House of Mystery vs Crypt of Shadows

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• 0:00:00 - Introduction 
• 0:03:41 - No-Prize Time 
• 0:07:53 - House of Mystery vs Crypt of Shadows intro 
• 0:12:51 - Tales from the Crypt of Shadows and House of Mystery
• 0:43:01 - Phantom Stranger's roster 
• 0:47:00 - Nightmare's roster 
• 0:51:15 - Fight speculation 
• 1:01:40 - Duel results 
• 1:06:12 - Question of the Week 
• 1:06:54 - Sign off 
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Episode Transcript

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This is a DynaMic Network Podcast. Hi, welcome tothe Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we

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review superhero films and debate thesuperiority between Marvel and DC by comparing
their characters in stat-based battlesimulations. I'm Johnny DC and I'm his twin
brother Marvelous Joe. And welcome to our spookyHalloween episode where we find out who is going to
win between DC's House of Mystery and Marvel'sCrypt of Shadows. So we're gonna do things a little

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bit differently this time. Basically the House ofMystery and the Crypt of Shadows were both comic
book series that told anthological horrorstories, kind of like Tales from the Crypt, if you
guys remember that. That was a television showthat was based off of a comic book series.
Basically they all tell horror stories in comicbook format. Here we're gonna find out who can tell

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the better horror stories based off of charactersfrom Marvel and DC. Yeah, these are original
stories that Joseph and I came up with. We're gonnatry and scare the shit out of each other and maybe
the listeners Well I'm not easily scared so you'regonna have a hard time with this one. Before we get
into this matchup we're gonna break down thelatest comic book movie news of which there was
none. Again probably because we're just fresh offof New York Comic Con where the studios kind of

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revealed their hands and won't have much else toshow for a while. As always we list our segment
times in our episode description so feel free tocheck out the show notes if you want to skip ahead to
a particular topic. Guys our artificiallyintelligent dual simulator AJ9K has a quick
message for our listeners so listen up. Why hellothere do you want even more from this podcast? Then

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become a part of the dynamic dual community onPatreon where you can choose from three tiers. The
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Lastly the Diner Mike podcast network tier letsyou create your own podcast using this Monte Carlo

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Thanks AJ9K and thanks to everyone who supportsthe podcast. Be sure to tune into the other shows in

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the Diner Mike podcast network this weekincluding the console combat podcast where hosts
John and Dean simulate battles between popularvideo game characters. In yesterday's episode
they did a comparison of the 2002 Resident Evilfilm and 2021's reboot Resident Evil Welcome to
Raccoon City. Over on the Max Instruction podcasthosts Scotty and Gilly pick your favorite action

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heroes from film and television against eachother. On Wednesday they're going to review
Freddie versus Jason. And on the Send Your Worldpodcast hosts Zachary Hepburn speculates on
fights between fan favorite anime and mangacharacters. In his next episode Zach is revealing
who would win between Shigeyo Kageyama aka Mobfrom Mob Psycho 100 and Tatsumaki the tornado of

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terror from One Punch Man. Visitdynamicpodcasts.com or click the link in our show
notes to listen to all the shows in the Diner Mikepodcast network. But with that out of the way quick
to the no prize. A no prize is an award that Marvelused to give out to fans. Our version the dynamic
dual no prize is a digital award we post onInstagram for the person that we feel gave the best

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answer to our question of the week. Last week weasked you guys where the fuck were you guys last
week wrong answers only and that of course wascoming off of the previous week's question from
which we got no answers mainly because it was a badquestion. You guys had a lot of fun with this one.
This week we actually have five honorablementions which we'll go through all at once before
naming the no prize winner. The honorablementions will be going to Lee Tapscott, Alex

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Albro, Matt from Texas, Daniel Alonzo and TravisHerndon. Who said? Lee Tapscott here and another
Marvel DC team up event. I was kidnapped and heldhostage because I had a better name for their
movies than they did. But I was told it would be okayfor me to call in this week in an attempt to win the no

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prize as long as I didn't give you the names that Icame up with for their movies. This is where I was
last week and was unable to call in. Sorry. Okaylook I'm so sorry I was having a really amazing
conversation with some DC fans about how theirmovies are great their acting is great the CGI is

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always amazing. Just telling them how greatthey're like costume designs they're designed
for just their characters their stories. So yeah Ijust got so busy really telling these DC fans how
how awesome DC is. Hey guys Matt from Texas here.See what had happened was I was going to call in from

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this earth but then somehow ended up on an earthwhere DC movies actually have consistent
continuity. It was fucking wild man. 10-10 wouldgo back. If you don't like that excuse well
flashpoint happened and somehow it became my owngrandpa and that's weird so I'm dealing with that
right now. Thanks for looking out. What's updynamic dudes Travis here shout out to me in

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between. Well you see what happened was I was goingto answer your question but a portal opened up in my
house and I got sucked into to this alternateuniverse where I fought a giant monkey man and
saved the ninth dimension. Then I went before Iwent back to our universe I got sucked into another
portal and fought a smaller monkey man and savedthe eighth dimension. So yeah I was fighting giant

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monkey man and I'm a hero in two dimensions. You'rewelcome. Great excuses guys. Generally excuses
are not a good thing but in this case I enjoyedlistening to them. So thank you for calling in this
time. But the winner of this week's No Prize is CJKraft who said hey guys CJ Kraft here just wanted to
apologize for not calling in last week. Me and mygirlfriend drove up to a secluded cabin in

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Michigan and read from some book of the dead calledthe Necronomicon. Anyway a long story short I got
this nifty new chainsaw arm and I had to go back intime and save the human race. Luckily I got back in
time to at least hear the new episode though it wasamazing. I kind of feel like that was spoilers
which is the most horrifying thing of all.Spoilers for the Evil Dead franchise. Yeah

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congrats to CJ Kraft. You won this week's No Prizebecause it was a scary movie reference and this is
the Halloween episode. Speaking of Evil Dead I didend up watching Evil Dead Rising a few weeks ago and
it was pretty hardcore. I think I still like thereboot the most though. Are the one directed by
Fetty Alvarez? Yeah yeah I refused to watch that.Congrats again to CJ Kraft for winning this week's

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No Prize. If you the listener want to shout outwinning your own No Prize stay tuned to later on
this episode when we'll be asking anotherquestion of the week. All right the House of
Mystery opens along with the Crypt of Shadows.Let's go out and find out who has the more

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terrifying tales and emerge as the winner. OkayHouse of Mystery and the Crypt of Shadows of course

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as we mentioned earlier these were two horroranthology series produced by DC and Marvel
respectively. The House of Mystery was once thehome of the DC character of Kane but has since
become the headquarters of the Justice LeagueDark. So the House of Mystery was not only a comic
book series it was actually like a location withinDC Comics. Yeah it's become one. Same thing with

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Crypt of Shadows actually so the Crypt of Shadowswas a horror anthology series by Marvel that
turned out to be in the basement essentially of theSanctum Sanctorum where Dr. Strange lives. It's
like a mausoleum underneath his house and thestories have had like different narrators over
the years kind of like how the tales from the crypthad the crypt keeper and the creep show comics had

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the creep. Well living in the mausoleum was Dr.Strange's brother Victor Strange and he would
often narrate the stories but also like I think inlast year's Crypt of Shadows special it was Agatha
Harkness who narrated the stories or she saw thestories in her like crystal ball. For a while the
narrator of House of Mystery was Elvira. For DCreally? Yeah I had no idea she was a DC character.

