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Silver & black
Mephisto disguised himself as Silver Surfer to tempt Legacy into 'borrowing' the Time Gem from the Infinity Watch's Monster Isle base while they were away, and using it to go back in time to see his now-dead father Captain Marvel in action. But then Big M took the Gem and sent Legacy into the future where he where he faced a dark SS called the Fallen One with the power of 'black matter' added to his Power Cosmic and wielding Thor's hammer Mjolnir. Meanwhile the Watch accused the real Surfer of stealing the Gem, but M popped up to 'admit' what he'd done. So SS went to persuade Thanos to help him save Legacy with the Reality Gem. Mephisto gloated to himself that his plan was working perfectly.Legacy has already been severely beaten up by the Fallen One who we left prepared for a killing blow. But just in time our Surfer and Thanos show up. The Titan finds it 'interesting' to see a villainous SS, and he tells our SS to check on Legacy while *he* deals with the opponent. But to increase the 'challenge' he puts the Reality Gem away as he asks the other if he is actually the Silver Surfer. The Fallen One says that he's the 1 fated to destroy Thanos (as I explained last issue). The Titan is happy to contest that claim.Meanwhile Surfer finds Genis-Vell not feeling well, and not just from the beating. He turns very old before the startled Norrin Radd's eyes, and then the effect goes into reverse and takes him back to his current age and past it to childhood. Surfer reasons that Genis' body has been permeated by temporal energy, and the reaction is possibly because he was artificially aged after his birth. Legacy's age keeps changing and it's always painful. To save him SS absorbs all the temporal energy. He warns Genis to stay away from him. And then disappears.Initially Thanos gains the upper hand in the titanic battle with Dark SS, but now a blow to the head from the hammer has him reeling. The Fallen One calls his dark surfboard to him but the Titan grabs it and whacks him with it. He claims to be enjoying the scrap as he prepares to decapitate his fallen foe with his own board. But a blast from Mjolnir turns the tables again. The FO claims to have killed Thanos before and he can do it again, which confuses the Titan. But Legacy slams into his back making him drop the hammer. Genis tries to pick it up but of course fails. So he joins Thanos and they both hurl energy at the Fallen One and his board, knocking him unconscious and off the asteroid this has all been taking place on to float away in to space.Thanos is satisfied with the outcome and prepares to leave with Genis before the enemy recovers. He praises Legacy and says he reminds him of his father Mar-Vell, which Genis takes as a compliment coming from his dad's sworn enemy. Legacy expects that they'll now go to find our Silver Surfer, but Thanos says he's done what SS asked him to do so he considers his task is over. He's going to use the Reality Gem to return to their home time, and Legacy can come with him or stay marooned here. Genis reluctantly agrees.Our non-dark Surfer and his board crashland on a planet where he sees a majestic horned beast which is then spooked by the arrival of someone else - Nova (Frankie Raye) who was 1 of his successors as Herald Of Galactus, and also Surfer's lover at 1 point, and also supposed to be dead. She tells him that this is the end of the universe and she's here with Galactus. Who also pops up now.


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Bad timing
Last issue Mephisto  disguised as Silver Surfer tricked Legacy into stealing the Time Gem from the Infinity Watch so that he could go back in time to see his father Captain Marvel in action. But afterwards Mephisto revealed himself, took the Gem and sent Legacy careening through time. And back on Monster Isle the real Surfer turned up to face an angry Adam Warlock and friends.Now we see Genis-Vell falling outside of time until he suddenly crashes through a barrier into reality on a barren asteroid where he's struck by Thor's hammer. Mjolnir then returns to its owner who turns out to be a black-shelled version of the Surfer.On Monster Isle SS doesn't understand why Warlock, Gamora and Pip The Troll are attacking him and accusing him of stealing the Time Gem. He calls his cosmic surfboard to his side and fights back but only to stop the conflict so they can talk rationally. Angry Gamora clarifies that they know he and Legacy took the Gem. Surfer says it's impossible because he was galaxies away doing something heroic at the time. They insist that they saw him and Genis-Vell arrive and then went away on a mission. When they returned the Gem was gone and so were the duo. (Technically they also saw the duo leave on their *own* mission last issue, which makes their evidence even more circumstantial.)Norrin Radd points out that they *know* him and know that such an action isn't his style. He suggests someone impersonated him, also fooling Genis - someone like the Skrulls. But in order to set them on the right track Mephisto now takes over Pip and boasts that it was him. He now has the Gem, and Genis is lost in time. Then he leaves Pip to feel sick. Adam says that without the Time Gem they have no way of finding Legacy. But Surfer says he has an idea - 1 they won't like.In the other time Legacy protests that he doesn't want to fight his friend Surfer but he will if necessary. Surfer laughs at such bravado and names himself the Fallen One. Genis repeats that he doesn't want to fight and just wants to go back to his own time. But for some reason the FO takes his very presence here at the End Of All Things as a challenge and insists on starting a fight. During which he says that he knows how Genis' story ends (we do too) and he shouldn't be alive here. So saying he buries Legacy in asteroidal rock.The next scene is the garden of Thanos where he's harvesting alien fruit. Surfer arrives asking for help, but the Titan says that their partnership (in the SS: Rebirth mini-series) is over. Norrin Radd reminds him that then *he* helped Thanos and now he wants help in return against Mephisto, and he describes the situation. Mention of his former 'lackey' (in the Infinity Gauntlet event) piques his interest a little bit but Thanos points out that he has fruit that needs harvesting and if Surfer was to help with that then he might have time for other things. Norrin finds it contradictory that the death-worshipper nurtures life but the Titan responds that there is no life without death, and he recommends farming to the skyrider. Then he takes his harvest inside and returns in his armour and with the Reality Gem.Elsewhen Legacy blasts free of his 'tomb' and the fight resumes. He manages to blast the Fallen One off his surfboard but the board continues its flight to slam into Genis' chest. Then the FO strikes with Mjolnir and then prepares for a finishing blow.Mephisto is watching all from his realm. He claims to have plans within plans within plans and they are all working. Soon the Silver Surfer will finally be his.


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Time and time again
Mephisto tricked Legacy into getting him the Time Gem, and then used it to lose the hero in time. Silver Surfer persuaded Thanos to use the Reality Gem to help find him. They rescued Genis-Vell but SS got lost in time instead. Genis wanted Thanos to find Surfer but the Titan said he'd done what he said he'd do so now he's going home. Last issue ended with Surfer at the end of time (but still on a functioning Earth! - but without humans) where he met Galactus and his Herald the female Nova (Frankie Raye).Mephisto says his plan has worked perfectly and now his hated foe Silver Surfer is out of his hair forever.Big G as usual is intent on devouring the planet. SS as usual is intent on stopping him because it still harbours life. But Nova leads him away. Norrin Radd is confused because he knows that Frankie (who was his lover) died at the hands of a villain (in SS(1987)#75). Nova says that in *her* timeline that didn't happen but Surfer has been missing for millennia. Now he's tempted to stay with her. But Galactus interrupts by starting the process of consuming the planet's energy. And SS powers up to attack him.Thanos and Legacy are back in the present on the Titan's farm planet. They repeat their disagreement about rescuing Surfer but Thanos says he has his crops to harvest. Genis tries to force him but Thanos is unaffected, and GV wisely backs down. The Titan dismisses him and the cosmic hero goes to seek other aid.Galactus easily bats his attacking ex-Herald away. He lands in front of a robot named Lit-Rob 839 who has preserved the works of Shakespeare in his brain long after the demise of humanity, and speaks in appropriately Shakespearian phrases. But Surfer ignores him and flies his surfboard back into the fray. Nova again tries to stop him but he says she should instead be helping him. However she falls back on her oath to serve her master. Norrin begs his old master to choose another, lifeless world but Big G blasts him back into the timestream. Where he sees various events including versions of himself as a member of the Fantastic Five, wielding the Infinity Gauntlet or wearing Quasar's quantum wristbands.'Meanwhile' Legacy has followed an energy trail and discovered a destroyed spaceship where he finds his target Eve Warlock, who says she tracked the High Evolutionary here but he escaped.


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The devil you know
Mephisto hatched 1 of his schemes against Silver Surfer which caused the hero to get lost in time. He ended up at the end of time with his old boss Galactus and his old love Nova (Frankie Raye), Big G's Herald. But G sent him back into the timestream again.Now he finds himself in a dark void outside time and space. But he breaks out on his cosmic surfboard and heads for the source of his current problem Mephisto. Big Red intended that he be lost forever in time, but he's just as happy to have him here in his own realm. SS attacks but the demon reminds him that he has the Time Gem. And he uses it to revert the Skyrider Of The Spaceways to his vulnerable Norrin Radd form to be overwhelmed by a horde of minions. But Norrin changes himself back to the Surfer and blasts them away. Surfer attacks again and gets a blow in with his board. Then they exchange power blasts. But Mephisto causes his realm itself to rise up to crush his opponent. Then he switches from his humanoid form to his larger, more demonic 1 (1st seen in Daredevil #279) which seems to have SS at his mercy because his soul is tainted (by all the planets he led Galactus to consume when he was his Herald).But then Legacy (Genis-Vell) and Eve Warlock drop in. Genis complains that Mephisto used him to get the Time Gem (#1) and now he's here to set things right. He attacks the demon with the power he inherited from his father Captain Marvel, while Eve rescues Surfer. (SS doesn't know who she is because he wasn't there with Legacy in the Warlock: Rebirth mini-series where she was created by the High Evolutionary. She met up with Legacy again last issue.) Mephisto is able to overcome Legacy because Genis too has a tainted soul (not least because he was tempted into taking the Gem in order to go back in time to see his father in #1).Eve Warlock then attacks him. He dismisses her as a soulless artificial being. But she contends that she *does* have a soul, and because she is only recently born it is pure. And Mephisto can't stand the light of such a soul and reverts back to his humanoid form. But it is a shrivelled version of it. Surfer easily removes the Time Gem from the demon's brow. The 3 heroes discuss who should take on the burden of using it to banish him. They agree that Eve as the purest will do it. Meanwhile Mephisto has shrunk to a snake. She takes the Gem and does the deed and they both vanish, leaving the Gem behind. The remaining 2 heroes leave on Surfer's board to return the Gem to where it belongs.The issue ends with a triple epilogue.In the beginning we see the serpent and a woman's hand reaching for an apple. And the serpent says "You will not surely die".In the present on Monster Isle Legacy returns the Time Gem to its guardian Gamora. She understands his temptation and forgives him. Adam Warlock apologises to Silver Surfer for himself, Gamora and Pip The Troll attacking him in #2 (because Mephisto had been disguised as SS when they stole the Gem in #1). Adam and Surfer agree that they cannot sense Eve Warlock anywhere in the universe. Surfer swears to find her some day. Then he and Legacy leave Earth.At the end of time we see Eve Warlock meeting Nova.


