Comics Corner: Secret Wars II 6

   

Title: Secret Wars II
Issue Number: 6
Release Date: December 1985

Highlights

• First appearance of Dave Shooter, an avid comic collector and reader, and clearly meant to embody Editor-in-Chief / writer, Jim Shooter
• First appearance of Mr. McCorkle, and the Council of Watchers
• First appearance of Sparta, Illinois and Perth
• Beyonder erects a giant headquarters in Sparta, Illinois
• Dave Shooter, reporter for the Sun-Telegraph notices the new building, and smelling a story, heads out to investigate
• Beyonder watches Power Pack "getting into trouble" on his large monitor, and heads out to help
• Reference is made to Power Pack 17, Fantastic Four 20, and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 11
• Beyonder helps them by beating up the gang who blast a train track, and then repairing the damage
• Back at his home, Beyonder meets Dave, and rather than answer his questions, shows him with his mento-projector
• Dave becomes Beyonder's personal coordinator, and hires staff to work under him
• Beyonder admits he doesn't need any of this, but is happy that Dave has found his own purpose in life through it
• Watcher comes to Molecule Man in his home, and is not greeted with happiness
• Watcher tells the origin of Molecule Man
• Watcher says the council of his people have agreed to ask Molecule Man to stop Beyonder before he undoes everything - Molecule Man declines, and tells him to find someone else
• With Dave's business model in place, Beyonder takes jobs across the world and universe, helping everyone he can
• Captain America and Reed Richards visit Beyonder, and tell him that while he's doing a lot of good, people will soon become to reliant on him
• Beyonder and Dave meet with Death, with the Beyonder's intensions to eliminate death for all life indefinitely
• Mephisto literally explodes on the scene with demons, ready to stop Beyonder from ruining his realm by destroying death
• Many cosmic beings arrive too, all led by Watcher, who ask Beyonder to hear them out, and not eliminate death
• Death drinks the cup, vanquishing death across every multiverse
• Molecule Man meets with Beyonder, and informs him he's destroyed the whole purpose of life, and people will now every living thing will exist without meaning
• Dave sacrifices himself to resurrect Death
• Beyonder realizes he too must find his purpose, otherwise it would be better for him to die

Low Points

• No Spider-Man
• You would have to read Cloak and Dagger 4, Power Pack 18, Thor 363, Micronauts16, and Power Man and Iron Fist 121 for the continuation of the story

Oddities

• None

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

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