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She isn't really? I don't know how they pulled thatoff but they did for a time. She replaced Kane.
Interesting. Well for this particular matchupthe narrator of the Crypt of Shadows tales is going
to be Nightmare who is a Dr. Strange villain. He'sbasically the ruler of the dream dimension and a
fear lord born from the collective subconsciousof all of Marvel's sentient beings. He feeds on

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fear by invading dreams and trapping souls withinhis realm and he often plagues Marvel's mystic
characters. In his realm the dream dimension hehas omnipotent power and in the mortal plane he
still has considerable might I would say. He'slike super strong, can teleport, he can
manipulate dark energy, cast illusions, he hassome like psychic abilities and he also has a wand

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that could warp reality. So he's a formidablecharacter but he's also going to tell you the
scariest stories that you've ever heardJonathan. Which makes sense for a character like
Nightmare. I feel like that's a really good choicefor your Crypt of Shadows narrator. For the House
of Mystery narrator this round I'm going with thePhantom Stranger who originated in a horror
anthological series titled Phantom Stranger. Ohinteresting. Like Nightmare he's also basically

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omnipotent but he's also omniscient. He knows waymore than people realize. He's very mysterious.
Like that's his main power. His true origins havenever definitively been revealed. He's possibly
a fallen angel or the wandering Jew or JudasIscariot condemned to wander the earth. Over the
ages he's appeared throughout history as thisunseen guide to those standing at moral

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crossroads and serves unseen powers in theendless struggle between good and evil forever
walking between them. That sounds prettyinteresting. Before we get into our duel matchup
though let's go ahead and go to our sentient duelsimulator Alfred Jarvis 9000 who will tell our
listeners how he goes about determining a winnerin our duel matchups. Yes of course sir. The way I

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determine a winner between the two teams is byrunning 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations between
every character on each team using theirstatistics. A Monte Carlo simulation is a
probabilistic model used to determine outcomesthrough random sampling. In this case I randomize
the statistics along a normal distribution as away to simulate the many variables that can occur

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during battle. The stat parameters are based onthe official Marvel power grid from which the DC
characters statistics are extrapolated.Additional stat categories are included such as
range, damage potential, versatility andperception in order to create a more detailed and
accurate simulation. The results of the 49,000simulations provide a percentage of wins for each

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character on both teams. The team with the higheraverage win rate is declared the victor as they
have a higher probability to win any given battle.In an equitable pairing neither team should win
100% of the matches. The comic book stories haveshown that there's even a way for Batman to defeat
Superman so the confidence rate of my method fallsin line with the precedents that have been
established in the source material. Mymathematical simulations are without

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subjectivity or bias. Feats are not the soleconsideration nor are fan votes tabulated for
determination of the winner. Thanks HNAK. Beforewe run the simulations though we're going to get
into the spooky stories. So Nightmare emergesfrom the crypt of shadows, Phantom Stranger steps
out of the house of mystery, they meet at a campfirebetween the two locations and let's say that

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Nightmare goes first with his three stories. Thefirst tale of terror being about a naughty night
writer who's been axing all the wrong questions.But don't worry her road trip will be cut short by
Ghostwriter who has a real bone to pick. Buckle upkids, it's time for a joy ride straight to hell in a
story called The Heart of Black. Olivia Yand, shehad been driving for nearly 10 hours straight

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through the empty desert but even exhaustionwasn't going to stop her from what she had to do. She
looked at the axe resting on her passenger seat. Aglint of moonlight showed the deep red stains on
the blade. Olivia smiled, her stepson had gottenwhat he deserved and now it was her husband's turn
to join him as pieces in the trunk. It wouldn't belong now. The car was starting to stink, a little

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like rotten eggs. Suddenly the axe gleamedcatching the light from the car's rear view.
Olivia peered through the mirror to see what wasbehind her. On the road were two approaching
headlights. Another car was on the road. Itflashed its brights again, illuminating her car
interior. Just pass, Olivia murmured. Theheadlights flashed her again as they grew closer.

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She rolled down her window and motioned the carforward. Go on Jackass! She shouted. Suddenly the
headlights turned off. Peering back into her rearview mirror, Olivia saw nothing but endless
black. What the hell was that? She grumbled toherself. Maybe she imagined it or maybe the car
broke down and died. Maybe the driver needed helpand would be stranded in the middle of the desert to

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die. Olivia preferred the latter option. It wouldserve them right. Suddenly brightness flooded
her car again as the headlights turned back on. Thecar was right behind her. Olivia gasped as her
throat went dry. What was this guy doing? The carcrashed into her back bumper. Her head rocked
forward, slamming into the steering wheel. Whatthe fuck? She screamed. She stomped on the gas

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pedal, swerving as she regained control of thewheel. Her heart raced. This guy must be trying to
kill her. He must be a psycho. He must know what shedid. She thought about pulling over and grabbing
her axe. Now on the car floor, she felt blood fromher head injury drop onto her brow. The car slammed
into her again. No! Olivia cried out as she foughtto regain control of the wheel. Then the bright

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blue light flooding her car turned orange. Andwarm. Olivia glanced in her rear view again. The
car was on fire? The impact must have ruptured afuel line or maybe his engine overheated. Maybe
now he'll leave. She fixed her eyes on the fiery caras it slowly fell back. She peered behind her

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trying to make out the driver. It looked like he wason fire inside his car. Yes, good. No. Wait. The
driver was smiling. He was smiling and his face wason fire. No, his face was gone. It had melted off
from the flames. And he was still driving. Oliviafelt a cold chill run down her spine. This third

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slam caused Olivia to lose control. Her headslammed into her side window as the car drifted
into a spin before screeching to a halt. With bloodpouring over her eyes, she saw the fiery car parked
in front of her. The driver was a flaming skeletonclad in black. It stepped out and walked toward
her, grinning and holding chains. Olivia tried togasp but her throat was closed in shock. Jesus

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Christ! She managed to squeak out. I'm close. Saidthe voice in the back seat behind her. In her
mirror, she saw a rose of glistening teeth and bigred eyes. The last thing she remembered was the
smell of sulfur and the sound of her own rippingflesh. The next morning, a highway patrolman took

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a statement from Robbie Reyes. The back seat ofOlivia's car was melted into black glass. So the
limbs in the car are from a separate body than thelimbs in the trunk then, the officer said. He
scratched his head. Just what the hell happened?Robbie's eyes burned faintly as he turned back to
his car. Black heart, he responded. Come again,the officer asked. He turned her heart black, he

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said and shut the door. Poor Olivia thought shecould bury the hatchet in her husband, but instead
she ended up getting burned. I guess you could sayOlivia suffered from unintended consequences at
the hands of Blackheart, which Phantom Strangernotes have also been faced by a character in his
universe, Nightshade, in a tale he calls the Valeof Fog. As the princess of the land of Nightshades,

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a twilight realm between reality and nightmare,Eve Eden knew better than anyone that shadows are
born of light. As the hero Nightshade, she usedshadows themselves to fight the forces of
darkness within her adoptive realm alongsideEarth's most powerful magicians. It was her
mystical attunement that drew her like a moth toflame to the secluded coastal town of Greyhaven.

