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It's a Green charity do attended by Zelda DuBois and her son Daniel. And with them is Kate Bishop. Zelda asks Kate about the project she and her son are going to be doing together. And 'confides' that Daniel likes her. Kate replies that she likes Daniel as a *friend*, and starts to deny the project. But the party is interrupted as the female Hawkeye, Hulkling, Patriot, Speed and Stature chase a costumed villain through the room. Danny is confused.

Later the Young Avengers all meet in the ruined Avengers Mansion that they use as a base. It turns out that 'Hawkeye' was Vision in a hologram and the 'villain' was Wiccan disguised by magic. It was all a scam to scuppper Danny's plan to blackmail his way onto the team with his knowledge of Hawkeye's civilian id as Kate. And they also mention that they know his mom is really Princess Python, which he apparently doesn't.

Next day they visit the other YAv's HQ, the Invisible Manor in Central Park, to give them the results of their practical test last issue. Patriot announces that only Coat Of Arms and Enchantress will be offered (provisional) membership of the YAv. Melter can continue to lead Big Zero, Egghead and Executioner on the the other team, but they must stop using the name Young Avengers. And the real YAv will be keeping an eye on them.

Chris/Melter isn't happy at all. He thought it would be all of them or none. Now he's losing his girlfriend Sylvie and his friend COA, leaving him with the other 3 (who he doesn't really like). And COA doesn't want to go without Melter either. But Enchantress has got what she always wanted. Eli Bradley tries to make him see the good side. Sylvie can still live here. And the YAv want him to stay as leader of the others to keep them in line. Chris dismisses him as a 3rd-rate Captain America clone, and Patriot responds by asking what's really bugging him.

Meanwhile Hawkeye and Executioner 'discuss' the party. It's clear that Danny really still knows who she is. But he's angry about Kate's dismissive comments about him in front of his mom. Kate angrily tosses back the info that his mom's a supervillain. Danny is stunned.

After the YAv have left Danny's anger explodes. Sylvie says she'll still keep the Manor going with her magic, but this doesn't mollify him. He says the Young Avengers have just treated them like kid sidekicks, when *they* should really be the masters. And if his mother is really a supervillain then he knows what he should do as a Punisher-type hero.

In bed with Sylvie that night Chris remembers his 'origin'. He was only 6-ish when he waved his hands and his parents melted. As Sylvie mumbles in her sleep how eager she is to leave, he goes into Coat Of Arms' art room and finds the card Norman Osborn gave her (in #2's flashback). He doesn't realise she's in there too as he rings Osborn up. And both of them learn that NO has the place bugged.

Afterwards Norman discusses the phone call with a member of his Cabal - the female Loki. He mentions that his business cards infest their surroundings with nanocameras. He says Melter made him an interesting offer. But mainly he asks her about Enchantress. Loki admits that *she* gave Sylvie Lushton her powers - but also that Sylvie also imagines that she really might *be* Asgardian.

Osborn is dismissive of Executioner. He says Big Zero and Egghead came from a fascist microverse, Melter is a "kid who doesn't understand his powers", and COA is the "girl who found Tiboro's Coat". He thinks maybe 3 of them could be useful to him. But he also plans to get the YAv under his control.

Back in the Manor Coat comes out of hiding and confronts Chris. She's not too surprised that it's Melter who took Osborn's bait - after all he has a villainous power. But she'd been hoping he would be the hero of the documentary she's making of this team - that he'd find a way to be a hero like heroes used to be. But Chris says he's not really the hero he wants to be.

Meanwhile in another of the Manor's bedrooms Amity/Big Zero lays plans with the android Egghead that she has subverted. They can't let Enchantress leave them because they need her power to keep them safe from people who'd want to use them for their own ends. So tomorrow she'll send him to attack Vision, as he's been longing to do.

Next day Enchantress joins the YAv (minus Speed and Vision) and learns that their base is the ruins of Avengers Mansion. (We learn that the team aren't revealing their identities to the new trainees.) Wiccan takes her to a room where he can train her in magic. But she's easily distracted by trivialities, and says she can already *do* magic. (And Billy *was* impressed by her in #2.) Sylvie then comes on to him. Billy protests that he's gay, and with Hulkling, but that doesn't stop her.

Speed and Coat Of Arms are out in a street market. Lisa warns Tommy that something is going to happen to the YAv today and she must be there to record it for her art project, but she wants him to stay away. Speed says he must warn his friends, but COA tells him it's something that will happen to the team sooner or later anyway in this post-heroism world.

Zelda DuBois is on the phone to Daniel as she approaches her car. She's disappointed that Kate Bishop isn't his girlfriend because her family connections would have been useful. But he'll get over it. Then she notices her window has been smashed, and there's a bomb in the car. Danny is watching and says "Goodbye, Mom ... or should I say Princess Python?", and it explodes.

Cassie/Stature has gone for a meal with her boyfriend Vision/Jonas in his human guise. She comments on how the others have kept the team going while she was away in the Initiative. But Egghead interrupts them and grabs Jonas by the head. Cassie punches him away and he phases out through a wall, but Vision says he already downloaded a load of data into his head. Including something they must tell the others about Enchantress.

An hour later Sylvie is back with the rest of her team saying the YAv threw her out without any explanation. Chris has phoned the YAv asking them to come over and explain themselves. But he has some other guests waiting for them.

Another hour later the YAv turn up (including Speed who hasn't heeded COA's warning) to find themselves facing Chris's group plus Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) and 2 of his Dark Avengers Hawkeye (Bullseye) and Wolverine (Daken).


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A new Young Avengers team appeared on the scene whose 'heroic' deeds were more violent than the incumbents'. Our heroes asked them to refrain from using the name. But in return offered to let them each try out for a place on the original team.

The newbies have accepted the challenge. The real YAv have chosen a widespread Hydra operation as a useful test case, and now the 2 teams are pairing up individually in the the evaluation sessions.

Giant-size Stature and Big Zero deal with some helicopter gunships. Big Zero is enthusiastic but amateur. Stature uses her Initiative training to grab the copters, smash them against the Brooklyn Bridge to break their rotors and then put them on the ground for the police to arrest the occupants. Cassie Lang is disturbed by Amity's comment that there was no fun that way, but at least the Hydra guys might kill some 'pigs' before they're done.

Next we see the 2 team leaders, Patriot and Melter, fighting ground troops. Eli Bradley doesn't like BZ's Nazi tattoos but Chris stands up for his teammate. However, Patriot finds it a better sign that Melter refrains from using his dangerous power on the normal human Hydra guys. But he sees Chris' anguished look (because he accidentally killed an old woman in DRYA #1).

The next pairing is a threesome:- Hulking and Wiccan with Enchantress (Sylvie Lushton), who has just turned their opponents into frogs. She gushes an explanation that she's not really Asgardian, she's Sylvie Lushton from Broxton (where Asgard is now located). As Wiccan turns the frogs back to trussed up Hydra agents, she continues that she just woke up with her magic powers 1 day and decided to come to New York as Enchantress, and adopted the lisping Asgard-speak. The NAv pair are relieved to find she's not evil, just thoughtless in the use of her power.

Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) and Executioner are up against robots. Danny guesses Hawkeye didn't want to find out if he would kill human opponents, but she says it wasn't planned. Executioner isn't ashamed of his violent methods, and he thinks that's the way the Avengers are going these days.

Speed and Coat of Arms face Hydra agents inside a giant mechanoid. As we learnt last issue, they know each other from juvie. Tommy would welcome Lisa in the group - someone less naive like him. And he flirts with her. When they've demolished their foe, COA tells him her origin. Soon after she got out on parole, she found the Coat seemingly waiting for her with a message painted on the wall behind it - asking if superheroes are good. It gave her the power to manifest 4 extra arms, and also a goal for her art - to explore the parameters of herodom.

Vision (Jonas) and Egghead just have 3 soldiers and a jeep to contend with. They both go intangible to let it drive through them and crash. Egghead resents Vizh's suggestion that his programming has been messed with (by Big Zero to make him share her POV), but he's easily distracted from his anger.

The teams gather together and Enchantress sends both groups back to their own bases.

In the ruins of Avengers Mansion, the NAv evaluate the other lot. Patriot likes Melter but thinks he's hiding something. Hulkling and Wiccan enthusiastically endorse Enchantress - she just needs a lot of training. Speed wants Coat Of Arms in more ways than 1. Stature doesn't trust Big Zero at all, and the others agree. Vision wants Egghead shut down - another unanimous vote.

Hawkeye tells the others how Executioner bragged about his Punisher-like methods. (And that his mom is a Green financier who also likes what he does.) But he also knows who Kate is because they went to school together. And he tried to use that as blackmail to get on the team. Wiccan offers to make him forget her identity, but Hawkeye doesn't want him to do things like that. But it also makes Stature and Vision question their own negative evaluations. And Kate worries that the other team have already started to infect their psychology.

