ONE NATION UNDER DOOM (1995-1996)

Earth-928, the year 2099. It's not exactly the cheery future we were hoping for, but it's about to get a little darker. Doom has finally reclaimed Latveria and intends putting the world to rights the only way he knows how... by taking over America. While his intentions are mostly good, the corporations who profit from the suffering of the population of the planet don't see it that way.

To keep some of the rogue elements under control, Doom aims to give Spider-Man, Ghost Rider and the Punisher and others key roles in his administration. But not all superhumans are potential allies. The Hulk and Ravage are among those who solely pose a threat to his regime. He may have some powerful friends, but Doom's more powerful enemies may prove enough to topple him.

The world of 2099 goes through some major changes in this major crossover event, though it's arguably the storyline that steered Marvel's 2099 titles towards their end. Doom's actions aren't consistent between his own series and the tie-in issues causing major continuity problems. If you aren't familiar with the characters appearing in these titles, very little is done to help you understand what their history is, the motivations of their foes or - in the case of Ghost Rider and Hulk - what the hell is going on in general. ONE NATION UNDER DOOM was also used to clear some of the less popular characters from the line which led to one of the bleakest endings of the era.

Previous events that directly impact this story:

• THE FALL OF THE HAMMER - Doom takes on Alchemax & claims Valhalla

Major Event: With multiple issues into this storyline, One Nation Under Doom is considered a major event. Only want to read the essentials? The key issues are marked with an asterisk *. Read the story in its entirety, if you like. Or just read 'Doom 2099' and add the issues featuring the characters who interest you the most.
Despite 2099 Unlimited #9 being marked as a 'One Nation Under Doom' tie-in, none of the stories featured in that issue make any reference to the saga, so I haven't included it here.

• Doom 2099 #26 (tie-in) *
• Doom 2099 #27 (tie-in) *
• Doom 2099 #28 (tie-in) *
• Ghost Rider 2099 #12 (tie-in)
• 2099AD #1
• Doom 2099 #29 *
• X-Men 2099 #20 (tie-in)
• Spider-Man 2099 #32[1/2]
• Spider-Man 2099 #33[1/2]
• Ghost Rider 2099 #13
• Doom 2099 #30 *
• Doom 2099 #31 *
• X-Men 2099 #21*
• Hulk 2099 #7
• Hulk 2099 #8
• Ravage 2099 #32 *
• Ravage 2099 #33 *
• Ghost Rider 2099 #14
• Punisher 2099 #28 *
• Ghost Rider 2099 #15
• Ghost Rider 2099 #16
• X-Men 2099 #22 *
• Doom 2099 #32 *
• Spider-Man 2099 #34[1/2] *
• Spider-Man 2099 #35 *
• Spider-Man 2099 #36 *
• Spider-Man 2099 #37 *
• Spider-Man 2099 #38[1/2] *
• Hulk 2099 #9 *
• X-Men 2099 #23 *
• Hulk 2099 #10 *
• X-Men 2099 #24 *
• X-Men 2099 #25 *
• Punisher 2099 #29 *
• Ghost Rider 2099 #17
• Punisher 2099 #30 *
• Ghost Rider 2099 #18
• Punisher 2099 #31 *
• Spider-Man 2099 #39 (tie-in)
• Ghost Rider 2099 #19
• Doom 2099 #33 *
• Punisher 2099 #32 *
• Spider-Man 2099 #40 (tie-in)
• Ghost Rider 2099 #20 (tie-in)
• Doom 2099 #34 *
• Punisher 2099 #33 *
• Ghost Rider 2099 #21[1/2] (tie-in)
• Punisher 2099 #34 *
• Doom 2099 #35 *
• 2099AD Apocalypse #1 *

Doom 2099 #26 (tie-in) *

Having finally reclaimed Latveria, Doom sets his sights on putting the world to rights and starts putting pieces into place. He arranges for highly-skilled Net-Gliders to travel to Latveria, releases Environmental Maintenance Platforms into the air to fix the pollution problem, addresses the drug war brewing in Makhelastan and renames the flying fortress Valhalla as the Libera Cielo (Latverian for Clear Sky). Despite her recent betrayal, Doom allows Fortune to stay among his key advisers. Her friend Poet decides to take on the drug dealers in Makhelastan himself. He successfully kills a number of them, but one called Majick shoots Poet in the head.

Doom 2099 #27 (tie-in) *

Riots break out in Makhelastan when the population learn they're owned by the American corporation Angel's Breath. In Latveria, Doom turns Poet's state funeral into an opportunity to turn Poet's old friends into potential allies. In Columbia, Wire is resurrected by psychotic tencho-magician Dr Jose Fleischmann. Doom heads to Makhelastan where he publicly murders Majick. 

