Appearing in ""The Evil That Is Cast...""
Incredible Hulk Annual #7
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Supporting Characters:
- Angel (Warren Worthington)
- Candy Southern
- Doc Samson (Leonard Samson)
- General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
- Iceman (Bobby Drake)
- Jim Wilson
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Other Characters:
- Terri Sue Bottoms (First appearance)
- CBS News
- Charles P. Irwin (First appearance)
- United States Air Force
- Julius (First appearance)
- X-Men (Only in recap)
- Jean Grey (Only in recap)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Only in recap)
- Stephen Lang (Only in recap)
- Champions (Referenced)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Referenced)
- Blob (Fred Dukes) (Referenced)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (Mentioned)
- Bolivar Trask (Mentioned)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned)
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- X-Uniforms
- Cerebro (Referenced)
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Synopsis for ""The Evil That Is Cast...""
Incredible Hulk Annual #7
Although Bruce Banner may have voluntarily turned himself in to the authorities at Gamma Base, the Hulk has no such predilection for staying. Doc Samson tries to keep him from leaving, but the Hulk literally pounds him into the ground until his young friend Jim Wilson manages to calm him down.
Meanwhile, Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, brings his girlfriend, Terri Sue Bottoms to the Rocky Mountains chalet of his friend and team-mate, the Avenging Angel, Warren Worthington III. As the friends are relaxing by the pool, they find themselves suddenly attacked by a disguised Master Mold. Master Mold captures Iceman, while the Angel flies off hoping to lure him away from Terri and his own girlfriend, Candy Southern.
Master Mold flies after him and before long, they reach the airspace over top of Gamma Base. The klaxons sound and Doc Samson runs out to face Master Mold. Master Mold quickly dispatches Doc Samson by slamming him into the side of one of the buildings, disrupting a formerly resting Hulk. The Hulk rampages outside just as Master Mold captures Angel. The giant robotic Sentinel then flies off, but the Hulk leaps onto him and piggybacks on Master Mold's foot.
Master Mold finally reaches his space station planetoid where he places Angel, Iceman and the Hulk into special tubes designed to dampen mutant powers. As the Hulk is not a mutant, he easily breaks free and releases the other two. The Hulk follows Master Mold back to his command center and lays into him. Master Mold tries to keep the Hulk at bay with a million volts of electricity, but this only stuns the Hulk momentarily who then proceeds to tear Master Mold into pieces. Afterward, the three heroes get into an escape pod and return to Earth.
Appearing in "Weep for a Lost Nightmare!"
Iron Man #44
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Antagonists:
- Mr. Kline (MK-9)
- Night Phantom
- Soulfather (Mikas) (Mentioned)
Other Characters:
- Captain America (Steve Rogers)
- Whitney Frost (Dream)
- Janice Cord (Dream)
- Night Phantom (Travis Hoyt) (Dream)
- Bridget (First appearance)
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Synopsis for "Weep for a Lost Nightmare!"
Iron Man #44
Kevin O'Brien in the guise of the Guardsman brings Iron Man to Avengers Mansion. Captain America momentarily mistakes the Guardsman as the foe that injured Iron Man and confronts him. The two intially fight, but then the Guardsman explains that he took Iron Man to the mansion to aid him. The Guardsman uses the mansion's equipment to repair Tony's pacemaker.
Elsewhere, Mr. Kline fumes over his inability to control Stark's mind, but he still is able to influence his subconscious dreams so he sends Tony nightmare images of the Night Phantom. Mr. Kline also built a Night Phantom android with plans to send it out to confront Iron Man. As Tony recovers at his penthouse, Kevin finds his attraction to Marianne difficult to control. After Kevin leaves, the Night Phantom android invades the penthouse and menaces Marianne. Tony drags himself from his wheelchair to become Iron Man and fights, only to then realize after he smashes its chest that he is facing another of Mr. Kline's android.
Appearing in ""Battleground: The Baxter Building""
Fantastic Four #183
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Synopsis for ""Battleground: The Baxter Building""
Fantastic Four #183
Returning from their investigation of the scene where the Thing and Tigra battle the Metalloid, Tigra, Thundra and the Impossible Man witness as Sue is thrown out of the upper stories of the Baxter Building. With the Impossible Man the only one with the ability to save her, Thundra is forced to throw him at Sue when he proves too slow to realize that a fall from that height will kill her and he rescues her in the nick of time. Watching this from the window, the Brute is furious but decides to set up the Baxter Building's defenses in order to prevent them from stopping him.
