| Characters |
HEROES: Avengers [Captain America; Wonder Man; Vision; Scarlet Witch; Iron Man]; Beast; Black Panther; Angel; Vanguard; Wolverine; Thing; Peregrine; Sasquatch; Blitzkrieg; Storm; Shamrock; Collective Man; Daredevil; She-Hulk; Captain Britain; Darkstar; Talisman; Defensor; Iron Man; Sabra; Arabian Knight; Iron Fist; Sunfire; Invisible Girl; GUEST: Collector (restored to life); VILLAINS: Grandmaster (Death but later Resurrected); Death; CAMEOS: American Eagle; Blue Shield; Shooting Star; Quasar; Union Jack; Hulk |
| Synopsis |
The third contest takes place in a Japanese city of the dead between Thing, Wolverine and Peregrine [Grandmaster's team] vs. Black Panther, Angel and Vanguard [Unknown's team]; The Thing wins for the Grandmaster; The fourth contest takes place in the jungle between Captain America, Sasquatch and Blitzkrieg [Grandmaster's team] and Storm, Shamrock and Collective Man [Unknown's team]; Shamrock wins for the Grandmaster (?; See note below); Grandmaster is declared the winner and the Unknown, who Invisible Girl reveals to be Death, uses the Golden Globe of Life to resurrect the Collector but she uses the Grandmaster's life force to do so; The heroes are returned to earth. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Mark Gruenwald; Steven Grant; Bill Mantlo |
| Pencils |
John Romita, Jr. |
| Inks |
Pablo Marcos |
| Colors |
Don Warfield; Carl Gafford |
| Letters |
Joe Rosen |
| Notes |
In one of the bigger blunders on record, with the final contest looming, the score stands Grandmaster-2 The Unknown-1; Shamrock triumphs in the last conflict and the Grandmaster is declared the winner for the final part of the story; The only problem is that Shamrock was on The Unknown's team which would have made the battles tied; I guess even cosmic entities can make mistakes. |