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Blanketed in a Vale of Fog, the town's landscapeand buildings appeared suddenly, as if conjured
at the whim of its perpetual grey mist. The thickfog seemed to weigh on Greyhaven citizenry, slow,
quiet, and uninterested in the newcomer to theirtown. Hunched adults shuffled down sidewalks,

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children sat in solitude. The silence wasdeafening. At night, the faint glow of the dim
streetlights illuminated nothing but the densefog around them. The streets were empty, and not a
single light shined through a shop or housewindow. Eve was able to see in the dark, but not past
the heavy grey mist of Greyhaven. She summoned adozen homunculene shadow creatures under her

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control to scout the environment. A few of themguided her to a towering lighthouse, atop a
cliffside. It's beacon, dark. Eve steppedthrough its shadowy doorway, using the darkness
to portal straight to the top of the tower. A youngboy sat atop its ledge, gazing at the mist over the
ocean. Starterled upon seeing Eve, he slippedfrom the ledge and fell. Eve reacted instantly,

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her shadow lashing out like a whip and catching himby the ankle. She drew him back to safety. I'm
sorry, she said softly. I didn't mean to frightenyou. The boy laughed, breathless. It's alright.
You're the first person I've seen up here, and Idon't know how long. As sunrise approached, the
two of them conversed. She asked him about thetown, and the boy told her that Greyhaven had been

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covered in a fog for as long as he could remember.The town used to be a port, but when the lighthouse
beacon went out, the ship stopped coming. When Eveasked why no one fixed it, the boy said the town
didn't have the supplies to do so. Their secludedvillage was dependent on the provisions from the
ships, and without them, they had to manage bytheir own means. Eve examined the beacon. There

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was something strange about it, beyond it beingphysically broken, as if someone had placed a
spell on it. She resolved to fix it. At sunrise, Evefloated down from the top of the lighthouse into a
shadow portal she created below. It took her abouta day to research how to repair the beacon and for
her homunculi to find the necessary supplies,which she portaled back to the Greyhaven

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lighthouse. The boy watched as she and her shadowcreatures repaired the light. It didn't take
long, and Eve paused to admire her work beforeflipping the switch. The beam of light swept
across the town, piercing and dispelling theblanketed fog within its path. To Eve's horror,
the boy dissipated when the light struck him, asthough he were made from the same mist. His

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horrified expression lingered beforeevaporating. She quickly looked down on the town
below. With the fog vanishing, she could see thepeople looking up at her, as they too disappeared
once the light touched them. The elderly,children, all gone. She shattered the beacon with
a massive shadowy fist and teleported to the nowexposed town square below. A mere handful of

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people remained within the lingering bit of fog,crying and confused as to what just happened to
their friends and relatives. It wasn't longbefore Eve learned that the people of Greyhaven
were ghosts, protected from the light and thetruth for decades by whoever conjured the fog. As
she apologetically ushered the remainingGreyhaven ghosts through a portal into the land of

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nightshades to start a new life, she rememberedthat shadows are born of light, and likewise, the
purest intentions can have the darkest ofconsequences. A ghost town is pretty scary, but
uh, not scary enough, not like Nightmare's NextTale, which takes us deep in the Florida

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Everglades, where you'll meet Jennifer Kale, awitchy woman with a swamping suspicion that
something nasty is bubbling beneath the surface.Here's a story of corpses, creeps, and carnage I
call Crimson Lands. 10. This Way Jennifer Kaleshouted at Manthing. The swamp creature snapped

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out of his trance and slowly lumbered to herlocation. For as important as Manthing was to the
protection of this reality, he wasn't verybright. That's why Jennifer knew that her
presence alongside him was so important.Guarding the Nexus of All Realities may have been
Manthing's responsibility, but he was hers. Aportal of magic in the middle of the Florida

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Everglades, the Nexus connected the swamp toinfinite worlds and endless dimensions.
Sometimes, things came through it that youwouldn't want to, and all too often, people died in
the swamp. Jennifer pointed down at the murkywater, not far from the Nexus. Manthing reached
his monstrous hand down into the sludge, pullingsomething back out. A corpse. Jennifer gagged.

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The body was half decayed, modeled and infestedwith maggots crawling in and out of its rotted
flesh. Black ooze seeped out of its riddled skin.Its body was covered in vines, and its face
distorted in a terrified, silent scream.Jennifer flicked away a leech crawling out of its
cheek. She looked closely at the body to get a hintas to why it called to her. Her witchcraft was

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powerful, but it's not as if she could raise thedead. The corpse lashed out and clamped its hand
around her jaw, spewing black, putrid ooze overher. She vomited as Manthing crushed the body in
his grasp and threw it into the trees. He put hishand on Jennifer's back as she wiped sludge from
her eyes. Pfft. It moved! Jennifer sputtered. Shelooked up and saw a dozen corpses slowly rise from

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the murky water all around them. What evil is this?She whispered, and stuttered, jagged motions,
the vine-riddled bodies crept toward them, theirdecayed arms reaching out. Jennifer raised her
hand, using witchcraft to engulf one of thecorpses and flames. Manthing lunged at another,
using his claws to tear it to pieces. He lungedagain, grabbing one and squeezing it like jelly.

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The corpses started to pile on him as he tried topull them off. There were too many, and more were
rising from the swamp by the second. Ted! Jennifercalled out at Manthing. Suddenly a wall of roots
and wooden vines erupted from the ground,separating them. No! She shouted, punching
through the barrier with a magic blast. Behind itwas another wall. They rose up all around her like a

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hedge maze. She tried levitating above the maze,but the vines reached up to pull her down into the
mud below. She crawled out and trudged her waythrough the corridors, looking for a way out, but
the maze shifted and reformed, trapping her in itspassage. A horde of corpses rose and stumbled
toward her, spewing ooze and fetid sludge, and thepassage itself narrowed, closing in on her.

