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A mega-powerful being called the Lost One is hunting down all the Beyonders for revenge and they've gone into hiding. The 1 we call *the* Beyonder came to the Avengers for help. 1st he secretly guided them to collect weapons against the foe (in the All-Out-Avengers mini-series). In #1 of the current mini-series they found him out and he explained the situation. And they captured a minion Tiamok Rath who the Lost One sent against them. Last issue Beyonder reverted to operating behind the scenes and led the team to find an alien who can boost superpowers.Now we see that the Lost One is hovering outside Earth's atmosphere, kept at bay by an improved planetary defence shield the Beyonder had helped create. Tiamok sits in her Avengers prison cell waiting. (Last issue she was able to detect Beyonder's background monologue but he's now taken steps so she can't hear it. Which raises the question who in their reality is he speaking to, if not us readers?) And more minions, the Black Order, have infiltrated Avengers HQ. Beyonder reminds us that these ex-warlords of Thanos have since served other masters, but he says that now they have a plan to strike out on their own.Captain America and Captain Marvel are in the HQ guarding the 4 crystals that now power the defence screen. Carol Danvers reports that Black Panther, Iron Man, She-Hulk and Thor entered the teleport system to join them but haven't arrived. She suspects that somehow the Order have trapped them in the system. Steve Rogers sends her to delay the invaders while he calls for a genius to solve the problem.Tony Stark and T'Challa are obviously unavailable so he phones Lunella Lafayette (Moon Girl) riding on Devil Dinosaur who asks him to put the phone next to the controls and she'll take it from there. Meanwhile CapA has to deal with the Black Order's leader Corvus Glaive who's blasted his way into the room with his namesake weapon. While the battle carries on Lunella reports that she's located the missing Avengers and they'll be free in half a minute. But she's also detected how the Order got control of the system and she cancels that. Cap asks her to port the 4 Avengers to this room which she does and phones off.Meanwhile CapM has defeated Black Dwarf and Ebony Maw but Black Swan is giving her some trouble. CapA sends She-Hulk to her aid in time to stop a killing blow. CapM then strikes down Proxima Midnight while Thor beats up Corvus Glaive. Black Dwarf is back to tackle She-Hulk while Black Swan distracts Thor from CG who diverts to help hitting Shulk.Then Black Panther and Iron Man discover that the shield is going down even though the crystals are at full power. CapA calls out to Beyonder for help as the shield finally fails and the Lost One arrives to free Tiamat and they both go to the battle area. Apparently the Black Order were supposed get the shield down but Corvus Glaive grovellingly apologises for failing. But it turns out the Lost One didn't do it either (Tiamat does all his speaking for him). Beyonder's voiceover suggests *he* is responsible.However now he's here the Lost One's taking the crystals. The Avengers oppose him but he fairly easily disposes of them (CapM and Thor take 2 shots). Then he reaches for the 4 crystals but they vanish. Iron Man detects their energy signatures in 4 structures that have just appeared in orbit. They discover that the shield is on again but much stronger, and they're not in control of it. And they realise that the Beyonder's plan was to trap the Lost One on Earth with them.


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The Beyonder came to the Avengers for help against a mega-foe the Lost One who was hunting him down. He provided them with a shield to keep him away from Earth. But then he let the bad guy in and then reactivated the shield even stronger to keep the Lost One trapped on Earth with the Avengers.Now the Avengers (Black Panther, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, She-Hulk and Thor) have copies of themselves they call the Bootleg Avengers. Apparently they are neighbours of the alien Sel Sennan who temporarily gave everybody in New York powers (in #2). And more apparently after the Avengers failed Earth by 'letting' the dangerous Lost One be trapped here they persuaded Sally, as they know her, to give *them* the Avengers' powers so they could do a better job of protecting the planet. And even more apparently Beyonder has added to the fun by twisting reality so that they believe they've already beaten the real team once.They now face just CapA and IM who try to convince them that's only in their memories. Bootleg Cap responds by trying to attack the real deal, and coming off
badly. Meanwhile 'BP' and 'Thor' bicker. The black pseudo-BP says he
wanted to be Thor, but the white guy says it would have been an appropriation of Wakandan culture for himself to be BP. BP retorts that *he*'s not Wakandan either and it's racist to make him BP just because he's black.Then the other 4 Avengers arrive. Pseudo-CapM fan-girl enthuses over Carol Danvers. Pseudo-IM claims to be a genius inventor like Tony Stark, and even more so now that Sennan has boosted his brain, but his armour doesn't match up to Tony's. Pseudo-Thor claims that Mjolnir now rightly belongs to him, so Thor offers to let him take it. The 2 She-Hulks trade blows. BP and CapA keep trying to convince their opposite numbers of the truth. CapA shows his 'foe' that Sel Sennan hasn't given him Steve Rogers' years of experience. Pseudo-BP admits that his heart's not in it. But he also drops the bombshell that Sally also gave neighbour Ricardo the power of Beyonder.That guy now materialises calling himself Yonder. But then admits to Jen Walters, who has downed the other She-Hulk, that Sennan could only manage a fraction of the real thing. The Captains Marvel never did come to blows and now Carol warns Yonder that the Lost One may have sensed him now that he's taken physical form, but the cocky youth thinks he can hold him off long enough to persuade him that he's not the 1 he wants. Pseudo-Thor is still trying to lift the magic hammer while the Asgardian advises Yonder to flee. Bootleg CapA boasts that his team will stand with their friend.Then the Lost One turns up, and we learn from the real Beyonder's ubiquitous voiceover that his name is Cal-Horra, a fierce warrior, a beautiful god and a cunning foe. Yonder tries to talk to him but LO lifts him off the ground with 1 hand round his throat. But our Beyonder can tell that *he* can tell immediately that this is a weak fake, and discards him immediately. CapM and Thor make a joint attack and get a few punches in but their enemy can't be bothered to respond. (The Bootleg Avengers disappear from the issue from this point.)BP, who somehow now knows Cal-Horra's name, reminds him, and us, of his own history - created by the Celestials he in turn created the Beyonders who stole his power and banished him beyond the omniverse. Now he's here for revenge and to get his power back. CapM and Shulk persuade him that they and humanity aren't his enemy. CH removes his helmet to reveal a face which the Beyonder voiceover says is now far from beautiful and with eyes that flash madness and fury. He's glad the Lost One is trapped down there and hasn't even noticed him hovering outside the shield in space.Then Cal-Horra does notice him and teleports to just inside the shield to face him, demanding his power back. Beyonder admits that what happened to him was a great injustice, but the young member of his race protests that he's innocent because he wasn't even born then. But the Lost One says our Beyonder still has a portion of his power and he wants it all.But just then more Beyonders arrive. (They don't look like our Beyonder because he modelled himself on humans, the 1st beings he saw back in the 1st Secret Wars or maybe Fantastic Four #20.) They're here to pass judgement on our Beyonder. Apparently the 4 crystals that power the shield (that Beyonder arranged for the Avengers to find in All-Out Avengers #4) are other Beyonders that he has imprisoned. On the 1 hand they thank him for saving them all from Cal-Horra. But on the other hand he has condemned 4 of his brethren to a living death. So they strip him of his power and cast him down to Earth.


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He made her the bait
The main story reprints Avengers #9 where Baron Zemo creates Wonder Man to betray the Avengers.Story 2:- He made her the baitWonder Man is watching from on high as Janet Van Dyne tries to get medical help to cure his 'disease' (actually a side-effect of the ionic rays that gave him his super-powers, that Baron Zemo has to keep giving him an antidote for). He claps his hands (like Hulk) to cause a sonic boom which spooks the horse of a nearby mounted policeman. Wasp frees the cop from the tangled reins allowing him to fall free and then goes after the stampeding steed. But WM lands on its back and brings it to a halt.They both congratulate each other on a job well done and Wondie signs some autographs. Then he asks Wasp if they could go somewhere to get to know each other better. She agrees as long as it's as teammates not a date. But when they get to the riverside he electronically signals a craft to rise from the water and pulls a gun on her (and stops curbing his chauvinistic attitude). He tells her that the Masters Of Evil want her but she blasts him with her sting and keeps blasting till he goes down. However he's playing possum until she gets close enough for another sonic boom to KO her. And he loads her into his craft.


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No good deed goes unpunished
The 1st story reprints Avengers #2 which ends with angry Hulk quitting and leaping off.2nd story:- No good deed goes unpunishedThis story continues from there. Hulk complains to himself that he helped the team defeat Loki and then the Space Phantom but still they didn't trust him. He decides that if everybody treats him like a monster then that's what he'll *be*. He takes his frustration out by smashing up a road but doesn't notice the car that runs into him from behind. The woman inside screams in fear as he rips her door off. He's sick of everyone being afraid of him and figures he should just smash everyone like that. He prepares to kill her.Bruce Banner wakes in a jail cell and he's covered in blood. They give him some clean clothes and send the blood-soaked remains of his Hulk 'shorts' off for analysis. Then 2 detectives interview him in the usual good cop/bad cop way. They give him the glasses they found wrapped in bubble-wrap in his pocket, which they interpret as him often going on drunken binges. Bruce says his name's Bob, and doesn't volunteer a surname. They tell him they're murder squad but the only evidence they have of a crime is *his* blood-covered near-naked body. They offer him a coffee but he declines because he says caffeine is dangerous. The cops tell him to confess. 'Bob' says he doesn't remember what happened, but when they talk about the man they think he killed he corrects them that it was a woman. And then breaks down to say he didn't mean to do it.But then he says his memory's returned and we then see what happened as he describes it. He *was* about to kill her but he didn't because he saw that she was pregnant. She apologised for running into him but she was desperately speeding to get to the hospital before she gave birth. But now it was too late and 'Bob' (Hulk) helped her birth the child. And then he got her to hospital.The detectives get the lab report which confirms that the blood is amniotic fluid. They also hear from the hospital that a woman with a new baby tells the same story. (But strangely no large green person is mentioned, nor details of how he got her to hospital.) So the cops set him free. But Banner knows he'll never be free of the Hulk, and eventually he *will* kill someone.


