Dungeons of Doom (2026 series) #1

In the wake of the death of Doctor Doom, various parties are interested in uncovering the secrets of his lair. The US Army, led by General Thunderbolt Ross, is attacking the building occupied by a cadre of Latverian freedom fighters. In the midst of the battle, Hydra airships swoop down from above to try to seize the building. A frustrated Ross transforms into Red Hulk to join the fight. And then the ground gives way beneath them, swallowing up several of the combatants….

A group of American soldiers can hear Red Hulk crashing away but they don’t know where. They enter a building and find their way into a laboratory filled with clocks. An automated message is triggered: the voice of Professor Charles Xavier warns them to turn back, the room was never meant to be opened as it holds a mutant that should never have been born….

Several freedom fighters pull themselves out of the rubble, including Aleksander, Sofia, and Borys. They find a gravely injured Hydra agent who mocks them for not knowing what they have been guarding. He raises a knife and Aleksander shoots him. They come to a room full of crypts and open a map smuggled to them by some builders who were executed by Doom to maintain this room’s secrets. In this room is a secret door to the deepest part of the dungeons. They open one crypt and a gruesome multi-eyed monster leaps out at them. They fire on it but it has no effect; the monster seizes a man and drains him of his energy, leaving a withered husk. As they fight the huge creature, Aleksander sees the spirit of his murdered sister hovering over one of the tombs. He opens it up and it is filled with water. As his sister’s shade dives in, he calls to the others to join him…as they have no choice….

The crew of a Hydra plane fight their way out of the wreckage and find themselves in what appears to be a prison. One agent spies a huge hammer but he can’t lift it. One of the men has a broken back and is whimpering in pain; the ship commander shoots him to silence him. They find a door and look for tools to break it down. The commander picks up the hammer and thinks it says “Worthy” as it begins to glow….

Then a sleek aircraft appears in the sky, carrying a Wakandan agent called Umbra. He leaps out, his winged suit carrying him to the top of the giant Doctor Doom statue; swinging on a cord takes him through the statue’s eye and inside. His master Nagiku, a giant bat, instructs him to descend into the deepest dungeons to find their treasure and he must kill any who stand in his way….