A Hydra chemist has
developed a means of injecting poison that overcomes a victim’s healing
abilities so they try to test it on Wolverine. A gang of agents ambush Logan at
an outdoor market, shooting him full of holes. The chemist injects him but
Logan jumps up and cuts down the gun agents while the chemist flees to the
subway. Logan pursues him through the underground system until the chemist
manages to trick Logan into missing the train. At the airport booking a flight
to St. Thomas, the chemist discovers he lost his meds in the battle; if
Wolverine finds it, he has the chemist’s name, address and access to the
antidote. He calls home…and Logan answers….
“Into the Tomb” 3.5/5
Writer: James Felder. Pencils:
Jose Ladronn. Inks: Juan Vlasco. Letters: Richard Starkings.
Synopsis: Seeking to
learn if Dracula is alive again, Blade travels to a village in Eastern Europe
intending to go to Castle Dracula. He finds all the villagers dead, impaled on
huge stakes with only a priest, Father Nicolas, alive. The priest warns him to
leave but, seeing his determination, chooses to accompany him to the castle.
There they find the corpses of a band of villagers who sought to destroy
Dracula. The men are attacked by two of Dracula’s brides and kill them after a
battle. But there is a third bride who appears to be Blade’s long-dead mother;
they struggle and Blade is seriously injured; Father Nicolas ministers to him
and places his cross around Blade’s neck. The priest is then decapitated by
Dracula and revived so that the zombie snatches his cross back. Dracula appears
and promises a gruesome death to Blade. And the tomb is closed again….
“Prisoners of the Red
Ghost/Trio of Terror” 3.5/5
Writer: John Rozum. Art: Wilfred
Santiago. Letters: Richard Starkings.
Synopsis: Captain Marvel
is trapped in the Negative Zone while the Red Ghost has Rick Jones a prisoner
in his lab on the Blue Area of the Moon. Red Ghost is trying to duplicate the
Nega-Bands so that he can free his allies Annihilus and Blastaar from the
Negative Zone and conquer Earth. Mar-Vell battles the two villains aboard
Annihilus’ ship while Red Ghost succeeds in duplicating the bands. RG clicks
them together and is transported to the Negative Zone (where he is clobbered by
Blastaar), which sends Mar-Vell to the Moon so he can free Rick. He then
returns to t eh Zone to confront the Ghost who turns intangible…making his
Nega-Bands fall to the floor. Mar-Vell picks one up and destroys it, trapping
Red Ghost in the Zone with his sorely disappointed allies. Rick returns to
Earth as Mar-Vell destroys the last remaining fake Bands….
“Strange Reflections”
2.5/5
Writer: Michael Golden. Pencils:
Michael Golden. Inks: John Beatty, Al Milgrom. Letters: Richard Starkings.
Synopsis: A largely
wordless story contrasts Doctor Strange battling various occult fiends in a
mystic land with a little boy watching television all day. At the end, Strange
defeats his foes and appears as the boy’s reflection on the TV screen after he
has turned it off.
Pin-Up: Captain Marvel, Doctor
Strange by Tony S. Daniel (back cover)