the Danvers squad. Falcon reports that War Machine's signal was faint and then stopped. But they managed to track the last location to an old fast-food joint. Sam Wilson can't find any sign of Castle, but Fury suggests checking in the freezer which would have messed up the tracking signal. Falcon reports that he's found the dead body of a very young AIM Agent.At that point WM breaks into Fury's van by peeling back the roof. Frank takes Nick to the top of the Freedom Tower for a chat. Fury says they won't stop coming after him. He gave Frank the WM armour and now he has to take it back because Castle killed the leader of a country (which is actually what Fury *told* him to do). Danvers wants to stop him using her dead lover's armour to blow people up in broad daylight. At some point he's going to make a mistake and blow up a school or something and there'll be another Superhero Registration Act. And on top of it all during Secret Empire Punisher worked for Hydra - if Fury had done that Frank would have killed him by now.Castle says he wants to fix that so Fury suggests he surrender or let them kill him. But Punisher wants to go after Hydra. Fury says they've gone into hiding and the only guys who might know where they are is the CIA. So that's where War Machine goes next.


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Punisher: War Machine part 1
We begin in Red Hook, Brooklyn as Punisher interrupts a deal selling arms to Chernayans by sending them the head of a guard with a grenade in his mouth. He drops a very large crate on the dealers and finishes off the buyers by blowing up their ship.Returning to his battlevan he finds Nick Fury Jr waiting for him. Nick invites him for Dim Sum and takes him to a restaurant where they greet Fury as Mr Odinson and take them through the kitchens to a back room with a simple table and 2 chairs. Nick asks Frank Castle to sit down and enjoy the best egg drop soup in Brooklyn.But Castle cuts to the chase - what does Fury want? The ex-SHIELD Agent wants to offer him a job. Flipping up his eyepatch he uses his cybernetic eye to display relevant images as he tells him about recent events in Chernaya. A military coup has deposed President Zawadski and now the army is purging opposition. He plays on Frank's origin (losing his wife and kids to mob warfare) by pointing out that the 'opposition' includes their families. Punisher has just stopped the Chernayan army getting advanced weapons, but maybe he would like to strike at the head rather than the limbs of the enemy.Castle says the soup's good but asks why Fury has come to him? Fury says SHIELD is now defunct (since bad Captain America used it in Secret Empire). I don't know who he works for now but he claims to be tied up in red tape. So he wants Frank to go in and kill General Armand Petrov, the head of the coup. An extra problem is that the SHIELD Agents in Chernaya have gone over to Petrov with all *their* advanced weapons. Castle thinks Fury just wants *that* situation cleaned up before he gets blamed for it. Nick admits that there's always more than 1 angle to anything.But he sweetens the deal by offering Frank a weapon of his own. Castle just has to get hold of it. We hear the rest of his explanation as we see Punisher execute the heist.When SHIELD was disbanded the Government took all their stuff and shared it out between the Armed Forces (and maybe other organisations). As an ex-Army man Fury is aggrieved that they gave this particular 'toy' to the Air Force. And as an ex-Marine he thinks Frank will share his opinion. He wants Punisher to retrieve it from them, but he has certain conditions. Castle mustn't kill any US military. If he's detected he must abandon the mission - he can't be caught because this mission is as unsanctioned as it gets. And when he's finished the job Fury wants the weapon back.Punisher does invade the Air Force base stealthily, and only renders guards unconscious where he has to. But at some point he has to attack some guards face on and they hit an alarm before he gets past them. But does he give up? - no he doesn't because he's in the weapon vault he wanted. He ignores stuff on display and opens a metal cabinet.Next we see guards outside blowing the vault door open. And Punisher comes out wearing the War Machine armour. (Big build-up to a big surprise! Unless you ignore the  issue title and the cover image.) He blasts an exit through the roof, again without harming anybody. But we get an indication that he has no intention of giving the armour to Nick Fury anytime.The issue ends with the required Marvel Legacy 3-page primer, with the usual editor Darren Shan and writer Robbie Thompson. The artist is Matt Horak and the colourist Chris O'Halloran. It uses this issue's letterer Cory Petit.It covers the origin of Punisher. Marine vet Frank Castle and his family see a gangland execution while on a picnic in Central Park. The executioners try to kill the witnesses but Frank survives and becomes the vigilante Punisher.We see his vocation bringing him into conflict with more law-abiding super-heroes like Spider-Man and Daredevil.


