Things are going crazy at the Daily Bugle offices after Ben Urich’s story about the Green Goblin being in the employ of Tony Stark and the pro-registration forces. Ben is in Washington to cover Speedball’s address before Congress; while on the phone to Robbie, he sees Speedball shot by a mysterious assailant….
Sally Floyd, in federal custody, is visited by Congressman Sykes, who has come to offer her a deal. He offers her freedom in exchange for listening to him. Sykes reveals that he was a POW in Vietnam and vowed to protect people’s freedoms and he believes the Super-Human Registration Act is the best way to do that. He insists the Act is fine but there are problems with the implementation that he is trying to clear up, a mission she should sympathize with. She realizes that he is right….
At Osborn Industries, Norman Osborn meets with a mysterious visitor, a pro-Registration hero who is plotting to betray his country. He gives Norman a chemical that suppresses the tracking nanites injected into him, allowing him to avoid surveillance, to carry out a mission for his sinister benefactor….
Story #2The Accused Part Seven
Writer:
Paul Jenkins. Penciler/Inker:
Steve LieberSynopsis
Robbie Baldwin, the former
Speedball, has been gunned down by an assailant on the Capitol steps. As paramedics hustle him into an ambulance accompanied by
She-Hulk, Robbie drifts in and out of delirium, flashing back to his childhood and also realizing that to confess to his part in the
Stamford incident would be to admit that all his
New Warrior friends are dead. The knowledge that he is guilty of what he has been accused of causes a brief resurgence of his powers, blowing out the transmission of the ambulance, causing it to crash….
Story #3Sleeper Cell Part Five
Writer:
Paul Jenkins. Penciler/Inker:
Lee WeeksSynopsis
Detectives
Dixon and
Altieri, investigating the disappearance of pet shop owner
Joe, arrive at a devastated warehouse. The place is full of dead
Atlanteans and exotic weapons. Paramedics soon discover an unconscious
Wonder Man in the rubble. A groggy Wondy recalls what had happened: he was awaiting
SHIELD backup for a raid when the
Green Goblin swooped down and started hurling pumpkin bombs. Wonder Man tried to drive him off but a final bomb destroyed the roof and kayoed the hero. At this point Dixon suspects they are facing more than they expected….
Story #4(No title given)
Writer:
Paul Jenkins. Penciler/Inker:
Eduardo BarretoSynopsis
The carnage of the
Battle of the Somme during
World War 1 is paralleled to the fight against the
Atlanteans in the third story in this issue.