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We open with Kate Bishop and Johnny Watts woken up by extremely-giant Tigra tearing the roof off their bedroom. Kate/Hawkeye immediately deduces (correctly) that BRODOK has worked out that they knew he was really the villainous MODOK with a makeover, and now he's sent his oversize pawn to harass them. Tigra drags Kate out into the open. Kate tries to talk to her but the werewoman is stuck in growl mode. As America Chavez enters the room to see what's going on Fuse converts his body to vibranium. He explains to her that his piercing rings are made of the stuff so he always has it handy to replicate. At his request America hurls him into the sky (without even calling it a fast-ball special).The rest of the team show up. Kid Omega/Quentin Quire admits that he fell asleep while he was supposed to be keeping an eye on their 'guest' BRODOK. (He actually says "I refuse to answer that on the grounds that the answer is 'Yes'".) (Quentin's t-shirt this time says 'Future Phoenix'.) America alerts them that there are more big female monsters out there trashing Venice LA, and BRODOK amidst them hovering on his (bare)foot jets. Clint Barton/Hawkeye hopes this is a dream. (When  asked if he usually dreams of giant monster women he steals Quentin's reply.)Gwenpool asks if they have a plan. Clint-Hawkeye sends America to deal with a dragon lady. He gives Kid Omega permission to use his mental powers to 'shut Tigra down', which Kate-Hawkeye vetoed in #1 because Greer Nelson is 1 of the goodies. That leaves him and Gwen with 4 other monsters. Quentin flies into the air and merely mentally puts Tigra to sleep - but her fall causes more property damage. Kate and Johnny return to their shattered room and Kate changes into her costume and grabs her weapons. (We see 1 of the later reality-show interview recordings where Fuse refuses to tell where he got his rare vibranium rings from.)Kate-Hawkeye is about to shoot a plain arrow at 1 of the monsters when she notices tattoos that she recognises from 1 of BRODOK's files. She realises that this monster is 1 of BRODOK's Advance Image Mechanics psychiatry patients, and deduces that they all are. She mentally contacts telepathic Quire and gets him to relay the message to the others not to hurt their foes (not that they're actually doing much damage anyway). And also to tell America to join her. Chavez polishes off her dragon and complies. Kate asks her to provide a portal to the AIM lab.Gwenpool has flying BRODOK's neck in a scissor lock and his trying to twist his head off with her hands. She hopes to remove it to reveal MODOK's head underneath to shock him with the realisation of who he is. BRODOK picks holes in that plan. A) It would make him realise he's a supervillain. B) He knows who he is anyway. C) This body doesn't have MODOK's bigger body inside it. Then they both notice BRODOK's 'love' Kate escaping through the portal. He dumps the annoying Gwenpool and goes after her.As Gwen falls through the air she finds she can't use her ability to exit the comics panel into Gutter Space in order to escape. She deduces she's been 'rebooted' (ie the comic's creators have drastically changed her). But Kid Omega saves her from splatting on the ground. He asks why she didn't use her powers to save herself, and won't believe her when she says she doesn't have any (except the comicbook-related abilities she seems to have lost and doesn't mention). (A reality-show recording has him trying to reconcile no powers with some of the things he can't actually remember seeing her do - and what that might mean for their relationship.) Gwenpool runs off and uses her gun to fire a line which she wraps round the jaws of the dragon who's waking up. America carries Fuse into the air and throws his vibranium body at 1 of the monsters, knocking it down.Kate is in the AIM building looking for a way to cure Tigra and the others, but BRODOK finds her. He rants about how he changed himself (from MODOK) to this handsome human shape and came to the West Coast looking for love. In #2 we saw how he had been coming on to his female patients but they all rejected him. And now they will destroy the heartless city that is Los Angeles. Kate points out that the women didn't like him because he was still the same MODOK inside. BRODOK takes her point but still shoots her with a ray gun.Back at the battle Quire tells everyone that he's lost mental contact with Kate. Clint-Hawkeye fires a glue arrow into the jaws of a flying insect monster and then he and America take 1 of her portals to go help their friend. And in BRODOK's lab he has Kate strapped to the operating table we saw last issue and he fires the big ray at her that we also saw last issue.Back at the fight Tigra is awake. But Kid Omega has relieved her of BRODOK's mind control, so now she's articulate but still angry ... at BRODOK. But for now she'll take it out on the other monster women. Gwenpool is doing a running commentary for the readers of the comic, which is confusing to bystanders. Quire gives Clint an update as he and America find Kate ... transformed into a giant bird, the Kate-Hawk.


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The West Coast Avengers have been captured in an abandoned funfair by Madame Masque and her gang, except Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) who escaped with help from 1 of the gang, her supposedly-dead mother Eleanor. But Kate went back in to rescue her teammates and was attacked by her ex-boyfriend Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr).Now Noh-Varr explains that he's infiltrated the gang pretending to be the villain Graviton for reasons unrelated to the WCA. Which is why he had to attack her. But now he'll help her in the rescue.Having defeated MODOK's sharks last issue the rest of the team are now facing a giant hellfire monster created and controlled by Satana. Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and America Chavez are still trapped in suspended cages while Kid Omega, Gwenpool and Fuse (Johnny Watts) are on the ground with non-combatant Ramone Watts, Johnny's sister and America's girlfriend. Quentin Quire is still groggy from expelling the sharks, and Gwen Poole no longer has her 'superpowers' (since the beginning of this series). So Fuse has his body in a vibranium state hoping that will be enough. But the monster swats him and Ramone aside.Satana, MODOK and Madame Masque watch from a control room with Eel and Lady Bullseye. Masque reminds Satana she doesn't want them dead, just scared out of Los Angeles. Dead superheroes only bring more superheroes for revenge. Satana promises only to maim them. The hellfire monster prepares to slam its fists down on the stunned pair when Kid Omega recovers enough to shield them with his telekinesis.Clint sees Kate in the wings using sign language to tell him to remove his hearing aid. (Barton suffers from hearing loss due to an attack by the Clown in Hawkeye (2012) #15.) When he does so he immediately feels better. Kate-Hawkeye then launches a batch of sonic arrows which cause ear-pain to the others apart from Clint. But America is the 1st to realise that she now has her powers back, and deduces (correctly) that the baddies have been using high-frequency sound to suppress them. Kate's arrows have temporarily made them deaf to high frequencies.Kate uses another arrow to deliver Clint-Hawkeye's bow and arrows to his cage, while superstrong America just kicks her way out of hers. But she finds that something is still stopping her from holding a portal open long enough to get unconscious Ramone to hospital. If it closes while they're passing through it would cut them in half.The bad guys get ready to flee, and Graviton joins them. But MODOK mentally detects he's not the real deal (even though it appears Noh-Varr's been carrying on the masquerade for a while). So Noh drops his disguise, apologises for deceiving them but then punches Madame Masque in the mask.Kid Omega encases Ramone in a protective TK bubble (after surlily complaining about it to keep up his bad boy image). Clint tells him to stay here to keep her safe, and Fuse to stay to keep them both safer. America flies Gwenpool up to the control booth with Clint following via a rope-line arrow. As they get there an explosion blows the glass out, and inside they find Marvel Boy fighting everyone.Madame Masque tries to slip away but Kate is waiting for her. But then Eleanor Bishop knocks her daughter out from behind. MODOK teleports the villains away leaving hellfire wolves to harass the heroes. Gwenpool retrieves her katanas and she finds they can shred hellfire when she dives back to the ground to join her boyfriend Quentin.The others in the control booth aren't faring so well against the wolves until America has an idea. She tells Clint and Noh-Varr (carrying unconscious Kate) to get off the floor. Then she creates a portal which the wolves fall through. It closes almost immediately, bisecting them. There is only 1 hellfire wolf left but she throws it at the power source for the villains' trap. It explodes and they all get their powers completely back.The team regroup on the ground. America introduces Noh-Varr to the others (she was with him and Kate in the Young Avengers). Fuse isn't happy because he knows that name - this handsome dude is his girlfriend Kate's ex. Gwen persuades the others to reluctantly let her adopt a baby landshark which she's found and named Jeff. (The landsharks were created by MODOK posing as BRODOK in the 1st story arc.). Kid Omega's unhappy because he didn't get to smash and villains. Clint opines that the villains running away proves they're scared of the team.America gives them a portal back to base. She's carrying Ramone, Fuse has Kate and Gwen has the shark. Marvel Boy now informs them that he needs their help to save the world. But Kate says they all need some R&R, and Noh admits that the world won't end *tonight*. Noh accepts it and asks if he can sleep with her tonight. She just points to a couch. America walks Ramone home and they share a kiss.Then they all have interview sessions with their Reality TV hangers-on. Clint calls the day a success because no-one died. The interviewer considers that a low bar for success, but Clint reminds him that he himself has been dead (Avengers Disassembled until House Of M). Johnny expresses his feelings about Noh-Varr being here. Gwen (who knows she's in a comic book world) admits that part of the reason she's in a relationship with Quentin is because it makes her more likely to be kept in the book. When the interviewer tells Quire about this and asks if he's upset he replies that of course he's upset if his girlfriend is going mad. Kate is worried about the shark and thinks now she should have let Gwen keep the kitten she rescued in #5. America asks the crew who follow them around filming how come they didn't follow the team into the trap? Marvel Boy tells them he wants help against a cult called the Temple Of The Shifting Sun who are really Skrulls. (He's obviously borrowed a T-shirt from Kid Omega because it says "I devamped Jubilee and all I got is this lousy T-shirt". Quentin's own interview T says "Thor owes me" which is also true.)Back to the baddies who are definitely *not* happy, and squabbling among themselves. The real Graviton is with them. As is Eleanor Bishop wearing an MM-style mask. Madame Masque herself tells her team, which she calls the West Coast Masters Of Evil, to shut up. Next time they *will* destroy the WCA. And joining them is Kate's father Derek Bishop.


