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Appearing in "Vicious Circle!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk #204

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  • Bruce Banner (First appearance) (Possessed by the Bruce Banner of Earth-616)
  • General Ross (First appearance)
  • Igor Drenkov (First appearance)
  • Rick Jones (Earth-20476) (First appearance; dies)
  • Glenn Talbot (First appearance)
  • Betty Banner (First appearance)
  • Kerwin Kronus (First appearance)

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  • Doctor Kronus (Dream)

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Synopsis for "Vicious Circle!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Incredible Hulk #204

Since their arrival from the Microverse, Jarella has been put in quarantine for her own safety. The Hulk cannot understand this and goes on a rampage across Gamma Base demanding that his love be released. General Ross leads the Hulkbusters in trying to contain the Hulk. Captured by the brute, Ross tries to explain that Jarella's quarantine is for her own safety, but the Hulk doesn't understand or want to listen. However, before General Ross can be harmed, a helicopter drops a containment dome on the Hulk and he is quickly knocked out by gas.

Later, Bruce Banner is made to watch the footage later in the company of Professor Kerwin Kronus. Kronus has developed a device that can send Banner back in time to the moment the Hulk was born and prevent it from ever happening. Banner cannot make up his mind on what to do about the situation because of his love for Jarella, but Betty and the others plead with him to give it a try. Banner later visits Jarella in quarantine where he explains his situation. When Jarella assures Bruce that she loves him regardless of his outer form, Banner decides to go through the test.

Soon, Kerwin Kronus is having his time travel equipment built at the site where Banner first tested the Gamma Bomb that turned him into the Hulk. Kronus explains that the device will send Bruce back in time into his body on the date of the accident and he will have full recollection of the future that will allow him to change the course of history. Soon enough, Banner is placed on the device and is sent back in time. He is shocked to find himself inhabiting the body of his past self just moments before the Gamma Bomb test. When Banner spots Rick Jones driving out to the site of the bomb test, he rushes out to warn the youth. However, this time, Banner does so from behind the protective barrier, calling to the youth to make a run for it. As the Gamma Bomb explodes, Banner ducks for cover and when all is clear he is happy to find that he was not turned into the Hulk. However, that joy is quickly replaced with horror when he discovers that not only was Rick Jones caught in the blast, but that it also killed him. Blaming himself, Banner begins to lose his mind as the time travel device brings him back to the present day.

When Banner is back in the present, history has been altered. Although he is no longer the Hulk, and now married to Betty Ross, he still cannot get over the fact that they have all committed murder. Banner is sequestered in a hospital to deal with his trauma. However, his rest is interrupted by Kronus, whose work was ruined by Banner's break down. Having reinvented himself as an armored super-villain, Kronus attacks Banner. Using his chronal energies, the mad scientist is able to transform Banner into the Hulk. As the two battle it out, Kerwin sends them back in time to the year One Million B.C. There the Hulk overpowers Kronus and beats him into submission. When the Hulk reverts back to Bruce Banner, Banner is horrified when the Kronus suddenly has the face of Rick Jones.

Suddenly, Banner wakes up and realises that the battle was all a dream. However, he still cannot rest with the fact that Rick Jones had to die in order for him to not become the Hulk. Rushing back to the time machine of Doctor Kronus, Banner uses it to go back in time once more. This time, Banner allows history to go on it's intended course. Rick Jones lives and Banner is turned into the Hulk, as history intended. Returning to the present, Banner tells his friends that he failed in his mission, but at least it's something that he can live with.

Appearing in "Let Us Be Wed in Unholy Matrimony"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tomb of Dracula #46

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Synopsis for "Let Us Be Wed in Unholy Matrimony"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tomb of Dracula #46

In the deconsecrated church taken over by Dracula, Satanist leader Anton Lupeski performs a Satanic wedding between Dracula (whom the Lupeski and his followers believe to be Satan himself) and Domini one of Lupeski's most loyal followers who had been offered up to be the bride of Satan. As the ceremony carries on, all are oblivious to the sight of the oil painting of Jesus Christ (the only religious symbol left in the damned church) shedding a single tear as Dracula and Domini are wed by mixing of blood.

Elsewhere at the head office of American Chemron Industries, a chemical company that has been dumping chemical waste into Boston Harbor, Windom an employee confronts his boss Mr. Slammerkin about the environmental impact their company is making. When Windom demands that the company stop polluting the water in the city, Slammerkin instead shoots Windom in cold blood. Consulting to his fellow board members, Slammerkin tells him that the murder had to be done because any environmental assessment initiated from Windom's demands would cut into their profits.

His fellow board members would then decide to dispose of Windom's body and they all take part in carrying it to an acid filled disposal pipe, believing the acid would destroy the body. However, by some strange twist of fate Windom's body is not destroyed. However all it's face is wiped clean and the body reanimated, and Windom rises from the waters seeking to get revenge on those who were responsible for his death.

Meanwhile, Blade and Hannibal King continue their hunt for Deacon Frost, the man responsible for killing Blade's mother and turning Hannibal King into a vampire. With information gained from a vampirized grave digger, the two head to the location the now-dead vampire provided them. Along the way they wonder how Frost intends to take over the world with a duplicate of Blade.