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Stings
The 1st story reprints Avengers #6 which introduced Baron Zemo and his Masters Of Evil.Story 2:- StingsJanet Van Dyne drives her sports car out into the country to vent her frustration at being patronised by male Avengers. It's even undermining her own self-confidence. When she gets out to let out a primal scream she hears a speeding car swerving to avoid hers and crashing.She rushes back to the scene and sees that the vehicle is riddled with bullet holes with a bleeding semi-conscious young man inside with bags of money (conveniently labelled with big dollar signs). A teen girl with a gun catches Jan by surprise and forces her to help move the man into her own car and drive them away.Jan gets the girl to tell her her name, Lorna, and tries to persuade her to let her take the youth to hospital. She can tell that he's bleeding into his lungs and will die of it. Lorna just tells her to drive faster as they hear cop cars behind them. She relates her sob story about growing up poor in a trailer and how she won't let her boyfriend Chris go back to jail. She's desperate enough to kill Jan and drive the car herself.Meanwhile Jan has managed to get out a handy shrinking capsule which she swallows and turns Wasp. Lorna now *has* to take over the steering and winds up driving the car off the road again and to a halt. Wasp KO's her with a sting blast to the ear as the cop cars approach, Then she desperately flies down Chris' throat and uses another blast to cauterise the bleeding bullet hole. As she flies out again she sees Lorna awake and holding off the armed cops with her gun. Of course she winds up dead.Little Jan sneaked into the trunk of her car and enlarged, pretending to have been held hostage in there. The cops took her (false) statement and an ambulance took Chris away. Later she found boyfriend/partner Henry Pym at his science work and he comforted her.


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Into the great wide open
The main story in this issue is a reprint of Avengers #12 where Mole Man and his Moloids teamed up with Red Ghost (without his Super-Apes) to threaten life on the surface. The 2 extra tales here are adventures of some little Moloids.Story 2:- Into the great wide openEarly in Av#12 Mole Man sent some Moloids to attack the Avengers. When their attack failed the Moloids generated a mist to cover their escape from Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Wasp and Rick Jones (Giant-Man had already been captured). This tale tells us where they went.They escape through an air vent into the wilds of Manhattan. There are 7 of them but 1 gets hit by traffic and 2 are savaged by guard dogs in a junk yard. The other 4 are shot at by 2 boys. 1 stops running to create mist to cover their escape but is fatally wounded in the process. Under cover of the mist his companions drag him away but he dies.The remaining 3 debate whether to go back underground or stay to sample the delights that TV broadcasts had told them existed on the surface world. They find an unfinished carton of cola which they presumably share, and then catch a rat and roast it. But the little Moloids still wind up staring hungrily through the window of a restaurant until the waiter shoos them off with a broom despite a woman from a nearby shop telling him to leave the 'kids' alone.This inspires the Moloids to try to befriend her. They get hold of a long coat, hat and boots and do the trick of sitting on each other's shoulders pretending to be 1 tall man. They enter her shop and give her a flower they picked earlier. She tries to talk with this tall handsome stranger but can't understand what he says, so she assumes he's Canadian. But still she arranges to go dancing with him at 8 o'clock.They meet up and go to a bar where we learn her name's Annie as she warns her friend Gladys off her man. After some alcohol which the Moloids aren't used to (and which Annie has to pay for) they take vigorously to the dance floor watched by Gladys and Annie's jealous boyfriend Elmore. The Moloid-man's moves wow the crowd (because being 3 Moloids allows them to contort their 'body' in ways a human couldn't). Annie thinks Gladys is ogling her man and picks a fight. Elmore leaps in to 'save' Annie from the stranger, who/which breaks up into the 3 Moloids who leg it. Later they recuperate from their adventure by watching a portable TV they found earlier.Story 3:- The Mole Man of the AntsWriter Brian Pratchett. Artist Sergio Arigones. Colours Javier Rodriguez.Moloids are busy toiling away at tasks set them by Mole Man. 1 with a broom accidentally switches on a device, at the same time snapping his broom in 2 leaving him with a sharp pointed handle. Then the device shrinks him and his handle to ant-size where he's menaced by a spider which he accidentally stabs to death with the sharp stick.Watching ants think him a super-hero and make him their king, deposing their queen. The king then sets them to work on tasks like Mole Man did while they pander to his every whim. But eventually his advisors tell him that in the absence of the queen her eggs have all gone off (and of course there are no new ones). The smell is killing the ants (and of course their ranks aren't being refilled). They are now in drunken revolt and they turn on him and stone him until he runs away.He gets away but collapses exhausted. Where 1 of his full-size compatriots finds his body and eats him as a snack.


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Blues in the night
The 1st story reprints Avengers #4 which brought Captain America out of suspended animation.Story 2:- Blues in the nightThe resurrected Captain America foils a bank robbery. Iron Man turns up late and we learn that Cap is rooming in Tony Stark's townhouse (Avengers Mansion?) and Stark is refusing rent because of his wartime service to his country. Steve Rogers of course feels honour-bound to get a job and pay his way.Gabe Jones joins them and says there are doubts about Cap's authenticity. Cap immediately recognises the ex-Howling Commando, who now works for Military Intelligence on loan to the Treasury Dept. Jones takes him to a Government lab where his dental records and fingerprints are checked, and a blood test confirms his DNA and the presence of the Super-Soldier Serum.Now convinced of Steve's bona fides Gabe presents him with his GI back pay and his identification documents, and tells him that he'll continue to get a soldier's pay.  He also takes Steve to a warehouse where his effects have been stored, including his original triangular shield. Steve is most glad to get his extensive record collection back. He also finds the book "A tree grows in Brooklyn" which Bucky lent him to read even though he hadn't yet finished it himself. And Cap recalls that Bucky died before he got round to it.Jones says the Government will call on Cap's services from time to time. And Steve goes 'home' to read the book and listen to Woody Herman's "Blues in the night".


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Love is a battlefield
The main story reprints Avengers #8 which introduced Kang The Conqueror.Story 2:- Love is a battlefieldRick Jones recalls and acts on Captain America's combat advice throughout this story.He's hanging out with his pal Paulie who's urging him to pluck up the courage to ask Irene for a date. Rick does it and is astounded when she agrees. That weekend he takes her to a movie and then a friend of hers invites them to a party at Jamie's big house while his parents are away. The pair go there on Rick's motorbike. Jock Jamie is glad to see Irene but not so keen on letting Rick in, ribbing him about being a radio ham.Later in the evening the pair go out on a balcony. Rick lends Irene his jacket and tells her he was an orphan. He tells her he likes her a lot and she agrees to a kiss. But then drunk (and obviously jealous) Jamie interrupts them spoiling for a fight. Rick obliges him and easily defeats him with the moves Cap taught him. But he goes too far and Irene's sympathies switch to the fallen bully. She tells Rick to go and she never wants to see him again.


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The wolf and the other
The 1st story reprints Avengers #5 where Hulk helped the team against an invasion of Lava Men.Story 2:- The wolf and the otherIn a Veterans Care Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, Mr Maucieri sees a TV report on the Avengers/Hulk/Lava Men clash and the sight of Captain America takes him back to Bastogne, Belgium in 1944.We see him as a GI covered in blood running through a wintery forest. He comes across Cap and Bucky leading another troop and tells them that a giant wolf has massacred everybody and they must run away from it. The soldiers don't know whether he's insane or a coward, but Cap persuades him to lead them back to the 'fight'. And they find soldiers, US and German alike, slaughtered.Cap is now willing to listen to what happened. Maucieri says they were in the middle of a minor skirmish with a German patrol when the big black wolf attacked them and started killing both sides. The GI admits he ran as soon as he saw it, which must make him a coward. The soldiers still don't believe him ...... until the giant wolf attacks *them* and kills 2 men immediately. Maucieri cowers in fear. Bucky fires his sub-machine gun and Cap throws his shield then fires his pistol but the wolf keeps killing. Then Maucieri rises up to face his fear and attacks with his gun but the wolf gets him by the legs in its jaws.Suddenly there's lightning and Thor appears. The Americans can't understand what he's saying (but we get given a handy translation). He addresses the beast as Fenris Wolf who he suspects has been freed on Midgard by Loki. The 2 engage in single combat until Thor beats the Wolf and muzzles him and takes him off to Asgard.Maucieri is still alive but his bloody legs are mangled. Cap assures him he's *not* a coward.And in the present we see him in a wheelchair with his legs missing from the knees.