While in the Negative Zone, Annihilus tells Reed, Ben and Johnny the origins of the creature they just battled. He explains that it is in reality the Mad Thinker's old Ultimate Android that the FF were forced to eject into the Negative Zone to defeat. Annihilus would take it and recreate it into the loyal Scavenger. However, at his last defeat at the hands of the Fantastic Four, the Scavenger would pull Annihilus' cosmic control rod form his body, gaining full sentience and mutating into his current form. With the Scavenger's origins told, Annihilus tries to flies off to stop it, but Reed and the others stop him and agree to go back to the positive matter universe and stop the creature and send back Annihilus' cosmic control rod for him.
As the Mad Thinker heads to the Baxter Building hoping to retrieve the Scavenger without issue, the Invisible Girl, Tigra and Thundra head toward the Baxter Building to confront the Brute. The Impossible Man, finding the day's ordeal boring decides to wander off and find fun elsewhere. As they fight through the bases defenses, the Scavenger arrives through the Negative Zone portal and thinking that the Brute is the person who summoned him and not wanting to be a slave again, attacks him. As Sue and the others break through the various defenses until the shut them down, Reed, Ben and Johnny travel to the Negative Zone portal when their ship is attacked by Borers.
On Earth, the Scavenger gains the upper hand against the Brute by blasting him with cosmic rays, causing him to revert back into his Reed Richards form. As Reed and the others fight off the Borers in the Negative Zone, Sue and her friends enter the lab and battle the Scavenger. When Reed, Johnny and Ben make it back to Earth they join the fight as well, and during the fight the Mad Thinker arrives and realizes that his calculations were incredibly off and retreats before he is discovered. When the Thing knocks out the Scavenger, Reed recovers the Cosmic Control Rod from its neck. As he's about to re-enter the Negative Zone to return it to Annihilus, his counterpart from Counter-Earth snatches it. Telling them that he has regained his sanity and realizes how noble the Fantastic Four are and that he has nothing left to live for, the Counter-Earth Richards dives into the Negative Zone portal to complete the mission himself.
Appearing in "Birthright!"
Daredevil #110
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Other Characters:
- Frederic Beechman
- Emily Beechman
- Buck Sinclair
- Gemma Sinclair
- Ben Grimm
- NYPD
- Jack
Locations:
- New Jersey
- New York City
- New Mexico (Only in flashback)
- Missouri (Only in flashback)
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Synopsis for "Birthright!"
Daredevil #110
Story continued from Marvel Two-In-One Vol 1 3...
Returning back to New York following their battle with the Black Spectre, Daredevil learns how the Thing saw who their leader really is, not a woman, but some kind of thing. Thanking Ben for the info, Daredevil jumps from the Fantasticar and swings to the ground below. Along the way down he spots members of the Black Spectre gang.
Battling one of their number, Daredevil knocks her out and removes the helmet and reveals, as he's suspected all along, that the members of Black Spectre are all women wearing padded costumes to conceal their gender. What Daredevil doesn't see, and isn't told until he brings the woman into the local police station is that she has a facial tattoo. There is he is told that they are going to be released due to the fact that they have not committed any crime that they can be booked for. Before they are released Shanna the She-Devil arrives with her pets to charge them with accessory to murder when suddenly the holding room explodes, and they realize that the members of Black Spectre have been rigged with explosives.
Aboard Black Spectre's ship, Nekra takes the Black Widow to their leader and he orders her to go to New York City and collect Daredevil, whom he intends to also make his slave. While back in the city, Daredevil calls it a night and when he arrives home he finds the leader of Black Spectre waiting for him. Unmasking the leader turns out to be the apish mutant known as the Mandrill.
The Mandrill explains his origins: That years ago a white nuclear scientist and a black cleaning lady were both working in an atomic lab when they were both bombarded with radiation. The radiation caused their children to be born mutants: The black woman giving birth to a chalk-white baby, while the scientists wife birthing a black child covered with hair. As they grew they continued to mutate and they were mocked and ridiculed by their peers. Eventually the man abandoned their boy out in the desert, and the girl ran away from home. They would meet and become friends, riding the rails and learning by stealing books and listening outside of classrooms. Eventually, an angry mob would attack them and this is when their latent mutant abilities to manifest would come into play, the Mandrill's ability to control others, especially women, and Nekra's strength and durability being fueled by others hatred. Realizing the power that they now wield, they would vow to destroy the institutions that caused them so much pain and misery.
Daredevil attacks the Mandrill who throws the hero out a window. As the two begin to fight it out on the streets, a crowd of onlookers begin to crowd around, and the police are called. Afraid to get captured the Mandrill makes his escape, and Daredevil is unable to track him with his radar sense due to the noise caused by the crowd and oncoming police cars.