He claims that at the end of that conflict he devised a greater plan, and deliberately lost the game - letting Death take him. And how Grandmaster and Death recruited heroes to battle for them in the Contest Of Champions mini-series - the prize being his 'brother' Collector's life. He reminds them how Collector was killed by Korvac ( Av#174 during the Korvac Saga). They now unite against the GM but he easily repels them with the power he has stolen from Death, who is confined in chains of energy. The 2 sides had been recruited by Elders Of The Universe Collector and Grandmaster, but now it seems it was all a plan by GM to defeat Death.
Legion of the unliving members plus#
The Avengers ( Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Dr Druid, She-Hulk and Thor plus the on-leave Wasp) have just fought the West Coast Avengers ( Dr Pym, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Mockingbird, Tigra and Wonder Man plus thinking-about-joining Moon Knight) in the land of the dead while Silver Surfer sought out Death herself. She apparently has a reserve Avenger status and will also show up after that in Av#305.Ĭontinued from WEST COAST AVENGERS ANNUAL #2. In Av Spotlight #24/2 she learns that her powers are a 'gift' from aliens not God and abandons her Espirita id and returns to being Firebird. Tigra's not in that issue but she'll be back for #26.Īfter SS#3 above Espirita will hang around for WCA#25 but then leave.
Moon Knight will officially join and Wonder Man will decide to stay. But in the meantime she'll spend time with the WCA starting in their #32.
Legion of the unliving members series#
She won't be back in this series until #305. John Walker takes over as Cap from #333.Ĭaptain Marvel cameos in CA#332 and then joins the rest of the team in the last page of Av#285 where they try to find the missing SR. Steve Rogers resigns as Captain America in his #332 and leaves the Avengers too. Thor leaves the Avengers for a long storyline involving Celestials starting in Th#386. But then she'll be dragged into the Elders' plans in SS#10. And later that he still intends to destroy this universe so that the EOTU can survive into the next 1.ĭeath will appear next in Solo Av#5/2 to relieve John Kowalski of his War Is Hell role. And SS finds Espirita trapped on Collector's spaceship, and returns her to Earth.Īnd then in SS#4 we learn GM's real plan - when Death exiled him, making him immortal, it also made *all* the Elders Of The Universe immortal. He did, but Matani committed suicide again as she had done before - because she was tired of her long life.Ĭollector claims to know nothing about Champion's motives, but we readers learn otherwise. Collector says he did what GM asked because he owed him for CoC, and because GM would return Collector's wife Matani to life. Surfer will call on the Collector to grill him about the plot, and why Elder Champion attacked him in SS#1. This dangling plot thread will be picked up in Silver Surfer #3. In West Coast Avengers Annual #2 the WCA took poison provided by the Collector to enter Death's realm to rescue the East Coasters. This Annual and the Avengers seem to have forgotten about Espirita. But ironically it turns out he already *was* a duplicate of the Supreme version created by Grandmaster for Av#69-70. They make an exception for Hyperion who they say is the evil Squadron Sinister version who was killed in Squadron Supreme #8. This has happened to so many of the characters (eg Bucky, Green Goblin, Nighthawk) in this LOTU that many including the Marvel Chronology Project believe them all to be duplicates. It is possible that in the moment he surrendered he had devised the greater game he could play here.Ī previous Legion Of The Unliving was recruited by Kang in Av#131-132 & Giant-Size Av#3, none of them appearing in this later collection.Ī problem with dead people in the Marvel Universe is that so many of them turn out not to be. But GM honourably gave his own life for his 'brother'. Or he could sacrifice all the assembled heroes in his place.
But she had neglected to mention that it would require an equal life in exchange - GM's own. Death was then obliged to return Collector to life. It said he *won* 3-1 (although an intense scrute of the actual match reveals a 2-2 draw). Grandmaster misstates how Contest Of Champions ended. Bob Hall & Tom Palmer are the artists on the top and tail chapters 1&7, but different artists handle the others:- 2 - John Romita Jr & Bill Sienkiewicz. Chapters 2-6 detail the 5 individual battles. As usual this Annual is divided into chapters.
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