Title: Secret Wars II
Issue Number: 2
Release Date: August 1985
Highlights
- Inspired by the physique of Captain America, Beyonder creates himself a muscular human body to experience life with
- His first experience is gravity, when he steps off the side of a building, expecting to float down to the road below, but instead plummets, turning back to his cosmic form just before impact
- Beyonder chooses to try eating, and mimics a man ordering a hot dog and cream soda - However, rather than drink the glass bottle of soda, he chomps down on it, devouring the shards of broken glass
- He notes that eating is an intense experience that will require his human form body to be repaired
- Reference is made to Fantastic Four 280, 281, Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, and Marvel Fanfare 20
- Hate Monger takes on the form of Reed Richards, allowing him to get close enough to Sue Storm, and turn her into Malice, Mistress of Hate
- Beyonder enters a clothing show and asks the shopkeeper the significance of eating and clothing - The shopkeeper tells him he can't help him, and that he should find someone he knows to explain these things
- Beyond does just that, and teleports to the Daily Bugle asking Peter Parker as he enters an elevator - Peter thinks him a nut, and keeps walking, only to be followed
- Peter evades the man, changes into his Spider-Man costume, and then thinking he'll have the drop on him, jumps out, only to see nobody
- Confused, Spider-Man heads home, followed by an invisible Beyonder
- Standing at his fridge, Peter ponders if he was hallucinating the man because he hasn't eaten all day, and as he thinks that, the Beyonder appears, asking if hallucinating is why there is eating
- Beyonder than questions him on why he changed clothes, and why his thoughts changed when he did
- Peter recognizes the man as Beyonder
- As the two sit on his couch, Peter informs Beyonder that he can't help him with his questions about the meaning of life, and suggests he go see Reed Richards
- Peter realizes he's just sent Beyonder to randomly pop in on the Fantastic Four, and in a panic heads to intercept
- The FF4 are reunited with Sue, who is no longer Malice, and they are in mid battle with Hate Monger (see low points below)
- Beyonder shows up in the middle of the battle to ask Reed if hallucinating is why there is eating
- The FF4 capture Hate Monger, but his cohort, Scourge (hidden in shadows, and unknown), escapes
- The mysterious figure briefly returns, and blasts Hate Monger, turning him into a puddle of ooze, and then quickly disappears again
- Reed explains that it's not the real Hate Monger, but rather a humanoid construct
- Unable to answer his questions immediately, Beyonder departs from Reed
- While taking a suit from a mannequin, Beyonder is approached by the homeless woman, Elsie Gertz, who chastises him for stealing, and then tells him how the suit doesn't fit, and that he doesn't have shoes
- As Beyonder mentally makes the adjustments to his attire, Elsie approves, and tells him to stick with her because she knows how the world works
- A group of thugs jump Elsie and Beyonder at her alleyway cardboard box
- Beyonder gets beaten to a pulp, and Elsie hands him a card, telling him he should see help from them
- Instantly healing himself, Beyonder takes the card, and informs Elsie he shall seek them out
- Beyonder appears in the office of Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Heroes For Hire, but they aren't there
- Sensing them in the past, Beyonder plucks the men from time, bringing them to the office
- Thinking its a customary greeting, Beyonder punches Luke Cage across the room when he approaches him, and follows suit with an equally pounding on Iron Fist
- Luke Cage grabs Beyonder from behind, and tells him to go outside with him so that they don't bust up the office, to which Beyonder agrees, and promptly walks through the window of the fourteenth floor
- As he falls, Luke Cage jumps out after him, only for Beyonder to use his powers to not hit the ground - Luke Cage on the other hand, hits the ground hard, but being invulnerable, isn't down for long
- Iron Fist attempts to explain that humans want to be one with the universe, to which Luke Cage interrupts, and teaches Beyonder about money, and its value, and why it's important to everyone
- Spider-Man sees the three talking, and joins them on the ground
- Beyonder, thinking he has the grasp of money, turns the Heroes For Hire building into solid gold, but it collapses under the weight of it
- When asked by the two why he did that, he informs them to pay for their services, and then says he's going, and disappears
- In disappearing, Luke and Iron Fist are returned to their original point in time they were initially plucked from, leaving Spider-Man standing there by himself
- You have to read Fantastic Four 281, otherwise you miss how the Fantastic Four save Sue Storm from her Malice persona
- The ending says to read Web Of Spider-Man 6, then The Amazing Spider-Man 268, and finally Fantastic Four 282 before returning to Secret Wars II 3
- So basically, this is a giant cross over series, and not contained to the pages of the mini series, as the previous Secret Wars was
Oddities
- Prior to leaving Peter's apartment, he teaches Beyonder how to use the bathroom
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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