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In The Jaws Of The Serpent!
Defeated!  Lower Manhattan, fire bombed, and its Defenders, fallen!Doctor Strange, The Master of the Mystic Arts---unconscious! The high-flying Nighthawk---brought low and wingless! The vibrant Valkyrie---yet to revive!Suspended, enthralled by four double headed, coiling steel-cast serpents, even the Yellowjacket stings no more.  All of these Defenders are captives hidden away in a location completely unknown, surrounded by enemies.  The greatest of their powers avails them nothing, and remains undisplayed, for they have been rendered unconscious at the human level (as was the Hulk, too fearsome to take captive even while unconscious...and so, left to change to Bruce Banner, unseen by his foes).So do we learn of the unfeeling, hateful plan of racial nightmares planned by the masked Sons of the Serpent, now infecting American media with their divisive, racially coded rhetoric.  "As Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden," their violence in the ghettos will displace the less fortunate into the suburbs, where, in fear of the refugees and looting, the white gun owners will inflict race war upon the displaced.Just for being born a different SKIN color?  Can you believe it was ever normal in America to even think like that?  But it was, and it hasn't been so long ago at the moment in time Valkyrie and Nighthawk respond.  (Blast! If only Doc weren't still unconscious from that ray-burst!  We'd be out of our bonds in two seconds! thinks Nighthawk.)  Who would cause such anguish, who would use such resources, for such a vile end? Yellowjacket replies to the incredible pettiness, but Nighthawk is right, they are beyond reason.They're departing to do these heinous things to their fellow human beings, but they're hooting about winning the war too much in the earshot of Valkyrie.  Despite her confiscated sword, the metal coils will not stop her from taking issue with these men in a most physically uncomfortable manner."No woman could've done that!" they think, not unlike many people at the time of this story in the world outside of this twenty five cent diversion.  But as women did, Valkyrie begins making believers of them...until she discovers one is a woman!  She who hesitates is lost to a second ray blast.  Interestingly, the woman asserts: "aren't you glad Serpent rules were amended to include women?"  So equal opportunity ironically balances the scale, and now Valkyrie, unconscious, is the first chosen to die.Fuzzy, Doctor Bruce Banner haggardly recounts the attack that felled himself as the Hulk and his captured fellow Defenders before Clea, the enchanted apprentice of Strange, his loyal man-servant Wong and Jack Norriss, the husband of the body(his wife Barbara) possessing the mind and spirit of the Valkyrie.  Not only does he not believe Banner is the Hulk, logic refuses him peace as he hears his newly-rediscovered, amnesiac wife is a hostage.  That grave danger moves Bruce to ask her aid in summoning, for the first time, more Defenders from their previous allies.  Her love and courage outstrips her uncertainty, and so Clea calls from its dark cask the Crystal of Agamotto.  By thought projection she reaches out with no previous knowledge of finding this help.  To the Son of Satan, Daimon Hellstrom, and Daredevil, Matt Murdock, she sends her terse visionary S.O.S.: "Defenders in peril of their lives...come at once...New York...Sanctum of Dr. Strange..."Hellstorm is certain of her sincerity; his intuition guides him to choose to help, and so, his demon steeds arisen from beneath Fire Lake in Massachuesetts, trident in hand, he takes the night sky.Searching for clues in the blocks-wide devastation, Daredevil's search for the serpents leads to his first encounter with seeing a thought projection, something he always wondered if a blind man could also do.  No one there, a voice twelve stories above the ground---how is a man dependent upon his heightened senses to believe this in any way?  With no other way to  detect from a heartbeat if she is truthful, his instinct leans him towards trusting her.  He realizes his affiliation with the Defenders, themselves unknown to the world at large, is unlikely knowledge for a trap, so he answers the plea.Pressing on to thoughts of Atlantis for Namor, her submerged kingdom destination is lost amidst a multi-hued disruption in her brain.  Her drop to the floor brings the other three present, where she recovers from her faintness to apologize for only summoning Daredevil and Daimon Hellstrom.These two pages are strongly made of yellow, red and shadows; appropriate, for the gathering of Luke Cage, Power Man, with these heroes, costumed devil without and shirtless, caped devil within.Banner suggests Clea relax without apology and takes over, listing the Defenders only reachable by the Crystal, clearly, cleverly, and humbly decides to try a simple phone call to the one whose number is known...a hero for hire who recently worked with the Defenders as if by accident against the massive threat of Thor villain the Wrecker and the newly formed Wrecking Crew, Asgardian powered mortal thugs.Luke Cage doesn't know a Bruce Banner, and if he's the Hulk, Luke's George Wallace; he's in no move for jive.  Banner earnestly persuades him, for reals, yo, and so Power Man scribbles down an address and departs his shabby office in the sleazy center of 42nd st., takes the I.R.T. to put his life on the line, on account of the names of Nighthawk and Doc Strange alone.  Besides, if this is about breaking the Serpents, how can one resist?At Strange's door he identifies a coming tap on his shoulder from Daredevil, who he simply knows is there, to Hornhead's surprise.  Upon asking, Daredevil shakes hands pleasantly with Mr. Cage, in a manner very much like Matt Murdoch, without a mask, would handle the same man.SCREEEYAAWhat does the whinny of Eldritch Horses stolen from Hell sound like to ears who have never before beheld their like?GOOD LORD! says DD.  "What on Earth!?"  "Wrong both times, man--" says Power Man, emphatically, "Nothing I ever seen on Earth looked like THAT--and the Good Lord, it definitely ain't!" Reasonably stunned speechless by the firey entrance of "the equally-silent, grim-visaged emissary of Hell who has descended into their midst."  The soundless man Daredevils registers with, incredibly, two heart beats becomes, to Cage, another matter-of-fact visitor ringing the doorbell of Dr. Strange's Sanctum in Greenwich Village.  Clea praises the Vishanti they've arrived, and inside they're introduced to each other the Defenders' peril, and its one possible source of clues: the Serpent fanatic captured by Yellowjacket last issue and held immobile "under Stephen's---Dr. Strange's---spell," Clea points out.  The person she cares for is not someone masked from the world that nonetheless can't truly recognize him; in fact, save for the sightless swashbuckler, none of these heroes wears a mask of any sort.  Their manifested energy, and their open faces and humanity, are their identities.His very humanity, in fact, leaves the Mystic Master in a state of stupor akin to the captive Serpent.  "I  don't understand," says disguised scientist Hank Pym, captured beside the shattered bonds of the Valkyrie on his right between himself and the unconscious Strange, of whom he observes to Nighthawk: "you and Val both took the same ray-blast He did.  Yet both of You recovered."  "My strength is doubled at night--and you Saw how powerful Val is--for all the Good it did her," says Kyle Richmond.  He continues to sound determined in a logically frustrating situation.  His mood shifts as he explains their super powers, to the edge of despair for the unknown fate of the woman he thought only weeks before to be falling in love with, along with his new life, not as wealth-riddled victim or poseur super-villain for the Grandmaster, but as a Defender.  "Despite all his magic tricks, Doc's still only human physically...like you."A little ruffled, frankly, Yellowjacket explains how the pain in his "only human" ankle's subsided enough for him to use his non-laser zapped mind to concentrate on shrinking out of the bonds to insect size.  At human size, he releases a grateful Nighthawk...no, they don't budge.  Now his alternative is to escape and get help...but here he discovers the fortress is submerged underwater!  The exit, though, must still be somewhere!Back at the Sanctum Sanctorum, Daimon attempts by mesmerism to coax the secret location from the Serpent's pawn, but he proves counter-hypnotized to spout gibberish upon questioning.  That leads to Luke Cage giving this racist honky the firm treatment.  Before a knuckle sandwich, however, the refugee tenant Elena, from the slum the Serpents destroyed in issue #22, calls Banner and Clea fearfully.  "Quickly!  It's Valkyrie--on television!  They are going to kill her!"  The screen will hold the location of her last stand, but to the minds of Elena and the panicked Jack Norriss, two normal people, it's terrifying and utterly wrong!  "This nice woman who helped me," she thinks, "is about to be burned alive by the freaks that killed my helpless old neighbor and no one's stopping them!" Clea has cut through the confusion and led everyone before the screen, where Jack's horrific nightmare of his wife, made into a cold stranger now to be murdered for her delusions of grandeur, sends him rushing without these bizarre maniacs to try and save her.The heroes who can see swear, and Daredevil listens to the special hearts of each of them, as they behold for the first time the heroine, helplessly strapped upside down to a crucifix, dominating the middle of the intersection before live cameras, as flames burn at the insistence of gathered Serpent Sons.  Banner's heart races him straight into a change of height and weight, and sightlessly Daredevil senses him, transformed, "his sheer emotional upheaval is turning him into ---the HULK!""Let Hulk through! Snake Men must not hurt Girl! Girl is Hulk's Friend!"  Now it's the Green Goliath shaking up the scene, dashing outside  by the time his 'partners in peril' reach the door.  "An instant later, they are gone---" narrates Steve Gerber, his captions a special character between us and our cast; "Daredevil carried away on his billy club's steel cable...the Hulk catapulted into the sky by the mightiest Leg Muscles on Earth.. the Son of Satan at the reins of his fiery Chariot...with a still-disbelieving Power Man hanging on for dear life as the team of hellspawn pulls it aloft!"Miles pass in minutes; they descend to battle---"however"...without warning, Cage observes horse and chariot being "swallowed up---by a freakin' hole in the AIR!"  Not just that; as Hulk says, "Black man and Fire-Stick...went AWAY!  But girl Needs them! Don't they Care about Girl?"Daredevil observes, it's just as well he can't explain they didn't vanish of their own will; the angrier-the-stronger becomes the legend in play, as Daredevil adds his lean, trained human agility and might beside the Hulk, who means business.Daredevil feels her before him as they light the flames; "Death to all white traitors!" screams an ignoramus catching the battling Murdock careless a second too long.  Hesitation, as in the beginning, equals loss; the Hulk would not hesitate to smash...ah, if only for a surprise weapon, made just for Hulk, that leaves Hulk nearly as helpless as Daredevil: he's blinded!"The irony of it," intones you the reader, you mind touching the parting words of Steve Gerber, before the reliable bound, beaten, and confused heroes at the mercy of the Serpents Sons in the final panel, "is all too bitter.  The massive Hulk...felled by a weapon which would have had No Effect on the far less powerful Daredevil.  And now Both are blind.The Green Goliath kneels helpless, trembling like a frightened child.  While the Man without Fear...is borne to the flames...to join Valkyrie..in a final blaze of glory."


