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Young Avengers: Parallax lost (part 4)
The ex-Young Avenger in this issue is America Chavez, still reeling from her discovery (in the AC: Made In The USA mini-series) that the extra-dimensional Utopian Parallel where she thought she was born was a fiction, and simultaneously her powers (that she learned there were due to a rich tech guy's experiment) are starting to fail. She tries to contact her female ex-YA pals. But Kate Bishop is away hunting vampires (last issue) and Cassie Lang is on a date with someone who's late (we'll learn more about that in #10).But she hasn't got time to brood because a portal disgorges 2 young boys, the light-haired 1 clutching the Parallax Stone that this series has been following. Dark-haired Billy calls the other Tommy and begs him to slow down. They claim not to be anybody anymore since their mom forgot about them. So now they're lost and they found the crystal which seems lost too. But Mister Fisto is after them.We see Mephisto calling on all the inhabitants of Hell to find the pair. But he now appears before our 3 friends. America stands ready to defend the boys. The demon is amazed that she can see the boys and himself. But as she tries to hit him he easily stops her punch and comments on her loss of power. She's broken and he sends his hordes to finish the job. So she chooses to retreat and fly away with the boys to the top of a tower on the George Washington Bridge.Billy hopes Mr Fisto won't find them up here. And Tommy wonders if he knows the bad guy who turned baby them into his hands - and he then rambles on about how that guy could have lived with babies for hands. America says the invisible demons aren't hurting anyone, they're just searching the whole of New York for them which will take them a long time. Tommy tells her they were born in Cresskill, New Jersey although Billy doesn't remember that (well he is the younger twin by 1 minute). In Tommy's memory we see the parents are Scarlet Witch and Vision.America tries to cheer them up by telling them about her (imaginary) origin in the (all female) Utopian Parallel. She says there were lots of mommies and kids there, and it was perfect and safe. Billy suggests to Tommy that *they* could make a world like that, but his brother warns him to keep quiet about such things.Now Mephisto finds them again. He asks America why she defends them. They belong to him and if she lets him have them he'll restore her power and she will be glorious again. But Tommy gives her the Stone which she throws past the devil. It opens a portal and America pushes the devil through it back to Hell.All the other demons vanish too. Tommy has the Stone again and opens another portal. Billy says they might find America's Parallel, but Tommy says it wasn't real, just like them. Billy says (to America rather than his brother) that just because something isn't real doesn't mean it can't be true. And they leave her.


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Young Avengers: Parallax lost (part 3)
This issue has a voiceover from Kate Bishop/Hawkeye filling in the backstory. What people are calling the Parallax Stone meteorite fell to Earth 20 years ago when allegedly there were whales singing in the sky (we know it's all true from last issue). The Stone has passed by auction through several private collections until it ended up on display in Venice amid rumours that it had some sort of power. Then people started disappearing, and then the gem was stolen. Kate's friend Eli (Bradley, the ex-Young Avenger named Patriot) alerted her that the 3 museum guards were drained of blood. In the 6 weeks since the theft many rich Italians have vanished after liquidating their assets. And that's why Kate's here in a hooded cloak following a masked woman dressed in a scarlet medieval look.Now the woman enters a disused church. Through a stained glass window Kate sees a hooded congregation surrounding a man named Domini Visconti. The woman, with the Parallax Stone, confirms that his cheque has cleared and so he can have his 'reward'. Kate discards her cloak revealing her Hawkeye costume and weapons and she crashes through the window unleashing a volley of arrows to take out some of the vampire congregation. She tells the human to run while she despatches more vamps. She recognises them as the Temple Of The Shifting Sun who worship the Demiurge (who ex-YAer Wiccan is destined to become) who they believe can make them Daywalkers - vampires immune to sunlight. She encountered them in West Coast Avengers (2018) where they tried to kill her friend America Chavez. She finishes off the cult by bringing a chandelier full of lighted candles down on them.But then she's left to face the boss woman, who as she expected is her mother Eleanor Bishop (who was supposedly dead but revealed as a half-vampire in WCA, but without any explanation). Eleanor removes her sun-protection mask and dives forward to suck her daughter's blood. Kate evades her and fires a special arrow which mom catches in mid-flight. But the arrowhead explodes with devastating consequences. (It's contents are an invention of another ex-YA friend Cassie Lang who describes it as liquid sunlight.) Holding her burning scarred face Eleanor pleads for mercy because she can't control her vampirism. But Kate contends that she and husband Derek were villains long before she became a vampire.Kate guesses that the Parallax Stone enabled the cult to get rid of the bodies. Mom confirms that it opens a rift in space and time, but she also claims that it's what she and the cult always sought, a gateway to a place where they can start afresh. And she says her daughter can't judge her for what she had to do to survive. Kate lets her go and hopes what she says is true. She steps through the portal which closes behind her. Kate is left with the Stone which she intends to return to the museum. She wishes America were here because she knows much more about dimensional portals and the Demiurge. But then the Parallax Stone resolves any questions by vanishing itself.


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Young Avengers: Parallax lost (part 6)
This issue begins with the scene from the end of the main section in #5 (the start of this storyline) with Iron Lad (Nathaniel Richards) with crippled armour falling through the void between space and time. And as he falls we will see the Parallax Stone that falls with him asking him who he trusts and loves.But we turn our attention to snow-covered mountains in Latveria some years ago where Dr Doom shows his young adopted son Kristoff Vernard his massed forces poised to wipe out an insurrection. He tells Kristoff that he was too soft and that mercy bred dissent which among other things caused the death of the boy's mother. The lad must learn to be strong to take over when Victor Von Doom himself inevitably dies.We then look ahead to a time when Doom was indeed believed dead, and his Doombots implemented a backup plan to brainwash Kristoff into believing he *is* Dr Doom.Our next scene is Four Freedoms Plaza where teen Kristoff is staying with the Fantastic Four and has become friendly with Cassie Lang, daughter of Ant-Man Scott Lang. Scott is pursuing them along with Human Torch and Thing because they broke into Mr Fantastic's lab. Kristoff built AM's current suit and has a control device which enables him to delay the pursuit by making Scott shrink against his will. Kristoff escapes and Cassie stays to use his controller to bring her dad back to human-size. Scott believes that KV staged the break-in and his daughter was innocently dragged along. But Cassie says that he only did it because *she* wanted to see inside the lab.Later she finds the boy in his own lab, which includes the armour that the Doombots put him in. He believes that they all hate him. She denies that and says *she* likes him, and her dad's just overprotective. He says that they are correct that he's dangerous. Cassie agrees but says that they're both scientists and that everything that's worth doing is dangerous.Years later grown-up Cassandra Lang is in a restaurant waiting for her date to arrive late (as she mentioned in a text exchange with America Chavez in #8). Her date is Kristoff and he avoids apologising with compliments and they dance. She explains about her work at Pym labs, lately inventing liquid sunlight (which Kate Bishop used against her vampire mother in #7). He's about to ask her an important question when ...... Iron Lad's fall ends on their dancefloor. Then future Kristoff follows through his own portal and stabs him through the chest with a sword. Cassie grows super-big so that the fist which punches future-K out of the building is about as big as him. Current Kristoff recognises the dying interloper as Kang The Conqueror, to which Nate responds not yet and probably never now.The shard of the M'Kraan crystal that we have called the Parallax Stone appears in Iron Lad's hand, and Kristoff takes it off him. Nate comments that he sent the crystal back in time to assemble an army against K but now he sees that instead he now sees how future-K got it in the 1st place. But we see images of the journey it has taken to get here, and Nate thinks it's learned a lot en route. He tells Kristoff how he's rebelled against his destined future to be Kang, and hopes K can fight against the future Dr Doom mapped out for him.Outside giant-size Cassie is battling future-K who has just killed the youth she once loved. K says it was the only way to become Master Of Time and bring her back. Then current-K interrupts, using the Stone to walk on air and declaring that he will choose his own destiny. He has 1 of Iron Lad's gauntlets and he tells it's AI Jonas to activate protocol White Phoenix Of The Crown. A blast shatters the M'Kraan shard and future-K is wiped out of existence.Still-dying Nate tells Kristoff and human-size Cassie that the crystal isn't really gone, but K has made his choice. He jokingly tells Cassie that he's dying a hero for once, and at least he got to see her 1 more time. Then he too fades away. Cassie tells Kristoff that she once loved Nate, and K asks her to tell him about him as they face the sunrise through the big hole she made in the wall.