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Some assembly required
The 1st story reprints Avengers #1 - The coming of the Avengers.2nd story - Some assembly requiredIron Man, in his bulky yellow armour, has convened the 2nd monthly meeting of the Avengers in the Stark family Mansion now Avengers Mansion. (The inaugural meeting is described at the end of the Avengers: The Origin mini-series.) He asks everyone to take their seats. Surly Hulk says he'll sit when he *wants* to. Thor says IM was just being hospitable but he himself is ready to enforce the rules. Wasp flirts with the Thunder God. IM tries to start the meeting but Hulk asks if Thor was *threatening* him. Thor retorts that Hulk didn't have the brains to recognise a threat. Hulk picks up the heavy meeting table to throw at him. Insect-sized Ant-Man and Wasp intervene to calm them both down, Wasp by flirting with them both simultaneously. Thor offers a truce if Hulk puts the table down.AM&W de-shrink to human-size. Hulk flirts back at Wasp. Ant-Man calls him on what he says and Hulk brazenly admits to a double entendre. AM asks for an apology and Hulk asks him what he's going to do about it "Ruin my Picnic?". Iron Man tries again to call the meeting to order but Wasp is too busy asking Ant-Man (they like the others are keeping their identities secret) if he's jealous, and suggests maybe he should asks her on a date. Hulk butts in to say "I you don't, I will". IM again bangs his gavel. Thor demands that the warriors respect the secretary and smashes the table with Mjolnir. Iron Man mutters about the cost of the purpose-built hi-tech object. Thor apologises but IM says his 'boss' Tony Stark will pay for it (that secret id stuff again).But now he points out he's *not* the secretary of the meeting he's the chairman. The other males contest his claim to the role. Ant-Man points out that he's got 9 graduate degrees. Thor says being Prince of Asgard makes him the natural leader. Hulk just says he's Hulk, and Iron Man's only Tony Stark's bodyguard. IM says he'll beat him up, and Hulk tells Thor *that's* how to threaten someone. Henry Pym complains to Janet Van Dyne that he could just *invent* something to make him as powerful as any of them (and before next issue he'll have turned himself into Giant-Man). Hulk tries to attack IM who holds him at bay with his repulsor rays.Thor breaks the fight up and suggests a contest of power, and they end up arm-wrestling. The place is a wreck so they hastily assemble some ordinary tables and chairs for the contests. Hulk easily beats human-size Ant-Man, but Iron Man and Thor are equally matched and there isn't time to wait to see if IM's batteries run out before the Thunder God gets tired. Hulk claims victory but Wasp has a suggestion, and Ant-Man condescendingly suggests they listen because she sometimes has good ideas, She points out that none of the men want to take orders from any of the others so why not make *her* air-quotes chairman. She's just a girl so it won't really count. They agree as long she doesn't tell anyone. So she takes the gavel and taps it on an ordinary table while 'secretary' Iron Man reads the minutes of the previous meeting.3rd story - The real origin of the AvengersScript Stan Lee. Pencils/inks Kevin Maguire. Colours Chris Sotomayor. Letters Rus Wooton.Stan Lee tells us how the Avengers *really* became a team.He goes to congratulate them on their victory over Loki. The males each claim that *they* were the 1 who won the day. Stan points out that they were just following *his* script but Wasp claims it was Jack Kirby's drawings that made it work. However she and Ant-Man claim that they're drawn too small to be noticed. Hulk says Lee only shows up *after* the fighting. Stan says he didn't want to steal their thunder, which annoys Thor until Iron Man tells him it was only a figure of speech. IM takes his helmet off to polish it (because Stan and the others *really* know that he's Tony Stark).Stan says he's got a great idea  but the others aren't impressed. They don't like how he made it seem that it needed all 5 of them to defeat Loki. Thor complains that he was given fewer lines than his brother Loki. Hulk complains that he's not got a costume other than purple underpants. Stark asks Stan to hurry up and tell them his idea because he's got a hot date, but also grumbles about having to walk around in this heavy, sweaty iron overcoat. Jan's in a hurry too because of a manicure appointment.Stan says this idea will affect her whole career. She assumes he'll use his Hollywood contacts to put her in a movie. Or even make her the star. Stan says it's better than that, and will affect them all. Hulk says Stan will have to talk to his agent, which he doesn't have. Tony thinks his looks make *him* the shoo-in for the star. Jan goes diva and starts listing her demands. Thor wants *his* name above the title of the film.Stan deflates them all by telling his idea has nothing to do with films. He wants to turn them into a permanent super-team. Hulk says he doesn't *like* football. Ant-Man worries about getting accidentally stepped on. Thor says a god doesn't team-up with mortals. Stark says he's too rich and powerful to need teammates. Jan's off to the beauty parlour. Stan promises to write all the stories for them, which again doesn't impress. Hulk complains that Stan always makes him sound stupid until Lee points out that he *is*. He promises to make them as famous as the Howling Commandos, and dismisses Stark's comment that the Howlers aren't superheroes. Thor accuses him of taking a bribe from Nick Fury for that plug. Stan throws away the souvenir grenade that Nick gave him, which explodes. Wasp is *definitely* leaving now until Stan says she'll meet dreamy Captain America. Now she's all for the idea, but Hank Pym fumes. And it doesn't sway the other males.Then Stan does the only thing which makes them all sign the team contract. He offers them royalties on every issue sold (and this sways Tony Stark?!). Wasp, Ant-Man and Hulk hold out for money from toys, games and cartoons. Hank says he'll be able to afford a saddle for the winged ant he rides. Thor will spend it on a haircut. Then Stan suggests the name 'The Avengers' and nobody can be bothered to argue.Now Stan tells us that's what *really* happened. He promises sometime to tell us how he persuaded Loki to join the X-Men.


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Unrung
The main story in this issue reprints Avengers #10 which introduced Immortus who promised to defeat 1 (or all) of the Avengers for the Masters Of Evil. As part of his scheme he kidnapped Rick Jones into the past and disposed of Captain America by sending to rescue Rick. The new backup story expands on that part of the tale.Story 2:- UnrungThe story begins with Immortus explaining the above. Rick is in a cell the Tower Of London with a man named Luther who has caught a rat for his final meal before being executed. He offers to share with Rick who politely declines. Luther tells the teen that it's useless trying to escape from the White Tower, but Rick says his friend Captain America will rescue him. And he'll free Luther too, but after long years imprisoned the man is ready to welcome death.Through the barred window Rick sees Cap appear in the courtyard below. Immortus is there too and promises that if Cap rescues Rick then he will return them both to their proper time. But he also sends a bunch of hulking minions to bar his way. The Star-Spangled Avenger wades through them with his shield and martial arts and soon crashes through the wooden door of Rick's cell. He leads his young friend out but Luther won't follow them.They locate Immortus and demand to be sent home. The villain says he would oblige but they're not free yet. 1 of his minions holds a crossbow to Rick's head and tells them both to get back in a cell. But Luther has plucked up his courage and followed them. And now he KOs the man with a lighted sconce.Now Immortus sends the pair back to the future because he's a man of his word (or because Cap has him by the throat). And Luther now revels in his new freedom. He walks out of the prison and brazenly down the street.Meanwhile as in the main story Cap and Rick emerge in the middle of the battle between the Avengers and the Masters Of Evil. Enchantress decides to cut their losses by casting a spell that takes them back to when Immortus 1st mentally contacted her, and this time she doesn't make the mistake of responding.The consequences of her choice ripple through time and we see Luther in his cell with the rat. This time he gets hung the next day.


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Unrung
The main story in this issue reprints Avengers #11 where Kang sent a robot Spider-Man against the Avengers and the real deal helped them defeat it.Story 2:- Along came a spiderSpider-Man is fighting Electro on a rooftop when he sprains his ankle. Captain America intervenes with his shield and a water tower full of water. And then the heroes talk.Cap correctly deduces the facts of Spidey's life. He's a teenage misfit living at home. He's fully masked to protect his identity for his family's sake, so he's a man of honour. The mask also allows him to act and speak unlike his civilian id. He uses humour to rattle his opponents. He's a science nerd who made his own web-shooters and web fluid. He's a good fighter but relies too much on speed - the impatience of youth. Spidey counters that Cap was probably a rich kid whose parents were shot in an alley (Batman anybody?). Or maybe he's here to earn the Daily Bugle's reward for his capture. Cap says if that were true Spidey would be caught already.Verbal sparring over they settle down for a real chat. Spidey admits to hero-worship, and Cap admits he's been getting a lot of that. It's just 1 of the many things he's had to get used to after decades frozen in ice. Spidey counters that the US was only able to go through these changes because Cap helped defeat the Nazis. Cap tells him he assumes he's not the villain some paint him and asks for Spidey's side of things. SM says he just wanted to fight crime like him. Cap replies that he's a soldier not a crime-fighter, but his current assignment is on home soil. He volunteered to become CA, but he guesses SM didn't ask for his powers. He compares Spidey and Johnny Storm to new recruits in WWII, not fully realising that some of them would get killed. Spidey says he lost someone close to him early in his career (Uncle Ben of course) so he knows the risks.Cap's last question is whether he's doing it all to protect the public or impress some girl in High School? Spidey says he'd have to do a lot more than this to get any girl in school to look at him. Cap says he believes him and they shake hands. Cap also says that he'll have Spidey's back whenever he needs it. But if he breaks this trust then he'll take him down. Spidey celebrates by shouting defiance at J Jonah Jameson and the Bugle. He says he fails more often than he succeeds. Cap says it's not easy when you're starting out. Spidey says his dumbest move was to get paid for a TV appearance with a cheque made out to Spider-Man (way back in Amazing Fantasy #15), which gets a smile out of Cap. Who shares that Iron Man has roller skates in his boots.Spidey webs 2 hot dogs from a stall and then sends payment down with another webline. As they eat he asks how come we can hear what Wasp says at bug-size. Cap says it's an Avengers secret, so Spidey resigns himself to never finding out. Cap asks why he doesn't think he's Avengers material and Spidey laughs it off, but Cap tells him not to rule it out. (And of course SM will have several stints on the team.)Then really big Giant-Man peers over the parapet of the roof to call Cap to action because the Enchantress has returned and hypnotised Hulk into thinking the Avengers are his enemies. He's just hit Thor with a bus. SM offers to help but Cap says she's too dangerous and Giant-Man says they can talk later about possible membership. Spidey responds by wondering why GM's voice isn't deafening when he's *this* big, but GM has already shrunk down to a more typical Giant-Man size. So Peter Parker contents himself with watching the battle and urging Iron Man to use the roller skates.