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... The Snakes Shall Inherit The Earth!
Following a recap of the Defenders' initial confrontation with the Sons of the Serpent, the Avenger called Yellowjacket pounces upon two Serpent members who were secretly following the Defenders. Yellowjacket defeats the henchmen, capturing one while the other escapes. He drags the injured scoundrel to Doctor Strange's mansion, where the other Defenders are in assemblage. Nighthawk's threats intimidate the villain into revealing that his Serpent leader will be making a national TV appearance to spread the group's message of a new world order. After a brief distraction in the form of a sudden and unexpected appearance by Jack Norriss, the estranged husband of Barbara Norriss (the woman whose form is now possessed by the Valkyrie), the Defenders tune in to the TV broadcast of the Serpent Supreme. In Hitleresque fashion, the Serpent leader rants on and on about how America must be cleansed, and how all minorities are ruining the country. Afterward, even the Hulk is touched and enraged by the intensity of the message of hatred. After deducing who might be behind the Serpent group, the Defenders agree to set out after them, but then Dr. Strange's house is rocked by a series of explosions in the area. Outside, the Sons of the Serpent have dropped some sort of incendiary bombs on portions of the city inhabited by minorities. Hulk and Nighthawk, under Yellowjacket's leadership, manage to save several people and extinguish the flames. While the two Defenders are busy, Yellowjacket is easily overwhelmed by an attack from nearly a dozen Serpent members. When the remaining Defenders arrive, they are assaulted and downed by powerful stun-guns manned by the Sons of the Serpent. Only the Hulk remains standing. He wades in defiantly against stun blasts and electrically-charged steel coils. However, it is only a matter of time before an injured and fatigued Hulk finally falls before the relentless assault. Secure in their victory, the Serpent Squad removes the bodies of each Defender except for the Hulk, as they are unable to lift him, and they have no use for a "--useless dumb brute." As they leave with their captives, no one notices an unconscious Hulk transform into an unconscious Bruce Banner.


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Rampage!
Doctor Strange, Nighthawk and Luke Cage are in the middle of a heated confrontation against the Wrecking Crew, who are looking for a mysterious casing from a building they just demolished. Strange has created an invisible mystic barrier to keep the combatants away from civilians. The Defenders and the Wrecking Crew engage in battle, during which the Wrecker explains how the crew helped him escape from prison and find his enchanted crowbar. All four touched the crowbar as it got struck by lightning. The power of the crowbar was restored, and the Wrecking Crew was born. Learning of the mystical nature of the Crew's power, Strange starts draining away their power. Further away, the Hulk has returned to the Defenders, but is being blocked by Strange's barrier. He starts pounding on it, causing Strange to lose consciousness, and the barrier to disappear. Freed, the Wrecking Crew attack the Hulk, but are no match for him. Learning that the mystic barrier is gone, the Wrecker uses his crowbar to blast away the Defenders, and the Crew make their getaway. Thunderball finds the casing from the building's rubble and opens it, only to learn it is empty.


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The Serpent Sheds Its Skin!
As
the Defenders race to save Valkyrie from execution by the Sons of the Serpent,
Son of Satan and Luke Cage are diverted by Clea to emerge from the Eye of Agamotto
worn by Doctor Strange. They find themselves in the secret undersea prison
where Strange and co. have been held by the bad guys. Hellstrom and Cage free
Strange and Nighthawk and link up with Yellowjacket who had managed to free
himself. Hellstrom is able to use his powers to locate the secret exit and they
depart….
Meanwhile,
Valkyrie is hung upon an inverted cross in a public square while Hulk and
Daredevil battle the Sons of the Serpent. Hulk has been blinded and DD captured.
The baddies are about to set fire to Val’s cross when Jack Norriss comes to her
rescue, struggling with a Serpent. This spurs several onlookers to action,
deciding that the Serpents are the kind of extremists they don’t need. DD joins
in the battle, Hulk’s sight returns, the Serpents flee, the team heads back to
the Sanctum Sanctorum….
The
group escaping the undersea prison comes out of the tunnel into a plush office.
Nighthawk recognizes it: it is the office of his business adviser, J.C.
Pennysworth, who has been funding the Sons of the Serpent with Kyle Richmond’s
money. An angry Nighthawk heads out followed by the others….
Interlude:
A young couple in a California mobile home park hear a knock at their door one
evening. The husband answers the knock to see an Elf with a Gun—who then shoots
the man….
The
Defenders find that Val has been rescued so the enraged Nighthawk heads to the
home of J.C. Pennysworth, smashing through a window, unmasking and demanding
Pennysworth explain himself—he is African America like the targets of the Sons
of the Serpent. Pennysworth explains that he feels no kinship with his people,
having fought to rise above their level. He also assumed that Kyle, who trusted
JCP to invest his money with no questions asked, would not object to any
investments so long as they made money. Nighthawk takes JCP to meet with the
other Defenders. When Luke Cage sees that JCP is a Black man he goes berserk
and has to be restrained from hitting the man a second time. JCP reveals the
location of the Serpents’ secret base—it is under the building burned down
earlier. The Defenders and their guests invade the place, beat them all up, and
Nighthawk, blaming himself for not paying attention, flies off alone to battle
his conscience….


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War Beneath The Waves
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Power Play!
At the new H.Q. of the Defenders (courtesy of Kyle Richmond), Nighthawk, who's straining to ride Aragon, is forced to dismount before being bucked. Valkyrie comments that Nighthawk did a fine job trying if not succeeding. Subsequently in the ranch, Doctor Strange tries to reason with Valkyrie not to leave, but Valkyrie explains that she needs to learn more about her past and Barbara. She says that she will return once her task is complete, and thanks Nighthawk for the limo. She kisses everyone on the cheek including Hulk, and leaves. Hulk, angry that the girl who was kind to him has left, scolds Doctor Strange saying that though he claims to be Hulk's friend, he had allowed the girl to leave and so he barges out. Later, Nighthawk tells Doctor Strange that he feels like a Jonah because from the time he joined, Defenders have been leaving the group. He says that he earnestly desired to be a Defender, and had built the new H.Q. with the intention that they wouldn't have to impose on his largesse. He sees the adamantium chair he had built for the Hulk, kicks it in anger and grasps his foot in pain, upon which Doctor Strange tells him to refrain from angry impulses. Just then the phone rings and Nighthawk takes the call. Pennysworth on the other end tells Nighthawk that something has come up that threatens Nighthawk's business. Nighthawk turns on the T.V. just as the broadcaster is talking about a peculiar Wrecking Crew, demanding a ransom of 10 million lest another building be leveled by them. He continues that the mayor has refused to succumb to arrogant intimidations and points to the soldiers guarding the building. The broadcaster finally says that the time limit for payment has passed and the building still stands. At that moment the building collapses and the Wrecker says that their ransom is now 25 million which is to be paid by tomorrow, failing which, they will convert the entire city into a giant parking lot. Nighthawk then asks Pennysworth who is still on the other end how that concerns him, whereupon he's told that the two buildings destroyed were owned by Nighthawk. Nighthawk, frustrated by the incident, says that he has to hurry to Manhattan to save his last building that's still under construction. Doctor Strange accompanies him. In Manhattan, Doctor Strange and Nighthawk land atop his building. Nighthawk says that despite being a millionaire, he never had a liking for business- even his own. Suddenly, he remembers Pennysworth having told him of hiring someone to protect the building but exclaims that it seems deserted. Doctor Strange says that the sentry is probably elsewhere. Just then, both the heroes are attacked off guard. Luke Cage introduces himself as Power Man and says that Pennysworth hired him to protect the building. Nighthawk and Doctor Strange tell him that they friends but are told that if that were so, they wouldn't have been skulking about the roof. Doctor Strange, trying to reassure Power Man of their alliance, inadvertently blasts a rafter. As Doctor Strange's fixing the rafter Power Man wallops him from behind. Nighthawk tries punching Power Man but only hurts his own hand. Power Man says that he's literally as dense as steel but Nighthawk says that he isn't impressed, since he too has powers of his own, being the strongest during a full moon night, which, conveniently, is one today. Nighthawk shoves Power Man but he quickly recuperates, and leaps at Nighthawk only to be caught by him in mid-air. Nighthawk tries to assure Power Man of their mutual interest in the building's safety but Power Man pulls the roof down on Nighthawk. Before Power Man can continue, he is trapped in a force field by Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange says that they may appear to be trespassers, but that Richmond Enterprises had hired them to protect this building. However, just as Power Man is being sardonic, the entire building collapses over all of them! Nighthawk commends Doctor Strange for protecting them from the cave in, but Doctor Strange says that it was the Vishanti who protected them with his Shield of Seraphim. The Wrecker says that they were fortunate once, but that their time is at hand. He then presents Piledriver, Bulldozer, Thunderball and himself as the Wrecking Crew.