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Establish the Blessings of Liberty
In Medisuela, General Navatilas sends his men into the jungle to recover the missing shield of Captain America as a trophy. To their horror they discover the shield—in the hands of the Punisher, who survived the explosion in the village. The vigilante hero kills a soldier with his knife, allowing him to seize the man’s gun and slaughter his compatriots. Nearby, Captain America is in chains and being tortured by the General’s men. Punisher sends Cap a warning by Morse code and sends in the shield with a small bomb attached. Cap uses the distraction of the explosion to escape from his bonds and overpower his captors. The two Americans then find themselves under siege by a party of the General’s soldiers but the enemy weapons turns out to be from the cache of defective guns sold by the mysterious figure in the US government. The weapons explode after brief use, killing all of the attackers. Cap and the Punisher head off to find the General….
Later on the battlefield, the ghoulish immortal Terror comes across a severely wounded survivor of the battle. He helps himself to one of the dying man’s eyes and moves on….
In the United States, Attorney General Roger Mollech is frustrated that the President will not approve his suggested invasion of Medisuela, which the drugs to money to defective weapons scheme had as its ultimate goal. His aide Angela Stone orders the Defense Intelligence Agency team led by Colonel Max Kalee to proceed with the takeover which is already in progress….
Terror stops by General Navatilas’ office and with the stolen eye he is able to see the outcome of the battle between his troops and the two American heroes. The weird being offers the General some unwanted advice about coming to terms with his fate, kills the three soldiers ordered to stop him, and leaves….
As they prepare for the coming battle, both Captain America and the Punisher reflect on the events that made them what they are; Cap says it is an honor for him to serve his country, preventing the US from being dragged into a criminal’s war. Punisher responds that he is fighting for justice for the innocents against the guilty who must be punished and it is an honor to serve them too. At this point, Colonel Kalee and his team attack the Medisuelan capital in Apache helicopters. The two heroes respond with all the firepower they can muster, knocking the bids out of the sky one-by-one. While Kalee himself takes on Cap, his two henchmen Cain and Kane find General Navatilas begging for asylum at the gate of the Catholic Church. Cap beats Kalee and rips the American flag insignia from the traitor’s uniform. Punisher comes upon Kane and Cain after they have murdered Navatilas and impaled his body on the spiked fence. After a fast and furious knife fight, Punisher kills his two foes. Terror suddenly appears out of the night, offering to use the dead General’s body parts to tell them who is behind the whole scheme….
At a Dallas airport, Cap and Punisher intercept a departing plane. Punisher pursues and guns down Angela Stone while Cap seizes and beats up Roger Mollech. Punisher is shocked by the violence of Cap’s attack and warns him not to betray another symbol; Cap was in control, though, and appeals to his ally to put some faith in himself as well. Punisher shoots Mollech in the kneecap and they await the authorities.
Later, the two men, in civilian cloths, meet at Arlington National Cemetery. Cap tells Punisher his attempted murder of Cap will be overlooked. Punisher presents Cap with his Vietnam Combat Infantry Badge and walks away. Steve calls out to "Captain Castle" and salutes. Frank Castle, soldier, returns his salute and departs.


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We the People…
In a warehouse near the docks of an unnamed city in Texas, a shady deal is going down. An opportunist who calls himself Dr. Slickster and his bodyguard Bull are selling a cache of military weapons to representatives of General Miguel Navatilas, dictator of the Latin American nation of Medisuelas. The deal is broken up by the sudden appearance of Captain America, acting in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The General’s men open fire on Cap but he dodges easily. When one uses a rocket launcher from the weapons cache, it explodes in his face. As Cap questions Slickster and Bull about the malfunctioning weapon, a team of soldiers from the Defense Intelligence Agency, led by Colonel Max Kalee, arrive and take the criminals into custody. But Cap sees conspiratorial glances between the soldiers and their captives and takes the opportunity to make off with a piece of the ruined gun….
In Washington, Attorney General Roger Mollech, with his efficient aide Angela Stone by his side, announces his efforts to indict General Miguel Navatilas for his drug trafficking….
In New York, Dr. Slickster and Bull are selling a satchel of cocaine to leaders of a street gang called the Die Hards; suddenly the room explodes from a planted bomb. The Punisher enters the scene of fiery chaos and guns down the gang members. Slickster and Bull head to the roof where the henchman tries to hold off the vigilante. Punisher sends him over the edge of the roof but the boss has sent for an escape line: a military helicopter picks him up and flies away. Punisher hitches a ride on the aircraft and disables the tail rotor sending the copter plummeting to the ground. The vigilante and his quarry, still clutching the briefcase full of cash, leap to safety before the copter explodes in a fireball. Punisher pursues Slickster onto a subway train where, after a violent struggle, the "hero" manages to stab his foe to death with a shard of broken glass.
In Medisuela, Angela Stone assures General Navatilas that their system is working again: after the brief interruption in Texas and New York, drugs confiscated on the street are again being resold to purchase arms for the General….
Captain America has a scientist friend at the Smithsonian examine the piece of the damaged gun and the expert concludes that the weapon was sabotaged. Cap heads to the warehouse to examine the other impounded weapons and finds they were checked out by Colonel Kalee of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Cap traces Kalee’s flight and sneaks aboard the plane just before take-off; he examines the weapons and discovers they were likewise sabotaged. Caught by Kalee’s aide, he manages to leap overboard and parachute to safety. Kalee contacts Angela Stone who takes steps to deal with Captain America. She lets down her hair and removes her glasses to appear more attractive and arranges a meeting with the Punisher. Posing as a whistleblower inside the government, she meets him in a hotel room; when a killer (actually a dupe in her pay) takes a shot at her (and is killed by the ex-soldier), the Punisher is convinced to investigate the conspiracy. The secret files reveal that the mastermind behind the sinister dealings is none other than Captain America….
That evening, as Cap is talking to his scientist friend on the Capitol steps, the Punisher is on a roof across the way. Steeling his resolve, he takes aim with a sniper rifle and fires a shot into the chest of Captain America….


