The Grandmaster confronts the Surfer and Avengers and declares that he is tired of the Game of Life and will instead play the Game of Death, creating fi ve Life-Bombs that can each destroy 1/5th of the universe. In order to stop the bombs from detonating, the Avengers will have to battle Grand- master’s Legion of the Unliving, made up of people Grand- master has restored to life; the Grandmaster teleports all of them to their battlegrounds. Split up, the Avengers manage to stop four out of fi ve bombs, though the brutal battle with their undead foes leaves only two survivors, Hawkeye and Cap, who rematerialize in Death’s realm. Informing them of their teammates’ deaths, Grandmaster announces he intends to keep playing until he wins. The dead Avengers are added to the Legions ranks and this time there will be only two bombs. After Cap calms Hawkeye, enraged over Mockingbird’s demise, Hawkeye has an idea: since Grandmaster will ultimately win the game he proposes a game of chance, telling Grandmaster if he can guess which of his hands holds an arrowhead he’ll win. Unable to resist his own nature, Grandmaster agrees, but seemingly chooses the wrong hand; Death frees herself and casts Grandmaster from her realm. Only then does Hawkeye reveal he cheated: Grandmaster chose the right hand, but Hawkeye palmed the arrowhead. Death restores the dead heroes to life and sends them back to Earth to resume their baseball game. The Grandmaster, likewise alive, watches the baseball game; it gives him an idea.