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And Who Shall Inherit The Earth?
The Defenders (Hulk, Doctor Strange, Namor, Valkyrie) and Nighthawk are imprisoned by Nebulon in a force globe. Nebulon is prepared to destroy them when Hyperion asks him to instead of it give them a destiny worst than death. Hyperion then tells his story up to that moment. He survived to the destruction of his world - an atom (!) that was split by a man-made cyclotron - and was enlarged by the Grand-Master to battle Thor, who defeated him. Imprisoned in a bubble of glazed sand, Hyperion drifted thru the space until he was found and released by Nebulon. The alien revealed to be part of a race of interstellar geologists that surveyed the cosmos for a mineral-rich planet needed to insure his home world existence. So Hyperion sold him the Earth in exchange for the chance of vengeance. Back to present, Nebulon sends the globe with the heroes to space. Using their combined power in only one point of the globe, they destroy it. While the Squadron Sinister is using their laser to melt the polar icecaps as Nebulon demanded, Nebulon creates an ice monster. The Defenders fight it, until Hulk destroys one of its legs and throws the monster against the laser beam, destroying it. All the Defenders and Nighthawk attack Nebulon, that resists for some time, but them returns to his true form: a horrible monster looking like a mix of octopus and fish. He tells he's aquatic - that is why he wanted the Earth inundated. Quickly Nighthawk uses the laser against him. Nebulon implodes taking the Squadron, but soon the laser explodes hurting Nighthawk deadly. Using the collective life-forces of all the Defenders, Dr. Strange succeeds in healing the guy. He asks to join the Defenders and Dr. Strange explains about their "non-group" nature, when Namor interrupts saying that he was forced to be there and would not come as an ally if Strange summoned him again. Hulk chooses "Bird-nose" as his new friend and then Nighthawk joins the Defenders.


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The Woman She Was...!
Story
continued from MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #7.
In
Cobbler’s Roost, Vermont, Valkyrie mourns the late Alvin Denton, the father of
her alter ego Barbara and the only person who could explain her previous life.
Executioner attacks Thing, wanting to finish their battle, but Enchantress,
giving up on the magic harmonica scheme, whisks him away to find a new way to
conquer Asgard. Val, in her disguised form, insists on bearing Alvin’s body
home and Doctor Strange in his astral form appears to Ben, asking him to keep
an eye on Val because the mystery of the magic harmonica is not yet solved and
she may be in danger….
Val
takes the body to the sheriff’s office where she is recognized as the
long-missing Barbara. Trying to hide her ignorance of Barbara’s past, Val is
shocked when the Sheriff mentions her husband Jack. Afterward, Val is taken to
the family home where she tries to get her thoughts together….
Doctor Strange and Nighthawk arrive and meet up with Thing and they head off to find
Val, who has been captured by the cult; Strange narrowly avoids a trap that
catches Thing and Nighthawk, trapping them in a cellar with electrified walls.
Strange explores Barbara’s house and learns from a painting that Celestia, the
name on the magic harmonica, was Barbara’s mother—just before he is magically
overpowered and brought to the basement where he and Val are about to be
sacrificed. The cult, led by Van Nyborg, is intending to draw the Nameless Ones
back to our dimension and they have promised to restore the horribly aged and
disfigured Celestia to her youth and beauty in exchange for her daughter’s
life. Thing and Nighthawk escape from the cellar and disrupt the ceremony,
Nighthawk fighting the cultists and Thing taking on the Nameless Ones. Celestia
prepares to play the harmonica but Ben snatches it away from her, inadvertently
crushing it to dust. This also causes her to crumble into ash and all the magic
goes away, the Nameless Ones return whence they came and Strange and Val are
unharmed. Strange erases the memories from the cultists’ brains and the
Defenders head home….


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... If Atlantis Should Fall!
Sub-Mariner, in the mental grip of The Red Ghost, lunges toward Hawkeye and Valkrie with murder in his maddened eyes. A brief but brutal tussle ensues during which Hawkeye manages to knock out the Red Ghost before Hawkeye, in turn, is knocked out by Namor. Hawkeye awakens to find himself and Valkrie bound and powerless on a mechanical slab in the Red Ghost's lab. The villain, in standard fashion, rants about his ability to utilize cosmic ray bombardments to impose his will upon others. He reveals his latest plan: to impose his will upon undersea life, which he deems "more tractable" to his will. To this end, Red Ghost reveals that he established an alliance with Namor's arch-foe Attuma. Meanwhile, Dr. Strange summons all available Defenders to his sanctum to witness his attempt at freeing the Black Knight from the curse that turned him to stone. Strange is worried when only the Silver Surfer and the Hulk respond to his summons. Surfer assures Dr. Strange not to worry about Namor and Valkrie. "They lead their own lives," the Surfer says. Back in the Red Ghost's lab, Attuma has joined him. They both watch as Namor, Valkrie and Hawkeye are subjected to cosmic ray bombardments, making them susceptible to the Red Ghost's will. Back in Dr. Strange's mansion, Hulk reveals that he knows where "Fish-Man and Sword-Girl" are, but he sees no reason to share this info with Doctor Strange. He turns to leave, but the Surfer grapples with him, distracting him long enough for Dr. Strange to calm him with some kind of spell. When asked again of the whereabouts of his comrades, Hulk explains that the other Defenders were taken prisoner. Doctor Strange puts the Hulk to sleep then he and the Surfer head out to rescue their friends. Strange and the Surfer arrive in the midst of a violent battle taking place in Atlantis. The captured heroes are fighting alongside Attuma's troops in an effort to overthrow the undersea kingdom. As Dr. Strange attempts to contact Valkrie, he senses another personality, that of the insane Barbara Norris, the Valkrie's original personality. Strange finally discovers that the Red Ghost is behind all the chaos, and his actions are made possible by the bombardment of cosmic rays hitting the planet. Working together, Doc Strange and the Surfer cause a barrier to form around the earth blocking the path of any cosmic radiation. Without the presence of cosmic rays, Red Ghost suddenly finds himself powerless and unable to transform into mist. He is easily defeated by Hawkeye who, along with the other heroes, has regained his free will. Angered by what he was forced to do, the Sub-Mariner tears into Attuma savagely and conclusively, saving his kingdom and regaining his leadership. With their work done, the heroes depart. The next part follows on from a Prologue in AVENGERS (1963) #115Chapter one of the AVENGERS/DEFENDERS clash begins as the Defenders regroup back in Dr. Strange's mansion where he attempts to reach out to the Black Knight's spirit, which fled to some other dark realm when his body was turned to stone. Strange sends out a mystical bolt containing a communication that reaches the Black Knight's spirit. Calm and hopeful that he will now be rescued, the Knight's spirit sends a reply via the same mystical bolt, a bolt that is intercepted by Loki, Prince of evil. Loki, stricken with blindness after his last conflict with the Mighty Thor, sits stranded in the dark dimension with the dread Dormammu, Dr. Strange's arch-foe. The two fiendish foes alter the mystical communication before it reaches Dr. Strange. When the heroes hear the communication, it instructs them to seek out a mystical device called the Evil Eye if they want to save the Black Knight.The story continues in AVENGERS (1963) #116


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Doomball!
The Wrecker's accomplice- Thunderball- bawls that his gamma bomb is missing. Doctor Strange demands an explanation & Thunderball obliges him, saying that he deserves one before his untimely demise. He elucidates that many years ago, when he was a Nuclear Physicist called Dr. Franklin, he used the research of one Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, to create a palm- held gamma bomb that was ten times more powerful than Dr. Banner's version. He was working on the bomb in Caltech but finished it after joining Richmond Enterprises following which, he showed it to Pennysworth- Kyle Richmond's head man. The next day however, his bomb and research were missing. On questioning Pennysworth, he was told that all the work done by the employees on the company premises would belong to the company as stated in the contract, & because of this, the company patented the bomb in their name and not his. The lawyers then made a mockery of him in court, and he realized that he had no rights to his invention any longer. He then acted impulsively by trying to steal the bomb from the company, but was inevitably stopped & shot at, before dropping the bomb into some molten steel. Later, he discovered that the foundation of 3 Richmond enterprise buildings were going to be constructed using that very same steel. Thunderball further explains that that was why he had destroyed the buildings. He says that now he has found the container minus the bomb which implies that someone has already beaten him to the chase. Doctor Strange advises Thunderball to create a tracking device to locate the bomb. Thunderball agrees to do so and tells Doctor Strange not to worry about it since he's going to die anyway. Wrecker then orders his crew to attack and Piledriver easily knocks out Nighthawk and Doctor Strange, while Bulldozer butts Power Man from behind. Wrecker whacks Hulk out cold with his mystical bar. After the brawl, they scurry off to find the bomb. When the Defenders finally awake, they are surrounded by cops. Doctor Strange however temporarily wipes out the cops' memory, leaving the Defenders free to pursue the mystic trail left by Wrecker's bar. Upon reaching Harlem, the heroes are stopped by a frantic young boy. He explains to Power Man that when a group of hoodlums started trashing their Club on the pretext of searching for something, an adolescent with a baseball bat broke the apparatus of the Afro-American hoodlum (Thunderball) and then the situation drastically worsened. He implores them for their help and the heroes depart immediately, however failing to notice the small spherical object in the lad's hand. Outside the club, the Defenders hear the mayhem. Hulk says that he doesn't like the notion of hoodlums assaulting kids and walks in, only to come straight through the wall. The others enter and Nighthawk and Power Man take on Bulldozer and Piledriver. Doctor Strange yells at everyone to brawl outside, since the kids could get hurt. Thunderball agrees that it could also cause the bomb, if it is there, to go off. Outside, Bulldozer charges at Nighthawk who just leaps over him, simultaneously attaching his jetpack to Bulldozer's back. Bulldozer is instantly sent shooting into the air only to come crashing down. Thunderball manages to hit Hulk with his wrecking ball and tries again but Hulk grabs and crushes the ball. Hulk then pulverizes Thunderball. Piledriver has Power Man pinned to the ground, and is about to deliver the coup de grace, but Powerman dodges and uses Piledriver's own impetus to flip him over. The fight has come down to Wrecker and Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange tells Wrecker to yield now and avoid the unpleasantness, but Wrecker just scoffs at him. He lunges at Doctor Strange but the wizard just catches the bar and causes the power to ricochet thus knocking out the Wrecker. Doctor Strange then says that the mystic bar is too powerful a weapon to be in the hands of the destructive and so, he teleports it to another dimension where it can't be misused. At that moment, Doctor Strange realizes that Thunderball tracked the bomb to this area, whereupon he is told by a kid that another kid had it before setting out to seek help. As Strange snatches the bomb from the kid, the countdown begins, but instinctively using the light of Aggamotto, he transforms Hulk into Banner who defuses the bomb just in the nick of time. Later, Doctor Strange rejoices about having saved the entire city but is interrupted by Power Man who tells him that Richmond's building had still collapsed and that means his money goes down the drain. Doctor Strange tells Power Man to try and explain the reason to his hirer, but Power Man says that he would be crazy to try and explain to Pennysworth. He tells Doctor Strange that the next time the city needs to be saved, to count Powerman out.