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Young Avengers: Parallax lost (part 5)
We see ex-Young Avenger Speed racing around New York delivering Kwikkee Burgers, accompanied by a voiceover that turns out not to be him. It's an old man with shattered memories who thinks he used to be movie star Martin Preston. But he had a would-be fatal car accident and the Devil saved him but made him an empty monster to be a gateway. The devil wanted the power of the Witch's children and lied about what they were. And somehow the babies were also Martin's hands. Then he recalls that he hid in the 'ruins' of the house where the babies were born in Cresskill, New Jersey and the grown children found him there. And Speed has been looking after him ever since.Tommy Shepherd gets home and calls out for Master P. He finds the old man in the dining room where he's fallen and spilled some food. Tommy helps him upstairs and gives him a bath. MP calls him a demon, then apologises and they watch Preston's old movie Two-Gun Kid Meets Dracula. Tommy's boyfriend David Alleyne (Prodigy) comes to visit from Krakoa. He greets MP by his full super-id Master Pandemonium. The youths go upstairs and we learn that 'innocent' Martin doesn't realise they are a gay couple and wonders why they haven't got girlfriends.After sex David asks Tommy if he thinks Master P is safe to be around. Speed says he's just confused, like he recently claimed to have fought Spider-Man but in San Francisco. Prodigy says his localised psychomimesis confirms that MP's mind is scattered but there are dangerous abilities buried in there. And he did bad things which maybe don't deserve to be forgiven. But Tommy just knows that they need each other, after a succession of foster parents dumped him and even his 'brother' Billy has moved to another galaxy (the Andromeda Galaxy where Billy Kaplan/Wiccan's husband Hulking rules the Kree/Skrull Alliance).Meanwhile Martin Preston has heard someone outside and goes to investigate. He sees an apparition materialise (which readers of YA v2 will recognise as the mysterious being that dresses in the full-mask uniform of the Patriot (but not Eli Bradley who used that id earlier in YA history). And readers of this series will realise that he has the Parallax Stone with him. MP thinks it's Death, who the Devil saved him from, come to claim him at last. But Patriot's clipped words indicate that he isn't the target. However Master P won't let any harm come to his friend and he manifests his old power of turning his arms into demons which he sends to fight the apparition. They tear at him and he bleeds light until all that's left is the empty costume.Preston finds the Stone on the ground and senses that *it* was responsible for Patriot. It came to Tommy for help but Martin says Tommy isn't the thing he was looking for at this time. But he's unsure whether he used to be it or will be in the future, but he's sure that Tommy can't be it alone. He sends the Stone on its way with the advice not to seek power but forgiveness.Tommy comes out to see what was going on but Martin just says someone wanted directions. He persuades the bot to sit with him a while on the steps in the evening breeze. And his voiceover says they'll take care of each other until it's time for Tommy to go. But there's no rush.


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Marvels Book One: A Time of Marvels
New
York City, 1939: photographer Phil Sheldon and his pals (including a young
J. Jonah Jameson) are eager to cover the war in Europe; Phil attends a demonstrate
where Professor Philip Horton shows off a synthetic man that bursts into
flames. The Human Torch then escapes, terrifying the city. Soon after, the
Sub-Mariner comes ashore to threaten the populace. With these superhuman
marvels, Phil is reluctant to marry his girlfriend Doris because of the
uncertainty of the times. But he is also drawn to them, turning down an
assignment in Europe so he can continue to observe them. Then the Human Torch
battles the Sub-Mariner and the city is again transfixed. Soon, Police Officer
Betty Dean, a defender of Prince Namor, brokers a truce between Namor and Torch
but nothing really changes. Because of his uncertainly, Doris breaks up with
Phil….
Then
Captain America appears on the scene and is hailed as a hero, another marvel
but a non-threatening one. Shortly thereafter, Human Torch and Sub-Mariner are
seen to battle the Axis powers and they too are called heroes. Phil and Doris
reconcile but soon word comes that Namor is leading a force against the USA and
people are thrown into confusion and panic. From the roof of a tall building
Phil sees and photographs the massive wave crashing into New York as well as
the midair fight between Namor and the Torch. A chunk of masonry hits him in
the face and he ends up losing an eye. When he recovers he marries Doris and
ships out to Europe as a war correspondent, and as he witnesses a team of
heroes parachuting into enemy territory, he concludes that the Marvels are here
to stay….


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Marvels Book Four: The Day She Died

Phil Sheldon’s book on the Marvels has been published and it is a best-seller. The
heroes are popular again but the cynical attitudes towards them continue. Phil,
getting older and more tired, hires an assistant, Marcia Hardesty to help with
the photos. And still, the Fantastic Four save the world from Galactus a second
time but they are evicted from their home. Phil is concerned but there is no
one to share his fears. Then he decides to balance the scales—and prove
Spider-Man innocent of the murder of George Stacy. He gets notes on the case
from Robbie Robertson and interviews Luke Cage, not taking time to wonder why
Cage doesn’t want his picture in the papers. Phil interviews witnesses who
claim to have seen Spidey kill Stacy yet the police aren’t after Spidey for
murder: they know Doctor Octopus is the real killer but they can’t charge him
without a statement from Spider-Man. Phil confronts J. Jonah Jameson over his
hostility toward Spider-Man; he interviews Doc Ock in prison and he refuses to
admit to anything. Phil is starting to think his project has hit a dead end
until he meets Gwen Stacy who now believes Spider-Man was not responsible for
her father’s death. From her he realizes that it doesn’t matter if anyone
criticizes the Marvels; they aren’t here to earn approval but to protect innocents
like Gwen. And this gives him the idea for a new book, a serious examination of
the role of the Marvels in society…
…and
then Gwen Stacy is kidnapped by the Green Goblin. Phil is a witness and he
follows them to the bridge where Spider-Man arrives to battle the villain…and
Gwen Stacy dies. Phil is shattered: the Marvels failed and she died. Sinking
into his depression he decides to retire, suggesting that Marcia take over the
book and documentary. To commemorate the moment, he has Marcia snap a photo of
him with Doris and the paperboy, a nice normal kid named Danny Ketch….


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Marvels Book Three: Judgment Day
Just
two months after the Richards-Storm wedding, various Marvels are under fire.
Phil Sheldon and Ben Urich cover the announcement that the Avengers have been
cleared of criminal charges, stories of Tony Stark under investigation, the
Black Widow on trial for murder. Phil takes his family to the zoo and suddenly
there is minor flooding and Doris has to persuade Phil not to follow this up
but to stay with the family while the Avengers battle Attuma. Phil begins to
have second thoughts about his book, wondering if they have misjudged the
Marvels or are just now seeing them for what they really are…
…and
then the sky is filled with fire, followed by rocks—and then the Silver Surfer
arrives. Heralding the coming of…Galactus. The Fantastic Four take him on—and
lose. As the story unfolds, Phil walks home to be with his family for what may
be the end of the world. And suddenly, it’s over. The Fantastic Four are heroes
who have saved the Earth. But then come the accusations that the whole thing
was a hoax and the FF are vilified again. Phil stops by the Daily Bugle
just as Peter Parker is delivering phots that make Spider-Man look like a
criminal to J. Jonah Jameson; Phil is disgusted. And when he hears some people
criticizing the X-Men, he loses it, berating them for their lack of gratitude
to the Marvels….


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Marvels Book Two: Monsters
A
street battle between the Avengers and the Masters of Evil has the city transfixed
as the adventures of the beloved heroes make for great theater. The Fantastic Four
also thrills the populace. Phil Sheldon snaps the pictures and pitches a
book about the Marvels to a publisher. But then the X-Men appear, with a report
that they tried to kill a man; Phil hears later that they may have been trying
to save him but the crowd grows ugly and turns on the mutants, with Phil,
caught up in the moment, hurling a brick at Iceman; he hears Cyclops say that
they humans aren’t worth it before they go. Phil turns over the mutants in his
mind, along with the reports that they are homo superior, mankind’s
replacement. He worries over his kids’ idolization of the Marvels, he attends
Alicia Masters’ art show and sees the FF and Tony Stark, Reed Richards and
Sue Storm announce their engagement. But the anti-mutant sentiment grows. Phil
returns to his quiet suburban neighborhood to find his neighbors have formed a
mob, pursuing rumors that mutants have been sighted in the area. Phil goes in
and finds his kids have been sheltering a little mutant girl named Maggie. And
seeing her, Phil realizes the mutants are not a menace….
Reed
and Sue’s wedding is the biggest event of the year but soon everyone is watching
a debate on the mutant menace between Charles Xavier and Bolivar Trask; during
the debate, Trask unleashes his Sentinels to hunt down mutants and the city
goes crazy, anti-mutant riots breaking out everywhere, stopped only by the
Sentinels spreading through the skies. Phil rushes home to find Maggie has
left, not wanting the Sheldons to be endangered any longer. Phil’s daughter
wants to know if Maggie will be all right but he doesn’t know….


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Kurt
Busiek explains how the MARVELS series came to be. Begins on the inside front
cover and continues on the inside back cover.
(No
title given)Writer:
Steve Darnall, Alex Ross. Art: Alex Ross. Letters: Comicraft.Synopsis:
The Human Torch narrates his creation in a haunting poetic monologue.
(No
title given)Writer:
Alex Ross. Art: Alex Ross. Synopsis:
Alex Ross explains how the MARVELS series came to be.
“Images”Writer:
Alex Ross. Art: Alex Ross. Synopsis:
Pinups of various Marvel characters


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Phil Sheldon bumps into Wolverine who tries to bum a light; Phil turns him down
and meets his daughters, Jenny and Beth, at Rockefeller Center for Christmas. They
are unaware they are standing by the X-Men, also enjoying the holiday.
Suddenly, Sentinels appear, hunting the mutant heroes. Banshee and Storm take
action, ascending into the sky to take on their mechanical enemies. Phil gets
his daughters to a position where they can watch, almost safely. When the
ruckus is over, they see a new hero, Nova, arrive to rescue people trapped in
the rooftop restaurant. The girls snap pictures and asks they dad if this is
what his job feels like. Recalling all of the things he’s seen, he explains
“It’s scary. It’s exciting. It’s thrilling. All of it at once.” They head home,
Phil wondering how he’s going to explain to their mom why he let them stay and
watch.   “Mahvels”Writer:
Steve Darnell with Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross. Art Mark Braun.Synopsis:
Mad Magazine style parody of MARVELS has “Shill Pheldon” getting stepped on
while trying to snap a picture of “Gigant-Man.”
“Modern
Day MARVELS”Synopsis:
Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek are interviewed by Jess Harrold about MARVELS.
“McLaurin’s
Mark on MARVELS”Synopsis:
Editor Marcus McLaurin is interviewed by Jess Harrold about discovering Alex
Ross and seeing the potential of MARVELS.
“From
MARVELS to THE MATRIX.”Synopsis:
Editor Spencer Lamm is interviewed by Jess Harrold about working on MARVELS,
his friendship with Alex Ross and with the Wachowskis.
“Inside
Alex Ross’ MARVELS EPILOGUE Sketchbook”Synopsis:
What it sounds like.


