"1st Appearance of Shadow Initiative Team (Earth-616) Jim Cheung Cover Art Green Zone, Part 1 Hardball steals a dart of the power blocking nanotech for the mysterious stranger and replaces it with a dud. Vance and Cloud 9 travel to Kentucky to offer their condolences about M.V.P.'s death to his family, but M.V.P. himself answers the door. The Hulk and his allies arrive on earth and start busting stuff. Iron Man arms his new Hulkbuster armor with a nanotech dart to steal the Hulk's powers, but when he tries to implement his plan, you guessed it, he uses the dud planted by Hardball. The Initiative members are assigned to crowd and damage control but decide to confront the Hulk directly. t's revealed in this issue that the reason Iron Man's nanite weapon didn't work in World War Hulk #1 is because Hardball had replaced that vial with a fake. Revealed that Iron Man contacted Dr. Strange to get the help of many of the unregistered heroes. Takes place during the events of World War Hulk #1 and World War Hulk #2. While released after World War Hulk #1, the Hulkbuster (World War Hulk) armor is seen here before being deployed against Hulk."

First Appearance of Senator Woodman

First Appearance of Shadow Initiative