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As a result of the Contest of Champions, the Grandmaster had restored the Collector's life at the cost of his own. Once within the realm of Death, however, he schemed to conquer the final adversary. Now, after having pitted the West Coast Avengers against their eastern counterparts in Death's domain, he has distracted, then defeated Death itself. Bored with life, the Grandmaster has created life-bombs which will cause a new "big bang," replacing the present universe with one of his own design. When the Avengers challenge him to a final game, he pits them against a new Legion of the Unliving composed of their deceased friends and foes. Thor, Hawkeye, and Dr. Pym battle the Executioner, the Swordsman, and Nighthawk in a fiery netherworld, while Captain Marvel, Moon Knight, Tigra, and the She-Hulk face defeat at the hands of Drax the Destroyer, Death Adder, the original Green Goblin, and the Kree Captain Mar-Veil in a pastoral setting the Silver Surfer and Korvac fight to their mutual destruction in space, Iron Man, Mockingbird, Dr. Druid, and the Black Knight are eliminated by Dracula, Terrax, the second Red Guardian, and the original Black Knight amid alien ruins, and Captain America, Wonder Man, and the Wasp combat Hyperion, Baron Blood, and Bucky in the Arctic. Incredibly, only Cap and Hawkeye survive the contest. Rather than undergo a second round with their late comrades added to the ranks of their foes, Hawkeye proposes a simple game of chance which the Grandmaster cannot resist playing. He proffers two arrows, daring the alien gamesman to guess which one has an arrowhead attached. When the Grandmaster loses, Death frees herself and exiles him from her realm, then returns all the Avengers to life on Earth. Captain America is astounded to learn that Hawkeye has cheated on the wager, palming the arrowhead attached to the shaft the Grandmaster chose.