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In this time of global anxiety, economic turmoil and mass hysteria, Sin, the new Red Skull, has made an awesome discovery...a shameful secret that will rock the foundations of the Marvel Unverse! A revelation that will divide father and son, turn friend against friend, and herals the rise of Fear personified. Who is the Serpent? As Odin and the Asgardians leave the Earth to fen...(展开全部)

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