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Death of a Monster!
Story continued from
TOMB OF DRACULA #18.
At his castle, Count
Dracula prepares to feast on the blood of the Werewolf but the beast is able to
fight him off so that the sorceress Topaz can use her powers to force the vampire
away. Dracula gives up and flies off to prey on a less-formidable victim. As
Topaz and Werewolf escape, she describes the power of Dracula as well as an
inner conflict and she is now drained, physically and mentally….
Meanwhile, Frank Drake
and Rachel van Helsing arrive via helicopter, having pursued Dracula from
Paris. But the vampire spies them and, in bat form, attacks Frank so that he
loses control of the copter though he manages to pull out of it at the last
minute….
The next day, Jack
and Topaz manage to open his father’s magically sealed diary and begin reading.
The story begins in 1795 when his ancestor Grigory Russoff discovered his wife
had been killed by Count Dracula. Russoff tracked the vampire to his lair and
dispatched him with a stake to the heart. Searching the castle, Russoff
discovered a woman named Lydia imprisoned by Dracula; he set her free then
discovered she was a werewolf. She bit Russoff and the curse of the werewolf
has descended though Frank’s family ever since….
Rachel and Frank are
attacked by Dracula in mist form at their hotel but Dracula senses that the
Russoff diary which he seeks has been opened; he fears the diary contains the
secret of his death. Back at the castle, Dracula decides to sabotage Frank and
Rachel’s copter but the Werewolf, able to retain Jack’s consciousness via
Topaz’s magic, arrives to confront him. They battle until Dracula spies Topaz
standing nearby holding the diary. Dracula seizes it from her but Rachel
arrives to shoot it out of his hands with a crossbow bolt. Rachel and Frank run
to the copter with the book and take off, Dracula in pursuit. Werewolf and
Topaz just stand and watch….


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Finale
Last issue Tigra and Wonder Man with Shroud fought Graviton and Blank. Gravy sent Blank, Shroud and Tigra into the ocean. Tigra finds half-drowned Shroud but there's no sign of Blank. She sends out an emergency call and Iron Man comes to their rescue.Back at Avengers Compound they let Shroud rest to recover. And as Tigra dries out and warms up they plan to go after Graviton and find Simon Williams. Hawkeye wants to talk tactics with fellow old-hand Iron Man. But IM finally has to come clean. He knows nothing about Graviton because he isn't the original Golden Avenger. Clint Barton begins to question his competence, but IM says it was him who blasted a way out of the mountain that Molecule Man buried them under in Secret Wars #4. They shake hands while Mockingbird scopes out the approaches to Graviton's newly-acquired mansion.Later at that Santa Monica mansion the interrupted party has resumed. Some of the women Graviton has invited are comparing notes on how creepy he is. But they're not going to say anything to his face.A gunman answers a knock at the door to face someone with a bigger gun, followed by Maggia boss Madame Masque. Graviton welcomes her as a fellow crimelord, and boasts of his gravity power. Masque asks if he's worried about the new local Avengers team. To demonstrate how worried he isn't he shows her Wonder Man drowned in his pool. Her bodyguard Louis looks unduly shocked by the scene. Masque slaps him for showing weakness.Then Iron Man attacks, but Graviton's forcefield protects him and Masque. Another blast knocks Louis into some bushes. Then Shellhead goes after Graviton's goons. Until Gravvy starts using his power to knock him around.But in the pool Wonder Man's hand flexes. And in the house a waitress removes her uniform to reveal that of Mockingbird underneath. She calls Hawkeye to initiate phase 2 of their plan. Outside Iron Man is still taking a pasting. But he's taking it. And Graviton starts to feel lightheaded. All his men have passed out due to the sedative Bobbi put in their drinks, but the boss is less affected. And Wondie's fingers dig into the pool floor.Hawkeye and Mockingbird join the fight. Bobbi hurls her staves at the forcefield and Clint tries to ram it with his skycycle. Graviton hurls him away without realising he's just a dummy. And then 'Louis' reaches out from the bushes to retrieve his bow and arrows. Masque urges Gravvy to focus on the real threat Iron Man.Meanwhile in the pool Wonder Man is fighting against the ultrastrong gravity field that the villain used to pin him there. The sides of the pool collapse, and Simon struggles out. Startled, Graviton fails to maintain the forcefield around himself and Madame Masque. WM knocks him down, and IM flies off with Masque. The bad guy flies after them. And Mockingbird and still-disguised Hawkeye rush up to tell Simon what's going on.Gravvy follows Masque's screams to an electricity substation where Iron Man is hooked  up to the power grid. It's a contest of power between the villain and the souped-up hero. But the cable connecting the Golden Avenger to the power source melts. Luckily Graviton seems drained.Masque runs up to check if he's alright. And then she punches him. Taking off her Masque she turns out to really be Greer Grant. And a touch on her mystic talisman turns her back to the more recognisable Tigra. Graviton erects a shaky forcefield, but it's only just enough to repel IM and WM when they attack together. Mockingbird pilots Hawkeye's skycycle as her now-costumed husband shoots arrows with tranquilliser gas in the heads. And at last their foe collapses.US Marshals arrive to take Graviton away to a special prison, and the Avengers return home to their barbecue. Hawkeye reports their success to Vision at the New York Avengers Mansion, and gets a message of congratulations in reply. And Tigra and Wonder Man have got over their doubts.