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Temptation
At the end of the Warlock: Rebirth mini-series Silver Surfer came to the Infinity Watch's base Monster Isle to ask help from visitor Legacy (Genis-Vell son of Captain Mar-Vell).Now Surfer leads Legacy to a huge spacecraft which is nearing Earth, it's front a gaping maw of energy. He explains that the craft is an automatic weapon that has long outlived the civilisation that created it, and now it wanders through the universe destroying worlds - and Earth is next. The 2 warriors blast away the the behemoth knocking bits off it, but Genis points out that this will take them too long. SS replies that now it is near Earth it will charge up it's 'planet cannon' and they can use that energy against it. So saying he rides his cosmic surfboard into the mouth of the beast, and the death-machine is blown apart.Surfer exits the conflagration unharmed. Legacy ask how he knew he would survive, and SS replies that he just hoped. As they watch the debris burn up in Earth's atmosphere Norrin Radd compliments Genis-Vell on his bravery, but the youth says he didn't do anything because it was Surfer who saved the day. His companion says it was enough that he answered the call to arms - his father would be proud. As they return to Earth Genis says he wished he'd known him.They head back to Monster Isle, dodging a pterodactyl. Surfer suggests that there may be a way to grant his wish. Genis reminds him that Mar-Vell died of cancer (in the 1st of Marvel's Graphic Novel series). Norrin agrees that it would be unwise to try to change history but they could go back and witness some of it. He reminds him (and us) that Adam Warlock entrusted the Infinity Gems to the Watch, in particular giving the Time Gem to Gamora. Genis protests that Gamora herself refuses to *use* the Gem. Surfer agrees and says that's why she leaves it locked here in their castle. He detects that the Watch are currently absent so they could just 'borrow' the Gem for a trip. He promises to accompany the young man to make sure nothing bad happens. Genis admits he's tempted.They enter Gamora's room and Genis uses his cosmic awareness to sense the gem's location in a box, but he doesn't know how to open it. Surfer's Power Cosmic does the trick, and Legacy reaches in to lift the Time Gem out. He hesitates but Norrin Radd urges him on. Genis says he's 'not comfortable' using it himself, so SS takes it and initiates the time journey for him.Back in the past they see a large Kree Sentry robot hassling some aliens who Surfer explains are Badoon women and children fleeing a war. But the Kree consider it an invasion of their territory and the Sentry attacks them to either kill them or drive them off the world. Surfer stops Legacy interfering but then they see Captain Marvel zoom in to attack the robot. The Kree Captain tries pulling rank on the Kree Sentry but that doesn't work so he continues the fight until he pulls the robot's head off. Then he promises to keep the Badoon safe.Genis knows he can't risk talking to his father but just seeing him being the selfless hero is inspiring enough. He suggests it's time to go. Surfer agrees, but says "But not quite where you expect". He is covered in fire which subsides to reveal Mephisto who says that the innocent are so easily tempted. And then he uses the Gem to send Legacy elsewhen, and gloats that his plan is working.Back in the present and sometime later Goom sees the real Silver Surfer arrive on Monster Isle asking for Adam Warlock and saying he's worried about Genis-Vell. Warlock comes out of the castle and accuses him of returning to the scene of the crime. Surfer is puzzled and unprepared for Adam's attack, with Gamora and Pip The Troll behind him.


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Millennius!
Silver Surfer heads for a vacation on the tropical island of
Kahoolawe only to find the place under attack by a pair of Ice Giants from
Asgard. After rescuing a father and son from danger’s path, SS unleashes the
Power Cosmic on the giants, knocking them out. Deducing that a dimensional rift
must have opened between Earth and Asgard, the Surfer decides to contact Thor….
Meanwhile, in a nameless Limbo in its own dimension, a
godlike villain called Millennius bemoans his exile there by the gods of
Asgard. But now he has detected an energy contrail in the cosmos which can
power his escape from his prison by means of a machine captured from an alien
enemy…
At Avengers Mansion, the Avengers (Captain America, Justice,
Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Firestar) assemble in reaction to a UFO
alert. Thor, Iron Man, and Firestar are dispatched to meet it. But they all
calm down when the see it is the Silver Surfer….
Thor and the Surfer look on their homeworlds and discover
both Asgard and Zenn-La have been destroyed. They start the perilous journey
into the past to learn what happened to Asgard but Millennius recognizes the
energy contrail he has been looking for and snatches it out of time, ending up
with the Silver Surfer and Thor in his Limbo. The two heroes are surrounded by
the villain’s globlike servitors who surround and enclose Thor and the Surfer,
rendering them unconscious….
The Silver Surfer awakens inside a huge machine which is
draining off the Power Cosmic to permit Millennius to escape his prison, then
embark on his project to save the universe. Oh and the operation will result in
the Surfer’s death….
Elsewhere, Thor is in chains and Millennius awakens him with
a bucket of water. Thor recognizes the villain’s name from Asgardian lore as a
fiend. The two fight, with Thor denouncing Millennius as a madman and murderer
while the latter defends his plan to exterminate all mortals in the universe
which, since mortals live such brief and miserable lives, would be an act of
mercy. By sheer act of will, Surfer breaks free from the massive machine but
sees the breach in the fabric of reality is still growing. He attempts to blast
it closed but that only accelerates its growth. Surfer rescues Thor from the
villain but they all race for the rift, Millennius seeking to escape, the
Surfer hoping Thor will be able to close it. The Surfer now fights Millennius;
while defending the existence of the human race, he orders his board to smash
the villain’s throat. Meanwhile, Thor closes the rift by channeling the
lifeforce that flows though every Asgardian. He then rushes to rescue SS from
the baddie. And by combining their powers they defeat Millennius. They bury him
in the center of his planet, Thor adding the blocks of his castle to seal him
in. Then they take off so they aren’t around when Mill frees himself….
Thor and Silver Surfer return to New York, vowing to be
ready when Millennius returns….
And Millennius, still exiled to his planet, vows to escape
and resume his crusade….


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Death's favour
Last issue Adam Warlock offered to help Silver Surfer 'resurrect' his lover Shalla Bal who had been killed in the recent SS: Homecoming graphic novel. He claimed that she hadn't so much died as been dimensionally scattered. The rest of the Infinity Watch were involved too. Pip teleported them all to a deserted planet that Warlock figured was the best place for the task. Drax and Gamora were there as bodyguards. Surfer, Warlock and Moondragon combined their powers to open a dimensional portal. But something went wrong and a horde of vicious demons poured through it to attack them.Pip isn't much use but Drax and Gamora (with a big axe) do their thing. Moondragon explains that while attempting to reach the metaphysical plane where Shalla languishes they accidentally broke into the 'rogue level' containing these creatures. And if the hole isn't plugged they'll be overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Warlock suggests Surfer do something about that, so Norrin Radd uses his Power Cosmic to erect a wall of flame that engulfs any more demons who try to pass.Then while Drax and Gamora mop up the rest of the foe already here Moondragon, Surfer and Adam repeat the process they used last issue:- SS beams his power into AW's Soul Gem and AW modifies that power before transferring it to Moondragon's mind, which she uses to control the portal. She closes the entrance to the demon realm and (easily this time) continues to their intended destination and retrieves the glowing essence of Shalla Bal ...... which then transforms itself into her naked body, which Moonie quickly cloaks in her cloak. Norrin is elated until he discovers that the body is dumb, and Adam has to admit they've got the body but not the soul. Drax has to restrain the angry Surfer until Warlock suggests they could go in search of that soul which he guesses is in the hands of Death.Pip does *not* want to take them Death's realm because they only just managed to escape last time (in Infinity War #2 when they took Thanos there to consult the Infinity Well). We don't know how Adam persuades him to change his mind but he does. Norrin still doesn't trust Warlock's motives in all this (last issue Adam offered to do it so that Surfer would owe him a debt to be repaid later) but he's not turning back now. Pip tries to gather everyone into touching distance so he can teleport them all, but only he, Adam and SS disappear ...... pulled into Death's palace and surrounded by her armoured and weaponed Legion Of The Dead. Pip finds he can't port out again so Surfer and Warlock have to fight the Legion. As they are drowned in flailing bodies and all hope is lost Death snaps her fingers and the Legion vanish. And Death's spokesman congratulates the heroes for surviving.Adam Warlock complains about the treatment given to 1 who saved her from being the slave of Thanos (during Infinity Gauntlet). The reply is that they were being punished for bringing Thanos there (to the Infinity Well as mentioned above). Adam says sorry and Surfer tells Death they've come looking for a soul. However it seems Death doesn't *have* Shalla Bal. And we see her soul elsewhere trapped in a crystal by someone with an evil grin.Adam tries to charm info out of Death who responds by changing her head from a skull to a pretty woman. But her spokesman says that ancient pacts forbid her from revealing who has the soul in question. However she is at liberty to expel unwelcome guests from her realm and there is no rule which governs *where* she might send them to. Norrin  quickly assents and Death ignores Adam's warning protest. ...... and the 3 find themselves in Hades faced by Mephisto holding Shalla's soul in his hand.


