Stardust continued to fight furiously with Firelord and the (Frankie Raye) Nova.

The two sides were getting nowhere.

The Mandarin was surprised and excited to learn that all of China, except for Beijing and Hong Kong were of the mythical past.

He, Radioactive Man and Fin Fang Foom plotted accordingly.

Day 50: Evening, in a replicated Markovia, in an alternate reality.

Norrin Radd; the Silver Surfer, was deeply concerned about the disappearance of Galactus that happened weeks ago. Whatever was capable of spiriting away Galactus worried the Silver Surfer and Norrin was afraid that the Beyonder had returned.

The Surfer nearly exhausted himself futilely searching for evidence of the Beyonder. The long absence of Firelord also was a source of concern.

Finally, a rift in reality appeared before the Silver Surfer and the Surfer sensed that answers to where Galactus and Firelord might be could be found there.

The Silver Surfer plunged into the rift.

The Silver Surfer emerged from the rift and was greeted by Dr. Doom, Kang the Conqueror, the Living Laser, Taskmaster, Crossbones and the Grim Reaper on one side and Hank Pym, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch on the other.

The Surfer understood that the Avengers were badly outgunned and that they could use his help.

The Surfer demanded to know what was going on and began to get explanations from both sides.

Dr. Doom was not overly thrilled with the arrivals of the day because, other then Terrax; who's allegiance was far from a sure thing, he had not made any significant gains. Now the Silver Surfer had arrived; the third herald of Galactus in one day, and that just meant more complications for Doom.

The Vision and the Teen Titans arrived and acting under the authority of a newly appointed regent in the absence of Terra and the true ruler of Markovia; Geo-Force, ordered Doom, Kang and the other villains out of Markovia immediately.

This rankled Doom and Kang but with the appearance of the Silver Surfer they decided to strategically retreat.

Kang spirited all of the villains back to Doomstadt.

Doom was not bothered. Markovia was riddled with devices to spy on the country if anything important should occur.

The Silver Surfer used his power cosmic to glean the recent history of what happened in this reality.

He found that the farthest he could peer back was no farther then when Spider-man, Batman and a few others from different realities had arrived in this reality. He could not peer further into the past. This was a significant discovery. It suggested that this entire reality did not even exist prior to the arrival of Spider-Man, Batman and the others.

After the Surfer felt sure that the Avengers and their Teen Titans allies felt secure against threats without him, the Silver Surfer sought out Dr. Strange to inform him of what he surmised.

When the Surfer found Stephen Strange, he was with Zatanna of the Justice League, Shaman of Alpha Flight, the Enchantress of Shadowpact, Wiccan of the Young Avengers and Dr. Fate of the Justice Society. Although Fate was without the Helm of Nabu he was along to represent Earth 2 interests.

They were trying to construct spells powerful enough to contain Cthulhu if he were to awaken.

When the Silver Surfer informed Strange of what he'd learned, Strange agreed to conjure a spell to take them back into time to see what they might learn when they were done with what they were doing.

The Silver Surfer left Strange to his work and headed into space to find Galactus and Firelord.

He arrived near Galactus' worldship to find Stardust locked in battle with Firelord; and to Norrin's surprise, a resurrected Nova.

The Surfer tried to shut down Stardust's powers and found that it wasn't possible for some reason in this reality. Instead he joined Firelord and Nova in driving off Stardust. Stardust could not withstand the assault of three heralds of Galactus so Stardust was forced to flee.

After the battle Nova was wounded and Firelord took her back to Xandar to recuperate. Firelord agreed that the Silver Surfer was best suited to reason with Galactus.

The Silver Surfer entered the worldship to confront Galactus.

Galactus was surprised to see his most important and effective Herald arrive.

The Surfer spoke with Galactus and told him what he'd learned.

Galactus told the Surfer that he was unconcerned with what reality he was in as this one was as good as the last one, better in fact since all the worlds Galactus had consumed were intact here and Galactus had plenty to choose from.

After more heated discussion Galactus made a promise to the Silver Surfer to focus only on uninhabited planets only for the foreseeable future as long as the Surfer monitored C'thulhu and kept Galactus informed about the Elder god. Meanwhile Galactus would only rely on Stardust as his herald. The Surfer agreed to those terms.

Superman enlisted the aid of John Stewart to seek the kidnapped Terra.

He then consulted Sue Richards and Johnny Storm for information about Terrax.

There he learned about Terrax's home planet. The Fantastic Four (with She-Hulk filling in for the Thing and Ant-Man covering for Reed Richards) offered to help but Superman declined, convinced that John Stewart would be enough.

Superman and John Stewart headed out immediately to confront Terrax.

In London, Shang-Chi was on the trail of Mr. Hyde. Not the Marvel Mr. Hyde but the classic version.

Chi was with his love Leiko Wu who was quite capable herself.

However, neither suspected the presence of Jack the Ripper who was allied with Mr. Hyde.

Leiko was acting as bait to lure in Mr. Hyde but drew in the Ripper instead.

When the Ripper went in for the kill, he was confronted by Shang-Chi.

Mr. Hyde was also lurking nearby and lunged at Shang-Chi allowing the Ripper to flee before Chi could subdue him.

The Ripper could not muster the courage to face a male adversary so Mr. Hyde moved in to run interference for his friend and paid the price. For all of Hyde's brutish power, Chi destroyed him.

But after Chi had overcome Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper was nowhere to be seen.

Mr. Hyde was taken into custody and booked under suspicion of murder for all of Jack the Ripper's crimes. Hyde railed against the injustice of it. He had only raped and beaten his victims, none of them died! They had the wrong man! He could prove it!

Scotland Yard was all ears.

Lionheart consulted with Captain Britain, Black Knight and Sersi.

Her capture by Dr. Doom had humbled her. She was still willing to fight but she was not willing to rush into a fight.

Hawkeye helped his friend Matt Hawk understand what was going on but it was going to be hard to make inhabitants of Tombstone understand why some residents would not appear until tomorrow and still more a day later. That's a lot to ask of 19th century sensibilities.

Hawkeye asked for some mystical interference.