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Taking care of business
Iron Man and Wonder Man are helping clear away the summer snowdrifts caused by recent events in the Thor series. Some Los Angelenos are taking advantage of the situation by skiing in shorts and bikinis. Others are turning to looting until Mockingbird and Hawkeye turn up to stop them. A couple try to escape in a car but Tigra foils that. (She's accommodated to the weather by adding boots and legwarmers to her skimpy costume.) But eventually the snow disappears by the same magic that brought it.The snow was around for a week and the West Coast Avengers have been kept busy troubleshooting (presumably not just in LA). Hawkeye suggests they celebrate with a barbecue tonight (and make it an annual event - why just annual?). Wonder Man doesn't seem as enthusiastic as the others, and jets off for some time alone. Clint Barton and wife Bobbi Morse head off to buy ingredients.Tigra takes the Golden Avenger aside for a chat about Simon Williams. She's worried about him and thinks his old pal Iron Man/Tony Stark should have a word. IM is shocked that Tigra thinks she knows his identity. She reminds him that she found out when they fought Molecule Man in Av#216. He has to come clean and admit that he isn't Tony. He's a replacement because of Stark's 'personal problems'.During the time since last issue Graviton has quietly taken over a country estate in the Santa Monica mountains. He bitterly remembers how he was defeated by Thor in his #324 and banished to an interdimensional void. We learn he was in suspended animation there until he was woken by a building flying past (it was the building the Beyonder sent to lure heroes to Battleworld for Secret Wars). Then last issue he detected Blank using a device to charge up the belt that created his forcefield, and after several attempts was able to rematerialise on Earth.Blank is now his (very) junior partner in his scheme to get revenge on the Avengers. The nervous subordinate makes the mistake of reminding Graviton that the Avengers and Thor beat him before. Gravy swears that won't happen again.Tigra finds Simon Williams walking on the private beach of the WCA's Palos Verdes compound. She gets him to unburden himself. Simon says he feels he's not really cut out to be an Avenger, and relates his history. He was given his powers by villains (Masters of Evil in Av#9) to fight the Avengers, but changed sides and appeared to die. Later (Av#151) he came back to life changed, and joined the team. But his experience of 'death' made him a reluctant superhero. During 1 of their periodic reshuffles he left the team (Av#211) to use Hercules' contacts to start a Hollywood acting career.But that didn't pan out so he hired his muscles out to a couple of scientific research groups (probably in Marvel Team-Up #136 and his own 1-shot). Then (Av#239) he appeared with some other ex-Avengers on the David Letterman show. This led to offers of work as a film stunt double. This dangerous work diluted his fear of death, so he was ready for it when Hawkeye asked him to become an Avenger again (WCA#1). But the 1st thing he did as a WCA was let the Blank escape (last issue).Tigra replies that her 1st stint as an Avenger (Av#211-216) didn't work well. And like so many other things in her life, that job and this were just situations that she fell into. She shows Wondie her dark-haired human version, but explains it's only an illusion of her old look cast by the cat amulet in the centre of her bikini top. She's really still furry Tigra. Then she tells him how a race of cat-people turned her into Tigra to save her life. But they all died a year ago.Tigra decides to help Simon catch the Blank in order to get past his 'failure'. She takes him to Cat's Jazz Club to talk to Shroud. But inside they find his associates Cat and Mouse and a wrecked room. The duo don't want to explain what happened until Shroud ghosts in and vouches for the Avengers. Then we learn that a gang that used to work for mob boss 'Lucky Man' Galeno brought a message from their new boss saying they were taking over.Shroud masquerades as a crimelord and so needs to be seen to deal with this himself. But Wonder Man owes him for a violent tackle in #1 so deals himself in. He'll have to be in disguise, but then he is an actor (although some would dispute that).There's a mobster party at Galeno's old place which Shroud gatecrashes with a blond henchman. Tigra, hanging outside a window to watch, tips us off that the blond is actually Simon. 1 of Galeno's gang apologises for smashing up the club - he was only following orders. But Simon picks him up and demands to see the boss. Enter the Blank. (So this is obviously the place Graviton took over - as if we hadn't already guessed.)Blank also apologises, but says it was a necessary move in consolidating all the West Coast mobs. Simon is only too happy to beat some sense into the guy. But he finds himself floating in mid-leap. And Shroud's feet are too heavy to move. Blank throws Simon against Shroud and his blond wig falls off. And Blank recognises him as Wonder Man.Tigra smashes through the window and leaps on Blank. The mobsters draw their guns. But Graviton enters the room to take over the fighting.He increases WM's weight so he falls through the floor. Shroud cloaks him in darkness but Gravy dispels the cloud by making everything in the room spin, including the partygoers. When he stops the whirling he hears Blank calling for help from a corner which is still dark. Another burst of gravity removes that cloud, and pins Blank, Shroud and Tigra against a wall.Despite still being superheavy Wondie climbs back up through the floor to attack. But Graviton 1st holds him at bay, and then sets him floating again. The mastermind has gotten tired of Blank's uselessness. With another gesture he sends his underling, Shroud and Tigra out a window and into the ocean.Back at Avengers Compound Hawkeye has the barbecue fired up, and Iron Man is wondering how he's going to eat anything without raising his faceplate and revealing he's not the old Shellhead. They're beginning to wonder where the other 2 are, and why they don't answer calls.Back at the Galeno estate Graviton is relishing his revenge more personally by holding Wonder Man underwater in the pool.


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Return of the Ant-Man
In #33 Henry Pym seemingly found evidence that his 1st wife Maria Trovaya was still alive in Communist Hungary. The West Coast Avengers went to Bratislava and were confronted by an array of his old Ant-Man Communist foes. They also found Scarlet Witch and Vision in a prison there. In #34 they discovered that the now-evil Quicksilver was behind it all but they escaped to Latveria. Where in #35 they got caught up in the feud between the exiled real Dr Doom and his adopted son Kristoff who *believes* he's Doom. But they got away from there and have now returned to Hungary to continue following the possibility that Maria is alive.Now the WCA (Dr Pym, Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Moon Knight, Tigra and Wonder Man) with their associates Scarlet Witch, Vision and Wasp break into the Bratislava prison where some ants heard Maria being talked about. But Clint Barton and his wife Bobbi are no longer talking since he found out (in #34) that she let her rapist Phantom Rider fall to his death.Suddenly they run into Quicksilver and another old Ant-Man foe the Voice whose amplified voice stops them all in their tracks. Quicksilver starts to retell how Ant-Man went after Communist villains (rather a biased view of the past) in revenge for the death of his wife, so in turn the Communists here experimented in creating their own superhumans. Not having much success they recruited Pietro Maximoff to help them.But now Voice insists on taking over the tale and concentrates on *his* story. How in TTA#42 an accident gave him the power to make anyone do what he commands. But Ant-Man infected him with laryngitis so that he lost his voice. Now we learn that Madame X recruited him and the Hungarian government surgically altered him so that his voice was amplified and output via speakers on his shoulders. And his voice still had the power.Now Voice orders all the other heroes to hunt and kill Henry Pym. And no-one should try to escape. Quicksilver tries to interrupt to say he wants Vision to die instead but Voice forces him to shut up. Dr Pym is taken to the superbeing test area of the prison and ordered to run with a 5 minute head start.Hank does so but reasons that he's going to have to use his wits to survive. He examines the miniaturised objects he keeps in his pockets. He selects 3 of them to enlarge, snaps the camera on to the flying jet and receives the transmission on a wrist TV so he can see where the others are. Now the hunters split up, with Hawkeye and Mockingbird deliberately heading in opposite directions. But we learn that Moon Knight is being controlled by the Moon God Khonshu who is immune to the Voice, and he will try to save Pym surreptitiously.The fugitive has super-enlarged his brace and used another flying jet to hide on top of it. But Hawkeye passes by and detects the heat of expansion. He fires off an arrow but Pym drops down on a line and blasts him with his electric disruptor gun. However Clint has already grounded himself with another arrow so isn't shocked. They tussle until Hank grows a Captain America-like shield and tosses it to break the grounding arrow so he can shoot Hawk again. However the archer manages to toss an arrowhead which