Chapter Summaries

Raven gathered hundreds of thousands of demons and led them to attack Trigon's Castle, unaware that Trigon was using their assault to hasten her escape from the seal. Meanwhile, Constantine and Dr. Sivana completed the Opening Door Spell, but their secretary touched its incantations and disintegrated into ashes.

• Morr summoned Andrew's demons, and Raven forced the Demon Dragon Clan Leader to help keep them in line.
• Raven revealed she was Trigon's daughter, then ordered the gathered demons to attack Trigon's Castle.
• Raven found the castle apparently empty and led the demons in breaching its defenses, while Trigon and the Mysterious Entity discussed using their arrival to weaken the seal.
• Andrew suspected something was wrong at the castle and noted that he had already given Morr something that might help.
• Constantine and Dr. Sivana finished the Opening Door Spell, but their secretary touched the incantations and turned to ashes.

Constantine and Dr. Sivana entered the Rock of Eternity, where Dr. Sivana seized the Demon Eye and absorbed the Seven Deadly Sins. After the Old Mage expelled him, Constantine stayed behind as the weakened mage prepared to recover, and Constantine hoped to inherit Shazam’s power.

• Constantine and Dr. Sivana opened a door to the Rock of Eternity and entered before Argus agents could follow.
• Constantine distracted the Old Mage while Dr. Sivana took the Demon Eye and absorbed the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Dr. Sivana attacked Constantine, demanded the Inheritance from the Old Mage, and was expelled back to the hotel room.
• Dr. Sivana unleashed Gluttony on the Argus soldiers, then fled while planning to grow stronger and defeat the Justice League.
• The Old Mage collapsed after expelling Dr. Sivana, and Constantine supported him while secretly hoping to receive the Inheritance.

Constantine persuaded the dying Old Mage to make a deal with Andrew Wang, who agreed to save him in exchange for a hundred years of use of the Rock of Eternity. Andrew provided a Magic Power Stone so the Old Mage could search for a successor, while the seven deadly sins and the missing Demon Eye remained threats.

• The Old Mage told Constantine that the seven deadly sins had escaped and needed to be retrieved, but refused to pass his inheritance to him.
• Constantine convinced the Old Mage to contact Andrew Wang, who promised to pay Constantine five million dollars for reporting the crisis.
• Andrew instructed Alice to monitor Raven and the others, locate Dr. Sivana, and watch Argus, then went with Constantine to the Rock of Eternity.
• Andrew offered three ways to save the Old Mage, and the Old Mage chose to become a mechanical body after finding a successor.
• The Old Mage agreed to let Andrew use the Rock of Eternity for one hundred years, and Andrew gave him a Magic Power Stone to restore his magic and search for a successor.

Harcourt was tasked with investigating Dr. Sivana alongside the Justice Society, while Raven began preparing a magical array to kill Trigon as he secretly worked to corrupt it. In Philadelphia, Billy was chosen by magic and arrived at the Rock of Eternity to meet the Old Mage.

• Constantine asked Andrew to sell him more Magic Power Stones, but balked when Andrew named a price of one million dollars each.
• Harcourt was ordered to find Dr. Sivana and work with the Justice Society while discreetly assessing whether Argus should support them.
• Raven confronted Trigon in his sealed chamber, then led demons in constructing a Magic Array while Trigon secretly spread corrupting energy and tried to alter it.
• Billy fled bullies after defending his foster brother, then found himself alone on a frozen subway train that carried him to the Rock of Eternity.
• Billy cautiously entered the cavern after magic chose him as the new candidate, while Constantine watched with envy.

The Old Mage chose Billy to inherit Shazam’s magic, and Andrew encouraged him to become a superhero while helping him search for his mother. After arranging a new body for the Old Mage and warning Billy to protect his identity, Andrew left them at the Rock of Eternity to study magic.

