MARVEL: SHADOWS AND LIGHT #1

A black and white one-shot unlike any other! Michael Golden enters the inner sanctum of Doctor Strange! And, Jose Ladronn opens the tomb of Dracula! This issue contains four stories. 1) "The Spoon Job" - A chemist working for Hydra catches a taxi for Kennedy airport and recalls the events just transpired. The chemist had developed a poison to counteract mutant healing factors (as well as an antidote hidden in his home), and was assigned to test it on Wolverine. A team of Hydra assassins felled Wolverine allowing the chemist to inject the X-Man. In the struggle, Wolverine slashed at the chemist, shredding only his jacket. As Wolverine battled the assassins, the chemist eluded the mutant, taking the subway, then a taxi. Now at the airport, the chemist realizes he lost his heart pills when his jacket was ripped. From a pay phone, he dials his home. Logan answers; he knows the chemist's name and scent. 2) "Into the Tomb" - Blade has followed the trail of a stolen corpse from New Orleans to Transylvania. The trail leads from a devastated village to a killing field where all the villagers lie dead, except for one suvivor, Father Nicolas. The pair proceed to the restored Castle Dracula, and are attacked by two of the Vampire Lord's brides. Blade dispatches them, then is confronted by the corpse he's sought, the reanimated body of his own mother. The two struggle, then Nicolas chases the vampire off with his cross, only to be decapitated by Dracula. The Vampire Lord now approaches Blade. Somebody screams. 3) "Trio of Terror" - In the Negative Zone, Captain Marvel intends to foil a plan by the Red Ghost, Annihilus and Blastaar to duplicate the Nega-Bands of the captured Rick Jones. Mar-Vell recalls how the Ghost used his Super-Apes to force him to exchange places with Rick and trap the Captain in the N-Zone. As Captain Marvel now attacks Annihilus and Blastaar aboard their vessel, the Red Ghost appears, having just duplicated the Nega-Bands. Mar-Vell removes and destroys the inferior bands, trapping the villains in the Negative Zone, then helps Rick free himself. 4) "Strange Reflections" - As a young boy watches TV in his home somewhere, synchronously, Dr. Strange unwillingly enters a mystic mirror. There, the mage encounters an entity with attacks him with images of the Ancient One, Clea, Baron Mordo, Umar, Dormammu and Strange's own varied incarnations. The entity takes on the appearance of Eternity, then a demonic reflection of Dr. Strange. The sorceror defeats the entity, shattering the mirror. Strange then senses himself being watched by the boy on television.

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