Black Adam's quest to gain his powers back between the events of "52" and "Countdown" was depicted in a six-issue miniseries entitled "Black Adam: The Dark Age", published from late 2007 to early 2008. Sometime after his defeat in World War III, Adam gathers a small band of Kahndaqi men who still remain loyal to Adam, and sneaks into a heavily guarded and war-torn Kahndaq in disguise (having had his minions beat him mercilessly to alter his appearance) to retrieve the bones of Isis. The men kill the guards at the tomb, and get Isis's remains.