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Noh-Varr has led most of the West Coast Avengers to investigate the Temple Of The Shifting Sun cult, who turned out to be vampires and captured them. They are especially interested in America Chavez who they believe is the Chosen One whose blood will make them Daywalkers, able to survive in sunlight. Meanwhile Gwenpool (and her pet land shark Jeff), Kid Omega and the newly-empowered Ramone Watts have sneaked in with Kate Bishop's supposed-to-be-dead mother to rescue them. However during the fight Eleanor Bishop revealed vamp fangs which she sank into to neck of drugged America.Kate knocks her mom away, and Eleanor launches into an explanation. She's a half-vampire, which is why she's pretended to be dead for a long time. She's allied with Madame Masque who promised her a cure, and that's why they've been working with the cult. But she bit America to defuse the current situation by proving that Chavez wasn't the promised cure. Kate doesn't believe her.Meanwhile the battle continues to rage. The other Hawkeye (Clint Barton) calls Kate back to action. (Noh-Varr has given him a spare collapsible Kree Composite Soul Bow like hers.) Quentin Quire is shooting a psi-gun while trying to figure out how to switch off vampire brains. Fuse is fighting back-to-back with his sister Ramone in her new vibranium armour (which she discovers can generate a vibranium blade). Marvel Boy combines 2 guns with acrobatic kicks (courtesy of his cockroach DNA). Gwen Poole is also fighting back-to-back with her voracious land shark. She calls boyfriend Quentin for assistance and he provides psionic stepping discs for her to launch herself and Jeff from.Eleanor is still trying to convince Kate of her motives. She explains that America looks like the person in the vampires' prophesies. She also claims that her husband Derek killed her (ie turned her into a half-vampire?), and now he's working with the villainous Masque (as seen in #7). But Kate points out that *Eleanor* is working with Masque too. And she leaves to rejoin the fight.Both Hawkeye's are now using Kree bows. Ramone rushes to the side of her girlfriend America, who's starting to come round. She mentally asks Quentin whether the foe are humans or demons. He replies demons and she tells him to telekinetically shove the good guys to the ground. When he's done that she moves the vibranium from her arms and legs and uses it to send pointy tendrils from her body armour - with which she skewers all the vampires and pins them to the ceiling. Everyone including America (and Jeff the land shark) is impressed.Ramone is stuck holding the vampires in place so America works on a plan to relieve her. The team free the vampires' unconscious human prisoners and America provides a star portal to a nearby hospital. She gets Kid Omega to telekinetically transport them through. As usual he complains about the rest of the team using him to do things like protect them in TK force bubbles. She asks why he doesn't bask in the knowledge that he has the most useful power in the team. He zaps back that she's a "teleporting taxicab that can punch stuff". She asks why he always acts so bad. He says he's the best there is at what he does, including being the worst.Now America can do something about the vampires. She creates a giant portal on the ground and gets Ramone to drop the vamps through it. The team follow and find themselves in a world of giant shrimps, which Kate says America has mentioned many times before. Then Quire TK's them all back through the portal to the vampires' dungeon. They find Kate's mother gone (but she's watching from hiding and crying).Back home they find that their HQ is finally ready. America won't let any of them forget that she's a 'chosen one'. They head in to record interviews with their Reality TV team.Clint-Hawkeye thanks them for getting the building finished, and they ask him awkward questions about the mission. Jeff sits on Quentin's lap while he and Gwen say they're going to try to improve their relationship by actually being nice to each other. Johnny says Ramone has adopted the codename Alloy. He denies that there's anything between Noh-Varr and his girlfriend Kate, but comments that Noh is pretty hot. Noh-Varr says he respects Johnny and Kate's relationship, but Fuse is hot. America and Ramone start kissing and the TV crew leave them to it. The crew tell Kate that her boyfriend and her ex fancy each other. She's flabbergasted and wonders out loud if she's *ever* dated anyone straight. The rest of the team chorus "No".In a final scene, which even includes Bridgette the dragon outside the window, Quentin uses TK to spin the land shark around, and Gwen pretends to think Jeff has developed tornado powers. Kate opens the mail and finds a letter from Dutch Oven (would-be member rejected in #1) saying he can get them cancelled. She doesn't believe that can ever happen ...


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BRODOK has sent a bunch of giant female monsters to attack Venice Beach LA, but the West Coast Avengers have discovered that they have been created from innocent women who spurned his advances. And last issue America Chavez and Hawkeye (Clint Barton) followed Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) to BRODOK's Advanced Image Mechanics base and saw him turn Kate into a giant Lady Hawk (complete with giant bow and arrows).Fuse (Johnny Watts) is trying to talk a blue aquatic giant down when he and Kid Omega (Quentin Quire) see a giant arrow land. Quentin telepathically contacts Clint to find out what's happening. We see Clint and America at AIM fighting Lady Hawk and BRODOK, still refusing to admit he's really the villainous M.O.D.O.K.. BRODOK attacks them mentally so Chavez forms a star-portal for Quire to pop through and fight mind-to-mind.Barton slips back into the AIM lab looking for a way to undo the change to Kate. He finds a machine labelled 'aversa' which Quire mentally tells him is Latin for 'back', so he trundles it outside. Quentin keeps BRODOK busy while Barton zaps him with the aversa-ray. And handsome-ish BRODOK reverts to big-head-on-little-legs MODOK. And Lady Hawk whacks him into the side of the building - she easily threw off the only partially-done brainwashing that went with her conversion to monster. Quire reads her mind and says she wants to stay Lady Hawk until they've dealt with the other giant women. And she picks up MODOK and throws him a long way away.In Venice Beach Fuse's sister Ramone Watts is helping people out of her building which has been damaged by a giant orange woman. Johnny tries to tell her it's too dangerous but she insists on going back in to look for more residents. She tells *him* in his currently-vibranium body to go help Gwenpool who's trying to non-violently subdue a dragon-lady.In flashforwards to their Reality TV interviews we see Fuse saying he should *never* argue with his sister. And Ramone saying that she's proud of her brother, but don't tell *him* that.But Lady Hawk flies in carrying the aversa-ray with Clint on her back and Kid Omega and America follow under their own steam. Lady Hawk flies off to battle a giant flying insect-woman. Gwenpool is still riding her dragon. America and Fuse double-team a red monster. Friendly giant Tigra punches the aquatic 1. Kid O protects civilians from falling debris. And Barton de-evolves the orange 1.The aquatic monster falls against Ramone's building. Fuse asks strong invulnerable America to go save his sister. The 2 girls' eyes meet. And in a flashforward interview Chavez admits that they are now an item. They exit the building and de-gianted Kate spots their closeness immediately. Quentin has de-brainwashed the giant-women (like he did for Tigra last issue) and Clint has also also returned 4 of the them to normal. He now zaps Tigra who swears to hunt down MODOK for revenge, and turns down a laughable invite to join the new WCA. Gwenpool stops Barton from converting the dragon who she says wants to remain like that, and now that she's not brainwashed she won't attack anybody.Now for more flashforward interviews. Lovers Gwen Poole and Quentin Quire say they can't stand each other anymore - they both claim the other 1 never listens. Johnny Watts is happy until the interviewer asks about the land sharks from #1, which don't seem to be connected to BRODOK. And until he learns about America dating Ramone. And in the background Gwen and Quentin are snogging again. Kate refuses to tell them what it was like to be Lady Hawk. Then she gets phone call from Captain America which she's reluctant to answer. She's reformed the West Coast Avengers without consulting him. They're funded by Reality TV, and the last team that did that ended badly (New Warriors dying in Stamford and triggering Civil War I). And they've agreed to go on a late-night talk show.Later that night they're on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He asks if it's confusing having 2 Hawkeye's on the team - the others answer "Yes". Clint bats away a question about being the only old fogie on a teen team. And when asked if they're really the WCA Kate's "Yes" is very tentative.Various villains watch the TV program. Eel is dismissive. Satana is annoyed because she's just moved to the city. Graviton isn't happy either. Dutch Oven swears revenge for being rejected as a team member in #1. And Madame Masque plans to do something about them. And there's a figure in the shadows behind her.


