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Last Call
On Christmas Eve, Bruce Banner calls
the suicide prevention hotline in Reno Nevada where his wife Betty
once worked. He speaks to her friend Veronica and informs her that
Betty is dead and he is responsible for that death. He tells her of
his many failed attempts to kill himself but the Hulk always
prevented it, as though he were the personification, not of his
anger, but of his will to live. He explains he has now hired a hit
man who will shoot him down if he gives a certain signal but another
one will cancel the contract. Bruce tells of how they met, when he
went over to General Ross' house before the Gamma bomb test and he
attracted her attention by helping her with a difficult equation.
Eventually they married and she was able to convince him that he
shouldn't blame himself for the Hulk. He ponders how others' lives
would have changed if he had not survived the bomb blast and likely
for the better: Betty, Glen Talbot, Rick Jones, General Ross.... He
recalls how Hulk had to fight her as the Harpy when she tried to
convince him that Betty never loved him....
Veronica reminds him of all the people
the Hulk has saved when she is interrupted. Cal, a stalker, has shown
up at her office, revealing himself as Calvin Zabo, Mister Hyde.
Bruce, who recognized Cal's voice, swiftly arrives as the Hulk and
fights Hyde, who seems to be a match for him...until Hyde mocks
Betty's death. Hulk beats him into the ground and the baddie says,
“Sorry for your loss” before passing out....
Veronica supplies Bruce with some
clothing and thanks him for saving her with a reminder of how Hulk
saves lives. As Bruce walks away, he gives the signal to the
hitman—Deadpool—to cancel the contract....


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The Last Titan
In the distant future only one person lives on the desolate Earth: the two-hundred-year-old Bruce Banner, accompanied only by a hovering vidbot recording humanity’s last days. He wants very much to die but the Hulk within, consumed by anger and hate, will not let him. So he travels the world, hoping in vain to meet another human being, kept alive by the power of the Hulk. The sole remaining lifeform is cockroaches, who have evolved the ability to fly in swarms, pursuing him for his meat. They attack Banner, who transforms into the Hulk, attempting to fight them off and failing, as the hideous swarm strips him of his flesh. Later Banner watches the replay on the vidbot, discovering that the Hulk regenerates to full health in eighteen minutes, unable to be killed by anything but Armageddon, rejoicing in the fact that he has outlived all his enemies. Banner reviews the events of the world’s demise: as nuclear conflict erupted, Hulk crawled into his cave, uninterested in the outcome but made even stronger by the release of radiation. Later Banner was awoken by an alien recording robot, who informed Banner that he was the last of his race and assigning him a vidbot to record his fate. Banner tries to die by throwing himself from a high cliff, but the Hulk emerges to prevent a fatal landing. After a dream that he has met a beautiful woman and become a new Adam to her Eve, Banner suffers a seizure, and in that flash realizes the meaning of his life: as the titan Prometheus stole fire from the gods and was punished by being devoured by eagles and regenerating daily, so the Hulk is a modern Prometheus, the last titan, similarly punished for the sins of the atomic age. Banner, realizing he’s dying, pleads with the Hulk to let him die and be at peace with his loved ones. But the Hulk, taking over, just wants to be left alone…on the dead Earth…cold.


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Hell Break
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Inferno
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Agent of T.I.M.E. Part Two
Hulk in his timestream armor and
Bruce Banner's consciousness in a ROB robot are in the Old West, meeting
Two-Gun Kid, Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid; no time to chat, Hulk must battle
a giant T-Rex. The trio of Kids tells “Bruce” that they have been
summoned to the mining town of Silver Rock to battle a strange
character who has made himself sheriff. Once the dinosaur is
defeated, the party continues on to the town where they find a
Chronarchist called Tok Baltusar oppressing the locals by forcing
them to work in the mines or they don't eat, backing up this threats
with a bunch of displaced dinosaurs. Baltusar sics a pteranodon on
the Hulk while his deputies, gunslingers moving at an inhuman speed,
take on the humans. Hulk defeats the flying foe and drops down to the
streets where he clouts the deputies who instantly age ten years.
Figuring out the situation, “Bruce” has the Kids shoot at the
stabilizers on Baltusar's armor while he lures Hulk into the mines by
insulting him. “Bruce” has deduced that Baltusar, back in
prehistoric times, seeded the silver  mine with an alchemical virus
that has transmuted the silver into an alloy that will power time
travel. Down in the mines, “Bruce orders Hulk to jump with all his
might; he does, causing the mine to implode while damage to his suit
hurls Baltusar back into the timestream. The radiation from the mine,
however, triggers Hulk's armor to hurl him away in time, landing him
in the court of the exiled King Arthur, who is protected by the
original Black Knight....


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Humanity Bomb Part One
Bruce Banner uses threats of the Hulk
to bully SHIELD bean counter Simon Tiptree into diverting some
funding to Bruce's new project. Behind on his goal to create
something new each week due to his adventures as the Hulk, Bruce
comes up with a fusion-powered high-speed rail engine—only to see
Tony Stark announcing that he has one. Bruce then devises a
tin-crystal battery—and then he hears that Reed Richards has beaten
him to it. The next day it's a microscopic implant to deliver
medicine—and then he's interrupted by Hank Pym wanting him to look
at his version of the thing. A testy Bruce tells Randall Jessup to
ask Maria Hill if the Hulk is needed that day so he can work off his
frustration. Randall offers Bruce gum as a down-home remedy for
stress—and it works. A red alert sounds: unknown energy is
radiating from a Meso-American pyramid in Mexico; Maria Hill tells
Bruce that he is NOT wanted there.

[While this is in progress we are also
shown scenes from Randall Jessup's childhood: his mother bitter over
losing her job as a deputy sheriff, abusing the family, finally dying
with her husband in a murder-suicide.]
Randall persuades Bruce to use his
“invisibility cloaks” to stow away on the SHIELD craft as it
heads for Mexico. They take advantage of the pyramid's shifting
structure to enter and find themselves in a narrow passage lined with
hieroglyphs; the sound of shrieking from further along down the
corridor triggers Bruce's transformation into the Hulk (and the gum
doesn't help this time). Hulk dashes down the corridor and out into a
huge room where SHIELD Agents are battling a giant monster. Randall
learns that Agents found the source of the energy—a small glowing
ball—but as soon as they touched it, a portal opened up and the
monster came through. Realizing that the runes on the walls are
connected to the portal, Randall calls to the Hulk to destroy the
place. Hulk does....
After being yelled at on orders from
Maria Hill, Bruce is sad that he lost the invisibility cloak; Randall
shows him that he kept the energy source. And Narrator Bruce tells us
that in seven days, Randall Jessup died to save the human race....[Melinda Leucenstern also appears but didn't make it into the synopsis.]


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Blind Rage: Part Two
Hulk has saved Daredevil from the
explosion in the bar—by jumping into a subway tunnel in the path of
a speeding train. After another mighty leap and DD has calmed down,
he uses his enhanced hearing to continue on the trail of the Agence
Byzantine agent with the sonic rifle, after persuading the Hulk to
aid him....
The gunrunner has reached Baron Zemo,
who executes the poor schnook with the ultrasound gun for leading the
heroes to his hideout. Zemo notifies HQ that their plan of creating a
superweapons cache in downtown NYC is off; the cadre of Hydra Agents
arm themselves with what's there and try to fight off the rampaging
Hulk. Zemo fires a photon weapon to blind Hulk and DD then he
teleports out of there. Of course, the weapon doesn't affect
Daredevil but the Hulk, finding himself sightless, panics and starts
tearing up the weapons cache. DD contacts Maria Hill and finds
she's still at the enemy ship. Thinking fast, DD uses the sonic rifle
to lure Hulk away from the villains' lair and through the streets,
deafening himself in the process. He steers Hulk out of the path of a
crowded sightseeing bus and then the gun overloads and explodes,
hurling the hero into the wreckage of a building. Hulk, having
regained his sight, rushes toward DD with a roar...and Maria Hill
finds Hulk holding up a wall to keep it from collapsing on DD....
Epilogue: Bruce Banner and DD are checked out
by SHIELD doctors and Bruce's eyesight is normal while the ringing in
DD's ear will subside soon. Hill asks what Bruce and DD talked about
and the lawyer refuses to divulge that information. The look on
Hill's face tells Bruce that the matter isn't over....
Bruce Banner's four assistants (Daman Veteri,
Randall Jessup, Melinda Leucenstern, and Patricia Wolman)
appear briefly but didn't make it into the synopsis.


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Gods and Monster (part 2)
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Agent of T.I.M.E. Part Three
Having succeeded in their mission to
the Old West (proved to the T.I.M.E. scientists by the modern airport
suddenly reappearing in its proper place), Hulk and “Bruce” (a
robot with Bruce Banner's mind backed up) find themselves in the
court of King Arthur. The Hulk instinctively goes on a rampage so the
King summons Merlin the Magician who banishes the Hulk several miles away. This
gives “Bruce” forty seconds before Hulk returns to find out the
situation: the Chronarchist Valdar Ahd has conquered Camelot, killing
several knights including Gawain, Tristan, and Kay, sending Arthur
and his knights into exile. Hulk has returned by this time, smashing
through the wall of this castle so Merlin casts a spell transporting
Hulk to Camelot so that he's breached their wall instead. The knights
enter, led by Sir Percy of Scandia, the Black Knight, and they are
met by an army of warriors gathered from a variety of eras (led by a
hot barbarian woman). “Bruce” has Hulk lead Black Knight to the
throne room where they confront the villain Valdar Ahd. Ahd freezes
Sir Percy in his tracks and slows the Hulk down, aging him as he
moves toward his foe. Merlin teleports the Ebony Blade
into Hulk's hands and he cuts through the villain's time ray,
distracting him long enough for Sir Percy to pick up the sword and
skewer Ahd, hurling him back into the timestream. When Hulk suddenly
begins sounding like Professor  Hulk, “Bruce” then realizes that
the last Chronarchist could be tampering with Hulk's own history....
Meanwhile, the
final villain Khotto is in the desert, messing about with the
original Gamma Bomb....
Also in the issue
though not the synopsis: Maria Hill, SHIELD, Daman Veteri,
Randall Jessup, Patricia Wolman.