Meanwhile in the other group's Invisible Manor, Executioner tells the others about his blackmail scheme without telling them who Hawkeye is, and how he expects that to get them all accepted. And Enchantress boasts that they were fooled by her origin story. Melter hopefully asks if they should tone down their aggression to be the YAv's sort of heroes. Big Zero, Egghead and Executioner laugh in his face. But Coat Of Arms wonders what she started when she formed this team.

Later Danny meets with his mother. He simultaneously seeks her approval and resents her continuous checking up on him. And he gets angry when she asks if he was dating Kate Bishop. As she leaves him she tells him she's arranged a continuous supply of money for him, so he doesn't have to keep coming to her for more.

And we learn that Norman Osborn / Iron Patriot is monitoring the Invisible Manor. He finds it funny that Executioner doesn't know his mother is actually criminal Princess Python (as we learned last issue). It turns out that 'Hydra' was really some of NO's HAMMER troops. He now has data on all the teens, of both teams, and has also successfully tested the Hydra disguise. He tells a minion to find out which of them has killed anyone, and to watch out for any of them calling him.


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This issue contains 3 stories.Story 1:- Hidden depthsScript: Paul Cornell, Pencils & Inks Leonard Kirk, Colours Brian ReberEmma Frost, dressed in black as the Black Queen, has been invited into Namor the Sub-Mariner's mind to see why he agreed to her request to join her Dark X-Men (in Uncanny X-Men #513). But he's not happy that she starts snooping around everywhere.She finds 2 doors marked 'attack' and 'negotiate' and reckons these are his strategies for dealing with the human race (or probably with anything). She (pretends to) think the 3rd door 'sue' refers to a legal option but interesting sounds from behind it suggest that it refers to his preferred way of dealing with Susan Richards. Namor diverts her from a a 4th door bearing the legend 'Namora' ...... by asking why *she* wanted him on her team. Emma answers that she wanted a friend she could trust. Subby retorts that he doesn't think much of *her* friends - the mutants who seem to like fighting each other. Frost tracks down the area of his mind related to mutants and finds images of savagery. She is angry that he feels that way but knows he can't control his subconscious.She tells him that she's doing what she's doing for the good of mutantkind, even though it meant betraying the trust of her lover (Cyclops/Scott Summers), and joining a group she loathes (Dark X-Men or Norman Osborn's Cabal or both). But now she knows Namor had no such altruistic motive when he joined her. It can only just have been because he *desires* her.In response the sea-prince takes the telepath deep into his mind to confront his many-faceted self-image, encompassing the myriad of roles he's played in his long life. And a new facet is emerging showing him with the DXM. Emma now claims that the darkness he associates with the word 'mutant' reflects his difficulty coming to terms that he *is* 1. And as she suspected all along he joined her team to learn more about his 'kind'.The pair share a moment, then depart his mind to get on with the ugly business of reality.Story 2:- Get Mystique (slight return)Script: Jason Aaron, Pencils & Inks Mark Simpson, Colours Dave StewartIn the 'Get Mystique' arc in Wolverine (2003) #62-65 Logan left her to die in the Iraqi desert. This is a sort-of sequel to that but Raven Darkholme specifically doesn't say how she survived that. Instead we find her in a biker bar in the desert in the USA pretending to *be* Wolverine, surrounded by H.A.M.M.E.R. troops and holding the bikers hostage.But Norman Osborn enters the bar and calls her on her disguise. So she switches to Spider-Man to annoy him. Then she assumes her basic form and they start to 'chat'. Norman asks how she got into *this* situation, and Raven says she was bored. We see her memory of shooting off guns in town to attract the attention of the cops, shooting the cops and riding off on a motorcycle pursued by more cops.The bikers have just worked out that she isn't really Wolvie so they don't have to be hostages anymore. They attack but she ruthlessly deals with them. Then she grabs a shotgun and prepares to go out and take on the HAMMER guys.But Osborn asks her to join his X-Men. He offers to give her Wolverine. And then tells her about Logan's son Daken. This makes her agree to take the job, but she adds that she *won't* sleep with him. She also asks what her role will be, and Norman promises to tell her in his car.They both exit to a massive army of troopers, helicopters and tanks. Mystique says he would have needed more men to kill her.Story 3:- The one who got awayScript: Simon Spurrier, Pencils & Inks Paul Davidson, Colours Rainier BeredoJeanne-Marie Beaubier is having a psychotherapy session. She insists that she's now living a normal suburban life. She's put Aurora and her superpowers behind her, and she doesn't have schizophrenic episodes anymore. But she agrees to try a new EEG cap to check her neural activity.As the cap takes effect the doctor hands over to Norman Osborn, taking his payoff as he leaves. Osborn explains that the cap is really a thalamizer, which with most people it would render them incapable of controlling their body. But he correctly guesses that after a few seconds it will activate Beaubier's 2nd extrovert personality.He has brought her Aurora costume, and she strips and changes into it in front of him. Then uses her superspeed to go outside. Norman follows and is about to offer her a job with his X-Men when she swiftly raids his briefcase and speedreads the relevant documents which give her the lowdown. She's also stolen his gun, caught the doctor and killed him. Now she wants to know why she should want to work for him.Osborn takes her to a HAMMER helicarrier to discuss it. But Jeanne-Marie 2 is too busy complaining about JM1 and her glory-hogging brother Northstar to let Norman get a word in. Until he tells her that the thalamizer will make sure that JM1 never returns, and *his* X-Men will soon be outdoing her brother's mob. But she responds, as 1 crazy to another, that she prefers to just take the thalamizer and go on her way.Norman was prepared for this. At the touch of a button he unleashes the 2nd effect of the device. It locates the part of her brain this 2nd personality uses to register pain and activates it - strongly. And if she tries to take it off the pain will get worse. As Aurora convulses in agony HAMMER troops come to take her away to join the Dark X-Men. Osborn promises to switch the pain off in a couple of minutes when she's learned her lesson.But Aurora is up and fighting. She explains that she's switched to a 3rd personality (*we*'ve never seen more than the 1st 2 before) who wades through the men and punches Norman in the face. But he knows that the thalamizer will soon adjust to the new personality's pain centre. And it does and he tells the troops to kill her.But before they can she's on personality #4. As she fights the men and the gizmo keeps zapping her she reaches #7 (announcing all their identifying traits along the way) before she has all the troops defeated. But then Osborn puts a gun to her head as #8 surfaces. However she knocks the gun aside (which then goes off) saying that this personality is reckless. And she takes the device off her head, ignoring the increased pain because this 1 is also a masochist.She then sticks the thalamizer on Osborn's head unleashing his Green Goblin personality. And then presses the button which turns on the pain. As Norman manages to get the device off she leaves him. 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This issue contains 3 stories.Story 1:- The temptation of Cloak and DaggerScript: Paul Cornell, Pencils Leonard Kirk, Inks Leonard Kirk, Colours Brian ReberIn Colombia a drug lord has asked Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) to get rid of some annoying superheroes for him (and for money). His targets are Cloak and Dagger who are burning poppy fields.When he interrupts them they assume he's here to stop them but he offers them a job. Suspicious Cloak threatens to send IP to the Dark Dimension but Norman says he's come prepared for that. He claims to have a device in his hand that would turn Tyrone Johnson "inside out".Tandy Bowen decides to hear Norman out. He asks them to join his X-Men, brushing aside the fact that they're not actually mutants. (Despite 1 of their series being bannered 'The mutant misadventures of ...'.) In particular he wants to help them continue their war on drugs more successfully, something that would earn him kudos from the Administration. In return they will be called on to fight anti-mutant bigots. Oh, and to do whatever he asks.Tandy agrees because of the benefits, but makes it clear that it is under coercion. But when they have shaken on the deal Norman shows them what the device in his hand *really* does. He pushes the button and the whole poppy field explodes - he had scattered mini-bombs in the field as he arrived. But he also claims that he could still have turned them inside out a different way.Then as drug cartel troops attack IP allows Cloak to spirit the 3 of them away.Story 2:- Weapon OmegaScript: Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, Pencils & Inks Michel Lacombe, Colours John RauchMichael Pointer is working on a building site as part of his attempt to atone for all the deaths (including most of Alpha Flight) when he was turned into the Collective (New Avengers #16). His boss (who has a bout of coughing at the time) sends him down to the ground to see Norman Osborn who has come to talk to him. And he offers him a place with his new X-Men.Michael points out that if he's around mutants he'll start absorbing their energy which will kill them. (That's his mutant power, latent before the Collective event.) But Norman says he can see to it that Michael won't do that anymore.Osborn also says that that's why he's here *now*. HAMMER just stopped a shipment of the illegal Mutant Growth Hormone but the gas was released during the gunfight. The wind has blown it here and now everyone on the site is going to be turned temporarily into a mutant (remember the boss coughing). Osborn needs to get Pointer away before he kills all his friends.Michael says people have said they'd help him before but all they wanted was his power for their own use. (Presumably referring to working for the Canadian government in Omega Flight and Marvel Comics Presents where they secretly fed him power from prisoners given MGH.) Osborn counters that Michael's only choice in life his *who* his power hurts.As he starts to glow and workers start dropping around him Pointer runs away. But Osborn gets ahead of him via helicopter and claims he's heading towards a school full of children temporarily mutant-ised. Michael agrees to join his team, and Osborn promises that geneticist Hank McCoy will be working on his problem.But in the chopper we see that the Hank McCoy in question is Dark Beast from Age of Apocalypse rather than the good Beast of Marvel Earth. (DB was recruited for the job last issue.) Osborn tells McCoy (wearing an energy shield that protects him from Michael) that he won't use Pointer as a superhero but as a warden (presumably of a prison for mutants).Story 3:- I am DakenScript: Rob Williams, Pencils Paco Diaz, Inks Guillermo Ortega, Colours Edgar DelgadoWe start off with Daken as (Dark) Wolverine fighting aliens/robots/whatever with his Dark Avengers teammates Iron Patriot, Hawkeye (Bullseye) and Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)). He and everyone else keeps comparing him to his father Logan/Wolverine.Later he meets with Norman Osborn who offers him another job with his Dark X-Men. Norman is gambling that joining an X-Men will attract Daken as another way of emulating/annoying his father. But Daken is desperate to stop defining himself in terms of Logan - even though he can't stop doing it.Osborn takes him to a private box at the opera to see Oedipus Rex, pointedly remarking that it's about a man who kills his own father. He also openly says his team needs a berserker Wolverine-figure. Daken resents the implication that he's insane (like he views most of the other Dark Avengers). But Norman laughs and says of course he is.Daken then disrupts Osborn's control of the conversation by showing that he knows a lot more about the details of the Oedipus story, the original play and this operatic version, than Norman expected. He agrees to join the X-Men but denies being insane, unlike NO when he was Green Goblin. And walks out having had the last word.