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In his base in the newly-restored (X-Men Annual #12) Savage Land the High Evolutionary has hired many technicians to work on a large bomb. But now his aide Stack sends out the armoured Gatherers (created by HE as he once created his New Men from animals) to Wakanda to get a sample of vibranium that he needs. However 1 of his scientists we might recognise as Bill Foster who secretly slips a message capsule in the collar of 1 of their uniforms.As they leave the man who was Herbert Edgar Wyndham ponders some history (for the benefit of us readers). Evolutionary created Counter-Earth (Marvel Premiere #1). But in Marvel Two-In-One #3 the Beyonders had it towed away to their museum, and when HE followed them their overwhelming superiority drove him mad. But lately (Fantastic Four #316-317) the FF discovered that agents of the Beyonders created the Savage Land, and now (FF#318-319) they are in the Negative Zone seeking to discover more about them. The possibility that they might attract the Beyonders' attention back to Earth makes it imperative that he completes his plan quickly. (These last bits may be more to do with advertising the FF series which Steve Englehart also writes.)The Gatherers teleport into Wakanda but Black Panther and his warriors bar their way to the the vibranium mound. The defenders attack, the warriors wielding hi-tech spears backed by large robots called THROBs (TransHuman ROBots). The THROBs absorb all power directed against them and return it to sender. The Gatherers are defeated and try to teleport back home but Wakandan tech stops them. While searching the foe for clues as to their purpose and allegiance Foster's message is found. It tells the recipient that the world is in danger, gives the co-ordinates of HE's base and asks them to contact Henry Pym at the West Coast Avengers Compound.BP does so and soon a quinjet arrives. Hawkeye exits it leading Scarlet Witch, Vision, Wonder Man and guest Mantis. He explains that Hank left the team (#37) and has to admit that his wife Mockingbird seceded from the group at the same time and took Moon Knight and Tigra with her. And he and Bobbi's marriage is split too. T'Challa in turn tells them about the invasion and the message. The early Avengers recognise Bill Foster as Pym's lab assistant who later used Pym particles to become Black Goliath in Power Man #24-25 and his own short-lived series. Later in Marvel Two-In-One #55 he changed his super-id to Giant-Man. Back in BG#1 he contracted cancer from a radioactive foe. In MTIO#85 a transfusion of super-immune blood from the original Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) cured him, but as a result he had to retire from superheroing and concentrate on science again.Suddenly the Panther Totem rises out of its silo to relay a video message that Wakanda's hidden techno-jungle has been invaded. Panther and the WCA rush there and find 6 superbeings have defeated its warriors. 2 called Sound and Smell assail BP's heightened senses with their output. Scarlet Witch tries to hex Smell but can't locate inside the stench-cloud. Sight's laser-beams shred Vision's defending cloak and then overwhelm the solar jewel on his forehead. Wonder Man tackles Touch but hesitates to harm a woman ... until she knees him in the groin and throws him through some machinery. Taste's acid-shooting fingers melt the arrows Hawkeye sends his way and then try to hit *him*. Mantis tries her martial arts tricks on Intuition who can sense her moves before she makes them.Vision starts to fight back sending his own solar beam into Sight's eyes. Wanda changes tack and hexes Smell's cloud to obscure Sight's sight. The synthezoid's strength then easily defeats his foe and his eye-blast KO's Smell. Simon Williams finally psychs himself to hit Touch who turns out to have a glass jaw. Clint Barton fires an acid arrow to confuse Taste who then doesn't notice the boomerang arrow which conks him from behind. Mantis clears her mind and then strikes on instinct which Intuition can't foresee. T'Challa leads Sound to the vibranium mound because its vibration-absorbing property nullifies the foe's power making him easy to beat. But it also means BP doesn't hear another foe teleport in, blast free a lump of vibranium and teleport out. (The 2nd story will let us know this guy is called Foks and is presumably an uplifted fox.)Thinking they've won the WCA leave Wakanda and head for the co-ordinates in the Savage Land. But T'Challa senses that something is wrong all over the world. And when the team get to their destination all they find is a very large hole in the ground.Story 2:- Tails you winFor this part Chris Ivy finishes over Al Milgrom's layouts.In #38 the breakaway team Mockingbird, Moon Knight and Tigra learned that the WCA's foe Master Pandemonium had been seen in Antarctica so they took a quinjet to investigate. (But they seem to have forgotten that reason to be here.) Now they arrive to find the Savage Land which as far as they knew had been destroyed (by Terminus in Av#275). When they land they are met by Ka-Zar who tells them the Land was restored by High Evolutionary (XM An#12) and points out HE's citadel. Since then KZ and his wife Shanna have returned from the US with their baby son Adam Plunder. Bobbi Barton and Tigra take time out to fuss over the baby while MK questions Kevin Plunder about HE. Mockingbird explains how the Bartons and the WCA have split up.Then the team head to HE's base and knock on the door. Stack lets them in and leads them to HE. Along the way we pass Bill Foster who thinks they are here in response to his message, but he's not ready for them. Herbert Wyndham is all-too-willing to explain that he's building a bomb here which will mutate everyone on Earth, because he then unleashes a gas to knock them out. However the Moon-God Khonshu takes over Moon Knight's body and allows him to attack without breathing. But eventually the body runs out of oxygen and collapses.The 3 Avengers wake up separated in a maze. Mocky defeats a tentacled robot with her battlestaves even though 1 arm is still in a cast (since #36). Tigra agilely evades a robot with a long reach until her claws can mess up its brain. She smells Marc Spector on the other side of a wall and rips through it to find him with another robot in pieces. And she starts passionately kissing him.Meanwhile HE tells us that the 1st Avenger to exit the maze will earn the 'right' to become the guinea pig for his evolutionary formula. Another aide called Foks tells him that the Gatherers and Sensors aren't doing well in Wakanda. But the boss is sure 1 of them will reach the vibranium mound and then Foks can do *his* bit. And Bill Foster has left his work to get in to a restricted area, but he has to fight 2 guards.Mockingbird works her way through the maze and uses her combined battlestave to break open a door which leads her into the presence of the High Evolutionary. She attacks him and he underestimates her which enables her to knock him down. But he responds by growing giant-size and holds her aloft. Bill Foster is watching. He hasn't dared become Giant-Man since he was cured of cancer, but he carries a vial of his serum with him. Now he swallows that and grows to challenge HE at his own size. Bobbi is forgotten as the 2 giants trade blows. Apparently GM's enlarged brain is immune to HE's psychic attacks.Foster takes time to explain that he joined this project to find a way to safely grow again, because he believes that the cancer-free mass he absorbs in the process from another dimension will help cleanse him of remaining cancer. Evolutionary calls off the fight because he feels kinship with someone trying to evolve himself. He gets a message from Foks to say he's succeeded in getting a vibranium sample from Wakanda without being noticed. But HE considers this base is now too compromised so he'll continue building his bomb elsewhere. And he flies off through the ceiling.Foster suspects that the Evolutionary will destroy this base behind him, so he and Mockingbird locate Moon Knight and Tigra and escape. They see HE's ship leaving and they run away before the base explodes behind them. They leave the Savage Land by quinjet to warn the world about HE's planned bomb. And another quinjet arrives disgorging Hawkeye's gang who only find a smoking hole where the base had been.After some pin-ups we get to Story 3:- The final frontierThis story has a very different creative squad:-Writer Mark Gruenwald. Penciller Ron Lim. Inker Tony DeZuniga. Colourist Greg Wright. Letterer Ken Lopez. Editor Ralph MacchioThis continues the history of the High Evolutionary. Previous installments have dealt with his life before his 1st published apps in Thor #134-135. They included his involvement in the origins of Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and the Werewolf By Night.We skip over that unveiling of HE and his evolved-animal New Men to just show Thor leaving the citadel on Mount Wundagore with Jane Foster, as the citadel takes off because it was really a giant spaceship. We see Bova and the young Jessica Drew left behind. The experimental stardrive takes HE and his Knights Of Wundagore to a new planet he dubs Wundagore 2. They find a deserted city there and Herbert Wyndham evolves some female animals he brought with him to become mates for his male Knights and populate this world.However the evolved animals become savage and kill the faithful Sir Porga, and begin to fight each other for power in a civil war. HE dispatches the also-faithful Sir Ram in a shuttle craft to Earth to recruit Hulk to quell the insurrection (Tales To Astonish #94-96). This sort of works but Wyndham himself is fatally injured. He uses his evolvo-ray on himself and becomes a cosmic being. Before leaving to become 1 with the universe he devolves his New Men back to animals and sends Hulk back to Earth.


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Continued from AVENGERS ANNUAL #15.

In that issue the Avengers and West Coast Avengers were arrested by Freedom Force for treason and imprisoned in the Vault under the Colorado Rockies. Some unknown Avenger has brought evidence against them. But the new Spider-Woman left the other (ex-villain) members of FF and helped the Avengers escape (although they don't know it). Now we see them enter the cave that we actually left them in at the end of that issue.

The 2 teams are:- Avengers - Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hercules and Wasp. WCA - Hawkeye, Iron Man, Mockingbird, Tigra and Wonder Man. Plus Henry Pym.

Now they try to work out who the traitor might be. Hawkeye immediately discounts the current Avengers here, including ex-Avenger Hank Pym who's working with the WCA. Everybody agrees, and he starts working through a list of other candidates.

They were told the traitor is/was an Avenger, so Clint Barton rules out Thing and Firebird because they never actually joined the WCA (#4-10). Similarly Moondragon and Hellcat never became full members of the Avengers. And MD Marvel-died in Defenders #152, and Patsy Walker retired and married Daimon Hellstrom (Def#125). Ms Marvel became new heroine Binary in Uncanny X-Men #164 and is off in space.

Wasp takes up the list and says Starfox is in space too since Av#261, and Mantis since way back in Giant-Size Av #4. Swordsman died in GSAv#3, as did Jocasta in Marvel Two-In-One #93. Sub-Mariner has just left the ranks in Av#272 (for personal reasons). And Hulk is currently in SHIELD captivity split between Hulk and Bruce Banner (Hu#324).

Hawkeye takes the reigns back. The remaining possibilities are Thor, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, She-Hulk. Tigra adds in Black Panther. Mockingbird suggests Black Widow and the James Rhodes Iron Man. Clint finishes off with Beast and Falcon.

Nobody notices a blurry figure amongst them. And then there's a draught as they decide to contact the shortlist.

Captain Marvel heads to the Moon to contact Quicksilver (in Attilan with his wife Crystal and the other Inhumans).

Iron Man (Tony Stark) also heads high up to contact Rhodey in Los Angeles by line-of-sight without using any hackable satellite. He trusts his friend completely and invites him to join the hunt.

Tigra visits She-Hulk in the Fantastic Four's under-construction new HQ. She accepts Jennifer Walters' assurances that she isn't the traitor, but reminds herself that her own cat-side isn't so trustworthy lately. Mr Fantastic offers the Fantastic Four's help, but Tigra declines it.

Hawkeye rings up Black Panther in Wakanda, and T'Challa sets off to join his friends.

Thor is angry with Hercules. It's not because Herc has jeopardised his secret identity Sigurd Jarlson. And Herc doesn't seem to have suggested he might be the traitor. But Herc is wasting time eating Kentucky Fried Chicken when they should be flying to their friends' aid.

Captain America recruits Falcon at his social worker office.

