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Generations: The Strongest
Amadeus Cho, the Totally Awesome Hulk, is pulled through the
Vanishing Point and finds himself in a desert setting. Almost immediately he
spots the original Hulk (Bruce Banner) being pursued by an army task force led
by General Thunderbolt Ross. They see each other and the army sees them both
and so fires on them. A-Hulk joins B-Hulk in demolishing the unmanned weapons
and then leads him away from  the
soldiers to a beach. There, the two punch each other until tired and Hulk
transforms back into Bruce Banner; Amadeus regains his normal form and talks to
Bruce, who, of course, has no idea who Amadeus/Hulk is. Amadeus, meanwhile,
doesn't know how to tell Bruce that he (Amadeus) cured him (Banner) but he
still ended up dead in the second Civil War. They duck into a cave and Amadeus
projects scans of their battle into the air to divert the helicopters searching
for them. General Ross orders the copters to keep firing on the illusion while
the two Hulk guys get away....
Bruce wants to learn Amadeus' secret of controlling his
transformations; all Amadeus can suggest is that Bruce try to control his
anger—which is what he has been doing but it never works for long....
The military bombardment awakens a dormant sea beast which
begins to rampage across the land. Amadeus tells Bruce to evacuate the diner
while he becomes the Hulk and tries to force the beast back into the sea.
Banner hulks out an beats up A-Hulk; B-Hulk taunts Amadeus for thinking he has
it all figured out, but Amadeus knows that they are both trying to keep a
monster under control. The army fires upon them and Amadeus is pulled back
through the Vanishing Point, realizing that Bruce was right—the “gift” is a
curse and he will have to find a way to end it before it ends him....


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Near the end of Secret Empire #10 Kobik the Cosmic Cube sent various people temporarily and independently via the Vanishing Point through time to meet their older counterparts much earlier in their careers. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) was 1 of them.She has no idea what actually happened, just that she's in some jungle island in the middle of an ocean. She's already noted and avoided many famous super-marksmen. And now she runs into a young Clint Barton/Hawkeye in his original Avengers outfit. So now she knows she's in the past even as she gasps his name "Clint!". He of course wants to know who she is and how she knows his secret id. But *she* knows she's got to avoid messing up the timeline so she can't tell him she's from the future where they're both crime-fighting Hawkeyes. So with quick thinking she invents the awful super-id Hawkess, but he can call her Kate.Meanwhile they're stood there aiming arrows at each other. She's noticed that he's wearing a belt with a target on the front. He asks her why she doesn't have 1 like everyone else. She extemporises that she took it off and he's surprised that it didn't explode, so she has to claim that it must have been broken. He's now very suspicious, but she says she knows the hero's not going to shoot her so why doesn't he lower his weapon. He objects to her calling him by his civilian name again because he wears a mask to keep that name secret, and asks her again how she knows his name. She lowers *her* bow to show she trusts him. And he fires an arrow at her ...... which hits the target on the belt of an unidentified costumed man behind her who has an array of knives. His target crackles with energy and he fades away.Later our duo are toasting marshmallows(!) on an open fire. Kate accidentally introduces Clint to the future word 'asshat'. But she's more careful when she explains to him how she knows so much about him - she says she's friends with Black Widow (Clint's girlfriend at the time). They banter about their costumes, and Kate persuades Clint to take his mask off so she can try it on. Clint sees holes in her story but somehow he trusts her.Another mystery villain, this 1 with a machete, pops up to attack them - pointing out that their fire and loud talking makes them easy to spot. It turns out that's the plan as Clint uses a mini-crossbow to get rid of this guy and Kate hit's the target on Boomerang's belt. Clint doesn't recognise Boomer's future costume, and also draws a blank when Kate mentions she's seen future baddie Bullseye (so she doesn't mention Crossfire and Taskmaster).Kate tries to find out what's going on. Clint says he entered a contest to find the best marksman in the universe, to win a lot of money. But he doesn't know how he got to this island. However somewhere along the line he *was* told about the belt target teleport system. Also however all the rest seem to be villains and some of them are opting for killing rather tagging, so superhero Clint has decided to teleport them all before they kill each other. Kate says she doesn't know how *she* got here but it wasn't Clint's way, so he posits that she's a spanner in the works that maybe they can make use of.Clint leads Kate to some Angkor Wat-y buildings where he suspects the mastermind behind all this is holed up. Clint suggests Kate go in to find the control room and shut it down while he holds off anyone else with the same idea. But at that point Clint's former mentor Swordsman (with a target belt) joins them. Both heroes suspect he's the man behind the curtain so they refuse his help when he claims to be in the same situation as them. However Clint relents and says they can both stay here to keep others off Kate's back.The Hawkeyes have another chat before Kate goes inside. 1st off she tries to stop him calling her Katie (we know that's not going to work). Then she gives him some trick arrows, like the boomerang arrow, that he hasn't invented yet. Then she tells him about Roman Emperor Domitian who could fire 4 arrows at once.After that Kate wanders among the ruins thinking how Clint had a bad father-figure in Swordsman like her own criminal father, but now he's been a good (but messed-up) father-figure to her. Then she figures that the control room is likely to be in the top of the tallest ruin. Meanwhile Clint is caught between despatching Swordsman now or trusting him a *little* bit. But then they get separated and he is attacked by another guy he doesn't recognise, this 1 announcing himself as Taskmaster and boasting of his photographic reflexes. So Clint doesn't try anything clever but just yanks on the villain's cloak and jabs an arrow on the teleport target.Meanotherwhile Kate is spying on a blue-haired female with bow and arrows in the control room. She also spots someone about to shoot the woman so she fires a magnesium flash arrow which dazzles the shooter so he only nicks her. Then she fires a line arrow and slides down to kick the recovering villain who she recognises as Clint's sometimes foe Crossfire who doesn't recognise *her*. She notes that he doesn't have a target belt and guesses that he used his tech knowhow to get it off. So she just punches him unconscious and ties him up.Kate holds the woman at arrowpoint but then Swordsman walks in. He confirms that he's working with the female who he calls his protege Eden. She holds both of them off waiting for Clint to arrive. But instead she gets nicked by a thrown card and realises Bullseye is here. The 3 duck behind an overturned table as a hail of weapons embed themselves in it. Eden can't understand why the players are cheating, but bound Crossfire confirms that the villains don't like being manipulated. Swordsman explains that Eden pulled the best marksmen through time and space. The weapons are starting to break though the table when Kate hears Clint shout "Domitian" from above. She fires 4 arrows simultaneously in that direction, some of which wound Bullseye who's fighting Clint and winning. Clint manages to kick him away and Kate's next shot hits his teleporter.It turns out that this was all Swordsman's way of getting Clint to meet Eden and agree that the 3 of them would make an unstoppable team. It also turns out that Eden thought Clint knew the plan. She realises that Swordy will never get over his obsession with his 'creation' Clint, so she uses her machine to send him away - and Crossfire and all the other villains too. She gives Clint a device that will send him home too and then teleports herself away.Clint comments that Eden was pretty cute and they had something in common - both manipulated by Swordsman. Kate is embarrassed for him. She also asks rhetorically why his shirt always gets ripped (as happens a lot in her time). As they wait for whatever brought Kate here to take her back he tries to hit on her which she of course finds gross. As Clint lies back and relaxes she decides that the timeline is probabny already messed up anyway so she might as well tell him the truth about their relationship in the future and how they're both Hawkeye and how he's a good mentor and friend. Then she realises he's fallen asleep and missed it all. And then Kobik takes her back to the future.