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This issue contains 3 stories.Story 1:- Namor/NormanScript: Paul Cornell, Pencils Leonard Kirk, Inks Jay Leisten, Colours Brian ReberNorman Osborn and Victoria Hand discuss Sub-Mariner who has just (Dark Avengers #7) head-butted Sunspot during a fight between X-Men and Dark X-Men. Norman is more worried whether Namor is planning any retaliation over Sentry killing Atlantean terrorists (DAv#6), but Hand says the bugs they've planted indicate he's ignoring it. (The successful anti-terrorist operation in DAv#6 persuaded the President to let NO go ahead with his solution to the "mutant situation", ie the Dark X-Men he's recruiting in this series.)Osborn decides to venture into the lion's den/shower (possibly more for Subby to renew his contact with water than to get clean). He reminds Namor (and us) that he virtually supported the terrorists in DAv#6 and effectively quit Osborn's Cabal. But now he's let Emma Frost recruit him for the Dark X-Men (Uncanny XM #513). And apparently Sub-Mariner is a mutant.Norman wonders what's going on in Namor's head. He empathises because they've both evolved from villain (Green Goblin in NO's case) to hero (he claims). And now on top of dealing with that duality Subby has to choose between Atlantean and mutant. He believes that Namor has chosen to defend mutants as a member of Osborn's X-Men, and that he is now willing to follow Norman's orders. Namor doesn't exactly deny it.We see an image of the Dark X-Men. As well as Subby and Emma Frost (symbolically in black rather than her usual white, and in the Dark X-Men she's called the Black Queen instead of the White) there's Wolverine's son Daken, Cloak & Dagger, Prof X (not really), Mimic and Weapon Omega.Story 2:- MimicScript: James Asmus, Pencils Jesse Delperdang, Inks Andy Lanning & Jesse Delperdang, Colours Rain BeredoMimic (Calvin Rankin) provides a voiceover for most of this tale. He claims to have been dead and buried but recovered several times. (But I only remember 1 instance where he was 'killed' in Hulk #161 and revived by Wolverine in Marvel Comics Presents  #56-60.) He also recalls having his memories erased by Prof X (after his 1st appearance in XM#19). It reveals here that while he was with Excalibur (#122-125) Dr Moira MacTaggert diagnosed him as bipolar for which he now takes meds.We are reminded of his power to mimic the superpowers of people near him (but long exposure means he now permanently has the powers of the 5 original X-Men). Gaining a power that he doesn't know how to control has sometimes led to him injuring people, so he tries to lead a solitary life.It turns out he's been speaking to Osborn who says he's perfect for his new team.Story 3:- Dark BeastScript: Shane McCarthy, Pencils & inks Ibraim Roberson, Colours Matt MillaIron Patriot (Norman Osborn) has located Dark Beast using a run-down shack as his laboratory, experimenting on a young girl whose rich uncle traded her for a cure for his terminal illness. Beast had tried to induce a mutation in her but she died.Osborn wants DB to help him control the mutant population. As a refugee from an alternate timeline (Age of Apocalypse) *this* Hank McCoy isn't concerned about the mutant threat to the USA, and anyway *he*'s a mutant. But the amoral scientist perks up when Norman asks him to experiment on a mutant, Michael Pointer, whose superpower Norman needs to be modified.McCoy is ready to agree but he can't resist 1st needling Osborn about how he turned himself into the superhuman Green Goblin. And how he's now suppressing that side of himself. But Norman counters that Beast indulging his own dark side has only led to this decrepit lab, whilst *he* is in a position of power and authority ... 1 where he can offer Beast the best of facilities.McCoy will also be allowed to pursue his own experiments as long as he's discreet. (The same deal Osborn gave to all the villains who now work for him pretending to be heroes in the Initiative.) Dark Beast accepts.


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In the ruins of Abysmia beneath the USA Doombots unearth a book more than a million years old, bound in flesh and wrapped in chains which a voice declares as the true Darkhold, the Chthon Scrolls.The we see a vision of Chthon in chains looming over Times Square where demons attack Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Wolverine. Captain America is defeated. Valeria Richards within a forcefield bubble runs to stop the invasion but is killed by her possessed brother Franklin. Chthon feels his chains weakening ...... and Wanda Maximoff wakens from that dream shouting the 1st words of the book, knowing that someone *has* found the book and Chthon is coming.The 1st paragraph was indeed happening and armoured Victorious, Dr Doom's right-hand woman Zora Vukavic, watches as a Doombot looks inside the book and its metal head melts. Doom is in remote contact with the expedition and warns Zora not to read it. He explains its history. The Elder God Chthon skinned his own brother to provide the pages for it before he was banished to Other-Realm by his fellow Gods who placed magic wards on the book to keep it from him. Eventually the contents were copied to stone and then to parchment which is the version known today. Victor Von Doom adds that anyone who reads from the original book ...... but his sentence is finished by Scarlet Witch that such a person would be driven mad. Wanda claims that her past dealings with Chthon and her magic abilities mean that only *she* can control it. Victorious suggests that Maximoff is really driven by the fact the Victor once rejected her love. They clash but the Witch's magic easily defeats Zora's Power Cosmic.Then Dr Doom himself teleports in to confront SW. He too claims to be the best person to be the steward of the book. Wanda says unearthing it has given Chthon a chance to escape his imprisonment. Victor says Chthon is a dangerous rival for power, and having the book means he can *ensure* that he never breaks free. In honour of their past relationship he *asks* her to step aside rather than just killing her. Wanda reminds him that their 'relationship' (in Avengers: Children's Crusade) was when he stole her power to try to control the Life Force. He failed then and he'll fail with the Darkhold. Doom says he already succeeded. He read in the book through the Doombot's eyes, and he hasn't gone mad. Wanda is shocked. She tells him that reading the book has wakened the demon, who came to her in a nightmare of what he intends for the world. But if he *can* read the book then they should team up. Doom says he doesn't need allies. However he admits to having visions lately too so he agrees.Victor leads Wanda and Zora to an underground lab. He explains that the Abysmians were a subterranean human culture with advanced science but have been wiped out. Here there is a vibrograph which used vibrational energy to spy on the surface through solid rock. He has modified it to pierce dimensional barriers, and he will use it to take them to Other-Realm where they will defeat Chthon. Wanda says if he will read the book for her she will interpret the stories until they find their for's weak points.They come across a tale of the 5 Darkhold Defenders of the Chalcolithic or Copper Age (between Stone Age and Bronze Age), a dreamer, a fool, a stoic, a hunter and an artist. They once defeated Chthon and drove him back to the Other-Realm, but at the cost of their sanity. Scarlet Witch reckons she could use a divining spell to gather a modern equivalent of 5 persons with those aspects and ask them to risk it. But Doom says that he himself combines all 5 aspects. So he prepares to go alone, trusting that his ability to survive reading the book will enable him to return sane. Victorious wants to go with him, as does the Witch. But Victor leaves them both behind with the book.Wanda then allies with Zora. Her seeking spell and Zora's cosmic awareness enable them to find and bring 5 candidate Darkhold Defenders:- Iron Man the dreamer, Blade the hunter, Wasp the artist, Black Bolt the stoic and Spider-Man the fool. Scarlet Witch explains about the Chthon/Darkhold/Dr Doom situation. Victorious wants to *compel* them to follow Doom and aid him. Blade opts to destroy the book and then neither Chthon or Doom can get to Earth, but SW says the flesh of the Elder God is indestructible. The only viable plan is for them each to read just a little *bit* of the Darkhold to 'temper' themselves to face Chthon. Read too much and they'll go mad. 4 of them agree for various reasons but Black Bolt says via sign language that the Inhumans need him here.But then Dr Doom returns much the worse for wear. He refuses help and also refuses to say what happened to him. But we see that he arrived in a ruined city strewn with strange bodies. He was immediately attacked and overwhelmed by sheer numbers of demons. However we also see a probably-robotic masked observer noting that Chthon's army is growing restless and turning on itself. It also says something cryptic about the designated mother head being at risk. Doom himself says Chthon *let* him live to consider. But now he leaves Victorious to help them while he goes to prepare for Chthon's invasion.Ex-leader of the Avengers Wasp rallies the troops including Black Bolt, and the 5 Defenders all read a bit from the book. Wanda tells them they will each see an alternate history for themselves leading to their worst nightmare. But as they read our viewpoint is led towards Chthon. At 1st all seems well, but then all 5 are transformed into the evil counterparts the Darkhold Defiled.