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Dimension 6.5
Th main story reprints Avengers #7 where Baron Zemo recruits his 2nd Masters Of Evil - the Asgardian Enchantress and Executioner. It ends with Thor banishing the 3 to another dimension.Story 2:- Dimension 6.5In a fractured space between Dimensions 6 & 7 the Vertiplasm (a kind of cosmic jellyfish) drifts alone until Thor's space warp delivers Zemo's flying craft to it. The being's tentacles grab this new thing and try to absorb it.Inside the Executioner is angry that the Enchantress speaks admiringly of Thor. Baron Zemo urges 1 of them to do something (but obviously can't think of anything himself). Amora tries a spell which fails because the alien's primitive but powerful mind is too disruptive. So Skurge says he'll go outside to fight the thing. Amora points out that this alien environment might kill him, but he answers that he would do anything for *her*. We just hear Enchantress think that she'd rather have Thor's love. Zemo provides him with a lifeline but annoys the Asgardian by telling him in great detail what to do.Executioner exits the craft and starts ripping apart tentacles. Inside Amora decides to use her whiles to get the Baron under her control. While he struggles to bypass the damage that Captain America's shield did to the craft she sucks up to him. Skurge sees them through the viewport and it fuels his anger so that he breaks free of the tentacles that have ensnared *him* and then rips the craft free. Zemo immediately fires the thrusters and  they move away with Executioner in tow.Skurge gets back into the craft to find the other 2 on cosy terms. Amora immediately switches to hugging Skurge and praising his prowess, while ignoring whatever Zemo is saying. Executioner advises him to shut up and get them out of here. The Baron thinks they're far enough away from the beast for Enchantress to use her magic (while thinking that he'll ditch this unmanageable pair as soon as possible). Amora manages to magic them out of the dimension.The Vertiplasm is glad to be rid of the troublesome interlopers but it's lonely again.


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The Destiny War

The battle lines are drawn for the Destiny War. The 3 Time-Keepers and Immortus want to wipe out most timelines containing humanity. Rick Jones, Kang, the Kree Supreme Intelligence and 7 Avengers plucked from various times want to stop them. Kang also wants to avoid turning into Immortus. No-one really knows the Kree Supremor's motive. Meanwhile Libra, earlier an ally on the Avengers side, is watching the proceedings in the interest of Cosmic Balance.
Libra unconvincingly guesses why the Cosmic Balance made him guide Rick Jones into picking these particular 7 Avengers.
Rick Jones, Kang and the Supremor are riding a souped-up dune buggy. Rick is driving, Kang is shooting, and Supremor acts as an on-board computer.
Time-Keepers and Immortus retreat to the Citadel at the End of Time, where the Time-Keepers were born. Yellowjacket uses Limbo insects to lead his side after them.
Time-Keepers want Immortus's Forever Crystal, generated from the collapse of Chronopolis in #3, to power a chrono-cannon to destroy the relevant timelines in one go. Immortus gets cold feet, because he has always protected the Avengers and humanity by toning down the worst the Time-Keepers wanted to do. So they kill him.
To protect themselves while the chrono-cannon warms up, Time-Keepers bring in various evil versions of Avengers. Libra decides to get off the fence, and reactivates Rick Jones's Destiny Force. It spreads to the 7 good Avengers, except Captain Marvel who isn't human, enabling them to fight against superior odds.
Time-Keepers turn Libra into a weapon to ramp up Rick Jones's Destiny Force. It freezes most of the combatants, as it did to end the Kree-Skrull War.
Kang is left to face Time-Keepers alone. They try to force him to become Immortus.
Captain Marvel's non-humanity enables him to fight the Destiny Force freeze, enough to clash his Nega-Bands together. Amazingly this swaps him for an older version of Rick Jones, with a beard, a scarred face, a missing arm and the Nega-Bands (one of them hanging from his belt), and wearing the Eye of Agamotto, Falcon's boots, and what looks like Batman's utility belt and the remains of Superman's cape.
Old Rick says he and young Rick can't access Destiny Force alone, but together they might. They materialise a horde of good Avengers from various timelines.


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City at the Heart of Forever
Seven Avengers (Captain America, Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell), Giant-Man, Hawkeye, Songbird, Wasp and Yellowjacket) from various times, including alternate futures, have been brought together to guard Rick Jones, with the help of ex-villain Libra of the original Zodiac. They are protecting Rick from Immortus, and Kang is also on their side. They have just arrived for refuge at Kang's city of Chronopolis, to find it under devastating attack by the forces of Immortus.They are mistakenly attacked by Wildrun of Kang's Anachronauts, who reports that Kang's lover Terminatrix is dead. The other Anachronauts have been reduced to fading temporal shadows. Wildrun takes them to Kang, who is supervising the installation of a working replica of the Sphinx time machine he used as Rama-Tut.Wasp asks Kang how come Immortus is active when as far as the current Avengers know he was trapped in stasis by the Time-Keepers in Avengers West Coast #62. Kang dismisses this as either temporary or an example of Immortus lying, and the Time-Keepers as irrelevant.Immortus is laying siege to Chronopolis to get the Heart of Forever, which enables Chronopolis to exist in all alternate realities (as opposed to Immortus's home Limbo which exists outside of them), as well as existing in all times as mentioned in the previous issue. Kang reminds the Avengers that when you go back in time to stop something bad from happening, you don't actually stop it. You merely create a new alternate reality in which it doesn't happen, and return to the present of that new reality. The old reality continues unchanged. The Heart of Forever would give Immortus the power to actually delete timelines.Now that Immortus failed to stop Rick Jones from reawakening his Human Evolutionary Potential (in #1), he wants the Heart of Forever to destroy that particular timeline.Kang immediately contradicts himself when he says that Immortus has already been pruning the tree of alternate realities (e.g. in Avengers West Coast #59 when he wiped out a reality in which several Avengers had died). Immortus wants the timelines to be tidy and constrained, while Kang wants a wild jungle, if only because it gives him more to conquer. This contradiction will be revealed in a later issue to be not a hole in the plot, but one of those confusing time-travel things.The love-triangle between Giant-Man, Wasp and Yellowjacket simmers. In Avengers #59 Goliath (as Giant-Man then was) created the split personality Yellowjacket, who deluded himself that he killed Henry Pym/Goliath, perceiving him as a rival for Wasp. As Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes vol 2 #5-6 made clear, Wasp and the other Avengers knew the truth, but didn't want to push him further over the edge. Yellowjacket is not pleased that Giant-Man is still alive and in a relationship with Wasp, when in his own timeline Yellowjacket is about to marry her. Leader-by-default Wasp avoids the subject because she wants to keep the team from fracturing. She carefully stops herself from addressing Giant-Man as Hank, possibly so as not to confirm that he is the man Yellowjacket thinks he has killed. And Yellowjacket isn't happy about the self-reliant woman she has become.Meanwhile Hawkeye and Songbird share a moment. The past Hawkeye has never heard of Songbird, but the future Songbird benefits from the training the current Hawkeye is giving her and the other Thunderbolts.Kang's technicians give Hawkeye a high-tech bow and arrows, unfortunately too powerful to easily use humanely against Immortus's warrior hordes. Even in the midst of a war the Avengers stick to their no-killing policy. Kang's technicians also give crippled Rick a battle-chair, but when it is overturned in battle, Rick manages to reactivate his power enough to heal his legs.Despite the Avengers' help Chronopolis is overwhelmed, Tempus (revived from his 'death' in #1) captures Kang, and Immortus gains the Heart of Forever. He transforms it and the whole of Chronopolis into the Forever Crystal, apparently killing Tempus (again) and Kang. But Libra has led Rick and the Avengers to safety in the Time-Sphinx.


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In the meantime, the in-between times ...
Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) and Wasp have just escaped in one of Kang's chronospheres from the alternate timeline of the 1950's Avengers as it was destroyed by Immortus. Captain America and Giant-Man are in an alternate future war against 'Martians'. Hawkeye, Songbird and Yellowjacket are stuck in 1873 Tombstone in the main Marvel timeline. These seven Avengers have been plucked from various times to protect Rick Jones from Immortus.Rick is safely hidden outside of time in Kang's time-Sphinx, monitoring the situation and keeping in touch with the 3 teams. Captain Marvel and Wasp's escape from the collapsing timeline triggers a cascade of images of Immortus on the Sphinx's viewscreens.Captain America and Giant-Man have just helped the last remaining Avengers (Black Panther, Crimson Dynamo, Jocasta, Killraven, Living Lightning and Thundra) drive the 'Martians' off Earth (although it seemed a rather localised battle last issue). They now want to pursue them to their nests on Mars. The only usable space technology left on Earth is to construct spaceships from the remains of Wakanda's vibranium mound.The synthezoid Jocasta is pregnant (the father is the now-dead Machine Man). It turns out that her baby needs the presence of vibranium for a successful birth. They also meet Mourning Prey and her insectoid children who need the vibranium to survive. From Mourning Prey's description we understand that Immortus had a hand in her situation. And one of the images Rick sees is of Immortus marrying Jocasta and Machine Man.Captain America persuades Black Panther to use the vibranium to support life rather than pursue death for the 'Martians'. Then he and Giant-Man leave in their chronosphere.Hawkeye, Songbird and Yellowjacket have lost their chronosphere, but they have found some Space Phantoms impersonating Western heroes. They are on the periphery of the buildup to a known Avengers adventure helping real Western heroes Kid Colt, Night Rider, Rawhide Kid, Ringo Kid and Two-Gun Kid against Kang. Because our Avengers know the other Avengers will win, they just want to avoid messing with the timestream and find a way home.Songbird leads Hawkeye and Yellowjacket into Kang's revealed citadel and finds them a chronosphere. But Yellowjacket is suspicious of Songbird's too-detailed knowledge of the citadel. It turns out she is another Space Phantom (since partway through this issue), and when he drops his disguise the real Songbird returns from Limbo. It appears the Space Phantom was going to take them to Immortus, but instead they use the chronosphere to return to the Sphinx.Meanwhile in the Sphinx Rick has recorded the images of Immortus. One of them shows him openly carrying the Forever Crystal which he constructed in #3 from Kang's city Chronopolis, and which now allows him to destroy timelines. It is unclear whether the other images are also of Immortus in his current state, but they may in any case show him carrying out part of an overall plan.They show him officiating at the aforementioned marriage of Jocasta and Machine Man, but also at the joint marriages of Scarlet Witch/Vision and Cotati Swordsman/Mantis in Giant-Size Avengers #4. He is seen in Thor #282 where Thor sacrificed the time-travel capability of his hammer to save the planet of the Space Phantom. But he is also seen in places where he was not known to be:- at the meeting of Dr Doom and Rama-Tut in Fantastic Four Annual #2, and when Vance Astro of the Guardians of the Galaxy met his teen self in Marvel Two-In-One #69. There is also a meeting with the Badoon ruler, and a meeting with a Space Phantom and the Grim Reaper from around Avengers #107 when they erased the world's memory of Captain America's identity as Steve Rogers. And a mysterious image with Immortus, the Forever Crystal, a Human Torch and a body.The Avengers decide to take the fight to Immortus in Limbo. But Rick Jones is worried, as is Captain Marvel who seems to know more about what is going to happen than the others do.