breaks on contact with Pym to release water, and DrP is shocked by his own weapon. Then Clint recovers and tries to strangle his friend. But not even the Voice's command can make the Avenger kill him. And Hank is able to KO him with a punch (and a nearby wall) and stagger away, pausing to shrink and pocket his brace.His wrist TV shows him that Scarlet Witch is heading towards him, but she's only a distraction so that Vision can phase out of a wall to grab him. Pym throws a bottle of gas which renders Wanda unconscious. The angry synthezoid starts to crush his spine but Hank grabs his passing flying camera and super-enlarges it so that it falls on Wanda. Vizh lets him go to save his wife from being crushed and DrP limps away.Now Tigra leaps at him but he dodges into a complex of tunnels. Tigra follows but meets Moon Knight who leads her the wrong way. However Bobbi Barton grabs Pym from behind and starts to throttle him. And he knows that she has proven willing to kill (or at least let die) before. Desperately he shrinks the brace holding her battlestave to her forearm, which breaks that arm and the shock renders her unconscious. He enlarges her brace again before leaving her.Now he sees a trail of faithful ants which he follows to a locked reinforced door, which he breaks open by enlarging *his* brace. And inside he finds a seated woman surrounded by machinery. Her brain is extremely enlarged and supported above by a transparent casing. And he recognises her as his wife Maria. He stops the intravenous drug which keeps her sedated. She can't speak to him but her thoughts appear on a screen with which she relates *her* history.We already know from TTA#44 and our #33 how he married the daughter of a Hungarian scientist who had fled to the West. But when the couple honeymooned (ill-advisedly) in Hungary Maria was taken to make her father return. However her dad killed himself instead, and the Hungarian's supposedly disposed of Maria. But now she says that they kept her alive on the grounds that she must know something of her father's work. They used an intelligence-boosting ray on her (the 1 they used to create the Beasts Of Berlin seen in TTA#60 and our recent issues) but it made her brain start growing. They kept her sedated so she wouldn't turn on her creators (as MODOK did to AIM). And they used her intelligence to help them create superbeings such as Crimson Dynamo, Red Guardian and Titanium Man.Now Maria asks Henry to put her out of her misery but instead he swears to find a way to cure her. However to do that he's got to survive and escape, and now Wasp's sting brings him down. And the others join her, including Mockingbird with her arm in a sling. They all pile on him (hence the cover shot) while Moon Knight/Khonshu ponders whether to reveal himself. But Henry calls to Maria to help him. Without the sedating drug she's able to use her mind to release the Avengers from Voice's command.And now she calls together most of the foes from recent issues (Quicksilver, Voice, Madame X, the Beast of Berlin, El Toro and the spies from TTA#35, but not the Scarlet Beetle), prevented from using their powers - or even physically attacking. Pietro tries to escape but finds that he can't run.Finally Henry Pym announces that he's leaving the team to concentrate on curing Maria. His 2nd wife Wasp points out that since Maria is alive *they* were never really married anyway. He responds that this means they were never divorced either. They agree to forget the bad times and remember the good bits. Married Scarlet Witch and Vision are happy to see another 'couple' getting on. But Bobbi chooses this time to tell them all that she and Clint are splitting up.


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Blanking out
4 of the West Coast Avengers are having an outdoor training session. Iron Man pretends to attack Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Tigra with repulsor blasts. Clint Barton attempts to blind their 'foe' with a smoke screen arrow and the 3 scatter. But the Golden Avenger uses infrared vision and picks out Tigra in a tree. But she easily dodges his dive and leaps on his armoured back. She calls for Bobbi Morse who throws her battlestaves to hit Shellhead on his forehead. And Hawkeye fires arrows which gum up his boot jet intakes. And Iron Man falls to the ground.Clint crows that teamwork can defeat the strongest opponent, as Captain America told him. But IM bets Cap also told him not to count an opponent out too soon.  And repulsor blasts directly to the ground cause a mini-quake which knocks the others off their feet.Hawkeye reminds Iron Man how they used to really be enemies in the early days. IM hesitantly agrees, and James Rhodes wonders if he should tell them he's a recent replacement on the job. But he enjoyed being part of a team during Secret Wars and doesn't want to jeopardise that by admitting he's an amateur. Meanwhile Tigra reflects that if he'd wanted to Shellhead could have beaten them hands down - more evidence that she's not worthy of her place on the team. And his wife Mockingbird dusts down their leader Clint's bruised backside and ego.Wonder Man is the only team member not present. He's at home packing to move to the Avengers Compound. When a fellow Hollywood stuntman Freddy pops round to help he finds Simon Williams emptying his house an unusual way. It's a (rented) pre-fab and he's pulled off 1 side to get his stuff out.  Now the strong guy puts the wall back in place and hammers the nails back in with his fist.Simon packs everything in a huge crate and explains that he's going to use his belt-jets to carry it to the destination. But he runs out of nails to fasten the crate up, and the pair head into town to buy some more. On the way he tells Freddy he really missed being an Avenger, but he intends to try keeping up his stuntwork too.When they get there they find that the bank is being robbed. Inside a grey silhouette figure has stolen some money, and a security guard's bullets just bounce off him. A bystander says he looks like a blank, and the robber happily accepts the name The Blank.Simon Williams confronts him as he leaves the building. The Blank tries to shoot him, only to find that bullets bounce of him too. And 1 blow of Simon's fist sends the villain back into the bank, which is now empty of customers. Simon grabs the guy and tries to push him into the open bank vault. But during the scuffle his glasses fall off, and the bank staff are frightened by the sight of his ionic eyes.Then the robber slips out of his grasp and escapes out of the building. Simon follows but he's nowhere to be seen. As the police arrive an inconspicuous man slips away in the crowd - with the stolen money.At home he remembers how it all begun a few months ago. He was waiting at a bus stop with an angry older man who said he worked at R&D for Stark International. But things weren't the same since Obadiah Stane took over (eg they took away his company car). So he walked out with his latest discovery in a bag and he's going to patent it for himself. He couldn't be bothered to wait for a bus (which was already late). Still complaining he walked out into traffic and got knocked over. And our guy walked off with the bag.It's taken him the few months since then to figure out what the invention did. It is a belt which creates a forcefield which hides him from view and is also slippery to grasp, and a device to charge it up. He recharges the belt and heads out to pull another heist. He doesn't notice a nebulous figure emanating from the charger saying that it needs more power.Wonder Man tells the WCA what happened, and wants to get the Blank to boost his tarnished rep. The 5 of them divide Los Angeles County up to search. Tigra takes Chinatown. Iron Man patrols the Santa Monica Mountains. Hawkeye flies his skycycle over Marina Del Rey. Mockingbird drives the freeways listening to police radio. Wondie takes some binoculars to the top of City Hall.In Inglewood the Blank holds up an armoured car as it makes a pickup. The van drives off but Blank wounds the 2nd guard before he can close the back doors, and he leaps inside. The driver calls the police, and Bobbi Morse hears the police alert. Blank grabs what money sacks he can and leaps out of the speeding van. His forcefield protects him as he hits the ground.But then he sees MB driving her sports car at him. Running away he's confronted by Clint on the skycycle. A blast arrow makes him drop the money. Then a beam of light from Iron Man's chestplate picks him out.Blank isn't ready to fight Avengers, especially Iron Man whose tech savvy might find a way through the forcefield. So instead he runs full tilt into a nearby gas pump, breaking it open and spreading a pool of petrol. A random spark sets it alight and then causes an explosion. The Avengers are too busy dealing with this to stop the bad guy escaping. Hawkeye and Mockingbird get the gas station attendants to safety while Shellhead dumps a truckful of sand from a nearby building site onto the fire.Wonder Man arrives too late, carrying Tigra.Blank gets home and swears to leave town with the money from the earlier bank robbery. But 1st he powers the belt up again just in case. And the ghostly figure appears again. But this time it materialises fully. Blank thinks it's another Avenger after him, but the other denies this.He says he's been without food for months, so Blank makes him some soup. Then the new arrival promises to help him against the Avengers. He has the power to oppose them. Making his cup of soup hover in mid air he announces himself as Graviton.


