Comics Corner: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 4

    

Title: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
Issue Number: 4
Release Date: August 1984

Highlights

• First appearance of Zsaji
• Death of Kang
• Molecular Man destroy the super heroes headquarters with a wave of his hand, and then drops a mountain on them
• Thor and Enchantress return to where they original left from - Unfortunately, it's to a destroyed base, surrounded by all the villains
• Thor is defeated, and seemingly disintegrated, but actually escaped
• Doom has Ultron kill Kang to show the other villains that treachery against him will not be tolerated
• Reference is made to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 1
• The X-Men arrive at Magneto's base, and inform him they want to work together
• Wasp reveals that she was just going along with Magneto to reveal his plan, and now that she knows, she's bailing
• The X-Men try to stop Wasp, but she defeats them, and escapes
• Wolverine complains that the X-Men keep getting defeated by everyone they attack
• The Hulk struggles to brace the mountain on his back, keeping it from crushing the heroes
• Reed Richards concocts a plan to free the heroes, but it requires items from the other heroes, including Spider-Man's web shooters
• Reed Richards insults Hulk, intentionally making him angrier because his anger makes him stronger, buying more time for him to create a cannon which Iron Man uses to blast a massive hole through the mountain
• Captain Marvel scouts the planet, and finds a village where she leads the other heroes to
• The villagers take them in
• Galactus remains standing on the mountain top, which is within site of the village
• The healer of the village helps the wounded, including healing Human Torch's broken arm and ribs
• Ben Grim suddenly turns back into the Thing
• Without warning, Galactus begins moving, all to the horrific shouts of "No" from Reed Richards

Low Points

• Things have been steadily slowing down since the previous issue

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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