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End game
The Infinity Watch have been helping Silver Surfer find the soul of his beloved Shalla Bal. Last issue they discovered that Mephisto had her in Hell. But the demon defeated Surfer and 4 of the Watch and has them imprisoned in stone. Now only Adam Warlock stands against him.Mephisto's realm is an extension of his soul and obeys his every whim (like forming the stone prison). But Warlock's Soul Gem gives him mastery over all souls, seemingly even the demon's. So now both figures have transformed to giant-size to exchange blasts overhead. A ricocheting blasts knocks the Watch's prison off its perch into the depths of Hades. Drax swears to smash them free but Surfer warns him that the force necessary might kill the others. Moondragon says she'll protect them telekinetically and Drax succeeds. But they can still only stand and watch the real conflict.Mephisto has conjured up a maze where he can appear from any wall to strike at his foe. Adam's Gem pierces the veil of illusion enabling him to hit the true devil with his staff. Mephisto takes on a more Satanic form but this only allows Warlock to shed any inhibitions he had about blasting the previous (slightly) more human guise. And the devil drops the Gem holding Shalla's spirit. Norrin Radd flies to catch it on his Surfboard but is buffeted by a wave of astral energy from the combat. Mephisto has taken on his spiny reptilian form (as in Ann Nocenti & John Romita's run on Daredevil).Drax catches the Shalla Gem but an earthquake makes him drop it. Then it's Pip's turn to save the day until a crumbling mountain threatens to engulf him and Surfer. Pip teleports himself and the gem to Drax, Gamora and Moondragon, and then teleports them all to (relative) safety as the stone tower they are on is blasted apart.Silver Surfer emerges from the mountain of rubble to find Mephisto in his standard guise claiming that Warlock defeated him and forced a promise to let them all including Shalla Bal go free. He says the others left a while ago. The devil dosen't know why they abandoned Norrin Radd but suggests the enigmatic warrior might have an ulterior motive for joining this quest (as SS suspected in #1). Possibly Warlock intends to keep Shalla imprisoned to make Surfer do his bidding. Norrin leaps on his board and exits very angry.Surfer tracks the Infinity Watch to the planet where they left Shalla Bal's body in #2. We hear Adam saying that it had been imperative that they leave immediately to reunite her soul with her body before it dies (as mentioned last issue). But SS arrives not ready to listen to reason. He brushes aside Drax and Gamora to attack AW. Until Moondragon brings whole Shalla to him.But the lovers can't stay together. Shalla Bal must return to being Queen of Zenn-La. And an intergalactic treaty between Kree, Skrulls and Shi'Ar to keep the planet neutral depends on Surfer staying away. So after 1 last kiss Pip teleports her to Zenn-La and SS flies off alone, owing Warlock a favour to be repaid at a later date.


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The pact
Silver Surfer is coming to grips with the fact that Shalla Bal is dead. He remembers how he loved her since they were children on Zenn-La but when they grew up they had little time together before Norrin Radd became Herald of Galactus to save his planet and her. When he finally left Big G he was exiled for his betrayal to Earth for years. And when he escaped from *there* he found that Shalla had become Zenn-La's Empress with the power to rejuvenate it.  Since then they were kept apart by duty and politics.Finally (in the recent SS: Homecoming Graphic Novel) the planet was taken into the mind of the Great One where it turned out that its inhabitants would be immortal as thoughts in the GO's mind. Moondragon of the Infinity Watch, guardian of the Mind Gem, helped Surfer enter that mind where he discovered that he could become Norrin again and he and Shalla could at last be happy together. But the Great One couldn't abide an interloper, and in the ensuing battle he died and Zenn-La and other planets within the mind were doomed. SS and MD combined powers to free all the planets but Shalla offered to stay behind to act as an anchor until the rescue was complete. Then Surfer went back in to get her but was just too late.Now Pip the Troll, the IW's guardian of the Space Gem, uses that to teleport to Surfer's side to say that Adam Warlock, leader of the Watch and bearer of the Soul Gem, would like to see him. Norrin's not interested in Warlock's schemes and flies off on his Surfboard to Manhattan. Even though AW saved the universe twice (Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity War) Surfer still doesn't trust him. He will do whatever he deems necessary to safeguard the dangerous Infinity Gems, irrespective of any other cost. Then Pip ports in again and plants Drax the Destroyer (current possessor of the Power Gem) in the way to knock SS off his Board, which they then port off with. Pip then pops back to offer Surfer a lift to the Watch's base Monster Isle where he's reunited with his Board.Surfer uses it to fly to the castle HQ to angrily confront Warlock. Moondragon and Gamora (Time Gem) are there too, along with a Moloid servant and the Orb Of Eternity that Adam just acquired in Warlock & Infinity Watch #15. Warlock weathers Surfer's ire and tells him he knows how to get Shalla Bal back. He claims she didn't so much die as be multidimensionally dispersed, and he believes he can reverse the process. But in return Surfer will owe him a favour. Norrin readily agrees.Now we see Mistress Death observing this in the Infinity Well. As usual she doesn't speak but 1 of her servants interprets her wishes. He expects her to be angry at this intended resurrection but she desires him to do nothing about it.Pip ports the whole group to a planet whose civilisation died out long ago. Warlock has calculated that this is the best place to effect the resurrection. Drax and Gamora are here as bodyguards. Adam, Norrin and Moondragon will do what is required. Warlock explains that he wants Surfer to aim a thin beam of his Power Cosmic into the Soul Gem on his brow. He will then modify the energy and channel it into Moondragon's mind. She is in lotus position levitating above a pentagram and uses the combination of science and magic to pierce the layers of reality.As the power is increased we see a portal opening. Just as MD is about to lose control they achieve full breach ...... and demons pour through.


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Welcome to Hades
The Infinity Watch are trying to help Silver Surfer find the soul of his 'dead' love Shalla Bal. Last issue they managed to retrieve/recreate her body. But then Surfer, Adam Warlock and Pip The Troll got separated from Drax, Gamora and Moondragon and wound up in Death's realm where her soul *wasn't*. However Death sent them to Mephisto's Hades where he *does* have the soul trapped in a gem.Warlock demands that the demon release Shalla Bal. In reply Mephisto encases him in solid hellfire ash. Cowardly Pip teleports out of Hades to safety, leaving Norrin Radd to face his arch-foe alone. From his 1st app in SS#3 the devil has been trying to corrupt Norrin's purity. He now shrugs off a blast of the Power Cosmic and starts to toy with the Surfer, appearing 1st as a little char perched on Norrin's shoulder and then as a huge head which eats him. Surfer is sent into possibly a representation of Mephisto's stomach before being vomited out again.The demon dangles Shalla's soul before him and warns him that her body won't survive long without it. He makes Norrin beg and offer his own soul as a replacement. And then says he doesn't want it because it's no longer pure. While SS was the Herald Of Galactus his boss made him supply sometimes-inhabited planets as food by tampering with his conscience (as revealed in SS#48), enabling his soul to remain unsullied. But since that same issue Norrin knows the full extent of his misdeeds and so is no longer an innocent. Mephisto no longer feels the overwhelming desire to corrupt him. Instead he'll keep Shalla to torture and leave Norrin to suffer with that knowledge.But now it turns out that Pip didn't just run away. He's back and he's brought help. He, Drax and Gamora successively hit the villain until he drops Shalla's soul gem. Surfer reaches for it but Mephisto plucks it from his grasp. But then Moondragon fries his brain and telekinetically drops a large chunk of rock on him. She retrieves the gem ...... but Mephisto clicks his fingers and the 4 Watch members are encased in rock with only their heads free. He throws Shalla's gem onto a fire until she screams. Then he adds Surfer to a rock sculpture with the other 4. But a voice interrupts him, and the only possible source is the ash-frozen Warlock. The devil approaches the 'statue' as it begins to split apart emitting light. And then Adam Warlock is free.The 2 opponents face each other. Adam knows that the whole of Hell is but an extension of Mephisto's soul, and obeys his every whim. But Warlock has the Soul Gem which gives him mastery over all souls, possibly even Mephisto's. So begins a battle between the Infinity Gem and the devil's realm.


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Old friends, old foes
*We* know that Jack Of Hearts stole the Reality Gem for Tyrant from Thanos' farm. Thanos recruited Silver Surfer to help him get it back, but Tyrant's growing control of the Gem allowed him to send them into alternate realities he created. Surfer found himself once more a servant of Galactus, and once more rebelled. But when they clashed reality shattered again and he ended up facing 4 versions of himself. Meanwhile in another temporary reality Thanos had an altercation with his 'daughter' Nebula and then fell once more under the sway of Mistress Death.The 4 other Surfers have been drawn from 4 other realities but for some reason they trust each other but don't trust our guy. And their mistrust seems confirmed when he tells them he's looking for his ally the villainous Thanos. They reason that they've been drawn here to stop such an unholy partnership so they attack him. In desperation he fights back and runs rings round them, but all too soon they have him on the ropes.But then Thanos arrives in this reality in his mobile throne/chair and scatters the other 4 across space. He explains that Death grew tired of him and let him go. He got his chair working better and tracked Surfer across the realities. And now he can track the Reality Gem to wherever it is.But Tyrant detects their approach and sends JOH to stop them, and we learn that he had captured the hero and bent him to his will. But 1st he donates to him more of his stored power. He doesn't necessarily expect Jack to win, merely to delay them while he gains more control over the Gem.SS and Thanos enter reality-616 and home in on the location of the Reality Gem. They see JOH racing towards them and Surfer greets his old ally, assuming that they have the same target. Until Jack blasts him. Norrin Radd then deduces that Jack his under someone's control, probably their foe's. JOH and Thanos clash, and the Titan reports that Jack is much more powerful than he was (ie in the Cosmic Powers mini-series where they met before). As they struggle they fall towards a large asteroid and crashland on it, where Thanos reduces his foe to a skeleton.Then Tyrant makes himself known. The duo both know him (Thanos from CP, Surfer from his own series). They demand the return of the Reality Gem. The bad guy refuses because he's going to use it to rewrite reality to where he is supreme. And so they clash.