Doom 2099 #28 (tie-in) *

Doom reveals he arranged for Wire's resurrection and has him transported back to Latveria. Since his consciousness existed in Cyberspace after the death of his body, Wire's consciousness now exists in this physical form and Cyberspace at the same time. Doom uses Wire's connection to the Cyberspace 'goddess'/sentient programme Paloma to allow him to send his army of Net-Gliders safely through Cyberspace to Angel's Breath's systems and reveal their plans to turn Makhelastan's citizens into toxic sludge. Doom gathers his Black Cabinet - a group of advisors who will advise him when he makes his move on America. Doom reveals to Fortune that he instigated the riots in Makhelastan, that he knows Fortune betrayed him to Neon Angel in order to restore her brother's mind and his own plan to take over America...

Ghost Rider 2099 #12 (tie-in)

Ghost Rider storms through Neo-Chicago, taking out crooked rent-a-cops in order to get to the Pioneer Society - a secret cabal of the super-rich who kill for sport using cybernetically-controlled robots. Reporter Willis Adams arrives and tries to talk Ghost Rider out of killing the last of he Society, but they're interrupted by the arrival of the contract killer Coda who tears Ghost Rider apart and explodes what's left. Elsewhere, Doom heads into Cyberspace to visit the GhostWorks...

2099AD #1

Doom convinces the GhostWorks to send the Ghost Rider (who's somehow repaired) to retrieve an alien artefact for him that can restore life. The Punisher learns Alchemax CEO Avatarr is after the same artefact and asks for Spider-Man's help in getting to it first. The Hulk and Halloween Jack also seek the artefact, but they're all beaten to the punch by the Theatre of Pain who discover it in the possession of the collector Lohengrin. They attempt to use it to resurrect their deceased member Mistress Wintre, but the Punisher destroys the artefact before she can fully return. Ghost Rider returns the remains of the artefact to GhostWorks, unaware that Doom wanted to use it to resurrect Poet for Fortune.

Doom 2099 #29 *

Doom initiates his plan to take over America, flying the Libera Ciero above the White House and sending in his troops while his band of Net-Gliders (now known as the Cyberdive Cadre) break through the country's Cyberspace defenses. Paloma explains to Wire that she's changed the rules of Cyberspace so that death there means death in the real world. From the Libera Cielo, Doom announces his takeover on television and restres the powers of the President in line with the Constitution, removing all power from the MegaCorporations. Doom announces the merging of all police forces into SHIELD whose first job is arresting the CEOs of the MegaCorporations. Doom then makes his way through the White House, killing all who resist him. The current President takes his own life rather than face Doom. Now, Doom rules.

X-Men 2099 #20 (tie-in)

A Monstrobot (a surviving Sentinel) rampages through Arizona, killing anything in its way. Bloodhawk meets the robot's reluctant keeper Jade Ryuteki who helps him stop the Monstrobot's rampage, then sends it into space to self-destruct. Elsewhere, Krystalin and her brother Zak Ogada escape the Free Radicals and end their latest insane scheme ro bring about anarchy. They catch the announcement over the holomonitor that Doom now rules America.

Spider-Man 2099 #32[1/2]

Having learned his boss Tyler Stone is his father, Miguel O'Hara has escaped to Mexico City for a few days with his ex Xina Kwan, only to bump into his brother Gabriel O'Hara and Gabri's girlfriend Kasey Nash. In the middle of the Day of the Dead festival, a blinding flash of light from a mystical process Nando Morgez' attempt to raise his sister results in the dead actually rising in Mexico City, ironically except for his sister Nita Morgez. Miguel sneaks off and dons his Spider-Man costume to help where he can and soon meets a mystic called who calls herself Strange who wants to work with him...

Spider-Man 2099 #33[1/2] 

Spidey and Strange find Morgez and try to take his amulet, but it brings out Strange's demonic side. Xina, Gabri and Kasey face walking corpses on the streets of Mexico City and Kasey soon realises Gabri isn't Spider-Man as she'd thought. Spider-Man helps Strange regain control. Strange uses her powers to animate Nita Morgez' corpse in an attempt to calm Nando but the amulet burns them both, returning the dead to true death with Nando now among their numbers. Strange destroys the amulet and Spider-Man decides it's time to return home to America.

Ghost Rider 2099 #13

Doom's announcement rings through Transverse City while the remains of Ghost Rider left by Coda are cleared up by scrap collectors. Doom warns D/Monix CEO Dyson Kellerman to leave Ghost Rider alone and inserts an obedience chip in his living brain. Ghost Rider discovers he's been rebuilt (though doesn't know how) and that Doom now rules America.

Doom 2099 #30 *
Doom continues to make changes across America. He starts by giving free access to Cyberspace to all, but soon learns that death in C-Space now means death in the real world. The newly-appointed Minister of Punishment, Jake Gallows, rounds up the MegaCorp CEOs for a meeting with Doom who announces that their companies have been nationalised with their profits being 'gifted' to the government. They will produce Environmental Maintenance Platforms (EMPs) under government contract. To prove his power, he orders the CEOs to choose who among them will be sacrificed by Doom. They choose Avatarr, CEO of Alchemax, but when Doom blasts him in the eye, Avatarr doesn't die and proves not to be human at all. Elsewhere, on the island Hellrock, Sharp Blue - former mercenary and Doom's Minister of Order - tries to find a way to save the island's outcasts...

