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Issue: Deadpool Epic Collection #4
Publication Date: January 2003
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Issues: #4 of 5 Issues
Title: Dead Reckoning
Variant: unnamed
Rating: T+
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/05/2023
Volume: 4
Pages: 476
ISBN: 9781302951825
UPC/EAN: 978130295182554499
Price: $56.25 CAD
$44.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: T+
Content Items: 59 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Color: color
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Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Introduction

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From the Pages of Deadpool--Deadpool!

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Character(s): Widdle Wade
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Turning Japanese...or Little Demon Inside

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Character(s): Oyakata (also in flashback); Sazae (also in flashback); Widdle Wade (also in flashback, villain; death); Daruma (villain); Shigeru (also in flashback, villain, death); The Boss (also in flashback, villain); Chantal (flashback)
First Line: It happened a few years ago. This was not your usual piece of business.
Synopsis: In the distant past, Deadpool interferes with the Beyonder's plan. Shigeru creates a clone of Deadpool, Widdle Wade. In the present, the Boss contacts Deadpool and tells him that a killer is on the loose and asks him to protect the next target, Oyakata, whom he knows. Deadpool travels to Japan where he encounters Widdle Wade and fights him off. In the past, Deadpool is also reunited with Oyakata's daughter, Sazae. Widdle Wade attacks again. Deadpool tells Sazae that he was the one who killed all of her father's old targets, thus restoring him to honor in his daughter's eyes.
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The Lamest Dead People in the Marvel Universe!

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First Line: Oh, no! Not... you?!
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You Only Die Twice

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First Line: An hour and a half ago... deep in the heart of Texas...
Synopsis: Deadpool tracks down Arnim Zola and has to take on a horde of clones he has created of the lamest dead folks the Marvel Universe has to offer.
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Secrets of Deadpool's Destiny Revealed!

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Dead Reckoning Minus Two Months & Counting: Smells Like Prologue

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Character(s): Dixon; Monty; Tiamat (villain; Illusion)
Synopsis: Zoe tries to get Deadpool ready to become the Mithras and battle Tiamat by setting him up with battle armor but Deadpool rejects the suit in favor of his own mad merc skills. Noah and Dixon have words about Monty's mind wipe. Gerry visits Doc Strange and discusses the coming conflict.
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On the Eve of Dead Reckoning

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Dead Reckoning Minus One Month & Counting: Great Men

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Character(s): Dixon; Monty
Synopsis: Zoe and Monty pop in on Deadpool and Al for a surprise visit. Deadpool tries to visit Siryn and get a little clarity before his big role as savior of the world but ends up fighting Cable instead. Dixon has Noah killed for asking too many questions about the Mithras Directive.
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Dead Reckoning Part 1

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Character(s): Dixon; Monty; Tiamat (villain)
Synopsis: Deadpool takes on his destined role as the Mithras by tracking down the alien monster Tiamat and engaging him in battle. Zoe realizes that Deadpool has been predetermined to lose and tries to warn him, but Dixon pulls the plug. An injured Deadpool escapes and limps home, little knowing that a bomb has been planted in his house. Zoe races to his aid but is caught in the explosion with Deadpool and Al. Knowing in advance of Deadpool’s failure, Dixon calls in his second string, Captain America.
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The Day Before the End of the World!

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Dead Reckoning Part 2: 2nd Stringers & Dead Ringers

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Character(s): Dixon; Monty; Tiamat (villain); Skrulls (cameos); Shi’ar (cameo)
Synopsis: With Deadpool dead, Dixon convinces Captain America to become the Mithras and fight Tiamat. Tiamat contacts his people and tells them that the Mithras is dead. Zoe and Al find that they have survived the explosion of Deadpool’s apartment but Deadpool is nowhere to be found. Gerry contacts Zoe and reveals that he is the lost partner of Landau, Luckman & Lake. The Watcher watches in horror as a giant alien abomination moves in on Earth.
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A Hero At Last?

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Dead Reckoning Part 3: What the World Needs Now

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Character(s): Dixon; Monty; Tiamat (villain); Alien Messiah (villain)
Synopsis: In the desert sands of Egypt, Deadpool does what even Captain America in a Landau, Luckman and Lake battle suit can't: he accepts his destiny as a hero, steps up to the plate and saves the universe from a cosmic messiah who offers peace at the price of giving up free will and change. Dixon goes nuts in the aftermath and Zoe takes over Landau, Luckman, and Lake as she writes Deadpool off as a loss.
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Our Second Most Confusing Issue Yet...After Issue #6 (We Would've Said #9, But That Was Just Bad, Not Confusing) (or Mouthful of Malice, Head Full of Cheese)

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Character(s): Monty; Ilaney Brukner; Alestaire Grunch; Mercedes (Illusion)
Synopsis: After the mind shattering events of Dead Reckoning (in issues #23-25), Deadpool sets up a new base in Bolivia with a new crew made up of Monty and Ilaney. Spinning through a few wild adventures, Deadpool ends up seeing a strange woman riding a giant sabretooth rabbit instead of the AIM agents he should really be fighting. He seeks psychiatric help and his chosen shrink, Dr. Bong, proclaims him flippin' nuts.
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Look--It's Wolverine...In His Most Gratuitous Guest Appearance Ever!