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Getting real
Tyrant has the Reality Gem that was entrusted to Thanos by Adam Warlock, and has been learning how to create new realities with it. His end goal is to rewrite current reality with himself as its god. The Titan and Silver Surfer have come to his asteroid base to retrieve it.Now the villain grabs the Gem and uses it to send ripples through local reality which turn his opponents into surreal versions of themselves in equally Picasso-esque worlds. But Surfer by force of will returns himself to reality to face Tyrant again. And he's almost immediately joined by Thanos who strikes the foe, causing him to drop the Gem. But only for an instant as Tyrant regains it and sends them all back to irreality, this time more Dali-esque.As Tyrant proclaims his godhood, Thanos says effectively "Been there. Done that. It wasn't what it's cracked up to be." (the Infinity Gauntlet event of course, but also the Cosmic Cube saga). The foe boasts how Galactus created him near the beginning of the universe, but then feared his power and banished him. Now *he* will be Galactus' master. All the while of course the 3 combatants exchange mighty blasts of power. Finally as SS swoops in 1 more time on his cosmic surfboard Tyrant blasts him off it. But then the 'god' drops the Reality Gem again as the hurtling board punches through the biomechanical being's chest, apparently killing him.Both the 'heroes' see the fallen Gem between them, but Surfer reaches it 1st. As he picks it up he subconsciously creates a longed for reality where he is still Norrin Radd but now married to Shalla-Bal and with 2 children. But after a while to tearfully savour it he brings himself back to reality.Tyrant's body is still standing with the board through his chest. SS summons the board to him and the would-be god's body falls over. Thanos asks for his Gem back but 1st Surfer turns to a nearby skeleton and uses the Gem 1 last time to revive Jack Of Hearts. Jack had been somehow subverted to become a pawn of Tyrant in this series. Now he's recreated free, and with no memory of the events.Surfer expresses regret on accidentally killing Tyrant because all life is sacred. Thanos opines that you should make sure your enemies can't return to plague you again. He  plunges his hand into the hole in Tyrant's chest (presumably crushing something vital inside) and then rips his head off and throws it away into space. Then Surfer finally hands the Reality Gem back to him.In epilogues we see:- The light of life returning to Tyrant's head. Silver Surfer reuniting with Legacy (from #1) at Captain Marvel's grave on an asteroid in the Solar System, who says he'll take Surfer's advice and go to Earth to learn more about his father. And Thanos contemplates the Reality Gem on his farm on an otherwise uninhabited planet.


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Marvels
A Kree Destroyer is being pulled inexorably towards a black hole when Legacy (Genis-Vell son of Captain Mar-Vell) tries to save them. But he's not strong enough and he's failing until he's joined by the Silver Surfer. SS tells him to leave it to *him*, and he uses the Power Cosmic to pull the spaceship out of the deadly grip.Afterwards Surfer says that he roams space seeking people to help in order to make amends for the planets he led Galactus to kill. Legacy says he's just trying to live up to the legend of his father. He asks what Mar-Vell was like, and Surfer advises him to visit Earth and talk to the many heroes who knew him.Then reality rips ...... and SS finds himself flying alongside the aforementioned Captain Marvel, astonished to see the man alive. In return Mar-Vell is confused by Surfer's reference to the son he doesn't have. But they have to park such discussions to fight a Skrull armada invading a helpless planet. The Skrulls seem to defeat the Skyrider Of The Spaceways but not for long. CM happens to mention that he survived cancer (that he died of in the main reality, in the 1st of Marvel's Graphic Novel series). Then someone else arrives with a concussive blast that seems to wipe out the Skrulls. Mar-Vell recognises the newcomer and faces up to him, but another blast kills him.It's Thanos, who now tells Norrin Radd that CM wasn't real.


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Shattered reflection
Last issue:- 1 minute Silver Surfer was chatting with Captain Marvel's son Legacy (Genis-Vell) after they helped some Kree in trouble. Next minute reality changed and he was helping Mar-Vell fight some Skrulls invading a planet. Mar-Vell claimed to have survived the cancer that Norrin Radd *knows* killed him. Then Thanos showed up and killed the Skrulls and Mar-Vell. But he told SS that CM wasn't real.Now Surfer is confused and angry and attacks Thanos for killing CM. They battle mightily until Thanos wins and asks for his help.Then reality changes again ...... and SS finds himself on Thanos' farm on a remote planet. The Titan refuses to continue fighting because he doesn't want his crops damaged. He reminds the Skyrider of how he sought and gained ultimate power (in the Infinity Gauntlet event) only to lose it and the Infinity Gems to Adam Warlock. Warlock distributed the Gems among his Infinity Watch, with Thanos getting the Reality Gem to keep on his remote farm. But now someone has stolen it.Thanos would dearly like to find out who could do such a thing, and he wants Norrin to help him get it back. Surfer asks why he doesn't involve the Infinity Watch, but the Titanian says he doesn't *trust* Warlock, who once killed him (Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2, but he got better). (I'd guess he also doesn't want Adam to know he lost the Gem.) He *does* trust Surfer to want to help save reality. Norrin admits the truth of the argument.Then reality changes to a sea of fire, and then changes back again. Thanos says their opponent is learning how to use the Gem. But the realities he creates currently have only a short life.The Titan tells Surfer he needs his cosmic senses to track the ripples in reality to their source. SS summons his surfboard to carry them but Thanos says he has his own transport. Surfer tenses as the Titan prepares to snap his fingers (such an action caused the death of half the universe in Infinity Gauntlet). But this time the snap just summons his mobile chair/throne. Then they're off. Surfer starts to follow the path but soon senses that the Gem has been used again. And this time it is directed at both of *them*, shattering their personal realities.Thanos recovers to find himself facing his 'daughter' Nebula with a big gun riding a dinosauroid with 2 fanged mouths, 4 eyes and its brain in a transparent dome.Silver Surfer awakens in front of his ex-master Galactus demanding another planet to feed off.And we see the current owner of the Reality Gem continuing to experiment. He warns a minion who stole the Gem for him that he will soon send him to face SS and Thanos, and asks if he is up to it. The minion says he will do anything his master wants. And we see that the minion is Jack Of Hearts.


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Mirrors
Someone has stolen the Reality Gem from Thanos, and he has recruited Silver Surfer to help him get it back. The villain has been experimenting with the Gem and managing to create new realities which don't last long. But at the end of last issue he sent each of them to a different new reality, which is where this issue will mainly take place.Norrin Radd does a brief recall of his history (for *very* new readers). How he was happy on Zenn-La with his love Shalla-Bal until Galactus arrived to eat the world. To save them he agreed to become the Herald of Galactus with the Power Cosmic, and seek out worlds for his master to consume. Until they came to Earth and the Fantastic Four (or more exactly Alicia Masters) persuaded him to rebel. Galactus punished him by trapping him there, but later he escaped to space.But now he has landed in a new reality where he is still the servant of the Big G. SS refuses to obey but his master will hear none of it. He destroys a small world but demands a more satisfying 1, And the Skyrider finds himself compelled to lead him to 1 such.Meanwhile in another reality Thanos in his crashed throne/chair has met a version of his 'daughter' Nebula riding a dinosauroid. And now we see she leads an army of robots and 1 of Thanos' Sanctuary arks. She thinks her father is here to thwart her dream of universal conquest. Thanos says he'll repair his chair and then go, but his daughter thinks this a typical example of him ignoring her. So she orders her robots to attack. They mob him until he causes an explosion which wrecks them all. Except for 1 which he has to destroy personally. Nebula is left to attack with gun and blade seeking the respect she never got from him, or failing that his life. Eventually he tires of this and chokes her to death.Then he returns to mending his chair. But Mistress Death visits him (unexpectedly because they have long stopped meeting). He offers her Nebula as a gift which she ignores. But then he finds himself reverting to an old state where he pleads for her love, saying that he will do anything for her. But she just envelops him in her darkness.Back in Surfer's 'reality' Galactus has chosen a populated planet to eat. SS strikes at him with the Power Cosmic to stop him, but his master's return blast sends him crashing to the surface where he alerts the people to their danger and soars back to space to resume his attack. They meet in a clash of energies ...... but the result is another change of reality. This time there is no Galactus but 4 figures emerge from an energy portal - 4 versions of of Surfer himself.But to end this issue we pick where we left off with Jack Of Hearts and *his* master. Jack repeats his promise to kill SS and Thanos, but his master says it won't be necessary because they are lost in the myriad realities created by the Reality Gem. And now he stands revealed as Tyrant, who will rule this universe.


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Story continued from DOCTOR STRANGE: THE BEST DEFENSE.
Galactus hungers and awaits the return of the Silver Surfer
then he sees something bizarre cross his path: the Train....
A disguised Silver Surfer walks a desert world that lies in
Galactus' path. He comes upon a place where Humans working for Roxxon
Corporation have battled Centaurian bandits; he learns this from a gravely wounded
Human; he applies aid and follows the tracks in the sand. Not far away, a
Centaurian boy, Goldie, sole survivor of the gang, lugs a heavy piece of loot
from Roxxon, recalling his mean father's advice to earn his keep. He arrives at
the cave rendezvous where a Human and a lizard man await; they try to take the
package from him, a fight ensues, the Human stabs the lizard man in the back
and takes off with the package, as the dying lizard man collapses on Goldie,
pinning him to the ground. A mother and daughter passing by pull Goldie out
from under the dead man and he knocks them down and pursues to Human to the
marketplace....
In the market square, an alien named Scab Tongue, who owns
the last spaceship on the planet, is demanding exorbitant prices to rescue
people from the doomed world; most wealth would have no value on any other
world, so many are turned away. The Human offers the Roxxon package as his fare
off the world but Scab Tongue rejects it as Earth junk. Goldie arrives to claim
the package and demand a way off the planet. Silver Surfer arrives and counsels
restraint as the way to resolve the problem. Goldie and the Human fight over
the package and the Surfer has seen enough, he hurls his metal cylinder (it's
his surfboard in disguise) and it swoops over the marketplace subduing all of
the bad guys, while Surfer protects the boy. Surfer reveals himself to the
crowd, starting a panic because everyone knows what the arrival of the Herald
of Galactus means....
A flashback shows why Surfer is on this world: Galactus had
him verify the existence of the Train, a deadly vehicle crossing the cosmos,
breaking own the universe into its fuel, leaving ruined worlds in its path.
None who remain are worth saving. Silver Surfer balks at this judgment so
Galactus proposes that Surfer visit these worlds and if he finds life worth
saving, Galactus will postpone his meal, though it may lead to his being too
weak to battle the Train. So the Surfer went to this planet...
...where the Human and the Centaurian boy are still fighting
over the package. Goldie commands two arrows to pierce the Roxxon man through
the heart, killing him. The Surfer tried to stop him but only sees into
Goldie's past, understanding that this boy is no more innocent than the adults.
Galactus arrives and Goldie chooses to remain on the planet, hunting down his
mean father. He also sees into the Surfer's heart and knows that he is not
innocent, blaming others for his own choices. Surfer suggests that Goldie
merely sees his own reflection....
On a tiny asteroid, Silver Surfer ponders the mysteries of
morality and power and has a vision of the Defenders, the Train, and the man in
the ghost costume. Seeing that the Earth is in the path of the Train, he
summons his board—which zooms past him and away into the cosmos....
Story continued in THE DEFENDERS: THE BEST DEFENSE