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Gods and Monster
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Humanity bomb part two
Last issue Bruce Banner's bomb went off, designed to solve the problem of the Terrigen Mists. It was triggered by a conflict between Hulk, Iron Man, Giant-Man and Beast.Henry Pym avoided the blast by shrinking to subatomic size. When he regains normal size he finds his immediate surroundings frozen in time. The falling quinjet he and Beast were riding is hanging mid-plummet, and Iron Man too is stationary in mid-air. And on the ground Hulk has been reverted to Banner and then frozen. But some other things have been greatly speeded up, like some cars that are now busy crashing.Pym jumps down from the suspended quinjet, despite the arm Hulk broke last issue. He sees the chaotic mixture of fast and slow. In his immediate vicinity some crashed cars are now stuck flying through the air, with a petrol pump caught mid-explosion and onlookers frozen in the act of fleeing. Henry tries to move the people to safety but the cars start to move.Then Iron Man turns up to push the cars away. And Beast wakes up in the falling quinjet. So the Golden Avenger has to save him.Hank Pym had realised what Banner must have done to counter the Terrigen radiation. He intended the bomb to accelerate time for the Terrigen particles, so that they decayed and lost effectiveness. (He's right, but he doesn't know that Bruce used a time element he got from the Chronarchists during his time-travel adventure in #11-15.) But it wasn't supposed to produce this chaotic time. And Giant-Man finds 1 of the cocoons that are incubating the new Inhumans created by the Terrigen. So the bomb didn't even do what it was supposed to!Meanwhile frozen Banner has been hit by a car. And he's now an unfrozen Hulk. Then the gas station explosion unfreezes too.When the dust settles Hulk is back to Banner. The injured and the cocoon are taken away. And Beast and Iron Man tell Bruce that Terrigen particles are strange. Instead of the bomb's Chronometal radiation affecting them, they affected the Chronometal radiation, causing the unforeseen effects. And Banner hadn't had enough time to test it. (Beast says Banner didn't give himself enough time, but it was Tony Stark who gave Bruce only 24 hours last issue.)Beast and Iron Man take Giant-Man to have his arm seen to, leaving Bruce to contact SHIELD to get a lift home.While all this was going on Banner's 4 assistants ignored quarantine, stole a SHIELD airship and are approaching Tulsa where the explosion happened. SHIELD Director Maria Hill says she'll get them to bring him back, and she'll deal with them later.Melinda Leucenstern is flying the ship. They were quarantined because 1 of them has the Inhuman gene. They wonder which of them is going to turn Inhuman. Patricia Wolman even seems eager. (She's hoping it might cure the incurable disease the others don't know she has.) Randall Jessup defends Hill as usual, which annoys Daman Veteri.As the 2 men square up for a fight, Jessup is suddenly encased in a cocoon. Patty attacks it in frustrated anger. The cocoon retaliates with a beam of light which leaves Wolman mellow and smiling. At this point Hulk bursts into the plane and attacks the cocoon too. The cocoon opens to release Jessup transformed into a monster whose eyes emit the light beam. And this light takes away Hulk's anger, reverting him to a laughing Banner who is thrown or falls out of the aircraft.


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Agent of T.I.M.E. Part Five
A second exposure to the Gamma Bomb
turns Hulk into a bigger, meaner, spike-covered monster that
Bruce Banner dubs "Hulk Squared.” Bruce hastily explains to Rick Jones
that he is Banner from the future. The army arrives and begins
fighting Hulk and when General Thunderbolt Ross arrives and confronts
Bruce, he launches a tirade against Ross which helps him calm down.
He washes his hands of the Hulk and announces his plans to marry
Ross' daughter and live a long and happy life—and then Ross says he
has no children. Bruce, discovering his timestream is more mucked up
than he thought, realizes the only thing that can stop Hulk Squared
is another Hulk and he sets out to learn if any of the Gamma Bomb is
left. He meets the Chronarchist Khotto who reveals the true purpose
for creating the monster Hulk: to free Zarrko from SHIELD's
underground prison. Bruce realizes he's been played and seizes Khotto
in a bear hug, manipulating his time suit to push both of them back a
few minutes until the Gamma Bomb detonates again. As Hulk Squared
approaches, Banner once again becomes Hulk and punches the viewscreen
that Zarrko is using to watch from the future; by doing this Hulk
breaks the time barrier and he and the two baddies are swept into a
swirling vortex—but then someone Zarrko calls “Master” reaches
in and pulls Khotto and Zarrko to their doom. As Hulk holds on, Red She-Hulk
reaches through the barrier and pulls him to safety....
Later, Bruce muses on how everything is
back to normal even though no one believes him when he tries to
explain how messed up history had gotten. The shock of breaking the
time barrier rewrote all of the new paradoxes in Banner's history
making it normal again...but there's something wrong nagging at
Bruce's memory but he can't place it. Later, we see a burglar
breaking into SHIELD's vault and taking the Project Gamma test
results....


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SHIELD Director Maria Hill interviews a
number of candidates applying to work with Bruce Banner, showing them
pictures of the Hulk at his worst and asking them why they would risk
that to work with Banner; the applicants' answers are varied and show
great dedication to their work....
At a dilapidated house in a run-down
part of town, black-clad AIM Agents seize a Professor Burke and force
a helmet on him to shut out all outside sights and sounds. SHIELD
Agents arrive to battle AIM but the baddies scoop up their prisoner
and get away. Returning to AIM's volcano base in the South Pacific,
they hand over to their leader, Colin Thirty-Three, their captive,
who is unmasked as Bruce Banner, switched during the battle at
Burke's home. After Hulk softens them up, more SHIELD Agents arrive
and a full-scale battle breaks out. Thirty-Three, with some
loyalists, rushes off to the labs to activate the Quintronic Man, a
robot operated by five humans inside the giant framework; Burke was
to be the last of the original operators but Thirty-Three will have
to take his place. It should be noted that the other four are dead,
their corpses having the right neural chemistry to run the monster
machine.     Hulk smashes it to pieces anyway....
As he recovers from the mission, Bruce
Banner receives an update on the Quintronic Man from Maria Hill who
also tells Bruce about his new team: Daman Veteri, Randall Jessup,
Melinda Leucenstern, and Patricia Wolman. He is also introduced to
ROB (Recording Observation Bot), a floating orb designed to monitor
everything Hulk/Banner does. Bruce rejects the idea, Hill tells him
it is non-negotiable, Hulk fragments the thing with one punch....


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Gods and Monster [Part 3]
Trapped in Jotunheim, Bruce Banner and
his team (Daman Veteri, Randall Jessup, Patricia Wolman), along with
Thor, are camping in the cold and weighing their options. They are
unaware that “Randall” is actually a Frost Giant under a spell of
illusion. Meanwhile, Bruce is talking to Patty who has revealed that
she is suffering from a terminal disease (Bruce guesses
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease); she explains that her plan was to support
her impoverished father by taking out a large insurance policy then
taking the highly dangerous job of working alongside Bruce Banner,
hoping to be accidentally killed by the Hulk. Bruce also mentions two
explanations for how Thor's hammer Mjolnir can detect who is worthy:
either an advanced type of nanotechnology controlling graviton
particles—or magic; Patty doesn't have time for such things....

Meanwhile, Daman has worked out a means
of using electrostatic separation to extract Eiderdurm from a
waterfall via Thor's hammer; Bruce has already thought of this (of
course). The process works and Eiderdurm is collected—then Randall
reveals himself to be a Frost Giant, punching Thor into the
waterfall. More giants arrive to storm the portal to Midgard. But
Maria Hill and Phil Coulson are heading up a band of SHIELD agents to
fight off the invaders as Melinda Leucenstern keeps the portal
open—and then Hulk steps in, rescuing Thor from the waters.
Together they hammer the ground, turning the waterfall into a river
making huge fissures in the ground which the giants drop into. Thor
then summons lighting to seal up the fissures and Hulk catches him as
he falls from the sky....
As the portal closes, Bruce and his
team hurry through and Thor shows up with the real Randall. Bruce
thanks Thor for his aid and he is is certain that Patty now has the
faith to fight for survival....