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It's a Barbarian Bunny-- Busty Broad Bonanza in the Brainpan -- And I'm the Only One Invited

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Character(s): Monty; Alestaire Grunch; Mercedes
Synopsis: With his patient still seeing a mysterious woman surrounded by white rabbits, Dr. Bong suggests that Deadpool engage in a little meaningless violence to clear his head. Deadpool punches Kitty in the face and picks a fight with Wolverine. Can you say "breakthrough?"
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Guess Who's Back!?

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I Can't Place the Name, But the Face Rings a Southern Belle...

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Character(s): Monty; Mercedes; Ilaney Brukner; Alestaire Grunch
Synopsis: Deadpool tracks down the woman who has been invading his sanity, his long dead wife Mercedes. Unfortunately, Bullseye is hot on her trail and trying to kill her all over again.
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The Dead Rise to Claim Their Own!

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Take My Wife... Please! (or Cock-A-Voodle-Doo)

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Character(s): Monty; Mercedes; Alestaire Grunch; Zombies (villains)
Synopsis: Deadpool is reunited with his wife from his pre-merc life but their reunion bliss is interrupted by the Black Talon and a horde of zombies. Deadpool takes down the Talon but not before he learns that the zombie master believes Mercedes to be undead.
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Deadpool! Go Away!

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Truth and Lies

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Character(s): Monty; Mercedes; Ilaney Brukner; Alestaire Grunch
Synopsis: Wade and Mercedes reminisce about their old life together. Deadpool heads to Hellhouse and helps Patch and his old merc pals lead a little revolution against T-Ray's influence. When T-Ray strings up Monty and leaves him for dead, Deadpool realizes that his old enemy is back in action.
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Giving Up the Ghost

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Sploorch (or The Beginning of the End...)

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Character(s): Monty; Mercedes; Ilaney Brukner; Herbert
Synopsis: Deadpool takes the injured Monty to Landau, Luckman and Lake to get a little healing. Zoe is less than pleased to see him and arrests the merc with a mouth. Finding that Monty loves her, however, Zoe has a change of heart and quits the firm as she frees Deadpool and teleports away with her new flame. Deadpool and Mercedes take the same teleporter which lands them right in the arms of T-Ray.
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Who Is Deadpool? T-Ray Is Dying to Find Out!

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I'm Not So Me as You Think I Am... (Or The Middle of the End...)

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Character(s): Mercedes; Ilaney Brukner
Synopsis: Deadpool and T-Ray relive the past as they battle for all the marbles. In Deadpool's memories, he and his wife, Mercedes, were living a normal and ideal life when they saved T-Ray from death and were repaid when the villain brought violence into their home. Much to Deadpool’s surprise, however, T-Ray reveals that he isn't the one who killed Mercedes Wilson; Deadpool did.
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Deadpool Vs. T-Ray! The Final Face-Off!

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The End of the End (or Happy Entrails to You...)

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Synopsis: T-Ray's real name is Wade Wilson and Deadpool is the violent monster who killed his wife. With this mind bending, origin shattering revelation on the table, Deadpool shrugs it off and battles T-Ray and Mercedes anyway. With the fight ending inconclusively, Deadpool is then forced to refight all of the people he has taken down in his long and violent life. He is 99% killed and has a reunion with his old flame, Death.
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Introduction

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The Encyclopaedia Deadpoolica

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Disclose Notes: Presents story recaps and "Behind the Scenes" production facts as well as some cover art and interior clip art for Deadpool (Marvel, 1993 series) #1-4, Deadpool (Marvel, 1994 series) #1-4, Deadpool (Marvel, 1997 series) #1-22 including #-1, Daredevil/Deadpool '97 (Marvel, 1997 series) #1, and Deadpool/Death '98 (Marvel 1998 series) #1.
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Ye Ol' Glossary of Pop Culture References

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Disclose Notes: Lists a large number of popular culture references as well as explanations for those references found in Deadpool (Marvel, 1993 series) #1-4, Deadpool (Marvel, 1994 series) #1-4, Deadpool (Marvel, 1997 series) #1-22 including #-1, Daredevil/Deadpool '97 (Marvel, 1997 series) #1, and Deadpool/Death '98 (Marvel 1998 series) #1.
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Deadpool #0 Sketchbook Section

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Deadpool

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Deadpool #26 Unused Cover

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Deadpool by Joe Kelly Omnibus HC (2013) Cover

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