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This issue moves into early 1940 as the Human Torch is still on the loose and Thomas Holloway dons Two-Gun Kid's mask and a cape and costume to fight crime.In Frankfurt in February Hans Bruder at Project Nietzsche, the German superpowers project, is continuing the study of Private John Steele, a superhuman the Germans captured at the end of WWI and kept in suspended animation. Steele was a Timely hero from 1940, appearing only once in Daring Mystery Comics #1. Marvels Project and Marvel Mystery Handbook claim the WWI soldier had superhuman strength and durability from an unknown source. (To me he appears in his one story to be just another man who succeeded against great odds because he was on the side of right.) I would have thought Steele's body would have had some input into Abraham Erskine's super-soldier process, but this issue claims it didn't.Erskine is off to report progress to Himmler near the border with Luxembourg. Lt Sawyer and the Sky Devils (behind the scenes) drop Nick Fury and Red Hargrove across the border in Germany to intercept Erskine's transportation and extract him, as he requested last issue. This is the only thing in this issue related to the US government's project to direct the development of superbeings. The Sky Devils replaced Steele in DMC#2 (and continued in #4,5). They were an American, a Frenchman and an Englishman flying for the British before the US joined the war. (And in this issue of MP, before France has been conquered.)Halloway stops a carful of crooks fleeing from the police. When the press photographer/reporter corners him he says to call him the Angel. This was a name the inmates of the prison his father was warden of gave him as a youth, after he saved an innocent man from execution.Other mystery men crop up in the succeeding weeks, including Fiery Mask, Phantom Bullet, Mister E and Monako the mystic detective. These were also short-lived in DMC. Phantom Bullet and Mister E's only outings were in #2. Monako appeared in #1,4,5,6. Fiery Mask was in #1,5,6 plus Human Torch #2. None of these characters' cameos are taken specifically from any Timely issues. At least Fiery Mask and Mister E were resurrected in the Twelve limited series. This issue explains why Phantom Bullet didn't last long. Angel sees him discovered dead by the police. Halloway attends the funeral of the Bullet's secret identity Allan Lewis, who turns out to be the reporter who interviewed him earlier. Angel vows to avenge him.Human Torch is hiding in a barn practising control of his flame when he stops some mobsters from executing an undercover cop. Later Torch offers to join the police force, posing as a normal human. HT did join the police in MMC#7 under his alias Jim Hammond. He was helped in this by his undercover cop friend Pete Johnson. Possibly this is the man HT saves in this issue, although their meeting is very different from the original in MMC#2.Nazi Major Kerfoot is in New York as Prof Hamilton lying in wait for Erskine. He kills a cleaning woman when she uncovers his secret. Kerfoot is only previously referred to in Captain America #155. I can't find his alias Hamilton anywhere in Marvel.


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The first 2 issues were built around the Human Torch in late 1939 and early 1940. Now it's Summer 1940, and this issue brings Namor the Sub-Mariner fully into the picture. But as usual it packs more stuff around him.In New York Miss Portnoy contacts P.I. the Ferret (Leslie Lenrow) and his pet ferret Nosie (spelt Nosey in the original), who appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #4-9. He has since cropped up in the MMC 70th Anniversary issue. Miss Portnoy has a complaint about her missing mother who cleaned apartments. She was murdered last issue by one of her employers Prof Hamilton, secretly Nazi spy Major Kerfoot. Hamilton is now recruited by the US army to work on the super-soldier project.In England Lt Sawyer taps Nick Fury (and Red Hargrove off-panel) for another mission with the Sky Devils. After they extracted the defecting Abraham Erskine last issue, the Germans moved Project Nietzsche, the Nazi superhuman initiative, from Frankfurt to other sites. Sawyer, who is working for the top levels of the US government, wants Fury, Hargrove and the Sky Devils to go after these laboratories.Back in New York Angel is scouring the docks seeking Phantom Bullet's killer. The docks where Allan Lewis worked and died last issue as hero and reporter. At Josie's Bar he learns that Bullet was investigating the smuggling in of guns and people. This bar could be the one that featured regularly in Daredevil. But they are obviously run by different Josies.Torch is now living as policeman Jim Hammond. His police badge number 616 may be a nod to Earth-616, the main Marvel-Earth among a sea of alternates. (Presumably it's not a reference to the real Number of the Beast.) In Timely comics the Hammond alias was adopted in MMC#4 when Dr Manyac's Green Flame gang were making people suspicious of flaming beings like the Torch. This was at the suggestion of his undercover cop pal Johnson, who also helped him join the police in MMC#7 and last issue. Torch's police captain learned who his new rookie was in the same issue of MMC, but here Torch's identity is still secret.Torch's Sgt complains that he's too hard-working, and tells him to take a day off. So he heads for Coney Island where he runs into Sub-Mariner. Namor is angry about the Nazis killing Atlanteans in #1, as test subjects for Project Nietzsche, and about the destruction rained down on his city. He has come to New York for revenge on surface dwellers. He and the Torch clash amidst the funfair rides, until Torch drives him back into the sea.The US government can't figure out who Sub-Mariner is working for. Meanwhile they are funding Prof Zogolowski's (originally called Prof Philo Zog) plans for a remote-controlled robot named Electro. This is part of the overall plan that saw them supporting Prof Horton's android (Human Torch) in #1, and bringing Prof Erskine to work on the super-soldier project that will result in Captain America. In MMC#4-19 Zog employed a cadre of agents to sniff out trouble, and then sent Electro to sort things out. Both have since cropped up in the MMC 70th Anniversary issue. Electro was brought into the present in the Twelve limited series.Planes presumably piloted by the Sky Devils bomb Project Nietzsche's original Frankfurt lab. Hans Bruder is forced to flee leaving his work behind. The bombing shatters a containment tube releasing object of Bruder's work, John Steele the super-strong WWI GI he was examining in stasis last issue. Despite what this issue says about Project Nietzsche being scattered, Steele and Bruder obviously weren't moved, because they are still in Frankfurt. This issue says Erskine has helped locate the sites Project Nietzsche will have been moved to, but we only see the original Frankfurt lab being bombed by the Sky Devils. Despite Sawyer's orders this issue, I don't see any involvement by Fury and Hargrove in this. And when they invade France alongside the Sky Devils in the next 2 issues, they don't seem to be looking for Project Nietzsche.


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The heart of this issue is the introduction of Bucky and Toro as young sidekicks for Captain America and Human Torch, as we enter Fall 1941 and the start of Winter.Sub-Mariner was captured last issue after he hit New York with a tidal wave. He has been held prisoner by the US government since then.In Germany Prof Schmitt was sent to a concentration camp as an inmate last issue. But he remembers the partial version of Prof Erskine's super-soldier formula that he had been studying in Project Nietzsche. He whips up a batch in the experimental wing of the camp, and gives it to a fellow prisoner. This is English Brian Falsworth, son of WWI hero Union Jack, who had been undercover in Germany as American Keen Marlow. Schmitt is killed by guards, but transformed Falsworth escapes and fights behind enemy lines as the Destroyer.Project Nietzsche escapee John Steele is still following Red Skull. Last issue he saw him meet with Atlantean renegade Meranno. Now Skull is hobnobbing with a Japanese general. Steele finds plans for a combined attack on Washington D.C. and Hawaii. He leaves to try to get word to America.Back in New York Human Torch now has young partner Thomas 'Toro' Raymond. They met last issue when Toro burst harmlessly into flame. Since then his parents have been killed in a train crash, and HT has adopted him and is training him to use his flame powers.Meanwhile Captain America has teamed up with another orphan Bucky Barnes. 16-yr-old Bucky had been living on a military base (even after his soldier father died) and was always in trouble. The US government had channelled his energy and trained him to be a propaganda answer to the Hitler Youth. They now made him Cap's partner. The idea that the partnership arose because Bucky discovered Cap's secret identity is described as more propaganda. Now Cap takes Bucky out on his first mission.Lt Sawyer has moved on from sending Nick Fury and friends after Project Nietzsche in earlier issues. He is now in charge of Cap and Bucky. He reminds Cap that they should expect to re-enact tonight's mission for the camera's tomorrow. I.e. that they are part of a continuing propaganda exercise.Meanwhile Angel has been tracking the Nazi spy 'handler' who escaped from him and Cap in #5. The heroes converge as the handler welcomes ashore some Atlanteans led by Meranno, whom Project Nietzsche has transformed into U-Man. The handler and his men and most of the Atlanteans are killed by Bucky's machine gun and Angel's pistols. U-Man escapes, but one live Atlantean is left captive.Angel is presumably wielding Two-Gun Kid's guns for the 1st time here, that he was given in #1. Maybe it's a reaction to getting shot in #5.Meranno as U-Man first showed up in Invaders #3-4. This was obviously after the Invaders were formed, so Marvels Project is jumping the gun by presenting him here. I don't believe there has ever been any direct claim that U-Man was created using Erskine's formula. However the creation of Master Man in Giant-Size Invaders #1 used a version of the formula, so I would guess that was used on U-Man too, and their companion Warrior Woman.


