The entity that instigated the first Secret War, the
Beyonder, visits Earth in search of enlightenment and inevitably comes into conflict with Earth's superhumans and the cosmic entities that exist in the Marvel Universe. At first, the Beyonder tries to figure out the meaning of the simple everyday tasks humans do, such as: eating, sleeping, using the bathroom, etc, then the Beyonder works for a mobster and becomes very powerful and obsessed with gadgets. The Earth's heroes are very suspicious of him and this causes the Beyonder to retreat to a lone island.
Mephisto recruits an army of supervillains with boosted strength, but The Thing fights them off after he is given augmented strength as well. The Beyonder falls in love with
Dazzler, and tries to start a relationship with
Boom Boom, but both turn him down. It is also explained how
Doctor Doom, who was killed in the "normal" timeline, was able to appear in the first
Secret Wars. The Beyonder recreates Doom's body from its disintegrated particles and sends him back in time to the start of the
Secret Wars, causing Doom to live them in reverse order. The Beyonder is eventually dealt with, although the heroes also have to prevent the destruction of the planet as a consequence of his actions. Beyonder attempts to become a human while still retaining all his powers. The demon Mephisto attempts to destroy him while in this form since he is now "merely human." A sequel in the form of a single issue revealed that the Beyonder was an evolved
Cosmic Cube and evolved into a being called
Kosmos. ==Tie-in issues==