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The Dreams Of Death
Cyrus Black is trying to destroy Doctor Strange. He surrounds his house with a "force field" that only the Silver Surfer can penetrate. Inside the force field, Cyrus Black's henchmen are attacking Dr. Strange's house. With the help of the Valkyrie and Prince Namor (Sub-Mariner), the Surfer and Strange defeat Cyrus Black but he manages to escape. Cyrus Black then realizes he has the power to manifest and manipulate dreams. While sleeping, he conjures up mythological beasts to attack the heroes. After defeating the beasts, they confront an invincible Cyrus Black. But the Sub-Mariner realizes that the menaces aren't real but a product of dreams. Finally, they vanish while Cyrus Black wakes up and walks away.


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Once More, The End Of The World...
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The Armies Of The Slain
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Rumble In The Sky
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Silent But Deadly / Fooling With Mother Nature
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While You Were Out...!
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Vengeance!
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Fire Above, Thunder Below
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Ride Of The Valkyrie
The Defenders are fighting the dead, while Pluto & Lorelei are dueling over Valkyrie (whom we learn later really is Valkyrie II), when the Valkyrior ("the Asgardian Choosers of the Slain") show up, led by Valkyrie as Brunnhilde. The Valkyrior join the battle against the dead (following a recap of Valkyrie's history). The Defenders turn their attention to Pluto & Lorelei. The Defenders want Pluto & Lorelei to let Valkyrie (II) alone; Pluto tells Valkyrie to attack the Defenders; Lorelei tells Valkyrie to attack Pluto. Hulk and Namor want to go to Valkyrie's assistance, but Doctor Strange keeps them back, as Valkyrie is going into overload over Pluto's & Lorelei's mental commands and breaks free of both their controls. Pluto threatens Valkyrie, but the Defenders back her up. Pluto & Lorelei prepare to attack, but Zeus shows up and yells at Pluto for Pluto's actions re being on the earthly plane (which breaks their prior agreement). Zeus yells at Lorelei also, and prepares to punish them both, but Pluto & Lorelei join forces to magically escape. Brunnhilde informs the Defenders that Zeus healed the rift between Hades and Earth, and the battle is over. Valkyrie says, "No it is not over." She feels bad for the civilian who lived on the mountain where the battle took place and was killed by Pluto. She says that since he wasn't a warrior he can't go to Valhalla, but he deserves a place to rest; since he loved the mountain, she decides to bury him there. Valkyrie (II) says she will find her own place in the world, but Brunnhilde strongly suggests that Valkyrie II join the Defenders as she once did when she was new to the world. Brunnhilde gives Valkyrie her horse Aragorn (since he was from Earth in the first place). Namor reiterates that the Defenders are together only by duress and will split up again as soon as the curse can be lifted. Conversely, Nighthawk welcomes Valkyrie II into the Defenders. Brunnhilde leaves with the rest of the Valkyrior. Namor wants the rest of the Defenders to come with him to rescue Atlantis from Attuma; Dr. Strange says that they well, but not right now because they need to study and get rid of the curse first. After Namor asks Hulk for his assistance, Hulk blows a raspberry at Namor. Namor flies away in a huff to rescue Atlantis alone. Hulk jumps away because there's nothing else to fight. Silver Surfer flies away, saying "I am heartsick - and tired of humanity." The rest of the Defenders fly back to New York with Dr. Strange.Hellcat


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Day Of The Great Ones
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Headhunt
After the events of last issue, the Defenders go their separate ways. Namor returns to Atlantis, determined to end his affiliation with the Defenders. Doctor Strange sends Hellcat, Valkyrie, and Nighthawk away so he may work on Yandroth’s curse. Bruce Banner discusses his sudden disappearances with his psychiatrist Doc Samson. Namor returns to Atlantis to remove Attuma, who has usurped his throne. Hellcat, Nighthawk and Valkyrie stop at Ray’s Pizza, at Val’s insistence because she is still partially amnesiac and it feels familiar to her. The Headmen attack a nearby museum to retrieve a fragment of an ancient statue. As they leave the front door, Nighthawk snatches the fragment from the Headmen. A fight ensues between the three Defenders and the Headmen. It ends with the Headmen snatching the fragment and teleporting away. Namor finally gets his hands on Attuma, who sits on the Atlantean throne with Namorita in chains only to be teleported away by Yandroth’s curse. At the same time, the child-like Hulk is attempting to relate his adventures with the Defenders to Doc Samson and is plucked away. Nighthawk, Hellcat, and Valkyrie return to Dr. Strange’s Sanctum to relate the story of the Headmen. Dr. Strange also disappears and finds himself with Namor and Hulk in the shadow of a large monster.Silver Surfer, Bi-Beast, Alicia Masters


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Head To Head
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The End of the World As We Know It
After defeating Eternity (via the combined mystical strength of his sister, Umar, and the Amulet of Agamotto), Dormammu immerses himself in Eternity's essence, absorbs his power, and detonates his heart, triggering another creation event re-birthing all beings and things in his image. Meanwhile, back at the citadel, Umar releases Hulk from the crystalline spell and forces him to have sex with her until he is rendered unconscious and exhausted. In this relaxed state, he transforms back into Bruce Banner and is so relaxed he can't do anything to become the Hulk again which infuriates Umar who then tortures him until he can comply. Doctor Strange tricks the torturers into giving Namor water and they escape. Strange teleports them back to Earth but it is a new Earth - Dormammu's Earth - that has replaced the one they left. They disguise themselves but it is too late - Dormammu knows they've arrived and his newest slave is revealed, this reality's version of Dr. Strange, who calls Dormammu "Master." Back at the beach, the Silver Surfer senses something is amiss with the cosmos but is distracted from thinking too hard about it by his surfer buddies.


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Almost A Good Idea
Doctor Strange is awakened by Wong - possessed by Nightmare. Nightmare warns him Dormammu and his sister Umar have united to invade Earth. Dormammu outlawed dreaming in his dominions and Nightmare is afraid if he conquers our universe he'll be "out of a job." Strange finds Bruce Banner in a New Mexico desert where he's been hiding and guilt-trips him into helping. Strange then visits Namor who is equally reluctant and does the same. He tries convincing the Silver Surfer who chooses to stay on the beach with his new friends - "real" surfers. Banner and Namor meet Strange at the Sanctum Sanctorum where they bicker until Strange teleports them to Dormammu's domain. The wall that separates it from the land of the Mindless Ones had been moved so while Namor and Strange are on the safe side, the Hulk is outside battling the Mindless Ones. The issue ends as Dormammu's army is mystically teleported to their location and attacks them.


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Disaster
Issue opens with Hulk fighting off the Mindless Ones outside the mystical barrier in Dormammu's domain while Namor and Doctor Strange fight off Dormammu's army. At Dormammu's citadel, Dormammu and Umar bicker over who is lazier and Dormammu says despite his love for her he will kill her just as he did their beloved parents. Dormammu checks on the battle to find his army losing. He joins the fight and tells Strange there's been a shift in the Cosmic Axis causing the laws of the universe to unravel. This allows Dormammu and Umar to mystically bond so their power flows through each other making them more powerful than ever. To prove his increased power, Dormammu wipes out all of his own army and knocks both Strange and Namor unconscious. He then notices the Hulk outside the barrier. As much fun as Dormammu thinks it would be to watch Hulk do this for three or four hundred years, he turns him into ice with a spell. Strange wakes up to find himself and Namor imprisoned. Dormammu takes the Amulet of Agamaddo and leaves to rebuild existence in his own image. Dormammu and Umar teleport to the Sanctum Sanctorum where millions of universes converge and call forth a portal which they walk through and face Eternity. Meanwhile, the Silver Surfer is becoming disillusioned with his new, shallow friends.


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The Enemy of My Enemy Isn't Exactly My Friend (But She'll Do In A Pinch)
Issue opens with Umar still torturing Bruce Banner in an attempt to get the Hulk back as her sex-slave. We then see Dormammu's version of Dr. Strange torturing and tormenting what appears to be the real Clea. The Spider-Man and Daredevil of Dormammu's reality watch the real Doctor Strange and Namor find this reality's version of Banner - weak and insane. Dormammu's Strange appears with other diabolical versions of superheroes and they all attack Dr. Strange and Namor. While Dormammu's Strange and the real Strange fight, the Namor of Dormammu's reality - a rebel leader - rescues Namor and takes him to the rebel base. A blinding flash appears and we see Dormammu's Strange standing over the collapsed body of the real Dr. Strange. The Silver Surfer continues to have odd feelings he blows off while staying on the beach.