Wasp rings Beast who's now back to looking human and with the original X-Men as X-Factor. Henry McCoy says the team are trying to stay under the government's radar currently, but offers his help if they really need him. Wasp says it's cool.

Mockingbird looks up Black Widow. They both think about the fact that they've both been Hawkeye's lover. Ex-spy Natasha Romanov guesses that Henry Peter Gyrich may not have told the truth (in the WCA Annual) about what treasonable information he has nor what his source is. But she's going to lend her expertise.

Wonder Man visits Scarlet Witch and Vision at home with their new babies. He accepts that they aren't traitors and can't leave their children to help. But when he's gone they exchange worried comments about who they think the traitor might be ...

... because there's only 1 person not accounted for yet. Black Panther, Black Widow, Falcon, Iron Man (James Rhodes) and Thor have joined the 2 current teams in a cabin in the woods. And Captain Marvel arrives to say that Wanda's brother Quicksilver is no longer with the Inhumans on the Moon.

Iron Man (Tony Stark) definitely thinks he's a possibility for the traitor. Hawkeye leaps to the defence of a fellow member of Cap's Kooky Quartet from Av#16 onwards. Thor too thinks Pietro earned their trust then, and prefers to accuse Henry Pym who shamed the team in #212-217. Now it's Hank's ex-wife Wasp to do the defending. Since he was cleared of some of the events then and accepted responsibility for the others he has found a new equilibrium in his new non-superhero scientific support role.

Quicksilver ends the arguments by showing himself and brazenly admitting his 'guilt' of taking vengeance on them. He claims to have always been an outsider, and continually betrayed. He launches into his history in support of these claims.

Their father Magneto 'enslaved' Pietro and Wanda in the original Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants (from X-Men #4 on). They escaped and joined the Avengers (with Hawkeye from Av#16), but the synthetic Vision 'seduced' his sister - supported by the Avengers. In #104 he was seriously injured by Sentinels and the team didn't try to find him.

Instead he was rescued by Crystal of the Inhumans. He loved her and married her and went to the Moon with the rest of her race - but again an outsider. But then in Vision & Scarlet Witch #10 Crystal had an affair with a human, and Wanda tried to get him to forgive her - more betrayals.

The bitter mutant gave information against the team to Gyrich. But if the government can't punish them then he will do it himself - the only person he can actually trust. (Except for the small 'army' he's assembled to work for him.)

Pietro tells them he has set up battles in 3 places:- The circus where the original team 1st came together to fight Hulk. Avengers Mansion. And the Australian site where they left him to die. Then he zooms off. CM gives chase in light-form, but Quickie's speed makes him invisible.

The group splits up. The current Avengers take the Mansion. The WCA go to the circus. And the extras head for Australia. Henry Pym is left behind, but he has his own plan.

In New York's Central Park we discover who QS's army is - the LMD version of the Zodiac gang created by Scorpio in Def#50. 4 of them are here:- Aries, Cancer, Gemini and Taurus. Pietro arrives and leads them into Avengers Mansion where they are greeted by Henry Peter Gyrich and Freedom Force. HPG admits to losing the Avengers, but Quicksilver informs them that he has lured some of the heroes here.

However he doesn't want FF involved, only his Zodiac. Mystique objects to the use of the criminal LMD's, but Pietro counters that FF themselves used to be the criminal Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants. (In his mixed-up way he calls them an inferior version to the original group, who he had just slagged off to the Avengers.) HPG gives in diplomatically and the FF exit. Gyrich still has guards everywhere, but Quicksilver is confidant the Avengers will get past them.

Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Hercules and Wasp are sneaking in through a submarine tunnel they 'forgot' to tell the government about. But Pietro knew, and he's sent Aries and Taurus to guard it. They rip the access ladder from the wall bringing BK and Herc down with it. The other 3 follow to help. Once they're all in the water QS throws a purge switch and they are all ejected back down the tunnel. CM blasts a hole to the surface in the Park and the others are sucked(?) out behind her.

Quicksilver is waiting for them with Cancer and Gemini. Wasp has worked out that these aren't the (human) Zodiac the Avengers fought in #120-122 (and earlier). CM remembers hearing about the LMD team.

BK and Herc are recovering from nearly drowning.  CM chases QS while Wasp fights Cancer who shoots jets of water. CA takes on Gemini  who can double his size. But that's not enough against Cap. Also the LMD suddenly switches allegiance, as he has been known to do. Wasp electrocutes Cancer via his water with her sting. CM follows QS inside a building and loses him.

Meanwhile BK and Herc have recovered. But they are all attacked by HPG's agents. CM digs another tunnel and the Avengers escape.

Hank Pym has gone to see Vision.

Quicksilver runs to Monument Valley Arizona to meet Libra, Leo, Scorpio and Virgo. He leads them to the Keibler Circus where they cause havoc that the WCA have to deal with. For some reason the circus' Human Cannonball is eager for Scorpio to fire him at Hawkeye and Mockingbird, knocking them off a trapeze artist's platform and knocking Bobbi Barton out. While Iron Man and Wonder Man put some animals back in their cages, and Tigra attacks Leo.

A Hawkeye trick shot takes down Libra while Pietro runs away. Virgo surrenders to the archer but Scorpio burrows underground and pops up to hit him with a neurotoxin gas. But the same gas also effects WM but not before he tags Scorpio. IM KO's Leo but Virgo freezes his armour with an energy siphon. But Tigra then deals with her.

Wanda is ready to go reason with her brother, but Vizh won't let her.

The 3rd scenario takes place in the deserted 'anthill' HQ of the Sentinels from Av#104. Aquarius, Capricorn, Pisces and Sagittarius are the Zodiac members waiting here. QS arrives and leads them inside. But the place is only deserted because the Avengers have got here 1st and evacuated the government workers who have taken over this base. Zodiac face Black Panther, Black Widow, Falcon, Iron Man (James Rhodes) and Thor.

IM chases after QS. Thor hurls Mjolnir at Pisces. BP tackles Aquarius, and BW goes after Capricorn. Falcon faces the energy arrows of Sagittarius. Natasha is worried about another ex-lover Matt Murdock and is tagged by an electro-blitz from Aquarius, but BP lays him low. Thor's mind too is on other things - Balder having to replace Odin on the throne of Asgard, and the facial scars he himself hides with a beard. But then he pulls himself together and despatches Pisces with ease.

Thor and Rhodey chase Quicksilver but get in each other's way. Panther and Widow combine forces to bring down the acrobatic Capricorn. Sagitttarius' arrows set Falcon's wings alight, but this doesn't stop him from diving onto his foe and knocking him out.

Everyone follows QS outside where they find all the other Avengers have arrived. But Pietro has an experimental particle beam weapon from the Australian site's store, and he's not afraid to use it.

But then the ghostly Vision appears with a gift from the speedster's sister Wanda. It is a ruby, and when Vizh's solar ray and Captain Marvel's laser beam shine through it the gem projects a hologram of Pietro's new nephews Tommy and Billy. If QS is determined to kill all Avengers then that includes the boys' parents. Pietro relents and runs off.

Hawkeye thinks it's time to return to the baseball game they were having in the WCA Annual, only this time with even more Avengers. And he chooses Thor to add to his team.


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The East and West Coast Avengers have met for their 2nd ballgame, this time in the Houston Astrodome. It's the bottom of the 9th and Thor is the last batter of the match, playing of course for the East Coast Team. They are 4 runs down and all the bases are loaded, so if he hits a home run it's a tie. Wonder Man is pitching (in the new uniform he's donned between WCA#24 and #25).

This time they're playing 6-a-side. It's Hawkeye, Iron Man, Mockingbird, Tigra, Wonder Man and the newly-recruited Dr Pym for the WCA against Black Knight, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Dr Druid, She-Hulk and Thor. Espirita and Moon Knight are sitting it out because they aren't officially Whackos (and Moon Knight doesn't have his full powers in the day). Wasp is watching not playing because she's not currently an active Avenger. But she doesn't appear to be acting as umpire like her ex-husband Henry Pym did last time.

Thor strikes out twice. For the 3rd ball Simon Williams throws the ball so hard  it catches fire. But Thor's hammer hits it through the glass roof. However when the flaming ball appears to be returning it is instead the Silver Surfer, who suffuses the dome with energy.

When the energy dissipates the WCA recover. Iron Man asks Surfer what he's doing here - according to the Fantastic Four he'd left Earth for good. SS quickly recounts his recent history. In the 1st issue of his new series the Elder Of The Universe known as Champion came to Earth to kill him because the Elders didn't want him interfering in their plans out in space. This made him think that there must be a way past the barrier Galactus erected to keep him on Earth. So he and the FF found a way through it.

In #2 he took time out to visit his love Shalla Bal. Then he says he sought the Elders to find out why they wanted him dead but heard that 1 of them planned to kill the Avengers. He rushed back to Earth just in time to catch up with the Elder's energy bolt.

But they look round and see that he was too late - the Eakos (as Hawkeye has christened them) are all dead - even Thor.

Wonder Man wonders if SS is a fake, and he killed the Avengers with his own energy blast. Norrin Radd tells Hawkeye a detail of their shared time with the Defenders which convinces Clint Barton that he's the real deal.

Surfer tells them more about the Elders Of The Universe. They are each the long-lived survivor of a different otherwise extinct alien race. Each has dedicated his life to an obsession. We know of the Collector, the Gardener, the Possessor and the Grandmaster.

Moon Knight remembers how all the heroes got involved with that last 1 in the Contest Of Champions 3-issue series. Didn't he die to bring the Collector back to life? Norrin agrees, but he is still the 1 behind this plot. His death was his ultimate gamble - that he could win his own life back. And if Elders can come back from death then the Avengers can make it too.