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Humanity bomb part one
Bruce Banner is working on a cure for the Terrigen Mists that are converting people worldwide into superpowered Inhumans if they have Inhuman genetic heritage. But SHIELD have sent Tony Stark and Henry Pym (both strangely in costume as Iron Man and Giant-Man, and Pym even at giant size) to help him. Bruce is not happy about this - his fragile scientific ego wants to solve the problem alone. Stark gives him 24 hours.Banner muses on his past visits as Hulk to the Inhumans' home Attilan. Since then it has become a flying city, brought crashing down in New York harbour during Thanos' invasion in Infinity. This released the Terrigen Mists. (Bruce doesn't know that the Mists were deliberately spread by Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans.)Dr Banner is working with his team of 4 SHIELD scientist assistants, and they have the solution ready for a field test. But Melinda Leucenstern gets a message from SHIELD Director Maria Hill saying that the assistants are confined to base for the moment. And Giant-Man and Iron Man return well before the end of the 24 hours, accompanied by genetics expert Beast.Bruce reluctantly shows the superguys his proposed fix - a big bomb, which immediately reminds them of his Gamma Bomb which made him the Hulk in the 1st place. Stark tells Pym to open the thing up to see what it does, without even asking Banner to explain. Enraged Banner Hulks out. And Hulk grabs the bomb and leaps away through the roof.As the Avengers follow, the assistants decide that they'll have to rescue the bomb from all 4 superheroes, despite being grounded. (Who are these guys? The Scooby Doo gang?) Melinda discovers that they're confined to base because 1 of them has the Inhuman gene.Hulk has bounded to Oklahoma where his presence disrupts a scam selling fake radiation suits to protect people from the Terrigen Wave. The super-trio catch up with him in an Avengers quinjet. Iron Man separates Hulk from the bomb and Giant-Man catches it, crouching on the base base of the upside down craft piloted by Beast. But Hulk knocks the plane out of the air by throwing Shellhead at it. The quinjet plummets towards the ground as Hulk leaps past, grabbing the bomb off Pym and breaking Hank's arm in the process.Hulk is heading towards the falling quinjet with the bomb, and Iron Man daren't intervene without risk of setting it off. But Beast asks what if the bomb really is the solution to the Terrigen problem. Does Tony really believe Bruce incapable of creating such a thing. Stark puts aside his rivalry with Banner, and fires missiles at the bomb.Which explodes.


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Humanity Bomb, Part Three
Bruce Banner is plummeting from a plane
in flight and he's very happy with it all—having had all the anger
and fear sucked out of him by the creature that Randall Jessup has
morphed into, thanks to the Terrigen Mists. So Bruce breaks two of
his fingers jump-starting his anxiety and triggering his change into
the Hulk—and he smashes into the ground with a very loud noise.
Back in the plane, Melinda Leucenstern puts parachutes on Daman Veteri
and Patricia Wolman and pushes them to safety, escaping the
Randall monster. “Randall” leaps too and is met by Hulk in midair
and the two are stuck in a loop of transformation that ends when they
hit the ground. Their fight continues on the ground until Hulk's
assertion that he pities Jessup forces the monster to return to human
form....
At the new Beehive, Drs
Ted Goodrich and Stella Webb are studying a captured Terrigen cocoon as a
step toward creating a superior race; they are alerted to the
discovery of a new Inhuman (Randall Jessup)....

As
Bruce wonders if there is any childhood trauma in Randal's life
(there is, as we saw in issue #16), a SHIELD medical craft arrives,
carrying Banner's team. They use the threat of the Hulk on the pilot
to get him to land in the desert so they can study Randall up close.
Later, Patty confesses to Bruce that she  wanted to mutate, in hopes
of curing her malady. Bruce devises a treatment that may even reverse
Randall's mutation if he can keep calm for the next few hours. Then
Goodrich teleports in, clouts Bruce, and carries Randall off; Bruce
turns into Hulk and his assistants enter. Patty accuses Hulk of
having done something to Randy and starts punching him....


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Hulk is being dragged to the depths of
the ocean by a tentacled alien creature when he is rescued by a
submarine belonging to the Lemurian rebels. Bruce Banner is awoken by
an officer named Mara who expresses an attraction for the Hulk; her
commander/fiance Canor is jealous and warns Bruce away from her.
Arriving at the rebel base, they enlist Bruce in their plan to
discover what Attuma wants from Lemuria, some scientific discovery of
their alchemists; Bruce spies a formula he recognizes: the
Alkahest....
The new weapon is presented to Attuma
and he calls for a demonstration: a small globe is launched at a
Chinese submarine which splits open and the crew is reduced to
skeletons in seconds....
Bruce explains that Alkahest is a
universal solvent that will destroy anything, even its own container, and that released in the ocean it will float to the top and kill
everyone on the surface. Canor assembles his attack crew and they
head to Attuma's lab; once there, he kisses Mara on the lips and she
slugs him, creating the Hulk. As the Lemurians destroy the lab, Hulk
battles Attuma until he is forced into the maw of the Kophin, a giant
monster whose hide is impenetrable. But that's not to say Hulk can't
stretch through it, seizing the enemy warlord. Hulk leaps out of the
beast's mouth and hurls Attuma in then the Kophin retires to its
deepest lair. Mara kisses Hulk on the mouth and he reverts to Bruce
Banner, nauseating Mara. As the Lemurians begin the rebuilding
process, Bruce is picked up by the Dreadnaught, saying farewell to
Hulk's new friends and clutching a scroll with the Alkahest on it....


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Agent of T.I.M.E. Part Four
Hulk's history has been tampered with:
Neil Armstrong takes his small step onto the moon to see Hulk
battling Abomination. In ancient Egypt, Joe Fixit fights Sandman and
knocks the nose off the Sphinx. The robot containing Bruce Banner's
consciousness takes them through another time jump and Gladiator Hulk
lands on the deck of the Santa Maria ready to face Fin Fang Foom as
“Bruce's” memory starts to go awry from the evil Chronarchist's
schemes....
Meanwhile, 500 years later, the Gamma
Bomb is ready for testing but Bruce Banner is arguing with General
Thunderbolt Ross over safety measures as Betty Ross looks on and the
sinister lab assistant/Commie spy Emil Blonsky tries to steal Bruce's
secrets. Out at the bomb site, however, the Chronarchist Khotto is
tampering with the bomb while remaining in touch with his ally
Zarrko. But they are short of the temporal element because of Hulk's
actions in Arizona in issue #12 and don't have the control over the
bomb that they wish; Zarrko suggests that Khotto add his time-suit
components to the mix, assuring him that he (Zarrko) can take him
(Khotto) away in time....
Hulk defeats FFF by wrapping his tail
around his neck—and then Hulk and “Bruce” are pulled back into
the timestream with the robot falling to pieces from the experience.
This is their last chance to find the baddie....
At the test site, Bruce sees teenager
Rick Jones drive out onto the testing grounds and rushes out to
rescue him...Bruce hurls Rick into a ditch...the bomb goes off...Hulk
appears and hurls Banner into the ditch...the radiation
hits...”Bruce” uploads his consciousness into Banner...and Hulk,
with a second full dose of the gamma ray mutates into a bigger,
meaner, spike-covered monster....


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Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Bruce Banner, now working for SHIELD,
is at a remote base in Montana. Iron Man arrives unannounced and Tony
Stark confronts Director Maria Hill about her apparently insane
decision to hire the exceedingly dangerous Banner. Pausing briefly to
examine one of Bruce's new inventions, Tony enters Banner's lab to
find him laughing over a pun in an abstruse formula and joins him in
his amusement. Bruce explains the new situation and Tony volunteers
to escort him on his next project (since no one else would accompany
Bruce Banner in an enclosed plane)....
In the Himalayas, Bruce plants a rod
called a gamma-fracker in the site of an untapped natural gas
deposit. The experiment over, Tony continues to tinker with Bruce's
device until the latter explains the real reason for bringing Tony
out there: it's because he is fed up with Tony's constant
condescension and he want to have it out...now. The armored Hulk
battles the armored Iron Man on the snowy mountain until the
gamma-fracker overloads and explodes—though Hulk is sane enough to
protect Shellhead from the blast....
Later Bruce and Tony recuperate at a
mountain monastery and Bruce explains why he doesn't want to be
another Tony Stark: Tony is an engineer, he can only build forwards;
Bruce is a scientist, he can build backwards and create a whole new
science. Intimidated, Tony leaves the room to remind himself he is
still rich. Then a call comes in from Maria Hill: Banner is urgently
needed back in Montana....


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Dr Bruce Banner wakes up and prepares
himself for this day, a spot of green on his hand disconcerting him
until he recalls that it is paint. He leaves his apartment in a
nuclear ghost town, chosen for its tranquility. Bruce checks in with
his mysterious contact, assuring him that SHIELD is honoring their
end of the deal. He arrives at the lab and meets his new staff, Daman Veteri,
Randall Jessup, Melinda Leucenstern, and Patricia Wolman. He
is upset at the lack of internet and the staff freezes—and they
have just passed their last test. Bruce leaves them to discuss the
possible applications of Uru while he reports to Maria Hill. Hill
informs Bruce that Attuma, undersea conqueror, has captured Lemuria
and is using its monsters to declare himself ruler over the Pacific
Ocean. Banner is to suit up and SHIELD's Chinese allies will get him
where he needs to go...
...via their Dreadnought, an underwater
version of the Helicarrier, accompanied by ROB (Recording Observation
Bot). When the ship comes under attack by Attuma's troops, Banner is
hustled into a torpedo tube and shot out into the ocean, where he
faces the enemy as the Hulk. Attuma recognizes him but is not
worried. As the Chinese ship withdraws, Hulk is seized by huge
tentacles and dragged down into a crevasse in the ocean floor, ever
downward until the pressure becomes unbearable....