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There's no use fighting, came a voice in an Irishbrogue. The swamp belongs to me, and it has no more
need for the walking mulch heap. Jennifer froze,realizing whom the voice was referring to. Ted!
She screamed. She unleashed a magic wave of energythat tore down the walls and corpses around her.

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Across the clearing, she saw Manthing's bodystrewn across the swamp, decimated by a man
holding a gnarled wooden staff. It was Black TomCassidy, manipulator of wood and plant life. The
corpses then awakened not from necromancy, butfrom the vines, roots and mold threaded through
their rotted flesh, his puppet strings. What areyou doing, Tom? Jennifer shrieked at him as she

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walked toward the swirling nexus. As I said to her,the swamp is mine, Black Tom shouted. Therefore,
the nexus is mine, and therefore, everything isnow his. He paused to smile and wave as he entered
the portal, disappearing into the nexus. For amoment, there was only silence. Jennifer

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wondered who Black Tom was referring to. Was it hisfriend, the juggernaut? Was he enthralled to
someone else? Suddenly, she felt the groundshudder beneath her. The nexus convulsed, its
light flickered and cracked like a woundsplitting open. Waves of blood gushed from the
rift in a roaring flood pouring across the swamp.The water churned red as if the land itself were

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bleeding. The corpses rose again, lurchingthrough the Crimson Mire, their jaws dripping.
Jennifer looked out around her, waist deep in thenightmare. The dead spoke in one voice. CITAROCK!
The Crimson God, his bloody campaign had justbegun. Jennifer Kale got more than a little bogged

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down there, and Black Tom Cassidy working withCiterock sounds like an alliance that will leaf
the whole multiverse screaming. Yeah, evilforces working behind the scenes are definitely
terrifying, and it's a concept not unknown to aparticular character in DC known as the Ragman and
his tale that the Phantom Stranger is calling AThief in the Night. They say you should never pray

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for patience, for God presents you with theopportunities to practice the traits that you ask
for. Rabbi Judah Lowe knew this in 16th centuryPrague, so rather than patiently wait for the
prophesied savior of his people, he took it uponhimself to craft his own, a Gollum from mud and
mysticism. The grotesque monster initiallyprotected his people from attacks, pogroms, and

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genocide, but the Gollum fell out of the rabbi'scontrol and went on a murderous rampage that
spilled the innocent blood of his people.Realizing his quest for justice had led to a
serious and equal measure to the one he sought tostop. Rabbi Lowe destroyed his creation. He and
other rabbis within Prague soon came togetherseeking a solution to their plight, rooted not in

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justice, but in redemption. Thus they formed a ragsuit from the tattered clothing of those killed by
the Gollum, a suit that bore their souls and couldoffer their strength to a new savior, the Ragman.
Throughout the centuries, those who wore the suitof rags protected the Jewish people, absorbing

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the souls of men who would do their people harm,using that soul's strength until it had paid the
price for its sins. As the souls of evil doerswaited patiently for their redemption within the
rags of the current ragman, Rory Reagan, theimpatience of another council of religious men,
this time in the vaults of the Vatican, resulted inthe yet another abomination, made not from mud,

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but from sacred blood extracted from the shroud ofTurin, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ during
their studies of the artifact. They used the DNA toimpregnate a young, naive Jewish virgin with a
Christ clone in an effort to usher in the secondcoming. For nine months, the woman named Miriam

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lay chained to a bed beneath the Vatican, untilsuddenly, like a thief in the night, the clone tore
its way into the world, its wrinkled red eyesshining with an ancient malice too old for any
newborn. Horrified at the realization of whatthey had done, the Vatican scientists attempted
to kill the clone, but not before Miriam.Suffering as she was from the violent birth,

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managed to escape with her child, swaddled anapportion of the very shroud that helped create
her unholy offspring. From the time Miriam was herson's age, she was told stories of the Jewish hero,
the ragman, who protected her people from evil.She barely made it to him before collapsing, her

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last words begging him to save her baby. Rorybarely heard her as his writhing rags emerged
reactively, the souls trapped within whisperingconfusedly in his head from the nearby presence of
entities so holy and evil. Upon touching theshroud, it adhered itself to a suit. Threads of

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holiness pierced the damned fabric like nailsthrough flesh, and Rory's senses were
overwhelmed by the power that now coursed throughhis body, his typical ragged green cape, now in the
visage of an angel's white wings. The infant in hisarms shrieked, its shrill cry underlaced with a
lion's roar that restored Rory to his senses andthe sobering realization that he was now staring

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down the barrels of dozens of armed Vaticansoldiers. Surrounded, he weighed surrender
against a mother's last wish. With his surging newpower, he could easily survive the Vatican's
attack, but to what purpose he was unclear.Looking down into the infant's glowing eyes,
Ragman foresaw the apocalypse and heard foulpromises from the babe inside his head. Rory,

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praying for the strength to do what had to be done,cried in pain to the heavens as he absorbed the
child's soul into his suit, transforming it fromwhite to gray. As he laid the lifeless baby upon its
dead mother on the ground, he heard the childwhisper from within him, and Ragman wondered if

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what he had done was mercy or a sin greater than thegolem. Time would tell. Patience is a virtue, they
say, as is a promise kept, but a patient promise isprophecy itself, and prophecy is inevitable. I
prophesize that Nightmare's final tale here isgoing to make the Phantom Stranger shit his pants.

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This final lesson in horror takes us to the halls ofStrange Academy, where the young pupil Calvin
Morse worries about passing his tests when maybehe should be worried about passing away. Classes
in session for a tale I call the Many-Angled One.Calvin Morse Calvin Morse opened the door to

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Wong's office. As the instructor for the MysticalDefense course at Strange Academy, Wong was known
for holding one-on-one sessions for studentsseeking academic help. In Calvin's case,
however, the meeting was more of a check-in. Youasked to see me, sir? Calvin asked. Wong closed the
book he was reading and set his glasses on his desk.Calvin Morse, please have a seat. Calvin walked

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over to the wooden chair. Like the rest of theoffice, the seat looked ancient. The room's
shelves were lined with magical artifacts andtomes. From class, he recognized the lifeline
tablet and the Carnix war horn. Some of the scrollslooked so old that they were practically dust, and
some of the books were bound in iron under lock andkey. Of all the rooms at Strange Academy, Wong's

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office was one of the more intimidating. Wongpressed his palms together, resting his elbows on
his desk. Calvin, over the past few weeks, I'venoticed a change in your attentiveness during
class. You have appeared agitated and unfocused.Your grades have begun to slip. Wong slid two
parchment across his desk for Calvin to see. Onewas an exam on the eight principalities on which he

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earned a B+. The other parchment was an essay on theHyborian Age, which was stamped with an F. What is
the story here? Wong asked, is everything okay?Um, I guess. Calvin murmured. He looked up from the
parchment to Wong's concerned expression. Idon't really know. Wong stood from his seat and