Doom 2099 #31 *
Doom quickly realises Avatarr is an alien, but he's not quick enough to stop him from spitting a powerful hallucinogenic acid at Doom's armour. Spikes from Avatarr's chest puncture the glass protecting Doom's eye, allowing the acidic fumes in. Doom pummels Avatarr to death then, under the hallucinogens' influence, Doom parades Avatarr's corpse on TV and turns his rage against the American people for allowing this creature to gain control of the country. Doom lays low for a few days, while EMPs continue to spread across the country and the citizens come to believe their new President is a conspiracy-obsessed madman. On Hellrock, Sharp Blue learns Ravage is in charge...

X-Men 2099 #21 *

Doom launches his Environmental Maintenance Platforms across all fifty one states of the US to undo 200 years of pollution. Halloween Jack activates his Virtual Unreality Projector in Las Vegas in the hope of bringing chaos to the world by altering reality itself. Krystalin reunites with Meanstreak and tries to stop Jack, but it's Doom who comes closest to disrupting his plans by surrounding Vegas with EMPs in order to contain the chaos. Meanstreak turns his back on Halloween Jack and departs to rejoin the X-Men...

Hulk 2099 #7

John Eisenhart and his Lotusland friends are suspicious of Doom's motives. While Quirk and Angel Zamora start working on a film that could turn opinions against Doom, John turns into the Hulk and starts trashing EMPs. Hulk then takes Doctor Apollo up to an EMP to find out how they work, but Draco has already sabotaged it and forces it to launch upwards...

Hulk 2099 #8

With the Hulk heading towards space, Draco sends his forces to attack Lotusland, capturing Quirk. Above, Hulk destroys the EMP's power system which sends it hurtling towards the ground. His arrival along with the arrival of Doom's troops force Draco to retreat. Doom reveals Zamora made a deal with him for Hollywood's freedom to produce whatever they want in exchange for gamma-powered mind-influencing technology. Enraged, Quirk leaves town.

Ravage 2099 #32 *

Ravage has killed Dethstryk and is desperate to end the fighting, stopping Hela (Tiana Sikoski) and Alchemax's agent Crisp from killing the island's Mutroids and vice versa. A hologram of Doom appears and claims ownership of Hellrock. Crisp helps restore Ravage to an almost-human form. The 'revenge program' that emulates Dethstryk's deceased wife Seeress activates, threatening to destroy Hellrock and contaminate America. Having lain in wait for millions of years, an alien creature called Mindrot the Mind-Eater emerges from the ocean depths and attacks Hellrock, killing Ravage's friend Ferra...

Ravage 2099 #33 *

Ravage gives way to his beast side again to save the lives of the mutated inhabitants of Hellrock, battling alongside Hela, Crisp and the Mutroids. Doom senses the build-up of energy from the revenge program as it edges towards detonation. He lands on Hellrock, fries Mindrot and reveals his plan to end the threat set up by Seeress by destroying Hellrock. Doom ends Hela's attack on him by using the codeword that deactivates her powers and dropping her into the sea. Ravage and the Mutroids attack Doom, but he flies away and his bio-hazard containment vessel Lazarus fires liquid adamantium down onto the island, encasing it completely. Anti-gravity lifters then hurl the island into space, ending its threat along with the lives of Ravage and the Mutroids.

Ghost Rider 2099 #14

SHIELD agents bring in the Ghost Rider for a face-to-face with Doom. In order to make Ghost Rider his agent, Doom employs Willis Adams to create positive publicity for him and orders Coda to leave him alone. Ghost Rider initially turns down Dooms offer to work for him, but the deal Doom made with GhostWorks allows him to alter Ghost Rider's programming to make him more compliant. Giving himself a makeover, Ghost Rider becomes the SHIELD Marshall to Transverse City...

Punisher 2099 #28 *

The Punisher's heavy-handed approach to justice is now legal, allowing him to kill high-level corrupt corporate 'black carders' and lawyers on the streets as a warning to others. Jake Gallows thinks back to the announcement that Doom had taken over America, recalling the moment when Doom outed Jake as the Punisher to his Public Eye bosses and made him Doom's Minister of Punishment. The Punisher also leads his own elite squad of Punishment Police. Now, believing the Punisher has sold out, his former-ally Matt Axel reconstructs the Gold Heart robot as the 'Real Punisher'.

Ghost Rider 2099 #15

Taking to the streets of Transverse City as an agent of SHIELD, Ghost Rider starts taking down gangs like the Anarquistadores and the Toxic Zombies. The UnderNet make plans to remove Ghost RIder from Doom's control. Ghost Rider's investigation into White Heat - a new street drug that boosts IQ and physical ability - leads him into the path of an assassin called Heartbreaker. 