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Agent of T.I.M.E, Part One
SHIELD Director Maria Hill sends an
agent named Goddard into the time-stream in a protective suit but he
dies anyway, his body a mishmash of multiple different stages in his
life. She decides she needs Bruce Banner...
...who as the Hulk is hitching a ride
on the back of an airliner—when they discover that the airport has
vanished. Hulk lands on the ground where an equally confused band of
Sons of the Serpent is also looking for the airport that is no longer
there. Hulk subdues them but they claim the disappearance is not of
their doing. Suddenly a WW2-era plane materializes out of nowhere and
Hulk has to stop it—but the crew look like they have suddenly aged
the through the decades.
With various places and things
appearing and disappearing in time, Hill takes Bruce down to the
secret splinter group of SHIELD called T.I.M.E. (Temporal
Ireggularity Management and Eradication) where Bruce discovers his
lab assistants (Daman Veteri, Randall Jessup, Melinda Leucenstern,
Patricia Wolman) are working there. Bruce is introduced to their
prisoner, Zarrko (Tomorrow Man), who predicted this splintering of
time caused by all the temporal adventures of various heroes like the X-Men and the Avengers. Now a group of time travelers called the
Chronarchists are messing about in space-time and trying to change
history and make it stick. Zarrko has built a suit that will take
someone to face the Chronarchists but only one person is tough enough
to survive time travel at this moment: the Hulk. Bruce thinks this is
ridiculous and suggests they get Red She-Hulk—who doesn't exist in
this timestream and is slowly vanishing from Bruce's memory. Zarrko
explains that the variations in the Hulk's intelligence and demeanor
are the result of this tampering with time and soon he may vanish
altogether. Bruce agrees to the adventure, so he suits up in the
special timestream armor and all the info he needs is downloaded into
his brain. A duplicate of Banner's consciousness is installed in the
robot ROB to accompany Hulk, as long as he stays Hulk. Then when they
are ready to go, Hill slugs Banner summoning Hulk. “Bruce” and
Hulk are sent back to Arizona in the 19th century where a
trio of western heroes—Two-Gun Kid, Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid—are running from a tyrannosaurus Rex....


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Humanity Bomb Conclusion
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Blind Rage: Part One
A SHIELD Helicarrier flies above New
York City, Director Maria Hill preparing for a strike against Agence
Byzantine, a cadre of arms dealers, on their ship in the harbor. She
finds Bruce Banner using a cell phone to contact his mysterious
outside contact to prove he is not being mistreated by SHIELD; Bruce
is using a newly invented communications system of his own using
infrabands—and we discover his contact is Matt Murdock a/k/a
Daredevil. The agents don parachutes and Hill tells Bruce he is just
going in as an observer; he then jumps and discovers his chute is a
knapsack—so it's the Hulk who crashes into the enemy ship. As Hulk
plows through the baddies, Daredevil confronts Hill over the use of
Hulk as a human shield against the villains' Thor-level ordnance. An
agent falls into the darkened hold of the ship and DD goes down to
rescue him; a baddie fires a sonic rifle that deafens everyone but
especially Daredevil. Hulk smashes the weapon and DD has to intervene
to keep Hulk from killing the bad guy. Hulk reverts to Bruce Banner
and notices there's a gun missing from the stores. DD can detect a
faint ultrasound from the weapon so he and Bruce set out to follow
it, the latter against Maria Hill's orders. The two take a wild taxi
ride and trail the baddie to a bar that is known for armament deals.
Bruce changes to Hulk (by means of the cab's jumper cables) and they
enter the place, Hulk causing even the most hardened thugs to step
back. The baddie gets the drop on them with the sonic rifle and Hulk
pushes against the deafening sound until (I'm not sure how) the whole
place goes up in flames. The baddie is the only one to escape and he
goes to the address on a slip of paper (no idea where he got this)
where he discovers he is working for Baron Zemo....


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Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
At a diner in Manchester, Alabama,
SHIELD Director Maria Hill enjoys a meal while she takes a call from
Agent Phil Coulson explaining how they lost track of the Hulk; to
Hill's surprise, Bruce Banner walks in and sits down at her table. He
explains he has been giving thought to his legacy and doesn't want to
be remembered only as the Hulk. Knowing that he will
always be the Hulk, Banner wants to do good in the time he has left
so he has a proposition for her: if SHIELD will provide him with a
state-of-the-art lab and support, he will make Hulk available for
their use. And so he is here, offering his help with the current
situation: SHIELD is set to raid the Mad Thinker's hideout and Banner
would like to audition for the job. They head out to the scene and
when Banner isn't looking, Hill clobbers him with a plank....
Within his lair, the Mad Thinker sits,
waiting to spring his trap on SHIELD and glorying in his superior
intellect—and then the Hulk comes through the wall. As the villain
recalculates the odds, Hulk smashes his robotic servants to junk. The
Thinker, wearing a huge armored battle suit, unleashes blasts from a
cannon based on Ultron's Quantum Molder, blasts designed to melt
adamantium. Hulk seizes the cannons and points them upward,
triggering a roof collapse and the shocked discovery by the Mad
Thinker that Hulk's strength is incalculable...and then Hulk rips his
suit apart. The building collapses into rubble, Thinker is arrested,
and Banner pulls himself from the wreckage. Hill tells him he's hired
and takes him off to sign the official paperwork....


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We begin with a flashback to the well-known days of Victor von Doom, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm at State University. Reed and his roommate Ben watch Victor at work on a device to contact the dead - specifically his mother. Reed wants to be friends because he sees Victor as the only person at the college with an intellect at the same level as his own. Doom of course thinks he's much superior. Richards offers to help, but Doom is suspicious and rejects him. (We all know that his invention will blow up in his face, literally.)

In the present ex-villain and Iron Man Doom is continuing his crusade against  other villains (Diablo in #1 and Mad Thinker in #2). In Pittsburgh the Wizard is worried and contacts MODOK suggesting they gather fellow-members of the Intelligencia, rescue Thinker from SHIELD and plan their defence. But Iron Doom is already on him.

Wizard flies on large anti-gravity discs and Doom too is in the air. Bentley Wittman uses his Wonder Gloves to counter Doom's attacks. They both know that the gloves, even though improved, aren't enough. But Wizard is just using them as a distraction while he gets anti-grav discs attached to Victor's armoured feet.

The discs take Doom high in the air, and he discovers that they are immune to sorcery. So he commands his armour to disengage its boots, and lets himself fall towards the ground. At the last minute he uses his (sorcerous?) version of repulsor rays to stop from crashing.

Von Doom heads back to the fight. He has Wittman on the ropes when he suddenly has a vision of a giant circular artificial something. Wizard uses the opportunity to zap Doom and run away.

Elsewhere Cynthia von Doom and the Maker (the villainous Reed Richards from the Ultimate Universe) are watching via a mystical cauldron. Cynthia is worried about her son but Maker convinces her to stick to their plan.

SHIELD Agents led by Commander Sharon Carter show up to arrest Victor. He demands to talk to Director Maria Hill, but Sharon says she's been fired. Von Doom suggests Carter stand down or he won't be responsible for the consequences. But all this was stalling while his armour rebooted. Then he flies away and then disappears using magic.

In Chicago Riri Williams hears news on her laptop of the fight between SHIELD and someone like Iron Man. She suits up as Ironheart and flies off to investigate.


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Last issue ended with Cynthia Von Doom rescuing her son Victor from a SHIELD helicarrier, in the process crashing it in the Atlantic.But we start this issue with a flashback to Victor as a young boy following his mother into a forest. He finds her holding a rabbit over a pentagram. Cynthia knows Victor has been looking at her sorcerous writings and knows that he has the aptitude to follow her lead. She tells him she needs his innocence now to sacrifice the rabbit to summon the elder demon Chthon. But the young boy can't bring himself to do it, and she calls him a coward.Present-day Victor awakens in his mother's current workplace. Cynthia tells him it's in 'The Tear', the place where the multiverse used to be (presumably referring to the multiverse destroyed before Secret Wars). It's definitely *not* the astral plane, and much safer than Earth.Victor complains again that he thought his mother died long ago. She repeats that she has been here studying higher magic, and watching him. She kept away while he was the villainous Dr Doom, but she is proud now he has turned to good.Cynthia says to understand everything, including how to travel between here and Earth, Victor must learn about Trythoom's Guided Key. She directs him to a book kept in chains.On the ditched helicarrier Director Sharon Carter talks to Thing. Ben Grimm comments that even as the supposedly-good Iron Man Dr Doom still causes havoc like this. He readily agrees when Carter sends him to hunt Doom down (again).Back in wherever-it-is Cynthia asks her son why he has taken the mantle of Iron Man. Victor claims to be keeping the flame alive for the comatose Tony Stark. She says she's seen him taking down other super-villains - is that his plan? He replies that when he's gone through the important single villains he'll move on to tackle groups such as Hydra and AIM. He may not be able to defeat all villainy but he can certainly level the playing field.Victor comments that he could have done this a long time ago if he hadn't gone down the path of Dr Doom. Cynthia accepts blame for that because she had led him to witchcraft and taught him that the world hated witches (and Victor thought that world had killed her). But he denies that blame - he made his own choices.Now he asks her to teach him some of her advanced magic. But during the conversation Victor has been gradually manifesting his 'Iron Man' armour around himself. Cynthia asks him to remove it because he's safe here. But Doom keeps it on.Thing has flown his Fantasticar to the ruin of Doom's castle in Latveria. Thing met Doom here in #4, and Ironheart found him here in #8, so Ben thinks this is a good place to start. But instead he finds a young girl scrounging for stuff to sell for food. She says she wishes Lord Doom was back in charge - things were much better then.Cynthia shows Victor some impressive magic, and she says it doesn't require anything to be sacrificed, and it doesn't drain power from the caster but instead empowers them. She shows him the spell in a book (presumably the chained 1).Ben Grimm explores the castle, passing an array of Dr Doom armours (or Doombots?). He finds a framed photograph of himself, Reed Richards and Victor in college - and is amazed that Doom treasured it.Victor gradually sheds his armour as he achieves the magic effect his mother had done. He comments that it is very different from sacrificing baby frogs (not rabbits) in the woods of Mount Hortwurt, and Cynthia agrees. Presumably this makes Victor suspicious again because he suits up. And the Maker appears to chide her for bringing Victor here.Back in Castle Doom Iron Doom makes an explosive appearance before Thing, having been ejected from Cynthia's domain. And Victor strongly advises Ben to run away.