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The ties that bind
At the end of last issue Sleepwalker's host Rick Sheridan vanished. (We know it was because Thanos caused half the population of the universe to cease to exist in Infinity Gauntlet #1.) The hero from the Mindscape is normally only able to physically manifest when Rick is asleep. (He wasn't taken along with Rick because Rick was asleep at the time and Sleepwalker was out.) Now it seems the hero is still around because he has no awake Rick's mind to go back into.Anyway he's taking his responsibilities seriously and taking Rick's dog Rambo for a morning walk in the streets of Brooklyn. But the locals blame this strange being for the disappearance of their loved ones, and don't believe him when he professes his innocence and ignorance. Back at the apartment Rick's parents also blame him for their son's absence, because of course they know nothing of the connection between Rick and Sleepwalker. Sleepy vows to find out what happened to Rick and get him back.Our attention is drawn to 4 convicts in a chain gang. The prison is in chaos after half the prisoners and guards vanished, but they've still been taken outside to break some rocks. Suddenly an earthquake swallows the nearest guard and the quartet KO another 1 and leg it. (The quakes are caused by Thanos' anger in IG#2.)Redneck Ernie Mills doesn't like being chained to black Willis Hayforth. Hispanic Hector Fuentes tries to keep the peace, and nerd Ray Morgan tries to stay out of trouble. They run across a (deserted?) energy research place and they break in looking for something to break their chains. Another quake causes them to be hit by a ray which makes them feel stronger.Police are on their way to answer an alarm call and Hector somehow hears their radio messages. When the cops order them to surrender Ray rushes forward to talk to them but they shoot at him. However he automatically teleports out of the path of the bullets. Willis tears a door out of its frame and uses it as a shield to slam into the cops and their car. Ernie grabs 1 of the patrolmen who withers away at his touch, and the villain absorbs his lifeforce.Hayworth takes a piece of metal debris and twists it into a lockpick to open their shackles. But then they notice that they don't feel powerful anymore, and Morgan figures that they will only retain their powers when they're chained together.Sleepwalker has been diverted from his quest to find Rick into saving people from the effects of the ongoing earthquakes, including an obligatory baby and a pet dog. After several hours of this he is contacted by the astral body of Dr Strange who tells him how Thanos has gained godlike power (via the Infinity Gems) and used it to wipe out half the population of the universe (which makes our hero realise that Rick is dead), and also caused the earthquakes. He's gathering an army of superheroes to oppose the Mad Titan (see IG#3).But 1 of the effects of Thanos' villainy is that part of the body of a dead alien (Eon, as seen in Quasar #27) is invading Manhattan. (Eon is so large that most of her body doesn't know she's dead yet.) Strange drops Sleepwalker off there to help Darkhawk, Deathlok, Her, Moon Knight and Squadron Supremers Dr Spectrum and Hyperion battle the Eon-mass. Their struggle continues for hours (including in Q#27) and then suddenly the Eon-stuff dies. (See Q#27 for the reason why.) So Sleepy returns to helping civilians.Meanwhile the 4 criminals have taken the police car and driven it into New York looking for something to use their powers to steal. They drive through the window of a bank and announce themselves as the Chain Gang and demand money. Ray has come up with supervillain aliases for them. He is Missing Link with his ability to dodge the bullets the security guards fire at them. Weak Link Ernie withers 2 guards while Master Link Willis throws a desk at 2 others. Uplink Hector senses how to open the electronic lock of the bank vault.The gang continue on their crime spree until our hero spots their police car driving dangerously through the citizenry. He temporarily leaves some humans in peril to halt the villains' progress by dropping a chunk of masonry in front of them. They of course attack him. He's been growing weaker as the day progresses and Master Link's blows hurt him until he dodges and leaps at the others. Mills throws Morgan in his path and Sleepy is confused when Missing Link disappears from in front of him, allowing Weak Link to grab him and drain him of his remaining strength.Sleepwalker deduces that without Rick Sheridan he no longer has a link to his home dimension the Mindscape which is the source of his energy. But as luck (or possibly the cosmic battle in IG#5) would have it the earthquake chasms are now joined by rips in reality which open doorways to other realms. And the Mindscape is 1 of them!Grabbing the chain that links the Chain Gang together he uses the last of his strength to drag them all into the Mindscape. Sleepy is immediately suffused with energy and uses his reality warping power to imprison the gang in boxes 'like Christmas presents'. And they are no longer a threat.Sleepwalker revels in the beauty of his home and decides to remain there. But 1st, being a hero, he must go back to Earth to save the people he left in danger. Even though he sees that the rift he came through is closing. He leaps through and sees the building he left them on breaking up. He's too late to save them!But then on the other side of the Galaxy (see IG#6) Nebula uses the Infinity Gauntlet to rewind what Thanos did in the IG event. All the vanished are returned, lives are restored and physical damage repaired, and memories fade. Sleepwalker returns to the end of last issue and finds Rick present and still asleep. The events of this issue seem to him as a horrific dream. But a morning newspaper reports the mysterious disappearance of 4 prison inmates.


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The Awesome Attackoid
In
A.I.M. headquarters’ lab, a giant android is attacking Hawkeye and Black Widow
with electric bolts from its hands. Hawkeye tangles it up in a cable arrow so
it melts the cable then shoots flames at the heroes. Having been programmed
with Widow’s physical ability it instinctively knows the best way to fight
against them. As the two continue to duel with the Attackoid, A.I.M. troops
gather outside the lab, preparing to attack but Mockingbird leaps out of the
darkness and takes them on with her battle staves. In the lab, Hawkeye shoots
an explosive arrow into the Attackoid’s open mouth then from behind Widow pulls
its jaws shut with a strong cable. The bomb detonates, blowing the monster’s
head off. The Scientist flees and the two Avengers follow him, with Hawkeye
wondering where all of the unconscious baddies outside came from. The Scientist
takes off in a rocket sled as the two manage to cling to the side before it takes
off, leaving the unseen Mockingbird behind. The Scientist radios his superiors,
the Imperial Council of Seven who are watching by security camera and are aware
of the two Avengers clinging to the sled. They dispatch their Enforcer Fourteen
to protect Project Brain Drain and he is overjoyed at being chosen to prove his
worth to A.I.M. The sled comes to a halt and Hawkeye and Black Widow jump out
to seize the Scientist but Enforcer Fourteen arrives with an army of soldiers.
Hawkeye tries to bluff his way out but he recognizes the Enforcer’s voice; the
baddie unmasks to reveal…Hank Pym….
“Ronin
on Empty” 4/5Writer:
Fabian Nicieza. Pencils: Tom Morgan. Inks: Mark McKenna. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: Michael Higgins.Synopsis: At an electronics trade show in the Pontiac
(Michigan) Silverdome, a man is trapped in the jaws of the giant robot known as
the Red Ronin. Janet Van Dyne, there to represent her company, turns into the
Wasp and flies to the rescue. But there is no need, it was only Stane International
rep Karaguchi Inoyawa
demonstrating the safety of their latest project. Wasp reminds him how the
Avengers fought to defeat Red Ronin; Inoyawa reveals that the robot has been
reprogrammed for peaceful purposes and asks Janet for a date which she
declines, finding Inoyawa brash and obnoxious. She returns to her exhibit as a
man named Joe Kilman, bitter at having been fired by Stane, uses his secret
software to take control of Red Ronin and have it knock over a huge tower;
Janet again wasps into action and she is able to hook a supporting cable to the
tower so that it falls away from the occupied area. The giant robot then moves
backwards and through the stadium wall into the parking lot, wrecking cars,
including Janet’s own Jaguar. Wasp and Inoyawa recognize the unconscious Kilman
a deduce he has taken over Red Ronin. The robot is locked in assembly mode,
meaning it will search for its missing parts until it finds them. Wasp enters
the Ronin, evades internal defense mechanisms, and is able to shut it down by
following Inoyawa’s radioed instructions. The Stane boss hits on her again and
again she deflects it with a wisecrack.


