| Synopsis | - When the Spectre vanishes during a conversation and
Madame Xanadu leaves her parlor with two strangers, Jim
Corrigan and Kim Liang investigate and follow Xanadu and
her friends to an old house in New Jersey.
Here, the supernatural defenders of the Earth have
called a meeting to decide how best to accomplish their
goals in the new world that will result from the Millennium
Project. The new Dr. Fate and the Phantom Stranger
arrive and exchange views with the Spectre; elsewhere,
unknown to them, the members of the Cult of the Blood-
Red Moon are planning to disrupt their gathering. The
Gentleman Ghost turns up, then Madame Xanadu and
Zatanna arrive with Ben Turner and June Moone, secretly the Bronze Tiger and the Enchantress of the
Suicide Squad, closely followed by Corrigan and Liang.
The detective and his secretary attempt to spy on the
meeting, but the house itself appears to come alive and
deposits them in the midst of the Spectre and his cohorts.
As the magical beings debate the presence of the two
mortals, Jim is summoned outside to answer a call on his
car-phone, which turns out to be from Baron Winters,
who declines to attend the gathering. When Kim tries to
prepare food for the guests, she is startled by a seven-
headed apparition inhabiting the house, which represents the essences of seven recent murder victims who
died there. Deadman puts in an appearance and is
entertaining himself by possessing Corrigan's body,
when he suddenly realizes that the entire house has been
levitated high above the city. The Enchantress begins to
rave insanely, and the house pitches toward the streets
below. The Cult, through its member Deschanta, is channeling power through the remains of the men and
women whose spirits make up the multi-headed apparition, and is using it to control the Enchantress and thus
levitate the house. In the cellar, Madame Xanadu leads the
Spectre to the hidden bones of the murder victims.
Hidden there, he finds the special ring which Ben Turner
uses to control the Enchantress, which had earlier disappeared. Turner replaces the ring, the Enchantress returns
to normal, and Dr. Fate prevents the house from crashing
into a group of gay rights protesters.
The Cult's threat over for the moment, the mystic
heroes conclude their meeting, having decided that they
must continue to perform their duties as before ... at least
for the next thousand years, until mankind achieves its
supposed immortality.
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