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Ironheart finds herself falling to Earth with her AI non-responsive and her armour not even responding to manual controls, including a complete lack of sensors. She crashes onto a roof and at least her armour's auto-crash-protection works.Riri Williams takes her helmet off and realises she's in her home town Chicago, but totally changed. For instance there are vehicles following tracks in the air, and the tracks seem to be made of light. And most amazing of all the air is clean. She tries to figure out if she's hallucinating, or maybe shifted to an alternate reality - as has happened to other heroes she knows.Then 5 unknown teenage heroes accost her, claiming to be the Mighty Avengers. 1 introduces himself as Azari of Wakanda. Riri reponds with her Ironheart identity, and another of the teens says "Like Riri Williams?". She's stunned that they know her secret id, and blacks out from stress. The teens take her to someone who can help her.Riri wakes up to find an old man examining her armour. *We* recognise the Cloak of Levitation, the Wand of Watoomb and a familiar pattern in the circular window. But Riri isn't au fait with the Sanctum Sanctorum of Dr Strange. But there's an incongruous note - many small Iron Man droids consisting only of head, upper torso and short arms, all floating on balls of light.It takes a while for Riri to recognise the voice speaking to her - the man is an aged Tony Stark, claiming to be 126 years old. It takes even longer to convince her she's in the future, and Tony hasn't seen her for a long time. He ignores the question of how come *he*'s alive, but accepts a hug.Tony also bypasses the fact that she has many other questions in favour of asking *her* how she got to the future. Riri says she doesn't know, and she doesn't know how to get back. Stark suggests Zen acceptance until things become clearer. He suspects that whoever sent her here wants her to learn something. He claims to have had a similar experience, but Riri doesn't want to hear *yet again* how he and Dr Doom went back to the Court of King Arthur.They briefly discuss the teen heroes who are the children of the Avengers she knows. Riri thinks Black Panther Jr was coming on to her.Stark also has an explanation for why her armour doesn't work. He has set up a World Energy Shield that is inhibiting its energy sources. And she couldn't make any external contacts because he's replaced the Internet with something much better. Riri is eager to learn about the new tech but he doesn't want her taking such knowledge back to her time.Tony upgrades her armour to work in this future world, and they both go for a fly - Stark using his cloak. He tells her the upgrade won't go back with her, and stops her computer from recording stuff.Tony confirms that he is now the Sorcerer Supreme (he's even got the Amulet of Agamotto). When Riri asks how he went from tech wizard to magician he claims that science and sorcery are the same.Now Riri sees not just the futuristic city but also a profusion of strange plants. Stark explains that the Avengers became a galactic force (and finally really defeated Thanos - but Riri doesn't know who that *is*). 1 alien race they saved gave us plants that eat pollution out of the air. Then Tony and some others persuaded the world's governments to scrap weapons and military and use the funds to fix the world - and it worked. They now are as near to utopia as it is possible to be.But then a fly in the ointment turns up in the shape of Morgana Le Fey on a dragon accompanied by Doombots riding monsters - out to rule the world. However the Sorcerer Supreme whips out a Shard of the Odinsdottir - and Morgan runs away. And the teen Avengers arrive disappointed that they missed the battle.Tony now leads Ironheart to the Baxter Building. The Fantastic Four left a long time ago but grown-up Franklin Richards is still there. Tony introduces Riri and asks after the FF's time machine. Franklin reminds him that time travel is banned after an unfortunate incident, and anyway their old machine is at Project Pegasus guarded by the Venom Pit - which Stark does *not* want to go near.But anyway they have a chat. Tony reminds Riri he told her that she was probably sent her for a purpose. When *he* wound up with King Arthur it made him realise how far civilisation had progressed since then, and that reinvigorated him when he got back home to strive harder to make things even better. And he thinks *she* has been sent here to be inspired.Along the way Stark has tried to keep Riri from finding out about her own destiny, especially from some of the blabbermouth teens. Franklin said that she would get a Doctorate. Now Tony himself lets slip that she's galaxy-famous.But after all this Ironheart finds herself slipping away from them until she's back in Chicago in her own time, with her old armour working again. Her Tony Stark AI is back on line and wants to know what happened. When she gets home Riri builds herself a little Iron droid to remind herself to keep focussed on the bright future.


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Generations: The Americas
Prologue: Captain America Sam Wilson is being questioned about the one minute he vanished with a number of other superheroes....

As Sam remembers it he awoke in New York City at the beginnings of World War 2. Taken in by a friendly acquaintance, he took on the name of Paul Jeffries and got a job and when America entered the War, he enlisted. And his path crossed with the original Captain America. Sam used his wings to go on unofficial missions, leading a team of African American pilots. When Sam formally met Cap, Steve confided in him that he did not feel up to the responsibility he was given. Sam encourages him to keep going and he will become the hero he needs to be and he will inspire generations to come....

The War ends and Sam goes home, though Cap does not, frozen in ice in the North Atlantic. As Paul Jeffries, Sam becomes the pastor of a church, marries, becomes a father then a grandfather, takes part in the Civil Rights Movement, and then the day comes: Captain America returns, joining the Avengers. Sam sees him again and Steve recognizes him. They have a private meeting and “Paul” promises to always be there when Steve needs to talk....

The years go by. Cap is joined by the Falcon, a younger version of Sam. A civil war is fought. Cap is assassinated. He returns. Then when he loses his powers, he comes to speak to his old friend Paul. Steve asks for advice on whether Sam Wilson should become the new Captain America—and he notices how much Sam resembles Paul. Sam tells Steve that young Sam's biggest challenge will be living up to Steve's legacy as the hero who inspired millions. Steve confesses that while he was doing all this, he was inspired by his friend Paul who served his country and never asked for recognition....

For Sam this puts everything into perspective: for the first time he was his own man—not a partner or an ally or a friend but someone with a legacy of his own. On his deathbed, Paul Jeffries awakens as Sam Wilson Captain America....

Government agents question him as to the whereabouts of Kobik, the living Cosmic Cube; he refuses to tell them anything and leaves where he joins the other younger heroes who had also gone through the Vanishing Point. The go out and celebrate together but after the party breaks up Jane Foster Thor notices he looks different from all the others—like he has lived a lifetime. They reason that Kobik wanted them all to think about their own paths, their own legacies....

Late that night, out of the dark, Sam throws the shield back to Steve, with a note of encouragement attached....


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Generations: The Thunder
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Darkness Within
A hostage situation at a Manhattan deli is interrupted by the arrival of Vengeance, who calmly walks into the store and takes down the two robbers, terrifying the hostages. Back at the precinct house, Michael Badilino decides to take time off from being a cop and from the spirit of Vengeance which possesses him, to the dismay of his co-workers. Meanwhile, the sinister businessman Mr. Hellgate orders his minions to find out all they can about Ghost Rider and Vengeance. That night Mike stops by Cypress Hills Cemetery, where he is unaware that he is under surveillance by Hellgate’s men… And another figure. Mike detects a presence behind him and draws a gun but the gun is snatched away by “Professor” Hulk. Hulk is there for the Pantheon, searching for the missing Ghost Rider before heading to a bachelor party. Mike, thinking Hulk is one of Hellgate’s agents, turns into Vengeance and attacks. Hulk wants answers and thinks his foe has them so uses his fists to try to end the fight quickly. The two armored watchers, Hellgate’s real agents, remain in hiding, hoping Hulk will soften up Vengeance and make it easier for them to capture the supernatural being for their boss. When Hulk threatens to tear his opponent’s head off, one of the bad guys panics and fires a force bolt at the Green Giant. The two villains then realize they have to battle both combatants and they manage to lock Vengeance in a stasis field. Hulk however uses a lamppost to bat them out of the park. When the villains return with weapons blazing Hulk flattens them with a thunderclap and the two heroes take down the hapless thugs. Afterwards, Vengeance explains how he doesn't know what happened to Ghost Rider and isn't sure he wants these occult powers he was left with. Hulk tries to advise him on dealing with unwanted powers and invites him to the bachelor party. The spirit of Vengeance politely declines. Elsewhere in the cemetery, Ghost Rider’s hidden skull awakens from its long-dormant state and glows with hellfire…


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Fear
Prologue: Ebenezer Laughton, the Scarecrow, is in the operating room receiving implants funded by mysterious donors. The operation a success, the medical team turns their backs on the sedated man but suddenly Laughton overcomes the anesthesia and slaughters everyone in the room….
One week later in Brooklyn, police are dealing with a gang of young hoods who are holding hostages in a supermarket and have already slain a cashier. Captain Dolan delays action, hoping to trap the Ghost Rider too. On cue, the blazing skull arrives and enters the building taking down the thugs, but an elderly hostage dies of fright from seeing his rescuer. Police open fire, gunning down Ghost Rider who nevertheless gets up and rides off on his bike. Dolan becomes increasingly obsessed with capturing the supernatural avenger. The next day, Danny Ketch, secretly the Ghost Rider, reacts strongly to being painted a villain by the media. His girlfriend Stacy Dolan (the Captain’s daughter) can’t understand, not knowing his dual identity but Danny is haunted by fear, his and everyone else’s. Meanwhile, the Police Commissioner orders Dolan to drop the Ghost Rider case and turn his full attention to the Scarecrow killings. The madman is out at night, stalking the innocent with his deadly crows, and murdering his victims with a pitchfork. Caught by police in the act of killing a young couple, Scarecrow attacks the cops, killing the man and taking the woman officer—Stacy Dolan—prisoner, since he sees her as his mother. On patrol that night, Danny sees police activity and follows as Ghost Rider. The police, led by Captain Dolan, arrive on the scene and are joined by Captain America who explains the Scarecrow’s insane vendetta against him. Cap spies Ghost Rider watching from a nearby roof and climbs up to confront the interloper. After Cap expresses his belief that Ghost Rider is not a criminal, the vigilante invites Cap to join him on the mission to save Stacy. Stacy, to her horror, awakens to find herself tied to a huge cross with Scarecrow offering to help her let the fear out….
Elsewhere, the villains who funded Laughton’s surgery are convinced that it was a success, that the Scarecrow now emits a pheromone which induces a panic attack in those he is near, while increasing his own strength.
Captain America leads Ghost Rider to the Laughton family brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, which is now surrounded by a flock of crows. Cap walks in the front door—and is immediately attacked by the enhanced madman and thrown out into the street. While Cap is nearly paralyzed with fear, Ghost Rider enwraps Scarecrow in a chain and hauls him to the roof. As the two battle, Captain Dolan arrives and Cap suggests he call for backup. Seeing Cap enter the building to rescue his "mommy," Scarecrow breaks away from Ghost Rider and slips down the chimney, forcing the Spirit of Vengeance to find another way in. Cap and Dolan make their way though the house, past the bodies of the current inhabitants and track the villain upstairs. Ghost Rider, afraid that if he kills his foe he will become like him, stops Scarecrow from killing Stacy. As Cap arrives to do battle with his enemy, Stacy shoots her captor and the Scarecrow, escaping through a window, plunges to the ground and is impaled on a spiked iron fence.
Later, Danny visits his sister’s grave and explains how, like Scarecrow, he was interested in releasing his fear. In an epilogue, Scarecrow pushes himself off the iron spikes and is collected by his benefactors—Mister Stern and the Firm.