Hawkeye readies his team for action, and Espirita and Moon Knight elect to accompany them. Their best plan is to find the Collector, and Surfer knows where his spaceship is. SS gets on his surfboard and drags their quinjet behind him (presumably at speeds faster than they could achieve, unless the Collector just happens to be parked nearby).

They enter the spacecraft without incident and confront the Collector. The Elder knows what has happened, and his gratitude for the Avengers' part in COC outweighs his feelings for his fellow - he'll help them. He explains that the Elders share a partial telepathic link, so he knows Grandmaster's plan.

In COC#3 GM swore never to use the heroes as pawns in his games again, but he has convinced himself that his death has nullified that vow. He offered the Avengers to Death in exchange for his own life. But he didn't know about the division in their ranks, and so his wager didn't include the WCA.

Collector says that the only way to save their friends is to go into Death's realm and take them from Grandmaster. But not even Silver Surfer can find a way there - the only way there is to die. WM protests that as an ionic being he can't die, but Taneleer Tivan insists that everyone will die sometime, even the Elders.

He offers them the strongest poison in the universe. Despite not trusting him completely, each for their own reasons decides to take the chance - and the poison. But when they are all lying dead Espirita is still standing - despite the fact that she drank too. The Collector realises that she must be a being who is uniquely exempt from the rule he proposed in the previous paragraph. He 'offers' her a place in his collection.

Meanwhile the 7 East Coast Avengers have appeared in Death's realm next to Grandmaster, who gives them his version of the plot. (It will turn out to probably not be a coincidence that his opening sentence is phrased identically to the Collector's.) He claims that Collector's period of death made him desperate to avoid it again. So he's promised the WCA to Death in exchange for true immortality. GM learned of this and brought the Eakos here to grab the Whackos before Death can get them. Because he has found a way the return them all, GM included, back to life.

At this point the WCA arrive. Tigra notices that Espirita isn't with them, and because she doesn't like Bonita she suggests that she chickened out. As they menace GM Thor convinces the others that Collector must have poisoned their minds. So the Easties spring to the Elder's defence, which convinces the Westies that Grandmaster must be controlling them. Both sides are convinced that they have to defeat the others for their own sake.

But Silver Surfer flies off with a plan of his own.

That leaves 7 on each side, and what follows is a set of 1-on-1 battles.

Iron Man tackles Captain Marvel. While they fight they restate the Elders' claims and try to persuade each other that they're on the wrong side. IM disrupts CM's control of her energy, but she splits into multiple images and then attacks him with magnetism. He counters that with a forcefield so she just pours energy at him. But he absorbs as much of that as his suit can stand and then fires it all back in an intense laser burst which renders her unconscious. But Tony Stark is left wondering whether Grandmaster really is the villain here.

Mockingbird chooses to fight Captain America rather than She-Hulk, leaving husband Hawkeye to deal with her. She figures she stands a good chance against another costumed athlete, and she keeps up chatter to distract him. She joins her battlestaves into their telescoping pole mode, and Cap has to use his shield to avoid her long-range strikes. Steve Rogers 'runs away' and leads Bobbi Barton into a tangle of huge thorny branches. She follows leaping from branch to branch but her pole isn't so useful here. Suddenly Cap turns and throws his shield to break the pole apart. Then he dives to the attack and relieves her of 1 of the staves. But he turns and runs again, deeper into the tangle. As Mocky follows her long loose sleeves get snagged on thorns, and Cap is able to take her other stave and accept her surrender.

Meanwhile Surfer has found Death and implores her, as 1 of the highest beings in the universe, to ignore Grandmaster's wager and let the Avengers go.

Henry Pym faces his ex-wife Janet Van Dyne. Wasp expects to win because Hank can't shrink any more and her stingers have been improved. But Dr Pym pulls out 1 of his shrunken artefacts - a plexi-glass shield to repel her stings. And then 3 flying guns to attack her. She dodges them and then flies behind Hank's head so that their blasts all hit him in the face. But Jan is worried when he falls to the ground. She quickly destroys the guns and flies down to check he's still alive. But he was playing possum - his weapons won't work on him. He captures her in a bubble of sleep gas.

Thor and Wonder Man trade mighty blows even as the Thunder God tries to persuade Simon to let Grandmaster  save them all. But Williams is intent on proving himself unbeatable, until Thor summons the power of a storm into Mjolnir and throws it at WM knocking him out.

Tigra doesn't know what she's facing in Dr Druid. His telepathy enables him to dodge her attacks, and he sends 2 monsters against her. Until she realises they are illusions because they have no scent. And he can't take over her mind because it's half-cat. He runs into an area with towers of stones and topples 1 on her - but that's an illusion too. He topples another 1 which she ignores, until a real rock lands on her tail. The distraction allows him to dominate her mind.

It's Black Knight vs Moon Knight. Dane Whitman explains how Dr Strange has purged his magic Ebony Blade of its bloodthirst. But if he kills with it the curse will return. However he's willing to risk that for his comrades. MK throws various weapons (which he recently learned were designed by Hawkeye in the distant past) at BK but the sword deals with them all until bolas tangle his legs. However he tricks MK into cutting the bolas with his axe and then leaps to the attack. But Marc Spector throws himself on the sword. Shocked Whitman is easily KO'd with an ankh. And MK reveals that he held his body to 1 side within his cloak and has the sword trapped under his armpit.

We finally get to Hawkeye vs She-Hulk. And the results are tied so this is the decider. A blast arrow doesn't stop Shulk so Clint tries to talk her into switching sides - when Thing left the WCA and returned to the Fantastic Four, his stand-in Jennifer Walters should have transferred to the Whackos rather than back to her old bunch the Eakos. But she just responds by breaking his bow and crushing his quiver of arrows. Running away he tricks her into falling into a lake. Then the archer quickly fashions a bow and arrows from sturdy reeds (and a spare bowstring). But he has no time to attach his trick arrowheads so he throws an explosive head into the water where the concussion knocks Jen back down again. This gives him time to complete a gas arrow. And as She-Hulk surfaces to gulp in air she gets a lungful of sleeping gas.

The West Coasters have won and the awake Easterners honourably surrender, hoping that the right side has won. The WCA hope that they've rescued the others from the fate Grandmaster planned. But GM makes no move. Instead he waits as Death materialises before them, but apparently bound. All the Avengers are now awake. And now GM gloats. His plan all along was to get Death's attention - and now he has won the universe.

To be continued in AVENGERS ANNUAL #16.


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What If Rick Jones Had Become The Hulk?
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What If The Gamma Bomb Spawned A Thousand Hulks?
During the war torn year of 1944, Nazi forces infiltrate Americas Manhattan Project. Captain America rushes in to save the day. Cornered and defeated the Nazis destroy all research and equipment related to the Atomic Weapons. However, fragments of notes on new, untested Gamma Isotopes were recovered and work began anew In desperation to end the world war, the United States decides to drop a Gamma Bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. Three days later another was dropped on Nagasaki. Unforeseen by the Americans, the results of the Gamma Bombs caused the survivors of the Bombs to mutate into hulking creatures of primal rage. Other survivors also mutated by the bomb retained their intelligence, while others were left unmarred by their ordeals but their mental capacities were increased. These last survivors rallied all the others to form an army, the Emperors Oni or demons. The Oni quickly spread through the West, destroying all superheroes of the era, who got in their path. Even Prince Namor was forced to retreat to his underwater kingdom. In the US, on Capital Hill, Major Thunderbolt Ross stood alongside Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos to defend the Nations Capitol against the Onithey were annihilatedand so began forty years of occupation. Americans became second-class citizens in their own country, subjugated by the master of the Emperors Oni, the LEADER. The Leaders Oni had pledged allegiance to him over that of the Emperor, causing strain in the government. Nick Furys Revolutionary Army, Shield, began a guerrilla war in the streets of America. The leader however, began noticing that he and the other Oni were slowing dieing of Gamma exposure. Enlisted to find a way to prevent this, Dr. Bruce Banner, who had theorized that an additional booster dose of gamma might prevent harm to the Oni. At this time, Professor Charles Xavier discovered mutant traits in humans that granted them extraordinary powershe and his students vanished without a trace. Reed Richards and his team were researching Cosmic Rays, when a malfunction caused them to mutatethe leader ordered them confined for study, like lab rats. It was now that Bruce Banner had finally developed a prototype for curing the Oni, that Nick Fury approached him to sabotage the device. Banner refused. Guards stopped and searched that evening Banners wife, Betty. One recognized her as the daughter of Thunderbolt Ross in the battle of Capital Hill, and immediately killed her. Overcome with grief of the loss of his wife, Banner decided to do as Fury suggested and sabotage the experiment, in hopes of destroying the Leader and his kind. At the test site, Nick Fury took matters into his own hands and snuck into the test site to destroy the Gamma device. Fearing the loss of Americas greatest revolutionary, Banner enters the test site and shoves Fury into a protective trench just as the Gamma device explodesbathing him in Gamma rays and transforming him into the likeness of his enemies, a Hulk. Using his newfound strength to lash out at the Oni, Banner joined with the superhero army, and Professor Xaviers X-Men to free Reed Richards team and strike back against their suppressors. Prince Namor also came to join the fight alongside Fury, the leader of the revolution. But will they be enough to stop the power of the Oni? Only time will tell.