Back at Dracula's church, the vampire lord announces to all gathered that he will make a son for them all to worship and tells them all that this child will be born on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month. Domini would agree to birthing this child and Dracula partially transforms into his bat form so that he may carry off his bride to consummate their marriage.

As they fly off into the night sky, Windam -- the Faceless Man -- tracks down his first victim, Jack, the Chemron employee who suggested that they dump Windam's body in the acid disposal. The Faceless man bursts through the door while Jack's wife is in the shower and kills him. In the process Windam takes Jack's eye, literally absorbing it into his body making Jack's eye appear on his face. Windam steals some of Jack's close and leaves Jack's body to be found by his wife.

As Windam continues stalking his other victims, Dracula brings his bride to the former home of Doctor Sun. However, before they consummate their marriage, Dracula needs to go out and feed once more. He goes out into the city and begins stalking women to find the idea victim. It turns out to be the woman named Jean, another implicated in the murder of Windham. While Dracula hunts, Windam finds his next victim Fred Anderson who has made his regular visit to a health spa. There Windam kills Anderson and takes his right eye to add to his mostly blank face. Windam's next victim is Eli Harris, who is returning from a party with his wife Dolores. The Faceless Man takes Eli's mouth.

Jean arrives at the home of Wallace Slammerkin and as they share a kiss, Dracula appears at the window and hypnotizes Jean and orders her to invite him in. When Dracula enters the room, Slammerkin attempts to kill the vampire lord with a gun, but to no effect. Before Dracula can kill Slammerkin they are interrupted by Windam who demands Dracula leave his victims alone, he then kills Jean, taking her nose.

Dracula refuses to be ordered around, however the Faceless Man manages to over power Dracula and tosses the vampire out the window. When Dracula comes back, he arrives just as the Faceless Man has succeeded in taking Slammerkin's hair and heart. Before Dracula can get revenge against Windam for killing his evening meal, Windam begins to melt. The Faceless Man realizes just before his final death that vengeance never accomplishes anything.

With Windam now dead as well, Dracula himself is denied his own desire for revenge and is left even more furious than before.

Appearing in "-- No Way Out!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Captain Marvel #38

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Synopsis for "-- No Way Out!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Captain Marvel #38

The Lunatic Legion introduce themselves to the captive Mar-Vell, though in his delirious state he's barely aware of them. They are a group of blue-skinned Kree opposed to their race's intermixing with other species that produced the pink-skinned offshoot and to the Supreme Intelligence that fostered Kree culture away from their conservative ideals. They want to execute Mar-Vell, distrusting him as a pink Kree with mutated powers stationed near their Blue Area outpost. Before that happens, Mar-Vell recovers from Rick's drug-induced trip finding that the mind-expanding effects of the drug have combined with his Cosmic Awareness to make him even more fluid and alert. On top of that, Rick's and Mar-Vell's minds have merged more completely, which they find beneficial in doubling their mental power and allowing them to switch seamlessly even without the Nega-Bands. Together as Captain Marvel, they easily defeat the Lunatic Legion.

When the Watcher who had been with the Legion returns, he doesn't attack Captain Marvel again. Feeling remorse, he instead contacts the other Watchers and declares himself unworthy, prompting them to send a teleportation beam to retrieve him. Feeling like they owe something to the Watcher, Rick prods Mar-Vell to follow him into the beam, which instantly transports them across the universe.

Appearing in ""Now Send... The Scorpion!""

Reprint of the 1st story from
Daredevil #82

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Synopsis for ""Now Send... The Scorpion!""

Reprint of the 1st story from
Daredevil #82

While Daredevil is testing out his prowess to see if he has fully recovered, the Black Widow receives a call from Ivan warning her not to come after him. Not heeding his warning the Black Widow finds herself captured by Mr. Klein's latest employed super-villain: the Scorpion.

While Karen Page seeks continued comfort from her agent Phil, Matt (unaware that Karen is in the city) revises and rebuilds his Billy Club. Just as he's completed it he's alerted by a noise upstairs. While investigating the noise Matt finds the unconscious Ivan and a note asking Daredevil to come to a predetermined location and that the Black Widow is the attacker's hostage.

Battling the Scorpion in Central Park, Daredevil is easily kept at bay because of some added hardware in the form of a laser weapon that's been included in the Scorpion's arsenal. While Daredevil manages to disarm his foe, the Scorpion manages to get away. Meanwhile, Foggy decides to handle the threats of Mr. Klein, and soon learns the true identity of Mr. Klein (The robot Assassin) who informs Foggy that he will now work for him.

Daredevil manages to track the Scorpion to the top of the World Trade Center, which was under construction, and during the battle, the Black Widow gets free and helps Daredevil in the fight. In the heat of the battle, the Black Widow accidentally knocks the Scorpion off the edge the building and the crook falls to his apparent death. After the fight is over, an eyewitness claims that the Black Widow killed the Scorpion in cold blood.

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