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... what time hath put asunder
This story continues from AVENGERS #132.In the dungeons of Immortus' castle in Limbo Mantis holds the dying Vision. He tells her how (in Av#132) he and Ghost materialised their arms inside each other's chest. Vision thinks Ghost was destroyed, and he himself is dying with his rematerialised arm hanging useless. Mantis tries to comfort him, but in his delirium he calls her his love Wanda.Mantis is interrupted by Midnight, the martial arts master Kang resurrected specifically to oppose her. They fight again, and Midnight is slipping out of Kang's control and so is less bound to take her alive (Kang wants her because she is to be the Celestial Madonna). But Mantis eventually renders him unconscious with a choke grip. Only to find Vision gone.Elsewhere Hawkeye sees the Frankenstein Monster carrying what he assumes is Vision's dead body. He's already seen Iron Man die in Av#132. His heart wants him to attack the Monster but his head tells him to follow Iron Man's instructions (Av#132 again) to rally the other Avengers trapped here, whom Clint now reckons are only Mantis and Thor.In another elsewhere Kang leads his remaining recruits Baron Zemo, the WWII Human Torch and Wonder Man.  He sends Torch and Wondie to find Vision. Zemo suggests a partnership with Kang, but the Conqueror asserts his superiority by threatening to return the Nazi to the death he plucked him from.We last saw Thor following the Monster of Frankenstein (Av#132, where else) hoping to be led to Kang. But he obviously lost him before Frankie picked up Vision. He's now wandering the labyrinth of Limbo, until he comes across the body of Iron Man. Confirming that he is dead, the Asgardian swears vengeance.Back in the real world crowds are gaping at the mini-star hovering over Avengers Mansion, which appeared in Av#128 to herald the Celestial Madonna. A policeman arrives to tell the Avengers' butler Jarvis that the Mayor wants to speak to them on his police radio - Libra of Zodiac has escaped from prison and His'onner is worried that the rest of the gang will follow. Jarvis tries to inform the only Avenger in residence, the Scarlet Witch, who is still ensconced with Agatha Harkness being trained in witchcraft (since Av#128). But he is warned away by a harsh inhuman version of Wanda's voice.Wonder Man doesn't know that the Golden Age Human Torch is an android, and makes beingist remarks about their target Vision. Before Jim Hammond can show his offence they run into Frankie carrying Vision, who's still breathing. Wonder Man intends to finish him off but the Monster won't let him. Simon Williams chooses the better part of valour and leaves to fetch Kang. Torch examines Vision's body and comes to a stunning conclusion. The android body is actually his!Torch also says he thinks he can save Vision's life, and the protective Monster agrees to let him try.Kang himself has gotten tired of Zemo's ranting about what he'd like to do to Captain America. He sends him to check on Immortus and Rama-Tut whom he left imprisoned in transparent tubes (Av#131 this time) after using the Limbo-master's machinery to snatch his minions out of the past. But he regrets his decision when attacked by Thor.Thor is righteously angry that Iron Man is dead, which is good news to Kang. The villain thinks his personal forcefield will protect him from Thor's hammer, but Mjolnir strikes with such force that the forcefield itself transmits the blows. He is only saved by the arrival of Wonder Man.The 2 powerhouses have at it toe-to-toe until Simon and Kang make their escape as Wondie pulls down a tunnel between them and Goldilocks. But of course Thor just starts to smash his way through the boulders.Meanwhile Hawkeye has found the control room with the captive Immortus and Rama-Tut. Tut says he wants to help against his earlier self Kang, as he did in #2. So Clint agrees to free them with a button on Immortus' throne. But Baron Zemo arrives before he can do it. There follows a quick duel between arrows and a blaster built into Zemo's glove, until Hawkeye breaks the blaster. But Zemo whips out a paste-gun and glues Clint's upper body to the floor with Adhesive X.Zemo goes into 1 of his rants about how Cap caused the hood to be permanently stuck to his face. Immortus offers to help him with that, by sending him back to before the incident happened. But this is really a distraction while Hawkeye uses his free feet and teeth to fire an arrow at the button on the throne. The arrow frees Immortus and the Pharaoh. And Immortus turns Zemo into a blob of protoplasm.Wonder Man tells Kang about the Monster carrying the broken Vision, but then the Thunder God catches up with them. But Frankie, Torch and the revived Vision turn up too. The Monster and the Torch declare that they won't obey Kang any more. But Vision's arm is still useless.Simon attacks Vision, not knowing that Vision shares his brain pattern but getting (and ignoring) a funny feeling like he's fighting himself. The injured and weakened Vision fares badly until he turns his body to diamond as Wondie's fist hits it (as he did in Av#132). And then Vizh lays him out with his 1 good fist. Meanwhile a berserker Thor is battering Kang's forcefield again, until the villain escapes through time.Vision assures the calmed Thor that the Monster and Torch are on their side. Frankie was able to resist Kang because of his special state - a living being made from dead bodies. And the Human Torch is an android.At this point Vision also explains that his android body is that of the Torch. Which explains him freezing when faced with quicksand (Av#118) and water (Av#122). Because Torch was once buried alive by his maker and kept underwater by criminals (both in the Golden Age Marvel Comics #1). But neither of them know why they share a body.Then the 5 characters are zapped by Immortus to the control room, along with Iron Man, Mantis and Midnight. Immortus waves his magic hand and brings Iron Man back to life, fixes Vision's arm and brings Ghost back from wherever he went when he almost killed the android, before sending him back to where and when Kang got him from. Hawkeye even persuades Immortus to restore Zemo, before sending him back too, and all the others of the Unliving Legion except the Torch.Rama-Tut says his goodbyes and vanishes into the timestream. Immortus explains that he's kept Torch here because he wants him and Vision to learn how they are related. And then he adds, which Tut seemed to have guessed, that he is a future version of both Tut and Kang.The plot continues in AVENGERS #133.


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The Monstrous Master Plan of the Mandarin
Reprints AVENGERS ANNUAL #1.