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We start with a flashback to a meeting of the Cabal in Dark Reign. The 5 members (Dr Doom, Emma Frost, Hood, Loki and Namor) are impatiently waiting for Norman Osborn to join them.Hood impertinently asks Doom about his mother. He has learned that Cynthia was taken by a minor demon and after many attempts Doom freed her. Parker Robbins wonders what now drives Doom. He has enough power to have been able to do that. He has his own country, Latveria, and loads of money. What more does he need?Victor von Doom is annoyed by the prattle and blasts Hood, but then explains that he's only teleported him to India. The female Loki is disappointed that he didn't kill him.In the present we see villainous alchemist Diablo who is also annoyed with his low threat ranking in an online report. To increase his cred he's kidnapped Maria Hill, Director of SHIELD. He's going to give her a truth serum of his own concoction and get her to give him all SHIELD's security codes.Esteban de Ablo claims that he should be feared because the only person who has ever defeated him is Mr Fantastic, and he's not around anymore. But Victor von Doom materialises in the room to dispute part of that. He himself has beaten Diablo before, and the reason Esteban isn't respected is that he's strictly 2nd-rate.Doom now throws a device which expands to engulf Diablo's left arm. The alchemist responds with balls of light which release small imps. While Victor is dealing with those Esteban attacks the thing on his arm with a chemical which at least seems to stop the tech working. But Doom appears to disintegrate him (but maybe only ports him to India).Doom assures Hill that he won't tell anyone about this, and she should keep quiet for the sake of her reputation which wouldn't be enhanced by any of it. He leaves and Maria finds herself free.Next Victor visits Amara Perera in the lab he arranged for her in Cambridge University, England. They discuss what's happened to her ex-lover Tony Stark (in part of Civil War II that hasn't come out yet). It seems that he's dead. Doom assures her it wasn't faked (like the 'death' in Japan in the recent Iron Man #9-11), but Amara also knows that super-characters have a habit of coming back from the dead.Under questioning Victor admits that he's here because of their last conversation in #9. He'd claimed he was trying to make up for the bad things he'd done (before Secret Wars III turned him good). She'd said he must take as bold a stand for good as he'd done for evil. He now tells Amara she was right. And also that she reminds him of someone.After Doom has gone Amara gets a visit from Thing, who claims to be an Agent of SHIELD (presumably another effect of CWII we don't know about yet). He understands she knows von Doom, and he'd really like to see him.Meanwhile Victor has gone to Tony Stark's lab where the Iron Man armours are kept. He's confronted by a hologram of Tony who says he's sent for the Avengers. It appears that Stark has uploaded himself into an AI now that he's dead.Doom says that he's going to continue Stark's role as Iron Man. Over the hologram's protest he decks himself out in a grey version(-ish) of the current armour and flies off.But he's being magically watched by his mother and someone else.


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Cynthia von Doom lights a candle and cuts her palm for blood in a pentagram. But someone interrupts her ritual to draw her attention to the fight between her son Victor and Thing in Amara Pereira's apartment.Victor von Doom armours up and throws Ben Grimm out of a window. Thing is confused that his foe is wearing armour more like that of Iron Man (but not so colourful). They clash again ...Next thing we know Amara wakes up in a bedroom elsewhere. She runs outside to find Victor floating in lotus position and mentally rebuilding his armour. Apparently her home was trashed in the fight so he brought her here unconscious - here being a castle somewhere in Switzerland. She's free to go back but he warns her that SHIELD won't leave her alone now they know of her connection to him.Amara wants to know why Victor has given up being villain Dr Doom and wants now to be hero Iron Man. He explains how Dr Doom achieved his goal of ultimate power as god of the (much-reduced) multiverse in a time and place very few remember. (Secret Wars III of course.) But it all fell apart, and afterwards he realised that it hadn't brought him the fulfilment he expected.But if conquest wasn't his true purpose then he must find another. He decided to become a hero and studied (and helped) Tony Stark as the role model most like himself (in the 2015 Invincible Iron Man series). And when Stark fell (in Civil War II) he decided to take up the vacant position as Iron Man. His life as a supervillain has made him familiar with other villains, which puts him in a good position to hunt them down (we see him attacking the Mad Thinker last issue).This doesn't impress Amara. Becoming a hero because being a villain was boring isn't good enough. Victor contends that his motive doesn't matter, only his actions. She demands he take her home. And with a magical wave he (presumably) does just that.Apparently Doom similarly magicked his way out of the earlier fight. But Thing is determined to track him down again. He's communicating with Maria Hill of SHIELD as he lands the FantastiCar in the ruins of Doom's Latverian castle looking for clues. She warns him that the country has devolved into civil war, and urges him not to cause an international incident.He loses the connection as he enters Victor's old lab. And his rocky skin starts falling off as he is confronted by Doom's mother.


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Last issue Ironheart confronted Dr Doom in the ruins of his Latverian castle. She told him to stop pretending to be Iron Man. But Doom asked her to attack him in a successful attempt to bring on a repeat of a vision of a future he had in #6. This time he is contacted from the future by Tony Stark, Sorcerer Supreme!Now vision-Stark *also* says Victor must stop being Iron Man. It's important that he's not Iron Man when *they* come for him. But the vision fades before Tony can explain who 'they' are.And when Doom rejoins Ironheart in the real world he collapses at her feet.In Manhattan Thing has a meet with his old partner Human Torch. They chat about recent events in their lives. Johnny Storm has been with the Inhumans, mainly because he was in a relationship with Medusa which is now over. (He doesn't mention the Uncanny Avengers Unity Squad.) Ben Grimm was in space with the Guardians Of The Galaxy but now he's working for SHIELD hunting Dr Doom.Johnny asks if Ben has heard anything about Reed and Sue. Ben says Mr Fantastic turned up in his hotel room (last 2 issues). Reed was quite convincing apart from 2 things:- he wouldn't talk about Sue and he wanted Ben to Kill Doom. They both agree it couldn't have been Reed Richards (we know it was the Maker, evil RR from the Ultimate Universe), but Ben says Reed knew an awful lot of personal stuff about him. They part because Johnny can't stand being reminded of what they've lost.Grimm gets a call from SHIELD saying that they have Victor Von Doom in custody in a helicarrier over Serbia. Sharon Carter thanks Ironheart for bringing him in, but Riri Williams plays it down. But Carter says this will make her a global celebrity, and she should probably expect a congratulatory call from the President. Ironheart flies off and Thing arrives.Doom's sedated for now but 3 of the SHIELD Agents want to kill him before he wakes up and escapes. They taser his guards and prepare to shoot him. But suddenly the central Agent shoots the other 2. Stunned she asks Doom how he made her do that, but Victor's witchy mother Cynthia appears and takes the credit.Cynthia Von Doom easily holds off other Agents who arrive. She tells Thing she warned him to leave her son alone (we didn't actually see her say that in #3-5) so now this is on him. She leaves with Victor, and the helicarrier crashes into the sea.When Victor wakes up in Cynthia's 'house' she tells him she has some secrets to show him.


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SHIELD Commander Sharon Carter has summoned Doctor Strange to Project Pegasus where they are holding Iron Man (Victor Von Doom). Doom says he hasn't tried to escape because he's trying to be a good guy these days. Strange has heard about that but expresses scepticism. But he's more concerned about what made Doom flee here in panic. Whatever scares Doom terrifies Strange.The pair meditate and enter another level of reality to continue their conversation. DrS is concerned that the Cynthia Von Doom and Reed Richards that Victor has met may not be who they claim.Carter has also called in Thing for security. But then Reed Richards arrives (in a Fantasticar module?) and requests entrance. Sharon doesn't trust him either and orders SHIELD agents to shoot him. But the pliable Mr Fantastic evades all their bullets and just claims to be here to help them with Dr Doom.Stephen Strange gets Victor to tell him what happened with Cynthia and Reed (we see more than last issue). His mother had taken Victor to her extra-dimensional base but then Richards turned up and told her off for deviating from their plan. Doom could tell it wasn't the Reed Richards of Marvel Earth. But then his mother appeared on intimate terms with his erstwhile enemy, which Victor found very disturbing. Stephen suggest maybe it wasn't his real mother, but Victor thinks it wasn't *any* version of Reed.Meanwhile the 'Reed' outside has got fed up with playing nice and starts flying and lashing out with flames (like the Human Torch). Thing leaps into the fray and they battle head-on.Doom claims not to know which of his many enemies this 'Richards' might be. It may all just be a part of his mother's madness. But as he turns Dr Doom-ey and swears vengeance for this affront to his person both Doctors realise who the enemy is. As Carter bursts in to tell them he's here.They rush to the fight and tell 'Reed' to reveal himself ... as Mephisto. The devil was unhappy with Victor turning 'good'. He was determined that Doom should not avoid his fate in Hell.


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Last issue Ironheart heard about Dr Doom's antics as Iron Man and set out to confront him. Her Tony Stark AI tries to dissuade her from flying to Latveria. Riri Williams is a minor without a passport so it's illegal to leave the US. And attacking Doom on his home turf is very inadvisable. But she does it anyway.

She lands in the ruins of Castle Doom. Inside she finds what she thinks is an empty armour with a cloak ... until it speaks to her - but very civilly. Emboldened she asks the armour to take off its mask, and is taken aback when it turns out to really *be* Dr Doom. Riri hadn't actually been expecting Doom to be home. She was just hoping to find clues as to his current whereabouts.

So she now says what she came to say to Doom - he must stop being Iron Man.

Meanwhile also last issue Thing returned to his Manhattan apartment to find Reed Richards waiting for him. (But we know it's really the evil Maker from the (former) Ultimate Universe.) Now Maker is trying to persuade Ben Grimm that he's the real deal by recounting shared memories.