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In Darkhold Alpha Dr Doom discovered the original flesh-bound Darkhold and read in it via Doombot, awakening Chthon imprisoned in Other-Realm. Doom entered Other-Realm but returned in defeat. Scarlet Witch read of 5 Darkhold Defenders who in ancient days drove Chthon back to Other-Realm, and she summoned 5 modern equivalents Black Bolt, Blade, Iron Man, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne). They each read a little bit of the book to prepare themselves to face the demon, but they read too much and were transformed into evil versions the Darkhold Defiled.Since then we've had 5 1-shots showing the alternate lives that turned the heroes evil.Now in Other-Realm Chthon's demonic army stands around a hole into Earth's reality. They include 5 large figures whose armour marks them as the Darkhold Defenders. The Elder God prepares to lead them through.Meanwhile in Abysmia somewhere below the USA Scarlet Witch and Doom's right-hand woman Victorious face the 5 Darkhold Defiled. Wanda Maximoff throws the book to Zora Vukavic telling her to take it to her master. Then she binds the 5 in the pink Bands Of Belasco (makes a change from the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak) and sends them through the portal to Other-Realm.Over there someone watches events (as he did in Alpha). The 5 Defiled arrive and Iron Man suggests they kill Chthon and take over the Realm. They think they're standing on the remains of the 5 Defenders. But these remains rise up to fight them as the armoured giants we saw earlier. However the old 5 are easily defeated by the new 5, especially by Wasp who takes command and leads the others to slaughter Chthon's army. In the midst of the battle Black Bolt speaks and nearly destroys his allies along with a large proportion of the foe. Then IM unleashes nanotech which chops up a lot more demons.When the fight is over Spider-Man calls on Chthon to show himself. Which he does as a really big giant who holds all 5 of them in the palm of his hand. Spidey stops Blackagar Boltagon from dangerously speaking again as Wasp goes giant-size but she can only stop the hand from closing on them. Then the mystery figure joins them in a ball of light. He emits a blast which forces Chthon's hand open, at the same time shredding his own cloak to reveal a superhero costume. Iron Man detects he's from the real universe. Blade tries to kill him as unwanted competition but a smaller blast repels him. Then Chthon appears in full, but only slightly taller than the humans. He disregards the Observer as temporarily out of power. And he tries step through the hole to Earth but something stops him ...... and Dr Doom (with the Darkhold) and the Witch stand in his way. They trade insults and then Chthon's head turns tentacled monster. The duo combine spell power against him. Wanda admits that neither Chthon nor the original book can be destroyed, but Victor Von Doom says he will use the Darkhold to bind the demon. However SW zaps him and takes the book herself. After all the times Chthon has tried to use her as his vessel on Earth, *she* deserves revenge. And she magically absorbs the book into herself. And then she has the power and strength to absorb him too.The 5 Defiled start to attack her but she warns them that if they kill her it will free Chthon again. Then she sends them back to Abysmia and they are reverted to their goodie versions anyway. She tells them that she scrubbed their evil lives from their memories except, at the behest of Black Bolt, a few shreds to remind them of what they *could* have been. Then Wasp detects that someone else escaped Other-Realm with them ...... and she flies to Pennsylvania/Appalachia where the mystery hero is standing in the middle of a street with a female head floating near him. The head says that the man is Model X3Z/Omega The Unknown, her son James-Michael Starling (and we see omega-marks on his palms). Long ago he went on a dimensional pilgrimage but got trapped in Other-Realm. While his designated mother head waited for him to return she's been compiling data about Earth.Our last epilogue is in Dr Doom's long-abandoned castle in upstate New York where he and Scarlet Witch have a tense meeting. They effectively agree to be enemies. Then Wanda zaps Victor with a 1-finger spell and he turns out to be be merely a remote-controlled Doombot. SW flies away claiming to be free of her past. And we're promised more of her soon.


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Tales of suspense
In Darkhold Alpha Dr Doom unearthed the very original Darkhold and thus allowed Chthon to get nearer to escaping back to Earth. He and Scarlet Witch read in it about 5 Darkhold Defenders who in ancient times defeated him. Wanda summoned 5 modern heroes who would mystically correspond to the original Defenders (Black Bolt, Blade, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Wasp) and perform the same deed. But 1st they each had to read a bit of the book to prepare them, but not so much as to drive them mad. The book would show them each an alternate life which led to twisted versions of themselves. But after reading them they were all transmuted into these versions - the Darkhold Defiled.The 5 1-shots of which this is 1 will show the alternate timeline which produced the Defiled version of its hero.The story is told by Virginia 'Pepper' Potts, top scientist and executive at Stark Industries, and she starts by saying it is the story of how she died.Chapter 1: The most tragic figure on EarthShe and chauffeur/bodyguard Happy Hogan find Tony Stark lying weakly inside his original clunk grey armour getting a recharge. This is the 1st time they've seen it (it seems like he's just got back from Iron Man's origin wherever in Asia it's supposed to be). As they remove parts of it he has to tell them to leave the chestplate because it's the only thing keeping shrapnel from piercing his heart and killing him. He's also got lots of other lesser injuries. He tells them to leave him while he works on improving the armour. But Pepper stays to read the company's computer files on its biomedical tech and such.When she awakes in the morning Tony's back in the armour and he's added dermal regenerators which have already healed his face. It transpires that he's done much more. A semi-AI controlled by his brainwaves is mending his flesh and organs. He's created a mobile hospital which will keep him alive as well as protect him from harm. Pepper removes 1 gauntlet to see what it's done to a damaged hand. But it takes the skin with it! Happy and butler Jarvis rush in when Tony cries out in agony. They manage to get his gauntlet back on and the armour calms Tony with an anaesthetic/tranquilliser.Now Tony's back to figuring he can iron out the bugs and make the system work properly. The AI obviously decided that melding the skin with the armour was the best solution. Luckily only that arm is the only part affected so far. He and fellow-scientist Pepper then work through the day and night to redesign the algorithm to make it regenerate his skin and do better with the rest of his body. At 1 point he confesses to her that while he was held by terrorists he worried about his obituary being as an arms manufacturer, and he intended to lead a better life. And then he donned the armour and killed all his captors. But he now intends to dedicate his life to helping people. And as an afterthought he asks Pepper to marry him.They continue working on separate parts of the project until Jarvis interrupts Pepper with breakfast. But when Tony joins them he's put all the armour back on and it's leaking fluids.Chapter 2: My heart still beatsTony says he didn't realise he'd put the rest of the armour on while he was intent on working. All he remembers is his hand stopped hurting but pain started in various other parts of his body. And then they were OK too. Pepper runs some diagnostics and informs him that his skin has all gone. If he removes the suit now he'll die. But to her horror he asks why he'd *want* to take the armour off! Then he says he's only joking, but he'll have to stay in the suit while he fixes it. Meanwhile he can't eat Jarvis' food so they better make him some nutritional drink.But when Pepper and Jarvis return Tony has sealed himself off in isolation, but he doesn't sound good. Pepper runs scans and tells him that the suit has infiltrated his whole body and brain. His skeleton is going, including his skull. But now Tony says that's OK, an iron skull is better. He staggers to his workstation saying he just needs to fix the leakage.He puts the whole building in lockdown. Jarvis and Pepper are trapped just outside the isolated lab along with Happy who's joined them. After a long time the transparent isolation screen opens and Happy and Jarvis enter. Tony is saying how he's seen how to keep everyone safe from accidents and illness. The screen closes again and Pepper sees the 2 men gassed and dragged away. She taps into cameras and sees Tony loading both men into 1 duplicate of his armour. After a lot of bone-snapping and leakage the armoured combination starts to help Tony at his work.The next morning the lockdown ends. Pepper looks out of the penthouse window and sees open armours walking out and telling people they can cure what ails them if they climb inside. She smashes the window with a chair and warns the crowd not to do it, but some take up the offer and the screaming starts - and then stops.Then she feels Tony's iron hand on her shoulder and he leads her to her own bespoke armour.