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Before we were so rudely interrupted
Inside an Arizona mountain Dominus shows his underling Sunstroke the vast machine that he has completed now that he got the West Coast Avengers out of the way (#17). He sent them on a 1-way trip to the past on Dr Doom's broken time platform. Just to make sure they couldn't get back he and his minions destroyed the Fantastic Four's version of that time machine (behind the scenes in #22).Dominus also recounts his history. His alien race, the Arcane, have conquered many planets. They send an agent to construct a machine like this which will emit rays that turn the world's inhabitants into mindless slaves.Agent Lucifer was sent to Earth many years ago but he was foiled by Charles Xavier (before he formed the X-Men, as recounted in XM#20). He left Prof X crippled, but PX and the XM defeated him again in XM#21. And Lucifer was banished for his failure to the Nameless Dimension by the Arcane's Supreme One.Lucifer tried taking over human hosts from his place of exile (Iron Man #20 and Captain America #177-178). But this wasn't advancing the Arcane cause so he was killed, and Dominus was sent to continue building the machine.Dominus recruited Sunstroke and created his minions to guard against discovery by the XM or the nearby Defenders or Rangers (Firebird's team). But it was the WCA who stumbled on him in #17. So he got rid of them.Just as he finishes his supervillain boasting an alarm goes of and he sees the WCA (Hawkeye, Iron Man, Mockingbird, Tigra and Wonder Man) and allies (Dr Pym, Espirita and Moon Knight) in the cave entrance to his lair.As various members light the way in their own unique ways the group finally runs into Dominus' gang Butte, Cactus, Gila and Sunstroke. But although Sunstroke is a superpowered human the other 3 are semi-sentient creations of Dominus. And it turns out he's made loads of copies of them.While everyone else fights the clones, including Henry Pym with a miniaturised baseball bat that he enlarges for action, Espirita flies after Sunstroke (and we discover she's got her old Firebird costume under her Espirita robe. They are equally-matched, so the villain runs away when he sees that the WCA are making mincemeat of his army.Sunstroke flies up a spiral staircase and the heroes follow him to the control room where they are confronted by Dominus. But he reveals a twist. The Arcane kept improving their Master Machine to handle different aliens until eventually it enslaved the Arcane themselves. The alien they call Dominus is just a mindless slave, and Dominus is the Master Machine.Now the machine is completed it can use its power, and brain blasts start to take over the heroes. Dominus detects that all 8 of their minds are now under his control. He orders Sunstroke away to prepare for domination of the Earth. And intends to use the WCA as his prime subordinates.But Moon Knight walks up to him and punches him in the jaw. Dominus can't understand why MK is free - his sensors say even the Knight's mind is subjugated. But just in case he blasts Moonie again. The figure in white staggers, but continues his advance. The villain resorts to a gun, but MK dodges and grabs him. The Master Machine can't understand what is happening and blows a fuse. By-bye computer.We are privy to Moon Knight's thoughts. He's a schizophrenic with 3 personalities:- Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley. Dominus only controlled 2 of them. A 3rd brain blast would have taken the last 1 out too. But the secretive hero isn't going to explain all this to the Avengers.The whole place is falling apart so the heroes rush out to escape. Looking back they see the Master Machine itself rising into the sky as a very phallic rocket. Espirita, Iron Man and Wonder Man pursue it. As they reach the edge of space IM's armour provides him with oxygen and WM doesn't need to breathe, but Espirita is surprised to find that she's alright too. Then Wondy's shoulder jets fail, unlike Shellhead's boot rockets. Tony Stark turns back to save the falling Simon Williams, and Bonita gives up too.But Simon is far from pleased at being 'saved' by Stark. He points out that his invulnerable body would have survived the fall, but Tony says he couldn't be certain of that. Last issue it was Tigra who broke up their argument, this time it's Espirita. Hawkeye's just happy that the team has gained some much sought-after new members (and he hopes he's not about to lose any).They return to Albuquerque to get their quinjet from the airport (left in #17) and fly back to their Los Angeles WCA Compound. Where movie-actor Williams is greeted by Menachim Heitz, his producer's right-hand man, with bad news - the public hate Wonder Man's latest costume. Although it's nothing to do with his film role it's a PR disaster so he must change back to something like his previous look.Simon angrily rejects any advice from his teammates, especially Tony, and wonders whether it's time to just quit the Avengers.