• The Old Mage made Billy take his staff and say “Shazam,” transforming him into a grown superhero with a red suit and the wizard’s powers.
• Andrew introduced himself to Billy, offered him a Superman poster, and encouraged him to learn magic and consider becoming a superhero.
• Billy agreed to study magic after Andrew said it could help him find his mother, then changed back by saying “Shazam.”
• Andrew used a nanotech operating room and robots to transfer the Old Mage into an intelligent Home Robot body.
• Andrew warned Billy to keep his identity secret, sent Constantine out of the Rock of Eternity, and left Billy to study with the Old Mage.

Billy became Shazam and began training under Old Mage while the Seven Deadly Sins used Dr. Sivana to spread evil through Gotham. The Justice Society prepared to investigate Sivana, and Andrew secretly directed Morr to alter the Magic Array in Hell.

• Old Mage named Billy the last member of the Wizard Council and trained him to use Shazam's powers, but Billy struggled to fly and wrecked the Rock of Eternity before Old Mage beat him.
• The Seven Deadly Sins learned that a new Shazam had been born and urged Dr. Sivana to strengthen himself by spreading sin in Gotham before luring Shazam out.
• Batman discovered Gotham's crime rate had suddenly surged and prepared to investigate with Damian.
• Harcourt met the Justice Society, and Doctor Fate identified Dr. Sivana's likely connection to the Seven Deadly Sins and located him in Gotham through a vision.
• Harcourt chose to investigate with the Justice Society, while her contacts sought Constantine's ex-girlfriend Angela to question him.
• Andrew watched the demons prepare the Magic Array in Hell and instructed Morr to secretly alter its magical patterns.

Morr secretly altered the Magic Array and released a powerful blood drop into the demons, while Andrew learned the Seven Deadly Sins were headed to Gotham. Batman gathered Shazam, the Old Mage, the Justice Society, Argus, Constantine, and Angela to plan a trap for Dr. Sivana.

• Morr modified the Magic Array as Andrew instructed, then opened his box and released a drop of blood that scattered into the demons.
• Andrew warned Batman that the Seven Deadly Sins were likely in Gotham, and Batman agreed to seek the Old Mage's help.
• The Old Mage arrived with Shazam, and Batman learned that the Seven Deadly Sins could manipulate people's desires and that Shazam was needed to draw them out.
• Batman contacted Argus and the Justice Society, and they agreed to cooperate against the threat in Gotham.
• Constantine and Angela joined the group, which exchanged intelligence and planned to lure Dr. Sivana into a trap.
• Shazam revealed that Andrew had given him a Justice League Reserve Wristwatch and promised to invite him to join after he graduated from magic.

Batman’s group lured Dr. Sivana into a trap by using Shazam as bait. Dr. Sivana was surrounded by the Justice League and the Justice Society as the confrontation began.

• Batman assigned Shazam to provoke the Hell Hounds Gang while his team prepared a trap for Dr. Sivana.
• Shazam defeated the gang with lightning, and Dr. Sivana’s puppet arrived to watch him.
• Dr. Sivana believed Shazam was an ignorant successor and flew in to demand the Shazam powers.
• Dr. Sivana struck Shazam, but the two crashed into Doctor Fate’s Defensive Shield, revealing the trap.
• Constantine teleported the bystanders away, and Batman’s group surrounded Dr. Sivana as Harcourt demanded his surrender.

The superheroes fought Dr. Sivana and the six released deadly sins, while the Old Mage taught Shazam how to defeat Sivana by removing the Demon Eye. Shazam paralyzed Sivana, but corrupted Hawkman turned against him and dropped him into the path of Pride and Gluttony.