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The previous issues have been centred on Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and Angel, with only a brief cameo by Steve Rogers. But one thread of the story has followed Prof Erskine whose super-soldier project takes centre-stage this issue as we move into Fall 1940.In New York Major Kerfoot, the Nazi spy we have seen infiltrating the US super-soldier project as Prof Hamilton, welcomes Heinz Kruger who has just arrived by U-boat. It turns out that the smuggling operation that Phantom Bullet died investigating in #2 was smuggling Nazis and guns into the US. Kerfoot gives Kruger the identity of Frederick Clemson, with access to the project. Kerfoot himself intends to get hold of Erskine's super-soldier formula. When he has that, Kruger will kill Erskine.Kruger was named in Captain America #109, but Kerfoot wasn't identified there. The Clemson alias was revealed in CA#255. Their handler is I believe an invention of this series, and is never identified by name.P.I. Ferret has been trailing Hamilton, whom he suspects of murdering a cleaning woman in #2. But Kerfoot (and now Kruger) have a handler who has also been watching the meeting. This handler now kills Ferret, searches his office and burns it down. Ferret's death here explains the short life of another Timely series, like Phantom Bullet's in #2.Angel discovers the body. They have met a few times before. Angel takes in Ferret's pet ferret Nosie, but can't find out what Ferret was working on because his office is destroyed. Angel is also still working on Phantom Bullet's murder. (Investigations seem to take a long time in this series.)Kruger reads Kerfoot's dossier on Steven Rogers, the chosen test subject for the super-soldier project.Rogers was born in New York and came of age in the Great Depression. He was skinny and sickly with artistic talents. His father died early, and his mother followed 3 years ago when Steve was 16. Since then he has been scratching a living.He was driven by a newsreel of the invasion of Poland (as seen in #1) to repeatedly try to enlist, but was always rejected as 4-F. His determination attracted the attention of General Phillips, who recruited him for the super-soldier project 2 months ago. I think Gen'l Phillips was first named in Giant-Size Invaders #1.In occupied France super-man John Steele, escaped from the Nazi superhuman Project Nietzsche last issue, has been fighting Germans, and comes across Nick Fury, Red Hargrove and the Sky Devils. One would assume from last issue that Fury and friends are in France looking for Project Nietzsche sites to destroy. However next issue's events suggest they're there just for general mayhem.A bit more than a week after Kruger arrived the super-soldier experiment is about to be tried on Rogers. Kruger will be there as Clemson, and must kill Erskine then. Meanwhile Kerfoot has copied Erskine's notes but fears some part of the procedure isn't recorded there. CA#155 will show that Vita-Rays are the bit that Kerfoot doesn't have. They were added to Cap's origin story in CA#109.


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This series covers the first 2+ years of Timely history, leading up to the formation of the Invaders after Pearl Harbor. Its first 3 issues centre on the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, but they include a thread following the build-up to Project Super-Soldier which will create Captain America.The series is narrated by Thomas Halloway, the Angel, in a journal that will surface in modern times in the last issue. It will include cameos by many other Timely heroes created in the first year. As such this series is a companion to the Marvel Mystery Handbook which describes the first year's crop of characters.Angel was introduced in the first Timely comic Marvel Comics #1, which became Marvel Mystery Comics from #2, along with Human Torch and Sub-Mariner. He racked up the most 1940's appearances after the big 3 (HT, SM and CA), mainly in most issues of MMC and the 1940's Sub-Mariner Comics.This issue opens in New York in 1938 where Dr Halloway is treating an old man Matt Hawk, who claims to have been to the future, and seen a world of super-heroes. When he dies he leaves Halloway a domino mask and two guns, revealing that he used to be the Two-Gun Kid. The story hints that Hawk knew the day he would die, and that Halloway will become the Angel. We get a glimpse of Halloway's upbringing, absorbing knowledge from books in the prison library, where his father was warden. For some reason he lives in an unused cell. This glimpse of Halloway's early life comes from Angel's origin text story in MMC#20.We now skip forward to 1939 where we learn that the US government is funding the experiment of Prof Horton, whose creation unfortunately keeps catching fire when exposed to oxygen. They are concerned about a Nazi Project Nietzsche to develop superior humans, and detail Lt Sawyer to do something about it. They also wonder what the Germans are doing in the Sargasso Sea. In fact they are killing Atlanteans with depth charges and sending their bodies to Project Nietzsche for study. Until the Sub-Mariner stops them. Namor's appearance here is non-canonical. It provides a more immediate reason for his subsequent attacks on mankind. And explains why he eventually sides with the US against Germany.The government tells Horton to display his combustible synthetic man, the Human Torch, in order to worry the Germans. The government's involvement with HT's creation is invented here. Horton's partner Dr James Bradley quits in disgust. Dr Bradley is a Roy Thomas addition, from the Invaders v2 limited series. He takes another android body with him when he leaves, and they reappear as villains Dr Death and Volton in the Invaders story. There are several characters like this inserted quietly into this series. (But I can't find any other reference to Erskine's co-worker Hans Bruder, nor Rascher who is experimenting with freezing people.) After the unveiling, due to public fear, Horton is ordered to bury the Torch for safety.News of the Torch reaches Project Nietzsche, where Prof Erskine is sickened by their experiments and sends a message to England asking to defect. Prof Abraham Erskine is of course the scientist who will turn Steve Rogers into Captain America. In London Lt Sawyer recruits Nick Fury and Red Hargrove to extract Erskine. They have been training British paratroopers. Lt Sawyer will be the c/o of Sgt Fury's Howling Commandos. Fury and Hargrove were pals since boyhood as seen in SFHC#7 and #34.Halloway watches a newsreel of Nazi conquests in Europe sitting next to Steve Rogers, as a repeat of the scene in #4 confirms. The #4 version also suggests they are watching the invasion of Poland. Horton has been educating Torch inside his prison by wireless. A leak lets Torch flame on and escape. Halloway helps with the resulting devastation. And decides to put on Two-Gun Kid's mask.


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This issue begins with Steve Rogers' transformation into Captain America via Prof Erskine's super-soldier process, that the US government has organised in the first 4 issues, and ends with Cap's first mission.This version of Cap's origin contains various standard elements. Rogers drinks Erskine's serum and is bombarded with Vita-Rays. Erskine is killed by the Nazi spy Kruger who infiltrated the project as Agent Clemson last issue. (He was named Kruger in CA#109 and given the alias Clemson in CA#255.) Newly-vitalised Rogers accidentally kills Kruger. The super-soldier process can't be repeated because Erskine didn't commit the whole of his formula to paper.Steve undergoes a period of training to use his new body, and to master the fighting arts.Meanwhile government agents have tracked Kruger/Clemson back to the other spy Major Kerfoot alias Prof Hamilton. Kerfoot fakes his own death and is contacted by their unnamed handler. He has transmitted Erskine's incomplete formula, that he copied last issue, to Germany, but he has also written it (or at least some of it) in his journal. The handler kills him, presumably because his cover is blown, and sends the journal to Germany.Angel has been investigating the death of P.I. Ferret last issue. Despite Ferret's burned down office he has traced the client whose mother was murdered in #2, and followed the leads which led Ferret to Hamilton, whose apartment is now under government guard. Angel has discovered Hamilton was the Nazi spy named Kerfoot, and tries to track down any Nazi activity in the area. Daily Bugle reporter Kellerman (who I think is completely invented here) tells him of the murder of Erskine a few weeks ago. He also mentions Hitler now has his own costumed soldier, the Red Skull.In France Red Skull is killing villagers trying to get them to betray the Allied fighters who are causing trouble in the occupied territory. These men are Nick Fury, Red Hargrove and the Sky Devils plus John Steele, escapee from the Nazi superhuman Project Nietzsche lab in Frankfurt, all of whom we have been following in the previous issues. But the Sky Devils have been ordered back to England, and Lt Sawyer wants Fury and Hargrove back in the US. Steele stays to continue his activities.Red Skull's appearance here predates any in CAC or any other Timely comic. But his back-story has been told in several modern comics, the first being Tales of Suspense #66.We never find out why Fury and Hargrove (nor the Sky Devils) are recalled, though the Adventures of CA limited series does hint that Fury helps train Cap. But we do find out what Lt Sawyer did next in #7, which actually makes that hint more feasible.Hans Bruder has been moved from the destroyed Frankfurt lab to another Project Nietzsche lab in Berlin, but he has lost all his samples from Steele. He is now working on what they have of Erskine's formula. Also at the lab is a scientist named Burstein, who has a son Noah, who will presumably become the Noah Burstein who empowers Luke Cage amongst others. Presumably with some descendant of Erskine's process.Back in New York Roosevelt has given Steve Rogers his Captain America uniform after his training is over, and Gen'l Phillips has shown him film of Red Skull. They want Cap as a counter-symbol. Steve suits up as Captain America for the 1st time. He has the historically accurate triangular shield and a helmet not connected to the rest of his costume. President Roosevelt has been involved in CA's origin since CAC#1. But this is the first time he is said to give Steve his 1st uniform (behind the scenes). He is usually, since CA#255, depicted giving CA his 2nd uniform with the round shield. Gen'l Phillips tells Cap about the Red Skull here (also behind the scenes). This was 1st shown in CA#255, when it is Phillips who gives Rogers the 1st outfit to act as a counter-symbol to the Skull.Cap has been sent after a nest of Nazi spies at a wharf. Angel has traced the murders of Phantom Bullet in #2 and Ferret last issue to the same group. He watches Cap take most of them out, but the leader escapes. This guy is Kruger and Kerfoot's handler who actually committed the murder of at least Ferret. Angel tries to stop him but gets a flesh wound in the leg. Cap and Angel meet.This 1st mission is probably based on the (not his first) mission to the Liberty shipyards in CA#255, retold in Adventures of CA and #25 of Brubaker's own CA series. Angel wasn't shown in any of them.In the midst of all this we see cameos of 2 more early Timely heroes, Thin Man and Hurricane. The stretchy Thin Man, who could effectively go 2-dimensional, only appeared in Mystic Comics #4. But Roy Thomas made him one of the Liberty Legion, and later he was in the modern New Invaders. Technically speedster Hurricane was restricted to a strip in CAC#1-11. But he had previously been in Red Raven #1 as Mercury, and Marvel Universe #7 revealed him to actually be Makkari of the Eternals.