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Fort Apache, the Hulk!
Dazzler pursues the angry Hulk through the campus of Gordon University, using persuasion and force to get Jade Jaws to stop his rampage. Nothing works. The Army arrives to stop the Hulk; he fights them off with no difficulty. The Hulk tears apart the science labs but is halted by the sight of the caged test animals, and frees them. When she sees this, Dazzler realizes her prejudice caused her to misjudge the Hulk, and chooses to help him get away from the soldiers. Dazzler approaches the Hulk gently and respectfully, and with the aid of a soothing light show, causes him to revert to Bruce Banner. Later Ali sneaks Bruce off campus in the band's van, providing him with money to tide him over. Meanwhile, the mysterious man who has been following Ali through the two issues decides to make contact.


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The Hulk May Be Hazardous to Your Health!
Alison "Dazzler" Blaire and her band are booked to perform at Gordon University, replacing a country and western act. On the subway platform, Ali sees members of the Satan's Creeps gang harassing riders and uses her Dazzler light abilities to stun them; she is shocked that the witnesses seem more afraid of her mutant abilities than the punks who caused the trouble. Meanwhile, Dr. Bruce Banner is at the University hoping to gain access to a genetics lab so he can find a way to cure himself of being the Hulk. He tries to get a job but is turned away because he has no ID. Overhearing this, Lance, Dazzler's stage manager, hires him (at substandard wages) to help set up equipment for the show. That evening, while most of the student body is at the concert, Bruce tries to break into a research lab but is caught by security guards. The stress triggers his transformation into the Hulk and Jade Jaws flees into the campus' underground tunnel system. The Hulk smashes up through the stage where Dazzler is performing, causing the audience to panic. Ali uses her light powers to distract the Hulk while everyone gets away. But the flashing lights just make Hulk angrier; he smashes through the wall and escapes. Ali realizes it's up to her to stop the rampaging Hulk, and reluctantly she pursues.


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Heroes from the two parallel universes continue to battle to see which world survives: Robin overcomes Jubilee, Silver Surfer defeats Green Lantern, Elektra takes down Catwoman. The homeless man tells Axel Asher that Axel is “Access,” the key to restoring the balance between the two universes, and unleashes his inner powers. Meanwhile, Wolverine clobbers Lobo, Storm beats Wonder Woman, Spider-Man decks Superboy, and, in an upset for Marvel fans, Superman just narrowly beats the Hulk into unconsciousness. Elsewhere Batman and Captain America are fighting to a draw when they come upon Axel and the homeless man. The latter informs them of the bad news: the glowing box is breaking down and the two Brothers are settling the contest in their own way; they are fusing themselves into one to create a new universe: the Amalgam.


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Spider-Man is swinging through Manhattan when an odd glow from a homeless man’s large box causes him to fade out and reappear in a strange city facing…the Joker. Juggernaut is battling the X-Men when he suddenly fades out and appears in front of Superman. Heroes everywhere are suddenly vanishing from their familiar locales and turning up in strange places: Captain America, Wonder Woman, the Hulk, Superboy, many, many others finding themselves fighting against unfamiliar enemies. Batman finds himself facing Bullseye, J. Jonah Jameson is the new publisher of the Daily Planet and Clark Kent and Lois Lane are introduced to their new photographer, Peter Parker. Two mighty cosmic beings, the Spectre and the Living Tribunal are disturbed by this turn of events, which will have epic repercussions.


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Amalgam heroes Dark Claw and Super-Soldier are pursuing the villainous Hyena in the direction of the homeless man’s gateway. Access reappears and sees that it was Spectre and the Living Tribunal, not the Brothers who merged the two universes and are now it together. He teleports to the alley, dispatches the Hyena and tells Dark Claw and Super-Soldier that the shards of the two previous universes are hidden within them and the two cosmic beings restore the original universes. The Hulk and Superman team up to drive Mole Man and his minions from the Batcave, Spider-Man and Superboy eject the Kingpin from the Daily Planet, Robin and Jubilee have a romantic visit to Venice, all the former enemies are now joining to defeat villains. Both greater cosmic powers are at work as the Brothers battle in the heavens with all of eternity at stake. The combined heroes take on the gods…and fail. But the Brothers witness the combined heroism of their various champions and are impressed with each other’s creations. With a resounding, “You’ve done well!” the Brothers make up their fight and the two universes are restored. Access then enters the gateway to explore the universes.


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A confused young man, Axel Asher, wanders into an alley where a homeless man requests his help in securing a large glowing box with duct tape. The man explains to Axel that two ancient beings, “brothers” each guarding his own universe, have become aware of one another and decided to battle for supremacy by means of the champions of their respective universes; the box is a gateway between the two universes and Axel and the homeless man are two of the rare persons who can be aware of both worlds. The contest continues: Thor defeats Captain Marvel, Flash beats Quicksilver, Aquaman clobbers the Sub-Mariner. Then matter become even stranger: the Kingpin purchases the Daily Planet, Wonder Woman finds Thor’s hammer, and Thanos and Darkseid confront one another.


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The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Part Five
In North Korea, Deadpool, Wolverine, and Captain America are standing outside Dr Butler’s laboratory complex. Cap holds off the army (who, not surprisingly, are in no hurry to fight Captain America, while Wolverine wires the place with bombs. Deadpool confronts Butler inside his safe room, where he is locked away with his gravely ill sister, whom he has been trying to cure. ‘Pool questions his lifelong tormentor and learns that Butler has been overseeing his progress since his Weapon X days. The villain also confirms that ‘Pool has a daughter but he has no idea where she is. Deadpool rehearses all of Butler’s atrocities—for the benefit of the sister, who opens the door to the safe room. Deadpool enters and breaks Butler’s neck. The sister chooses to remain and die. Agent Preston asks ‘Pool to gather evidence for investigating all of Butler’s crimes. The three heroes link up and walk calmly through the ranks of the nervous North Korean army as the building explodes….
In Tokyo, the three comrades part ways, and Wade sets off to find a new body for Preston while he determines to get on with his life….


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The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Part Three
Prologue: a gloomy Captain America and Bucky meditate on the horrors of the concentration camp they have liberated….
Now: Deadpool frees Cap and Wolverine from the tank where they had been imprisoned. Wade explains that they are in North Korea, prisoners of a super-soldier program run by the American Dr Butler, who claims to have Deadpool’s daughter (which he isn’t sure he has one of) captive. They also learn of the existence of the experiments combining Deadpool and X-Men DNA to produce some strange looking mutants. The two-and-a-half heroes link up with the mutants and try to capture the camp. Two guards inject themselves with a drug that transforms them into hulking monsters. The battle against the monster-guards becomes fierce and ends with the guards surrendering and revealing the whereabouts of their DNA samples and the camp where the mutants’ families are being held hostage. Wade searches the camp to find Dr Butler and learn the truth about his past but Butler is not there. They learn he is also at the other camp.
Meanwhile, at the other camp, Butler is ready to collect his payment and leave….


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In Wade We Trust
A mad necromancer tries to solve America’s problems by raising the former Presidents from the dead; Captain America arrives to stop him and ends up battling zombie Harry S Truman—and decapitating the revenant Chief Executive, which causes a media uproar. On the SHIELD Helicarrier, Agent Emily Proctor is assigned to clean up the Presidential mess without attracting any attention. In Manhattan, a giant reptile is tearing up the city—until it is finally sliced open from the inside by the recently swallowed Deadpool, making his usual absurd entrance. He is followed by Thor, who gladly heads back to Asgard. Zombie Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives to go on a similar rampage and Deadpool takes on the superpowered ex-President. The insane battle carries down into the subway, where DP finally electrocutes FDR on the third rail. As the damaged Merc with a Mouth tries to pull himself together, Agent Proctor arrives and recruits him as SHIELD’s secret weapon against the zombie horde—since he is expendable. A report comes in that the Presidential zombies are gathering at Independence Hall in Philadelphia; Deadpool bursts in on the scene, only to be immediately shot in the back of the head by Abraham Lincoln. George Washington brings the issue to a vote—and the monsters choose unanimously to destroy the country and start anew….