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... let all men bring together
This is the finale of the Celestial Madonna saga, continuing from AVENGERS #135.But it starts off with the Vision. In Av#135 he watched as Ultron-5 created him using the body of the WWII android Human Torch (and the mind of Wonder Man). The synchro-staff that had guided him through times past then said it would return him to Immortus and the present. But instead Vision found himself alone in the dark.Now he hears a psychic scream and heads towards a light. And discovers that he's at the centre of the Earth where Dormammu and his sister Umar have imprisoned the Earth Goddess Gaea (in Dr Strange (1974) #7). But they also have Scarlet Witch and Agatha Harkness prisoner. Dormammu is seeking revenge for Wanda defeating him at the end of the Avengers/Defenders War in Av#118.Wanda has been learning witchcraft from Miss Harkness for several issues. Dormammu explains that she overreached herself, allowing him to possess her in Av#134, and spirit her and Agatha away in Av#135.Dormammu sends demons to attack Vision. His intangibility saves him for a while, but he is aware that his long journey through time cut him off from the solar radiation which keeps his batteries charged, so to speak. However, now knowing that his body was once that of the Torch, he realises that he can absorb power from the demons' flames, and blast them with his solar beam.But Dormammu now commands Scarlet Witch to attack her love Vision.Meanwhile Mantis has returned with Hawkeye, Iron Man and Thor from their travels in time learning the history of the Kree and the Cotati plant-beings. They arrived back in the garden of the Temple of Pama in Viet Nam to be greeted by Mantis' father Libra and the apparent ghost of her lover Swordsman. They were joined by Moondragon, and then Immortus.But now Immortus nips off into the timestream to find out what's keeping Vision.'Swordsman' at last starts to explain what all the Kree/Cotati business has to do with Mantis being the Celestial Madonna.He claims that Mantis has been raised to be the perfect human. But that Moondragon was also brought up with the same intent. In Av#123 we learned that infant Mantis lost her mother and was given by her father to the Priests of Pama to raise. And in Av#135 we were reminded that young Moondragon lost her parents and was raised on Titan in the Shao Lom monastery. In Av#124 we saw that the Priests of Pama were descended from pacifist Kree. Now Swordsman says that the orphaning of Mantis and Moondragon happened on the same day, and the Shao Lom monks were also part of the Kree pacifist sect.Both girls were put through similar training of body and mind. In Av#135 we learned how the pacifist Kree nurtured the telepathic Cotati. And Mantis recognised the Cotati as some of the plants in the temple garden. It turns out that there were Cotati in the Titan monastery too. And both women have been trained without knowing it to communicate with the plants. In Mantis that is expressed in her empathy. In Moondragon it is her knowledge of genetics and the human mind.But then the women were set on different paths. While Moondragon remained in the monastery studying, Mantis had her memories of the temple erased and was sent to work as a bar girl in Saigon. In this way she learned about mankind, while Moondragon remained aloof. It is this which makes Mantis the more perfect human, chosen to be the Celestial Madonna.The ghostly Swordsman then dashes through the story of Mantis that we followed in the past year and a half of Avengers issues:- Working for Monsieur Khruul. Meeting Swordsman. Joining the Avengers with him. Her attraction to Vision. Libra of Zodiac revealing himself to be her father and telling her of her forgotten childhood.Then the 'ghost' reveals the purpose of it all. 1 of the trees in the garden is the Eldest Cotati. He is the perfect plant. As the perfect human Mantis will marry the tree, which is animating the body of her love Swordsman. She will be the Celestial Madonna and bear a prophesied child.Meanwhile Hawkeye has dragged Iron Man and Thor away from the revelations to see Crimson Dynamo, Radioactive Man and Titanium Man (the Titanic Three from Av#130 and Iron Man #73) lying beaten and battered. They say that the guy who did it called himself Kang. The Avengers figure he's back for a 3rd attempt at claiming the Madonna as his bride (the previous attempts ending in #2 and #3). They split up to find him. But each of the 3 heroes defeat and capture a Kang!At the centre of the Earth Scarlet Witch isn't holding back, and it takes all of Vision's powers to defend himself from her enhanced hex attacks. But then she drains all his stored energy, and he sinks to her feet dying and declaring his love for her. Which of course snaps her out of Dormammu's control.Wanda challenges Dormammu, who tries to reassert his control but fails. This is because the Witch has also freed Agatha Harkness who is a much more accomplished witch, and she is protecting her pupil. Scarlet Witch then cools the lava which Dormammu is standing in, and which he has been using in Dr Strange to fuel his regeneration. Umar sneaks up behind Wanda. But Scarlet Witch has also revived Vision, who knocks Umar out. Dormammu sues for peace, and Wanda gets him to send her, Miss Harkness and Vision to the surface. (Along with some promises like freeing Gaea which he doesn't intend to honour.)The 3 materialise in Avengers Mansion. Miss Harkness leaves the duo, saying that her work is done and Wanda can continue her studies on her own. Vision tells his love that learning of his previous life as Human Torch has made him more sure of himself. And he asks her to marry him. Wanda says "Yes".As does Mantis in Viet Nam.Just then the Avengers arrive with their captive Kangs. But another Kang turns up in his time sphere and abducts Mantis. He has come to this place and time multiple times, the other iterations being diversions. And his time sphere leaves Earth with the Celestial Madonna aboard.Thor prepares to follow, but he is stopped by the reappearance of Immortus with Vision, Wanda and Miss Harkness. The Master of Limbo directs them to a large box he brought with him in Av#135. He opens it, and Mantis is inside.The magician then explains his trick. The box originally contained the Space Phantom, an inhabitant of Limbo. When Kang's time sphere appeared the Phantom used his power to swap places with Mantis and assume her appearance. Which Kang is only now discovering for himself.Immortus then officiates over 2 weddings. 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Games Godlings Play!
Late
one night, Daredevil detects Nighthawk and, remembering their previous
encounter, tries to capture him but the two are teleported to limbo-like world
in space. The Grandmaster is playing a game against the Prime Mover, a sentient
computer programmed never to lose, the stakes of which are the fate of Earth. The
Grandmaster’s team is the Defenders plus Daredevil (to make a team of six) and
they will be paired off to face Prime Mover’s team in combat to the death. And
so…
Valkyrie
and Nighthawk find themselves on a dismal world full of stone obelisks and
purple mists. Nighthawk is attacked by a man-bat hybrid demon and once he
catches on that it moves by echolocation, he is able to divert it into a fatal
collision with a stone structure. Val faces Takkor, a four-armed skeletal demon
astride his own dark horse. When she realizes that the horse is the dominant
person, she is able to skewer it on her sword. Round one goes to the
Grandmaster….
The
Sub-Mariner and Daredevil appear on a volcanic world to face their foes. DD is
attacked by an amorphous creature called Dumog which seizes him with its
tentacles and hurls him into an exploding crater where he burns alive. Namor
faces Teju, a lizard man, who, surprisingly, beats Namor to death with its
tail. Round two goes to the Prime Mover….

Doctor Strange and Hulk find themselves in a semi-medieval world where Hulk faces Grott
the Man-Slayer, a yellow dwarf with powers of telekinesis who tosses him around
like a feather. Strange faces Korvac, a futuristic cyborg whose brain is wired
directly to his weapons pedestal, making him able to fight at the speed of
thought. Strange reacts by punching Korvac in the face, knocking him to the
ground, breaking his machine parts. Meanwhile, Hulk, buried alive under tons of
debris, reaches out a hand and flicks Grott into a hard wall. Round three and
the match go to Grandmaster….
The
Prime Mover takes off in a huff, and Grandmaster informs the Defenders (and DD,
resurrected along with Namor) that he will be making Earth into a training
ground for warriors and that they will become part of his stable of gladiators.
The non-team attacks their foe who can just brush them off. DD challenges
Grandmaster to a simple contest, double or nothing. DD takes a plastic disc,
marks an X on one side and leaves the choice to Grandmaster who calls “tails.”
It comes up heads and, in good grace, Grandmaster accepts his defeat and sends
the heroes home. Dr. Strange questions DD’s judgment in risking Earth on the
toss of a coin; DD, with his sensitive fingers, knew he could flip the disc to
come up however he chose but he doesn’t tell the Defenders that and so he takes
his leave….
“The
World Destroyers!”Writer/artist:
Bill Everett.Synopsis:
Story reprinted from SUB-MARINER (1954 series) #38.
Betty Dean suggests to Namor the Sub-Mariner that if he is going to war against the
surface world, he should start with the Fatalists, a small band of fanatics
that has developed a death ray and has been trying to sell it to a wealthy
nation—but all of the nations on Earth, including the Communist ones, are
horrified by the device and refuse to consider it. Namor’s reaction is delight
that maybe the surface people will destroy each other, leaving Atlantis alone.
The Fatalists hunt down Namor and shoot him with their death ray and toss his
body in the ocean. They have kidnapped the son of a Latin American leader to
force his father’s country into purchasing the death ray; when the old man
refuses, they seek to execute the boy but Namor arrives, having been revived by
the water, snatching the ray gun away and shooting the Fatalists with it. The
Fatalists turn out to be aliens from Pluto and the ray sends them home. Namor
takes the stockpile of weapons for his own use but discovers the guns won’t
work for him.
“The
House of Shadows!”Reprinted
from STRANGE TALES #120.


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The Way They Were!
Synopsis:
The Defenders, Doctor Strange, Hulk, and Valkyrie, return to headquarters in
Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum. Val tells Clea that she wishes she knew more about
her teammates. Clea casts a spell to give Val visions of their early lives….“Banished
to Outer Space”Reprinted
from  THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1962) #3.
In
the next room, Hulk slowly vanishes and Clea feels it as she shows Val Namor’s
past….
“Bird
of Prey!”Writer/artist:
Bill Everett.Synopsis:
Story reprinted from SUB-MARINER (1954 series) #41. Teenage
Namor is flying through the skies to make his non-flying pals jealous. He is
fired on by a plane, thinking it is a type of bird. He seizes it and releases
its “eggs,” which explode harmlessly on an iceberg, then rips its tail off,
sending it into a death spiral. When Namor returns home, he is told he is a
hero for downing a Nazi warplane, which humbles him.
Dr.
Strange realizes that Clea’s spell “makes the past live again” …and then he disappears
too….
“To
Catch a Magician!”Synopsis:
Reprinted from STRANGE TALES #145.In
an odd fantasy land, Hulk is once again trapped in a spaceship, Namor is
fighting Nazi planes, and Strange is facing Mister Rasputin. Strange casts a
spell drawing them all together where they beat Rasputin and latch onto Clea’s
mind to draw them back where they came from. Clea apologizes for screwing up
and Val admits she has learned that her formidable allies are also good men.
“The
Peerless Power of the Silver Surfer!”Reprinted
from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5.