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Hijacked!
Clint
Barton arrives at Orly Airport in Paris on his way back to the USA; Silver Sable
and Sandman are there to see him off. Suddenly, terrorists from the
Bartovian Liberation Front make themselves known, seize a young woman hostage
and, forcing the security guards to drop their weapons, demand the release of
their comrades in prison or they will start killing hostages. As an Avenger,
Hawkeye is compelled to get involved; as a mercenary, Sable only gets involved
when she is paid. Clint offers Sable a dollar to take action. She accepts and,
when the terrorist leader Eric and some men leave to make sure the whole
terminal is secure, Clint, Sable, and Sandman clobber the bad guys left to
guard them. Clint slides down the baggage chute and locates his luggage,
retrieving his mask and bow and arrows. The three heroes move through the
terminal, taking down all the bad guys and reach Eric, with the hostage still
in his grasp; she kicks him in the leg and the heroes blast him from three
directions. The police arrive and Sable promises to send Hawkeye a bill for
services rendered….
When
the bill comes, it’s for one dollar, the amount agreed upon, and Clint laughs….
“The
Token” 4/5Writer:
Bob Layton. Plot: Bob Layton, Jackson Guice. Pencils: Jackson Guice. Inks: Bob
Layton. Colors: Paul Becton. Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
At home in New York, Natasha Romanoff learns from the news that her former ballet
teacher, Oksana Bolishinko, is in the city for eye surgery and will be held in
protective custody at the Russian Embassy to prevent her defecting. Natasha
recalls how Oksana trained her for the Bolshoi Ballet, giving her a medallion
as a token of her accomplishments. But Nat gave up ballet to become the KGB’s
Black Widow and she feels she must make amends for having betrayed her old
teacher….
She
dons her Black Widow costume and, against the advice of Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov,
who warns that if she is caught she will be killed as a traitor, she
heads to the Embassy. She breaks into the Embassy, destroys a spy camera,
fights every guard she meets, beats up a janitor, and reaches Oksana, who is
blind. Her teacher warns her against getting caught but Nat wants to return the
medallion; Oksana explains that she knew the KGB would take her away and is
proud that her old student found her true calling as the Black Widow and the
token was given out of love. They are caught by an agent named Sasha, who
allows Nat to leave, understanding how she feels—and we see he has a medallion from
Oksana too….


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When the Abomination Comes A’Calling
The
Abomination escapes from a holding facility in the Rocky Mountains as federal
agents are trying to transport him to the Vault. But this is not the usual
Abomination, this Abomination has his body occupied by the mind of underground
despot Tyrannus and is on his way to Los Angeles to take revenge against the
Avenger who defeated him, Wonder Man. The Big A arrives at Avengers Compound
where the only hero in residence is Hawkeye, brooding over his breakup with
Mockingbird. A smashes the defenses, Hawkeye shoots him in the head with an
explosive arrow but it only annoys Abomination. Abomination chases Hawkeye
through the house, with the archer uses various specialty arrows to lure him to
his armory where he picks up his Adamantium arrow and holds the monster at bay.
But Abomination can read his mind and knows he is unwilling to kill though
further underneath is the standard human primal desire. So Hawkeye shoots the
arrow at Abomination’s feet. The villain seizes the arrow to kill Hawkeye with
and he is electrocuted into unconsciousness. As he calls the Vault, Clint muses
on whether an Avenger can kill and decides no. Which is the issue behind his
break-up with Bobbi (WEST COAST AVENGERS (1985 series) #34-37).
“Love
Stings” 4/5Writer:
Howard Mackie. Pencils: Amanda Conner. Inks: Stan Drake, Dick Hodgins. Colors: Paul
Becton. Letters: Ken Lopez.Synopsis:
The Fixer breaks Rita DeMara out of prisoner and gives her the Yellowjacket
outfit so she can shrink and they both fly away. They arrive at Fixer’s hidden
lair where he confesses his love for Rita but she rejects him and flies away….
One
week later, Yellowjacket appears at the home of Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp,
seeking revenge for the beating she received when she first donned the stolen
costume. As she waits, she sees Dane “Black Knight” Whitman show up and confess
his love for Janet. But Janet finds him too much like her ex Hank Pym to want a
romance so he drives off. Rita ponders her revenge for a few moments…then takes
off after the hunk. She finds Dane at the site where Avengers Mansion is being
rebuilt, brooding over this romantic reversal. She recognizes him as the Black
Knight and then she is caught by the Fixer who had put a tracking device in her
helmet. The jealous Fixer shoots at Dane but Rita stings him and they fight for
a while, until a little girl dodging the bad guy’s gunshots falls into a pit;
Rita swoops down and saves her, confusing Dane who thought she was a villain.
Fixer knocks her out and plans to place a mind-control disc on her. Dane comes
to her rescue, swinging the Ebony Blade and deflecting Fixer’s shots until Rita
wakes up and punches his lights out. The autopilot in Fixer’s suit then flies
off with him. Rita and Dane sense an attraction but she has to depart because
the cops are coming, so maybe later…?


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The Sinking of Los Angeles
Seymour
the All-Seeing Astrologer studies his star charts and other professional
paraphernalia and concludes that Los Angles will sink into the sea at noon that
very day. He tries to inform the news media but no one believes him….
At
the 1988 Los Angeles Manufacturers Exposition, Hawkeye has been hired by politician
Richard Obadiah Johnston to guard the fabulous diamond the Star of Angels as it
sits atop a scale model of the city. A gang of crooks after the diamond invades
the hall and their leader fires a concussive blast at Hawkeye’s back wrecking
his quiver of arrows, rendering him weaponless (or so they think). Using his
smarts, some odd trick arrowheads, and an intact arrow he finds, he is able to
hold off the bad guys. Meanwhile, Seymour has entered the convention hall and
pleads with Johnston to evacuate the city. Hawkeye sets off a giant flash
camera, blinding himself and most everybody else. The bad guy leader has
grabbed the diamond, Hawkeye shoots him with a smoke arrow, knocking him
backwards into the city diorama and pushing it into a tank of water. Johnston
realizes that this fulfills Seymour’s prophecy and the astrologer becomes the
hit of the Expo, attracting the attention of the media. Seymour predicts that
Richard Obadiah Johnston will be President someday and, judging by Seymour’s
track record, Johnston wonders “President of what? “
“Token
Sacrifice” 2.5/5Writer:
Dan Chichester, Margaret Clark. Art: Lee Weeks. Colors: Paul Becton. Letters:
Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
Doctor Druid is in the subway with his agent, on their way to tape an
appearance on the David Letterman show when a train pulls in heavily damaged
and covered with graffiti. Druid recognizes the graffiti as constituting an
ancient Celtic spell. A woman emerges from the train, detects Druid’s powers,
and warns him to stay away or die; she captures an old man and vanishes in a
flash of light. Druid changes into his work clothes and dashes into the tunnel,
to the despair of his agent. He battles the minions of the sorceress
Stonecutter and finds the tunnels have been changed into a Celtic maze of
power. He comes to a recreation of Stonehenge made from subway cars where
Stonecutter is about to sacrifice the old man. Druid summons an earthquake but
his powers are dampened here and it results in only a small tremor but enough
to disrupt the ceremony. Druid hypnotizes her minions into fighting each other
and confronts the priestess. She makes to stab him with the sacrificial knife
but the earthquake finally kicks in and topples some of the railway cars,
breaking the circle. Stonecutter morphs into an aged troll-like hag and Druid
allows her to get away in order to rescue the old man. The old man asks why
Druid made that choice, Druid responds that he cannot allow anyone to die
before its natural hour….


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The Great Escape!
Arrested
in Paris by Silver Sable for the murder of Trick Shot, Hawkeye is placed in a
cell in a castle. Sable tells him his embassy will send a lawyer later and she
leaves….
Silver
Sable then reports to the government minister while she does her daily
training. We learn that she was actually hired by the French government to capture
Trick Shot so she arrested Hawkeye, knowing he will escape and find the bad guy
to prove his innocence. And while speaking she beats the stuffing out of five
ninjas….
So
Hawkeye escapes from his cell, using clubs he made from his bedframe. He
recovers his bow and arrows and battles his way through the entire Wild Pack
with his trick arrows and basic fighting against their varied weapons. He beats
his way through a lot of enemies as Silver Sable watches over CCTV, pondering
whether she could hire Hawkeye as an auxiliary. He makes his way over the
castle wall and across the moat and then runs right into Trick Shot who fires
an arrow into his chest….
“Knight’s
Errant” 3.5/5Writer:
Roger Stern. Breakdowns: Paul Ryan. Art: Bob Layton. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: Jack Morelli. Synopsis:
Doctor Druid comes across Black Knight in the lab at Avengers Mansion. Dane is
studying his Ebony Blade, desiring to unlock all of its secrets. He also
explains the curse: should the blade ever taste human blood, it would control
the wielder’s mind, forcing him to keep drawing blood and then killing. Druid
touches the blade but he is then overtaken psychically and he is transformed
into Ernst Wythim, the Last Knight. Wythim is a descendant of Dane’s; hoping to
end the curse, he seizes the Ebony Blade from Dane and tries to kill him with
it, desiring to end Dane’s line and ensure he himself will never be born. The
battle is one sided as Wythim holds the sword and his armor is 600 years more
advanced than anything Dane can imagine. Dane finally defeats him using
fighting techniques learned from Captain America. Knocked unconscious, Wythim
fades out, leaving Dr. Druid unharmed. Druid remembers nothing and Dane vows to
search for a way to neutralize the curse on the sword…..


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Menace of the Mind Melder
Downtown,
Hawkeye is engaged in pursuing and fighting Bob-Cat and his Claws, a team of
acrobatic thieves. Their antics cause a traffic jam in which we see millionaire
Winston J. Kranpuff in his limo, bristling at the delay; this man has a secret
though: he is able to mind meld i.e. project his consciousness into another’s
body and control their actions. He used this for private and immoral gain until
middle age when he turned his attentions to the world of high finance and
became rich through insider trading. He uses his power now to possess a police
officer and order his chauffeur to drive over the sidewalk. Kranpuff’s current
worry is that he is nearly ninety years old and likely to die soon so he must
give thought to taking over another’s body permanently. When he spies Hawkeye
from his office window, contending with Bob-Cat and the Claws across the
rooftops, he has an idea. He casts his mind into the hero’s body but then discovers
he does not also assume his abilities. Hawkeye’s sudden clumsiness and incompetence
surprise the bad guys but also let them get the upper hand. Kranpuff escapes
from Clint’s body, leaving Hawkeye to take down the baddies. Clint wonders what
caused him to black out and hopes it won’t happen again. Winston J. Kranpuff,
however, has died at his desk, his last minutes occupied by being a superhero.
“A
Farewell—With Arms” 3.5/5Writer:
Bob Layton. Pencils: Bob Layton. Inks: Jackson Guice. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: John Workman.Synopsis:
In Olympus, Hercules discovers Dionysius, God of Wine, seated on a
thermonuclear missile. He explains that he was shamed by She-Hulk’s easily
beating him and desires to die with a bang rather than a whimper. Herc is
unable to talk his friend out of his plan by various appeals so he tries to use
force. But Dionysius conjures up Sgt. Butcher T. Washington, a mercenary with
an advanced tank, giving him twenty minutes until the bomb detonates to defeat
Herc. After contending with the multitude weapons on the tank, Herc finally smashes
it to bits so Washington whips out an Adamantium garrote to strangle Herc.
Shocked to see a fellow divinity in danger, Dionysius teleports Washington and
the bomb away to the middle of Fort Knox.
Dionysius
throws himself on Zeus’ mercy for the crimes of making contact with a mortal
and attempted suicide. Zeus strip the God of Wine of his powers and exiles him
to a place of punishment: which is revealed to be a bar with “Dion” as the
owner/bartender.