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Time for every purpose under heaven
The splash page tells us this story occurs in 5 different time slots. In 2940 BC Hawkeye, Iron Man, Tigra and Wonder Man have just been blasted by Pharaoh Rama-Tut I. In 1776 we''ll visit the funeral of Carlotta Valdez. In 1847 well meet Isabel Ramirez. Mockingbird and Phantom Rider are still in 1876. And in the present Henry Pym and Espirita are engaged on an engineering project.The WCA had only just arrived via Dr Doom''s time platform when Rama-Tut paralysed them with his ultra-diode ray - even Tony Stark is affected inside Iron Man''s armour. RT takes the time to do the usual villain''s explanation of his origin and scheme. He was born in 3000 AD but its tranquillity bored him and he desired adventures like in the old recordings from the Age of Superheroes. He found plans for a time machine in the ruins of an ancestor''s castle and built 1 in the shape of the Sphinx. He travelled in it back to the age of the Pharaohs in Egypt to rule with his advanced science, which he has successfully done for 10 years. (And thus that is the origin of the Sphinx.)The Avengers wonder why he he keeps referring to them as native rebels. But he gets his guards to carry them into the temple of the discredited god Khonshu, and 1 guard comments on how strangely heavy Iron Man is. They hand them over to blind priests who leave them with the statue of their god. But Tigra is worried about Hawkeye, suffering from burns to his arm and face (from #19) and deliriously calling the name of his missing wife Bobbi.In 1876 Mockingbird and Phantom Rider are a vigilante duo who have just defeated another band of outlaws. But suddenly Barbara shivers as if someone she loved had died. Lincoln Slade reminds her that she only loves him, but she violently rejects his comforting touch. And she rides off alone on his horse Banshee (that they''d arrived on together) saying she needs some time to think.PR wonders if the potion he gave her (#19), which made her love him and forget the past, is wearing off. Neither of them notice Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid watching them from a hilltop. They''ve vowed to rescue Hawkeye''s wife, and Clint Barton''s friend Two-Gun just had the same chill feeling.Now we move back in time to 1776 and Carlotta''s funeral in California where we finally but briefly meet the Colonel her uncle she was travelling to stay with. Her chaperone and the priest will return to Mexico. The padre will take with him the Bible that Carlotta entrusted to him (the 1 with Hawkeye''s message stuffed inside). And that''s the we''ll see of 1776 in this story arc.But now we''ll jump forward to 1847 in a church in Ciudad, Corazon, Mexico - a church which contains that very Bible. Poor young Isabel Ramirez enters to pray but is forbidden to touch the Bible, despite the fact that it once belonged to her great-aunt and her once-influential family helped found this church. When the priest has gone she does pick up the Bible, and Hawkeye''s message written on a piece of Carlotta''s petticoat flutters out.Intelligent Isabel has taught herself English (and Latin), and as she reads this message between the ages she gets a vision of the wide vista of space-time. And she runs out with the book determined to hide it and keep it. And that''s the end of 1847 in this story, but not the end of Isabel as we''ll see her in later life next issue.But for now we return to ancient Egypt and someone else has a vision. Hawkeye awakes in a space populated by moons, facing Khonshu the Moon God who tells him he is in the land of the dead. But the god is willing to make a deal - he is also the God of Vengeance, and he wants revenge on Rama-Tut. He used his powers to make RT and his men think the WCA were merely natives. Now he''ll return  Clint to life if the team will fight Tut.Barton tries to bargain. He''ll do what Khonshu wants if he''ll also send the whole team back to the present afterwards. Khonshu says he doesn''t have that power - he works more by subtle nudges. So Hawkeye asks him to influence the future so that someone comes back to this time to rescue them, and the god agrees.1876 - Mockingbird fingers the strangely familar arrowhead she found (which Hawkeye discarded), and her chill is replaced by warmth. But then an arrow whistles past her and she turns to see a man in a costume (which we recognise as somewhat like Hawkeye''s). She ducks another arrow and derides his bowmanship - but the figure comments that she obviously knows what good archery should be like. And he calls her Bobbi Barton.Bobbi replies that her surname is Morse. Her foe is able to trip her - he thinks because her subconscious is tampering with her reflexes. She says that she''ll fight him even though he''s dressed like ... . And the man asks who does he remind her of? Then he sees the arrowhead on a necklace - and rushes in and grabs it. He asks her who''s it is - and she finally says "Hawkeye".Now the spell is broken and she remembers everything. The Rider took her from her husband Clint Barton. He drugged her and made her love him. ''Hawkeye'' unmasks as Two-Gun Kid, and Rawhide Kid joins them. Mockingbird wants to find Lincoln Slade and kill him. The other 2 agree to ride with her, with reservations.2940 BC again. The WCA are mobile again - and Hawkeye is fully cured of his burns. The seeds of doubt sowed in recent issues are sprouting, and Iron Man wonders if power-seeking Wonder Man''s joy at seeing team leader Clint well is just an act.The blind priest of Khonshu return and address Hawkeye as ''beloved of Khonshu''. They will take them to a secret passage that will lead to Rama-Tut''s Sphinx. And on the way Clint will explain his deal with the Moon God.Now a new player enters in the present day - Moon Knight foils an art robbery in New York. But then he gets a mental summons from Khonshu. Marc Spector summons his aide Frenchy in his helicopter, and says he wants the Moon-Jet ready to fly to California.At the same time in the WCA Compound Henry Pym and Bonita Juarez have finished their engineering project - a 2-seater flying bug that Pym calls Rover. It has VTOL capability as well as flight. It can shoot flames, acid or gas, and climb walls and lift things. And it can talk. But this AI won''t get too clever and go rogue like Ultron did.Hank has used his size-changing abilities in a new way too. His body can''t take the strain of changing size himself anymore, but it is still saturated with Pym-particles which is how he was able to change size at will in the past. His body''s size-changing field extends out somewhat too (which is presumably why his costume changed size with him). But now he has shrunk a variety of useful inanimate objects which he will carry with him, and he can use his size-changing field to enlarge 1 for use. (They discovered in #19 that doing it to living things would kill them.)Espirita asks if he has picked a new superhero name. But he says he''s not going to be a costumed hero - he''s going to be a scientific adventurer Dr Pym. And he''s going to ask to officially join the WCA.Hank thanks Bonita for her help, but she says it was what any Christian would do. This dampens his mood somewhat as he''d hoped there might be more between them. But she responds to that by kissing him.And finally we move to the Arizona Desert where lurks Dominus, the bad guy who started this whole saga off in #17. He believes he''s got the Avengers out of his hair by sending them on a 1-way trip to the past with a defective time machine. 