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The Enemy of My Enemy Isn't Exactly My Friend (But She'll Do In A Pinch)
While our Namor and Dormammu's Namor watch the public humiliation of our Doctor Strange by Dormammu's Strange, Dormammu's Namor tries to convince our Namor that our Defenders are the only hope for the miserable people Dormammu's reality. He explains the only reason Dormammu even created this reality was to torture Dr. Strange (and Clea) with the sight and knowledge of it. Dormammu's Namor explains that in addition to our Namor's help with the rebels, they will also need the Hulk and - even more to Namor's dismay - Umar's. While Namor reels from this news, Umar appears with Bruce Banner on a leash, crawling on all fours. Umar explains that the people of this reality want to be freed of Dormammu's tyranny and she wants to be free of Dormammu himself - so they have a common goal. Dormammu's Namor explains that the rebels realize once our reality is restored their's is erased but oblivion is better than servitude. They plan to attack while Dormammu is distracted with his final victory of torturing and killing Dr. Strange. Dormammu's Strange suggests to Dormammu that it would be even more humiliating for Dr. Strange if Dormammu temporarily relinquished his new god-like omnipotence to beat Strange in the form he'd always been in before. Just as Dormammu reverts to his previous incarnation, he realizes he's been tricked. It was his version of strange that was held captive and the real Strange is free. Also at that moment, Namor and the rest of the rebellion arrive, strengthened by Umar channeling her power into them. Umar tricks Dormammu into throwing Banner out the window which finally kicks in his transformation back into the Hulk. While Dormammu is fighting Dr. Strange, he realizes Umar is passing along her strength to Strange. As Dormammu vows to destroy them all, Hulk sneaks up behind him and claps his hands - around Dormammu's head. Umar transforms Dormammu into a helpless, harmless little troll of a being and banishes him to Earth. The Defenders ask Umar if there's a way to restore their reality without erasing their brave comrades. No, she says - and the Namor who is about to be erased says their world "never belonged here in the first place." They all return to Earth, bickering the whole way. Dr. Strange and Dr. Banner walk off into the sunset much like Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart at the end of Casablanca. The issue and mini-series end(s) with the Silver Surfer finally getting fed up with the surfers shallow and inane talk and leaving. His last words: "I should have let Galactus eat them."


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The Throne, the Power, the Damned and the Devil
Story continued from  SILVER SURFER: THE BEST DEFENSE.
The Train makes its way through the cosmos, an unending line
of planets, destroying each world in its path to be fueled by its energy; the
Conductor, guiding the Train on its way, is controlled by the being Nebulon and
steered in his own desired route, straight at Earth....
The Defenders arrive: The Silver Surfer arrives to challenge Nebulon but he is weak
and is easily snatched up and held immobile by his cosmic foe. On Earth, the
astral form of the dying Doctor Strange requests Hulk's aid in stopping the Train
from reaching Earth; Hulk suggests just blowing up the train but that's what
they did in Strange's timeline and it resulted in the radiation from the
explosion turning many worlds, including Earth, into desolate wastes. Hulk
declines to join him but Strange offers help in dealing with the demon that
infects Hulk, so the big green guy goes along....
In Hell, a pair of leopard-headed and business-suited demons,
Borss and Mog'rys, are worried about a business deal they've made; they had
borrowed two billion souls from Mephisto and sold them to the Spirit-Flayers of
Carcosa but Mephisto will want them back so they have arranged with Nebulon to
guide the train toward Earth and so release seven billion dead souls onto the
market and they will make a huge profit and repay Mephisto....
As the Train continues to snatch up worlds, and Nebulon mocks
the Surfer for his impotence, Namor the Sub-Mariner enters the scene silvered
up and riding the Silver Surfboard. Meanwhile in Hell, Hulk enters via a magic
portal and eats the faces of Borss and Mog'rys which destroys their physical
forms and releases their essence into Hell. Nebulon smacks Namor out into
space, Surfer mounts his board to rescue him but Hulk steps through a portal
and seizes the board, hurling SS out after Namor. While Hulk uses the board as
a weapon to clobber Nebulon, SS finds he is able to duplicate the board's power
and allow Namor to surf on his back and return to safety (and he thinks it's
ridiculous). Meanwhile, the Conductor snatches up the water planet Vodan (see
the Namor issue in this miniseries) to feed on next; Dr. Strange is able to
cause the Conductor to spasm, setting Vodan free but hurling it off into an icy
void. Silver Surfer, knowing of orphan suns, can send Vodan into orbit around
one thus saving it but he hasn't the power and Galactus is too far away to
allow him to recharge. Namor has an idea....
Namor and Surfer arrive on Vodan and face Queen Kataw. Namor
offers to sacrifice himself by offering up (part of) his life force to power
the Surfer to save her people as he is their king; she balks at this as he is
an interloper and she is the true ruler—so she allows Surfer to drain her life,
killing her but empowering him to push the planet through a wormhole to its new
sun....
As Hulk continues to battle Nebulon, Dr. Strange informs the
giant alien that he has lost: the spasm that
pushed Vodan away moved the Train away from the path to Earth (Newton's
Third Law). Mephisto arrives and snatches up Nebulon; Strange asks Mephisto to
send Hulk home and cure him of his spiritual infection. Mephisto can't do the
latter but offers to do the former for a small consideration....
On Vodan, Namor heads for the magic tunnel that will return
him to Earth—and he confesses to Surfer that he wanted to sacrifice himself to
undermine Kataw's rule and force an alliance between Atlantis and Vodan, and he
was arrogant as usual....
Surfer returns to Galactus and agonizes over how Queen
Kataw's death restored his power against his will as though he were only a deus
ex machina. And so he and his master go off....
As for Doctor Strange, the consideration Mephisto asked for
returning Hulk home was that Strange would be in his power for eternity—but
Strange has a plan....


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Body Double

Doc Samson is at the bottom of the river, battling the gamma-powered monster; he
escapes briefly to find his patient Lorna Dane is trying to contact him and
then the monster drags him to the bottom again….
Reporter
Rudy Pinkerton arrives at the police position and tries to get Detective Trina
Sharp to give him the scoop; the angry cop seizes his tape record and throws it
in the river….
Meanwhile,
She-Hulk, racing to the scene is grabbed in an alley by Patchwork; she fights
back but he slowly drains her gamma until she is the weak Jen Walters again.
Patchwork drags off his two victims, Jen and the green-eyed girl he sought….
At
the same time, the monster that has Samson at the bottom of the river changes
its form, becoming smaller and weaker. Doc is able to beat it and haul it to
the surface. Sharp is delighted to close the case but Doc has some bad news:
Patchwork is a man but the creature he just captured is female. Pinkerton, too
far away to hear this last part, calls in to his paper to report the Patchwork
Killer has been caught….
After
the creature is locked up, Samson searches through a box of his gear and comes
out with the special Geiger Counter he created to track individual gamma
signatures. He turns it on and it shows their captive’s signature changing to
match Samson’s, revealing her to be able to copy other radiation patterns.
Samson interviews the creature to gain an insight into the real killer’s mind,
as she describes staking and capturing a green-eyed woman; Samson then has to
talk the copycat through her madness, bringing her out of Patchwork’s mental
pattern to match Samson’s. The young woman, whom Doc dubs “Geiger,” has to be
convinced she is not the real Patchwork Killer but can help then find him. A
mob, incensed by the news report that the Killer has been captured, storms the
police station. Doc Samson goes to address the mob, telling them that they do
not have the Patchwork Killer on the premises—but the crowd does not believe
him. Samson tears up a length of railroad track to use as a barricade. Inside,
Geiger, seeing through the Killer’s eyes, learns that he has been disappointed:
the green-eyed girl he kidnapped is really wearing green contacts over her
natural blue eyes. Geiger now knows he is going to strike again. Outsid, Doc
meets the mother of one of the first victims and pledges to the crowd he will
capture Patchwork before he kills again; he then gives the mother his card so
she can contact him later. He reenters the building to learns that a) Geiger
knows when and where the Killer is going to strikes gain, and b) she is going
with him, having donned his old costume found among his effects.


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Greenness Envy
Gamma-powered psychiatrist Leonard Samson is giving a
speech to a group of students about Gamma radiation. At the same time a woman
in New York City is being pursued and is attacked. After the lecture, Samson is
confronted by an NYPD detective named Sharpe who informs him that there is a gamma
powered serial killer in New York who has killed 6 women. Samson is visited by Professor Hulk who implores him to go to
New York to catch the killer. There is a brief fight which results in the Hulk
reverting to his “Savage Banner” incarnation. Bruce Banner calms down and
reverts to the “Professor” Hulk. Samson agrees to go investigate.
Doc Samson arrives in New York while a young
girl (Dee Dee Dearborn) has nightmares of being a monster and attacking girls.
Samson is picked up by Detective Sharpe and is taken right to a bridge where a
man threatens to jump off. He turns away a call from X-Factor’s Polaris to attend to the
suicidal man on a bridge. After a brief conversation, the man jumps off the
bridge and is caught by Doc Samson, saving his life. Samson gives the man his
card and offers to speak with him. Samson is then knocked on the ground by a
playful She-Hulk who
reveals her cousin Bruce has also asked her to look into the Gamma-powered
killer and that she will be Samson’s muscle. Samson meets with Sharpe and
investigates Patchwork.
He states that “..with a gamma-being, you CAN judge a book by its cover, as its
physical appearance is a manifestation of all its inner desires.” He learns the
killer is called Patchwork because he takes pieces of his female victims and
puts them together. Samson gets sick and vomits. Patchwork is seen in the East
Village and Sharpe and Samson go to confront it. Patchwork and Samson fight
while a female victim writhes in agony. Samson and Patchwork leap inadvertently
into the East River and Samson is gripped by the throat.