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What If The New Fantastic Four Remained Together?
Patterned after the events of Fantastic Four #347-349, but in this instance the original FF are slain by a female Skrull posing as the Invisible Woman. Hulk, Wolverine, and Spiderman replay the events of the past few days while they talk at the closing of the FF funeral. In the background are Namor, Franklin Richards and Agatha Harkness. Ghost Rider confronts the 3 other heroes stating that the FF were the Earths first line of defense against extraterrestial foes and they must fill the void left by the FFs deaths. They agree and move into Four Freedoms Plaza. Spiderman tries to figure out the genius of Reed Richards machinery while Mary Jane samples an old FF uniform. The New FF has its first successes, while being observed by Dr. Doom, and as a team confront Spider-Mans Sinister Six, soundly routing them. The New FF is starting to become a family as well as a team. Mary Jane is confronted un a unidentified assailant while the New FF discuss the business of paying the rent and their team/family dynamics. Their meeting is interrupted by a hole in the wall made by the Abomination and Lady Deathstrike After some skimishing, a Kree agent, and a Skrull with MJ under his arm appear as Dan Ketch becomes Ghost Rider. The Kree, Skrull, Lady Deathstrike and the Abomination manage to eject the Hulk and subdue the others. Mary Jane cradles Spiderman as the villains move in. Dr. Doom then appears incinerating the four villains saying that only he may destroy the FF. The New FF agrees to disband amid the destruction of Four Freedoms Plaza.


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What If Jarella Had Not Died?
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What If The Avengers Had Never Been?
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What If The Hulk Had Evolved Into The Maestro?
Diverges from: Incredible Hulk #377. During Doc Samson's attempt to merge all of the Hulk's personas into one being through psychotherapy, Bruce realized that the "monster" that haunted him all of his life was his father. However, instead of an image of Bruce's mother serving to overcome the image of Bruce's father and uniting the personas, Bruce "attacked" and "killed" the image of his father and resolved never to be weak again. As a result, Banner went into a catatonic state. However, the Ringmaster, who assisted Doc Samson by hypnotizing Bruce, laughed at Bruce during the critical juncture following Bruce's resolution of his fear. (The Ringmaster's mocking of the Hulk may have pushed the Hulk over the edge at this critical point since the Hulk's inability to be respected over the years may have played a role in him becoming the Maestro in other alternate realities.) Since all three of the Hulk's personas merged into one being, the Hulk became a intelligent, cunning, and powerful being. As a result of the circumstances of his merger, namely the Ringmaster's mocking and Bruce "killing" the mental image of his father, the Hulk also became ruthless. In fact, he began to act like the Maestro. At this point in time, however, he was not very articulate since the merger had not stabilized. The first thing that he did was crush the Ringmaster's skull. Resolving to keep his childhood fears of his father a secret, the Hulk cut the power in the hospital. Realizing that everyone in the hospital was in danger, Doc Samson contacted the Fantastic Four for help. However, before Doc Samson could fully explain the situation to them, he was killed by the Hulk. Later, the Hulk killed virtually everyone in the hospital. After Betty revealed that she knew his secret, the Hulk attempted to kill her as well. However, Reed Richards and the horribly mutated Thing arrived and attacked him. Realizing that he needed to hide while his thought processes became stable, the Hulk grabbed Betty, leapt away and hid in a nearby zoo. However, Reed and the Thing tracked and pursued the Hulk to the zoo. Upon arriving, Reed equipped the Thing with a gamma pulse emitter that he hoped would transform the Hulk back into Bruce. He also gave the Thing a radiation suit that would protect him from the intense radiation that the emitter projected and prevent him from being further mutated. Although the Thing was initially hunting the Hulk, the Hulk quickly turned the tables and began hunting the Thing. To this end, he distracted and attempted to tire the Thing by causing him to chase after sounds in the zoo. The sounds were actually the animal necks that the Hulk broke. As the Thing came across each animal's corpse, each animal turned out to be more evolved than the previous. Shortly after the Thing found the a gorilla's corpse, the Hulk attacked the Thing and caused his radiation suit to be shredded. Desperate, the Thing ignored Reed's warning and fired the gamma pulse emitter at the Hulk at point blank range. By this time, the Hulk's merger was stabilized and he articulately scoffed at the Thing's attempts. Afterwards, he hurled the radioactive Thing into Reed, who died from the intense radiation. However, the residual radiation from the gamma pulse emitter destabilized the merger of the Hulk's personas. Consequently, he cycled mentally and physically through his various incarnations. After the Hulk transformed into his Bruce Banner persona, Bruce realized that the new Maestro-like incarnation would eventually become permanently dominant. To save Betty from this new incarnation, Bruce, he snuck behind the Thing and shouted "Hulk SMASH!" Instinctively, the Thing turned and punched Bruce. Bruce was killed instantly.


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What if the Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War Two?
In the closing days of World War 2, Captain America and Bucky pursue Baron Zemo’s robot plane; the bomb explodes, killing Bucky and sending Cap into suspended animation to be revived years later by the Avengers. The Watcher then shows us what happened next in our world: the Human Torch and Toro killed Hitler, the Sub-Mariner defeated the Japanese fleet, and Spitfire and Union Jack saved Churchill from an assassination attempt. The surviving Invaders are brought together in London and presented with the tragic news: Captain America and Bucky are dead. They are then flown to Washington for a meeting with President Truman, who informs them that for the duration of the war in the Pacific, Captain America must live on. A new Cap is introduced, the former hero Spirit of ’76, and a new Bucky, Yankee batboy Fred Davis. The President asks the team to stay together until the war is completely won, and introduces two new members for the team, Miss America and the Whizzer, of the defunct Liberty Legion. The team serves for the next several months until the dropping of the atom bomb forces Japan to surrender. The President then requests that the team stay together to fight crime under the name the All-Winners Squad. The team battles the arch-villain Isbisa and his minions and, on his defeat, the Sub-Mariner announces plans to return home and the Torch and Toro plan a visit to Torch’s creator Professor Horton. Arriving at the Professor’s Boston home, they are greeted by an android duplicate of Horton. It is a trap by Horton’s second android creation Adam-II, plotting to conquer the world with his own android army. Locked in a tank with the real Professor, the heroes face drowning until the Torch manages to heat the tank enough to trigger the fire alarm. The hero known as the Patriot comes to their rescue and Horton warns them that Adam-II is planning to replace a local politician with an android double. The rest of the All-Winners Squad is summoned and they search the city. Cap and Bucky find the androids near a campaign stop by Congressional candidate John F. Kennedy, and battle the enemy. Cap races to the top of Old North Church to signal the others but he is caught and crushed by an android. He manages to fire a flare into the android’s face before collapsing. The flash alerts the rest of the team, who arrive in time to save Kennedy from death. Captain America arrives to confront Adam-II who is destroyed in a car wreck as he tries to escape. Cap informs the assembled heroes that the real Captain America died from his injuries atop the church, and unmasks to reveal the face of the Patriot. A somber team pays honor to their fallen comrade.