• Dr. Sivana released six of the seven deadly sins, and the superheroes engaged them inside the Defensive Shield.
• Doctor Fate trapped Pride in a shifting maze, while Batman, Damian, Atom Smasher, Hawkman, Constantine, Angela, and Cyclone battled the other monsters.
• The Old Mage told Shazam to paralyze Dr. Sivana with lightning and remove his right eye, then taught him how to gather lightning without giving away his plan.
• Shazam charged Dr. Sivana, hugged him, and unleashed lightning that paralyzed him and the monster inside him.
• Hawkman, overcome by Pride’s influence, seized Shazam, declared himself the strongest, and threw him toward the approaching Pride and Gluttony.

Batman rescued Shazam and summoned Justice League reinforcements to confront Dr. Sivana and the Seven Deadly Sins. Superman broke through Doctor Fate’s illusions and labyrinth, but the battle continued as Pride and Gluttony tried to stop him.

• Doctor Fate and Constantine attacked the heroes while under Pride’s influence, and Cyclone was knocked into the ruins.
• Batman escaped Constantine’s nano tentacles and used a one-time teleportation device to save Shazam from the monsters’ attack.
• Batman explained how he had protected Shazam, and Dr. Sivana and the Seven Deadly Sins prepared to attack again.
• Batman brought in Superman and Hancock, while Damian went to help Cyclone and the other Justice League members remained on their way.
• Superman saw through Doctor Fate’s Illusion Realm and struck him, then broke free of the Labyrinth and sent Pride and Gluttony flying.

Hancock and the Justice League overwhelmed Dr. Sivana's forces, but Trigon secretly persuaded the Seven Deadly Sins to sacrifice humans and help him invade Earth. Doctor Fate and other heroes then fell under the Sins' control and prepared to self-destruct, leaving Batman to call on Mr. Wang to save them.

• Hancock overpowered Hawkman and Dr. Sivana while Shazam and Batman held off the remaining monsters.
• Dr. Sivana considered retreating, but Trigon contacted him and demanded a citywide massacre in exchange for his intervention.
• The Seven Deadly Sins agreed to offer souls to Trigon, while he planned to betray them and use them as a divine artifact against Ghost Rider.
• Trigon revealed that Raven's nearly completed Magic Array would free him, and the Mysterious Entity urged him to strengthen himself and attack Ghost Rider.
• The Seven Deadly Sins took control of Dr. Sivana and sent him and themselves through the Defensive Shield as Phantom Images.
• Doctor Fate began collapsing the Defensive Shield and prepared to self-destruct, while Constantine and Hawkman also acted recklessly under the Sins' influence; Batman asked Mr. Wang to teleport everyone away.

Andrew controlled Constantine to purify Doctor Fate, Hawkman, and Constantine of the Seven Deadly Sins’ influence, then joined the pursuit as the Sins drove Gotham’s citizens into violence. The superheroes, Harcourt, and a teleported Exoskeleton Legion worked to contain the chaos, but Gotham’s widespread gun violence kept casualties mounting.

• Andrew used Constantine’s Illumination Spell to purge the Seven Deadly Sins’ aura from Doctor Fate, Hawkman, and Constantine, then pursued the fleeing Sins with the other heroes.
• Batman sent Flash and the others to intercept the Seven Deadly Sins after Alfred reported that their aura was making Gotham’s citizens attack and kill one another.
• Harcourt contacted the police and Military to limit casualties while Hawkman, Atom Smasher, and Cyclone set off after the Sins.
• Flash stopped gang members from shooting civilians, but both groups were already driven mad and began fighting, so Tony assigned Flash, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles to protect civilians.
• Andrew teleported the Exoskeleton Legion from a New York military base to Gotham, where Harcourt ordered the soldiers to use tranquilizers and avoid live ammunition unless necessary.
• Harcourt and Director Gordon confronted the scale of Gotham’s gun violence as civilians continued dying despite the heroes’ and soldiers’ efforts.

The Seven Deadly Sins split up to spread their influence and gather souls for Trigon, while the heroes scrambled to contain Gotham’s chaos. Dr. Sivana disguised himself as Pride and headed toward Arkham Asylum, prompting Batman and the others to intercept him as Superman and Hancock pursued separate targets.