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walked around to the front of his desk, leaning onit. Calvin, I'm concerned not just for your
studies, as important as mystical defenses. I'mconcerned for your mental well-being. As you
know, it is important for sorcerers to remainclear and level-headed, lest their minds succumb
to dark forces. I'm sorry, Mr. Wong, Calvin said.It's just, I've been seeing, like, bad visions and

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hearing whispers. Wong's eyebrows raised. Badvisions, whispers. Can you explain? He asked.
Well, in Dr. Voodoo's class, we were learningabout the orb of Agamotto, and after looking into
it, I saw... Calvin paused. Wong prompted him.What did you see, Calvin? A giant eyeball? Calvin

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said. And tentacles. Wong's concernedexpression turned grim. And what are the voices
saying? Calvin hung his head and quietlywhispered. Shumagorath. Wong walked back around
his desk and sat down, his hands gripping thearmrests. I don't know what that means, Calvin

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said, feeling tears begin to well in his eyes. But Ifeel scared. I saw my friends dying. I saw Emily and
Irak and Zoe, their heads were gone. Wong took adeep breath. Shumagorath is one of the elder gods
known as the Many-Angled Ones, he explained. Itwas responsible for the death of the ancient one.

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Dr. Strange was once forced to commit ritualsuicide to prevent it from coming through to him
into this dimension. You can shape-shift, you canalter reality, it is the ruler of hundreds of
universes and can destroy galaxies. Well, is itcoming here? Calvin asked, wiping his eyes. Wong
paused. Of course not, he said. Calvin sighed,relieved. So, maybe I've just been having

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nightmares. Perhaps, Wong said. But if it makesyou feel better, why don't you grab the talisman of
Shurair from the classroom? It is on the red woodenchest. It is said to ward off dark visions. Calvin
nodded and walked to the mystical defense room.Resting on the red wooden chest was the book of
Cogliostro and the Coral Crab, but there was notalisman. Calvin scratched his head and walked

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out of the classroom, returning to Wong's office.He opened the door. Mr. Wong, I couldn't find the
talisman. Calvin stood, frozen. In front of him,Wong hovered a foot off the ground. A large smile
spread across his face and his eyes opened wide.Calvin felt the blood drained from his face.

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What's the matter, Calvin? Wong said. As you said,it's just a nightmare. Wong peeled off his face to
reveal a big, round eyeball underneath. Calvingasped as a tentacle wrapped around his neck and
squeezed. His body fell over, limp. His headrolled across the floor until it came to a stop. On

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his face, a frozen look of opened mouth horror.Looks like Calvin flunked out in the worst way,
going straight from the student body to just a deadbody. So Nightmare's prophecy proved incorrect
because Phantom Stranger did in fact not shit hispants. Come on, that was scary. It was scary. I'm

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not going to lie. And very mysterious, as is thePhantom Stranger's final tale titled Manitou.
Manitou, to the Algonquin people, the word meantmystery and referred to the mystic life forces and
spirits of the world. Many of these spirits werenamed and revered, and some in the ancient need of

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wisdom were never named, never whispered about,for they can never be tamed, and their wild hunger
never satiated. The shaman, Manitou Raven, namedafter the spirit of magic and a protector of the
planet, bound one of these dark wild spirits 3,000years ago on the land of his people. Upon traveling

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through time from the Obsidian Age to the modernone, he knew it would be his responsibility to trap
the spirit once again. But to do so, he would againneed the help of five youths. He sat atop a
cliffside, waiting for them to enter the valleybelow, as the dark clouds foretold. He heard their

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echoing voices as they approached. Looks likerain's coming. Let's move, guys. Adam told the
others as they reached the bottom of the valley.Are we lost? Virginia asked nervously. I swear if
we are, I will strangle Skyler for leaving ourphones, said Cherry. I told you I needed them for my
telescope. Skyler snapped back. Yeah, you'll geta great view of the stars tonight through these

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clouds, muttered Jesse. We're not going to make itto the campsite before dark, Adam said. We'll have
to find shelter soon and wait out the rain. Maybespend the night. Cherry whispered into his ear,
and he blushed. Look, there's a cave, Jesse said,pointing ahead as the rain began pouring. They
entered the cave soaked, nervously peering intothe blackness. Adam cautiously explored the cave

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with his flashlight, while Skyler and Jesseargued over how to start a fire. Cherry and
Virginia huddled together near the entrance,wondering the loud if maybe the cave belonged to a
bear or mountain lion. Adam found no sign of ananimal, and were it not for the illumination from
the fire the others managed to get started, hewouldn't have seen the black skull amidst the

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rocks. It was human. Guys, let's get out of here.Adam said as he rushed back to the others. He
tripped suddenly, a thorny vine wrapped aroundhis leg. Are you okay? Virginia asked. In the light
of the fire, they watched as more vines sproutedbeneath Adam, wrapping around him like dark
tendrils, binding tight against his body andpulling downward, effortlessly sawing through

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his neck and limbs like razor wire. Screams filledthe cave, lava belched from the fire, landing on
Cherry. Her jacket and haircut fire as her skinblackened beneath the blistering bright orange.
Skyler emptied his canteen on Cherry, dousing theflames too late. Steam rose and swirled around
Skyler, plunging into his mouth and nose. He fellto his knees, black sludge pouring from his mouth,

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tears and eyes as his skin turned gray. A howling,piercing wind suddenly came rushing from deep
within the cave. Jesse rushed to shield Virginiafrom a blast of butchered air that knocked them
both to the ground. Jesse, Virginia shrieked,Jesse's body lay still. She rolled him off of her,

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only to look in horror at his now deformed figure asif the wind had blown his facial features and limbs
to places they shouldn't be. A teary eye atop hispatchy-haired head blinked at her. Virginia? He
struggled to say from the mouth now on his neck.Virginia screamed and ran out of the cave into
thick rain and the arms of Manitou Raven. Heembraced her as she looked up at him, pleading for

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help. He didn't respond. His gaze locked withinthe cave. Virginia turned in his arms and her
horror saw the corpses and body parts of herfriends roll toward each other at the cave's
opening, merging into one another and forming agrotesque serpent with Adam's face. Virginia
tried to flee, but Manitou Raven held her firmly inhis arms. She looked up at him, confused. He looked

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down at her with regret in his ancient eyes.Forgive me, he whispered as the serpent lashed its
shadowy tail around her neck, yanking her towardits gaping maw. It chewed loudly, then sprouted
bat wings and wore Manitou Raven, whose sacredtattoos and angry eyes now glowed blue as he

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unsheathed tomahawks blazing with fiery magic.History repeated itself. Five innocent youths
were sacrificed to give the dark spirit a physicalform that could be destroyed and trapped for
another 3,000 years. As Manitou Raven finishedchanting his binding ritual, he pondered the