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Blind Justice
Clint
Barton returns from his trip to Paris only to be punched in the face by his
wife, Bobbi Morse for knocking her out and heading to Paris against her advice
(issue #3). Clint goes to Francesi’s flower shop to buy a bouquet to make
amends to the missus; a gang of masked punks walk in and start breaking things,
intending to chase Francesi out of the neighborhood. Clint jumps in and fights
them off until, distracted by the discovery that the gang leader is a teenager,
he is thumped on the head. Francesi doesn’t want the police called so Clint
plans to handle it as different way….
Later,
Hawkeye and Mockingbird watch over Francesi’s shop from across the street and
see a limo pull into the lot, with two goons bringing in the teenaged gang
leader, Puentes. To their shock the heroes discover that Francesi is a
gangster, running an extortion racket against local businesses and the teen
gang was fighting against that. Suddenly, a masked man calling himself
Blind Justice bursts in and, using an electro-shock gun, starts fighting the
Francesi’s men, intending to kill the gang boss. Hawkeye and Mockingbird join
in to battle the goons. Francesi flees, Blind Justice pursues, Hawkeye follows.
Hawkeye catches up to the vigilante holding the gangster at his mercy. They
debate the morality of justice until Francesi suffers a heart attack. Justice
walks away and Hawkeye takes the stricken man to the hospital. When they learn
he has died, Puentes cheers but Hawkeye is bummed. After they leave, a wreath
is delivered to Francesi, courtesy of Blind Justice….
“Another
Word for Revenge” 3/5Writer:
Mike W. Barr. Pencils: Larry Alexander. Inks: Jose Marzan Jr. Colors: Paul
Becton. Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
Dr. Hank Pym arrives at police headquarters, parks his sentient aircraft Rover
over the parking lot, hands over his miniaturized weapons to the desk guard,
and sees Lt. Ishmael. The detective tells him of three robberies in the past
week, each showing signs of having been committed either by a crook who could
shrink or grow into a giant. Realizing that he is the chief suspect, Hank
determines to capture the real robber. He puts together some new gadgets and
puts out tracking devices while Rover complains and waits until one of the
trackers goes off; they fly to the building and burst in, catching Doctor Nemesis
in the act. Nemesis is an old enemy seeking revenge. They fight, Nemesis
shrinks, Pym uses cybernetic feedback to force the bad guy back to size. Nemesis
grows to giant size to fight Pym, Hank flies up on the villain’s back, cuts a
hole in his shirt and uses his own powers to shrink him back to normal size and
turns him over to the cops.


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When Arrows Fail!
Kidnapped
by Trick Shot, Hawkeye awakens on the shore of an island wearing only shorts. He
discovers a bow and arrows nearby and uses them immediately to shoot down the
enemy’s arrows….
Back
in France, Silver Sable is notified of Trick Shot’s presence on a Greek island
and she calls out her assault force….
The
two antagonists play cat-and-mouse through the jungle with Hawkeye dodging
traps and his enemy’s arrows and wondering why Trick Shot hasn’t killed him yet
despite being at his mercy several times. The climax comes on a shallow
riverbank where they deliberately miss one another. Hawkeye demands to know
what is going on; Trick Shot reveals he is dying of cancer and set this up so
that Hawkeye would kill him in battle. TS insists Clint has an obligation to
kill him and prevent his slow agonizing death. Clint refuses and promises to do
anything he can to help his mentor….
“A
Love That Never Dies” 3/5Writer:
Dennis Mallonee. Pencils: John Ridgeway. Inks: John Ridgeway. Colors: Paul
Becton. Letters: Jack Morelli. Synopsis:
One night while Vision is at a baseball game with Black Knight, Scarlet Witch is
home alone when she receives a visitor. A desperate acquaintance, Melinda, is
in need of help as she is being stalked by her lover, John Kowalski, whom she
met after returning to California after her and Wanda’s encounter with Xandu
and Spider-Man. But there’s a twist: as she learned from a car accident,
Kowalski is Death, taking souls from their bodies mercilessly. She fled from
him and he has followed her and now Melinda seeks help from Wanda. Kowalski
enters the house and threatens Wanda’s babies and she challenges him. He
accepts and transports himself and the two women to a World War II battlefield
where he can manipulate soldiers into firing on Wanda; he then changes the
venue to the Vietnam Conflict and finally, Wanda challenges him directly,
slowly taking on the aspect of Death herself, bringing an end to Kowalski’s
time as Death—but Melinda pleads for his life. Wanda returns to her own form
and the lovers embrace, Kowalski telling Melinda they can have three years
together before he must give up his role and his life. As they fade into the
mist, Vision returns home and Wanda tells him she has learned that even in
death, there can be a love that never dies….


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Desert Doom
Hawkeye
on his sky-cycle is pursuing motorcycling bank robber the Orb across the
California desert. Clint finally fires a suction-cup arrow which sticks to
Orb’s helmet and jerks him off of his cycle. Orb fires his eye blasts, shooting
down the sky-cycle but flying stone cracks open Orb’s big eye helmet, exposing
his disfigured face. Both the motorcycle and sky-cycle are destroyed so Hawkeye
fashions a stretcher to haul the unconscious villain to safety. It’s a long trek,
without water or shade, until they come to a valley containing a giant glass
dome. Entering through a nearby door, they discover a forest with a stream.
They drink and Orb sits by a tree which enwraps him in vines; Hawkeye frees him
with an acid-tipped arrow and then they are confronted by Plantman, ruler of
this realm and angry that they harmed a tree. So he sics a giant carnivorous
plant on them….
“The
Vanities of Philip Whitehead” 4.5/5Writer:
Sandy Plunkett. Pencils: Sandy Plunkett. Inks: Scott Hampton. Colors: Sandy
Plunkett. Letters: Gaspar Saladino.
Synopsis:
King T’Challa hosts a weekend party on a small island for the dignitaries who
are meeting to discuss the financial problems of the nation of Zambia, a
neighbor of Wakanda. Among the guests is Philip Whitehead, a college friend of
T’Challa’s who feels his life has been insignificant compared to T’Challa’s. On
the way back to Wakanda, the plane crashes near a small island. Everyone makes
it safely to shore and T’Challa is concerned about the cause of the crash.
T’Challa finds Philip and begins cooking a pot of herbs as he tells his friend
a tale. A Wakandan shaman treats people’s pain and grief by draining it into an
ancient drum—but every ten years, a venomous beast is incarnated from the
gathered sorrow and it is the duty of the King of Wakanda to defeat it. But
T’Challa failed to note the date and so did not undergo the necessary
preparation for the contest; the potion is their only hope. He drinks it, dons
his Black Panther outfit, and goes off to confront the creature, leaving Philip
alone to agonize over whether to help him. The huge goblin-like creature is
more than a match for the Panther as it has venomous claws and can change to a
mist form. Panther is raked by the monster’s claws injecting venom; Philip, who
has drunk the rest of the potion, leaps into the battle and distracts the
monster so Black Panther can spear it through the back. As the monster
dissolves, T’Challa reveals he has been infected by the monster’s venom and is
sure to die. Philip offers to suck the poison out of him to save his life….
Later,
we see T’Challa relating the story of Philip’s death to his wife Rene. He says
Philip, who died from absorbing the poison into his mouth, was a brave and
noble man; Rene disagrees, calling Philip a little boy who wanted to be a
superhero. She dismisses her visitor and mourns in solitude….


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Here Comes Hawkeye
Hawkeye is involved in a serious battle against…clowns. He’s at the Los Angeles
Coliseum rehearsing for a charity show that evening. Mockingbird and Wonder Man
are watching the rehearsal and talking over Hawkeye’s origin, though they can’t
understand why his mentor the Swordsman taught him archery. The rehearsal over,
Clint and Bobbi take off on a jet cycle and she asks about the Swordsman but he
makes a dive, driving all thoughts from her head but nausea….
Elsewhere,
a mystery villain is training a team of assassins to kill Hawkeye during that
night’s show….
That
evening, a curved arrow is shot into the clowns’ dressing room and gas is
released, knocking them all out….
Hawkeye
enters the ring and is surprised to find the clowns using real weapons against
him. He improvises some defenses, taking down several of the baddies but one of
them manages to break Hawkeye’s bow….
Meanwhile,
Mockingbird, arriving late and heading for Hawkeye’s dressing room, discovers
the unconscious clowns and the curved arrow—and then she is seized from
behind….
The
remaining clowns start hurling ivory balls at the disarmed archer but it turns
out Hawkeye can hurl arrows just as if he had a bow and he nails the last of
the bad guys to the tentpoles. A disheveled Mockingbird comes out to warn him
(a bit late) and she shows him the curved arrow which he recognizes as coming
from the man who really trained him…

…Trick Shot, who has emerged from the shadows to challenge Hawkeye for the title of
the greatest archer in the world….
“Listen
to the Mockingbird”Writer:
Tom DeFalco. Pencils: Jim Lee. Inks: Al Williamson. Colors: Ken Feduniewicz.
Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
Mockingbird, stuck in traffic and not wanting to be late for Hawkeye’s show at
the Coliseum, begins leaping and running over the immobile cars and jumping to
grab hold of the traffic helicopter (arranged by radio a few minutes earlier) to
take her to the stadium. On the way to Hawkeye’s dressing room she spies the
unconscious clowns and the curved arrow. She is seized from behind by Trick
Shot’s fighters, armed with lacrosse sticks and ivory balls. Using her battle
staves and acrobatic abilities she clobbers the bad guys who retreat and
capture a woman as hostage. They run to their van and take off with the woman.
Mockingbird races across the parking lot and pole vaults onto the getaway van, dodging
the gunfire from inside. She smashes through the windshield, causing the driver
to lose control and ram into several cars in the lot. Mockingbird pulls the
hostage to safety and takes down the rest of the baddies. Trick Shot fires a
flaming arrow at the wrecked cars’ leaking gas tanks. Bobbi flips through the
air and nabs the arrow between her feet as the villain escapes in his limo.
Bobbi enters the stadium where the show is over and shows Clint the arrow. He
recognizes it and its sender. Bobbi makes Clint promise not to go after him
alone….