• Director Gordon warned Harcourt that Gotham’s black market could supply gangs with exoskeleton armor and alien weapons, and Harcourt requested another batch of exoskeleton soldiers.
• Andrew gave Angela the Illumination Spell so she could help restore civilians and livestream for him while he pursued the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Dr. Sivana ordered the Seven Deadly Sins to split up, disguised himself as Pride, and sent the real Pride away disguised as a monster.
• Superman chased Pride, who damaged a high-rise to force Superman to rescue its occupants before fleeing; Hancock pursued Gluttony.
• Alfred spotted Dr. Sivana, Sloth, and Greed heading for Arkham Asylum, so Tony and Batman arranged to teleport a team there while the Justice Society pursued the remaining monsters.

Andrew brought the heroes to Arkham Asylum and magically sealed the room against the Seven Deadly Sins. In Hell, Trigon forced his escape plan into motion by transforming his castle and offspring into a Hydra, but Diana and Mary arrived to help Raven and Zatanna fight back.

• Andrew teleported Tony and the others, along with Batman's group, to Arkham Asylum and set a magic array to seal the room.
• Morr told Raven to postpone sealing Trigon because a disaster had struck Earth, but Trigon activated the array using the life force of demons under his control.
• Raven ordered Zatanna and Morr to stop the controlled demons, while Trigon's castle devoured thousands of demons and transformed into a nine-headed Hydra made from his offspring.
• Trigon revealed that he had altered the magic array to help him escape, and Raven struggled to suppress it as the Hydra attacked her group.
• Diana arrived and blocked the Hydra's beams, then Mary appeared and explained that Morr's Magic Teleportation Device had brought them to Hell.
• Diana charged the Hydra with the Sword of the Fire God while Raven and the others prepared to seal Trigon again.

The superheroes battled the zombie forces, but a sorcerer in the laboratory froze their time and unleashed Zombie Hulk and Zombie Wasp. Strange, Hawkeye, Electro, Skye, and the Inhuman Squad fought to save them, while a Mysterious Woman struck the laboratory with a rocket.

• Natasha, Spider-Man, Rhodes, Colleen, and Andrew fought zombie counterparts and other zombies as their team gained the upper hand.
• A green spell froze everyone on the battlefield, and Zombie Hulk, Zombie Wasp, and hordes of zombies charged the immobilized superheroes.
• Strange entered the battle, restrained Zombie Hulk with Crimson Chains, then struck him with the Power Fist of the Mechanical Demon King and sent him falling through a Space Gate.
• Hawkeye shrank Zombie Wasp with a Pym Particle Arrow, and Electro and Hawkeye helped destroy her while fighting off nearby zombies.
• Skye shook the ground beneath the laboratory to disrupt the sorcerer's concentration, but Zombie Wong attacked her and knocked back the Inhuman Squad.
• A Mysterious Woman fired a rocket at the laboratory building, interrupting the fight outside.

The heroes battled Dr. Sivana and the seven deadly sins, discovered the Demon Eye was hidden at Gotham Stadium, and learned the sins had manipulated Dr. Sivana to summon Trigon. The chapter ended with Diana announcing that Trigon had broken free as Andrew ordered everyone to prepare for the threat.

• Tony, Shazam, and Green Lantern restrained Dr. Sivana long enough for Tony to stab his right eye, but Dr. Sivana revealed that the Demon Eye was hidden elsewhere and that the seven deadly sins were immortal.
• Andrew exposed that Dr. Sivana was the sins’ puppet, then used his white light to free Dr. Sivana from their influence.
• Dr. Sivana revealed that the seven deadly sins had been buying time to summon Trigon, whose sacrifices would destroy Earth and feed its dead to him.
• Diana and the other four women emerged through a portal, and Diana announced that Trigon had broken free.
• Andrew ordered the heroes to contain the seven deadly sins and protect civilians, while Dr. Sivana revealed that the Demon Eye was atop the flagpole at Gotham Stadium and begged Mr. Wang to save him.