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mystery as to what was darker, the Manitou thathungers or the one that feeds it. I'm gonna say it's
the Manitou that feeds it. Manitou Raven is onecold-hearted son of a bitch in that story. I'm not
gonna lie, that was a pretty good one. I really likethe moral dilemma that Manitou had in that story.
And Nightmare does not appreciate how scary thatstory was. You're not trying to one-up him, so in

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order to teach Phantom Stranger a lesson, he'sgoing to summon a whole team of supernatural and
mystic characters from Marvel to basically beatthe shit out of Phantom Stranger. And Phantom
Stranger is not frightened by that, because hewill do the same. From the House of Mystery, he's
going to summon Madame Zanadu, an immortalsorceress and seer who commands powerful magic

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drawn from ancient sources most often channeledthrough tarot and ritual. She could foresee
destiny summon spirits and manipulate the unseenthreads of fortune. She could also levitate,
teleport, heal, and manipulate mystic energiesacross time and space. From one of the stories he
told, he'll also be summoning Manitou Raven, whowas born among an ancient tribe in the time before

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recorded history. He serves as a shaman whocommunes with the spirits of Earth and Sky, who
joined a circle of ancient champions to defend theworld against the darkness that threatened to
consume it. When he was transported forward intime, he carried with him the wisdom and burdens of
the obsidian age into the modern world. Hecommands elemental and spiritual forces, can

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summon animal spirits, travel the astral plane,alter his size, and even bend time itself. Also
being summoned is Lori Zecklin, aka Black Alice,who grew up in a fractured home. Her mother's death
and her father's decline pushed her towardisolation and despair. In her grief, she turned to
the occult, discovering a dark connectionbetween her emotions and the arcane forces

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surrounding her. In her pursuit of meaning, shewas drawn to the world of magic, allowing her to
siphon and wield the magical powers of others,drawing their arcane essence and memories as her
own. Nightshade emerges next, who as I mentionedearlier is Eve Eden, born to the Queen of the Shadow
Realm known as the Land of Nightshades. As a child,she witnessed her mother be abducted by the

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demonic Incubus, who sought dominion over bothher realm and Earth. Eve vowed to master the
mysteries of darkness to one day return to hermother's world and free it from corruption. She
can open portals through darkness, conjurecreatures of shadow, phase through matter, and
vanish into her two-dimensional form. Ragmanwill also be joining the fray. You just heard a

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story about him. He is Rory Reagan and was raised inthe slums by his father, a junk dealer, who was
killed along with his friends by criminals,allowing Rory to discover the mystic legacy they
had protected, a garment woven from the souls ofthe guilty. Bering its burden, he became the
latest in a long line of reluctant saviors whoatone for other sins through their own suffering.

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His mystical suit of souls grants him thestrength, speed, and skill of the wicked spirits
it absorbs. Each soul becomes a living threadwithin the rags, which can guide and teleport him
toward evil actions. Finally, Phantom Strangersummons Blue Devil, aka Daniel Cassidy, who is a
Hollywood stuntman whose ambition led him todabble in supernatural forces beyond his

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understanding. When a demonic encounter boundhim permanently to the monstrous suit he had
created for entertainment, his life of illusionbecame one of grim reality. Struggling to
reconcile fame and faith, he sought redemption byturning his curse into a calling. He possesses
immense strength, durability, and resistance tosorcery. His enchanted trident, known as the

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Trident of Lucifer, can channel hellfire andbanish demons. So to reiterate, Phantom
Stranger's team consists of Madame Zanadu,Manitou Raven, Black Alice, Nightshade, Ragnan,
and Blue Devil. I'd like to see who Nightmaresummons to go against that team. Well, coming out
of the crypt of shadows, first is Jennifer Kale,Ghostwriter's cousin who hails from a long line of

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mystics in Florida's Kale family who aredescendants of Atlantis' ancient cult of
Jeredna. Her latent magical abilities emergedwhile studying ancient tomes beneath their
family cemetery, honing her skills inwitchcraft. Guided by the man thing, and later
trained by Dr. Strange, she became one of Earth'sprominent sorceresses. As a battle mage, she can

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don witch armor, manipulate magic energy,mesmerize minds, cast teleportation portals,
along with a myriad of other spells. Also emergingfrom the crypt is Wong, a descendant of a family
sworn for generations to serve the ancient one.Wong was trained from youth in martial arts
disciplines, and when he was sent to Car Martage,she became the personal attendant and ally of Dr.

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Strange. Though bound by duty, Wong's wisdom andcombat skill made him a protector of Earth against
supernatural threats. In addition to being amaster martial artist, Wong is a skilled sorcerer
able to manipulate magic energy for portals,shields, and various other effects. Klai is the
next one out of the crypt. She is the daughter ofUmar and the niece of Dormammu, born in the Dark

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Dimension. She first encountered Dr. Strangewhile he battled Dormammu and aided him against
her tyrannical uncle. After years of tutelageunder Dr. Strange, Klai grew into a powerful
sorceress and ultimately became the sorceresssupreme of the Dark Dimension. Due to her half
mortal, half faulting heritage, she has enhancedphysiology including durability and magical

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resistance. She calls on more elder magics forpowerful spells including energy manipulation,
elemental control, teleportation, psychicmanipulation, telekinesis, scrying,
necromancy, transmutation, and more. Next out ofthe crypt is Pixie. Megan Gwyn grew up in Wales as
the daughter of Mastermind and a descendant ofFairy Lineage. She joined the Xavier Institute

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where during an adventure in Limbo, the new magictainted a portion of Megan's innocent soul to
manifest a soul dagger, similar to magic's ownsoul sword. Pixie can fly with her insect wings and
can produce hallucinogenic dust. She can alsocast spells for teleportation, sleep, and she can

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summon her soul dagger at will, which can harmmagic entities and stun non-magic entities.
Second to last out of the crypt is the ScarletScarab whose real name is Leila L. Fowley. She was
an Egyptian mercenary who once worked with MarkSpector before he became Moon Knight. Killed
during a mission, her soul entered the Duot, whichis the Egyptian realm of death, where the goddess

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Tawadet transformed her into the realm'sguardian, the Scarlet Scarab. Revived to the
mortal world by Osiris, she now serves as aprotector of both the living and the dead. She can
fly at high speeds with her wings and summon swordsand chakram discs. Her ruby scarab grants her
enhanced strength and durability, the ability tofire concussive mystical energy, and can drain

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the power of anyone who touches the scarab.Finally out of the portal is Ghost Rider, aka
Robbie Reyes, who was a teen mechanic that wasmurdered by a gang members while he was racing in
his possessed Dodge Charger. Resurrected by thespirit of his Satanic uncle, Eli Morrow, Robbie
became the Ghost Rider, a fiery Avenger bound tohellish power. Torn between protecting his

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brother, Gabe, and resisting Eli's bloodlust,Robbie tries to punish the guilty across Los
Angeles. As Ghost Rider, he possesses enhancedstrength and full regenerability, pyrokinesis,
mystic chain manipulation, and he wields the Penand Stare, which can inflict an opponent's the
pain and suffering they have caused in others. Hecan also summon and remotely control his

