Title: Secret Wars II
Issue Number: 5
Release Date: November 1985
Highlights
- First appearance of Boom-Boom, AKA Tabitha Smith
- First appearance of World Complex Headquarters
- While walking down a train track, Beyonder makes a gun out of his fingers, and "fires" at the train, causing all its parts to separate, but gently landing the passengers on the ground
- Boom-Boom, who was on the train, and is also a mutant, figures out that it was him who did it, and says the least he can do is let her walk with him
- Boom-Boom says she's headed for Professor X's school
- After Beyonder makes a camp for them, we get a brief origin of Boom-Boom, and her backstory at home, and a showcase of her powers
- Beyonder leaves, and returns home, only to quickly have the desires of everything he left behind, including his love for Dazzler
- Boom-Boom has left an exploding ball in Beyonder's back pocket, and it does just that
- Beyonder returns to Earth, and drives Boom-Boom to Professor X's school
- When the X-Men see Beyonder, they storm out after him, chasing him away
- As Boom-Boom is left there alone, she quickly realizes she doesn't want to be there, but instead with Beyonder
- After not being able to call him back, Boom-Boom sets a bomb for herself, content on killing herself, but Beyonder arrives as it explodes, saving her from it
- Beyonder takes Boom-Boom for a ride - Deep into space, to the headquarters of the Celestials
- When Beyonder states he's the most powerful being in the universe, Boom-Boom tells him that the Celestials didn't so much as move when they saw him
- Wanting to prove a point, Beyonder tells the Celestials that he is going to destroy the universe in three seconds, sending them into battle against him, which he easily defeats them
- Sickened by this, Boom-Boom tells him to send her back to Earth, and never find her again
- Beyonder returns to his mansion in Brazil, and checks in on Algrim, stating he should find Thor in about a week
- Boom-Boom calls the Avengers emergency line, and with them, sets up Beyonder to be ambushed by them, which he is by not only the Avengers, but West Coast Avengers, Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, and Thor
- Beyonder doesn't fight back, and when the fighting stops, he wanders off into the woods, depressed
- No Spider-Man
- To continue the story, you would need to read The Thing 30, Doctor Strange 74, and Fantastic Four 285
Oddities
- None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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