(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: The team is attacked by Xartan aliens who have taken on the identities & powers of the Avengers & who want Ship for their plans of conquest. On the brink of defeat, the team's charges come to their rescue.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: The Voice commands the rest of the team to hunt down & kill his old enemy, Henry Pym, in Bratislava Prison. Hank finds his first wife, Maria Trovaya, who was thought dead & is now the subject of a horrific experiment.

Comments: Dr. Pym leaves the team.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Peter rethinks his plan to rescue Betty from the Students of Love cult after meeting with their Teacher. Flash asks Reverend Tolliver for help, which leads to his contacts forcibly removing Betty from the compound.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: While in her dream state, S'ym turns Madelyne into the Goblin Queen. The X-Men eliminate the threat of Harry Palmer & his band of mutant-powered Brood. Wolverine's healing factor expels the Brood egg planted inside him.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: In the streets of Denver, the X-Men battle against the mutant-powered Brood, who seek to infect them as they have other mutants.

I don’t understand the rave reviews. This is a truly mid-level comic, with artwork that doesn’t really do justice to the Silver Surfer, new characters that aren’t very compelling, and a storyline that’s all over the place, lacking any real grounding. Silver Surfer is one of the most interesting but also one of the hardest characters to write. If you’re making a comic called “The Death of Silver Surfer”, you better bring your A-game. This one just doesn’t deliver. more

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Seth transforms three people near death into Earth Force & commands them to kill Hogun or else he will destroy the world. Thor fights the trio at the hospital where Hogun is on the edge of death after being shot by the police.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary #1: The Star Child encounters the creature emerging from the Pitt & inadvertently kills it while trying to contain it.

Summary #2: The military stops Leland Sharp (Shrapnel) from entering Canada to avoid being forced to join the paranormal army. One of the soldiers reveals himself to be a paranormal to stop Shrapnel.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

C&D = 7.5
DS = 7.5

C&D Summary: Dagger fights against & is overcome by Night's shadow-demons. Night then sets up the now evil Dagger to fight against X-Factor.

DS Summary: Strange visits Victoria Bentley, who resents him for taking away her powers.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: After MJ is hurt by Tombstone, Spidey meets him in Atlanta to fight for possession of Robbie's cassette tape. The Persauder converts the Punisher into a hitman for the Kingpin.

(Cover Date: November, 1994)

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

HE = 7.0
DD = 7.0

HE Summary: At a manufacturers' exposition in LA, Hawkeye fights against a group of thugs who are there to steal the Star of Angels.

DD Summary: While in the subway, Dr. Druid fights against the sorceress Stonecutter's minions & disrupts her plan to rule the upper world by destroying her "trainhenge".

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: The dying Galactus sends the Silver Surfer to get Sue & Reed Richards to help the Surfer in finding the six soul gems in the black hole to save his life. After entering the black hole, they find a mystical universe, where three of the Elders & the six gems are present. However, they don't count on Sue turning into her evil alter ego, Malice, to disrupt their plan. more

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Frank allies himself with a woman he rescued & a brujo (sorcerer) to wipe out a group of human smugglers on the southern US border.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Spyder sends his accountants to reclaim his "property", Lila Cheney, at her rock concert that Sam is attending. Since Sam promised Magneto that he would not use his powers, the rest of the team arrives to save Lila, but she is abducted anyway. Gosamyr tells the team that she will help them rescue Lila if they free her family from Spyder.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

(1) Wolverine
(2) Man-Thing
(3) Master of Kung Fu
(4) The Thing

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

(1) Wolverine
(2) Man-Thing
(3) Master of Kung Fu
(4) The Captain (Captain America)

(Volume 4; Cover Date: August, 2018)

Comments: It felt like a chore to read through this.

(Cover Date: September, 2021)

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

(1) Wolverine
(2) Man-Thing
(3) Master of Kung Fu
(4) Silver Surfer

Comments: Wolverine's first appearance in Madripoor.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: At an electronics expo that Tony is attending, the Radioactive Man captures a curious Spider-Man in order to study his radioactive blood that he sensed earlier when Peter Parker was present. Based on information from Vic Martinelli, Iron Man finds the Radioactive Man at Stane International, where he is employed as Chen Lu. Iron Man encases the Radioactive Man in molten lead from Lu's lab ceiling to neutralize his radioactivity. more

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Now in Las Vegas working as an enforcer, Hulk ("Mr. Fixit") rescues his kidnapped casino boss, Berengetti, from a rival gang leader, Gold, who wants a piece of his action. Later, Hulk meets Marlo for the first time.

Comments: A nice 180 degree pivot by Peter David on the direction of this book.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Doom forces his way past the team to enter the Negative Zone portal to find the Beyonder as part of his scheme to defeat Kristoff. The team follows & are attacked by Blastaar but are rescued by Doom.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: The Bengal is killing the members of Willie Lincoln's platoon in Vietnam as retribution for his village being massacred by some of them as a child. After Willie asks DD for help, DD has a brutal fight with the Bengal in Central Park. DD takes the unconscious Bengal to Willie's apartment. When the Bengal wakes up, he remembers that Willie was blinded by a grenade & jumps out the window, presumably killed by the 6 story fall. more

(Cover Date: January, 2006)

(Volume 5; Cover Date: September, 2018)

(Volume 3; Cover Date: November, 2023)

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: After Willow's mind merges with the Computer Central, one of the corrupt ruling elite, who is about to be arrested by Oedi, sends a battle automaton to destroy her. Fixx, Teuton & Vanth take turns at stopping the robot. Vanth eventually pulls the head off of the robot to destroy it.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: Mastodon & Zentner come to "recruit" Stephanie into the paranormal army in order to use her healing powers to cure Jenny of her fungus disease contracted from the Pitt.

(Cover Date: September, 1988)

Summary: After learning of a nuclear missile that will be launched by the white supremacist nation, Azania, against Wakanda, the Black Panther goes to Azania to force its general to stop the attack.