Kaecilius trapped Strange and stole Wong's Ring, prompting Strange to summon alternate versions of himself, Doctor Strange Black and Doctor Strange White. As the two fought for control of Strange's body in the Dream Realm, Andrew enlisted Wanda to help thwart the Scarlet Witch's scheme, while revealing his feelings for her.

• Kaecilius trapped Strange in the Mirror Dimension, took Wong's Ring, and left him unable to stop the formation.
• Strange summoned Doctor Strange Black, who seized control of Strange's body and planned to build an Altar and summon the Scarlet Witch.
• Doctor Strange White appeared in Strange's consciousness, refused Doctor Strange Black's plan, and battled him with Strange in the Dream Realm.
• Andrew sensed the struggle, pulled Wanda into the Dream Realm, and explained that the Scarlet Witch had linked her Fate to Wanda's.
• Andrew told Wanda he cared for her and asked her to use Dream Magic to secretly hold back the Scarlet Witch's pawn.

The military threatened to bomb the battlefield, but Andrew prepared to teach it a lesson while Hulk arrived and fought Blonsky. Andrew then appeared beside Doctor Banner as the four Abominations surrounded him, and Banner realized he could no longer change back to his original form.

• Andrew sent J. Jonah Jameson an anonymous message about the military's bombing plans and ordered Trask to prepare his weapon aboard the spaceship.
• General Ross dismissed Betty's concerns about Bruce Banner and prepared to tell Norman and Tony to leave.
• Hulk arrived on Broadway Avenue and battled Blonsky, overpowering him as their fight wrecked the surrounding street.
• Andrew decided the military's threat had provided enough souls and prepared to end the battle.
• Andrew appeared beside Doctor Banner as the four Abominations surrounded him, and Banner admitted he did not know how to return to his original form.

Andrew trapped Gorr in a dream realm, defeated and sealed him, then learned how Gorr planned to reach Eternity. As the Nightmare Crown isolated the City of All, Surtur confronted Zeus and called on his allies to attack.

• Zeus entertained the gods with Thunderbolt Lightning and announced an orgy-planning meeting, while Surtur urged The Serpent to activate the Nightmare Crown.
• Andrew used the crown to pull Gorr into a dream realm, revealed his identity, and offered to spare Gorr's life in exchange for making him a pawn.
• Gorr fought Andrew with All-Black the Necrosword, but Andrew burned through his darkness with Hellfire and an Artificial Sun before sealing him away.
• Andrew questioned Gorr's dream projection about reaching Eternity, learned the required steps and materials, and ordered him to wait for further instructions.
• The Nightmare Crown finished isolating the City of All, and Surtur enlarged himself, insulted Zeus and the assembled gods, and ordered his allies to attack.

Ghost Rider turned Trigon into Mechanical Trigon, captured Chthon’s consciousness, and cursed Chthon to make it harder for him to enter the universe. After returning to Earth, Ghost Rider destroyed Hydra and reassured the heroes that Trigon was gone, while Andrew’s joke briefly made the crowd fear Ghost Rider planned to destroy the world.

• Mechanical Blood completed Trigon’s transformation, leaving Mechanical Trigon in control and capturing Chthon’s consciousness.
• Mechanical Trigon took the Seven Deadly Sins back to Hell, while Ghost Rider cursed Chthon’s consciousness to hinder its return to the universe.
• Ghost Rider returned to Gotham and killed Hydra with a Flame Spear as the assembled heroes and audience celebrated.
• Andrew spoke through Constantine and pretended Ghost Rider was preparing to destroy the world, alarming the crowd until Ghost Rider told him to stop.
• Ghost Rider warned the heroes that other evil beings still threatened Earth, then vanished in flames.