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possessed Dodge Charger, which contains a portalto hell in its trunk. So that's Nightmare's team.
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But now that we've got their rosters out of the way,let's speculate on how one of the thousands of
simulated matches will go. The winner isdetermined by simulations, not the speculation,
but it's fun to imagine how a fight could play out.Ajin Enkei, what are the rules of our speculation?
Well, I should say there are no rules, other thanthe teams have no prior knowledge of the other

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going into the fight. All they are aware ofstarting out is that the other side is a threat that
needs to be eliminated. For the speculation, thegroups will begin approximately 50 meters apart
in a nondescript environment that will have nobearing on the match itself, as no environmental
statistics are considered in my simulations. Theteams must earn victory on their own merit. All

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right, with both of our horror narrators teamsassembled, they're going to chronicle how this
terrifying battle will play out. The mystery is,who goes first? Nightmare says that Ghost Rider is
going to go first, and he starts by summoning hisHell Charger, which comes out of the ground, and he
controls it remotely to crash into the PhantomStrangers group, just running them all over.

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Except Blue Devil's Trident helps him sensedemons, which he could banish to hell. So once he
recognizes that the car is possessed, that'sexactly what he's going to do. He's going to slam
his Trident into the ground, open up this fissurethat's spewing Hellfire, and the car's going to
fall straight into it, and that fissure is justgoing to seal back up. Okay then, I guess that move

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didn't work. Pixie, she's going to fly into the airand release her hallucinogenic Pixie Dust. So
Phantom Strangers group just starts trippingballs, start freaking out, and that's going to
cause Manitou Raven to set Ragnan on fire, becausehe like sees him as like birthday candles that he
needs to light or something. Birthday candles fora 3000 year old shaman? All right, it's a choice.

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Yeah. Well as Ragnan is stopped dropping androlling, Black Alice, who has done some trippy
magic drugs before, is less affected, and she'sgoing to steal Cleia's magic from her. So Cleia's
powerless now, and Black Alice is going to summon amagic wind that blows all of Pixie's dust off of her

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team, and also it's going to put out Ragnan's fire.Okay, I have to warn you, this is going to sound like
bullshit, but I swear that this was a thing from thecomic books. Cleia has been depowered or like had
her magic negated before, but the thing is,because she's half mortal, half faulteen, she's
special in that she pulls from different realms ofmagic, such as like Earth's magical field, or like

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the Dark Dimension, or the very ancient Faltinemagic. So Black Alice may be able to drain Cleia's
power, like say her Earth magic or whatever, butCleia then calls upon her Faltine magic, and then
she casts a spell called the Talons of Tarkus, andthat's going to manifest this magic hawk that
grabs Black Alice and just pulls her into anotherdimension, this magic-less dimension. So Black

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Alice is out of the match, Cleia still has hermagic, she's kind of I'm gonna say that Madame
Zenadu foresaw that Cleia was going to do that toBlack Alice, so she cast a counterspell so that
whoever used magic against Black Alice would alsoforget all magic forever. So Cleia is powerless

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when Manitou Raven summons a massive swarm ofRavens, a fuck ton that are gonna blacken the sky
and devour Nightmare's team. I guess you did find away to depour Cleia, okay she gets devoured by the
Ravens, but Jennifer Kale and Wong throw up magicshields that protect the rest of the team, and the

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Ravens just crash into the shields like birds intoa window. And then Scarlet Scarab, she hurls a
chakra disk that she manifests, and the blade justslices right through Manitou Raven's neck,
decapitating him, and causes the Ravens tovanish. Okay, well suddenly Ragman teleports
behind Scarlet Scarab due to his danger-sensingrags, and his cloak is gonna wrap around her,

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stealing her soul for the murder she justcommitted, and her body's gonna fall to the floor
lifeless. Okay, Ghostrider is gonna hold hischains over to Ragman then pulls him over to him and
then does the pen and stare, which causes Ragman tofeel all the pain that all those souls in his cloak
have inflicted on innocent victims. Oh no. So likeRagman is fucking dead dead, like he was just

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killed like a thousand times over from thisincalculable level of pain, like no one has ever
died just as much as Ragman just died. Dude stop,he's already dead! But you know who else is gone?
Pixie, because she's gonna get slammed out of theair by this 10 story tall shadow figure created by
Nightshade, straight into the ground. Well thatprobably would take her out of the match, but Wong

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meanwhile, he conjures a magical bow staff, and heuses it to vault into a flying kick at Madame Zanadu
and kicks her Deku Tarot cards right out of herhands, and she's like, ah shit! And then Wong
roundhouse kicks her in the face, followed up by aleaping scissor kick to the face, like WAP WAP! And
then he wax her in the head with his magic bow staff,and then he summons a portal beneath her where she

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falls through it into an icy mountain crevasse,like up in the Himalayas, and she dies. I feel like
she would have seen all of this coming. First ofall, it takes way too much time to read those cards.
Second of all, even if she did see it coming, shewould have been way too mesmerized by the beating
that she just took. What? Why would you bemesmerized by a beating? Because it was like

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martial arts mastery awesomeness. That's sodumb. Alright well, Blue Devil saw this, so he and
Wong go toe to toe with their staff weapons, andwhile Wong may be a better fighter, Blue Devil is
super durable and strong like Hellboy, so all ittakes is one punch for Wong to go night night. And

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even if Wong tries some kind of like sorcery in hisattacks, Blue Devil is magic resistant, so Wong's
out. He's magical resistant. You know, JenniferKale's gonna test that resistance with a
mesmerizing spell. She's gonna capture BlueDevil's gaze and convince him to, as a demon
himself, banish himself to Hell. So now BlueDevil's out. Except that Blue Devil can't be

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mesmerized by what he can't see, becauseNightshade, just envelops the entire
environment in darkness, and that's gonna negateJennifer Kale's spell. So both Jennifer and Ghost
Rider are going to be torn to shreds in the dark bydozens of homunculi shadow creatures she
created. No, because Jennifer Kale would cast aLumo spell, where like her fist shines like a

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beacon, and it's so bright that it tears and burnsthrough the darkness around them, including
tearing and burning through Nightshade herselfinto nothing. Lumos? Isn't that a Harry Potter
spell? I said luminos. Luminos. Whatever. Shecould do it. Regardless. Okay, well, I mean, it's a

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good thing that Blue Devil is burnproof then, andthanks to his heightened senses, he was able to
maneuver behind Jennifer in the dark, so shedoesn't see it coming when he pierces her through a
gap in her witch armor, and pailing her on thetrident of Lucifer. She doesn't have any gaps in
her witch armor? Dude, I've seen scans of what shelooks like. She has so many gaps. Well, Ghost Rider