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The Final Analysis
Geiger
carries Detective Trina Sharp (who really doesn’t like it) through the city,
following Doc Samson’s gamma signature; at the subway scene of the most recent
Patchwork murder, they learn that Samson was just there, leaving the corner
of a magazine cover for Sharp. They then follow him to the hospital where Jen
“She-Hulk” Walters is recuperating from her encounter with Patchwork (issue #2)
and thence to a newsstand where they find Samson buying men’s magazines. From
there, Samson leads them to the publishing office of the magazine; the torn
cover shows Patchwork is a reader of such magazines and if they published a
photo of a green-haired woman, they can set a trap for the killer. Geiger knows
who this “model” is going to be and objects so Samson ties to talk her into it.
Lorna “Polaris” Dane, one of Doc Samson’s patients, comes looking for him as he
has been putting off her session for days. Samson sits down with her to hear
about her romantic troubles with Havok—and then something she says triggers a memory
and he knows who Patchwork is. He tells Sharp and the cops that Kyle Barker,
the young man whom Doc saved from killing himself (issue #1), is Patchwork, as
Kyle said something on the phone that Samson had only said to the killer. It
turns out that Kyle Barker does photo work for the police and is in the
building at that time. They race downstairs and confront him but he changes
into Patchwork and fights them off but the sight of Geiger causes him to freak
out and crash through the walls. As Geiger and Samson hold the building up, the
monster gets away. Doc asks Geiger to go home for her safety and apologizes for
asking her to pose nude for a men’s magazine; she asks him to call her by her
nickname, “Delilah.” Samson is startled but advises Sharp to post Barker’s
photo everywhere to force him out….
At
the hospital, sleazy reporter Rudy Pinkerton is trying to interview the
recuperating Jen Walters; he makes her so mad she transforms into She-Hulk and
clobbers him. Doc Samson arrives and explains it was his idea of aggression
therapy and was successful in her recovery. And he then informs Pinkerton that
he missed the news of the discovery of Patchwork’s identity….
A
visit to the psychiatric hospital where Kyle had been held reveals he had a
collection of photos of gamma radiation—like the kind found at the particle
accelerator at the University…
…where
Dee Dee is now, learning that Patchwork has been unmasked as Kyle Barker who
used to take pictures of the accelerator. So Geiger, Samson, She-Hulk, Polaris,
and Detective Sharp all converge on the accelerator and discover Patchwork
preparing to kill himself with a lethal dose of radiation. Polaris wraps herself
and Samson in a protective energy bubble as the radiation is let loose but Doc,
deciding he is a superhero after all, pushes his way out and turns off the
reactor, saving the villain’s life.…
The
next day, Doc Samson, dressed in an oversized suit of red armor, speaks with
the press, explaining why he will be testifying in Patchwork’s defense at his
trial—because it was the gamma radiation that turned him into the living
embodiment of his darkest desires. Doc again postpones Lorna’s sessions, gives
a lock of his hair to “Delilah” to stabilize any further gamma incidents, and
presents Detective Sharp with a bill….


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Copycats

Doc Samson and Dee Dee “Geiger” Dearborn are searching the city for Patchwork by
tracing his gamma signature but so far they haven’t had any luck. Geiger
explains that she was a shy physics student who was exposed to a sudden surge
at the University’s particle accelerator and then she started having dreams
that she was the Patchwork Killer; Samson ponders how she then “became” the
killer and now she is copying many of Doc’s superhero mannerisms. Geiger then
detects a scream from Patchwork’s new victim and they head in that direction,
Samson trying to keep her safely behind….
Detective
Trina Sharp visits the medical examiner to see the two latest victims. One is
the horribly mutilated corpse of the young woman whose green contact lenses made
her useless for Patchwork’s purposes and the other is the weak but still alive
Jen Walters, drained of her She-Hulk powers by the enemy….
Samson
and Geiger track the villain’s gamma signature down through the subway where
they discover loose body parts and the intact living jogger. It turns out to be
a trap and they are attacked by Patchwork. Samson warns Geiger to stay back as
she may turn into his double again….
At
the hospital, Sharp tries to gain information from the comatose Jen; Sharp tell
Jen that Doc Samson is on the case. Jen warns her that the killer can drain
Samson’s gamma powers and is the worst person to battle this villain….
Samson
invokes a post-hypnotic suggestion he had earlier implanted in Geiger to keep
her safe. He attacks Patchwork but the villain is much more powerful, having
gained She-Hulk’s strength. Doc bashes his foe in the head with a ripped-up
piece of track and panics when he believes he may have killed him, visions of
the deaths of the Punisher and Crazy Eight flashing through his head, deaths he
feels responsible for. But the villain was faking and he grabs Samson and
drains some of his power, leaving him weak. Patchwork then picks up the
green-eyed jogger and slashes her throat, departing with the body….
Geiger
reports back to Detective Sharp that Patchwork has claimed another victim and
Doc Samson has quit, heading for home. As Doc is on his way to the airport, a
tire of the cab is shot out. Doc, ready for action, leaps for the cab and spots
the Punisher on a nearby roof. Samson jumps up to confront him and Punisher
opens fire on him; Doc leaps for cover, realizing that a) Frank Castle is still
alive, and b) he is really angry at Doc Samson. Punisher is there to remind
Samson that he promised to catch the killer and reminds him that he (Doc) is
the perfect weapon against Patchwork. Doc’s phone rungs and it is Kyle Barker,
the young man whom Doc saved from killing himself (issue #1); he learned from
the news that Doc Samson was quitting the case and he advises Doc not to give
up; Doc decides to stay until the killer is caught and thanks Kyle for his
concern. And then we learn that Kyle Barker is Patchwork….


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Hell-Reapers at the Heart of Paradise
In his office late one night, realty investor Thorne Shaw receives a visit—from a vengeful Viking warrior come to carry him off. The next day, Doc Savage’s aides receive a caller, a slim blind man named Sandy Taine, wanting Doc to find his missing father, and relates the following tale: five years ago, Quentin Taine invested in an expedition to recover a sunken treasure galleon in waters near Greenland. The expedition was a failure and two men, Taine and Jared Rutter, failed to return. The police now believe that Taine is the mad Viking carrying off the members of the group that abandoned him, with revenge in mind. Doc, who has been listening in from the next room, agrees to help Sandy, once she abandons her disguise. Doc and his team head out to rescue the two remaining members of the expedition but they are too late, and Doc has a run-in with the Viking, who wields a uranium-powered scepter. Back a headquarters, a gold coin dropped by the Viking’s henchman turns out to conceal a precision-cut map of Baffin Bay, revealing the location of the galleon. When they arrive on the spot and explore underwater, a freak whirlpool draws them through a tunnel and into a subterranean lost world inhabited by reptile people. The kidnapped members of the expedition are there and tell Doc that Quentin Taine is the mad Viking. After a battle with the Reptilians, Doc reveals that the men are not prisoners but partners with the Viking, Jacob Rutter; having faked their kidnappings, they have returned to exploit the uranium deposits in the valley. Holding Long Tom hostage, the villains send Doc and company to the Reptilians whose leader turns out to be Quentin Taine, who is the protector of the peaceful people and has himself mutated into their image. While Monk climbs out through a frozen volcano to retrieve their plane, Doc frees Long Tom and battles the Viking, who, mad with greed, fires his deadly scepter and accidentally shatters the outer wall of the valley, causing the sea to flood the place. Doc and company manage to escape in the plane but Taine, mad from the radiation, chooses to stay behind and die for his people.Issue also contains a text article:“Ron Ely: the Man of Bronze.”Writer: John Warner; photographer: Michelle Wolfman.An interview with Ron Ely, star of the then forthcoming DOC SAVAGE movie in which he surveys his early career and discusses his interpretation of the character of Doc Savage. The article is illustrated with candid photos taken during the interview.


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The Inferno Scheme!/A Most Singular Writ of Habeus Corpus
1. The Inferno Scheme! In the middle of the night, a robotic eagle swoops down and carries off valuable gems from a jewelry store window. The next day security is tight for a rare gem exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a woman arrives with an urgent request that they close the museum to prevent a robbery but it’s too late: a robotic bear crashes in and snatches a fabulous diamond. One of the patrons reveals himself as Renny Renwick, one of Doc Savage’s aides, but even his strength is no match for the monster, who is snatched away by helicopter. Renny is approached by the woman, the Contessa de Chabrol, who confesses that the mastermind behind the thefts is her brother and asks for Doc Savage’s help in stopping him. She explains to Doc how her brother became obsessed with gem research, and created the mechanoids and is now calling himself “Inferno,” plotting some grand scheme from a mountaintop fortress. Doc assigns Renny to accompany the Contessa to Inferno’s fortress and learn what he can while Doc and the other aides will follow shortly. At the fortress, the grateful Contessa expresses her affection for Renny and wishes him well. Renny makes his way into the villain’s stronghold escaping from the guards and coming to Inferno’s lair where he faces the villain. Inferno explains that he has used his gem research to construct a laser cannon to blackmail the world’s governments but needs Renny’s engineering skill to complete it, using the Contessa as a hostage to force his cooperation. After twenty-four hours of labor, Renny manages to escape the guards and sets out to rescue the Contessa, but he receives a shock: Inferno and the Contessa are not brother and sister but lovers and the whole thing has been a ploy to lure Doc Savage into a trap. Meanwhile, Doc and his men have arrived outside and battle their way in past guards and mechanoids to find Renny. The Contessa seizes control of the cannon to fight off the invaders but Renny reveals that he sabotaged the weapon. He tries to warn the Contessa but Doc knocks him out and carries him to safety just as the weapon overloads and explodes, destroying the entire fortress. 2. A Most Singular Writ of Habeus CorpusThe scene opens on an early-morning sword duel between Monk Mayfair and Ham Brooks in the former’s penthouse lab over Ham’s new suit which Monk has filched. The combatants are interrupted by Monk’s secretary who introduces Veronica “Ronnie” Curtis, who has a job offer for Monk from her brother Frank. Monk accompanies her with his pet pig, Habeas Corpus (after the porker chews up Ham’s pants cuffs). Arriving at a waterfront warehouse, Monk recognizes Ronnie’s “brother” as gangster Masher Miller who wants Monk’s chemistry knowledge to sabotage his rivals’ bootleg liquor. An interruption leads the hoods to tie up Monk and Ronnie (who didn’t know her boyfriend was a criminal) and lock them in a lab. Hours later, Habeas comes to their rescue, chewing through Monk’s bonds. Additionally, a chemical Monk had rubbed on Habeas provides the ingredient for a powerful acid but before Monk can use it Miller enters the room with murder on his mind. With Habeas’ help Monk punches out the gangster but suddenly a rival gang shows up with guns blazing, Monk and Ronnie dive into the river just as a stray bullet ignites the acid creating a massive explosion. The police rescue Monk and Ronnie (and Habeas) from the drink and round up the gangsters. Monk and Ronnie head off into the night for a much-needed nightcap.