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Too Cold a Night for Dying!
Millionaire
Kyle (Nighthawk) Richmond and his date Trish Starr are out on the town,
chatting with the paparazzi—and a bomb planted in their car explodes, injuring
many….

Doctor Strange and Valkyrie arrive at the hospital and surgeon James Wynter, an old
colleague of Strange’s, asks him to consult on the operation on Kyle. It’s a
strain on Strange going through such an experience with a friend’s life at
stake but the operation is successful. He leaves the OR to find that Hulk has
crashed through the wall, looking for the person who killed his friend
“Bird-Nose;” Strange and Val manage to convince the big guy that Kyle will
recover. Hulk carries Strange and Val back to the Sanctum Sanctorum, revealing
that Strange’s concern over Kyle’s chances in the OR accidentally summoned
Hulk….
At
home, Hank and Janet Pym see the news reports on the explosion and Hank is
shocked; Trish Starr (then Trixie) saved his life in battle with her uncle the
villain Egghead. Believing Egghead was still alive and responsible for the
bombing, he dons his Yellowjacket gear and goes out in search of him.
Yellowjacket arrives at the hospital, entering through the hole Hulk made;
against doctors’ orders, he talks to Trish and finds she may lose her arm as a
result of the bombing. Trish also tells him that Egghead is alive and living in
the Bowery. Hank vows to avenge her….
Meanwhile,
Dr. Strange and Val are visiting Kyle who tells them the only enemies he has
that know his true identity are the guys from Squadron Sinister, the villains’
team he defected from to be a good guy. They leave to find Hulk, watching
Aragorn, Val’s winged horse, in an altercation with a traffic cop. Strange
smooths out the issue and they take off to find the Squadron….
Meanwhile,
Yellowjacket has found Egghead in the Bowery and forces him to confess to planting
the bomb. Eggy did it, wanting to maim his niece out of revenge. He then
punches the baddie’s lights out and returns to the hospital where he learns
Trish has lost her arm. As he leaves, Hank is spotted by Kyle and they talk,
Kyle learning that Hank is a friend of Trish’s. The problem is when he learns
that Egghead was the bomber, that the other Defenders are going after the
Squadron Sinister and he begs Hank to stop them….
The
Squadron is at their observatory hideout, plotting revenge against Nighthawk
and the Defenders when Hulk smashes in through the wall, followed by his
(non-)teammates. Hulk punches out Hyperion, Strange magically wraps up Whizzer
so he can’t move, Dr. Spectrum grabs a gun that absorbs energy from Hulk so
that he reverts to Bruce Banner. Then Hyperion knocks out Val, Spectrum frees
Whizzer and he clouts Dr. Strange so the good guys are captured. They wind up
in a dungeon, Val and Bruce chained, Strange gagged too. Strange sends out his
astral form, runs into Yellowjacket and brings him back to the dungeon. Bruce
turns back to Hulk, frees Strange and Val and the heroic quartet finds the bad
guys abducting Kyle from the hospital. Yellowjacket buzzes in Whizzer’s ear so
that he loses control and crashes into a wall, Hulk thunderclaps Hyperion, incidentally also smashing Spectrum’s Power Prism, and Strange drops him from the sky….
Epilogue:
Kyle and Trish reunite; she knows her loss of an arm will change her life and
career; she also knows that Kyle is offering to stand by her out of pity but he
won’t make a commitment so they break up.
(No
title given)Writer/artist:
Bill Everett.Synopsis:
Story reprinted from THE HUMAN TORCH (1940 series) #4. An
influenza epidemic strikes Alaska but the weather is too bad for planes to
deliver the new serum to cure it. Namor, the Sub-Mariner, is asked to get the
serum through. With a pack on his back, Subby swims underwater until the sea
starts icing up, trapping him. Scout planes search for him and one crashes
nearby, melting the ice and freeing Subby. Icebergs threaten a small town and Subby
helps the scout planes evacuate the town. Subby takes a plane and tries bombing
the icebergs, setting the town on fire. So he bombs the icebergs causing the
town to flood, putting out the fires but, well, flooding the town. So Subby
blows up the town’s gasoline supply, destroying the icebergs and allowing the
flood waters to pour out. And then he delivers the serum to the hospital.
“Witchcraft
in the Wax Museum!”Reprinted
from STRANGE TALES #121.


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Eelar Moves in Mysterious Ways!
Late
one night, a trio of punks follows a man named Milton Childs down a dark
street, finally hustling him into an alley for some violent fun. Above, Doctor Strange,
Hulk, and Valkyrie fly across the sky searching for the source of a
disturbance in the flow of time and are unaware of the crime beneath them. The
Defenders locate a glow in the harbor and when a small ship passes over it, the
ship is suddenly inundated with dead fish. The three heroes descend on the ship
to offer help in dumping the fish back into the water but Strange is seized and
dragged below the surface by Eelar, an underwater humanoid with electrical
powers who is speaking telepathically about the need to destroy the human
race….
Back
in the alley, the punks beat and rob Childs but then a huge shadowed figure orders
them to stop and when they don’t, he takes them down with no effort and rushes
Childs to the hospital. [He is Charlie-27 of the Guardians of the Galaxy.]
Back
at the harbor, an unconscious Strange is rescued by Valkyrie as Eelar flies
through the sky to destroy the city, as his thoughts are being widely
broadcast….
Upstate,
Nighthawk is flying, brooding about the events of last issue (you know, Trish
Starr). He spies a UFO crashing to the ground and heads over to investigate.
The townspeople panic and flee, except for a young boy….
Eelar
has a huge swarm of fish batter the Hudson Tunnel until the tunnel’s ceiling
cracks and collapses. The Defenders arrive and plug the massive leak with a
balled-up chunk of wrecked automobile….
The
boy in upstate New York goes home to tell his parents he saw a flying saucer
and he is punished for lying and sent to his room. He then sneaks out of the
window so he can investigate the UFO crash. Meanwhile, Nighthawk has located
the saucer and meets the Guardians of the Galaxy from a thousand years in the
future: Vance Astro, Yondu, and Martinex with Charlie being in the city…
…where
Eelar is on a violent rampage against the hated humans. Charlie sees this but
he was sworn to remain hidden while in the city and he ducks into an alley. The
Defenders arrive and give the monster battle, having trouble because of his
powerful electric charge….
At
the spaceship, Martinex pinpoints Charlie’s location and teleports Vance Astro,
Yondu, and Nighthawk to him where they join in the fight against Eelar. Then
the boy enters the ship….
Eelar
flies off and the Defenders pursue him while the Guardians head back to the
alley where Charlie-27 was sent earlier. They find Milton Childs’ briefcase
which contains the object of their journey into the past: a Badoon
mento-programmer, used for indoctrination but the tapes are missing….
Dr.
Strange locates another mento-programmer in the glowing part of the harbor and
deduces that it created Eelar. While the monster is distracted beating up a
tree, Strange explains to his teammates and the Guardians who have arrived. The
helmet fell into the water and mutated an electric eel into a humanoid form and
its propaganda tapes sent the mindless creature on a vendetta against the
Badoon’s hated enemy, the human race. The monster is subdued but Strange
prevents Val from killing it, instead restoring it to its original eel form and
put it back in the ocean….
At
a gathering in the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Guardians explain that the Badoon
conquer Earth in AD 3007 and they are seeking records of an attempted Badoon invasion
in the 20th century but are having no luck (because only the Silver
Surfer knew about it, in SILVER SURFER #2). Strange’s primary concern is
returning their guest to their own time….
At
the spaceship, Martinex learns that the little boy is a young Vance Astro….
Story
continues in DEFENDERS #26.“Quoth
the Nighthawk, “Nevermore!””Reprinted
from DAREDEVIL #62.