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Avengers Assemble

Hordes of good and bad versions of Avengers battle it out in the Citadel at the End of Time. The bad Avengers have been summoned thorugh time from alternate realities by the 3 Time-Keepers. The good Avengers have beem similarly brought here by 2 versions of Rick Jones using the Destiny Force. The Rick Jones's also use the power of the Destiny Force to enhance the good Avengers. Unfortunately the alternate future Jonz Rickard is doing the same for the evil Avengers.
The good Avengers are trying to stop the Time-Keepers from activating a chrono-cannon which will wipe out most timelines containing humanity. The Time-Keepers want to prevent humanity from overrunning the galaxy and beyond, and preserve the timelines that lead to their own creation at the end of time.
Meanwhile the Time-Keepers are also trying to evolve their enemy Kang into their pawn Immortus. They killed the actual Immortus last issue when he rebelled against them. Libra knows that the Cosmic Balance requires both Kang and Immortus to exist.
The older of the 2 Rick Joneses uses his Nega-Bands to swap back with the future Captain Marvel. Marvel has been trying to avoid something during this limited series, but now he is resigned to it.
Kang manages to halt his transformation into Immortus, and rejoins the fray.
Time-Keepers fire the chrono-cannon. But Rick Jones draws all the Destiny Force into himself (from evil Avengers as well as good ones?) and dives into the cannon as it fires, destroying it. Kang kills the Time-Keepers.
The destruction of the chrono-cannon leaves behind its power source the Forever Crystal. The Crystal is capable of destroying timelines, and creating others. Kang wants it, but Captain America picks it up. Cap is tempted by all the bad events in the past he could use it to put right. But he resists and destroys it.
At this point all the Avengers disappear except the original 7 brought from various times by Rick Jones in #1.
When Kang stopped becoming Immortus he actually split off a baby Immortus, who has now rapidly grown to an adult, but still much younger than the original. The new Immortus has the old Immortus's memories, which is strange because he has just been born from Kang. He says the Crystal isn't destroyed, just gone to Limbo to await its destiny.
Libra says that Kang and Immortus have been split into separate beings, as Immortus used the Forever Crystal to split the original Human Torch into 2 beings, as seen in #8, one of which could go on to become the Vision. Kang is no longer bound by his fate to become Immortus. The new Immortus leaves to follow his own fate. Kang goes too.
Rick Jones is dying due to the explosion of the chrono-cannon. Future Captain Marvel accepts his fate, says goodbye to his future love Songbird, and persuades the Kree Intelligence Supreme to help him merge with Rick, as the original Captain Marvel once did.
Libra sends Avengers, Rick and Supremor back to their lives. The Avengers from the past won't remember what happened. Yellowjacket returns to his wedding to Wasp in Avengers #60, Hawkeye to Hercules and his phone call home in Avengers #99, Captain America to the death of Number One of the Secret Empire in Captain America #175. Those from the present and future will remember to some extent. Songbird returns to the future. Rick Jones, Giant-Man and Wasp return to the present between Avengers v3 #11 and 13.
Rick Jones discovers he can swap places with Captain Marvel via the Nega-Bands. But the Captain Marvel he swaps with is the younger then-current version. However this version suddenly takes on the hairstyle, skin colour and costume of the future version, and gains his father's cosmic awareness.
Meanwhile Libra leaves the Kree Supremor back in the Blue Area of the Moon. But after he has gone, Supremor calls the Forever Crystal to him.


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The Secret History of the Avengers
Six Avengers plucked from various times (Captain America, Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell), Giant-Man, Hawkeye, Songbird and Wasp) escaped from Immortus's castle in Limbo, leaving a 7th Avenger Yellowjacket behind, and all they have to show for it is a synchro-stick. Returning to the time-Sphinx they got from Kang to keep Rick Jones hidden from Immortus, they found Rick had left in a chronosphere. And they don't know that Yellowjacket has made a deal with Immortus.
Immortus previously used synchro-sticks to show Avengers parts of history. Hawkeye tries to make the stick talk to him. But when he gets rough with it, it reveals itself to be a Space Phantom. As were the previous versions. Space Phantom's power to replace people won't work outside time in the Sphinx, so he's trapped. It turns out this was the first Space Phantom that Avengers met, in Avengers #2. For some reason he is Immortus's favourite. They persuade him to tell them all about Space Phantoms and Immortus, which takes up the majority of this issue.
I have included lots of background information directly into this description, for 2 reasons. They are more integral to the story than in earlier issues. And if I had relegated them to the Notes section, the Notes would have been bigger than the main description.
Phantom explains that beings who get trapped in Limbo slowly forget their previous existence and turn into Space Phantoms. They can't escape from Limbo, except when Immortus sends them on missions, mind-controlled to believe whatever cover story he has told them. Captain Marvel uses his cosmic awareness to check that this Phantom isn't mind-controlled in this way.
The planet Phantus, home of this Space Phantom, was an illusion generated by Immortus in Thor #281-282. It was part of a scheme to get Thor to deplete the time-travelling power of his hammer Mjolnir, thus depriving the Avengers of a handy method of time-travel. This was part of Immortus's overall plan to keep Avengers under control.
Soon after Kang became Immortus and settled in Limbo to study the multiverse, he was recruited by the 3 Time-Keepers to safeguard 7 millenia of the timestream. One of the things they wanted him to do was destroy the Avengers, at least as a group. In Avengers #2 he sent this Space Phantom to turn the Avengers against each other, mind-controlled to believe he was the advance scout for an alien invasion. Then in Avengers #10 he allied with the Masters of Evil, sending Phantoms disguised as Merlin, Hercules and the biblical Goliath against the Avengers. When the plan failed, Enchantress reversed time back to before the Masters of Evil met Immortus, and sent the main Marvel universe down an alternative timeline when they turned his alliance down. Which is why Avengers don't remember this adventure.
At this point Immortus took a shine to Avengers and persuaded Time-Keepers to let them remain together as long as he kept them in check. However the Time-Keepers didn't like the way Avengers intervened in the Kree-Skrull War in Avengers #89-97, especially the way Rick Jones manifested the Destiny Force (what the Kree Supreme Intelligence called the Human Evolutionary Potential in #1). They showed him how this would allow humans to spread through the galaxies, either as conquerors or by outcompeting other races, sometimes resulting in galactic destruction. Immortus strook a new bargain with them, to keep humans confined to Earth. The alternative is to destroy humanity completely.
This was what he was doing in 2 alternate realities visited by the 7 Avengers in #4-6:- manipulating the survivors of the future War of the Worlds so they wouldn't pursue the 'Martians' into space; deleting a timeline where the exposure of a Skrull impersonating Richard Nixon would lead to xenophobic assault on alien races. But he couldn't achieve this 2nd effect before gaining the Forever Crystal in #3, nor the 1st effect without leaving undesirable alternate timelines.
As well as Rick Jones, the Time-Keepers were also worried about possible powerful children of Scarlet Witch. Immortus conceived of a scheme to prevent such children by arranging a barren marriage for her with Vision. Vision was already attracted to the Witch. Immortus led up to it with a plan to bolster Vision's self-confidence to do something about it.
He sent Space Phantom to work with Grim Reaper in Avengers #106-108 to tempt Vision with Captain America's body. We are now told this was designed to make Vision realise he didn't need a human body to be human. Then in the saga that ran from Avengers #131 to Giant-Size Avengers #4 Immortus gave Vision a past by showing him he was the Human Torch, and officiated at the marriage of Vision and Scarlet Witch.
But the Witch frustrated Immortus's plan by magically giving birth to twins in Vision & Scarlet Witch v2 #12. Unknown to her they were actually fragments of Mephisto's soul, which Mephisto sent Master Pandemonium to reclaim. However the Witch's bond with her children was too strong, so Immortus decided to weaken it by destroying her link to Vision. He arranged for the US government to dismantle Vision and rebuild him as an emotionless machine in the issues leading up to West Coast Avengers #45. He sent a Space Phantom to impersonate (the dead) Prof Horton and deny any connection between Vision and Human Torch in West Coast Avengers #44 and Avengers West Coast #48.
As part of this scheme he went back to before the creation of Vision and used the Forever Crystal to split Torch's body into 2 alternates, but keep them both in the same timeline. Thus Ultron could use one body to create Vision, leaving another body to get buried in Sub-Mariner #14. The revival of this Torch in Avengers West Coast #50 was the last straw for Scarlet Witch, allowing Mephisto to absorb her 'children' in AWC#52.
The Space Phantom next comments on the Kree/Shi'ar war known to us as the Operation: Galactic Storm crossover beginning in Captain America #398. Once again Avengers were interfering in galactic affairs, and Immortus took subtle control of Iron Man via the mental link to his suit. His intervention allowed the Kree Supreme Intelligence's plan to decimate his own race to succeed, as it would have done without the Avengers. However the same intervention caused Iron Man to lead some other Avengers in killing the Supremor in Avengers #347.
The Time-Keepers were unhappy again. They foresaw that Avengers would now be joined by the Shi'ar Deathcry (which actually happened in Avengers #363). They predicted that her description of the Shi'ar's cruel rule over the Kree would spur Avengers to attack Shi'ar, leading eventually to the Interstellar Avengers Corps and the Terran Empire seen in #1. They wanted to destroy Earth, but Immortus persuaded them to give him one last chance.
Immortus foresaw the coming of Onslaught (and presumably the disappearance of Avengers into the Heroes Reborn universe). He figured he only had to keep them occupied until then. So he devised what we call the Crossing/Timeslide crossover ending in Avengers #395. He himself impersonated Kang, with Space Phantoms taking other roles such as Moonraker/Libra (which is why Libra denied any knowledge of it in #2). Immortus increased his influence over Iron Man, causing him to commit murders. As Kang he suggested that he had also been responsible for Hank Pym's breakdowns, but Space Phantom says this was a lie.
This brings us to the current situation. Immortus tried to kill Rick Jones when he regained the Destiny Force in #1, to stop Time-Keepers from just destroying humanity. Time-Keepers want to keep the universe safe from mankind.
At this point Immortus and Yellowjacket secretly arrive. Yellowjacket has used Limbo's insects to find fellow insects that Avengers inadvertently brought with them to the Sphinx. Immortus zaps the other Avengers without them realising who has done it.