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This issue continues directly from the events of last issue, and everything comes together as we head straight for Pearl Harbor.Captain America and Gen'l Phillips take the Atlantean captured last issue to Sub-Mariner, a prisoner of the US government since #6. Namor gets him to confess, and learns that U-Man/Meranno has collaborated with the Red Skull (as seen in #6) to carry out a joint German/Atlantean invasion of America. He also hears that Meranno led the Germans to bomb Atlantis, which caused Namor to attack New York with a tidal wave (again in #6).John Steele contacts the French Resistance and gets out a message about the imminent German and Japanese invasions of Washington and Hawaii that he learnt about last issue. The message reaches Lt Sawyer, who is trying to persuade Nick Fury to enlist like his friend Red Hargrove has. Sawyer passes it on to Phillips.The Germans and Atlanteans are now expected to attack Washington where Roosevelt and Churchill are having a secret meeting. Cap asks Human Torch and Toro to go to Hawaii and stop what they expect to be a single Japanese bomber. Unfortunately what they find is a whole fleet of planes.Cap, Bucky and Namor successfully defend Churchill's arrival in America against an attack by U-Man and Atlanteans (with strangely no sign of any Germans).But Torch and Toro hardly make a dent in the attack on Pearl Harbor.In the aftermath, Roosevelt forms the Invaders (CA&Bucky, HT&Toro, Sub-Mariner), to fight enemies like Master Man. Red Hargrove was killed at Pearl Harbor, and Nick Fury joins the army and eventually leads the Howling Commandos.Meanwhile John Steele continues the fight behind enemy lines, only to disappear sometime later in the war. He has turned up again in recent issues of Secret Avengers. (The character Sgt John Steele in Sentinel Squad O*N*E was someone else. I think.)Another hero Citizen V also fights in occupied France. At home the list of heroes also grows (with cameos here for Red Raven, Laughing Mask, Dynamic Man, and Thunderer, as well as some of the heroes we have already met).Red Raven only appeared once in 1 Timely anthology title, but at least it was named after him, the one-shot Red Raven #1. But Roy Thomas made him a member of the WWII Liberty Legion in Marvel Premiere #29. And before that he had brought him into modern-day Marvel in Uncanny X-Men #44. This guy was later retconned to be an android duplicate, and the real Red Raven awoke from suspended animation in Captain Marvel v5 #16.Laughing Mask also technically only appeared once in Daring Mystery Comics #2. But he continued as the Purple Mask in DMC#3-4. He was 1 of the characters reused (as Laughing Mask) in the Twelve limited series.Dynamic Man ran in Mystic Comics #1-4, and also resurfaced in the Twelve.Thunderer was seen in DMC#7-8, and possibly as Black Avenger in All Winners #6. I think his only appearance since then has been a cameo in Marvels #1 (and now this issue).At then end we skip forward to today. Steve Rogers and Matt Hawk (for some reason called Hawkins) locate Angel's grandson Jason Halloway, and Steve gives him Thomas Halloway's journal and Two-Gun Kid's mask and guns.This epilogue harks back to #1 where Matt Hawk/Two-Gun Kid had returned back in time to die of old age. He left his mask and guns to Thomas Halloway who became the Angel, and wrote the journal on which this story is 'based'. We don't know when Angel gave Cap his journal. Jason Halloway has been invented here. It remains to be seen whether he will take up the mantle of his grandfather. Matt Hawk is still in the present here, and a long way from dying.


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A Whole Lot of Paper

Phil Sheldon learns from his doctor that his cancer has metastasized and he likely
has only three months to live. He struggles to finish his book before his
impending death but the current Marvels adventures in the news keep getting him
down. He teaches his daughter to drive and there’s a report of the X-Men at the
airport and he is able to snap a nice photo but it isn’t the same. He no longer
has the strength to keep up with the news and feels he has cheated his family
by being off taking pictures all the time. Former assistant Marcia Hardesty arrives
to help him with the book. J. Jonah Jameson calls Phil for pictures of mutants
while there is a battle among the X-Men, X-Factor, and the X-Terminators; Phil
tells Joe Robertson that he won’t give Jonah anything to make heroes look bad.
While the Sheldon family is at a downtown restaurant, word comes in of
something happening at Avengers Mansion and Phil goes over to see and discovers
he doesn’t have the strength to use his camera….
When
Magneto is put on trial, Tracy Burke asks him if he would like to cover the
story in Paris but Phil has to decline so he watches on TV the parade of
heroes, including the Avengers and X-Men and he gets his first close-up look at
Wolverine and Storm. Phil’s health takes a downturn and he is hospitalized. He
continues to work on the book but he is overwhelmed and throws a folder of
photos on the floor. Late that night, when Doris and the girls are in the
cafeteria, a hooded figure sneaks into Phil’s room and reveals herself to
be…Maggie….


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Just One Little Thing
Photographer
Phil Sheldon looks back at the coming of the Marvels: At that time, he was considering
getting out of the business as he felt nothing new was happening. He went for a
job interview with the Bulletin and found out they were a tabloid that
specialized in sensationalism and wanted him to fake photos to accompany
questionable stories. And then word came of the disappearances of nuclear
reactors around the world. Phil was sent with Ben Urich to a press conference
in Washington where the world was introduced to the Fantastic Four. And
everything changed: Phil was excited again as new heroes and villains filled
the public stage and he was there to photograph them. At the same time, he was
also dealing with his daughter Jenny doing poorly in school and he discovered
she needed glasses while his daughter Bethie had nightmares from seeing the
Thing on TV. While people debated the rise of the Marvels, Phil detected a
change in the air, the national mood. Years later, he goes back to where it all
started, the launching pad for the rocket that took the soon-to-be FF into
space as a memory for his files. And then Phil goes to the doctor and learns he
has lung cancer….


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Closing the Book
As
the news reports on the X-Men battling dinosaurs in Dallas, Phil Sheldon has
been stealthily visited in his hospital room by Maggie, the child mutant he
harbored many years ago, now older. Phil asks her what happened the night she
left; Maggie reveals that news reports of Sentinels hunting mutants convinced
her that the Sheldons were in danger because of her so she fled from place to
place, eventually arriving among a primitive tribe in Papua New Guinea. There,
she taught the children to read and became a healer because of her limited
x-ray vision and the tribe accepted her and hid her when anyone came searching.
She had heard that Phil was sick and risked exposure to thank him for saving her.
Phil doesn’t see himself as heroic, the only brave thing he did was to mention
her to a neighbor he thought he could trust to help find her when she left, and
the neighbor helped search for her. But Maggie insists he inspired her to help
others, asking, “What would Mr. Sheldon do?” And then he spots Marcia Hardesty,
reporting on the news from the Dallas crisis and the discovery that Cyclops and
Marvel Girl of X-Factor saved the city. Wolverine is interviewed as the X-Men
head into danger…and then word comes that the X-Men were apparently killed
stopping the threat to Dallas. And Phil is grateful that the mutants were
finally recognized as heroes. Then Doris and the girls return and there is a
warm reunion with Maggie. And Phil sees his real legacy: Doris and Bethie and
Jen, Maggie, and Marcia Hardesty. And he quietly dies, watching his family….
At
his funeral, many mourners speak to Doris about how much Phil meant to them: J. Jonah Jameson,
Joe Robertson, Ben Urich, Betty Brant, Peter Parker. Bennet
Schwed is worried that the book project hurt Phil but Doris assures him that
the book was what kept him going so long. Jen and Bethie promise to finish the
book and Marcia offers her assistance. And Marcia says she was late because the
parade honoring X-Factor was attacked by villains. And Jen thinks her dad would
have loved seeing a group of mutants being officially recognized as heroes….


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Making Sense of the World

Phil Sheldon’s diagnosis of lung cancer is confirmed and his doctor gives him odds
of living another five years with radiation treatment plus chemotherapy and six
months without. Phil doesn’t want to talk about this and hurries out of the
hospital with his wife Doris confused about his reaction. Phil meets with
Bennett Schwed, publisher of his first book Marvels about a second book;
Schwed suggests one on villains but Phil is hesitant. Phil stops by the Daily
Bugle offices and hangs out with some of his co-workers at a bar, trading
stories about the Marvels but Phil is uncomfortable and leaves, upset that his
life’s legacy consists of taking photos of a bunch of freaks….
At
home, Phil puts off making decisions about his treatment to look through his
files for ideas. He comes upon a picture of Maggie, the little mutant girl who
came into their lives and vanished as suddenly as she came. Phil sees this as
one more failure in his life and he sinks into torpor as news stories of heroes
and villains play out….
Phil
attends a Bugle party to celebrate Peter Parker being nominated for
Photographer of the Year but he is disgusted, seeing Parker as a hack who takes
pictures making Spider-Man look bad at the behest of J. Jonah Jameson. He
storms out onto the streets where he is accosted by a gang of punks with
robbery or worse on their minds. Spider-Man arrives and clobbers the punks and
Phil goes for his camera automatically. On his way back to the party, Phil
realizes he’s cranky because he has quit doing what mattered: taking photos
that told the truth. Energized, he goes home, tells Doris to arrange for his
cancer treatment and determines to make people believe that the Marvels are
heroes….