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The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Part Four
Wolverine, Deadpool, and Captain America lead the North Korean X-Men mutations against the main camp (23). Inside, Colonel Jong and Dr Butler receive word that Camp 19 has fallen. Then they learn that Deadpool has been captured. They go to see the prisoner and it turns out to be the mutated version of Cyclops, who unleashes an optic blast. With that the rest of the team attacks the compound. Cap rescues the families of the mutants from being slaughtered with a flame thrower while the mutants use their special abilities against their enemies. Mock-Wolverine suffers irreparable brain damage (the mutants are not exactly like their counterparts) and Logan puts him out of his misery. Fake Nightcrawler is reunited with his wife/girlfriend and Deadpool goes in search of Carmelita and their daughter. Wolverine tries to warn him but Wade soon finds Carmelita —in a mass grave. He goes berserk with grief and guilt and has to be restrained by his comrades. Elsewhere, Dr Butler prepares to revive his comatose sister….


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The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Part One
Many years ago, Dr Butler arrived at the secret Weapon X facility and discovered that one of the subjects, Wade Wilson, was apparently cured of cancer but he had been driven insane by the procedure. Learning that they allowed Wilson to escape, Butler shot the head scientist and took command, ordering surveillance on Wilson, and a tank to be prepared for his cancer-stricken beloved….
Today, Wade Wilson A/K/A Deadpool breaks into a classy hotel to meet with Wolverine. D’Pool thinks someone is out to get him (and other Weapon X grads) based on the events of the previous issues and needs Logan‘s advice. Logan brushes him off. Wade then seeks out Captain America, who is engaged in combat with agents of A.I.M. Deadpool joins in and asks Cap if he knows of anyone targeting super-soldiers; Cap doesn’t but advises his new ally to find someone who can help him work through his troubles. Instead Deadpool heads to a bar where he implants a tracking device in his leg, then goes to spend the night at a recent murder scene, knowing it is now unoccupied. In the middle of the night, Wolverine awakens him to warn him that enemies are coming for him. The two Weapon X grads take on the interlopers with Pool heading to the roof to shoot down Butler’s helicopter….
The epilogue reveals the truth: Deadpool was captured without incident while he slept in the room; he is now in a stasis tank under the supervision of Dr Butler and dreaming of action….


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This issue is divided into 3 stories (1 main and 2 shorts) plus a Squirrel Girl story as untitled interludes around and between them, and everything's interconnected. The interludes have art by Kieron Dwyer and colours by Pete Pantazis.Prelude:-Continuing the tradition from the GLA series and the GLX-Mas Special, Squirrel Girl (and her squirrel sidekick Tippy-Toe) introduce the book in front of a stage curtain. She explains that (in the post_Civil War era of the Avengers Initiative) the Great Lakes Avengers have renamed themselves again as the Great Lakes Initiative (ie they are the official Initiative team for Wisconsin). But she also describes their apps since GLXMS:- Her app in the I (heart) Marvel Valentine Special and the team's apps in Thing #8 and Cable & Deadpool #30. At that point she's disgusted when Deadpool himself sticks his head through the curtain. And disturbed when he shows her a copy of Civil War: Frontline #10 where her crush Speedball has become Penance.Story 1:- Drunk with powerArt by Nelson. Colours Giulia Brusco.Some time ago the Greek god of wine Dionysus, drunk as usual, fell off Olympus and crashed on Earth where he was found by AIM.Now Wade Wilson (in civvies) sees Human Torch careening around Manhattan randomly setting fire to things before crashing back into the Baxter Building HQ of the Fantastic Four. Deadpool goes inside (not stopped by any security system) and finds the rest of the current FF (Black Panther, Storm and Thing) equally seemingly-drunk. He tries to leave but Storm zaps him with lightning which leaves him dressed only in yellow panties. She introduces him to the others and denies his claim to be an X-Man. BP explains that they've been affected by a distortion effect. He's pinpointed the source but they're in no state to deal with it, so it's up to DP as he seems to be the only 'hero' unaffected.It seems that the location is a funfair in Wisconsin and the also unaffected GLI are there investigating in their official capacity. They have split into 3 teams of 2:- Mr Immortal & Flatman, Big Bertha and Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe and Doorman (who's having trouble recognising the squirrel as a teammate). But DP (now in costume) intervenes because he wants the glory for himself. He keeps killing Mr I (because it doesn't matter) while he searches futilely for secret entrances. But Doorman follows the plan by making his own doorway inside the complex and then opens some real secret entrances for the others.They all pile in (except Mr I who's still recovering) to face the hordes of AIM, who all start running away from Squirrel Girl because they've heard that she single-handedly (well, with squirrel help) beat Dr Doom, MODOK and Thanos. (Deadpool can't believe those tales are actually accepted in comics continuity). We learn from the AIM scientists that their inebriation wave simulates drunkenness without the necessity for actual alcohol. They've targeted the wave using the brainwave patterns of every superhero in the USA. DP is immune because his brain is continually regenerating. And it turns out nobody remembered to include the GL-whatever's brainwaves in the mix.AIM troops make a last ditch defence in front of the lab door but our heroes  make short work of them. Team leader (in the absence of Mr Immortal) Flatman wants to know what's inside the lab. He suggests he could slide his 2-D body under the door, or Doorman could make his own door to peek through. But DP favours a noisier method and plants a large amount of plastic explosive on the door. SG suggests the team run away. There's a large explosion ... and behind the door they find the GLA's old foe Dr Tannenbaum (from GLXMS) tied up in a broom closet. Big Bertha guesses this must have been his secret base until AIM took it over. FM suggests they release him and team up  against the common foe, but nobody takes him up on it.Deadpool leads them to the real secret lab where they find Dionysus a a captive source of the inebriation wave. But the scientists have now located the GLI's brainwaves and added them to their machine. They fire a beam at the GLI but Mr I rushes in and takes it all in himself ... and dies of alcohol poisoning. DP leads the charge to destroy the inebriation machine so the AIM boss remotely orders AIM troops to carry out the 2nd half of the plan - invade the Baxter Building, Avengers HQ in Stark Tower and the Initiative HQ to steal all their secrets. Big Bertha increases her mass to slow the drunk effect and smashes the machine with her weight.The crisis is over as all superheroes recover from their 'inebriation' and we see as an example the FF dealing with the invaders of their HQ. Our gang arrest all the nearby Agents. DP learns that everybody gets free drinks when Dionysus is around, and asks if he'd like to become his sidekick. Mr I recovers from 'death' as usual.The GLI take Wade to see their swanky new government-provided HQ. SG explains how she just helped the god get back to Olympus, and while she was there she helped Zeus with a problem he had with Pluto. DP is impressed with the place and how well the team is doing. When they realise he's serious Craig Hollis invites him to join. Wade says he's got his own team Agency X and he prefers to live in New York, but asks if he could be a reserve member. They've never had 1 of those before but decide it's a good idea.Interlude 1:-Doorman is showing us readers the GLI's new hangar bay with vehicles including Big Bertha's Bumper and Flatman's Flat-A-Maran. Squirrel Girl and Tippy-Toe get into their Squirrel-A-Gig gyrocopter and head out to find out what's happened to Speedball by breaking in to Thunderbolts Mountain.Story 2:- A date with densityPencils Paul Pelletier. Inks Dave Meikis. Colours Wil Quintana.He may be a reserve member who prefers to live in New York but Deadpool seems happy enough to stay in the GLI HQ and slob out in front of the TV. The rest of the team want him to leave and blame Mr Immortal for inviting him in. So Craig Hollis goes to have it out with him but Wade Wilson just kills him yet again, this time by forcing the universal remote into his brain. Then  Flatman and Doorman persuade Big Bertha that Wade Wilson fancies her and she should ask him for a date. She does and he accepts with enthusiasm.He gets all dressed up with a tux over his costume (and his sword and ammo belt over that). But he seems somewhat disappointed when she meets him as supermodel Ashley Crawford. He takes her to the Chubby Whale diner for an All-You-Can-Eat meal, where he seems to eat all her food as well as his while she tries to tell him they want him to go home. She mentions that the government might not want to pay for all the Pay-Per-View porn he's been watching.Meanwhile a Maggia boss and 2 underlings are enjoying the crab puffs when a rival gang bursts in and starts shooting. Ashley turns into Big Bertha to shield civilians from stray bullets. Wade seems happy with the transformation as he wades into the fray.Later while the cops take the mobsters away Bertha accuses DP of being a 'chubby chaser'. He admits it but she says that's no better than the men who only fancy her supermodel body. She wants someone who likes the inner her no matter which body she occupies. Wade says he has the same desire and takes off his mask to show her his totally disfigured face. But her response is to retch.Interlude 2:-SG and TT have reached Thunderbolts HQ. Tippy sneaks in to Penance's room through a ventilation grill and uses a screwdriver to unfasten and remove it and let Doreen Green in. The room is a totally bare cell which is how the occupant wants it. She greets Robbie Baldwin and asks who did this to him, but he says it's *his* choice. He's doing penance for making Nitro destroy a town (and causing the Civil War). Doreen tells him it's *not* his fault. She shows him a SHIELD file that it was Damage Control's fault for increasing Nuklo's power with a super-drug (MGH - Mutant Growth Hormone). Penance can't believe that the company he used to work for as Robbie would do something like that. (SG doesn't tell him that Wolverine discovered (in his v3#43-47) that it was the company's evil new CEO Walter Declun that did it.) Doreen tries to reach Robbie by reminding him of his pet Niels the bouncing cat, but he shows her a photo of the new incarnation P-Cat the penitent puss in an outfit similar to his. (I'm sure this is the only mention of such a thing.) He continues to say how guilty he is despite SG reminding him of bad things that Hawkeye, Iron Man and the Avengers have done but been forgiven for. And he starts to increase his punishment by bashing his armoured head against the wall.SG leaves with Tippy with another plan. She'll go back in time to change the past. So she heads the Squirrel-A-Gig to Latveria.Story 3:- Fight or foldArt by Clio Chiang.Doorman and Flatman are still trying to figure out how to get rid of Deadpool. Dr Val Ventura is going to present him with a bill for all his expenses. DeMarr Davis thinks he's got a death wish. Ventura knocks on the bathroom door where DP has used up all the hot water, again. Wade Wilson is in the bath (presumably) naked apart from his mask. He tells his rubber duck to keep quiet and maybe the man will go away. 2-D FM slides his head under the door and ask if Wade is 'decent'. Obviously he isn't and drags the hero inside to use as a towel, and then throws him in the bathwater.Donning a bathrobe DP checks for his duck and sees the elastic Flatman threatening to catapult the toy out of the window. Wade refuses to pay the bill and away goes the duck. DP then starts a martial arts fight, beginning with crane style. But FM counters with origami-fu with which he folds his body into an appropriate shape. Wade tries monkey style, tiger style and frog style, announcing each 1, but Val matches them all. But then Wilson calls out "Boat style" and FM folds himself into a boat. Which Wade staples together and floats him in the bath. And proceeds to have another bath after all those exertions.Postlude:-Dr Doom makes his usual bombastic entrance demanding to know who dares violate Latverian airspace. But when he discovers it's Squirrel Girl he immediately backs down (she and her squirrels defeated him in Marvel Super-Heroes #8). She asks if she can borrow a time-machine and he equivocates by saying he doesn't care whether she does or doesn't. But he tells her which way to go. She doesn't want to wind up in the Nitro explosion so she tries to make the machine take her to where Robbie was before that ...... but instead she ends up in a version of 2099 where she meets the League Of Losers (from Marvel Team-Up (2004) #15-18 & 25) 1 of whom is Speedball. After she's kissed him (for only the 2nd time) he explains that they came from a past where a guy from 2099 killed nearly all present-day super-heroes except some he overlooked. So that small remaining group went to the future and stopped him before he could carry out his dastardly plan. But now they can't go back home because they changed history which means that there's another version of themselves there that *didn't* have a reason to go to 2099.Doreen selfishly tries to persuade him that this wouldn't be a problem for *him* because his current version (Penance) is totally different. He says that from what she's told him of her present (Norman Osborn's Dark Reign) maybe it would be better if *she* stayed here. She's considering it when Mr Immortal pops up. He's lived through the intervening decades (and doesn't age) and is here to tell her that she *must* go back because the GLI need her for a vital task.So she obviously makes the time machine do what she wants this time because we next see her doing the vital task. Which is to boot Deadpool in his Captain America boxer shorts out of the GLI HQ, and she throws his costume after him.On the way out he meets Grasshopper (the 3rd of that name) heading for a GLI meeting. In a fit of pique DP snaps his neck.