Thing still doesn't believe him and attacks. But when Maker responds by elastically stretching Grimm has to pause to consider the possibility he's telling the truth.

Back in Latveria Ironheart is ready to fight but Iron Doom continues to just talk. Riri tells Victor Von Doom he's disgracing Tony Stark's legacy. People are blaming Iron Man for the things he does. But Victor counters that he *is* now Iron Man, and he questions her sole right to the brand. Riri is reluctant to tell him about the AI based on Tony Stark that advises her.

But the AI and Victor both advise her that Doom would win in any fight. Doom suggests that he might go easy on her and teleport her back home. AI Tony threatens to take control of the armour and retreat, but Riri insists on staying.

Victor asks her why she left MIT. Riri says she was bored (but neglects to mention that the authorities didn't look kindly on her 'borrowing' material and equipment to build her 1st armour). Victor sympathises (but doesn't say that it was his arrogance that made him impatient in his own college days). However he recommends she go back to school because on reflection he now realises college had a lot to teach him.

Von Doom now explains why he's here in his old home. He tells Riri about Lucullus Virgil McWhorter who documented Native American culture. In particular about the vision quest where a young person would seek their weyekin or spirit guide, through fasting and cold and closeness to nature. Victor says *he* had a vision during a fight (#6). He thinks he was contacted by the superior technology of *a* future. Now here he's been meditating to try to see it again.

Back in Manhattan, Ben hasn't seen Reed since Secret Wars III, or whatever the current world thinks happened then. Human Torch suggested Reed was dead in Uncanny Avengers v3 #2. So Thing is understandably upset that his friend has been alive all this time and not contacted him. He asks about Reed's wife Sue. Reed says she's OK but she doesn't know he's come here. He avoids the next question about where they've been hiding by saying that he has to ask Ben to do something, and to trust him that it is necessary. He wants Thing to kill Dr Doom.

Our last scene change takes us back to Latveria where Ironheart points out that according to him Victor was under stress when he had his vision, so meditation is a bad move. Doom says he'd come to that conclusion too. He asks Riri to attack him, but now she can't bring herself to do it. Even when Victor points out that if it doesn't work he'll just get knocked out, and she can get the kudos for capturing him. But now AI Tony switches to recommending an attack.

Ironheart fires repeated repulsor blasts at Dr Doom until he stops telling her to continue. That's because he is now in vision mode again. He sees the large circular structure as before. But this time he sees a figure approach and talk to him. The figure says it's been very difficult getting through. And then we and Doom see Tony Stark floating in a robe with the Cloak of Levitation and Amulet of Agamotto belonging to Dr Strange.


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The Thing has gone to the Latverian Embassy seeking Dr Doom. He gets fed up of being kept waiting and smashes his way into the private areas. The Ambassador insists that Victor Von Doom has 'resigned' from ruling the country, leaving it in a mess, and they don't know where he is. He continues with this (true) line even as Ben Grimm smashes some priceless vases to give him an incentive to say something different. (Presumably Ben eventually believes the Ambassador and goes away.)We now learn that Doom is currently in La Paz, Bolivia, where he's found the current lair of the Mad Thinker. When Thinker gets home he discovers that Victor has extracted the AI CPU from his latest android. Von Doom compliments him on the quality of his work - he's going to take it and reverse-engineer it for his own use. But he'll let Thinker live if he promises to mend his evil ways and use his intellect for the benefit of mankind.Thinker doesn't like any of this. He shoots at Dr Doom but the bullet bounces off a forcefield. An alarm button brings a horde of robots out of hiding. Doom counters by encasing himself in his grey version of the Iron Man armour - and destroys (nearly) all the robots. Before he leaves he (presumably) kills Thinker.On the way out Victor advises 2 boys not to enter, and magically dissolves away. But he is followed by 1 surviving robot. So he returns, in armour again, to kill it. He apologises for putting the boys in danger before disappearing again.In Cambridge, England, Amara Perera is returning to her apartment building when she hears someone call her name. She immediately turns and fires a gun - which wounds Victor in the shoulder. She rushes to his side to tend to the wound but he brusquely orders her not to touch him.Amara is surprised that she was able to shoot Victor, with all his defences. He says he didn't think he needed them around her. She says he (and his reputation) frightens her, especially when he as usual appears out of nowhere. Hurt, he reminds her that he's never hurt her.She says she didn't get the gun because of him, but because of the people who've come to question her about him - they want to know where he is. Like the Thing last issue. Victor says for her sake he'll leave her alone from now on.Bur it's too late, as Thing bursts in to the flat and attacks him.


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The Wizard has called together the Hood and ex-members of his gang to warn them that Doctor Doom has turned hero and is going after other villains. He's taken down Diablo (#1) and the Mad Thinker (#2), and Bentley Whitman is willing to admit he was lucky to escape (last issue). Doom has now combined Stark-tech with his own tech and his magic to make him even more unbeatable.Hood tries to rally his ex-troops - surely with their combined power they can beat him. And when they add to that power the rep of being the guys who killed Dr Doom, then they'll be able to face down all-comers for Kingpin's vacated territory. He's beginning to convince them when Iron Doom busts through a wall and starts attacking them all.We now switch time and place to later in the SHIELD helicarrier. Sharon Carter has called in SHIELD Agent Thing - Ben Grimm - to talk to the Wrecker, who was 1 of the villains in the last scene and has come to SHIELD for sanctuary from Doom. (Thing's prime task in SHIELD is to capture Victor von Doom.)Grimm goes into Dirk Garthwaite's holding cell and asks him to explain exactly what happened. He says Doom killed all the other villains, and we see him doing it. Except we see that Hood teleports away. And Wrecker manages to run away. Doom catches up with him, but lets him go as long as he repents his ways and tells everyone that von Doom is going to fix the world.Ben rubs it in by getting Wrecker to admit that he didn't really escape, Doom sent him as a humbled messenger. Then he lets Garthwaite know that Doom didn't kill *any* of them - the others are all in SHIELD custody. Dirk gets riled at Thing, but an electromagnetic force field stops him from doing anything about it.Ben tells Sharon he doesn't believe Dr Doom is doing what he says he is. There'll be some twisted plan behind it all.Grimm goes back to the hotel he's staying in, but finds Victor waiting in his apartment - with his Iron Man armour present but not wearing it. Doom warns him not to start a fight for the sake of the innocent people that would get injured, and Thing takes this advice for now. But he says he still hates him for all the evil he has done. Even so Victor apologises for all of it. He's especially sorry that he never realised what great people Reed and Sue Richards were - and now they're not around for him to say that to.Ben says he *still* can't forgive him. Victor accepts that because he can't forgive *himself*. If he thought going to prison was the best thing he could do, he'd do it. But he believes he can do more good free. Thing says he's still coming after him. Doom armours up and says he can only hope that his actions will earn Ben's trust.Before Doom leaves Grimm asks if it was really his (supposedly-dead) mother in #4-5. Victor says he can't be sure. And as a parting shot he says he's going to sort out Peter Parker owning the Baxter Building.But as Ben turns back into his apartment he finds another figure waiting for him - Reed Richards.


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SHIELD Director Maria Hill is in her quarters on the SHIELD Helicarrier on the phone with her Mom trying to persuade her that she has an important job, and she's grateful for any interruption even if it's about Victor Von Doom. She reminds her subordinate that Agent Ben Grimm is handling that situation. But the message is that Dr Doom is here to see her on the command deck. And alarm bells start going off.Hill quickly dons her uniform and goes to where armourless Doom is surrounded by gun-toting agents and trapped in a zero-point energy field. But he seems immune to their sleeping gas. Apparently he just appeared there. She tells her team to lower their guns and turn off the field and alarm. She reckons nothing will work against him so she might as well just talk to him.This is what Victor wanted. He didn't call to make an appointment because he figured she'd just try to trace the call and send loads of Agents after him. This way was quicker and more likely to get some face time with her.Victor came here to make it clear that he is no longer an enemy. He thought he'd proved that when he rescued her from Diablo in #1. But Hill responds that he's still a dangerous international threat and she has to arrest him. (I presume she can do that because he lost his diplomatic immunity when he resigned from ruling Latveria after Secret Wars III.)Doom ploughs on. He wants her to call off the Thing from pursuing him. Hill refuses. He wants SHIELD to stop harassing Amara Perera because she knows nothing of interest to them. Maria takes that under consideration. She denies knowing where Grimm is, but a 'helpful' Agent tells her he's in Latveria. Doom leaves and the Agent is fired.His armoured form arrives in the ruins of his capital city Doomstadt. 3 little boys with big guns warn him off thinking he is Iron Man. He disarms them with a gesture and tells them to go to school, but they tell him there's no school to go to.Doom hears an explosion and finds soldiers robbing a warehouse. They too think he's Shellhead but he easily repels their bullets. A bit of persuasion is needed for them to tell him where General Karadick is.He heads to an army base and demands to see the General. But they send Doombots against him, but their creator knows how to defeat them and take them over.Even Karadick thinks he's facing the old Iron Man. Even Victor revealing his face doesn't help (because Dr Doom always kept his scarred face hidden - and this face isn't scarred (Secret Wars III again)). But eventually Von Doom convinces him of his identity.Apparently Victor left Karadick in charge of rebuilding the country. (So maybe he should recognise the new Von Doom.) He was to create a democracy. The General claims his military rule is just a transitional situation, but Doom left no plan to move forward. Victor ripostes that he could easily have found people who could have built the new government. While they were talking he has used the Internet to locate a perfect candidate for Chancellor - a Professor Angela Kror.But now they hear more sounds of conflict, from within Doom's ruined castle. When Karadick says it's not his forces, Doom leaves him with orders to contact the Professor and heads to the scene.Inside Victor finds the ruined Fantasticar and a trail of orange rocky chunks. At the end he finds Thing in a poor state (see last issue). And he has already detected the presence of his sorcerous mother (last issue again).