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This issue we''ll follow events in 4 different times, although 2 of them are only a month apart. Hawkeye, Iron Man, Tigra and Wonder Man are in July 1776 but we see Carlotta Valdez in August of that year. Meanwhile Mockingbird is with Phantom Rider in 1876 and Henry Pym and Espirita are in the present.The WCA are flying the long way from Arizona to Egypt. WM is carrying Dr Doom''s time machine while IM carries Tigra and Hawkeye - Clint with a burned face and arm. Carlotta gave him a soothing ointment last issue but now he''s developing a fever so they''re heading to Philadelphia for a doctor.Their ultimate aim is to get the time platform to Egypt so they can travel back to ancient Egypt - the machine is broken and will only travel in time not space, and then only to the past not the future. There they hope to contact the time-travelling Pharaoh Rama-Tut and get him to mend the device. Then they can return to 1876 to rescue MB, and to the present to deal with Dominus who sent them on this 1-way trip in the 1st place (#17). But since time-travel is involved, spending time now getting Hawkeye healed won''t make any difference.Clint Barton has also initiated another escape plan. Last issue he realised that Carlotta Valdez was somehow linked with Bonita Juarez in the present - they''d had dreams/visions of each other. He gave Carlotta a written message for Bonita hoping that it would get to her in the future so she could organise their rescue from that end.Simon Williams pooh-poohs the idea. Tigra suggests giving Tony Stark a rest and letting her ride on the time platform. Wondy says that''s no problem for him. But really Greer wanted to have a private word with Simon, to tell him off for his newly-overdeveloped ego. Teammates are supposed to support each other, not score points. But he retorts that maybe he''s too good for the team now.1 month later Carlotta Valdez is riding in a coach with her chaperone and a priest. They are accompanied by a troop of Spanish soldiers on horseback, on the way to San Luis Obispo in California to join her uncle there. Carlotta''s 2 companions are shocked when she tells them how she helped 4 flying ''British spies'' last month, and bandaged Hawkeye''s burns with part of her petticoat. She also shows them a message he wrote on another piece of the garment, asking her to keep it in her hope chest (where a girl would collect things in anticipation of marriage) and hand it down to her descendants.Then the unusual young lady stops the coach and steps out to ride her horse Escarlata beside the captain of the soldiers. Then we see the events of Firebird''s vision from #4. Indians attack, Carlotta pulls out her pistol and helps the soldier shoot back, and she gets shot in the back. Now we see more. As she dies Carlotta asks the priest to take the message and keep it safe. He promises.A month before that the WCA reach Philly. Wonder Man seems more of a team player now, but Tigra doesn''t know if he''s just pretending - he is a movie actor. The 2 strong guys leave Tigra to guard unconscious Hawkeye. They steal some clothes (because their 20th Century money couldn''t be accepted) so they can walk the streets. They pass Dr Strange, Clea and Benjamin Franklin, but neither group notices the other.In 1876 Phantom Rider brings Barbara (Mockingbird) to Lordsburg, New Mexico where he is Marshall as Lincoln Slade. They hope to hide there from Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid who are trying to get Clint''s wife back from her abductor (#18). But last issue Slade fed Mocky a Comanche potion that made her forget her past and fall in love with him.Lincoln changes into his civvies and leaves Barbara outside town while he rides in and buys a dress for her. Then he signals to his love and she sneaks in through his bedroom window. She ushers him out while she gets changed. And considers the strange un-Indian arrowhead she found in PR''s cave (which we know Hawkeye dropped there 100 years earlier). Something makes her use it in a necklace. Slade takes her out to show off his ''fiancee'' to the town.In 1776 Hawkeye is feeling better after a doctor''s treatment, as they fly over the Atlantic. As they approach England Iron Man wonders about changing their plan and going back to King Arthur''s time and getting Merlin to help them. But Hawkeye claims to be a history specialist and says that there were several guys calling themselves Merlin then - they could get a bad 1. Tigra suggests Prester John who''s Evil Eye triggered the Avengers/Defenders clash (Av#115-118, Def#8-11), but Hawkeye says he wasn''t a time-traveller - he just survived a long time in a magic chair.In the present Bonita Juarez, who has graduated from Firebird to Espirita, and Henry Pym are beginning to wonder why the team haven''t returned from Albuquerque - where they actually went to invite Firebird to join them. But in #17 she turned up here in the WCA Compound as Espirita and stopped Hank from committing suicide.Bonita picks up her family Bible and offers to pray for their safe return. Something falls out of it - it''s the petticoat message. But she just stuffs it back in, saying that the family has stored many things in the Bible. However HP is not a believer in the power of prayer.So they return to the topic of finding a role for Henry that uniquely suits him. Last issue he described his discovery and use of the size-changing Pym particles. Now she asks him to describe his other great success - robotics and the creation of Ultron. Hank ignores the villain that later Ultron''s became, and the ''son'' that Ultron-12 was becoming before he died (#7), and concentrates on Ultron-1.Pym studied the android Dragon Man and developed an AI which unexpectedly became self-aware. Ultron-1 escaped and began to evolve by rebuilding itself into increasingly better mark numbers. This gives Espirita the beginnings of an idea.Back to 1776 and the WCA reach Egypt, and the pyramids and Sphinx at Giza. As Wonder Man is setting the controls for the jump back to Rama-Tut''s time they are attacked by Mamluk warriors. Iron Man holds them back while Tigra leaps around among them. Hawkeye can''t use his bow with an arm in a sling but he holds his breath and waves a gas arrow around. Then WM says he''s ready and they all dive on the activated time platform ...... only to arrive in 2920 BC and get attacked by ancient Egyptians. Until the High Priest Shamaz calls a halt. He recognises how the Fantastic Four arrived years ago and wants to parley. (He learned a lot of English from that encounter!)Hawkeye asks to see the Pharaoh, but Shamaz says he''s preparing to go into suspended animation to reach the future. Clint says that he and Iron Man met Rama-Tut at the other end of that trip (Giant-Size Avengers #2), but they need him to fix their time machine. Shamaz says that the Pharaoh destroyed his own time machine when he returned to them 17 years ago. If he knew how to recreate such a thing he wouldn''t need to go to sleep for nearly 5000 years.But Wonder Man''s threats seem to change Shamaz'' attitude and he lets them in Tut''s pyramid.Inside they find a large room with Tut sitting on a throne. he seems to be in a trance but does respond dreamily. He says he''s going to prevent his Kang self from obtaining Mantis, the Celestial Madonna (GSAv#2). Hawkeye tries to get his attention, shouting that he helps Tut in the future. The Pharaoh seems to recognise the archer and tells them to go further back to his earlier reign in Egypt, where he apparently knew more about how time machines work.Clint reminds his team that the earlier Rama-Tut hadn''t yet repented his evil ways - going then might not be a good idea. IM says they''ll do whatever he decides. But all this time Hawkeye has been suffering from the effects of his burns and also their long arduous trip. He''s literally ready to drop. But his teammates say that he can rely on the team he has forged them into. Clint names Tony Stark as temporary chairman and falls unconscious.Despite joining in the ''teamwork'' spiel Simon Williams is angry that he wasn''t made boss. Iron Man echoes Tigra''s earlier thought to ask WM if he was acting when he played nice recently. Tigra takes charge of Hawk''s body and they leave the pyramid and use the time platform again.But when they arrive in 2940 BC they are immediately zapped by Rama-Tut himself with his ultra-diode ray.


