MARVEL.COM $4.99 RATED 6 8 9 1 1 US T+ LARRAZ EWING 689 CURIEL WAID ZUB 7 59606 08766 2 15 PART 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. While the Avengers fi ght to contain the Challenger’s rampage on Earth, a handful of heroes teleported to the Grandmaster’s cosmic game room, where the world engine holding Earth in place was rapidly deteriorating. As they fought to keep the machine stable, Scarlet Witch and Synapse hyper-accelerated Quicksilver so he could catch and destroy the beacon that was holding most of the planet’s heroes in stasis. He succeeded, and Voyager sent the call out far and wide... Avengers Assemble! WRITERS Mark Waid, Al Ewing & Jim Zub ARTISTS Pepe Larraz 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 ROBERTO DA COSTA DR. TONI HO JANE FOSTER LIGHTNING HERCULES HUMAN TORCH RED WOLF MIGUEL SANTOS JOHNNY STORM ROGUE CANNONBALL WASP WASP SAM GUTHRIE JANET VAN DYNE NADIA VAN DYNE SYNAPSE FALCON SQUIRREL GIRL CAPTAIN AMERICA BEAST EMILY GUERRERO SAM WILSON DOREEN GREEN STEVE ROGERS HANK McCOY DOCTOR VOODOO HAWKEYE WONDER MAN SCARLET WITCH JERICHO DRUMM CLINT BARTON SIMON WILLIAMS WANDA MAXIMOFF VIV VISION NOVA CAPTAIN MARVEL SASQUATCH SAM ALEXANDER CAROL DANVERS THE CHALLENGER GRANDMASTER VOYAGER .