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Call them Triad…Call Them Death!
A series of eleven
murders, all young women, all drained of blood, brings Inspector Chelm and his
aide, Inspector Kate Fraser, to the small town of Rutherton to investigate.
Kate Fraser is psychic and when she touches a medallion belonging to the latest
victim, Annie Malcolm, she has a vision of a woman being sacrificed on an altar
so that the Triad might live once more; Kate knows it isn’t a vampire
responsible as none of the victims has become a vampire herself….
In London, Count
Dracula learns of the “vampire murders” in Northumberland and decides to
investigate….
Kate Fraser traces
the path of Annie Malcolm before she died and deduces she was heading to D’Aire
Manor; Lord D’Aire receive them but when Kate spots a runeboard with
Hilthstars—and there is one missing matching Annie’s medallion, his Lordship
throws them out. Later, Kate learns that there is a Roman fort near D’Aire
Manor where three thousand Roman soldiers were killed overnight centuries ago.
Annie’s fiancé, Nobby Clarke, drunk and excitable, blames Lord D’Aire for
Annie’s death, and heads to the Manor where he forces his way in and down to
the basement where he and his pal Tom discover a multitude of statues and a
flame pit with consumes Nobby….
Dracula encounters
Kate Fraser in the fog and is surprised that she strongly resembles his
long-dead wife Maria. Together they find Tom, dying from his burns who tells
Kate that she is the woman Y’Garon is looking for before he dies. Inspector
Chelm arrives and recognizes Dracula and tries to arrest the Count but the
vampire easily melts into the fog….
That night, Kate has
a nightmare that she is being sacrificed to the Elder Gods by Y’Garon and wakes
up screaming. Touching the Hilthstar puts her into a trance and Y’Garon leads
her to the old mill where Dracula has his coffin and commands her to kill the
vampire. She fights the suggestion and faints; when Dracula awakens, he frees
her from the spell. Just then, a mob of hypnotized villagers, led by Lord
D’Aire, arrives, sent by Y’Gsron to kill Dracula. He and Kate fight their way
through the village where Dracula is overpowered and Kate is captured by
Y’Garon. When Dracula recovers he heads to the Manor where he kills Lord D’Aire
before he is captured and sees Y’Garon ready to sacrifice Kate. Y’Garon is one
of the Triad of Elder Gods, the other two of which are trapped in another
dimension; this ceremony will free them from their imprisonment so they can reclaim
this world they once ruled. A bit of Kate’s blood is dripped into a pool and
slowly tentacles emerge. Dracula cracks up, seeing Kate as his wife Maria and
he breaks free, seeing Y’Garon as the Turk who killed his wife and attacks the
villain beating him and hurling him into the pool. Dracula frees Kates and
takes her out just moments before the Manor explodes. Outside, Dracula erases
all memory of the night’s events from Kate’s mind, allowing her to think that
Lord D’Aire was responsible for the murders, adding that he is grateful to have
met her.
“The Girl in the
Black Hood!”Writer: Larry
Leiber? Plot: Stan Lee? Art: Don Heck. Colors: ? Letters: Artie Simek.Synopsis: Celebrated
photographer May Dusa is notorious for always hiding her face under a black
cloth. A crook makes an appointment with her intending to rob her but curiosity
gets the best of him and he demands to see her face. May Dusa is Medusa and the
guy gets stoned! Reprinted from TALES TO ASTONISH #32.
“On with the Dance!”Writer: Stan Lee.
Art: Russ Heath. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: Nasty
selfish dancer Stella Scheele wants the lead in the show and threatens her
rival at gunpoint; the rival turns out to be a witch who curses Stella so that
she will never stop dancing until she wastes away and dies! Reprinted from
MENACE #2.
“The Sweet Old
Ladies”Writer: Stan Lee.
Pencils: Dick Ayers. Inks: Ernie Bache. Colors: ? Letters: Dic Ayers.Synopsis: A killer
on the run hides out in a small town where he forces his way into the home of
two sweet old ladies, demanding a meal; the two old ladies turn out to be
witches who throw him in their cookpot! Reprinted from ASTONISHING #18.
“Vampire at the
Window”Writer: Stan Lee.
Art: Hy Rosen. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: A man who
spies a vampire at his window calls on a private eye to protect him; the
vampire is real and the private eye turns out to be one too! Reprinted from
ASTONISHING #18.
“Drive of Death”Writer and artist
unknown.Synopsis: A driver
hits and kills a man late at night. He pushes the car with the corpse aboard
into a lake. Escaping through the woods, he is picked up by his ghostly victim
who drives the car into the lake to kill him back! Reprinted from ASTONISHING
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The Art of Dying!
Europe, the 1930s:
a man hides in a house in the mountains, waiting for Dracula to come and kill
him…. He recalls how he was a French government agent, until the night he was
on his way to a briefing with his supervisor—and overheard M. Duval with
Dracula, being hypnotized to obey the vampire lord’s will, aiding him in
conquering France. The Agent killed Duval to prevent his betraying his country.
Dracula seized the Agent and tried to bite his neck but the man shot Dracula in
the face and escaped. He fled to a small village in the Alps and then learned
that Dracula has found him….
Ruthless
millionaire Polcary Evanns is in his airship flying across Europe; he is drunk
and abusive but in his clear moments he is apologetic. He threatens to beat his
wife Eleanor and navigator Aaron Schmidt comes to her rescue, punching Evanns
in the face. He apologizes to his wife, pleading the recurring dreams of
traveling across the continent, dreams which he is pursuing so that he may
finally find his destiny. Evanns continues to shift between good and bad moods,
first accusing his wife of having an affair with Schmidt, then apologizing,
then hitting her, and finally stabbing Schmidt and throwing him overboard—and
threatening to murder Eleanor unless the crew continues their journey….
Dracula swoops
down on the Agent to feast on his blood but he has grown careless: the sun is
rising and Dracula must abandon his victim and flee. The wounded Agent is
helped by the local priest, Father Wetzel, who cares for him but begs him to
leave the area, lest the vampire prey upon the locals. The Agent has a cross
but asks food and a phial of holy water for his journey. His journey leads him
further into the mountains, through frigid air and blinding snow—and then
Dracula catches up to him. He holds the vampire at bay with a torch, but the
flame will not last forever. And then they hear the sound of a zeppelin
overhead….
Polcary Evanns’ airship
is heading through the storm; a crewman warns him that they are likely to crash
but Evanns hits him to shut him up as they are following the course from his
dream. They discover Dracula and the Agent below and bring them aboard. Dracula
tries to kill the Agent who dashes holy water in the vampire’s face. Agent
tries to warn them but Evanns beats him up; Dracula returns to the ship and
tries to feed on Eleanor. Evanns cracks up and attacks Dracula thinking he is
his wife’s lover. The Agent grabs Eleanor and leaps overboard just as the
zeppelin crashes into a mountain and explodes. The Agent and Eleanor are the
only survivors and they head back to civilization.
“Dark Asylum!”Writer: David
Kraft. Plot: Tony Isabella. Pencils: John Byrne. Inks: Rudy Nebres. Letters: ?Synopsis: An
amnesiac finds himself in a castle, battling a hellhound and a sexy demoness
before facing an evil wizard who bears his face, defeating him in battle. He
then wakes up in an insane asylum, having fought his way back to sanity.
“The Hidden
Vampire!”Writer: ? Art:
Fred Kida. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: An
American reporter searching for a vampire enters a creepy mansion in Hungary;
he finds nothing suspicious inside but discovers the doors and windows sealed
to keep him from leaving: the house itself is the vampire! Reprinted from
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #21.
“They Fly By
Night”Writer: ? Art: Bob
Correra. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: On a
visit to Europe, a pair of American tourists are killed by a vampire; their son
grows up to seek revenge. When he returns to the town, he finds his parents are
now vampires and doesn’t know whether to kill them or join them! Reprinted from
ADVENTURES INTO TERROR #30.


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Let It Bleed!
1934: Dracula
kills a victim and throws him from an ocean liner; the call of “man overboard”
attracts a crowd of passengers. Dracula mingles among them and strikes up a
conversation about death with the young Beverly Carpenter….
Beverly, with her
boyfriend Stuart, returns to the North Dakota farm where she lived with her
parents until her mother’s recent untimely death; her father doesn’t want her
there and tells her so. She can’t understand how her father has changed since
mom’s death and leaves in rage….
Dracula arrives in
the nearby Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, because he has sensed a great evil there
and considers it a threat to his own sinister plans. He encounters Beverly and they
are surprised to see each other; Beverly invites the mysterious visitor to stay
at her father’s home. But Dad isn’t there…
Paul Carpenter has
gone to church to seek help from the priest: he is desperate and afraid. He
confesses that periodically he has been overwhelmed by a strong desire to kill,
first a bird, then his dog, finally his wife, whom he frightened into running
away from him and being caught in a blizzard where she died. (He omits
mentioning killing his neighbor Anton Nyborg with an axe the day before.) The
priest is suddenly possessed by the same murderous spirit and attacks Paul who
kills him with a candlestick and, panicked, flees into the night. Dracula goes
out into the storm and, in bat form, searches for his unseen enemy. At the house,
Stuart goes crazy and attacks Beverly; Paul returns and together they take her
captive and with the revived priest and Anton Nyborg, they climb down a well
and move through a maze of underground tunnels until they reach their
destination under the mountain called the Devil’s Heart. Dracula has also
traced his enemy to this same spot and arrives to see Beverly being presented
to a giant, pulsating, living heart. The heart has the men fight Dracula who
kills Stuart as he tries to rescue Beverly. But he is too late, as Paul has
fatally stabbed his daughter. The giant heart (revealed here to be that of a
Sioux necromancer feeding on lives to sustain its own) shrivels and dies. Paul,
now normal again, pleads with Dracula to kill him but the vampire lord, not given
to mercy, departs, so Paul takes his own life.