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Last issue the man plotting against Victor Von Doom turned out to be not Mr Fantastic or the Maker but Mephisto (well, the 1st letter was correct). Now he's fighting Iron Man (Doom) and Doctor Strange at the SHIELD base Project Pegasus.Mephisto freezes the action in order to talk to us readers. He wasn't expecting Stephen Strange to be in this fight. Strange was supposed to be busy elsewhere, and even if he wasn't he shouldn't waste his time helping evil Victor. But then Strange always was a Goody Two-Shoes, and his soul is well beyond the devil's grasp. But there's no way he was going to let Doom escape him by turning good.Doom has spent a lifetime doing evil, finally destroying the multiverse and ruling what little was left of it (Secret Wars III). But worse still he defeated Mephisto to save his mother's soul (with help from Dr Strange in the Triumph and Torment GN (MGN#49)). Mephisto had been hoping 1 of the superheroes would kill Doom, and then he'd get 2 souls instead of 1. But now he's broken the rules by coming to do it personally - and none of the other cosmic powers care to stop him.He reminds us that he'd been impersonating the Maker (Reed Richards from the Ultimate Universe) in the previous issues. And now he confirms that 'Cynthia Von Doom' in those issues wasn't really Victor's mother but a construct of his own (who *thought* she was real). The plan was to mess up Doom's redemption quest so much that he ended up committing suicide. Well the last bit hasn't worked but the 1st part is still on.But now Mephisto knows he's going to lose this fight, and be scattered to far dimensions so it will take a long time to pull himself back together. And he lets time recommence and accepts that fate.Thing tells Commander Sharon Carter to get her SHIELD agents safely inside. Dr Strange wields the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak as Doom moves in for the kill. But 1st he asks what Mephisto has done with his mother. The devil doesn't enlighten him with the truth *we* know. And Doom's mystic blasts rips his foe apart.As Mephisto dissipates Cynthia appears to Victor saying she's confused. Stephen tries to tell him she's not real, but Victor still despairs as she too dissolves away.Thing and Carter now emerge to join them, and she says Doom is under arrest. Victor replies that she *could* do that, and put him with the 42 supercriminals he's brought in for her recently. Or she could let him go to defeat a Hydra science island for her. After he's taken a few hours to recover from this.Ben Grimm can tell she's considering it, and he objects. But 1st Doom and Strange confirm for him that the Reed Richards who came to see him recently was really Mephisto. So Mephisto was messing with his mind just to cause trouble for Doom. In other words that's another in the long line of bad things Ben can blame Victor for. He raises his fist to strike but Doom teleports him away.We see Thing materialise on a balcony of an apartment in what he discovers is Amsterdam. There's a note from Victor saying the place is Ben's for whenever he wants it. And there's a bottle of whisky and a glass on the parapet.Sharon asks Strange where Ben has gone. Stephen says Doom could have 'ported him anywhere - and given he has a time machine, any*when*. She tells her team to contact Agent Grimm, but DrS says he thinks Doom hasn't done anything bad to his old enemy.She also wants to know that that wasn't the *real* Devil, but Stephen hasn't got a consoling answer for her. But Doom may very well deliver a Hydra base to her. And we see Iron Doom defeating a whole Hydra army.On Ryker's Island the 42 convicts Doom captured are planning a combined revenge.And in a doctor's office Amara Perera receives the news that she's pregnant.


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Thing wakes up in the medibay on the SHIELD helicarrier with all his rocky skin intact. Director Maria Hill wants to know what happened before they found him in Dr Doom's lab in the ruins of his Latverian castle.Ben Grimm asks if Doom or his mom were there? Hill says he was alone, and didn't Doom's mother die when he was young? Thing thought that too, and she appeared to still not be old, but she was there casting spells. He figures now that she must have made him 'think' his rocks were falling off. But then Doom showed up in his 'Iron Man' armour and saved his life.We now flashback to the incident in question. The woman insists that she is Cynthia von Doom, but Victor von Doom doesn't believe her. She tells him to scan her with the facilities of his armour and his sorcery, but he knows she died as a Gypsy witch in his early youth. She claims to have been alive all this time. All the while they are trading magic attacks. And she keeps asking him to unmask.Eventually they calm down and talk. Cynthia claims that she kept hidden because she was ashamed of Victor's villainous career as Dr Doom. But now that he is trying to be a hero she wants to help him. (This doesn't explain why she pretended to be dead when he was a child.) Her 'help' includes dealing with his enemies - so she wants to kill Thing. But he says that if she truly wants to help him be good then she must let Thing go. With a spell she either restores his rocky hide or removes the illusion that it was damaged.Then Victor asks his mother why she didn't try to stop his villainy if she was so ashamed of him. But Grimm loses consciousness before he hears her reply.Now we're back to the helicarrier as Ben finishes his story. They are hovering over Doom's castle. The attack on SHIELD Agent Grimm has given SHIELD an excuse to move in and try to restore order in Latveria. We see troops arresting the military led by General Karadick (from last issue).Now cut to Cambridge University, England where Dum Dum Dugan is leading a small group of SHIELD Agents to interview Amara Perera. He wants to know where Victor von Doom took her after he fought Agent Grimm in her apartment (#3). She's angry that Doom's unreciprocated interest in her means SHIELD won't leave her alone. And her anger rises she is handed a note telling her to leave the University because of all this. Dugan & co leave when she insists she doesn't know where Doom took her. (She was unconscious on the journey there, and was returned by magic.)As Amara starts to clear her desk Victor appears. It seems he was there all the time invisible, unknown to her. He promises to help sort her life out, but she retorts that it is his 'help' that has made the mess in the 1st place. But then as her anger subsides she realises he has just said something about meeting his mother for the 1st time since he was young, and belatedly asks what happened.So now we get the rest of the flashback. Cynthia's answer to Victor's question is that she didn't try to stop him when he turned bad because she loves him. Vic's response is to resume their fight. Until his mother magically departs.Now Victor explains to Amara that not only did his mother die but he has seen her in Hell many times until he eventually won her salvation. He also says that he has realised that doing good is more difficult than doing evil. Amara says they can't really help each other and maybe they should go their own ways.And on the final page Cynthia von Doom is looking into her witch's cauldron and talking to someone as she was in #3. She calls her companion Reed.


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We start with a flashback (2 of Rick Magyar's pages of New Avengers #6 very faithfully redrawn by Jim Cheung) where the Illuminati and Black Swan destroy an alternate Earth over Latveria. That's all we see of them this issue except for Black Bolt and Iron Man.Now Thanos holds court on ruined Titan where he and Corvus Glaive receive news from an Outrider assassin. He claims to have had success on some mission to the planet Ahl-Agullo. But he is sent to complete his mission (which involves 'making known what remains hidden' and 'finding another world to raze').Meanwhile Glaive goes to Ahl-Agullo, which Thanos's forces decimated 2 cycles ago. Since then the huddled remnants have rebuilt a bit of civilisation. Glaive reminds them how he killed their champion, the king's son. He says Thanos now demands a tribute, or they will be smote again. Glaive returns to Titan with the tribute - a box full of heads, to add to the skulls that pave Thanos' court.The Outrider comes to Earth to search for what is hidden. In stealth mode he eavesdrops on Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man and Thor), X-Men (Kitty Pryde, Storm and Wolverine) and SHIELD, but doesn't yet find it.We now skip to Galador where we left Captain Universe in Avengers #16. The Spaceknights' home planet was under attack. It turns out the attackers are the Builders who have been mentioned in most of the Marvel NOW Avengers issues. The Spaceknights defence is in vain, and CU sees Galador destroyed.Abigail Brand of SWORD is overseeing the capture of some Skrulls on Earth. Captain America and Hawkeye are accompanying the troops, with Hyperion and Thor standing by in case they're needed. But the Skrulls turn out not to be warrior caste, like the other refugees SWORD has intercepted. (This bunch slipped past SWORD in Av#15.)Captain Universe materialises in the Peak, in her mortal form in a coma. SWORD gets a transmission from a Kree outpost being wiped out. Ex Nihilo, who joined the Avengers in Av#17, recognises the attackers as Builders, and a fellow Gardener (different from one we saw on Galador). Adding this attack to the stories of the space refugees who arrived in Av#15, Brand calculates that the Builders are heading for Earth.The Outrider has come to Attilan where he invades the sleeping mind of the Inhumans' king Black Bolt. He discovers lots of stuff:- The Kree created the Inhumans. They get their powers from the Terrigen Mists. Black Bolt, married to Inhuman Medusa, took other wives as a political manouver from 4 alien races - the Universal Inhumans, more results of Kree tampering (as seen in Hickman's run in Fantastic Four). His brother Maximus the Mad has secretly been building devices for him (as seen in NAv#7&8). Black Bolt is a member of the secret Illuminati. (These last 2 facts have caused dissension between BB and his wives.) The Illuminati had the Infinity Gems (as seen in Illuminati #2), but lost them (NAv#3). But even this isn't what Thanos is seeking.The Outrider finally finds what he seeks. We see an image of 4 kings and a queen. One of the men wears the crown of Attilan.At this point Black Bolt wakes up and tears one of the Outrider's 4 arms off. The Outrider makes his escape, but is blasted by a whisper from Black Bolt. However he falls onto his invisible spaceship, and completes his escape.Captain Marvel addresses the assembled Avengers, including Abyss, Ex Nihilo, Nightmask and Starbrand recruited for this emergency in Av#17. Word from their Shi'ar representative Smasher is that the Galactic Council is mobilising a defence against the Builders. Abyss confirms that her creators the Builders are fully capable of destroying the Earth if they get here. So Captain America says that most of the Avengers will leave Earth to help the Council. Iron Man will stay behind on Earth to coordinate local defences.The Outrider reaches Titan to find that Corvus Glaive has been joined by the rest of the Black Order:- Black Dwarf, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight and Supergiant. He reports that Black Bolt hides what Thanos seeks, and then gratefully accepts the reward for a job well done, as Glaive chops his head off. Glaive announces to Thanos' minions that they will invade Earth. He quells their mutterings of discontent when a mole from SWORD tells them that the Avengers have left the planet.