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Dr Strange, Sorcerer Supreme is dead. Someone killed him in Death Of Dr Strange #1 and now the barrier he maintained against invasions from other dimensions is down. But long ago Stephen cut 7 days out of his life and hid them, and now Dr Strange, Master Of The Mystic Arts is back with just 1 week to save the day. In #2 inhabitants of various dimensions invaded uninhabited parts of the world, but Clea popped in to tell this Stephen (who doesn't actually know her, let alone that they were married) that the 'invaders' were refugees fleeing the Three Mothers (the Crawling, the Crown and the Wyrd) who are travelling the universe seeking magic to feed their Child. Then *they* turned up and easily fended off 4 Avengers (Captain America, Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Thor). Then they left, promising to return with the Child.This issue starts with a flashback to the creation of the Illuminati in Wakanda. Iron Man is studying some fearsome masks and Dr Strange tells him they were meant to ward off bad luck and evil. Shellhead likens that to his plans for the Illuminati, but he has his reservations about Strange because he hates magic because it offends his scientific sensibilities. Stephen Strange points out that IM's fellow-Avenger Thor is a Norse God, but IM says that he can pretend he's just a strongman. He admits that he invited DrS because Black Panther likes him whereas T'Challa suspects that the armoured Avenger covets Wakanda's vibranium, and IM hopes DrS can help persuade him to join. Before they follow Black Bolt and Prof X into the meeting room where Mr Fantastic and Sub-Mariner are waiting, Iron Man asks Dr Strange if the masks work at keeping the monsters at bay. Doc taps IM's helmet and asks him the same question.The rest of this issue is set in the present day, beginning in the Florida Everglades as a group of minions from several of the invading forces take an atom bomb to the Nexus Of All Realities. They explain for our benefit that its guardian Man-Thing has been attracted to all the fear out in the rest of the world. They intend to detonate the bomb inside the Nexus to seal it off to stop other things from joining them on Earth. That is if the representatives of Aggamon and Tiboro can stop squabbling. They arm the device but then what looks like Juggernaut crashes through the Nexus and tramples them all. And the authorial voiceover tells us that the Survivor can feel the construct doing the trampling.Tony Stark is scrubbing himself clean in a shower and trying to not think about having a drink or several. He remembers (DoDS#2) the Crawling sending alien worms into his Iron Man armour, and now he's obsessively getting his AI BOSS to run and rerun a scan for xenobiological material. Captains America and Marvel are worried about him, and about Thor who's brooding about his defeat (DoDS#2 again) and also his conviction that he could have nipped the War Of The Realms in the bud if Stephen had told him about the mystic barrier. Carol Danvers remembers the Mothers saying that Earth's magic would be a feast for their Child, and she fears that the worst is yet to come.Then they get a call from T'Challa with Echo/Phoenix and Sub-Mariner in Antarctica where Umar from the Dark Dimension has built her new home. CapM reports that various magic-users are trying to reinstate Strange's barrier. BP informs them that Umar and others have sent envoys to the Everglades and he asks them to go investigate a sudden energy surge there. The Golden Avenger has suited up and says he'll join them.When they get there they find the trampled envoys and the activated bomb, which BOSS matches up to a Russian nuke that went missing in the 70's. Tony says he'll handle the bomb but the other 3 had better make themselves scarce just in case he can't. And CapM gets news of multiple Juggernauts in downtown Miami, so the other 3 Avengers head there ...... where they find that the crimson Juggernauts (none of whom are Cain Marko because he's in New York) are building a crimson tower (which the voiceover calls the Mourningspyre) that Carol detects is emitting a lot of psionic energy. Steve Rogers counsels restraint but Thor goes in smashing.Back at the Nexus Tony Stark is spooked when some millipedes crawl over his armour. Panicked he orders Clamshell Protocol which opens front of the armour and ejects him into the mud.In Miami the 3 Avengers are fighting 2 Juggernauts who noticeably aren't attacking people just collecting material for their construction. When CapM flies into 1 which is attacking CapA she discovers that it's hollow and easily falls apart. So Thor has no hesitation in smashing the other 1's head in. But more Juggernauts keep on building, and these 2 reassemble to rejoin their endeavour. And now Carol Danvers recognises them as built out of the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak that DrS often invoked in a spell.Carol and Tony are in continuous contact so he knows about the Cyttorak connection too. But now he says he's taking the bomb into the Nexus to see where the Juggernauts came from. Inside the Nexus he loses contact with CapM and he finds a version of the standard Ditko/Starlin psychedelia. And then he sees a handy clue, a crimson body halfway through another portal. Stepping through he finds a crimson world with an injured woman who manages to gaspingly ask if 'the girl' is safe. BOSS scans her and says she's dying. Stark asks if this is the Crimson Cosmos of Cyttorak. She says it's what's left after the Three Mothers and their Child passed through, but now she's the only 1 left here. And she asks to be taken to another Mourningspyre.Back on Earth the 3 Avengers are still battling Juggernauts, when 1 of them claps his giant hands around Thor's head, temporarily deafening him.In the Crimson Cosmos the woman tells Iron Man that the Spyre can't heal her, but it can tell him her story. A psionic energy discharge shows Tony how a female child was born to Cyttorak but was discarded, and then adopted by the woman Stark has found. As the child grew she discovered she could control the Crimson Bands, and when the Mothers came she formed them into an army of Juggernauts - while Cyttorak fled to the Flickering Realms. The Crimson dimension was razed, and the girl's 'mother' gave her a last chance at survival. Stark wakes from the vision to find the woman dead, and as (I think) the nuke explodes he jets away home ...... where deaf Thor is making a last assault on the Spyre with Captain Marvel. The last Juggernaut with the Survivor inside desperately defends it, but Thor smashes through part of it. At that point Iron Man gets back in touch with Carol and tells her *not* to destroy the Spyre because it's not a weapon but a headstone. But she can't call the Thunder God off as he turns his attention to the Juggernaut and throws Mjolnir at it. However the Golden Avenger gets there in time to interpose his armoured body. And as the hammer hits him he uses the Clamshell Protocol to eject out of it in time.Thor wants to know what's going on and Stark says the 'Juggernaut' will explain. Paralleling Dr Strange's action at the beginning he taps on the helmet and asks the Survivor to come out. The crimson girl dispels her crimson armour and places her hands on the Mourningspyre and broadcasts her grief to the world. But also a warning that they must unite against the Child or there will be nothing left of their world.


