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Appearing in "Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #24

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Synopsis for "Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #24
Dominus and his minions near completion on the Master Machine that will enslave the world, confident that his gambit to trap the Avengers in the past was flawless. He's therefore quite shaken when the Avengers suddenly attack the base in force. Dominus sends the Desert Dwellers out to stop them, including dozens of duplicates of the artificial members Butte, Gila, and Cactus. With their team bolstered by Doctor Pym, La Espirita, and Moon Knight, the Avengers easily gain the upper hand on the henchmen. Sunstroke, the one human of the Desert Dwellers knows when to fall back and flies up the shaft of the towering silo where Dominus awaits.

The Avengers follow and as they near the top they're confronted by the costumed man they've believed to be Dominus. The man takes the moment to explain that he's actually a just a vessel through which Dominus speaks. While his race created the Master Machine to enslave lesser races, they didn't count on becoming enslaved themselves. Dominus is the Master Machine and at that moment he's all around the Avengers built into the walls of the upper levels of the silo. Dominus blasts the Avengers with its mind-enslaving rays, completely immobilizing them, then dismisses Sunstroke to another assigned location. As Dominus' vessel walks to the machine controls, gloating about his victory, he doesn't notice Moon Knight walk up and clock him. Not understanding how his enemy could still be moving, he blasts Moon Knight again, but again Moon Knight shakes it off and pushes forward. Dominus panics, unable to comprehend how someone could resist its power, and its inability to resolve the paradox soon causes the entire machine and by extension the base to rumble and burst into flames as it begins to collapse. Moon Knight wisely keeps quiet about how Dominus really was enslaving his minds, but with his multiple personalities he had minds to spare.

The Avengers are freed from the effects of the machine and are able to escape the collapsing mountain. As it does, they see the core of the Dominus machine blast off into space on a rocket. The fliers of the team try to pursue, but when Wonder Man's jets stall in the upper atmosphere, Iron Man breaks off to rescue him from the fall. Wonder Man is hardly grateful, arguing that his invulnerable body would have survived the fall and it was more important to catch Dominus. Nonetheless, the day is saved even though Dominus and Sunstroke escaped.

Later, as the Avengers finally return home, Wonder Man is ambushed by his producer's assistant, who is finally able to inform him that everyone hates his new costume.

Appearing in "Bodies and Souls!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #136

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Synopsis for "Bodies and Souls!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #136
In Afghanistan, a wizard by the name of Shafik Wazzan has taken control of Gargoyle through use of a crystal globe inscribed with a pentagram. At the same time a world away, Cloud is awakened from a nightmare by Sassafras. Moondragon happens upon the screaming heroine, who doesn't recognize the telepath in her terrified, half-awake state. Moondragon uses a mild mental beam to put Cloud back to sleep.

Back in Afghanistan, the leader of the Mujahideen rebel army chastises the wizard for failing to use his magic to drive away any of the invading soldiers. Just then, they are attacked by Soviet helicopters, which the wizard destroys by summoning forth giant demonic hands. The wizard then draws a large pentagram on the ground with fire that emerges from his fingertip. The Mujahideen chieftain says that he is unimpressed and threatens to have the wizard killed, so the wizard conjures up a giant image of the Gargoyle, which smashes the soldiers.

Meanwhile, back at Defenders headquarters, Cloud has a dream about the forbidden love she harbours for Moondragon and awakens to find that she has transformed into a boy. Cloud had been wrestling with her romantic feelings towards Moondragon because they were both female; now that Cloud is a male, he feels free to express his love for Moondragon. The other Defenders are shocked by Cloud’s transformation, particularly Iceman.

Back in Afghanistan, Shafik pays a visit to the Soviets and demonstrates his powers by turning a general’s face into clay. The Gargoyle tries to convince him to stop abusing his powers, but he cannot resist the wizard’s hold over him, so he convinces the mystic to go to America in order to plunder its’ wealth. They are transported to New York, but he senses that Dr. Strange lives there and realizes that the Gargoyle tricked him into coming here so that Strange might detect his presence and stop him. Seeing a poster advertising the Rockies, Shafik decides to go there instead, unaware that the Defenders live there.

As the demon and his new master land nearby, Moondragon senses danger and that Gargoyle is involved, so the Defenders fly to Colorado. They confront the wizard and demand that he release their friend. Believing that the Defenders are demons, the wizard summons a giant apparition of the Gargoyle to destroy them.

Appearing in "Superioribus 29"

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Synopsis for "Superioribus 29"

A fashion show for superhero costumes is attended by superheroes.

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