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The Mayan Mutations!
Doc Savage’s Amazing Five are screening applicants for Doc’s aid at his office in the Empire State Building. First come an eccentric pair called Hanson and Harridan, sounding out the aides about a treasure hunting expedition to South America; they leave when told Doc does not accept cases involving personal gain. Second is a madman accusing his wife of numerous infidelities; he is ejected bodily. Third is Vesper Hope, an American missionary, accompanied by a Peruvian native Myrrana, with a tale of the latter’s tribe being victimized by a pair of white treasure seekers, who control giant animals of some sort. Doc arrives, accepts the case and outfits their zeppelin for an immediate departure. While boarding, the party is attacked by a gigantic moth, which Doc manages to decapitate with a concealed bandsaw, to the disappointment of its watching controllers, Hanson and Harridan. Arriving at a remote location in Peru, Doc and company battle giant flora and fauna, as well as Myrrana’s distrustful people. The native woman explains to her countrymen, who welcome Doc’s help and give the American party a tour of their idyllic arboreal civilization. Doc and his party dive into the sacrificial well, and when they surface, they discover an enormous supply of gold plus a hieroglyphic frieze relating the history of the creation of the Mayan people by alien gods, who judged their barbaric offspring a failed experiment and sought to wipe it out with radiation, which caused the current mutations. Meanwhile, back at the camp, Hanson and Harridan shoot Long Tom. Doc arrives in response to Renny’s call and saves Long Tom’s life with a new artificial heart valve. Fed up, Doc dons his vest and skullcap and heads out in search of the villains, running a gauntlet of mutated monsters, the last of which is Myrrana’s missing husband. To save Doc’s life, Myrrana is forced to kill her beloved with Ham’s sword-cane, allowing Doc to continue his pursuit of the villains. Hanson and Harridan are captured and marked for the Crime College, but Doc gives way to a moment of rage and punches their lights out. Doc and company choose to keep the peaceful jungle civilization a secret and Vesper returns to her mission among the lepers.Issue also includes a text article:"Johnny"Writer: Bob Sampson; artist: Ed Davis.A profile of Professor William Harper “Johnny” Littlejohn, of Doc’s aides.


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The Crimson Plague
Doc Savage returns from a funeral in Acapulco to tell his aides of an amazing incident: he had gone there in response to a summons from a friend, biologist Miguel Hernandez. He found Hernandez wandering the streets, his mind erased. Doc returned Hernandez to his home where they were attacked by a huge glowing tentacled creature which paralyzed Doc and killed the unfortunate biologist before vanishing. Next, a similar event happens to physicist Scott Merrill in New York except that the police are able to drive off the monster and save his life. Doc listens to the man’s muttering about an “octo-brain” and an impending horror in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Renny has been offered a screen test by a movie studio and has gone to Hollywood accompanied by Ham as his agent. Doc hurriedly contacts them by phone only to hear Renny and Ham overpowered and abducted by a gang. Doc pieces together a plot against great scientists and he and his men split up to investigate further. Long Tom and Johnny fly to the London observatory of astronomer Winston Veldt and manage to defeat a gang bent on kidnapping the scientist, then eluding a pursuing aircraft as they bring Veldt back to New York for his protection. Monk goes to Paris to contact botanist Francois Lemonde but both he and the scientist are captured by the enemy. In Hollywood Doc visits the movie studio but its leader Randolph Dorn tells him Renny never arrived. After Long Tom reveals to Doc that he knew his attackers were stuntmen by their movie lingo, Doc returns to the studio for a light-night visit. After fighting off the thugs and releasing Monk from a cell, Doc confronts Randolph Dorn, who is draining the minds of scientists into his brain-bank with a fantastic device. Linked to the machine, the megalomaniacal Dorn is bigger, stronger and smarter than Doc Savage, and intends to add the mind of the Man of Bronze to his collection. Doc uses judo to hurl the villain into his bizarre device and it explodes, killing him. In the hospital Doc manages to restore the intellects of the captured scientists.


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The Earth-Wreckers!
In Australia, Antarctica, Africa, Eurasia, and South America, Doc Savage battles gangs of thugs guarding mysterious objects. In each case, Doc recovers said object and ships it to his New York headquarters where the aides assemble the pieces into an electronic device resembling a huge globe. Meanwhile, mild-mannered demolitions expert Hiram Meeker visits Patricia Savage with a tale of the Earth-Wreckers, asking if she can contact Doc about it. When Doc arrives at headquarters he explains the device is the detonator for a super-bomb, used to hold the world for ransom. When Hiram arrives with Pat, he fills in the details about the extortion cartel, the Earth-Wreckers and their leader, Iron Mask, based in Loch Ness, Scotland; Hiram had been employed by them but backed out when he realized they were criminals. As Pat and Hiram leave, they are set upon by killers sent by Iron Mask to silence the defector. Pat defeats the hit-men and blackmails Doc into taking Hiram and her to Scotland with them. In Loch Ness, the Amazing Five start asking questions, being taken for tourists curious about sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. When Monk sights Nessie in the flesh, the team goes diving at that point and follows the legendary monster to its lair—underneath a castle, where they discover it is a disguised submarine. Doc and his men invade the castle and find the villains have recreated their detonator-globe. After a battle, Doc pursues the fleeing Iron Mask in a speedboat and the mastermind’s boat crashes into the Loch Ness Monster—the real one. Doc leaves to the authorities the task of locating the rest of the gang and their hidden explosives.The issue also includes two text articles:1. "The Pulp Doc Savage!"Writer: Bob Sampson; artist: Marshall Rogers.Survey of Doc in the pulps begins with an overview of “Who is Doc Savage?” and moves on to cover illustrators and backup material before taking us through all the changes (non-Dent authors, size and page count, etc.) during the magazine’s 16-year run before ending with a brief mention of the Bantam reprints and James Bama. Marshall Rogers provides an illustration of Doc and his aides done up in a period style plus there are a number of photos from the 1975 movie.2. "An Interview with Mrs. Lester Dent"Writer: David Anthony Kraft.A brief interview with Norma Dent, widow of Doc Savage’s primary writer, in which she discusses her marriage, Lester’s working habits, and the total lack of any royalties.


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Ghost-Pirates from the Beyond!
Casablanca: Police Inspector Chalot and Prefect Verdoux are slain by assassins in the former’s office, to stop their search for a mysterious location. In New York, criminologist Charles Villiers urgently tries to contact Doc Savage but is murdered by what witnesses call a glowing ghost. Doc and his men rush to the scene and find a secret message from Villiers, in case of his death, directing Doc to high society party at the home of Darryl LaVey. While speaking to Doc about the late criminologist, architect M. Hulot is poisoned, his dying words directing Doc to Casablanca. Assassins storm the building to kill Doc and his men but are repulsed after a fight. Doc is about to unmask the villains’ leader, LaVey, when the host seizes Trina Valley, a guest, as hostage and flees. In Casablanca, Doc meets with the new police chief, who reveals that Villiers had been appointed the new prefect. Examining some burned files, Doc finds reference to a “Blue Parrot” and “Rashid” just as his sub is approached by a ghostly Moroccan pirate ship. Doc boards the craft, fights its all-too-human crew and captures LaVey but the ghostly leader escapes. At the Blue Parrot tavern, the aides meet Rashid, who relates the story of a fabulous treasure that he alone has the map to, and the sinister Demon Reaver and his men who covet it. Doc Savage leads an expedition into the desert to a lonely minaret where the Demon Reaver is loading up the treasure, ostensibly to help free the natives from French rule, but really for himself. Doc overpowers the villain, who is unmasked as Hulot, whose death in New York was faked, and frees Trina, with the treasure going to the proper authorities.