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What If Thor Fought Odin Over Jane Foster?
In Thor #136 Odin judged Jane Foster unsuitable to become an Asgardian. Thor accepted the ruling then, but the main story in this issue explores an alternate reality where he didn't.As usual Uatu the Watcher is our guide. He shows us Thor transporting his love to Asgard and presenting her to Odin. If she is to wed his son then she must be an Asgardian goddess. The All-Father transforms her clothes into Asgardian raiment and gifts her the power of flight. Jane goes on a test flight, but partway through she is assailed by doubt and falls from the sky. Thor of course saves her.But Odin now doubts her suitability for immortal godhood. He decrees a test - she must face the Unknown. An advisor advises against it saying that only Odin can stand against the Unknown (which does call Odin's wisdom here into question). After that comment Jane is justifiably scared when she's thrown into a darkened room with the monster. She calls out for Thor who rushes in and beats  back the foe.Jane now says she doesn't want to be an Asgardian and Odin agrees she's unsuitable. So he sends her back to Earth with selective amnesia and arranges for a new life as nurse with Don Blake lookalike Dr Keith Kincaid. And the loss of Jane is assuaged when Thor meets the goddess Sif.That's what happened in the main Marvel timeline.But in this alternate reality Thor refuses to let Odin send Jane Foster away, claiming that the judgement was unfair. (Well sending her against the Unknown certainly didn't sound fair.) Odin gets angry as usual and banishes both of them to Earth, but this time Jane gets to keep her memories and Asgardian gear. They see Dr Kincaid, and Thor realises what Odin's devious plan had been,Thor takes Jane to Avengers Mansion for help. He hasn't been back since the old order changeth-ed in Av#16 and this is the 1st time (apart from mingling in Reed and Sue's wedding in Fantastic Four Annual #3) he's met Captain America's new team of Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. But of course he knows the returnees Giant-Man, now Goliath, and Wasp. And they call in Iron Man to complete the old guard.Thor explains why he needs their help. He says that some evil has corrupted Asgardians including Odin, and he needs their aid to fight it. (I don't know if he really believes this, but he doesn't say anything about the Jane situation.) They all agree to go with him except Quicksilver who says their job is to protect Earth not Asgard.Meanwhile Odin's Grand Vizier (who actually wasn't a regular in the series at this point) expresses his opinion that this wasn't 1 of Odin's better moves. Odin dismisses him and the Vizier goes to Thor's palace Thrudvangar hoping to prevent things from going too disastrously wrong. This doesn't go unnoticed by the populace.Thor, Jane and the Avengers arrive on the Rainbow Bridge. Heimdall lets them pass but warns them he foresees much death. The Vizier greets them saying he thinks Thor is in the right but wishes to avoid battle. And many Asgardian warriors have flocked to his cause.Meanwhile (again) Odin recalls Loki from exile (in space since Journey Into Mystery #123) to lead his troops against Thor. Loki asks for Enchantress and Executioner to be his lieutenants, and Odin releases them from imprisonment and gives them their powers back (which doesn't fit in with any previous appearance that I can recall). And he gives Loki his own war-sword as proof of his authority. And Balder agrees to serve Loki out of loyalty to his liege, even when Sif begs him not to fight Thor who she has long adored from afar. (Loki of course plans to overthrow Odin once he's dealt with Thor.)Thor's assembled Asgardians pledge to fight for the cause of true love and the honour of Jane Foster. (The Avengers aren't present here so they still seem to be ignorant of what this is really all about.) Vizier is worried that they're treating it like a game and won't fight hard against the other Asgardians. He suggests Thor use the Avengers as the front line. Thor objects that they are mortals.So Vizier gives the Avengers Asgardian powers. Iron Man's armour is proofed against Asgardian magic. Scarlet Witch's hex-power is augmented with the Asgardian magic. Hawkeye is given a bow that never misses (which he claims of course he never needs). Goliath gets Thor's belt of strength so he can overcome his current weakness when growing too big. Cap gets an invincible sword. And Wasp's stings are enhanced to affect Asgardians.Executioner brings a royal proclamation declaring them all outlaws. Hogun rallies the rebels to fight. And battle is joined in the countryside. (We see Hogun with the other 2 Warriors Three - Fandral and Volstagg.) Cap has a swordfight with Balder. He loses but Scarlet Witch saves him. Jane goes to Heimdall and asks him to stop the carnage, but it's beyond him.Iron Man begins to question the 'evil' of the other side, and fights his way to an audience with Odin to plead for a truce. Odin sends him to Thor with a (literal) olive branch, but Loki can't let that happen. He meets Iron Man on the battlefield and kills him with Odin's sword. Thor finds the dying hero. With his dying breath Tony Stark mentions Odin. But he's dropped the olive branch and Thor thinks he's blaming his father. Igron (another character who hadn't actually showed up by Thor #136) shows Odin the scene on a magic screen. Odin sees the hate and anger in his son, and his heart is hardened.Goliath fights Executioner, and Loki is happy to see the whole battle continuing with nobody winning - so more carnage. He gives Igron the Glove of the Lamia and sends him to Odin with a cunning plan. When Igron claps Odin's shoulder much of the Odin Power is transferred to Loki. He then engages his half-brother Thor in 1-on-1 combat, on equal terms for the 1st time. He has Thor at his mercy when Wasp hits him with a full power sting. But the Asgardian enhancement means she *kills* Loki.Thor blames Odin for this too. He swears vengeance for Loki and Iron Man and smashes his way into the Palace Imperial. Odin sends an Odin-Bolt to remove his godhood and immortality, but with much of his power stolen it doesn't work. Thor's forces reach the throne room but Odin grasps the hilt of the Over Sword. (JiM#117 revealed that to unsheath this sword will bring on Ragnarok, the end of the Gods.)Neither Thor nor Odin will back down, until the Vizier and Jane Foster bring them to their senses. At last they talk. Odin says that all the times he seemed to be cruel to Thor it was to forge him into the best of the Asgardians. This included sending him to Earth as mortal Don Blake. But this backfired because Thor came to love the mortals, especially Jane. And Odin got jealous.Although father and son are now reconciled, Thor says he can no longer pay allegiance to Odin. He takes Jane and his followers and builds a separate court elsewhere in Asgard. And they henceforth live apart in mutual misery.In a backup story the Watcher tells the 3nd in a sequence called Untold Tales Of The Marvel Universe. Unlike most stories in What If? these are not from alternate timelines, they are from the history of the main timeline.The First Uni-MindWriter Mark Gruenwald. Penciller Ron Wilson. Inker Alan Kupperberg. Letterer Jack Morelli. Colourist Nel Yomtov.Last issue ended with an explosion in the polar city Titanos. No-one was harmed, but in fact the inhabitants feel envigorated. 2 brothers Alars and Zuras rush to the site of the explosion - their father Chronos' laboratory. They are greeted by a manifestation of his face which explains last issues plot:- The war between Chronos and his brother Uranos which divided the people and ended with the banishment of the losing side. How he sought and found the cosmic essence of life in order to grant his people immortality. The explosion of that force which destroyed his body but enhanced his consciousness so that his disembodied form is now immortalChronos is going off to explore the universe (and become one with it). But 1st he tells his sons that the cosmic radiation has made all his people immortal too, in body. He implores the brothers not to fall out like he and Uranos did. And bids them farewell.Alars and Zuras bring the news to the people of Titanos, and rename them the Eternals. But now they must choose a ruler to replace Chronos. Like most of the foreign countries invented in democratic American comics this is an hereditary kingdom, so the king must be 1 of the brothers. But the populace can democratically choose which 1.The Eternals levitate into the air and fly in a ritual circle around the sons of Chronos. But then the ritual takes a surprising new turn. Alars and Zuras are converted into living cosmic fire. The other Eternals fly in to join them. And out of the ball of energy emerges a giant brain - the combined intelligence of the Eternals which will be called the Uni-Mind.In this state they reach a collective decision. And then the Uni-Mind dissolves back into the individual Eternals. Alars speaks the decision they all know they have made - that Zuras will be their leader.But Alars also says that his and Zuras' ideas for the future are radically different. Rather than risk the civil discord Chronos warned against he chooses to leave - and flies off into space.This issue and last are a retelling of much of Jim Starlin's origin of the inhabitants of Titan in Captain Marvel #29. 1 main difference is changing the Greek Titans and Gods into Eternals with similar names. The other big difference is that it ends with Alars heading into space and doesn't say that he went to Titan, founded a civilisation there, took the name Mentor and was father to Thanos and Eros. But authorities such as the Marvel Universe Handbooks and online sources Marvel Wiki, Marvel Chronology Project and comicbookdb.com agree that he is that man.The next 3 chapters in this series (written like this 1 by Mark Gruenwald doing what he did best) instead take a step back and follow what happened to the banished Uranos and his followers from last issue. They manage to land on Uranus where they find a dome left behind by the Kree with a Sentry robot on guard. They destroy the Sentry, liberate loads of advance weapons and build a spaceship to go back to Earth and defeat Chronos and co, leaving 4 dissenters behind on Uranus.But the Kree have detected the death of the Sentry and send an armada to deal with what they assume is their old enemy the Skrulls. Seeing only this single ship heading away from Uranus they blast it to pieces and take 1 of the bodies for study. Comparing his DNA with samples they'd previously collected from Earthly man-apes they discover that he is a greatly evolved version of those creatures. This spurs them to go to Earth and create the Inhumans (designed to be used a supersoldiers in Kree wars).Meanwhile Uranos and the others survive space and land on a moon of Saturn which they name Titan in memory of Titanos. They create a civilisation there. But this is not the civilisation of Alars/Mentor. The authorities append the rest of Starlin's story to the events of this issue. Starlin said that after exploring the universe Alars came back to the Solar System and found the ruins of a previous civilisation on Titan which had wiped itself out in war. *That* obviously was the legacy of Uranos.But what of the Eternals left on Uranus. This series doesn't spell it out but again the authorities get the message. They also started a race of Eternals living on Uranus. 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What if Captain America Were Elected President?
In our reality, Captain America was courted as a third-party candidate for President but ultimately declined. The Watcher now shows us an alternate reality in which Cap accepted the nomination, choosing as his running mate Andrew Jackson Hawk, an African American Senator. Once Hawk is convinced that he is not being added to the ticket as a gimmick he accepts. The two Major Party candidates, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, frame the issue as one of experience, yet on election day, Cap wins with over 50% of the popular vote. On Inaugural Day, the new President keeps his first promise…and unmasks on the spot (shocking Bernie Rosenthal, watching at home). An assassin immediately fires a shot a Cap but the hero outraces his Secret Service protectors to capture the man personally….
The trust the American people place in him leads President Rogers to a number of early successes, including funding and building an orbiting solar collecting station to reduce dependence on foreign oil. Rogers also supports the rebels in the South American country of San Pedro, leading to a democracy in that nation under Presidente Jacinto Morez. Against Vice-President Hawk’s advice, Rogers visits San Pedro as the guest of Presidente Morez. At the Presidential Palace, Morez unmasks to reveal he is…the Red Skull! Explaining that, as Captain America’s natural counterpart, he needed a country of his own, he blasts Steve with a handy weapon and locks him in a dungeon. The Skull hijacks the solar collector (which he has converted into a weapon using technology shared with San Pedro) and uses it to hold the people of America hostage while showing them their President as his prisoner. The villain announces he will use the orbiting weapon to destroy Washington D.C. and SHIELD can’t stop him. Cap manages to escape from his cell and sabotages the machine, redirecting its beam at the capital of San Pedro. As the beam reaches their location, Captain America and the Red Skull die together, locked in hand-to-hand combat. The story ends with Cap’s funeral and a Bible quote: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith" (the Apostle Paul’s last words, 2 Timothy 4:7).


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What If The Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Brain?
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The Man, The Monster
Meet Colonel Bruce Banner, creator of the gamma bomb. On the day of the first test of his new creation, a young man is spotted on the test site just minutes before the bomb is to hit. Col. Banner races out to save the boy, and hopefully still save his reputation in the process (if the young man is on the device when it goes off, all of Banner's readings will be in error). He reaches the boy, but unfortunately is too late. The young man (we're to assume it's Rick Jones) is incinerated instantly, and Col. Banner is changed forever. In this version of the origin of the Hulk, the story is more about domestic violence and how power corrupts Banner. His alter ego is more of a scared child trapped in a powerful creature's body. His cover-ups of his experiment gone wrong are truly evil, even going as far as to cause a war with the Middle East by blowing up a US submarine and blaming it on the creature (who is really Banner himself). Banner's treatment of his wife, Betty, is even more sadistic (after one of their fights, she awakens in a hospital to find that her jaw has been wired shut). In the end, Betty is placed into a mental institution by Doc Samson, because of a threat from Banner of being placed on the front lines of the war he created.


