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THE INFINITY STONES WERE REBORN AND SCATTERED, PASSING FROM HAND TO HAND ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, THROUGH TIME, TRANSGRESSING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN WORLDS... TO PROTECT THE POWER STONE, HIDDEN ON THE PLANETOID XITAUNG, DRAX AND THE NOVA CORPS FACE DOWN THE FRATERNITY OF RAPTORS AND THE CHITAURI ARMY. MEANWHILE, AS THE GUARDIANS WORK TO DEFEAT A RACE OF EVIL TREE-CREATURES, A NEWLY TRANSFORMED GROOT FLEXES HIS MUSCLES...

WRITER PENCILERS INKERS COLOR ARTIST GERRY AARON KUDER & AARON KUDER & JORDIE DUGGAN MIKE HAWTHORNE TERRY PALLOT BELLAIRE

LETTERER COVER ARTISTS ‘FORGING THE ARMOR’ PAGE ARTISTS VC’s CORY PETIT NICK BRADSHAW & MORRY HOLLOWELL MIKE DEODATO JR. & FRANK MARTIN

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS ADI GRANOV, AARON KUDER & JORDIE BELLAIRE, RON LIM & RACHELLE ROSENBERG

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STAR-LORD GAMORA GROOT ROCKET

ANT-MAN VS NOVA SCAR

DRAX COMMANDER EVE BAKIAN

FORMER DESTROYER NOVA CORPS CENTURION VS TALONAR WARBRINGER

LEADER OF THE WARLORD OF THE FRATERNITY OF RAPTORS CHITAURI EMPIRE

On ADAM WARLOCK ULTRON On EARTH SAIPH THE INFINITY STONES...

ULTRON

SOUL Powered by the user’s mastery of TIME. Powered by the user’s mastery of SOUL. Can allow a person access to the multiverse. Can grant telepathy, or intelligence.

REALITY MIND

CAPTAIN MARVEL TURK BARRETT

Powered by the user’s mastery of MIND. Powered by the user’s mastery of SPACE. Can make a person more physically powerful. Can allow a person to travel through time.

POWER TIME

DRAX SPACE SUPER-SKRULL

On their own, the stones provide great power. But when combined, they form a circuit--a positive feedback loop granting the user INFINITE power!