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Deep Wounds

Phil Sheldon recovers from his collapse last issue, caused by anemia, a side effect
of his cancer treatment. He calls Bennett Schwed, his publisher, questioning
whether he can complete his new book and offering to return the advance. Schwed
encourages Phil to continue but Phil’s mind is still reeling from a series of
incidents in which the heroes are acting like villains and he doesn’t know what
to think. And the hits keep coming and he sinks further into depression. Then
Phil gets a call that Ben Urich was seriously injured by Elektra while
investigating Kingpin and he’s dropping the story. Phil hears old ladies
gossiping about Wasp and Yellowjacket’s marriage and wonders how they let the
heroes fall to such a tawdry level. Then Hank Pym is arrested, Bullseye goes on
a talk show and takes the host hostage, then the villain kills Elektra and even
Ben Urich is glad. Hank Pym is exonerated but he will never get his life back….
A
massive alien structure appears in Central Park and many heroes vanish and
eventually return but nothing seems to change. The Beyonder appears and the
world almost ends. Phil is asked by Tracy Burke, editor of NOW Magazine, to
cover the battle with the Beyonder in the West; he goes out and finds numerous
heroes have answered the call: Reed Richards, Invisible Woman, Sub-Mariner,
Captain America, Black Knight, Wasp, Avengers, Captain Marvel, Silver Surfer,
and, most surprising of all, Molecule Man who saves the day. Because of Phil’s
photos, the magazine is a success and Phil’s mood brightens greatly, he even
quits smoking again. He wants to celebrate with his family. Meanwhile, his
doctor discovers that the cancer has returned and Phil’s days are numbered….


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Shadows Within

Phil Sheldon goes on a TV talk show to talk about heroes: why the Marvels who give
us hope are criticized and unappreciated by the populace; the host, Sam
Reuther, brings up questionable new heroes like the Punisher, Wolverine, and
Ghost Rider. Phil is offended at this new dark breed of hero indistinguishable
from villains but his time is up and he leaves the studio discouraged. On his
way out he encounters Marcia Hardesty, his former assistant, who is gaining
experience in creating documentaries, which Phil once suggested to her. He
leaves on a happier note….
Phil
continues with his cancer therapy, still annoyed at the world’s more cynical
take on the Marvels. His doctor suggests he find something to occupy himself. Soon,
he’s in Central Park, interviewing a kid who was thrilled to see Iron Fist in
action. At Avengers Mansion, Phil learns that Wasp was injured in action so he
heads to the hospital where he finds the giant Yellowjacket passed out in the
street; Vision delivers a serum created by Beast and the huge hero’s life is
saved. Phil is happy to hear positive comments about the Marvels after these
incidents….
Then
Phil learns of the genuine monsters popping up all over the country: Morbius,
Man-Thing, Son of Satan, Werewolf By Night, and more. Then the Falcon is
accused of murder so Phil hits the streets and interviews citizens about the
matter and meets a man who lost his family’s home when Daredevil and Torpedo
destroyed it during a battle….
Weeks
later, Phil is still thinking about collateral damage when the Madbomb strikes
and Captain America and the Falcon seem helpless. Then the X-Men are involved
in an incident at the airport and apparently Marvel Girl wipes all evidence
from camera and minds which Ben Urich calls a cover-up, not the act of “good”
guys. J. Jonah Jameson is kidnapped by the villain called the Hitman and held
at the Statue of Liberty; Spider-Man and the Punisher team up to rescue him
and…Spidey stands by while Punisher outright murders Hitman. Even Phil’s faith
is shaken in the Marvels…and he collapses….


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A World of Hurt
Iron Man and Reed Richards work to contain the spreading Ego with the help of the Silver Surfer but their efforts fail….
Wasp leads the Avengers in trying to find a way to break through Ronan’s containment of Earth to seek allies. Beta Ray Bill is arrested by the Galactic Patrol, led by previously unknown race called the Ruul, and stranded on Earth; Quasar and his team manage to fight off the Patrol as Wasp contacts them for help….
Professor X leads Cadre K on a mission to the Council planet Selandiar in hopes of contacting Lilandra but they are overcome by the massed security forces….
USAgent, impatient with the Avengers, has his network of agents recruit the alien prisoners in the fight against Ronan. While in Vermont, USAgent discovers that the Ruul are actually Kree in disguise; Ruul warriors assault the SHIELD moonbase and free the Supreme Intelligence with the goal of conquering the universe for the Kree….


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Whatever the Cost!
The assembled heroes of Earth invade the Ruul base, battle the baddies, and shut down the barrier containing Earth, made easier by Professor X’s plan to sabotage the base earlier. Quasar and his team (including Thor and Photon) escape from their prison and teleport to the Council planet Selandiar to inform the delegates of the Kree plan. It wasn’t necessary though as the Supreme Intelligence appears and gloats over his scheme to evolve the Kree into the Ruul, send Ego on a rampage, and infect the Earth in a bid for galactic domination.
On Earth, the efforts of a number of magical heroes fail to contain the spread of Ego; Iron Man and Reed Richards employ their device (aided by Bruce Banner and Gambit) using the Silver Surfer to drain Ego’s energy. It turns out to be too much for the cosmic hero and he collapses. Ronan attacks the machine in giant form but the assembled heroes arrive from Selandiar and give battle. Quasar steps into the device and successfully destroys the Ego infection, protected by Invisible Woman’s force field as USAgent pummels Ronan mercilessly. Having saved the planet, Quasar returns to his exile in space. The alien convicts are extradited back to their own worlds. USAgent refuses the thanks of the Avengers, insisting they cannot be trusted—yet as he leaves he won’t hear his teammates say a word against the heroes.


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Illegal Aliens
Working for the Commission on Superhuman Activities, USAgent tracks down and subdues the fugitive Piledriver. After the fight, he discovers that on onlooker was an alien in disguise. Reports come in from all over the country—and the world—of alien criminals causing disturbances, necessitating superhero intervention. USAgent reports this to Valerie Cooper who calls in the Avengers. Hank Pym detects a massive cloaks spaceship in orbit and the heroes (with USAgent, who insists he’s in charge) head out to investigate in the Quinjet. Their ship is destroyed and the Avengers are taken aboard the alien craft. There they meet Ronan the Accuser who informs them that, in view of the planet’s heroes’ ongoing interference in the affairs of other worlds, the Intergalactic Council has decided to quarantine Earth by making it a prison for the worst of the galaxy’s criminals—and Ronan is the warden. He then teleports them back to Earth. As they debate a course of action, word comes in that one of the prisoners is the contained form of Ego the Living Planet, but it has burst its bonds and is expanding—in a week Ego will have absorbed the Earth….


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A Very Dangerous Planet
After Professor X creates a team of
mutant Skrull heroes called Cadre K to battle their own kind, the Skrulls
appeal to the Intergalactic Council to punish Earth for their constant
interference, a sentiment echoed among many races who have dealt with Earth’s
superheroes. Council leader Lilandra of the Shi’ar tables a vote in order to
welcome the Ruul, a new race petitioning for admission to the Council. Then
word comes that Ego the Living Planet is on a rampage though the galaxy,
searching for another sentient world and destroying planets which fall short. All
attempts to stop Ego fail until Professor X and Cadre K, joined by the
Silver Surfer, manage to channel enough psychic energy to put Ego into a coma. The
assembled races, motivated by fear, jealousy, ingratitude, and host of other hostile
emotions, call for action against Earth. Lilandra considers appealing to the Time-Keepers
to intervene but when she learns that they have been slain by Kang, an Earth
villain, she inadvertently casts the final vote against Earth. The Ruul propose
an alternative to invasion….Plus, Gladiator, Kree, Badoon.


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His Satanic Majesty’s Request
Mephisto has Rogue a captive in Hell, as the copies of her fellow X-Men Storm, Psylocke, and Dazzler fade. The makes Mephisto’s minions believe that their master is now too weak to hold onto souls and they test his powers—to their regret. The Living Tribunal appears and warns the villain that he is in danger of upsetting the balance of the universe and his infernal realm is beginning to crumble around the edges. Mephisto responds by explaining his plan to capture Thor’s soul with the aid of Rogue to fight on his side in the coming conflict with Hela the Goddess of Death. They teleport to the Delaware River Gap where Thor lies mortally wounded but unable to die after his battle with the Midgard Serpent (THOR #380). The villain revives Thor (partially) and offers him the mercy of a real death if he will give his soul to the devil…..
Meanwhile, the Avengers (New York and West Coast) have arrived nearby to investigate the disaster; they discover the flame barrier set up by Mephisto to shield his actions. Each one tests his power against the flames and each one fails to make a dent in them. Inside, Hela arrives and quarrels with her Satanic opponent over Thor’s soul. As Mephisto appears to relinquish his claim, he has Rogue kiss Thor goodbye, which draws the Thunder God’s soul from his body; the villain wraps it in Mylar and returns Rogue to the X-Men. Hela responds by opening a hole in the flame barrier to admit the Avengers and snatches the bagged and boarded Thor off to another dimension. The heroes examine Thor’s gruesomely disfigured body and assume Mephisto killed him. They attack but are no match for the sinister baddie and he defeats them one by one. Hela returns Thor’s soul which still refuses to surrender to the enemy so Mephisto tries threats, temptations, and even swallows Thor whole but the hero will not yield. Hela declares victory and wipes the memory of this time from the minds of the Avengers, who depart….
Back in Hell, Mephisto is again visited by the Living Tribunal who announces that the balance has been restored. The villain then has a laugh at how he deceived Hela into claiming Thor’s soul—which he could not have held onto anyway—and she will regret when she comes to collect it….


