Title: Secret Wars II
Issue Number: 4
Release Date: October 1985
Highlights
- Death and resurrection of Dazzler
- First appearance of Kurse, AKA Algrim, Sharon Ing, and Eddie
- Sharon Ing is in love with Beyonder, but he doesn't reciprocate, and in fact, after one particular night together, he just says goodbye, and leaves
- Beyonder takes to the skies in his red Lamborghini
- Reference is made to Thor 247, 248, Rom, The Thing, Alpha Flight 27, and 22
- Beyonder revives Algrim, and watches as he sets on his path to kill Thor
- The military catches up to Beyonder's flying car, and blast him with a missile
- Not happy with it, Beyonder gets out of his car, and walks towards through the air towards the plane he's frozen, takes the plane, and sends the pilot to an auto shop with his damaged vehicle to get it fixed
- Beyonder goes to visit Molecule Man, and asks him to explain love to him
- Beyonder returns to Sharon to find she's overdosed on drugs
- Beyonder revives her and asks why she loves him, only to be told because of how he makes her feel
- Her response isn't good enough, and Beyonder chooses to find someone else - settling on Dazzler
- Beyonder brings Dazzler to a dome floating through space, and introduces himself, he then proceeds to whisk her around the world in an attempt to get her to open up to him
- Dazzler and Beyonder kiss atop a mountain
- Dazzler awakens in France with Beyonder, and he tells her he is going to get her a gift
- Beyonder materializes in the West Edmonton Mall in front of Alpha Flight, who immediately attack him - He makes short order of them
- Beyonder tells Shaman he needs to borrow his pouch, but intends to pay him for it, he then produces Shaman's daughter from the depths of the pouch, returning her to him
- Dazzler decides she wants to leave Beyonder, and he teleports her to New York
- When Dazzler tells him she wants to live her life and follow her dreams, Beyonder teleports her to a stage with a full audience, but she says she wants to earn her dream on her own
- The Avengers arrive, deeming Beyonder too powerful to be on Earth unchecked
- The Avengers attack, intent on stopping Beyonder, but to no avail, as Dazzler saves his life, allowing the two to teleport back to the mountaintop
- Beyonder admits that those weren't the real Avengers, but rather he materialized them to get Dazzler to prove she loved him
- Beyonder gives Dazzler half his power, making them equals, but she declines it, telling him she doesn't love him
- Drained of the energy, Dazzler falls from the sky, hitting the ground, and dying
- Angered that Dazzler doesn't love him, and has died, Beyonder's rage shoots upward in a blast of energy that destroys a galaxy far beyond Earth
- Beyonder revives Dazzler, and manipulates her mind to love him, but realizing it would be empty, he releases her, and returns her to where she was originally before they first met
- For as many highlights as each issue has, Secret Wars II really isn't all that interesting to read
- No Spider-Man
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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