Fear Itself [2025 Printing]

(W) Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker (A) Stuart Immonen, Scot Eaton (CA) Steve McNiven. A forgotten evil from Asgard invades Earth and plunges humanity and the Avengers into terror and fear* in one of Marvel's biggest crossover events of all time! Captain America* Thor* Iron Man and the Avengers are Earth's Mightiest Heroes but even they know fear. And when a powerful and ancient evil overtakes our world* each hero must make a sacrifice to save the Earth. But as the Serpent's mystical hammers transform friend and foe alike into unstoppable agents of destruction* as terror takes hold and the Serpent's power grows* as Odin prepares to burn the Earth to cinders to save his people it's not these sacrifices the Avengers fear. It's the knowledge that no matter what price they pay* this battle may be unwinnable. Heroes will fall* gods will die* and fear will rule the day as the hammer falls! COLLECTING: Fear Itself: Book of the Skull (2011) 1; Fear Itself (2011) 1-6* 7 (A story)