Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness

Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness
Cover to Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness #1. Art by Arthur Suydam.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics Dynamite Entertainment
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre
Publication date	May - September 2007
Number of issues	5
Main character(s)	The Marvel Zombies Ash Williams
Creative team
Writer(s)	John Layman
Artist(s)	Fabiano Neves Fernando Blanco Sean Phillips
Letterer(s)	Randy Gentile Rus Wooton
Colorist(s)	June Chung
Editor(s)	John Barber Nicole Boose Randy Gentile Joe Quesada
Collected editions
Hardcover

Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness is a five-issue 2007 comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics in association with Dynamite Entertainment, an intercompany crossover in which Ash Williams, hero of the popular Evil Dead film and comic book, finds himself in the Marvel Zombies setting, a world of flesh-eating zombified Marvel Comics heroes.

The crossover is continuous with the Marvel Zombies prequel Marvel Zombies: Dead Days and explains events happening in the prequel (such as information regarding the zombified Sentry, which initially spread the plague).

Prior to the release of the first issue, Newsarama published a preview, revealing the birth of the zombified Avengers, Ash's descent into the Marvel Zombie universe, and the infection of Spider-Man.

Following Ash's death in the previous 'Army of Darkness' storyline The Death of Ash, and is now in (what appears to be) Heaven. The superpowered entity known as The Sentry shows up in the afterlife (having been sent there by the Watcher in Marvel Zombies Return) and begins consuming everyone in sight. Ash and the Sentry end up shunted into another reality (again by the Watcher according to Marvel Zombies Return). Along the way, Ash receives a prophecy warning him that "an army of the dead will rise" and that this world will fall.

In this alternative version of the Marvel Universe, Ash encounters a fight between Daredevil and Thunderball. He mistakes Daredevil for the villain, and after letting Thunderball escape, tries to warn the Avengers of a Deadite invasion. They do not believe him, mostly due to his buffoonery while hitting on the female members of the team. Scarlet Witch teleports Ash away, as Jarvis tells the team of a disturbance.