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Running Out of Time
Seven Avengers (Captain America, Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell), Giant-Man, Hawkeye, Songbird, Wasp and Yellowjacket) from various times, along with Rick Jones and Libra, have fled from the destruction of Chronopolis in Kang's Sphinx time machine. They are trying to keep Rick safe from Immortus.Hawkeye gets angry about Libra's deliberate refusal to tell them what is going on, for fear of upsetting the balance. So Libra pulls one of his vanishing tricks.Giant-Man and Yellowjacket figure out the Sphinx's controls. They work well together because they are two versions of the same person. Despite Yellowjacket's dislike of Giant-Man.The destruction of Chronopolis by Immortus caused a chronal anomaly. The Sphinx's sensors detect 3 more chronal anomalies. The Avengers suspect these are more signs of Immortus at work. So Wasp splits them into 3 teams to investigate in chronospheres. They leave Rick in the Sphinx where Immortus can't find him.Captain America and Giant-Man find themselves in Killraven's War of the Worlds. The original series was an alternate future, and this is another alternate set in the first half of the 21st century. Earth has still been invaded by 'Martians', but in this version Killraven is one of the last of the Avengers, alongside Black Panther, Jocasta, Living Lightning, Thundra and a Crimson Dynamo. They are fighting the cybernetic Skorpsmen.Hawkeye leads the team of Songbird and Yellowjacket to Tombstone in 1873. They see Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid fighting a dinosaur conjured up by Kang. Songbird realises they are seeing part of an old Avengers adventure, and that Hawkeye, Moondragon and Thor will soon turn up to sort it out. They plan to leave before they affect history, but find their chronosphere gone.Captain Marvel and Wasp see Vice-President Nixon in 1959, and Captain Marvel senses he is a Skrull. But they arouse suspicion, and have to face the 1950's Avengers (Gorilla-Man, Human Robot, Marvel Boy, 3-D Man and Venus).


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Into a Limbo Large and Broad...

The seven Avengers from various time-periods are still protecting Rick Jones from Immortus. But now they have decided to take the fight to Immortus in Limbo, leaving Rick safe in the time-Sphinx they took from Kang.
Giant-Man and Yellowjacket cobble together a time-drive that Giant-Man can wear, a bracelet for Wasp that will get them back from Limbo to the Sphinx, and Yellowjacket has a device to hopefully locate Immortus in his castle. Songbird creates a sound-platform to carry them, and Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) will use his cosmic awareness to guide them to the castle. Captain America and Hawkeye are along for the ride.
Before they leave, Captain Marvel impresses upon Rick that he mustn't leave the Sphinx. But Rick doesn't like Marvel, seeing him as tarnishing the name of the Rick's dead old friend the original Captain Marvel, despite the fact that Marvel is the original's son.
On the way they see more chronal flashes. One set of visions concerns the Vision and the original Human Torch, and conflicting statements (even by the same person) as to whether they are internally similar. Other views are of previous encounters between Avengers and Immortus:- a synchro-staff guiding the Avengers through the history of Mantis in Avengers #133-135 (while another one shows Vision his own origins); and the first time they met Immortus in Avengers #10, which they can't remember because Enchantress rewound time to make it not happen.
Immortus is aware of the Avengers once they enter his castle, and contrives to separate them all. Then he presents each with a scenario designed to play on their doubts and fears.
Hawkeye faces Tempus (resurrected yet again) who chips away at his youthful insecurities. But Hawkeye is bolstered by Wasp's confidence in making him team leader in Tombstone, and Songbird's memories of him leading and training the Thunderbolts. When giant Tempus tries to regress him to a primordial blob, Hawkeye chooses the moment when he has regressed to having his growing powers, which he recently lost in the Kree-Skrull War, and uses them to out-giant his foe.
Captain America meets various incarnations of Nick Fury who try to persuade him how pointless it is to keep on fighting.
Wasp tries to follow Giant-Man's voice but she hears many of him from various stages in his life, and doesn't know which to heed. I guess this reflects their turbulent relationship, and the many facets of his unstable psyche. She eventually does home in on the right one.
While Wasp tries to find the current Hank Pym, a much earlier version of Pym is being shown his future. This version was brought into this adventure from Avengers #59 where he had a breakdown and created a new identity for himself, Yellowjacket, who denied being Pym. The future includes Yellowjacket reverting to Henry Pym, having another breakdown, and landing in jail. Yellowjacket is determined not to accept this fate.
Songbird faces a jury of people she feels she has failed in the past. She is rescued by Captain Marvel who kisses her. It turns out that he is from further along their future timeline than she is, from a time when they are in a relationship.
Libra is wandering around the castle, but is content not to interfere because the Avengers are doing well on their own.
Because their stealth approach has obviously failed, Wasp signals for the Avengers to retreat to the rendezvous point, but Yellowjacket is missing. He has used local insects to find Immortus, but Immortus has captured him. The Avengers reluctantly leave without him.
When they get back to the Sphinx they find that Rick has left in a chronospere. Hawkeye has picked up a synchro-staff on his travels, which hopefully can be just as informative as it was the last time the Avengers had them.
Meanwhile Yellowjacket has offered to betray the Avengers if Immortus will promise he can remain Yellowjacket and still marry the Wasp.


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Destiny made manifest
This issue opens in a possible 26th century on the planet Beta Centauri IV where a rebellion by the natives is put down by their human overlords. By Jonz Rickard (looking like Rick Jones), relative of Emperor Rickard, Commander of Galactic Avenger Battalion Theta-4. A battalion consisting of Hammer-Troopers with their ionic Thunderhammers, Iron Man-like Repulsor-Troopers, Shieldsmen with their shields and blades, and the Ant-Man-like Micro-Swarm. The three Time-Keepers aren't happy.Next we see the Avengers in the present (Captain America, Firestar, Iron Man, Justice and Scarlet Witch from the then-current team plus Giant-Man) bringing a comatose Rick Jones to a SHIELD base in the Blue Area of the Moon. This follows directly from Hulk #470, where Rick collapsed and the Avengers picked him up. We are given a potted history of Rick, of which the most relevant part is that he ended the Kree-Skrull War in Avengers #97 when the Kree Supreme Intelligence unlocked what he now calls Rick's Human Evolutionary Potential. A side-effect of this was that Rick called forth various Timely WWII heroes.Avengers have brought Rick here because Iron Man, Giant-Man and Beast have diagnosed Rick's condition as connected to the power he showed in the Kree-Skrull War. They want the help of the Supreme Intelligence, held captive in the SHIELD base. They reluctantly leave Rick there for the Supremor to study for 24 hours.The Supremor discusses the situation with a mysterious monk that SHIELD can't detect. They claim to have manipulated Rick and the Avengers to get Rick here at this time, for their individual reasons. This is a pivotal point in human history, with Rick a pivotal player, deciding between a future of expansion or stagnation. The Supremor has been trying to kick-start the Kree race out of stagnation for a long time. He claims now to be interested in observing how the human race manages it. The monk leaves to alert Kang.Immortus is watching from Limbo. He stops time in the SHIELD base, and sends Tempus to kill Rick. But Kang also turns up, restarting time within a bubble. Immortus wants to preserve some vital timeline. Kang wants to change it, which involves keeping Rick alive.Kang shatters Tempus, but the pieces generate a horde of warriors from history. Kang counters by pulling advanced weaponry from his trans-temporal armoury. Immortus sends even more warriors, even as he shrinks Kang's bubble of time.Rick wakes up, and the Supremor restarts his Human Evolutionary Potential. The monk returns, and triggers Rick into summoning 7 Avengers out of the past and the future (Captain America, Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell), Giant-Man, Hawkeye, Songbird, Wasp and Yellowjacket).


