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Comics - Mini-Series - Countdown Mystery #3

COUNTDOWN MYSTERY #3
COVER TAGLINE: Doctor Fate: the Man Behind the Helmet; Plus: Eclipso
RELEASE DATE: November, 2007
COVER DATE: January, 2008
COVER: Gene Ha; Art Lyon
PRICE: $2.99 U.S./$3.50 Canada

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TITLE: More Pain Comics, Part Three: Self, Contained
WRITER(s): Steve Gerber
PENCILER(s): Justiniano
INKER(s): Walden Wong
COLORS: Chris Chuckry
LETTERS: Pat Brosseau
EDITOR(s): Stephanie Buscema; Joey Cavalieri

CHARACTERS: Doctor Fate (Kent V. Nelson); Maddy

PLOT:
After a run-in with casino security (who believe him to be cheating), Kent Nelson realizes just how easily his lucky charm could be taken from him. He decides to seek out more answers as to the origins of the helmet.

Nelson arrives at a Mystic Book shop where a store clerk named Maddy dusts his aura clean and hands him a book of incantations which take him to an alternate plane of existence. There Kent Nelson comes to terms with his guilt and self-loathing eventually forgiving himself for his past-sins. He finishes the incantation and arrives back to reality to find that he never left the book store the whole time.

Maddy and Kent go on a brief coffee date and Maddy tells him to stop by sometime if he hasn't destroyed the universe in the mean time...

TITLE: Eclipse: A Syzygy in Plastic (Part Three)
WRITER(s): Matthew Sturges
PENCILER(s): Stephen Jorge Segovia
INKER(s): Stephen Jorge Segovia
COLORS: Dan Brown
LETTERS: Steve Wands
EDITOR(s): Joey Cavalieri; Stephanie Buscema

CHARACTERS: William Hanson; Spectre; Crispus Allen; Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian); Eclipso (Jean Loring); Creeper (Jack Ryder); The Offspring; Batman (Bruce Wayne); Dr. Bruce Gordon

PLOT:
Eclipso tosses Jack Ryder out of a high rise window to force out the Creeper. After transforming into the Creeper the two battle it out in the streets of Gotham. The battle ends when Creeper is infected with the evil of Eclipso.

Elsewhere in Gotham City Plastic Man is attempting his big respectable heist of robbing the Gotham Bank. Spectre arrives on the scene with Hanson and Crispus with the intent of killing the Eclipso infected Eel O'Brian. Before he can do so however, Batman arrives on scene and scolds the former Justice League member.

A battle breaks out which eventually includes Eel's son Offspring. Batman injects Offspring with a serum intended to stop Plastic Man and Offspring melts away in front of his father who in turn attempts to kill Batman. Not willing to stand by idly as Batman is killed, Crispus Allen steps in and knocks Eel unconscious. Before Batman can apprehend Eel, Eclipso shows up and takes Plastic Man away saying that perhaps she will return for the Dark Knight one day. Batman turns around to question Allen (whom he believed to be dead) but before the two can catch up, Allen and Spectre have disappeared. Offspring re-builds himself as the injection caused only temporary cellular disruption - all a ruse by Batman to distract Plastic Man

Spectre holds a meeting with Crispus on the surface of the moon. After seeing Crispus step in to save Batman, Spectre comes to realize that Allen is willing to do certain things that Spectre is otherwise forbidden to do. As such Spectre sends Crispus Allen on a mission that could potentially ruin the life of Dr. Bruce Gordon forever.

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