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The lady or the Tigra
Last issue the West Coast Avengers and 'allies' 'escaped' from the realm of the demon Allatou. The allies are Hellcat and Hellstorm, but also their foe Master Pandemonium. The escape involves floating on a boat on the River of Death through the domains of Hades - a boat they can't steer or leave. Also the 'escape' was really Allatou getting rid of nuisances.Hellstorm is Daimon Hellstrom and Hellcat is his wife Patsy. The Occult Investigators helped the WCA come to rescue Greer Nelson and Henry Pym whom Allatou had kidnapped. Master P followed them with his own reason to seek the demoness. Greer and Henry are with them but it's not exactly a successful rescue.Greer gave up being Tigra last issue because the cat persona was taking control, but then when captured by Allatou she found she couldn't change back. It seems Hell torments you by denying your greatest desire, which must mean she wants to be Tigra rather than human.Hellcat suggests that being human isn't that bad, but angry Greer bites her head off. As Tigra she had powers, but Patsy only has the powers her costume give her - and that costume was originally designed for Greer (in the short Cat series before she became Tigra). Patsy retorts that she worked on being worthy of the suit in the Avengers and the Defenders. Hank Pym and Daimon calm their lovers down.Hellstorm changes the subject to Master Pandemonium. Mockingbird wants to know who The Five are that he seeks, so MP expands on the origin he told her in #9. When Martin Preston suffered a car accident Mephisto replaced his arms and legs with demon limbs (which in #4 and #9 he could detach as whole servant demons). But now we learn that he awoke the next day apparently healed but with a star-shaped hole in his abdomen. Mephisto popped in to explain that the hole is where his soul was, and the demon has split that soul into 5 pieces given to 5 demons. If Martin can get them all then he will have his soul back.Martin became Master Pandemonium and began searching. He now contains many more demons which he can spew out through the hole (again as seen in #4 and #9). He also acquired the Amulet of Azmodeus with its demon Azmodeus. But he still hasn't found even 1 of the 5. Last issue he thought Allatou might be 1 of them.Greer muses that as Tigra she promised to kill MP for the king of the Cat-People, and in return he would rid her of whichever of her souls (human or cat) she wanted. Greer expected to get rid of her cat side. But now she finds that MP isn't the demon she thought he was. And anyway she can't become Tigra to kill him.At this point the boat appears to be heading into a rock wall. But they pass through it and find themselves coincidentally in the realm of the Cat-People called the Land Within. Hellcat says this is another demon-realm, which shocks Greer because she was told the Cat-People just got banished here by human sorcerers. But Master Pandemonium is sure this time that 1 of his soul-shards is here.Patsy takes off her cat-mask in case it offends the Cat-People, as a horde of them drag the boat ashore. And the 'crew' find that it's safe to leave the boat here. But the Cats are angry that the WCA have brought their enemy MP here, and they don't believe Hawkeye's claim that they arrived here by accident.They are also angry their heroine Tigra (who they recognise by her amulet) has been turned into a human. Greer starts to say that the amulet won't turn her back now, but then realises she only knows it didn't work in Allatou's realm. She tries it again - and becomes Tigra.Patsy is worried that her costume was created by these demons, but Daimon assures her he senses no evil attached to it. But he in turn worries about Greer discovering that she was turned into Tigra by demons. He takes charge and the Cats bow to his reputation. But they say that their King must decide the interlopers' fate.Tigra assures the Cats that she and their King have reached an understanding. But she daren't elaborate further while the Avengers are listening, and this makes Clint Barton suspicious. Iron Man and Wonder Man didn't come to the Land Within with their teammates (#6-7), but Simon Williams reckons he could defeat the Cats. But Patsy advises him to hold fire until they learn more.The King is unhappy. In #7 he graciously allowed the team to leave the Land Within alive because they were friends of Tigra. But now they return to the secret lair with extra members including Hellcat and Hellstorm who fight demons. And with the Cat-People's enemy Master P.And then the King adds that Tigra should have killed Pandemonium by now. This comes as a shock to her compatriots. Tigra tries to explain that this was the price the King demanded before relieving her of her cat-soul - and MP is a bad guy so that's OK. But the others stand by the iron rule that Avengers don't kill.They don't understand - not even her friends/lovers Henry Pym and Simon Williams. But Daimon Hellstrom does and comforts her. But he doesn't tell them how he too was cursed with a Darksoul when he was Son Of Satan. But he finally got rid of it (Defenders #120).Meanwhile Master P steps forward to claim the fragment of his soul which the King confirms is in a soul-jar on his throne. He says that Mephisto gave it to them, and keeping it from MP is why they sent Tigra to kill him. Now Greer realises that the Cat-People in the Land Within really are demons. The King claims that they weren't when the sorcerers banished them here, but the Land corrupted them.The King says that his deal with Tigra stands - he will remove 1 of her souls if she kills MP. Now that the Avengers know about it she has no reason to hang back and she agrees. Hellstorm supports her decision.The Cats take them all to an arena. MP boasts that he'll win the fight anyway, but the Cats tear his demon arms and legs off which severely affects his chances. The WCA want to intervene but Hellcat tells them to wait for the right moment.Tigra steals herself for a killing blow, and Pandemonium faces her stoically. But she pulls back and tells the King she won't do it. He declares her traitor to the Cat People, but Greer prefers that to being a traitor to the Avengers' ideals.The King casts the spell which takes Tigra's spirit from Greer Nelson, and captures it in another soul-jar. Greer is left human, as she wanted, but the King says that is only so she can die alongside her friends. But for now they are imprisoned in a cage. (The WCA are still waiting for Hellcat's 'moment'.)The team congratulate Greer on her decision, but she's afraid she's got them all killed and without Tigra she can't do anything about it. But Patsy reminds her that before Tigra she was the Cat, and she gives her back the Cat costume. And declares that the moment has arrived.At that moment Tigra's friend Balkatar returns from 1 of his missions to the human world, acting as a demon summonable by sorcerers (as seen in Adventures Into Fear #21-23 and our #6-7 and #9). The King explains how the WCA returned here with Master Pandemonium, and Tigra refused to kill him. He also mentions the WCA's 'new members' including a woman in a yellow costume with blue clawed gloves.The emissary to Earth immediately recognises the description of Cat/Hellcat. And Greer-Cat bounds in, closely followed by the others. (It doesn't explain how they got free.) Battle commences.But Balkatar and Greer chat instead. He reminds her how they became close (#6), but she says that was Tigra not her. However she appears to melt in his arms - but only to get close enough to judo throw him. They fight in earnest. The Cat suit was designed to enhance the power of any woman (eg Patsy), but was specifically designed for her. She finishes up binding Balkatar to a pillar with her claw-cable.1 of the Cat-People suggests the King return the Tigra-soul to Greer to confuse her. She uses her other cable-claw to yank it from his grasp but it falls and smashes open. And the Tigra-soul returns to her body.As Greer struggles to resist it she suddenly grows a tail. Then she rips the Cat costume off and stands once more as Tigra. But it is Greer Nelson's voice that tells her friends that the Cat-suit-enhancement enabled her to meet Tigra as an equal, and now they have merged as Tigra's body with Greer's mind.The Cat People refuse to fight their legendary heroine Tigra, and she tells them to leave the WCA alone too.But Pandemonium chooses his chance to break the other soul jar. A glowing triangle emerges which he uses to block 1 sector of the star-shaped hole in his abdomen. He has 1 fifth of his soul back. In gratitude he'll let the WCA live this time. He leaps from a balcony into the River of Oblivion and heads for the exit.Hawkeye decides not to pursue him. Instead he suggests Hellstrom magics them home and they'll have a celebratory barbecue.