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What If Gwen Stacy Had Lived?
The main story in this issue considers what might have happened if Gwen Stacy hadn't died in Amazing Spider-Man #121.It's the anniversary of her death and Spider-Man sits on top of the George Washington Bridge where it happened. Peter Parker recalls how much in love they had been. But he also remembers how Green Goblin had brought the unconscious girl there. The hero and villain had both learned each other's identity, and now Spidey's arch-foe wanted him to allow himself to be killed, or Norman Osborn would kill Gwen. Peter was suffering from the flu so his fighting wasn't up to par. He tried to take down Goblin with 1 punch but failed. And the villain knocked Gwen off the tower as he flew away. Spider-Man stopped his love's fall with a webline. But when he hauled her back up she was dead. (Some say her neck snapped when he caught her.)Uatu the Watcher has been watching (what else?) this. He can also see into alternate timelines that diverged from the main 1 at specific moments. He now shows us 1 where Gwen Stacy lived.The fight occurs as before and unconscious Gwen is knocked off the bridge. But this time Spidey chooses to leap after the plummeting girl. His initial leap causes him to fall faster than her, and as he passes Gwen he grabs her and fires off a webline to swing on. But in his haste he forgets to allow for the wind and misses the bridge. Twisting to get his body beneath her they disappear into the Hudson River. And Norman Osborn flies off gloating on his Goblin Glider.But he celebrated too soon as the pair resurface. Spidey drags Gwen to land and unmasks to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She awakes to see Peter's concerned face ...... but then screams as she recognises the costume of the man who she thinks killed her father (ASM#90). Peter gradually gets Gwen to listen as he explains how Capt George Stacy really died (and presumably some other things like how he blames himself for his Uncle Ben's death, and how Green Goblin knows who he is and vice versa). Doctor Octopus knocked a wall off a roof. Capt Stacy saved a boy from the falling rubble but was hit himself. As he died he revealed he knew Spider-Man was Peter and asked him to look after his daughter.And when he knows she believes him Peter caps the tale by asking Gwen to marry him. She accepts his proposal, and he webslings off to make sure Norman Osborn can't harm their future.Meanwhile Goblin has called all the mob bosses in New York together and demanded they now work for him on the basis that he's killed Spider-Man. They're not too keen on this even before Spidey shows up still alive. SM fights GG and is winning when Goblin threatens to reveal his identity. At this the mobsters intervene to make sure GG stays alive to tell them. Spidey fights *them* and Goblin slips away.Peter's unstoppable rage has affected Norman's fragile sanity and as he runs away he's convinced he can never escape his nemesis. So on the way he posts a convenient envelope to what he calls Spidey's 2nd greatest enemy to ensure his victory even from the grave.Meanwhile Peter has beaten the gangsters and has now calmed down a bit. He agonises over the necessity to kill Osborn to protect Gwen (and Aunt May and others). But killing is something totally against his beliefs, even without factoring in the fact that Norman is the father of his best friend Harry Osborn.A bit later Norman is at home with Harry and has revealed that he is the Green Goblin (the fact that he's still wearing the costume is a bit of a clue). Norman says they have to kill Peter for their own safety. Harry of course believes his friend Peter won't harm them as long as his dad stops being the Goblin. Norman's volatile mood shifts again and he lashes out at his cowardly son.Spider-Man enters through a window and they start to fight again. Spidey wins again and threatens to kill him (but not so directly). But Harry attacks Peter with a heavy object to save his father, and Spidey automatically responds knocking his friend backwards. This brings Peter to his senses and he goes to help his pal. Goblin uses the lull to bring out his last card - a trigger for a bomb that will destroy the whole house, killing himself but at least taking his hated enemy with him.But Harry refuses Peter's help, and stands up to say if Spider-Man wants to kill his father he'll have to go through him. Norman sees his brave son risking his life - a son he was about to blow up. The pendulum swings again, and it's Norman Osborn rather than Green Goblin who defuses the situation (and the bomb). Father and son tearfully embrace. Peter believes that Norman has been cured of being the Goblin (again), this time without the aid of amnesia. Norman seems to say he'll take responsibility for his crimes, and Spidey leaves them to sort things out.Peter returns to Gwen and they go to take care of an even scarier task - telling Aunt May about their engagement. May Parker of course is delighted and leaps into planning a wedding. At super-speed it seems.Harry has taken his dad to a clinic and Mary Jane Watson has gone with them for support, so they can't attend. Flash Thompson is best man and Joe Robertson is giving the bride away. Betty Brant and Ned Leeds are among the guests. The wedding reaches its conclusion. But then ...... J. Jonah Jameson enters with the police and tells them to arrest Peter Parker for being Spider-Man. He's waving Goblin's envelope. (It's taken him a long time to get the mail and react, no matter how quickly May arranged the wedding.) Aunt May faints (or possibly has a heart attack) at the idea that Peter is that awful Spider-Man. Peter uses his Spider-strength to get to her. Flash warns him about what might happen if the police start shooting in the church. So Peter dives out of a window and escapes.Jameson gloats. Robbie's had enough and resigns from the Daily Bugle. He's going to help Gwen and together they'll clear Peter/Spidey's name. But for now Peter's on the run without his Spider-Man costume and daren't go near his friends or old haunts, facing having to become the criminal they accuse him of being.This issue contains a backup story. It is the 2nd in a sequence called Untold Tales Of The Marvel Universe. Unlike most stories in What If? these are not from alternate timelines, they are from the history of the main timeline.The First EternalsWriter Ralph Macchio. Penciller Rich Buckler. Inker Chic Stone. Letterer Jack Morelli. Colourist Ed Hannigan.Last issue told how the Celestials visited Earth for the 1st time (The First Host) and evolved some of its pre-humans. They created the proto-Eternals and the Deviants, and also a strain that would become humans with the potential for special mutations (later called the X-Gene).Uatu the Watcher continues his narration. The early 'Eternals' (dressed in Jack Kirby gods-style) led by Chronos have powers of molecular manipulation which they use to create the city of Titanos on a remote Arctic mountain to keep their civilisation hidden from the rest of the world. But Uranos thinks this is the wrong tack - they should use their superiority to rule the world. Chronos just wants to study it.Of course this means war. Many citizens of Titanos die in battle before Chronos  personally defeats Uranos. Uranos and his surviving followers are banished to the planet Uranus.Peace returns and Chronos continues his scientific research. He isolates the cosmic energy that gives them their powers. But an accident causes an explosion of that cosmic life-essence. Even as it destroys his body it transforms him into an immaterial being who becomes one with the universe. And it makes his brethren immortal so that they now are the Eternals.


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What If Wolverine Had Killed The Hulk?
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What If The Avengers Were The Last Superheroes On Earth?
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What if…Captain America and Bucky Had Both Survived World War II?
The Watcher takes us back to the closing days of World War 2, as Captain America and Bucky pursue Baron Zemo’s robot plane; the bomb explodes, killing Bucky and sending Cap into suspended animation to be revived years later by the Avengers. But the cosmic being gives us a glimpse of another reality, in which Cap successfully defuses the bomb and he and Bucky are able to crash land the plane and be rescued by a British ship. Meanwhile, Baron Zemo escapes and reports to his master, the Red Skull—and learns the price of failure is to be put into a coma for 20-30 years. As the War winds down, Cap and Bucky see action with Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. A decade later, the older Cap and "Buck" are fighting Commies rather than Nazis as the 50s give way to the 60s. President Lyndon Johnson calls Cap to his office and outlines his plan to create a spy agency called SHIELD to combat the terrorist group Hydra—and he wants Steve Rogers to run it. Steve politely declines but recommends his now-retired partner Buck Barnes for the job. Some years later, when Cap and Buck are walking down the street, the Hulk suddenly appears, threatening Rick Jones. Buck grabs Cap’s shield and rescues the boy from his monstrous companion. This convinces Steve that he is getting too old for the Captain America role and that Buck would be the perfect successor. So Buck and Rick become the new hero team, while Steve takes the job as head of SHIELD. The day comes when Steve leads SHIELD in a final assault against Hydra’s base on a volcanic island. Captain America and Rick join them and the large group invades the enemy stronghold. A battle breaks out and a booby-trapped weapon leads to the capture of Steve, Cap, Rick, and Sharon. Steve recognizes the Supreme Hydra as the now-mad Baron Zemo. Steve uses the remains of the super-soldier serum in his body to burst his bonds and free his allies, as Zemo’s minions enter the room. In the violent melee that follows Zemo is inundated with magma and the heroes escape—but Steve learns that Cap was critically wounded; he dies before they can get him to a hospital. At Buck’s funeral, a bitter Sharon blames Steve for his death and walks out. As Steve engages in some soul-searching, Rick volunteers to become the new Captain America. Steve’s reply, "We’ll talk about it, Rick…just…not now."


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What If The Hulk Went Berserk?!
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What If Rick Jones Remained the Hulk
In Incredible Hulk #324, Rick Jones is accidentally immersed in a nutrient batch designed to stabilize Bruce Banner's molecular cohesion as one Hulk. Banner emerges as a grey Hulk and in #325 it's revealed that Rick has become a new green Hulk. The Leader (now plain human Samuel Sterns) and Banner later team up to siphon the gamma radiation from the Rick Hulk. This would then be fed into Sterns to recreate the Leader. In this issue of What If, however, the Rick Hulk dodges the power siphon and turns it on the grey Hulk, thus curing Banner once and for all. The Leader and now-cured Banner track down Rick Hulk and manage to subdue him and return him to the lab where the siphoning was attempted. The Leader and Rick Hulk are reattached to the power siphon and the switch is flipped. But Banner cannot allow the Leader to absorb all of Rick's gamma radiation so he redirects some of it to an electrical harness he had concealed beneath his jacket, and he changes. Cut to Doc Samson and SHIELD agents arriving at the lab to find a cured Rick and a comatose Samuel Sterns. Doc curses Banner for tipping them off to his plan using a timed delay so they couldn't interfere. The Hulk is elsewhere, gloating about expecting Banner's treachery and planning for it--he is trapped inside Stern's comatose body while the Leader has taken over the form of the Incredible Hulk. In the parting words of the Watcher, "Shed a bitter tear for this world!"