“Forbidden Drink”Writer: ? Art:
Pete Tumlinson. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: An aging
stage actor offers to sell his soul to look young again. A mystery figure
appears and offers him the water from the Fountain of Youth. The dude swigs it
and sees himself growing younger. He heads over to propose to a young actress
but she laughs—he is still growing younger and now looks like a child; the
devil claims his soul! Reprinted from MYSTIC #2.
“The Gargoyles”Reprinted from TALES OF SUSPENSE #46.
“I Am the Living
Ghost!”Writer: ? Art:
Steve Ditko. Colors: ? Letters: Artie Simek.Synopsis: A
skeptic visits a supposedly haunted castle and spooky phenomena scare him away.
There are no ghosts—but the suits of armor and statues there are alive!
Reprinted from TALES OF SUSPENSE #15.
“You Can’t Escape”Writer and artist
unknown.Synopsis: A
vengeful vampire explains how he created a comic book story and had it printed
up and inserted in a random copy of a comic book—the very one you’re holding in
your hands! Reprinted from ADVENTURES INTO TERROR #6.


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Night of the She-Demon
Count Dracula
returns to London and pays a call on his minion in Parliament, Lord Henry;
Dracula’s two concerns are gaining diplomatic immunity and buying a castle.
Lord Henry is working on the first and found that the castle in question is
occupied by a Shiela Whittier who should be easy to dispose of….
On a farm, Martin
O’Hara has just discovered his daughter is pregnant and he beats her; even
learning she is married to her boyfriend Ted doesn’t quench the old man’s fury.
He punches Ted, accidentally killing him. The spirit of Lilith, Dracula’s
daughter rises from its grave and possesses Angel’s body; she transforms and
kills Martin before heading out on her mission of vengeance against the man who
killed her thirty years earlier: Quincy Harker….
At home, Quincy Harker
takes a call from Rachel van Helsing saying that she believes Dracula is
dead (end of TOMB OF DRACULA #21). Taj Nital is leaving, summoned home by a
mysterious note. Shortly thereafter, Lilith arrives in the guise of Angel
O’Hara and enters, pleading car trouble. When Quincy’s back is turned she
attacks, leaving him for dead….
Dracula visits
Castle Dunwick, intending to eliminate the inhabitant, one Shiela Whittier—but
she is already terrified. Then she comes face to face with Dracula….
At a pub, a guy bets
his pals he can get a date with the cold looking woman at the bar; they are
surprised when he actually leaves with him. She’s Lilith, of course, and she
kills him and drinks his blood….
Inspector Chelm
visits Quincy Harker and finds him critically injured; he calls for help….
Shiela Whittier
panics at the sight of Dracula, believing him to be her tormentor who has been
visiting nightly, leaving her back a mass of scars. He assures her that he has
never been there before and she collapses in his arms from relief. He promises
to come back that night to protect her and on leaving he sees another bat in
the sky and recognizes it. He takes on his bat form and pursues Lilith to
London where they meet at a Rugby game. We learn her background: She was the
daughter of Vlad Tepes by a wife from an arranged marriage he did not want.
Vlad threw them both out; the wife sought refuge with the Gypsies and entrusted
her baby to them before taking her own life. Later, after Vlad became Dracula
he wiped out the Gypsies and in revenge, the old Gypsy lady cursed Lilith to
become a vampire with the power to be reborn in the body of an innocent woman
who wishes her father dead. And now they are reunited and she wants to share
his throne as Queen of the Undead but he demurs and takes off, terrifying the
crowd that witnesses his transformation. Lilith swears that one day he will
acknowledge their linked destinies….
Back at Castle
Dunwick, Shiela, fleeing a pursuer, is knocked over a balcony by an unseen
force, only to be caught by Dracula, who intends to make her his servant. He
goes upstairs and is attacked with a stake wielded by Lord Henry, Dracula’s
slave. He has finally found the strength to stand up to his master and lured
him there. But now he has lost and so shoots himself to escape the vampire’s
power. Then a sinister ghostly laughter emanates from the house. Shiela’s
ordeal is not over….
Story continues in
TOMB OF DRACULA #23.
“Keeping Track of
Drac!”Writer: Marv
Wolfman. Art: George Evans, Rick Buckler, John Romita, Synopsis: Marv
Wolfman explains the chronology tying together all of the various Dracula
comics being published by Marvel.
"Have You Ever Seen
a Huge, Black Vampire”Writer: Stan Lee.
Art: John Romita. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: An
Austrian town terrorized by a vampire hires a new police chief to deal with the
menace. His measures all fail because he IS the vampire! Reprinted from MYSTIC
#25.
“The Village
Graveyard”Wrtier: ? Art: Russ
Heath. Colors: ? Letters: ?Synopsis: Despite the
warnings of the villagers that the place is haunted, a rich man buys the house
in the cemetery. The ghost of a beautiful woman appears to him and tells him
she will become real if he kisses her; instead, he becomes a vampire like her!
Reprinted from ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS #4.


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Reuben’s Train
Three teenage
hobos board a freight train for their next adventure. The girl, Gracie, spies a
harmless looking man at the other end of the car (it’s Bruce Banner holding the
porcelain doll that contains the soul of his companion Charlie Tidwell) and
gives him her stolen can of Smash. Gracie tells her friends that this is her
last ride; she has learned she has a sister living is Las Vegas and is planning
to move in with her for an ordinary life.
At this a
shabby demon called Patchwork Jack appears to Bruce, telling him that he (Jack)
is going to collect the “toll” from Gracie—and from Bruce. He notices the doll
in Bruce’s hand and takes that for the toll. Bruce turns into the Hulk and
smashes him. The kids jump off the train as the fight continues, tearing that
car to bits and spilling out onto the roof of the next car. As they smash their
way across the tops of the cars, heading toward the engine, each ruined car
detaches and is left behind. Atop the engine, Hulk hurls Patchwork Jack back
onto the tanker car which explodes in fury. Hulk continues his ride to Las
Vegas on the engine, the sole remaining bit of the train.
Reprint: “He’s
Back” from INCREDIBLE HULK #372.


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A Mighty Raging Fury
Fred Sloan schedules a series of interviews with people that have had Hulk encounters for his long-overdue book.  As the Hulk's one-time sidekick (Incredible Hulk #231-237), he has been offered the opportunity to write his first-person account of the time spent with him.  Contrary to what members of the press have said, Fred knows that while easily angered, the Hulk is not a monster.  He has made it his personal mission to provide a fair and balanced description of the Hulk.Expanded Synopsis by Peter Silvestro:Fred Sloan, former sidekick of Hulk, is writing a book about
Bruce Banner and the Big Green Guy, hoping to explain him to readers so they
will stop seeing him as a menace and let him live in peace. First, Fred talks
to Kropotkin the Great, the stage magician who crossed paths with Hulk and was
present when he was psychoanalyzed by Doc Samson….
Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is in line at a fast food restaurant
when a pair of armed robbers enter; he turns into Hulk and hurls the baddies
through the windows, eats his fill of food abandoned by panicking customers,
then leaps off into the distance….
Fred meets with David Anderson, who was head of security at
the Los Diablos Missile Base when Hulk first appeared. He describes the
accident and the early days of General’s Ross’ hunt for Hulk. Anderson insists
Fred tell the truth in his book….
Hulk is walking in the wood when he hears a young couple
trapped in their RV by a bear. Hulk scares the bear off and smashes in the
van’s front end when the driver keeps honking at him….
Fred meets Ray Moran in a bar. Moran describes how spotting
Hulk while driving caused him to have an accident but no one else saw Hulk. No
one ever believed him when he talked about seeing Hulk and that ruined his
life. At a coffee shop, Fred talks to a waitress named Maria who explains how,
when she was a kid, her school bus was stuck on railroad tracks and Hulk moved
it out of the way of the train. Since then, she has considered Hulk and angel;
Fred tell how he met Hulk when the Big Green Guy came to his rescue during a
street fight….
Fred has the great idea of interviewing the Hulk directly; he
drives out to the San Mingo Mountains, a favorite resting place of Hulk’s.
There, he finds a protest against a construction company wanting to clear cut
the woods to build mansions. And there he finds the Hulk destroying
construction equipment. Fred approaches Hulk and Hulk recognizes him as a
friend. The police arrive and Fred advises Hulk to leave before anyone gets
help so he bounces off into the distance….
Later, Fred tells his agent Christine about Hulk, how he’s
not evil or cruel and genuinely cares for his friends. She shows him a sample
cover for the book and he hates it, as it makes Hulk look ferocious. Fred tries
to remain optimistic….
Bruce Banner wakes up on a beach in Southern California, He
purchases cheap clothing and heads off, unaware that Fred and Christine have
just driven past him, the former concerned about Bruce’s tragic life….
Seen in flashbacks: Jim Wilson, Doc Samson, Rick Jones,
General Thunderbolt Ross.
Characters: Hulk, Fred Sloan, Kropotkin the Great
“The Evil That is Cast…”Reprinted from INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #7.


