It's a Dollar Comics bonanza as more and more of its heroes and villains appear in the real world, a world sadly unprepared to meet its fantasies face to face. The one suffering the most from their appearance is Sandy Tolliver, who dreams of them each night, then finds in the morning that they're real, and that she has also changed again, resembling more strongly the figure of her own fantasies. The Next Men could explain this strange transformation to her, but they're on the run from a government that has branded them killers. Meanwhile, Mark and Amanda escape the bony clutches of Cornelius Van Damme as M4 moves toward its intersection with the Next Men storyline.