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Now is the time for all good men ...
Last issue Rick Jones awoke from a coma to find himself in the Blue Area of the Moon, in the midst of a battle between Kang and Immortus. The Kree Supreme Intelligence and a mystery monk awoke Rick's dormant Human Evolutionary Potential, causing him to drag 7 Avengers from various times to protect him. In temporal order they are:-Yellowjacket is from between Avengers #59 and #60 where as Goliath he had had a nervous breakdown and invented the brash new Yellowjacket personality, in which he was about to marry the Wasp.Hawkeye is from just after the Kree-Skrull War where he had lost his Goliath growing power, and was now working in a carnival with an amnesiac Hercules between Avengers #96 and #98. He only has an ordinary bow and arrows.Captain America is from just after Captain America #175 where his beliefs and values had been shaken by witnessing the suicide of the head of the Secret Empire, who was a 'highly placed government official' (at the time implied to be President Nixon). In #176 Steve Rogers gave up (will give up) being Captain America (temporarily of course). He also has superstrength since he got poisoned by the Viper in Captain America #157.Giant-Man and Wasp are from not long after Giant-Man's role in #1 (between Avengers vol 3 #9 and #10). Giant-Man is in a different costume from that he wore in the last issue, but he is seen in this costume starting in Avengers vol 3 #10. He is referred to in this series as Giant-Man, except in #3 I think accidentally as Goliath, a name he doesn't retake until Avengers vol 3 #27 with a totally different costume. Wasp's costume here isn't the same as any she wears in that stretch of Avengers. But then that's the Wasp.Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) and Songbird (at this time one of the Thunderbolts) are from further ahead in a future where they have become Avengers. They both realise they have been brought back to what they call the Destiny War. We will find later that although they are from the same future, they are not from the same time.The Supremor and Kang ask the Avengers to help protect Rick against Immortus's horde of warriors from history. Not knowing which side is right one to back, they look to Captain America for guidance. But he has lost all confidence in his own judgement and abilities. So Wasp, no stranger to leading the Avengers, takes command and tells them to fight against Immortus.The battle is taking place inside a bubble of time created by Kang, outside of which is frozen time created by Immortus. It is Rick Jones who turns the tide, using his reawakened power to enlarge Kang's time bubble, which Immortus was shrinking. Immortus was only here to stop Rick from regaining his power, if necessary by killing him. Temporarily blocked he retreats to Limbo. Kang was here to stop him, and tells the Avengers to hide Rick outside the timestream before the protection of his time bubble evaporates. He leaves to continue the fight with Immortus elsewhere.Rick's power goes dormant again. He doesn't relapse into a coma, but he does return to his crippled state.The monk reveals himself to be Gustav Brandt, the Libra of the original Zodiac gang. He takes the distrustful Avengers and Rick through strange places obviously not part of the Blue Area to a place between places, where Immortus can't find them.Libra claims that he had always interspersed his criminal activities with study of the balance between extremes that his Zodiac sign represented. This led him to investigations into what lay between the opposites, and thence to what lay between times and between places. He explains that he had faked his death when the original Zodiac were killed by their LMD replacements in West Coast Avengers #26, and had dedicated his life to his studies in the between places since then. He denies having taken the identity Moonraker in Force Works and the Crossing crossover that ended in Avengers #395.The Avengers have gradually come to realise they are all from different times, and now take time to sort out exactly where they all fit. Libra admits he guided Rick in the choice of Avengers to bring through time, but he can't explain what guided *his* choice.Rick and the Avengers refuse to just hide from Immortus outside the timestream. Libra reluctantly agrees to take them to Kang's stronghold Chronopolis, that exists in Limbo and in all times. But when they get there they find it devastated, and the central citadel under attack by Immortus.


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Break: Reflections of the Conqueror

Last issue six Avengers learned the history of Immortus from a Space Phantom, before being betrayed to Immortus by their 7th member Yellowjacket. Meanwhile Rick Jones had taken off on his own. This issue is mostly taken up with Kang reviewing his own history, until Rick and the Kree Supreme Intelligence return. Last we saw of Kang in #3 he was in Chronopolis as Immortus collapsed it to make the Forever Crystal. We now find he escaped that fate and retreated to another stronghold in Purgatory.
Kang was born into a highly-civilised 30th Century on an alternate Earth. This Earth had been rebuilt after a nuclear war by Reed Richards's father Nathaniel. Kang's genealogy is muddled, but he may be descended from Nathaniel Richards, or possibly from Dr Doom, or both. Seeking adventure he found his ancestor's time machine, rebuilt it as a Sphinx and went back to Ancient Egypt to rule as Rama Tut.
In Fantastic Four #19 the Fantastic Four used Dr Doom's time machine to visit Rama Tut, and forced him to flee in the chronosphere heart of the Sphinx. En route to the future Rama Tut rescued Dr Doom from space in FF Annual #2. Rama Tut believed Doom to be his ancestor, but they also speculated confusingly that they might be the same person separated by time travel.
After leaving Dr Doom, Rama Tut was thrown back in time a bit to the end of Avengers Annual #2. There he appeared to the Avengers as Scarlet Centurion, causing a divergent timeline. He pretended to be an ally of Avengers but led them astray. He kept the original Avengers lineup, stopping Hulk from leaving and preventing the revival of Captain America. He persuaded them that the future of humanity depended on them imprisoning all other superheroes and supervillains. The current Avengers accidentally arrived in this divergent timeline in Avengers Annual #2 after returning from WWII in Avengers #56. They realised that Centurion had created a dictatorship, and used Dr Doom's time machine to cast him out of the alternate timeline.
Resuming his journey to the future Rama Tut overshot his own 30th Century and ended up in the war-torn 40th Century. He speculates that Immortus may have caused the overshoot. Here he took the name and armour of Kang and began his career of conquest. He conquered Earth, and then alien races such as the Badoon.
Tired of ruling a devastated Earth, Kang returned to conquer the 20th Century in Avengers #8, and attacked Avengers with a Spider-Man robot in Avengers #11. He continued to monitor Avengers, e.g. at their line-up change in Avengers #16.
Kang continued to expand his empire in the 40th century, conquering other space empires such as the Matriarch's Universal Church of Truth, and other-dimensional empires such as the Courts of Kosmos, whose size-changing technology he used to create his Growing Men Stimuloids.
Kang's empire was too large to personally control in detail. He had many subservient rulers under him. One such was King Carelius, whose daughter Ravonna Kang loved. But Ravonna didn't love him, and Carelius wouldn't marry her off to him. In Avengers #23-24 Kang brought the Avengers to the 40th Century to demonstrate his might to Ravonna. He demanded Ravonna in marriage. But his right-hand man Baltag demanded Carelius and Ravonna be executed as rebels. Baltag thought Kang had grown weak, and led a rebellion. Kang and Avengers successfully defended Carelius's castle, but Baltag tried to shoot Kang. Ravonna realised she did love him, and took the blast instead. Kang returned Avengers to 20th century, and put Ravonna in suspended animation pending a cure.
Kang threw himself back into his conquests, including the 40th Century Shi'ar Imperium. Then he took a fateful trip back to the 20th Century in Thor #140 to retrieve a Growing Man that had been accidentally activated. Thor used his hammer to send Kang to Limbo. Here he found a seemingly-dead Immortus, and used his technology to snatch Ravonna from just before her death, only to discover that this resulted in a divergent timeline where he died instead of her.
This lead him to further discover that his frequent time-travelling had spawned multiple alternate-reality copies of himself. Up to now Kang's tale has taken a leisurely pace. Understandably less space is devoted to the alternate-reality adventures, even including several stories in one panel. But sometimes these quick flashes hide multi-issue epics, or stories of some importance to Kang's future. Those depicted are:-
The builder of Chronopolis, as seen in a flashback in the Terminatrix backup story in Avengers Annual #21. Thus the Kang who was besieged in Chronopolis in #3 was not the one who built it.
A Kang who went back to Camelot in the Human Torch & Thing story in Strange Tales #134 to change history so that Avengers and Fantastic Four won't exist. Watcher sends Torch & Thing to stop him. This Kang doesn't yet know that changing the past won't change the present.


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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow...