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Eternal Vigilance
After being shot down by the Punisher on the Capitol steps, the gravely wounded Captain America is rushed to Walter Reed Hospital for emergency treatment. Nick Fury is there, coordinating the efforts and trying to run a security check on the staff working to save the hero. Cap explains to Fury about a rogue element in the US government shipping sabotaged weapons to General Miguel Navatilas, dictator of the Latin American nation of Medisuelas. Cap also request that Fury let him die….
The funeral of Captain America takes place on a rainy Washington morning, while the Punisher (in disguise) meets an informant in a diner in Michigan. An embittered civil servant named Booch tells the vigilante all about the DEA-confiscated drugs vanishing from the impound and turning up on the streets; the scam is coordinated by someone obviously high in power, even able to frame Captain America. Booch believes that only the Punisher can get this job done….
Attorney General Roger Mollech and aide Angela Stone meet with General Navatilas to update him on the project status: the proceeds from the drug sales are going to buy weapons for his army—so long as he uses them against his communist neighbors. After the General leaves, Colonel Kalee reports that his man Theopolis has already been dispatched to eliminate the Punisher, while the double-cross of Navatilas proceeds….
Outside the Michigan diner, Punisher takes his leave of Booch and head off on his motorcycle. After he’s gone, the hapless informant is stabbed by Theopolis who sends his cycle-riding henchmen after the vigilante hero. An undercover Steve Rogers overcomes the thug ordered to dispose of the body and calls for medical assistance for Booch. On the road, Punisher fights against the killers in a road race of death. When they have him at their mercy, Steve Rogers rides by and disarms the bad guys, giving the Punisher the time he needs to recover and turn violent tables on his assassins. Cap and the Punisher compete in an insane version of "chicken" with Theopolis in an eighteen-wheeler, which ends with the villain and his truck careening over a cliff. With this, the Punisher tries to take his leave, reasoning that having saved Cap’s life on the truck makes up for having shot him earlier. Cap reminds him that he is a soldier: he does not have the liberty to choose his battles but must serve his country when needed. Acknowledging his duty, the vigilante agrees to join Cap’s mission….
In Medisuela, AG Mollech relaxes at a party thrown by General Navatilas; when the festivities turn out to include a human sacrifice, Mollech is at first appalled, then intrigued….
In disguise, Cap and the Punisher approach a weapons dealer through their agent Ms. White where they learn this is the firm responsible for the defective weapons. They return later and break into the facility where they hack into the computer and discover that the munitions are being purchased, not by General Navatilas, but by the US Department of Defense, and the Defense Intelligence Agency is at the center of it. They determine to pay General Navatilas a call at home. Meanwhile, Angela Stone has brutally tortured Ms White and learned about the two visitors and calls Mollech to arrange a bitter welcome for the two heroes….
Cap and the Punisher enter Medisuela secretly and discover the weapons cache in a deserted village. Cap discovers a bomb about to go off and has only seconds to toss his shield to the Punisher for protection before it explodes. Cap is taken prisoner by the General’s men, while the gravely injured Punisher lies unconscious in the forest….


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Last Exit
The Punisher takes the V.I.G.I.L. officers on a chase through the supposedly abandoned tenement building, leading them to a fugitive in hiding, a sex dungeon, and a family of squatters. Captain America confronts Frank and asks him to surrender peacefully….
Elsewhere gang boss Mr. Machete blames Willy for the loss of the drugs (last issue) and executes him with a sword....
The Punisher knowing he can’t defeat Cap in a had-to-hand fight dashes back through the building. Sensing that Cap is not at peak performance, Frank heads for the roof. There he breaks into a water tower, sending waves crashing down on his pursuer; he then grabs onto Tess Clay’s news helicopter and orders them to fly to Manhattan. Cap discourages V.I.G.I.L. head John Lowe from an aerial battle over the city and assures him that the Punisher made a mistake in heading there….


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Pariah!
The Punisher is wanted for the murder of a police officer; the President puts the anti-vigilante group V.I.G.I.L. under the command of the Justice Department and John Lowe is named the new head. The police and military surround a city block in Brooklyn which is supposed to be unoccupied, while news reporter Tess Clay covers the story from a hovering helicopter. Armed officers invade the building and the Punisher leads them on a chase through the tenement, leading them to a drug lab and other illegal activities. Petty crook Ermin is caught inside the building with a case full of the drug Bliss and a large amount of cash to deliver the crime boss Mr. Machete. Escaping the building, he encounters crooked cop Rudger who kills him for the money; Rudger turns around and sees the Punisher, who guns him down. As John Lowe orders him men to shoot to kill the quarry, Captain America arrives and volunteers to go in alone after the Punisher….