Title: Secret Wars II
Issue Number: 1
Release Date: July 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Thundersword, AKA Stewart Cadwall, Boromir, and Marian
- First appearance of McBurgers, and Quality Inn
- The Beyonder travels through the void of space, looking for Earth, crashing to the ground in Denver, Colorado, near the home of Molecule Man, and Volcana, and the two panic when they see him
- Across the world in Muir Island, Scotland, Charles Xavier startles on the couch, shouting the name of the Beyonder, immediately knowing he is somewhere in the Western United States
- Reference is made to "recent issues" of New Mutants and X-Men, as well as Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
- Xavier reaches out to Captain America telepathically, as the hero travels on a 747 from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's JFK
- Cap uses his status as an Avenger to get the plane rerouted to Los Angeles
- Abridged retelling of the events of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
- Magneto stands before many of the X-Men in Xavier's School, but when Wolverine, Rogue, Rachel Summers, and Shadowcat learn of it, they literally bust in, immediately in attack mode
- Only Colossus and Nightcrawler are able to convince them he's only there to talk
- Magneto informs them that Xavier has asked him to lead the X-Men against the Beyonder, and Nightcrawler agrees to comply on behalf of the team...for now
- Magneto travels the X-Men across the country, using his magnetism to levitate a car they're all sitting within
- Taking over Molecule Man's body, Beyonder appears to Stewart Caldwell, and his girlfriend Marian, expressing to him that he wants to "experience," and "understand"
- In Los Angeles, Magneto recruits additional mutants, Cannonball, Magik, Dazzler, and Lila Cheney
- Beyonder turns Stewart into Thundersword
- Rachel is able to find Beyonder telepathically, and leads the flying car full of mutants to him
- Thundersword immediately uses his powers for evil, destroying television stations, and attacking those who make him rewrite his scripts
- Thundersword sees them approaching, and immediately attacks, destroying the vehicle
- Thundersword destroys a MacBurger restaurant for its high fat, non-nutritional food values, but in the process the flames he creates set a neighboring motel ablaze
- Captain America join the fight against Thundersword
- Ilyana Rasputin finds a cloaked Beyonder, and when he materializes in front of her, and grabs her, she transforms into Dark Chylde
- Dark Chylde panics, and in doing so creates a portal which whisks her, and several mutants into the unknown
- Seeing this, Wolverine rushes Beyonder, followed by Magneto, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Colossus, Lila, and Rachel Summers
- Despite slicing Beyonder multiple times with his claws, the God is not phased
- Equally panicked, Lila creates a portal in fear of Beyonder, teleporting the remaining mutants away
- Just before Cap is defeated by Thundersword, Iron Man (James Rhodes) joins the fight
- Iron Man's instruments inform him that Thundersword's power is emanating from his sword, and he and Cap separate him from it, returning the villain back to his true form of Stewart
- Cap approaches Beyonder, and when he states he wants a word with him, the God vanishes in the blink of an eye
- Stewart has a nervous breakdown from his actions, knowing that he's destroyed the studios where he worked
- As Captain America departs from the scene, he's unaware that he's being followed by an invisible Beyonder
- It's definitely not as interesting a starting point as the original Secret Wars was - In fact, it's kind of goofy
- Part of his chronological reading order, but no Spider-Man in this issue
- To read the next part of the story, you have to turn to the pages of New Mutants 30, Captain America 308, X-Men 196, and Iron Man 197
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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