Ghost Rider 2099 #16

Heartbreaker intends killing drug dealer Max Synergy, but Ghost Rider needs him alive. Ghost Rider is the first to withstand Heartbreaker's deadly 'heart punch'. She leaves when he knocks off her mask and reveals her scarred face. Ghost Rider arrests Synergy. Elsewhere, Anesthesia Jones questions Zero Cochrane's ex-girlfriend Kylie Gagarin about Ghost Rider throwing in with SHIELD, unaware that Doctor Neon is listening in and now know Ghost Rider's true identity. Coda rallies allies to aid him in killing the Ghost Rider. 

X-Men 2099 #22 (tie-in) * 

Doom's Minister of Humanity Morphine Somers arrives in New Mexico, surveying the devastation caused by the bomb that destroyed the X-Men's compound. Morphine and Doom recover the body of Junkpile and intend using him for their own purposes. With his dark personality fully in control, Xi'an Chi Xan goes through this initiation process to join the Theatre of Pain. After facing spectres of his past generated by Brimstone Love, Controller Prime and Felicity, Xi'an makes it through and becomes Controller X. Cerebra, Skullfire and La Lunatica turn to Broken Haiku for help in tracking Xi'an down.

Doom 2099 #32 *

The MegaCorp CEOs gather at the Chicago Reserve, neutral ground run by John Anthony Herod who holds the secret stockpile of Heroic Age technology. In an unexpected move, Herod asks for more power from them, explaining his plot to rule America himself and run it dry until the MegaCorps can relocate to Mars with the surviving 25% of the population of Earth. If the CEOs refuse to assist, Herod will kill them. Doom's Minister of Signal Indigo Eshun senses the unusual activity in Chicago. Doom notices a surge in sales of Captain America's biography. Sharp Blue discovers the corpse of Wire who has committed suicide in the name of his deceased love Xandra. Much later, Indigo Eshun comes to Doom with bad news from California...

Spider-Man 2099 #34[1/2] *

SHIELD take Miguel O'Hara to Tyler Stone at the White House where Doom presides. Stone has become Doom's corporate minister and offers Miguel the role of Alcemax CEO. Later, unaware who is under the mask, Doom offers Spider-Man the role of Minister of SuperNormal affairs. He has 72 hours to consider the offer. Gabri still finds himself trying to convince Kasey that he's not Spider-Man. And Conchata O'Hara breaks into Tyler Stone's apartment, knocks Dana D'Angelo out and ties her up before shooting Tyler Stone in the chest...

Spider-Man 2099 #35 *

Dana wakes up and escapes her bonds to find Tyler Stone shot. Black ooze emerges from the sewer and kills Bloodmace with it's burning touch before taking humanoid form. Doom heads to Miguel's apartment to ask him for a decision on the Alchemax job early now that Tyler is hospitalised. Kasey finally breaks up with Gabri. The black ooze emerges in the hospital and, taking the form of a creature that calls itself Venom, tries to kill Tyler Stone and the visiting Miguel and Dana. Miguel slips into his Spider-Man costume to face Venom head on...

Spider-Man 2099 #36 *

Xina arrives back at Miguel's apartment, but he's busy elsewhere fighting for his life against Venom (who seems to recall fighting a Spider-Man in the past). Spider-Man barely survive the fight and, while Venom continues to rip up the hospital, he heads to Alchemax to accept the new job as CEO. He call his mother, Conchata, to tell her about his new job. When he hangs up, she puts a gun to her head and pulls the trigger. Xina goes to Alchemax to try and talk Miguel out of the job, but Venom arrives threatening to kill both her and Dana. Elsewhere, Vulture tracks down Kasey to help him find Spider-Man...

Spider-Man 2099 #37 *

A few years ago, Miguel O'Hara and Xina Kwan met Gabri O'Hara's new girlfriend, Dana D'Angelo for the first time, only for Miguel and Dana to become instantly attracted to each other and soon began sleeping with each other. Xina found out, ending her relationship with Miguel. Gabri was initially heartbroken, but forgave them because he couldn't stay mad at Dana. Now, Venom is forcing Miguel to choose between Xina and Dana. He flees with them both when Miguel uses his claws to cut off one of Venom's arms, then orders a Public Eye unit to give chase and off-handedly allows them to shoot to kill. Miguel catches up with Venom as Spider-Man, but so do the Public Eye. They shoot Venom, but the bullets pass through and hit Dana who dies in Spider-Man's arms. Elsewhere, Conchata O'Hara still lives, having shot at the ceiling rather than her own head after reconsidering...

Spider-Man 2099 #38[1/2] *

Gabri sees the televised coverage of Dana's death with Spider-Man beside her body and becomes enraged. Miguel heads back to Alchemax and experiments on a piece of Symbiote to learn its weakness. Doom assigns Jake Gallows to investigate the attempt on Tyler Stone's life and the subsequent murder of Dana D'Angelo, just as Tyler comes to. A spectral figure saves Kasey Nash from the Vulture. Spider-Man uses sound to disable Venom, but stops himself from delivering the killing blow when he realises there's a man under the Symbiote costume, begging for his life. The Symbiote separates from the man and Spider-Man is shocked to see his familiar face...