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The Doom on Thunder Isle!
Late one night a New York skyscraper is destroyed by lightning, the fourth such incident in recent weeks. Later Doc Savage receives a visit from Angelica Tremaine, whose brother Winston, the architect of the destroyed buildings, gave her a coded message for Doc. Angelica’s suspicious boyfriend Tommy Bolt also arrives, just moments before a band of costumed villains wielding electric rayguns smashes through the window. Defeated by Doc and the aides, they choose suicide over capture. Decoding Tremaine’s cryptic message yields a name, “the Silver Ziggurat,” and the address of a fancy Long Island restaurant, the Velvet Room. Doc and Monk arrive at the restaurant too late to prevent Tremaine’s kidnapping but they find another cryptic message. Just then a witness is electrocuted to silence him. Doc pursues by autogyro and sees a huge zeppelin use a giant ray cannon to destroy the building he just left. Contacting his headquarters, Doc learns that villains have kidnapped Angelica and Tommy. Tremaine’s message from the restaurant directs Doc to yet another note inside a small statue with map coordinates for a Pacific Island and the original code yields yet another clue that the Silver Ziggurat may be architect Wiggens Tripp. Doc and company head to the island in the Amberjack, narrowly escaping destruction from the enemy’s electric cannon. On the island, they discover glowing animals, battle costumed thugs and rescue an ape-man from death. Doc enters the villain’s stronghold where Angelica is prisoner of the mad Silver Ziggurat, who is plotting to transform Winston Tremaine into an animal man. Doc manages to rescue Winston but Angelica remains a prisoner of the Silver Ziggurat, unmasked as Tommy Bolt whose plan of revenge against the Tremaines involves destroying Winston and inheriting his wealth by marrying his sister. Doc and his men are herded into an electrified pen and animal men are set upon them. The ape-man Doc rescued earlier—revealed to have been Wiggens Tripp—sacrifices his life to shut off the electric fence, allowing Doc’s team to escape and defeat the Silver Ziggurat’s men. Bolt escapes in his zeppelin and fires his cannon into his palace; the resulting fireball rises and ignites the gas in the zeppelin, destroying the remains of the madman’s empire.The issue also includes a text article:“George Pal: the Man Who Shot Doc Savage”Writers: Chris Claremont and Jim Harmon.An interview with George Pal, producer of the then forthcoming DOC SAVAGE movie. Part one, conducted by Claremont, surveys Pal’s early career with Puppetoons and science fiction films then moves on to his conception of the Doc Savage project and thoughts on a possible series. Part two, conducted by Harmon touches on a wider range of topics, including (again) Pal’s early career and other assorted topics such as Lester Dent, a Doc Savage radio program, the period flavor and music of the film.


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The Sky Stealers!
Mystery in the desert: the sky has been stolen over Plainville, Utah, leaving the town’s population dead by suffocation. Doc Savage and Renny race to the scene to investigate and find, along with the authorities that the town’s banks were looted—by crooks with enough strength to tear the doors off the vaults. The only clue is an Egyptian ankh, ironically a symbol of life, recently stolen from New York’s Museum of Natural History. Later, the same fate befalls another Utah town, looted by demi-gods in the guise of the Egyptian pantheon. In New York, the aides discover a link: Professor Jonathan Wilde was dismissed from the Museum for his fanatical espousal of controversial theories on pyramid power. Doc tries to contact Renny, who has been investigating at the Museum but receives no answer. Doc and Monk, with Monk’s secretary Monica, head to the Museum, where they battle a superstrong mummy who turns out to be a hypnotized Renny in disguise. Meanwhile Monica is captured by the Egyptian gods to be the Bride of Horus. Ham witnesses the abduction from the Autogyro and alerts Doc. After a violent battle, Doc manages to subdue one of the gods, Sebek, and stop their use of a dark beam to steal the air from New York by blowing up one of their dirigibles. The “god” turns out to be an ordinary crook, his strength enhanced by technology and other artificial means. Doc and the Amazing Five head for the pyramids in Egypt, which the “gods” have converted into a device to focus and increase the strength of anyone subjected to it, in this case, Monica, drugged into becoming Hathor, Wife of Horus in the Egyptian pantheon. Doc and company do battle with their powerful foes, Doc taking on the leader Horus—actually the mad Professor Wilde—and an overload in the power chamber creates a massive explosion. Doc and the aides manage to escape, along with Monica, subdued by several rounds of mercy bullets. Back in New York, Doc is experimenting with pyramid power and Monica settles Monk’s and Ham’s feud over her—by picking up one in each hand.Issue also includes a text article:“Renny”Writer: Bob Sampson; artist: Frank Cirocco.A profile of Col. John “Renny” Renwick, of Doc’s aides.


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Werewolf's Lair!
The assassin reports to his boss the werewolf that Doc Savage is dead, but Doc has trailed him back to the villains’ camp and rescues Pat and Tiny, revealing to them that a safety wire around his waist saved him from the deadly fall. They are intercepted by the werewolf but Doc makes quick work of him and unmasks him as just a thug in a costume. Back at the Savage home, they are visited by Senorita Oveja who tells them that her father and El Rabanos will be killed if Doc does not turn over the ivory cube, which, she explains, is a disguised map to hidden pirate treasure. Doc manages to deduce the place where Boatface hid the cube and recover it but he and his men are captured by the werewolf and his gang and taken to the treasure cave, which Doc had located for their secret leader, El Rabanos. Doc and his men were only feigning capture to unmask the leader and a battle breaks out, ending in a cave-in which kills the villains. Doc manages to save the Ovejas and the treasure, which will be donated to Canadian charities.


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Brand of the Werewolf!
On a moonlit night in the Canadian wilderness, a man transforms into a werewolf and intercepts and kills Alex Savage. Alex’s daughter Pat contacts her cousin Doc in New York, asking for his help. On the train, Doc and his men meet Sr. Oveja and his daughter and their companion El Rabanos who convinces the Ovejas that Doc Savage is their enemy. Several incidents take place to dissuade Doc from his mission: a faked telegram from Pat, a poison gas attack, the sabotage of the train tracks, with the only clue being a brand resembling a werewolf’s head at the scene of the crime. Doc pursues the fleeing Oveja party and fights off a gang of hired thugs. Back at Pat’s house she finds her Native American servants Tiny and Boatface unconscious from a gas attack and ascertains that the object of the villains’ scheme—an ivory cube embossed with the brand of the werewolf—is safe. It turns out, however, that Boatface was faking and he steals the cube from its hiding place and goes to meet with the werewolf, who kills the luckess native but finds to his chagrin that Boatface had hidden the cube before the meeting. Doc and his men follow the Ovejas by plane to Pat’s home where signs of a struggle, and Boatface’s corpse, send Doc on the trail of the villains. As he crosses a deep waterfall by walking the cable car’s tightrope, a sniper fires, and Doc plunges into the falls….


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The Hell-Diver!
The Silver Death’s-Heads set a trap for Doc Savage outside the Indian Head Club, but Doc turns the tables on them and, with Rapid Pace and Hugh McCoy, explores the club. They rescue the aides, fight off another attack, and discover a map of New York Harbor in a hidden room. Doc and company head up the river in his submarine Helldiver. On the way, Doc reveals his suspicions of Bedford Burgess Gardner, a shipping magnate who built his business by shady means, and his belief that the secret project at the Commodore’s boat yard was a submarine for the use of the Silver Death’s-Heads. His suspicions are confirmed when the Helldiver is attacked by the enemy sub and a furious underwater battle ensues, with Doc and his men the victors. Doc pursues some escaping crooks to a hidden refuge, where Ull is being berated by his mysterious leader for attracting the attention of Doc Savage with his crime spree. Doc enters and overpowers the villains and unmasks the leader as Bedford Burgess Gardner, but under a further disguise he is really Hugh McCoy, who created the phony Gardner persona to deflect suspicion.


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The Monsters!
In the Michigan wilderness, fur trapper Bruno Hen is killed by an unseen monster; his friend Carl MacBride arrives to hear Bruno’s dying request that he hire Doc Savage to avenge him. On the flight east, Carl hears about Doc Savage from a fellow passenger, Jean Morris, but another passenger takes an interest as well. This stranger follows Carl to Doc’s office and guns down the poor trapper in front of the Man of Bronze, who is protected by his glass shield. Doc deduces Carl’s mission from the contents of his pockets and goes to meet Monk and Ham, who have followed the killer to a walled estate. Surmounting the wall, the heroes find the extensive grounds of the estate are enclosed by an electric fence. Carefully entering the enclosure, they are greeted by gunfire; the assailant turns out to be a frightened Jean Morris, hired as an animal trainer for a mysterious engagement. They are then interrupted by a grotesque giant head smashing through the floor and vanishing again. Doc pursues, only to see the monster being taken away in a truck. Exploring, he finds a prisoner: the home’s owner, railroad magnate Griswold Rock, who says he was forced to finance an insane scheme by his former employee Pere Teston. Doc phones his other aides to find the fleeing truck. Renny finds it but is taken prisoner. When Doc catches up to him, he has time only to rescue his aide before an explosion destroys the truck and its contents. Next move: go to Michigan.


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Master of the Red Death!
Doc Savage and his aides fly into the Central American republic of Hidalgo to a warm reception: anti-aircraft fire from rebel forces. Their lives are saved by the air bags Doc had installed in the plane. They are greeted by Hidalgo’s President Carlos Avispa and Secretary of State Don Rubio Gorro who see them off on the next leg of their journey: flying into the hidden Valley of the Vanished.  On landing they are attacked by a group of Mayan warriors dressed like the New York assassin. A brief fight is halted by the appearance of King Chaac and Princess Monja. Despite the dire warnings of Morning Breeze, chief warrior, King Chaac explains to Doc his father’s legacy: an unlimited supply of gold, should Doc prove himself worthy. That night Morning Breeze’s warriors kidnap Ham, Johnny, and Long Tom and hurl them to their apparent deaths in a sacrificial pit. Doc, however, had overheard their scheme and he and Renny were poised below the edge of the pit to save the victims from a grim death. The next day, Doc effects a miraculous “resurrection” and is acclaimed a wonder-working hero by the natives. Morning Breeze’s secret leader, the Son of the Feathered Serpent, orders the warrior to release the Red Death, which killed Doc’s father, into the valley’s water supply. The people blame the newcomers for their misfortune, and only Doc’s quick diagnosis and creation of an antidote changes their minds. Doc battles the Son of the Feathered Serpent atop a high temple, and it ends with the villain plunging to his death. He is unmasked as Don Rubio Gorro, Hidalgo’s Secretary of State, who coveted the natives’ gold for himself. King Chaac declares that Doc has proved himself worthy of their gold, and Doc heads back to civilization to pursue his crusade against evil, to the dismay of Princess Monja.