Cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Showtime, script by Ann Nocenti, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Kim DeMulder
Beast and Dazzler begin to spend a little more time together, even though Hank strongly disapproves of her training and fighting in an underground mutant arena; Beast shows up before her next performance to once again try and talk her out of participating in such madness but she refuses and they engage in a lovers spat; Beast investigates a lab in the complex and discovers that Flynn and Longride have been giving Dazzler a potion that makes her powers go out of control; Before he can do anything about it, he is caught and injected with a potion himself; In the arena, Dazzler finds herself facing a feral Beast and they wage a brutal battle before a cheering crowd; The pair snap out of it before they kill each other but the audience still wants blood; Flynn accommodates them by killing Longride and taking over the arena.
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Cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Checkmate, script by Ann Nocenti, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Kim DeMulder
Dr. Doom arrives at the underground mutant arena to find the owner, Hugo Longride, dead at the hands of Flynn; It turns out that Longride was a sophisticated robot placed by Doom to keep tabs on Flynn who claims to be his son; Now in control of the arena, Flynn tells his fellow mutants that he plans on leading them in the overthrow of Latveria so he can take his rightful place on the throne; Realizing the plan is suicidal madness, Max frees the chained up Beast and Dazzler and they lead a revolt against Flynn; When the dust clears, Doom warns the fallen Flynn that he had better stop telling people that Doom is his father; With the mutants in control of the arena, they decide to turn it into something more productive for their own benefit; Dazzler and Beast leave the arena and break off their relationship to go their separate ways.
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