Hulk 2099 #9 *

With nowhere else to go, Marian Eisenhart turns to the hulking Adonai, leader of the Locusts, for help, but quickly regrets it. Meanwhile, her brother, John Eisenhart in his Hulk guise, tries to stop Doom from taking the mind-altering gamma tech. Quirk allies with Kwame. Draco learns John Eisenhart is the Hulk and transforms one of the Golden One's Mutates into an Anti-Hulk. John Eisenhart ignores his sister Marian's request for help when Adonai threatens her life, and instead insists that Doom grant him and Keisha Schutlz-Valdez full administrative control of Lotusland Studios...

X-Men 2099 #23 *

Doom and Morphine Somers rebuild Junkpile and make him an agent of SHIELD, hoping to use him to shut down the Red Market which has been using humans and mutants for organ harvesting, medical research and violent entertainment. Skullfire, La Lunatica and Cerebra break into the Theatre of Pain's Resource Processing Centre to find Xi'an. In his new role as Controller X, Xi'an alerts the guards to their presence. The three X-Men make new allies - Quiver and Sham - but their mission takes a terrible turn. The arrival of Junkpile works in their favour, though Cerebra falls prey to Controller X. Junkpile comes face-to-face with Brimstone Love...

Hulk 2099 #10 *

Draco sens the Anti-Hulk after both John Eisenhart and the Hulk. A much smaller but still freakish Adonai plants a bomb at the heart of the seismic fault under California and prepares to dictate terms. Quirk returns to Lotusland and forces John to transform into the Hulk who, now displaying a distinct persona, takes the mind-influencing tech so Doom can't get it. Leaving Lotusland, they find Marian who tells them Adonai's plans. Hulk's attempt to stop Adonai is interrupted by the raging Anti-Hulk. Their fight triggers the explosive, causing an earthquake that rocks California to its core, setting off another gamma explosion and killing Draco, Adonai, Quirk and everyone else caught in its wake. Everyone, that is, except a heavily mutated Hulk who emerges from ground zero. But is it John Eisenhart?

X-Men 2099 #24 *

Three hundred miles from explosion in Lotusland, Bio-Resource Processing Centre still feels the force of the explosion. Brimstone Love makes short work of Junkpile. Skullfire and La Lunatica escape their cell, but fall pretty to Felicity and her fellow Norns. Skullfire is tossed into the slaughterhouse dump where a creature emerges before him. Controller X shows Cerebra the source of his power - the comatose Master Zhao whose power he will use to cause suffering to thousands. In the Sierras, Bloodhawk, Krystalin and Meanstreak plan to rescue the X-Men from the Theatre of Pain. In Arizona, Rosa Vasquez and Metalhead's celebration of their peaceful life is interrupted by the return of Glitterspike and Rosa's waters breaking...

X-Men 2099 #25 *

Doom has his eye on the X-Men as potential allies, but the team are in a bad spot in California. Beneath the Theatre of Pain's slaughterhouse, Skullfire is reunited with Junkpile and the pair are forced to ally with each other to avoid being consumed by acid. Krystalin, Meantstreak and Bloodhawk bust into the slaughterhouse, saving Quiver and Sham from certain death. After activating the Mindfire machine that causes pain to thousands for their despicable consumers, Brimstone Love puts a control collar back on La Lunatica, but she's quickly freed by Skullfire. 

Meanstreak's team defeat the Chosen and reverse the effects of the Mindfire machine, causing pain to the Theartre's customer base. Controller X turns against Brimstone Love in order to wrest power from him using the Mindfire machine. Love retreats, swearing revenge. La Lunatica frees Controller X from his dark side, restoring his Xi'an Chi Xan persona. When the dust settles, SHIELD show up with Morphine Somers and a hologram of Doom who offers the X-Men and all mutants their own city. In Oklahoma, Rosa's unborn mutant child protects her and Metalhead from Glitterspike. He's born soon after...

Punisher 2099 #29 *

Jigsaw is revived by a street gang. He kills the gang members and heads off to Fearmaster's mansion where he releases Fearmaster and informs him Doom now runs the country. The Punisher talks Matt Axel through his new process for upholding the law by using technology that can predict criminal intent and arresting people before a crime can be committed. Axel turns down the Punisher's offer to join his SHIELD team and sends Gold Heart out onto the streets wearing a skin that makes him look like Jake Gallows. Gold Heart takes down a gang and adopts a crocodile as a pet.

