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7 59606 08766 2 The Grandmaster and the Challenger stole the Earth to use as a cosmic playing board, and whoever won should have been granted the title of Grandmaster…but now the game is over. The Grandmaster cheated by planting his daughter among the Avengers as the lost hero Voyager, and when his trickery came to light, the Challenger decided to destroy his opponent--and their playing board.

Now the Challenger is on the warpath, but most of the world’s heroes and villains are still trapped in the stasis Grandmaster enacted to limit the number of “designated obstacles.” While recovering in the med bay, Quicksilver realized that a beacon moving faster than the speed of normal perception was what was keeping them frozen.

If he can catch it, the Avengers will have all the reinforcements they could dream of.

If he can’t, Earth is doomed.

WRITERS Mark Waid, Al Ewing & Jim Zub ARTISTS Kim Jacinto & Stefano Caselli Color Artist David Curiel Letterer VC’s Cory Petit CoVER Mark Brooks VARIANT COVERS Editor in Chief Chris Sprouse, Karl Story & C.B. Cebulski Marcio Menyz GRAPHIC DESIGN Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada Carlos Lao ASSISTANT EDITOR President Alanna Smith Dan Buckley EDITOR Executive Producer Tom Brevoort Alan Fine

Avengers created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby CITIZEN V IRON PATRIOT THOR LIGHTNING HERCULES

ROBERTO DA COSTA DR. TONI HO JANE FOSTER MIGUEL SANTOS

QUICKSILVER WASP SCARLET WITCH SYNAPSE

PIETRO MAXIMOFF JANET VAN DYNE WANDA MAXIMOFF EMILY GUERRERO

FALCON EDWIN JARVIS THE HULK

SAM WILSON BRUCE BANNER

THE CHALLENGER GRANDMASTER

VOYAGER