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The Coming of the Invaders!
“Part One: A Captain Called America!”
Synopsis: After Captain America and
Bucky defeat a gang of Bundist saboteurs at a shipyard, they are
approached by FBI agents, who tell Cap about Dr Anderson. The name
causes Cap to meditate on his origin at length and then to go to
Walter Reed Hospital to see the doctor, who was part of the team
responsible for his becoming Captain America....

“Part Two: Enter: the Human Torch!”
Synopsis: At the hospital, the gravely
injured Dr Anderson fills Cap in on a new development: a few weeks
earlier, Anderson was snatched by Nazi agents and taken to their
hideout at an abandoned farm. There, Colonel Krieghund showed him a
Nazi super-soldier in a glass tank, called Master Man. They just
needed the final key to recreating Dr Erskine's formula—and they
believed Anderson knows it. He was put into a ghastly device called
the Psyphon which drained him of every last shred of memory. The
formula was added to Master Man's tank and so a Nazi super-soldier
was born! Being a Nazi, Master Man refused to follow orders,
considering himself superior to all others. The Human Torch and Toro
assaulted the barn and Master Man turned out to be impervious to
their flames. Krieghund and MM escaped the conflagration while the
Torch absorbed all the flames and rushed the wounded Dr Anderson to
the hospital. Now Cap and Bucky meet the Torch and Toro and Anderson
tells them they must go to Chesapeake Bay....
“Part Three: The Sub-Mariner
Strikes!”
Synopsis: The four heroes head to
Chesapeake Bay where a German U-boat commanded by Col. Krieghund is
attacking a British battleship. Master Man leaps aboard the ship and
begins taking out their big guns—but one of the seamen is Prince
Namor the Sub-Mariner in disguise and he takes on the super-powered
Nazi who gives him a much harder fight than he had expected. Cap and
the others join in the battle but suddenly Master Man feels himself
weakening and he escapes to the land. Cap and Bucky pursue the
fleeing villain while Torch and Subby sink the U-boat by sending back
its own torpedoes. Meanwhile, as he runs down the street, Master Man
begins to shrink, revealing himself to have been a scrawny little man
before his treatment. When they catch up to him, Cap and Bucky easily
take him down. When the five heroes are reunited at the docks, they
begin arguing among themselves, and then Prime Minister Winston
Churchill—the Nazis' target—rebukes them and suggests they work
together against the common enemy, as unofficial invaders. And they
do....“Deep-Sea Blitzkrieg!”
Writer/Artists: Bill Everett.
Reprinted from SUB-MARINER COMICS #1
(1941)


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The Yesterday Connection!
On a late fall night in 1974, Spider-Man spies a light flashing a Morse Code message calling for his help coming from a demolition site and goes to investigate. He is met by a blue-skinned woman speaking an unfamiliar tongue, who uses a translation device to communicate with him. The woman, Desinna, shows Spidey events from forty years earlier… Doc Savage and his men were attending the dedication ceremony for that building and a quick-acting Doc prevents the assassination of Mayor LaGuardia. Doc had been there in response to an unearthly warning but deduces that the assassination was not the point of the warning. That night at the construction site, Doc and his men are met by Desinna who reveals that she is from a parallel dimension. There, an arrogant scientist, Tarros, was accidentally transformed into a deadly electrical being and transported to our dimension. Desinna crossed over to an earlier point in time to enlist the aid of Doc Savage. When Tarros arrives, the heroes battle him until Doc devises a method of using chemicals to dampen him and trap him in the buidling’s cornerstone. Now forty years later, the building’s demolition is about to free Tarros… so Spidey breaks open the cornerstone and releases the monster. He had deduced that Desinna was lying to him and that Tarros was more victim than villain. Tarros and Desinna vanish back to their own dimension, and Spider-Man senses the spirit of Doc Savage smiling his approval across the decades.


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Giant-Size Thor
Reprints: "If Asgard Falls" from THOR ANNUAL #2.  "When Titans Clash" from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY ANNUAL #1. "When Heimdall Failed" from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #105.


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In Medias Res
In a callback to
Ragnarok, the personified Odinpower compels Thor, who has sacrificed one eye
for wisdom, to pluck out the other….
The planet
Ciegrim-7 is under attack by enemies, the shields are holding but they are
certainly doomed. One of the officials has cracked up and is praying to
Hercules for help. And we see they are under attack by a giant-size Thor, an
armored spaceship in the form of the God of Thunder—and powered by a captive
Thor. Thor was lured into a trap and subdued, his body hooked up to the engine
and his mind trapped in a loop of memories of obtaining the All-Power….
But Hercules
has heard the prayer and has stolen a small ship to head to Ciegrim-7,
Rocket Raccoon yelling at him over the comm the entire way. The giant robotic Thor
opens fire on Herc’s ship but it holds up, the commander calling for more
power. Thor wonders if he needs to pluck an eye out and the personified
Odinpower commands him to make a further sacrifice. He breaks out of the
machine and plucks out both eyes. Then Hercules crashes the small ship into the
giant Thor and clobbers the guards while Thor, having the All-Power, heals
himself. Thor recovers Mjolnir which crashes through several floors to reach
him and the two deities start fighting massive numbers of alien soldiers. As
this is tedious, Thor has an idea and Leaves Herc to mow down the soldiers and
summons his power to again take control of the ship but for his own use. He
enters the bridge and confronts the commander. Thor states that the commander
had seized the All-Power but not paid the traditional price---so he makes the
giant robot pluck out its right eye, which is where the bridge is located. Thor
carries Herc home…. “The Power and
the Pride”Reprint of THOR
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Second Genesis!
Our bombastic story starts off in a small town in
Germany, where a blue, agile mutant named Kurt Wagner is being chased by an
angry mob. Kurt realizes they intend to kill him and fights back before
eventually getting overwhelmed. Just before the mob can kill him, Kurt is saved
by Professor Charles Xavier, who invites Kurt back to his school, both to
realize his potential and for a specific mission. Professor Xavier then travels
the world recruiting other mutants for his cause. He finds Wolverine in Canada,
who happily leaves with the Professor after thinking he’ll have more freedom
than with Department H. Professor Xavier then locates and recruits Banshee, an
old, redeemed enemy of the X-Men. He then travels to a small area in Kenya,
where he finds a woman named Ororo Munroe, revered a goddess for her ability to
control the weather, and implores her to use her wondrous gifts for the
betterment of the whole world.
In Japan, Professor Xavier calls upon another former
acquaintance of the X-Men, Sunfire. In Russia, he finds a large young man named
Piotr Rasputin, just after Piotr used his ability to turn into organic steel to
save his sister Illyana from a runaway tractor. Though Piotr is reluctant to
leave his home, he departs with Xavier for the greater good. Finally, Xavier
locates John Proudstar in Arizona, a young Native American with a chip on his
shoulder, and convinces him to join his cause as well. With this new team
assembled back at his school, with new costumes to boot, Professor Xavier
psychically teaches the whole team English before turning things over to
Cyclops. Cyclops reveals that he and the original team of X-Men, which included
Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel, Havok, and Polaris, were sent to locate a new mutant
that Cerebro had discovered on the island of Krakoa. While there, the whole
team suddenly vanished and Cyclops found himself on his way back home, unsure
of what exactly happened.
Cyclops then reveals that this new team’s mission is
to fly to Krakoa to rescue the old team from whatever may have befallen them.
Sunfire refuses to help fellow mutants that he doesn’t even like and the rest
leave without him. While on the way to Krakoa, Sunfire reappears, having
decided to help after all. When they reach Krakoa, the X-Men split into pairs,
in order to investigate the island from all directions. Storm and Colossus
search from the north, Wolverine and Banshee from the east, Nightcrawler and
Sunfire from the south, and finally Cyclops and Thunderbird from the west.
After Cyclops and Thunderbird land, they discover that the Blackbird jet has disappeared,
and a strange temple has sprung up in the center of the island. The four pairs
each make their way to the temple, with each encountering their own obstacles
along the way. They all meet in the center and break down the door to the
temple, wherein they find the original X-Men team tangled up in strange vines
that seem to be feeding on them!
They free the original team and Angel reveals the
shocking truth, that Krakoa IS the new mutant! The result of atomic testing,
the consciousnesses of every living organism on the island got fused together
into the central consciousness of Krakoa! Turns out, Krakoa let Cyclops go to
gather more mutants for him to feed on, while psychically influencing Xavier to
seek them out. The X-Men fight back against Krakoa but find their attacks
largely ineffective until Professor Xavier joins the battle from afar, psychically
attacking Krakoa while concocting a plan to stop him. The other X-Men keep
Krakoa busy while Storm charges up Polaris with electrical energy,
supercharging her magnetic powers. This culminates in a magnetic blast straight
down to the center of the earth, causing gravity to fail for Krakoa, sending
him shooting off into space! The X-Men escape in an ice dome courtesy of
Iceman, before finding their Blackbird jet so that they can return home. On the
way home, Angel ponders the final note of the issue, which is, “What are we
going to do with thirteen X-Men?”