Ghost Rider 2099 #17

Kenshiro 'Zero' Cochrane drops in on his father in full Ghost Rider mode, sporting his new SHIELD attire. They argue over the mental state of Zero's mother and the feeling Zero has that the decision to join SHIELD wasn't his own, despite his father's pride that Kenshire now has a respectable job. Unaware that GhostWorks were listening to the whole conversation, Zero leaves more certain that he's made the wrong decision. Elsewhere, Willis Adams turns his back on the new job Doom gave him, UnderNet member Kabal gathers a crew to help him steal 20th century technology from the Vault of Forbidden Science and a hacker accidentally releases the sentient computer programme L-Cypher into the holo theme park Thrillsville.

Punisher 2099 #30 *

The Punisher and his squad pursue Matt Axel and Gold Heart through the streets of New York, with Doom secretly monitoring the Punisher's increasingly erratic behaviour. He soon makes a public announcement that the true enemy of the American people is the American people. Gold Heart emerges from the crowds and faces the Punisher. Elsewhere, the Cyber-Nostra devise headsets that will make them invisible to the Punisher's scans. In space, Vendetta discovers a gigantic spaceship built by Alchemax...

Ghost Rider 2099 #18
Ghost RIder arrives at Thrillsville, but he's no longer taking orders from SHIELD. L-Cypher has transformed the place into a vision of Hell and Ghost Rider battles his way through numerous demonic solidograms until he faces five citizens that L-Cypher has transformed into his Archfiends. Elsewhere, Kabal enlists Neurodancer to help his squad break into the Vault of Forbidden Science, only for the Vault's Keeper to become aware of their arrival. In Cyberspace, someone intercepts Doctor Neon's message about the Ghost Rider's true identity...

Punisher 2099 #31 *

The 'Real Punisher' (Gold Heart) shoots the Punisher (Jake Gallows) in th chest, but Gallows turns out to be a holographic projection. The real Gallows then leads the full force of SHIELD against Gold Heart, but he escapes. Monitoring the situation, Doom assigns Officer Saffron to discredit Gallows. A squad of Cyber-Nostra initiate a plan to kill Gallows, but end up running into Gold Heart. In space, Vendetta learns the giant Alchemax ship is actually a gun and takes control of it...

Spider-Man 2099 #39 (tie-in)

Separated from the Venom Symbiote, the man beneath the alien costume was Kron Stone - the psychotic son of Tyler Stone who believed to have been killed by the Punisher. Kron made Miguel O'Hara's life hell when they were kids, but never they're actually half brothers. Miguel aims to keep that secret, but takes the opportunity to give Kron a beating until he reveals how he survived death at the Punisher's hands. Father Jennifer visits Miguel and reveals she's Dana D'Angelo's sister. Miguel tells her how Kron Stone found the Symbiote in the sewers after is run-in with the Punisher, was healed by it and left his ID on a floating corpse to fake his death. In Downtown, the Goblin asks for Kasey's allegiance in return for saving her from the Vulture. But the Goblin and the Vulture are secretly working together. Spider-Man heads Downtown when he's summoned by Gabri, but he's being followed by the Goblin...

Ghost Rider 2099 #19
Ghost Rider fights hard against the Archfiends, learning Doom and the GhostWorks have been manipulating him in the process. Ultimately, Ghost Rider falls and is taken before L-Cypher. arrives at Thrillsville, but he's no longer taking orders from SHIELD. Coda, Ice 9 and Warp Angel don't manage to steal everything Kabal wanted, but they do manage to get Adamantium resin. The Keeper discovers a cryogenic storage chamber was broken in the scuffle, freeing something dangerous. Heartbreaker sneaks into the SHIELD holding facility to kill Max Synergy. Doctor Neon gets a visitor...

Doom 2099 #33 *

Indigo Eshun's report to Doom on the gamma explosion in California is interrupted by an all-channels news broadcast announcing the apparent return of Captain America. Doom sends Eshun into Cyberspace to block the report, but they're locked out of the net. Three missiles hit the Libera Cielo. With its defences disabled, it explodes and crashes down on the White House. John Herod contacts Doom, explaining her's the mastermind behind the attack, then sends his Wave Spiders in to Latveria where they slaughter he population with necro toxins (so it was Herod who turned Makhelastan to sludge, too). Doom's EMPs started falling from the sky all over America. Wave Spiders destroy what's left of the White House, ending Doom's presidency...

Punisher 2099 #32 *

Under Doom's previous orders, Officer Saffron uses a holographic projection of Jake Gallows to make it look like he's turned against Doom and taken her hostage. She leads a trail to the Punisher's quarters where Gallows is sleeping and SHIELD agents try to arrest him. He escapes with loyal agent Jillian Wong. At that point, EMPs start falling from the sky, raining death on New York. Gold Heart falls to his death, being blown apart by the bomb he'd intended using on the Punisher. Gallows - now back in his Punisher costume - and Wong commandeer Matt Axel's means of escaping Earth. In space, Vendetta learns of the chaos on Earth...