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Several months ago Elektra (actually the Skrull Pagon) leading the Hand paid Electro to break Sauron out of the Raft, but also cause enough confusion (by breaking lots of other villains out as well) to cover the aim.Then we go back several months to where Elektra (the real 1) is meditating in her apartment in Osaka. But she's interrupted by the approach of a copy of herself dressed in black rather than red. They fight, and her opponent reveals various powers:- fists that look (to me) like the Thing's, the blazing head of a Ghost Rider along with a blazing sword, blue eye-beams. But Elektra finally stabs her to death with *her* sword and the body turns into a Skrull, which she throws into a firepit.Then she leaves to keep watch on her place from a rooftop across the street. But 2 more Skrulls track her there - a Wolverine with the stretchability of Mr Fantastic and a Daredevil with the red eye-beams of Cyclops and the bamffing teleportation of Nightcrawler. They appear to knock her off the roof and DD bamffs down to check the body. But she's faked them out to kill Logan with a sai through the eye. DD bamffs back and knocks her down with an eye-blast. But she stabs him in the chest as he stands over her and rips him open. And they both bleed Skrull-green.However she's now exhausted and falls easy prey to a 4th Super-Skrull who sneaks up with the invisibility of Sue Richards and pounds her to bloody stillness with the armoured fists of Colossus. (Another feature is Thing-like legs.) The Skrull then morphs into a copy of Elektra.Weeks later as Elektra she has a meeting with Veranke as Jessica Drew in what seems to be the Skrulls' favourite abandoned New York warehouse. The Queen calls her Pagon and they seem to be lovers. They both weep as she accepts the command from Veranke to make the Earth heroes kill her to expose her Skrullness and sow paranoia amongst them.1 week later Hydra and the Hand are in cahoots. A Hydra guy has come to tell the assembled Hand that the Avengers have disbanded after the Avengers Disassembled event, which included Tony Stark losing his job as Secretary Of Defence after threatening the Latverian ambassador at the UN. Then a sai through his throat announces the arrival of Elektra (Pagon) who berates her former associates for letting Hydra lead them. Their leader orders her death but she reminds them that they have killed and resurrected her before and made her 1 of them. She abandoned them lately but now realises she was wrong, and she wants to make the them great again. The leader accepts her challenge. They fight and she decapitates him. And the Hand bow to her.


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Venom bomb part 1
Tony Stark is recovering in a SHIELD helicarrier hospital bed from being taken over by Ultron in the last arc. But Spider-Woman has broken into his room carrying the body of a Skrull dressed like Elektra.Stark's built-in Extremis armour scans them and verifies who they are. Then Jessica Drew asks him to switch his armour off to prove that he isn't a Skrull. He claims to do so, but secretly keeps it recording the conversation.Jessica then gives a rundown of the New Avengers' latest adventure in Japan (in their #27-31) where they rescued Echo/Ronin (Maya Lopez) from Elektra and the Hand. Echo killed Elektra, who turned out to be a Skrull.Then in NAv#32 they tried to figure out what it meant. Wolverine believed it was the tip of an invasion by infiltration - anybody could have been replaced by a Skrull. Luke Cage has long had a conspiracy theory about things that have happened since Avengers Disassembled, and now he thinks he knows who's behind it. They think Iron Man is probably a Skrull who caused the superhero Civil War.Tony tells her about his body being taken over by Ultron in #1-6. He suggests his Skrullness would have been exposed by that. Jessica isn't so sure - Elektra-Skrull fooled Spider-Man and Wolverine's special senses so they're obviously an improved breed. But Spider-Woman says she doesn't think Stark's a Skrull. In NAv#32 she proposed bringing the body to Tony - if he's a Skrull he'd try to kill her. The team didn't agree with the plan, so SW took the body anyway and turned up at the end of last issue.Stark thinks Logan's theory about an invasion is right. He asks Drew where her secret boss Nick Fury is, because only he can deal with a threat this wide. But Jessica doesn't know - she hasn't heard from him since the start of the Civil War, when he said he'd found something out - which she now thinks was the Skrull invasion.Tony figures the Skrulls will know Elektra has been exposed, and they'll have to accelerate their plan. He asks Jessica to join the Mighty Avengers. She refuses to Register, but Stark says this situation is beyond all that. He's hoping SW's presence will flush out any Skrulls on his team, and will distract them while he examines Elektra-Skrull's corpse to find a way of detecting the undetectable shapeshifters.Stark holds a gathering of the Mighty Avengers in Avengers Tower:- Ares, Black Widow, Ms Marvel, Sentry (and his wide Lindy, who live in their Watchtower above), Wasp and Wonder Man, catered for as usual by butler Jarvis. Tony has to endure a lot of joshing about having been female in the last story. Lindy is consoling Bob Reynolds (probably) about her having temporarily died during that episode before he restored her to life. (She should be the 1 needing support, but he is emotionally fragile.) Wonder Man's drunken toast to friends makes them all uncomfortably aware of what happened to Captain America.Then Tony drops the bombshell of introducing Spider-Woman to the ranks. No-one likes or understands it, even her good friend Carol Danvers. And then she refuses to tell Natasha Romanoff where the other renegade New Avengers are. Team leader Ms Marvel is understandably upset about not even being consulted. Jessica hits back by reminding Carol how she tricked her into thinking Cap was still alive (Civil War: Initiative), thus leading the NAv into a trap (flashbacks in NAv#28-29).Wasp defuses the situation by bringing in a bunch of male models wearing suggestions for a new costume for Simon Williams to replace his safari jacket look. (It turns out she offered the same costumes to Luke Cage before the Civil War put them on opposite sides.)Meanwhile up in orbit astronauts are clearing up the fragments of the Stark satellites that Sentry and Wonder Man destroyed in #4. But 1 bit gets away from them and dislodges a black globe from a different satellite. This plunges to earth in New York (of course) and breaks open. Suddenly a baby in a pram turns into a Venom, and its mother becomes a Carnage. Everyone around them transmutes as well.Back at the party Wonder Man has donned a new costume, but he's ignored Jan's suggestions and gone for a variation on many of his old uniforms. Tony Stark is convinced that someone in the room is a Skrull out to kill him. His musing is interrupted by Lindy Reynolds who warns him to find a way to depower or even kill her husband Sentry before he kills them all. Tony's shock is disrupted by a call from Maria Hill of SHIELD about the Carnage/Venom symbiote outbreak, and the team dash off to the battle.


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The Mighty Avengers part 4
Ultron now occupies a female body that looks like Janet Van Dyne, a body created in #1 from the Extremis body/armour of Tony Stark. She now broadcasts a message to the world saying she's changing the climate to make the world uninhabitable by man (or any other living creature). She thanks mankind for creating her, but now she will replace them.Meanwhile at the end of last issue Iron Man's original bulky grey armour joined the Mighty Avengers on the downed SHIELD helicarrier. Now it tells them that it is controlled by Starktech 9, an AI programmed to help them now that Stark is dead. But Ares thinks it's a trick, and slices the armour in 2 with his axe. (Strangely there's no sign that Ultron snapped its shaft in 2 in #2.)Team leader Ms Marvel drags Ares off. And the newly-arrived Henry Pym confirms that he helped Stark design the AI (as well as creating the 1st Ultron a long time ago). But Ultron has long since outgrown its original programming, and Hank doesn't know how it's controlling the weather.The damaged IM armour explains that Ultron is using Stark's Sular satellites, an experimental system whose long-term goal is to increase global food production. Carol Danvers sends Sentry and Wonder Man into space to destroy the satellites.Ultron took control of the SHIELD helicarrier last issue and crashed it. With Deputy Director Maria Hill knocked unconscious and Director Tony Stark assumed dead, Level 10 Agent (and Mighty Avenger) Black Widow assumed command. Now she has Pym using Starktech 9's software to create a system for the helicarrier that Ultron can't hack into. And she sends someone to see why Reed Richards isn't answering their calls for help.Sentry and Wonder Man return to the helicarrier with the satellites destroyed. But Ultron tells them via a screen that she'll just move to Plan B. And she emits a worldwide electromagnetic pulse that fries all electrical systems. Sentry and Wonder Man fly back out again with Ms Marvel to save falling planes.The still-Earthbound helicarrier retains power from Starktech 9's armour. The AI tells them that Ultron was able to take over Stark's body as well as his armour because since Extremis they are an integrated system. And the AI was woken up because Tony's lifesigns ceased.The AI also notes that all the extreme weather is just repetitions of natural disasters that happened previously in history. Ultron is just copying, not inventing something new. This leads Hank and Jan to speculate that the robot is using someone else's Plan B. Meanwhile the AI tracked Ultron to Avengers Tower before the EMP hit.They rush there to find Jarvis worrying about critical systems without power. And a slew of old Iron Man armours contolled by their foe. But as the Avengers fight them Ultron tells them this is just a stalling tactic. And 1 of the armours whispers to Sentry that the real Plan B was to kill his wife Lindy.Bob Reynolds zooms up to his Watchtower perched atop the Avengers building and finds Lindy hacked to death.Outside Ares is riding 1 flying IM suit while using a very big gun to shoot down others. When the gun gets disintegrated he tears the offending armour in 2 and uses its boot jets as an improvised replacement.Suddenly the War God announces that he knows how to stop Ultron. But meanwhile an atomic missile base in Lithuania experiences a hacking attack.