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When You Wish Upon a Star
Hawkeye
is alone at Avengers Compound when Texas Twister arrives, looking for his
beloved Shooting Star. She had been replaced by a demon and now Tex wants to
confront the demon, held captive at the Compound. When Hawkeye says he doesn’t
think that’s a good idea, TT immediately becomes threatening, blowing up into a
twister and forcing Clint to accede to the demand. Clint takes TT down to the
basement where the demon, Riglevio, is held in a special cell. Hawkeye allows
it only if he can stand ready with a special iron-tipped arrow. TT enters the
cage, embraces the demon—then kisses it. The demon transforms into Shooting Star
on the spot. Twister explains that he sold his soul to the demon to
restore his waning powers but when the time came to pay, TT baked so the demon
took Star instead. Tex was prevented from revealing the matter to anyone but
eventually he discovered the means of undoing the spell. But then it is
discovered that the demon, forced out of Star, has now entered Tex as part of a
scheme to get close enough to Wonder Man to possess him and gain all his power.
Tex turns into a twister and pursues Clint and Star through the building and
Hawkeye is at a loss how to stop him with his arrows. He uses a bolo arrows to
halt the twister then iron-tips to nail the demon to a tree. But Hawkeye can’t
bring himself to kill the demon—so Shooting Star steps forward and threatens to
blow his brains out. Riglevio immediately leaves TT’s body and enters a nearby
statue, which Hawkeye plans to mail to Daimon Hellstrom. Tex and Star depart in
contentment.
“Will
You Won’t You Will You Won’t You” 3.5/5Writer:
Peter Gillis. Pencils: James Brock. Inks: Roy Richardson. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: Rich Parker.
Synopsis:
Story continued from issue #16.
Pamela
Douglas relaxes on Titan, her mind shared by her dead cousin Heather alias
Moondragon who is awaiting the completion of the new body being grown for her.
Pam has a good time playing movie trivia with the world computer Isaac and a
chess-like strategy game with Mentor, aided by the spirit of Isaac “Gargoyle”
Christians in the amulet around her neck. She also finds herself attracted to Demeityr, the boyish immortal who has befriended her.
When the baby is “born” Pam is told Heather’s mind will pass into it and then
be remanded to the priests to be raised on Titan while Pam will be sent home.
This does not appeal to Pam or Heather. Isaac Christians breaks the stalemate
by asks to be the one caring for the baby. The transference is then effected,
putting Heather’s mind into the baby….
Pamela
takes the baby out on a space flight, being able to communicate mentally with
each other but they are captured by The Dance, a powerful and ancient race
whose activities are and motives are incomprehensible to outsiders. A column of
fusion-level plasma moves toward them and none of them know what it is—but Pam marshals
powers she did not know she had and Demeityr appears, having followed them in
his ship and they depart, wondering whether the world is ready for two
Moondragons….
Story
continues in issue #20.


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The Sinister Secret of SODAM
In
A.I.M.’s underground headquarters, Mockingbird watches from the shadows as
agents load the pods containing human brains on a tele-jumper in preparation
for Project Brain Drain. Just as they activate the platform, Mockingbird jumps aboard
and thus arrives in another lab where she is instantly spotted and guards
called to apprehend her. She swings into action with her battle staves and
takes out quite few of them….
Nearby,
Hawkeye and Black Widow are held immobile by a pair of magnetic devices that
look like huge triangles. As Enforcer Fourteen stands by, Hawkeye reveals that
he is clearly not Hank Pym just a simulacrum. So they usher in the real Hank Pym,
a captive since he was gassed during an attempt to cure his wife Maria of
an artificially enlarged brain. Maria then enters in a huge protective vehicle,
introducing herself as SODAM, Special Organism Designed for Agressive Maneuvers
and revealing that she was not Hank’s wife, merely adopting that persona to
trick him into fixing some problems inherent in her creation. Mockingbird
arrives, fighting guards and in the scuffle the electro-magnetic computer is
damaged, freeing Hawkeye and Black Widow to battle the guards. Hank has figured
out that Project Brain Drain is designed to create a super-mind. The Imperial
Council of Seven, watching remotely, gives SODAM the order to hit the
self-destruct button. All A.I.M. personnel flee (the Hank Pym simulacra has
already been destroyed) and Hawkeye, Widow, and Hank escape via rocket sled.
Mockingbird jumps into the tele-jumper at the last minute and vanishes….
Outside,
the police are rounding up A.I.M. personnel while Hank wonders if SODAM really
was Maria. Hawkeye bitterly misses Bobbi and assumes she doesn’t care for him
anymore…as we see her depart in secrecy, equally sad….
“Seconds”
3.5/5Writer:
Peter Gillis. Pencils: Don Perlin. Inks: Jack Abel. Colors: Andy Yanchus.
Letters: Richard Starkings.Synopsis:
Magazine editor Pamela Douglas suddenly has all sorts of mad thoughts, mostly
of violence, running through her head and she can’t understand why. At work she
absently scribbles hate notes about her co-workers. She goes home to her fiancé
Tom and screams at him that he doesn’t really love her. That night she goes
into he bathroom and shaves her head. He crashes her car into a billboard of an
unborn child and is convinced she is pregnant. While trying to explain this to
Tom a giant ghostly hand crashes in through the ceiling and she flees into the
night….Hiding
in an alley, she is contacted mentally by her cousin Heather, whom she has
never met. Heather explains that she is called Moondragon, turned against her
friends the Defenders and died but her shattered mind was set adrift and found
Pam and she is now strong enough to communicate. On Titan, the computer Isaac
is creating a cloned body for her. Moondragon summons her ship Sensia II
to take them to Titan. Pam is approached by a military officer whose hand grow
into giant claws and reach out for Pam. Heather speaks through Pam’s mouth and
stops the solider, noting that he wears a crystal taken from Dr. Strange,
containing the spirit of Isaac “Gargoyle” Christians, who was killed by Moondragon
earlier. She apologizes and wants to start over, suggesting that Isaac can too.
She takes the crystal and is beamed up to the ship which takes off for another
world….
Story
continues in issue #18.


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Beware the Bullet Biker!!
A
blue-clad motorcyclist smashes through the front window at a Los Angeles art
gallery. Calling himself the Bullet Biker, he fires a gas pellet at the guards
then shoots up several artworks, making his getaway. He leads the police on a
wild chase until he turns into an alley and simply disappears….
Hawkeye
shows up at the museum to investigate the crime and reporter Gayle Rogers
insists on accompanying him on his sky-cycle. Gayle points out that the Bullet
Biker has terrorized several art galleries and they were all owned by one man:
J. Marcus Waldner and suggests they start the investigation with him. On the
way, Gayle tries to interview Hawkeye about his superhero career and he admits
he is a showoff. They find Waldner at home after an attack by the villain when
he demanded cash to stop his attacks. Deducing that Waldner’s warehouse is
next, Hawkeye and Gayle head there and catch Bullet Biker in the act of
destroying artwork. The two duel on their respective cycles and Hawkeye is
reminded of a motorcycle stuntman he knew in his carnival days named Dillon
Zarro. The villain leads them on a wild chase through the city streets and into
a parking garage; BB rides up to the top and sends his cycle over the edge
toward a crowd below, leaping off at the last second. Hawkeye is able to swoop
down and knock the falling bike onto another roof. Hawkeye is then able to
circle back to the garage and catch the Biker as he is leaving and he turns out
to be Dillon Zarro. Hawkeye turns him over to the police and Gayle Rogers found
traveling with Hawkeye to be a lot of fun and she looks forward to seeing
Hawkeye soon at the Avengers Compound. Clint is looking forward to it too….
“Fall
Guy” 4/5Writer:
Gregory Wright, Dwayne McDuffie. Art: Jackson Guice. Colors: Gregory Wright.
Letters: Richard Starkings.Synopsis:
Simon “Wonder Man” Williams was persuaded to do one last stuntman gig for the
acclaimed director Eli; however, Simon finds himself treated badly, just a prop
for the film’s real star Dirk Studley. Simon is miffed and flies off but soon
his jetpacks conk out and he falls to the ground—near a studio guard who
mistakes him for Dirk Studley….
Simon
is being followed around by a small alien orb, with two voices; the orb
possesses a wrecking ball and tries to knock Simon down. His reaction shows
they were expecting one “Takumer” to react a certain way. Simon is confused so
the orb zips back to the movie studio, creating a giant brick monster to move
Simon along.
Back
at the shoot, Simon lands in a crash and the orb recognizes that Takumer has
mistakenly possessed Dirk Studley. Simon saves Dirk from a falling helicopter
and Takumer leaves Dirk’s body for Simon’s—and is immediately repelled. So
Taukmer takes on the form of a giant mutated rabbit and fights Simon. The orb animates
a camera crane and attacks Simon from the other side, while Eli films it all
excitedly. A massive electrical discharge between the combatants wreck the
giant bunny while Wonder Man rises triumphantly. The orb reveals itself to be
controlled by an alien film director from another dimension, with his actor
Takumer taking over Simon’s body to star in the film. Simon smashes the orb,
the film turns out to have been ruined by the electricity, and Takumer/giant
bunny says they aren’t paying him enough to do it all again and zorps back to
his own dimension. Simon shrugs and moves on…”That’s show biz!”