Spider-Man 2099 #40 (tie-in)

Tyler Stone comes out of his coma and finds out Dana is dead, causing him to actually shed a tear. Xina decides to leave town after Dana's funeral. Net Prophet returns to Downtown in search of Father Jennifer. The Goblin attacks Spider-Man, creating the illusion that there's an army of Goblins which Spider-Man attacks, not realising it's Downtown's confused citizens. With his rep in ruins, Spider-Man heads uptown where he witnesses EMPs falling from the sky. Back in Downtown, the Vulture plans to betray the Goblin...

Ghost Rider 2099 #20 (tie-in)
L-Cypher examines/tortures Ghost Rider while trying to discern why he tries to help the humans. L-Cypher learns Doom wasn't the only one controlling his programming. Ghost Rider breaks free and disrupts L-Cypher's programming, believing he's killed him. But L-Cypher used what he learned from Ghost Rider to transfer his consciousness to a human body. GhostWorks have been manipulating him, too. Meanwhile, Kabal and the Bone Mechanix use the adamantium resin to transform Colt Wagner - a cop killed by Ghost Rider - into another 'GHost Rider', dubbing him 'Vengeance'. Willis Adams buys his fake ID from Anethesia Jones, only to find Doom's administration is over, anyway...

Doom 2099 #34 *

The Chicago Reserve takes over SHIELD and the Black Cabinet are marked for death. Indigo Eshun is killed attempting to escape into Cyberspace. Nkrumah claims diplomatic immunity. Sharp Blue's team evade Herod's Air Cavalry and escape. Herod orders all mutants to be executed on sight. He gives the Alchemax-created 'Captain America' a beating and makes him the new president. SHIELD find Doom's gauntlet and take that to mean he's dead...

Punisher 2099 #33 *

Civilians start evacuating New York, making the Punisher and Agent Wong's escape that much more challenging. Matt Axel takes them to a spaceport where the Punisher is loaded on a ship as a shipment of potentially explosive cargo. Days later, he awakens on a space station where he discovers the crew intend jettisoning the cryogenically stored humans they've promised to take off world in favour of just keeping the money they were paid to do so. The Punisher's pod opens up and he starts taking the crew down. The captain decides it's easier to jettison the cargo bay into space than face the Punisher who finds himself floating outside the ship in a space suit when Vendetta blasts the rest of the space station apart with her gun-ship...

Ghost Rider 2099 #21[1/2] (tie-in)

Ghost Rider learns Doom has fallen. As the technological systems Doom put in place across America begin to fall, Ghost Rider's memories of the erased conversation with Doom return. Realising he'd been manipulated not just by Doom but by the GhostWorks, Ghost Rider turns to Anesthesia Jones for help. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Kabal who unleashes Vengeance on him. Elsewhere, the consciousness of the psionically-powered  heads that awakened in the Vault of Forbidden Science for a single being - the Psiclone - and escape...

Punisher 2099 #34 *

The Punisher utilising a fragment of the station and gun to push himself through space towards Vendetta's ship. Twenty minutes later and near the end of his oxygen, the Punisher attacks Vendetta as she carries out repairs on her ship's exterior. Bringing them both abroad, he makes an agreement with Vendetta. He'll return to Earth, directing her from there and sending her after criminals across the galaxy...

Doom 2099 #35 *

Weeks after the fall of Doom, the Punisher has returned to Earth (unless it's actually Gold Heart) and immediately finds himself on the run. Captain America still recovers from the beating he took from John Herod who continues with his plan to milk the planet dry. Pollution is rife again. The X-Men recover from their clash with the Theatre of Pain. The population of Latveria is now sludge. California has become Gammadion with the mutated, dying survivors of the gamma bomb living out their final days. The Wave Spiders begin mating, the Punisher returns In Washington, a band of sadistic SHIELD agents pursue the mutant Static Annie through the streets, cornering her in a warehouse where they intend to unleash an unnecessary amount of ammo into her. Doom emerges, killing the brutal SHIELD agents and saving her life...

2099AD Apocalypse #1 *

The news station NyFax give a live broadcast covering the changes since the fall of Doom. Live reporter Mirielle Ridley witnesses the Punisher's clash with SHIELD agents. With the agents downed, a Wave Spider is sent in to carry out a public execution, disintegrating the Punisher live on air. Captain America announces that costumed 'heroes' will be killed on sight. Metalscream and Galahad are the next to fall at the hands of SHIELD agents. In Gammadion, the surviving Hulk (who could be the Hulk, Anti-Hulk or Adonai) is blasted to death by SHIELD. For taking the bait and broadcasting SHIELD's footage - and for their negative take on the new regime - SHIELD agents enter the NyFax studios and kill everyone.

Ghost Rider 2099 #22 (1996)

SHIELD save Ghost Rider from Vengeance; despite that, Ghost Rider promises to bring down SHIELD along with any other corrupt law enforcement organisation; Kylie Gagarin saves Anesthesia Jones from Kabal who makes his escape.