The six Avengers recruited from various times to protect Rick Jones awake to find themselves in an alternate future confonted by the Galactic Avengers Battalion and their leader Jonz Rickard from #1. Captain Marvel realises that the Battalion perceive them as the rebellious Guardians of the Galaxy.
They are captured, but then rescued by Immortus and their 7th member Yellowjacket, who admit to abducting the Avengers in #8, and that Yellowjacket used the powers of Limbo's insects to make them seem like the Guardians here. Immortus wanted Avengers to see the kind of future he was trying to prevent by stopping Rick Jones accessing the Destiny Force, if necessary by killing him.
Immortus takes Avengers to see the 3 Time-Keepers. They explain that they were created at the end of time by He Who Remains, to carry knowledge into the next universe. In some alternate realities the 3 destructive Time-Twisters were born instead. They hint that Immortus sometimes worked for Time-Twisters instead of themselves. The Time-Keepers strive to ensure that the alternate realities all culminate in their own birth rather than that of the Time-Twisters. Part of that manipulation is ensuring that humanity doesn't expand to infect the galaxy and beyond. As usual this is a brief version of a complicated history. Once again I'll include the more detailed version here rather than in the Notes section.
We met the 3 Time-Twisters in Thor #243-245, where they were moving backwards in time to the beginning of the universe, devastating every world they touched. They visited Earth every 3000 years. They had destroyed the 80th century. Zarrko came to recruit Thor's help saving 50th Century Earth, and in doing so stop them from reaching 20th century. Thor went to Time-Twisters' source in the Citadel at the End of Time, where he found He Who Remains, the last sentient being in the universe, who was about to finish creating 3 beings to carry knowledge to the start of the next universe. When Thor convinced him that his creations would instead destructively travel back to the start of this universe, he abandoned his plan. Thor returned to a reality in which the Time-Twisters didn't exist.
In Thor #282 Immortus said 3 beings from the end of time made him custodian of the 7 millenia he occupied as Kang. They weren't named then, but they were called the Time-Keepers when Immortus repeated the story a decade later in Avengers West Coast #61. Time-Keepers made their first actual appearance in AWC#62.
In a series of AWC issues leading up to this, Immortus had chosen Scarlet Witch as a nexus being to convert to a source of power to safeguard the events leading to a future the Time-Keepers wanted to protect. The Witch broke free, and the built-up power threatened the multiverse. Time-Keepers froze Immortus and stored the power in him, to preserve their own future.
In Quasar #30 Watcher explained Time-Keepers were born from eggs at end of universe in same way Time-Twisters were. They gave Watcher the power to see alternate realities.
Time-Keepers/Twisters played a major role in the TimeQuake story in What If v2 #35-39.
#35-36 explained that the timelines Immortus had been culling for the Time-Keepers, as seen in various issues of AWC, contained dangerous nexus beings. The power of the deleted nexi was channeled into Scarlet Witch, and Immortus had hoped to use her to challenge Time-Keepers, which was another reason they had frozen him.
Unfortunately he had missed 4 nexi. What If v2 #35-38 showed Time-Keepers trying to eliminate these nexi, opposed by Immortus's astral self under the name Whisperer. They failed to destroy 3 of the 4 nexi. In #38 Time-Keepers vanished into non-existence, freeing Immortus who gained power over the multiverse. #39 said Immortus gained this ultimate power by adding the last 4 nexi (even the elimated one?) to his store. It also revealed more about the origins of Time-Keepers. He Who Remains was the last director of the Time Variance Agency. After his failure with the Time-Twisters he created the Time-Keepers. Now Watcher and TVA changed the 30th Century Nathaniel Richards so that when he became Immortus he was unable to store the nexus power, and Immortus exploded. 2 sets of Time-Keepers now reappeared. One set turned out to be Time-Twisters in disguise. It transpired there are 2 parallel end-of-universes vying for dominance. Time-Twisters tricked Immortus into the Scarlet Witch fiasco in AWC in order to bring about their version of end-of-universe, and it is they who we have been following in TimeQuake. Now they reverted to eggs, and the true Time-Keepers regained dominance.
Immortus next popped up in the Terminatrix backup in Avengers Annual #21, without saying how he survived. Here in Avengers Forever #10 the Time-Keepers casually mention that they 'remade' him.
Time-Keepers next appeared in Avengers: Terminatrix Objective #3, and that brings us to Avengers Forever.
Now Immortus describes how he manipulated timelines for the Time-Keepers to keep humanity from spreading out into the galaxy with Rick Jones's Destiny Force. As well as deleting the 50's Avengers timeline, as shown in #5, he persuaded the 'Martians' and Badoon to invade Earth in various alternate realities. Time-Keepers remind Avengers that humans are so dangerous they have even defeated Galactus, Celestials and Infinites.
Time-Keepers and Immortus intend to destroy all but a few of the timelines with humanity in. Yellowjacket regrets the deal he made with Immortus in #8, and uses the Limbo insects to free the other Avengers by giving them temporary access to the Destiny Force. He has also sent insects for help, which arrives in the form of Rick Jones, Kang and the Kree Supreme Intelligence.


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Past imperfect ... future tense
Seven Avengers, including 2 versions of Henry Pym, have been plucked from various times to protect Rick Jones from Immortus, who fears what affect Rick's latent Human Evolutionary Potential will have on future timelines. Leaving Rick safe in a Sphinx time machine that belonged to Kang, the Avengers have split into 3 teams to investigate 3 points in the multiverse where they detected Immortus's tampering. Captain America and Giant-Man went to an alternate future where Killraven and the last Avengers face a 'Martian' invasion. Hawkeye, Songbird and Yellowjacket wound up in Tombstone in 1873, where a known encounter between Kang and some other Avengers is about to take place. But they can't avoid it because their chronosphere has vanished. Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) and Wasp have been confronted by the 1950's Avengers protecting Vice-President Nixon who has been replaced by a Skrull.Captain America and Giant-Man continue fighting the Martians' troops the Skorpsmen, alongside Killraven, Black Panther, Crimson Dynamo, Jocasta, Living Lightning and Thundra. Some of Killraven's allies from the original War of the Worlds series are also involved:- definitely Old Skull, and probably Carmilla Frost, M'Shulla and Volcana Ash. The fighting is more lethal than Captain America or Giant-Man are used to.Captain Marvel and Wasp have the usual fight-because-of-a-misunderstanding with the 50's Avengers (Gorilla Man, Human Robot, Marvel Boy, 3-D Man and Venus) until Marvel Boy's telepathic probe reveals they are telling the truth. Marvel Boy doesn't know the true extent of the powers of the quantum bands on his wrists. Venus's power reveals that Captain Marvel loves Songbird. The 50's group have to keep Human Robot's murderous tendencies in check. 3-D Man is receptive to the idea that Nixon might be a Skrull because he has fought Skrulls before.The modern day Avengers have never heard of the 50's group, although they have heard of most of the members. And 3-D Man at least has survived into the modern era.It turns out that Hawkeye, Songbird and Yellowjacket's chronosphere has been repossessed by the Kang who is in 1873 Tombstone, and who doesn't know anything about their mission. Hawkeye shocks schizophrenic Yellowjacket by trying to convince him of his real identity as Hank Pym/Goliath. But they are interrupted by Black Rider, Kid Cassidy and Reno Jones who turn out to be Space Phantoms in disguise. Hawkeye rumbles them because Kid Cassidy was already dead by 1873.Space Phantoms turn up in the 50's storyline too, disguised as FBI agents. This time it is Captain Marvel's cosmic awareness that susses them out.Rick Jones, monitoring things from the Sphinx, has spotted both Space Phantom occurrences, and remembers they work for Immortus. He has also noticed a major chrono-flux in the 50's area, as Immortus appears with the Forever Crystal to wipe out the timeline, because its version of Earth would be rabidly xenophobic. Rick urges Captain Marvel and Wasp to escape in the chronosphere, as they realise that they are in an alternate timeline, and this is why they never heard of the 1950's Avengers.


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Doom of Dooms
Doom Supreme of the Multiversal Masters Of Evil takes his mask off to show someone his hideously scarred face. He says he's going to explain every scar, and the telling will drive the hearer mad. But the victim must not avert his eyes or beg for the mercy of death. In the end he will be a broken servant of Doom.The story he tells starts in 1 Million BC on Earth-91, planet of Man-Things. where the MT versions of Agamotto, Iron Fist, Phoenix and Starbrand are killed by the MMOE. The victors (except Doom Supreme) then fall to squabbling over which of them should get this Earth. As Black Skull, Dark Phoenix, Ghost Goblin and King Killmonger argue, Kid Thanos stakes his claim by 'autopsying' the MT-corpses. But we at least learn that this BS isn't the 1 we've seen earlier who lost his worlds (when he was defeated by by Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) and allies last issue). Doom keeps out of it (apparently *he* doesn't collect worlds) claiming he already has what he wants from this world.In the present we see DS belittling the others of the MMOE who are concerned only with rewriting timelines to their own individual tastes. Doom prefers the company of the only beings who are is near equals - other Dr Dooms. And we now see that he is addressing the Doom-Thing of that Earth, who he plucked from Earth-91's future before it was changed. Doom-Thing is trussed up to a stone X-frame, but really held there by enchantments.Doom Supreme claims that his scars represent the Hells he has descended into, harrowed and risen from. Doom-Thing looks away, and DS reminds him of his warning. Seeming Doombots are summoned and DS tears off *DT*'s mask to expose a face on fire. The prisoner breaks free saying "whatever knows insolence burns at the touch of Doom-Thing". He starts to wade through the Doombots to get at their master, but discovers they are fleshy beings. DS explains that they are other Dr Dooms who went through the ordeal of the cross until they saw the light. The Doom-minions return Doom-Thing to the cross and remove his eyelids so he can't unsee, and nail his head to the frame to keep him there.We see the Doom Above All killing a giant-size Odin and Phoenix, and hanging that world's Giant-Doom from a frame to be lectured at (presumably all from an Earth of giants). Now he continues haranguing Doom-Thing. But DT detects that he once loved a woman. Doom tells him of Valeria who he loved so much that he stripped the living flesh from her bones to make his mystic armour (which our DrD also did in Fantastic Four vol 3 #67). And he says that this sacrifice made him Sorcerer Supreme and then he defeated his enemies (we see a Mr Fantastic) and added *their* skins. But then he went further and devised the plan of destroying each Earth's Avengers 1M BC, thus wiping out his foes before they were born. Except he saved the Dr Dooms. He also adds that killing versions of yourself is a sublime experience (we see him strangling a Doom who seems to me to be suffering from Deadpool disease).Now the weeping Doom-Thing is broken. He begs for the torture to stop. Doom Supreme tells his minions to set DT free, and then gives him a knife and tells him to cut out his own tongue, and clean up the mess afterwards. We hear it happening. DS then walks through a room where other Dooms are impaled on hooks.We've had a voiceover throughout the issue which I had assumed to be Doom Supreme, but it turns out to be Doom The Living Planet who has also been subjugated by DS.