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Wolverine
is dead. Now Steve Rogers has Deadpool going over Logan’s room in Avengers
Mansion, collecting anything that might have a trace of Logan’s DNA on it and
burning it all. Object: To prevent anyone from bringing him back. They get a
call from Black Widow: a dagger with some of Logan’s blood on it has been
auctioned off to A.I.M. and they have only 90 minutes to get to the A.I.M.
facility in Moscow and recover it. Steve and ‘Pool take a Quinjet and head
off….
On
the way, ‘Pool asks Steve why they (the good guys) don’t regrow Logan; Steve
replies that a) he doesn’t like people who think they can control the natural
order and b) they wouldn’t get their friend back but the original feral
monster. The two trade tales of their encounters with Wolverine and then
arrive. They clout the guard and enter the luxury hotel that is the front for
the baddies’ lab. They sneak their way in, seize the dagger from the two scientists
examining it and run into trouble on the way out. After a lot of fighting and
running the end up surrounded by A.I.M. agents. Steve shouts “Emergency Evac!”
and the Quinjet smashes through the roof and carries them off, Steve agreeing
to Deadpool’s suggestion that they set fire to the building as they go. On the
way back they stop for a last drink to their fallen comrade. At the Mansion,
Steve gives ‘Pool the knife to take care of. ‘Pool carries it over to Butler’s
Weapon Plus lab and prepares to regrow Logan but recalls that Steve trusted him
to do the right thing…but he doesn’t know what that is….


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World Gone Sane?
Story continued from
DEFENDERS #40.Jack Norriss sends a videotaped message to the Defenders, announcing that he is going undercover to investigate the Headmens latest plot to conquer the world (while thoughtfully summarizing the last several issues). Doctor Strange proposes that the Defenders follow up several leads to determine whether the Headmen or Nebulon or both are behind the outbreaks of worldwide madness. In Paris, Nighthawk and Red Guardian discover that a major think tank is a front for the Headmen and are captured by Shrunken Bones. In India, Valkyrie and Power Man find Arthur Nagan shrinking people and end up shrunken themselves. Meanwhile, Jack Norriss has infiltrated the campaign of feminist Presidential candidate Ruby Thursday and when his cover is blown, he is taken prisoner. In Washington, as President Gerald Ford prepares to endorse Mr. Nebuls spiritual movement, Dr. Strange whisks the President off to another world to warn him that "Nebul" is actually Nebulon the Celestial Man and his "spiritualism" consists of enslaving the minds of the human race. Nebulon reveals himself and battles Strange. On their return to the White House, Strange tries to prevent the President from carrying out Nebulon's plan but the Headman appear and capture Strange and Nebulon. The Defenders find themselves miniaturized to serve as guinea pigs in the Headmens domed psychology laboratory, unable to escape. Dr. Strange sends his ethereal form to summon the Hulk, who smashes through the wall in the nick of time and breaks open the dome, freeing the heroes who battle and defeat the Headmen. Dr. Strange gives Nebulon a vision of human history with all its nobility and perversity, and the Celestial Man, disgusted with what he sees, abandons his plans to enslave Earth.


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The New Defender: Valkyrie Rides Again!
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Enter: The Headmen!
Doctor Strange and Nighthawk return to Valkyrie's Connecticut home after their previous battle. Valkyrie looks through some photos and realizes somehow she is married which upsets Nighthawk. Meanwhile outside some plush suburban home, the Hulk appears watching children play. Once the father sees him, the father attacks Hulk, making him mad where he smashes down a house then leaves upset after the kid starts crying. Flash to Gorilla-Man (Dr Arthur Nagan) and Shrunken Bones (Jerold Morgan) working in a lab where they have finished a sinister serum of some sort. Bruce Banner awakens near Dr Strange's home and he hobbled in and Strange shows him to bed. Meanwhile Nagan and Morgan meet up with Chondu the Mystic who is willing to take an ingestion of the Serum. It is revealed that Nagan has only a human head, but the body of an ape. Chondu takes the serum and he dreams a sinister dream that causes a Black Rain to fall over anyone sleeping in NYC. Nighthawk sees Trixie Starr running about to throw herself over a ledge to her death but stops her. He realizes than there are many similar screams, all of these people asleep but terrified. Many are throwing themselves out of windows and then so is the Hulk. Hulk has gone berserk. Valkyrie and Strange try to stop him, but they can't. Cut to the Diamond district where Nagan is out stealing Diamonds where Nighthawk spots him and them battle, but Nagan wins and heads back to where Chondu is passing out as the serum wears off. Everyone awakes and the madness ends for now. Nighthawk tells Dr Strange what he encountered and they are sure they are related, but that's all for this issue.


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Breakthrough: The Incredible Hulk vs. the Mighty Thor
This story follows on from AVENGERS (1963) #117Chapter 9 - The Hulk walks through Los Angeles following the mystic directions planted in his head by Dr. Strange. These directions lead the Hulk right to one of the Evil Eye components. Unfortunately the Mighty Thor arrives to stop him. It isn't long before the two magnificent titans are locked in destructive combat until they are given pause by the arrival of the rest of the Defenders and the Avengers who now stand united, aware that they have all been used as pawns. In chapter 10, it is shown how the members of the two titanic teams were made aware of their duo deceit by villains Loki and Dormammu. When the Hulk reluctantly hands over the Evil Eye component that he had secured, Asti, the all-seeing servant of Dormammu, swoops down out of nowhere and consumes the components of the Evil Eye. This mystic messenger manages to evade the combined efforts of all the heroes, taking the Evil Eye to Dormammu. Next, the Los Angeles landscape begins to transform into an alien landscape even as humans are transformed into alien creatures. Dormammu finally appears, boasting that the earth will now mirror his own devilish dimension in appearance. The chapter ends with the mystical and diabolic menace of Dormammu facing off against the combined might of the Defenders and the Avengers.The story will continue in AVENGERS (1963) #118


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The Titan Strikes Back!
While traveling through a seemingly deserted forest, the Hulk is suddenly attacked by trees, stones, and other foliage. This attack is directed by Xemnu the Titan, who proceeds to knock the Hulk out with a mental blast. Meanwhile, back at his Sanctum Sanctorum, Doctor Strange presents Valkyrie with a new sword, Dragonfang, carved from the tusk of a dead Dragon, to replace the Ebony Blade which she returned to its original owner, the Black Knight. Sensing the Hulk is in trouble, Dr.Strange and Valkyrie go to his aid. They are captured by local town folk under the mind control of Xemnu the Titan. Dr. Strange mentally frees the Hulk who then breaks free of his physical bonds. Xemnu attempts to flee in his spaceship which was designed to return to his planet full of Earthling slaves. However, the Hulk dispatched the spaceship with a mighty toss apparently killing Xemnu and releasing Dr. Strange and Valkyrie from their bonds. This ending sets up a battle royal to come with the Squadron Sinister in the next issue.