X-Men 2099 Special #1 (1995)

Halloween Jack returns, becoming the target of Orville Fink who wants to claim the bounty on his head set by the Greater Nevada Syndicate.

Spider-Man 2099 #41 (1996)
Miguel O'Hara inspects the wreckage at the White House, possibly for signs that Doom still lives; Tyler Stone returns to Alchemax and orders his son, Kron Stone, to be killed; Miguel O'Hara refuses to allow Kron to be murdered; Tyler Stone announces his return and let's Miguel know he can step down as CEO, but Miguel refuses.

X-Men #26-30 (1995-1996)

The X-Men relocate to Halo City, the sanctuary for mutants and victims of the Theatre of Pain built by Doom, becoming its guard; Morphine Somers becomes Governor of Halo City; Sham joins the X-Men, while Quiver becomes an administrator in Halo City; Xi'an Chi Xan sets himself up as a healer in Halo City in an effort to atone for his actions as Controller X during X-NATION.

Doom 2099 #36-38 (1996)

Static Annie and Doom help each other escape to Halo City; John Herod builds the Red House as his own replacement for the White House; Doom destroys the Red House, uses nanobots to eat away at Herod and kills 'Captain America'; Doom accuses Morphine Somers of abusing his power in Halo City during X-NATION.

Ghost Rider #23-25 (1996)

Ghost Rider battles the Psiclone, but it's ultimately brought down by the GhostWorks using the technology Doom implanted in Dyson Kellerman's brain; Doctor Neon kidnaps Ghost Rider; Ghost Rider defeats Kabal and is reunited with his human body.

Doom 2099 #39-42 (1996)

In the hope of retroactively saving his people, Doom travels back in time to present day Earth-616 and begin building the Latverian population's immunity to the necrotoxin during RAGE AGAINST TIME.

Doom 2099 #43 (1996)

Doom returns to his own time to discover many of the surviving Latverians had mutated; Fortune and the Zefiro are revealed to have survived the attack on Latveria during RAGE AGAINST TIME / LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

Spider-Man 2099 #44 (1996)

Tyler Stone confronts Conchata O'Hara over her attempt to kill him, reveling Miguel O'Hara knows Tyler is his father and that he knows he's Spider-Man; Xina Kwan and Net Prophet leave town together; Father Jennifer is revealed to be the Goblin; Roman the Sub-Mariner merges with the Venom Symbiote during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END. 

Fantastic Four 2099 #6 (1996)

Strange returns and is directed towards her destiny by a time-travelling Stephen Strange from Earth-928's past during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

Spider-Man 2099 #45 (1996)

The Goblin leads Spider-Man to believe he's his brother, Gabriel O'Hara, during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

X-Men 2099 #34 (1996)

Bloodsmith kidnaps Rosa Navarro's baby Joachim Vasquez and rapidly ages him, transforming him Darkson during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

Doom 2099 #44 (1996)

Doom makes one last desperate bid to restore Latveria by making a deal with the Collective during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

Spider-Man 2099 #46 (1996)

Conchata O'Hara is killed by invading Atlanteans during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

Fantastic Four 2099 #8 (1996)

Doom and the Fantastic Four relocate survivors to the Savage Land, following the Atlanteans' attack on New York City during LAST STAND AT WORLD'S END.

2099: World of Tomorrow #1 (1996)

Morphine Somers is revealed to be among those who relocated to the Savage Land; Jade Ryuteki returns and joins the X-Peditioners alongside Bloodhawk.

2099: World of Tomorrow #2-3 (1996)

John Herod is infected by the Phalanx and becomes one of Doom's test subjects; Halloween Jack is believed to have died; Miguel O'Hara and Xina Kwan are reunited.

2099: World of Tomorrow #6 (1997)

Vulture is killed by the Phalanx.

2099: World of Tomorrow #7-8 (1997)

Doom sacrifices himself to defeat the Phalanx; Doom posthumously selects the mutant Nostromo as his heir, making him the sovereign of Latveria.

X-Force #92 (1999)

Halloween Jack shows up alive having somehow made his way to present day Earth-616.

Spider-Man 2099 #9-10 (2015)

The actions of the Inheritors and Tyler Stone's time-travelling alters Earth-928's timeline into a dystopia ruled by the Maestro, though Strange is one of the few unaffected by the shift due to her role as Sorcerer Supreme; Strange's demon takes control of her and allies with the Maestro. 

Spider-Man 2099 #10-12 (2016)

In the 2099 timeline altered by the actions of Tyler Stone's Fist organisation (Earth-TRN590), Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara of Earth-928) faces Kron Stone of the new reality having been reunited with the Symbiote and become Venom again; Venom, Goblin and Vulture are members of the Sinister Six who have taken control of Alchemax.

Spider-Man 2099 #14-16 (2016)

Strange helps Spider-Man restore Earth-928's timeline; Strange's first name is revealed to be Jeannie during CIVIL WAR II.

See how this story fits into the wider Marvel Multiverse:

• 2099: The World of Doom (1994-1995)