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does not appreciate Blue Devil messing with hisfellow spirit of vengeance's mother's brother's
daughter. Okay, so he's just gonna flame breathhim with this like giant blast of Hellfire so
powerful, it actually melts Blue Devil and burnshis soul. I literally just said the guy was

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burnproof. Blue Devil deals with Hellfire all thetime, but I doubt Ghost Rider deals with Hellfire
straight from Lucifer's trident. That's like thehottest of the hot. Motherfucker, DC's Hellfire
is like a lukewarm bath. It's not doing shit, okay?Marvel's Hellfire is way hotter, plus Ghost Rider
grabs Blue Devil by his horns and just tosses him inthe trunk of his car, which he resummoned from

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Hell, and inside Robbie Race's trunk is a portal toHell, so Blue Devil gets banished and Ghost Rider
wins. No, I already said the car was banished to thedeepest pit of Hell, so no, it's not coming back. If
anything, Blue Devil banishes Ghost Rider. It'swhat he does. It's what Ghost Rider does. Yeah, but

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Blue Devil just doesn't better. According to who?Phantom Stranger, duh. Well, I say that Ghost
Rider not only banishes Blue Devil to Hell,Nightmare banishes Phantom Stranger to the crypt
of shadows for all of eternity for being a dumbass.That's fine, Phantom Stranger would probably
love it there. He loves that mysterious shit. Idoubt Nightmare is going to love it in the House of

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Mystery, where Phantom Stranger traps him foreternity because the Nightmare is there would be
out of his control. Why? Again, because thePhantom Stranger says so. Well, let's find out who
gets trapped where. Let's go ahead and run thesimulations on this cast of characters after we
input their stats. We'll be right back, folks,with a winner. A.J .9K, hit it! Inputting data,

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running calculations, processing results,simulations complete. Okay, Nightmare and
Phantom Stranger both summoned this team ofwarriors to fight against each other, but we also
incorporated their stats as well into this teamduel. Right, so we had seven characters each. And I
have to say, it's kind of a good thing that PhantomStranger and Nightmare did not include

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themselves in their speculation because they arehella powerful. Yeah, they're basically
omnipotent, basically omniscient. They won amajority of their battles. Nightmare won 90.6% of
all his matches and Phantom Stranger won 91.8%. Sowe had these very lopsided characters stat-wise
compared to the rest of the supernatural andmystic characters on the teams. Another heavy

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hitter was Clea. She won about 70% of all of hermatches. Yeah, besides Nightmare, she was your
most powerful character. My most powerfulcharacter outside of Phantom Stranger was
surprisingly Nightshade. She is super powerful.My weakest character on my team was Pixie. I don't
think that's any surprise. She only won 14.5% ofher matches. Surprisingly, my weakest character

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was Black Alice, but I think it has to do with the waywe had to determine her stats. Because her power is
so variable in the fact that she steals power fromothers, we had to average all of the Marvel
character stats to determine hers. And with that,she still emerged as my weakest character,

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although Ragman was not too far behind that.Looking at the team battles overall, it looks like
the DC team's biggest advantage was in strength.Your characters were more strong, whether it was
through physical strength or telekineticstrength. Characters like Pixie, Wong, and
Jennifer Kale really brought me down there. ButMarvel kicked the shit out of DC when it came to the

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category of versatility. Like, all of my guys arehighly versatile, whereas Phantom Stranger's
team had a few less versatile characters likeRagman and Blue Devil. Considering all that,
Jonathan, do you have a guess as to who's going towin this? There's no way I could ever vote against
these badass DC characters, many of whom I'm kindof sad did not get their own individual duels like

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Ragman, like Blue Devil, like Manitou Raven. Soyeah, I gotta go with DC's House of Mystery team.
And Instagram agrees with me, 79% of them alsovoted for the House of Mystery. 79%? What the hell
is wrong with our Instagram followers? No oneknows what the Crypt of Shadows even is. Like,

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House of Mystery had its own movie. Well, it waslike a part of a collection of animated DC shorts,
though. That's on par for what the House of Mysteryis, a series of short stories. Yeah, we'll
probably chalk it up to that, I think. Really,people didn't know who they were voting for,
because we kept the roster of this team duel asurprise within that Instagram poll. I'd like to

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think that if they knew who was on the Marvel team,they would have voted for Marvel. Really, you
think they would have voted for Pixie? Yeah. Let'sfind out if they're right, though. AJ9K, the
results, please. Hey, you are, sir. All right, thewinner between the Phantom Stranger's House of
Mystery and Nightmare's Crypt of Shadows is theHouse of Mystery. Yes! It was pretty close. Out of

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the thousands of simulated matches, the House ofMystery won 52.3% of the time compared to the Crypt
of Shadow team's 47.7%. In the end, you know who wasthe tipping point? Which character? No, which
one? It was actually Black Alice, whose variablepower set actually ended up averaging into a win
for you guys. Despite the fact that she was yourweakest character. Oh, dude, I did not see that

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coming. I thought she was going to bring me down forsure. But, you know, it makes sense. Like, all she
has to do is steal Nightmare's power and your wholeteam is done for. I don't think you can actually
drain Nightmare's powers, or if you did, I feellike you would just remanifest with his power in
the Nightmare dimension. Not if he's powerless.Like, she's absorbed the power of the Spectre

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before. It doesn't care if Phantom Stranger'steam won. Nightmare still told the more scary
stories. You think so, huh? I say we let the peopledecide. That brings us to our question of the week.
Which scary story this episode was your favorite?And why? Record your answer at dynamicduld.com by

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clicking on the red microphone button in thebottom right hand corner of the screen, which will
prompt you to leave us a voicemail. Your messagecould be up to 30 seconds long, and don't forget to
leave your name in case we include you on thepodcast. We'll pick our favorite answer and award
that person a Dynamic Dual No Prize that we'll postto Instagram. Be sure to answer before November
1st. I think the results of that question of theweek will determine the real winner of this

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particular team duel. No, you can't get out of yourloss. You own that. But that does it for this duel.
AJ9K helped close us out. Thanks for listening toDynamic Dual. Visit the show's website at
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reviewing Dynamic Dual on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, Podchaser, or on our website. Don't
forget to listen to the other shows in the DynamitePodcast Network, including Max Destruction,
Senjo World, and Console Combat. In our nextepisode, we will be reviewing Season 2 of
Peacemaker, a review that we delayed in order tomake room for October's spooky duels. But that

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does it for this episode. We want to give a bigthanks to our executive producers, John
Starosky, Zachary Hepburn, Destin Belcom, MiggiMothagean, Nathaniel Wagoner, Levi Yatten,
Austin Wieselowski, AJ Dunkerley, Nick Ibonto,Scott Camacho, Gil Camacho, Adam Spees, Dean
Molesky, Devin Davis, Joseph Kirsting, MikeWilliams, and Paul Graves for helping make this
podcast possible. We'll talk to you guys nextweek. Up, up, and away, true believers. I soiled my

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armor. I was so scared.