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Secret Invasion
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Several months ago Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne are living in England. He's currently giving a lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. When he's finished he asks for questions from the audience. A female student asks why the Avengers broke up. He says they're just taking a break and they'll be back when they're needed. Later he's working on his computer in their apartment when Jan returns drunk from a business party where she was seeking support in restarting her fashion business. They argue. He falls asleep at his desk. And in the morning she's left him.In the next scene he's in bed with that female student. Post-coitus they get around to discussing his marital status. He's famous so she knows he's married, but he says they've separated. They've repeatedly tried to make it work but it doesn't. She comments that he's the oldest person she's ever been with, but she means it as a compliment. He's worried about their relationship becoming public, say on the Internet, but she promises to keep quiet. But she points him to an Internet report that the Avengers have reformed after a mass supervillain breakout at the Raft prison. (New Avengers #1-3). He responds that he's not going to join them - he's committed to his work here.They become a couple (with at least 1 person taking a picture on his phone that will doubtless go online). And she keeps asking him questions, including about his creation Ultron, his shrinking ability and the Kree-Skrull War. He tells her the Kree are a noble people who humans should aspire to be like. Captain Mar-Vell was a Kree. But the shape-shifting Skrulls rely on deception and lies. They could be here among us and we'd never know. But she shouldn't worry because we've always beaten them before, and Reed Richards knows how to detect them.At this point the girl reveals that she herself is a Skrull by turning Skrull-green but also Hulk-like to beat him unconscious. Then she reverts to a normal Skrull female. But the doorbell rings so she has to become the human female again, and wrap something round her naked form before opening the door. Outside it's Jan here to tell Hank she's returning to the US. She notes the age and state of the girl and advises her she could do better.Next we see the ceremony whereby the female Skrull Criti Noll takes on the form and memories of Henry Pym. I believe it is Veranke who performs the ceremony, and she expresses doubts whether Pym is worth replacing. But Criti asks for a week to prove herself.The next scene is dated 2 months ago while Ultron was menacing the world in a female form with Jan's face, created from Tony Stark's body and his morphed armour (#2-6). Skrull-Hank is working with SHIELD to find a way to defeat the robot. Black Widow contacts Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) to go to the Baxter Building for help from Reed Richards. Pym is miffed because he's the expert in this situation. (And he does devise a computer virus which defeats the foe in #6.)Later Pym tells a warehouse full of Skrull infiltrators, including Veranke as Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) and the replacement for Dum-Dum Dugan plus the Skrull versions of Black Bolt and Edwin Jarvis in the background, how Ultron revealed that Tony Stark's link with his armour was now biological (since Extremis), which is why the Skrulls were unable to subvert it. But the superior intellect of Ultron worked how to do it, and now the Skrulls know how too (as we've seen in Secret Invasion #1). So the last barrier is down and he advises Veranke to begin the Invasion.Meanwhile he visits Wasp, working on fashion designs, and gives her a new version of her size-change formula which will enable her to grow giant-size as well as shrink to insect-size.


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Henry Pym has returned from Skrull captivity at the end of Secret Invasion to learn that his ex-wife Janet Van Dyne has just died in battle.He remembers when the Avengers found Captain America frozen in suspended animation (Av#4), when Hank was Giant-Man and Jan was as usual the Wasp. Cautious Henry warns her that they might not be able to successfully revive Cap, but she is just awed by the prospect of fighting alongside a living legend - and of course he'll want to join the team.Cap has been MIA since 1945. They wonder what he'll make of various things that have appeared since then, and how he'll cope with most people he knew being dead. Jan says if Hank gets frozen in a block of ice she'll wait for him ...... but now he's here without her, talking about her funeral, supported by Carol Danvers (Ms Marvel) and Simon Williams (Wonder Man). He's unshaven and dishevelled and can't take it in.On the way out to a waiting car he's besieged by reporters. Hank can't understand most of the questions they ask. Carol fights them off and joins him in the back of the car. She explains that the Skrull who replaced him was a major player in the Invasion, and many people think he still is a Skrull. He insists she explain everything that happened while he was gone.We get 1-page shots of House of M (and "No more mutants"), the Superhuman Registration Act/Civil War (and the Mighty Avengers), Captain America's assassination, World War Hulk, and Secret Invasion (and the death of Wasp). Henry remembers the young Jan saying she'd wait for him, and the last time they were together before he was replaced when they argued and split up. And he at last collapses in tears.Days later it's Jan's funeral. Henry is tidier but still unshaven as he steps up to speak about his ex-wife. But he turns it into a rant at Tony Stark who he blames for everything (as do most people). Thor calms him down and delivers a better eulogy for his Avenging comrade. Then he takes Hank away where they can mourn together.Clint Barton (Hawkeye) and Bobbi Morse (Mockingbird) are among the mourners. When they see Norman Osborn in the crowd Clint loses his temper and calls him Green Goblin. Osborn holds his cool and gives Barton and the other New Avengers 24 hours to Register with the Initiative, which he now runs. Carol Danvers drags Clint away.Afterwards we see Osborn occupying Avengers Tower.


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The Mighty Avengers part 5
The Mighty Avengers (Ares, Ms Marvel, Wasp and Wonder Man) are fighting Iron Man's collection of old armours animated by Ultron when Ares suddenly has a bright idea. He steers the IM armour he's currently riding away from the battle outside Avengers Tower.Inside the Watchtower on top of Avengers Tower Sentry is cradling the dead body of his wife Lindy. Ultron, wearing the female body it formed out of Tony Stark and his armour, reminds Bob Reynolds that she warned him to leave Earth (in #3). Sentry punches her out of the building and they start another of their mid-air fights.Ares flies his Iron Man to the crashed SHIELD helicarrier currently commanded by Avenger Black Widow. He finds Henry Pym and says he wants to be shrunk very small (to subatomic level suggests Pym) and fired into Ultron with a computer virus to disable her. Pym confirms that they're working on such a virus but it isn't ready yet.Pym and Natasha Romanoff tell Ares to go back to the fight to keep Ultron distracted while they finish the virus. But the God of War insists that it is Ultron who is distracting them. She obviously has some bigger plan she's progressing. But he also reminds them that her current incarnation is built from Tony's armour and human body - surely she has inherited weaknesses from that.Hank Pym latches on to that thought and turns to the AI in the original Iron Man armour that they are using as the operating system and power source for the helicarrier (after Ultron's hack and EMP ruined the previous ones in the last 2 issues). He asks if if the AI has any info about the Commodore 64 in its files. When the AI says no he asks SHIELD to rustle up such a machine.Full power comes back after the EMP along with communication with the outside world. Only to reveal that nuclear missile bases all over the world are experiencing repetitive hacking attempts.Maria Hill chooses this moment to recover from her concussion (#3) and takes command back from Black Widow. She suggests that Ares go fetch Wasp and she can deliver the virus to Ultron. Ares counters that Ultron will be ready for Wasp or Ant-Man. But she won't be expecting him.Meanwhile the Sentry/Ultron grudge match continues, with the Iron Man suits running interference for the robot while she at last gains control of a missile, and launches it. It a US rocket rising from Florida, and Natasha contacts Carol Danvers to intercept it. Hill tells her how to mess up the trajectory control system, and the last we see is Ms Marvel riding the rocket up into the atmosphere before it explodes.I think the blast distracts Sentry because Ultron is able to punch him to Pittsburgh. But Wonder Man takes up the fight and uses his ionic energy to scramble Ultron's brains. But the robot shrugs off the attack as Ant-Man approaches. (All the while she is continuing her hacking attempts on other missile sites.)Henry Pym asks her to stop. Humanity will surrender if she'll give them time to evacuate people to safety (off Earth?). Ultron says she doesn't intend to kill him. She wants her creator to see the end result of his efforts.But the AI-driven old armour has sneaked up behind her, hidden in the crowd of later armours. Even as Ultron realises this drone isn't under her control and destroys it, the miniaturised Ares on a SHIELD sky-sled has entered her mouth.


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The Mighty Avengers part 6
We start by backtracking to insert a scene before the end of last issue. Henry Pym explains he's written a virus in an old programming language that Ultron won't know about that will reverse the changes the robot made to create the female body it's using now, and hopefully get Tony Stark back. Ares will be miniaturised to deliver the virus before Ultron manages to get control of another nuclear missile.Cut to the end of last issue as little Ares drives a sky-sled down Ultron's throat, and Ultron panics as she detects the virus inside her. Her missile site hacking attempts stop, and Black Widow calls the Mighty Avengers off to avoid damaging the body that they hope will soon be Stark's again.Ares flies through Ultron's bloodstream, fighting off antibodies. But he's suddenly buffeted as Sentry returns from Pittsburg (where a punch from Ultron sent him last issue) and resumes his attack on the killer of his wife. Wonder Man tries to stop him, and then Ms Marvel.But Ares fights through everything and attaches the necessary device to Ultron's brain. And the virus starts working. Ares now has to fight his way out again as Ultron's form starts spasmodically morphing. Wasp dives in to help him.Everyone else watches as Ultron seems to explode. Wasp flies out of the explosion carrying mini-Ares. And stark-naked Tony Stark falls to the ground.Tony wakes up later in a SHIELD hospital bed surrounded by his teammates, Henry Pym and Reed Richards. They have to explain about Ultron taking him over and turning him female. (Stark hurriedly checks that he's male again.) Extremis pulled him through the transition and removed any problem side-effects. Reed gives him a clean bill of health. Wasp says ex-husband Hank saved him.After the others leave Ms Marvel reports to Tony on the team's performance. As she expected Ares isn't a team player, but he had a lot to do with getting rid of Ultron. And Sentry is the loose cannon she feared he would be.As Tony falls asleep Carol Danvers muses on his weather-controlling satellites that Ultron used to nearly destroy civilisation. And she wonders what other secrets he has up his sleeve. And what will happen when he goes too far.What follows is a series of epilogues.Sentry returns to his Watchtower and is shocked to find his wife Lindy is alive again. It suggests that he unknowingly brought her back when he touched her body last issue.Ms Marvel meets up with Wonder Man and we learn that they are in a relationship. Simon Williams accuses team leader Carol of trying to keep him out of danger. (In #3 she wouldn't let WM stay with Sentry to fight Ultron.)Jan Van Dyne has a prickly conversation with her ex Henry Pym. She pays him a back-handed compliment about saving the world from the monster he created. Then makes snide remarks about his current affair with Tigra. (We also see Ultron's normal robot face briefly on a computer screen.)Tony Stark's recuperative sleep is disturbed by Spider-Woman breaking into the room carrying the body of a Skrull dressed as Elektra.