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In the opening flashback the Asgardian Dwarf completes the armour for his captor who rewards him with a slap and spouts about resurrection and seeing him in the next life.Last issue Silver Surfer came to Galactus (who is in his current golden Lifebringer form) to ask him to revert to being the Devourer of Worlds briefly to consume the planet Saiph (whose inhabitants Ultron had turned into robotic slaves) to stop Ultron from sending rockets containing his robotic virus to infect other worlds. Now Galactus refuses because of the cost to himself and to the Surfer (which we'll see at the end of the issue).Meanwhile the Guardians Of The Galaxy have reached Knowhere and are greeted by some of the Nova Corps who escaped from the planetoid Xitaung last issue. The Guardians stayed behind to protect the Power Stone from the Chitauri and the Fraternity of Raptors. Nova (Richard Rider) explains how Talonar of the Raptors (who turned out to be his brother Robbie brainwashed by them) told him that this universe was a simulation which could be changed by the mind. This enabled Star-Lord to shrink the giant Power Stone to hand-size. Gamora says she thought they were doomed but Drax claims he defeated the Chitauri leader Warbringer by playing his saxophone. The Corpsemen think they're making things up as usual.(Actually Star-Lord used the Power Stone to defeat Warbringer. Drax used it to power his saxophone which blew Xitaung up. Then Nova used it to enhance the Nova Force to create a forcefield to surround them and bring them here.)Rocket Raccoon claims that they're lucky to be alive. Groot points out that Ant-Man isn't. (They think he died but we know he was unconscious and ant-sized taken into a Nova Corps escape ship.) They've also brought Nova Commander Eve Bakian and her new baby with them.Nova is going off to chase the Raptors and his brother Robbie. He wants to take the Power Stone with him but Gamora and Star-Lord veto that. (Gamora is trying to collect *all* the Infinity Stones - but so far she's scored 0.) Gamora asks Rich to wait up. Rider hopes it means she's coming with him (they have a long-term relationship) but instead she suggests he stay with them to help gather all the Infinity Stones. Then they can use the Time Stone to go back and stop his brother from ever *becoming* a Raptor. Nova thinks about it for a second and offers a counter suggestion. When Gamora gets the Stones she can come back in time to this moment and then they can all go off to save Robbie. When that doesn't happen he flies away.Star-Lord has the Power Stone and now it's Gamora's time to argue with *him* about who should hold it. But Eve Bakian claims it for the Nova Corps. They've been secretly looking after it for a while and lost a lot of Corpsmen defending it. Peter Quill is ready to agree but Gamora points out that they just recently (GOTG's Legacy issues) rooted out a load of enemy spies in the Corps. Rocket is worried that Gamora's obsession with the Stones makes her sound like Thanos. A Corpsman pulls a gun but Gamora slices it in 2 with her sword. Then Drax settles the argument by grabbing the Stone and daring anyone to try and take it off him. (He *was* given the job of guarding it when it was bigger in GOTG#150.)Peter Quill is called by his old pal the telepathic space-dog Cosmo who leads him to a room containing the Elders Of The Universe Collector and Grandmaster who thank him from freeing their fellow-Elder Gardener from madness (in #1). They remind Star-Lord of their last meeting (All-New GOTG #10) where they told him the universe had been altered and they wanted to know why. Well now they've found an Infinity Stone but it doesn't work. Peter examines it and says it doesn't feel like the Power Stone he's just used, but it *does* feel similar.Then a portal opens from an alternate universe and an alternate version of Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) steps through to demand *her* Infinity Stone. She explains that after the re-ordering of the multiverse the Reality Stones for each universe were hidden in the wrong universes. They will only function in their correct realities and the Stone they have is the Reality Stone for *her* universe. Star-Lord believes her (although she looks more cosmicy than the version he used to know, with a star-studded body like her brother Genis-Vell sometimes had) and gives her the stone. Alternate Moondragon joins her and reads the others' minds to see what they know of a being called Requiem - nothing as it turns out.Ultron is also after the Infinity Stones and he already has the Soul Gem. On Saiph he has launched the virus-rockets to convert the universe into Ultron beings. Adam Warlock takes to the air and starts shooting them down, but there are way too many. However someone else starts blasting them - it's Silver Surfer zooming around on his cosmic surfboard. And Galactus is with him.Ultron claims it's a trick. He's heard about the Guardians' mechanical Galactus. (Rocket built it and used it in some issues of All-New GOTG. And we saw it fall to pieces in IC#2.) But Big G proves he's the real thing by starting to dismantle the planet. And as he does so his armour morphs from golden to the old-style purple.Ultron jets away to escape the doomed planet. Warlock pursues him and blasts off the robot hand that holds the Soul Gem. Surfer zooms up to say that all the virus rockets have been destroyed and he retrieves the Gem. Behind them the planet explodes and they are all caught in the wave of energy and debris. Surfer  flies to safety with Warlock. Ultron clings to a hurtling rock and is lost to their view.Norrin Radd gives Adam the Soul Gem as it's rightful possessor. Warlock thanks him for bringing Galactus. Big G joins them and says Surfer must now hold up his end of the bargain. Galactus has become once more the Devourer of Worlds and Silver Surfer must once more serve as his Herald to seek out worlds for him to devour. (They say that (nearly) every time Marvel changes something they eventually change it back. Well this takes us back to G & SS's 1st app in Fantastic Four #48.)There have been 3 tie-ins published since #3:-IC: Captain Marvel 1-shotCaptain Marvel (Carol Danvers) found this universe's Reality Stone in a parallel timeline in her Legacy issues #125-129 and here she can use it to contact other timelines.She consults with holders of Reality Stones in other universes to see if she could have caused less collateral damage in her latest fight - against Blastaar. She sees how another version of herself sacrificed her own life at the end of Civil War to avoid putting Tony Stark into his coma. She visits an alternate version of Scarlet Witch's House of M world where Carol succumbed to her alcoholism and Monica Rambeau was that world's heroine as Captain Marvel. She finds another outcome of Rogue taking her powers and memory (Avengers Annual #10) - in this new timeline they suffered a dual permanent mind-swap. And another reality where *she* rather than Rick Jones was joined with the original Captain Marvel in the union where the Nega-Bands allowed only 1 of them at a time to exist on Earth while the other languished in the Negative Zone - and during the fight with Nitro it was *she* who contracted cancer rather than Mar-Vell, and she who died of it leaving him to live on as a hero.Returning to her reality CM finds Blastaar has woken up again. So she uses 1 of the tricks an alternate mentioned to defeat him. But she decides to stop 2nd-guessing herself. And also to guard the Reality Stone because there are much worse person's than her who would like to take it.IC: Daredevil 1-shotIC Prime showed Turk Barrett with the Mind Stone. This issue reveals how he got it and what he's doing with it.Matt Murdock senses low-life Turk carrying Kingpin's cane with a power-radiating stone atop. He watches him somehow influence a judge to find a criminal innocent in return for a pledge of loyalty. Daredevil persuades Turk's old pal Grotto to confess that Turk can now read minds ever since he found his magic rock. DD confronts Turk who tells him how he witnessed a fight between ninjas and Skrulls over a box containing the stone. He took the stone and 'overheard' that the ninjas were trying to get it to Dr Strange. Now he's aiming to fill the void left by Kingpin (who went into a coma in DD#601).DD escapes Turk and his men. Turk kills Grotto for betraying him. And then he hires Bullseye as his right-hand man.IC: Darkhawk #1 of 4Quick history summary:-Chris Powell found an amulet which enabled him to swap his body for an android Darkhawk. The android was 1 of the Fraternity of Raptors named Razor. The Raptors were created long ago to be used by the Shi'Ar, Kree and Skrulls as guardians of the universe operating from Null Space. But their methods were questionable so they were eventually sealed away in Null Space. The normal mode of operation was that the android and its mind would completely swap with the mortal user who was sent to Null Space (shades of Captain Marvel and Rick Jones). But because they weren't designed for humans Chris got the android body but kept his own mind.During War of Kings and Realm of Kings some other Raptors succeeded in  escaping from Null Space but they were defeated by Darkhawk and Nova (Richard Rider).In the post-Secret Wars III universe the Fraternity of Raptors are terrorists without access to the Raptor Androids. In the Guardians Of The Galaxy series they have sought powerful objects. They recruited Robbie Rider as Talonar who obtained a pair of Nega-Bands with which they hoped to access Null Space and the Raptor Androids. In our series they continued their power search by coming after the Power Stone.Meanwhile Darkhawk got a Legacy issue #51 where the android Razor rebelled against the others and came to our universe and merged with Chris Powell to try to stop the other Raptors.Now in this issue the mortal Raptors succeed in breaking through to Null Space and freeing the Androids. But the Android Raptors kill them all except Robbie Rider and his Nega-Bands because he will be useful. Chris joins the Code-Blue police team. Nova warns him off chasing the mortal Fraternity and Talonar and won't lend him a spaceship. The mortal Fraternity has sent intergalactic bounty hunter Death's Head to get the Razor body but Chris sees this as a chance to get a spaceship.