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Wonder Man shows the rest of the West Coast Avengers his new look. His costume still has a red W on the chest but most of the rest of it is green rather than blue, and his jets have moved from his hips to his back. He's no longer hiding his ionic eyes behind shades. And he's dyed his prematurely-grey hair (which he blames on having been dead for some years) to black (or actually dark blue but that's a comics convention).Mockingbird reacts by running out and returning with her new costume. She's bared her legs (and her white boots are now blue). And her hair's a bit longer.Iron Man asks Tigra why she never uses her mystic cat-amulet to change her appearance back to human Greer Nelson. She replies that, especially in the LA sun, she revels in running around in just a bikini, but feels more comfortable doing that as Tigra than as Greer. WM reminds her that the Cat-People have promised to remove 1 of her 2 conflicting souls, and she chose to keep human over cat. He wonders if she has changed her mind. Tigra denies it.Little do they know that someone is watching them from miles away by bending light rays from their scene. Someone who swears Tigra must be his!Bobbi Barton takes Tigra aside for a private chat. In #5 Greer had asked Mocky for help dealing with her conflicting natures. And despite what she just said to Simon Williams, Bobbi thinks Tigra seems happy as she is. The cat-woman reacts angrily and shouts that the Cat-People have promised a cure with no strings attached. MB's SHIELD spy training makes her think that Tigra doth protest too much.Tigra's thoughts let us know that there is a string. The King of the Cat-People wants her to kill Master Pandemonium, and she's not told her team-mates that. She justifies her intention because MP has tried to kill them twice (#4 and #9, but in at least the 2nd case the WCA attacked him 1st). Plus it's a cat's instinct to hunt and kill its prey.But now she indulges another cat-instinct and snuggles up to Simon Williams in another room. But he fends her off because she's with Henry Pym now, and he's getting close to Christy at the film studio who Tigra met last issue. Tigra hotly denies that she and Hank are an item, but Simon says that Hank certainly thinks so. She stalks off ...... and runs into Shellhead outside. Tony Stark has removed his helmet to get some of the sun the others have been enjoying. (I presume his armour is air-conditioned.) Tigra comes on to him now and Tony responds. But when she suggests they go to her bungalow he too backs off. He thought it was just playful flirting. He still feels guilty about dating Jan Van Dyne (Av#224) so soon after she and Hank were divorced, and doesn't want to spoil Pym's happiness now. (Actually his guilt is more that Pym was in jail at the time, and he dated Jan as Tony Stark without telling her he was her team-mate Iron Man.)Tigra stalks off again, determined to set Hank straight. She brusquely interrupts him giving instructions to the head gardener Joachin Mendez. But before she can say her piece Henry asks for a kiss. And the cat-girl responds enthusiastically.Now it's time to introduce some (more) villains. A beam of energy shoots from Earth to the Sun causing a solar flare which sends a costumed male to the planet. And in the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant a green-skinned female with a Bride of Frankenstein hairstyle melts her way out of the reactor and out of the building. As she passes some high-voltage lines they snap releasing the electromagnetic being we know as Zzzax.Back at the Palos Verdes Compound Hank has analysed the ashes of the book page from last issue, but his report to team-leader Hawkeye is just what he knew then - evidence of sulphur and high heat, but no other pages were affected. (He doesn't repeat that the page would have named the owner of the defunct Anvil Studios who they suspect from #9 to be Master Pandemonium.) He suggests Simon asks around the studios, while Hank himself continues Firebird's tack of visiting occult bookshops. Clint Barton thinks it's a good plan.Tigra is leaping through trees from branch to branch while her Greer side berates her for reacting to any man who shows a sign of interest. But her Tigra side celebrates it, and declares that when she's killed Pandemonium it will be the human personality that she will get rid of!Suddenly she misses a branch and falls heavily to the ground. And lies inert.The blazing man from the sun appears over Sunset Boulevard speaking an alien tongue. The crowd panic even more when Zzzax and the green woman appear. She names herself (in English) Halflife and the sun-alien as Quantum.The police call for the WCA. Pym answers and summons the team (without Tigra). A short hop by quinjet and they're there. Iron Man and Wonder Man fly down to attack while Hawkeye parks the vehicle.WM hits Quantum, but he splits into multiple copies each as strong as the original. IM joins in fighting them. Hawkeye takes on Zzzax. They recognise each other from Hulk #166 (also written by this issue's author). Mockingbird tackles Halflife, but 1 touch turns her old.Clint wants to use the method he defeated Zzzax with last time - shoot a wire trailing an arrow through him to water to short the electrical being to ground. But there's no water handy. Then a Quantum slams Simon into the ground and WM finds a water main in the resulting hole. He quickly creates a large pool, Hawk fires his arrow and Zzzax dissipates.Clint notices what's happening to his wife as Halflife touches her again and she gets even older. He rushes to her aid but Iron Man interposes himself, assuming his armour will protect him. But it doesn't, and the green foe explains that each touch ages someone halfway to their death. And the next touch halves the gap again. Wonder Man also leaves off fighting the Quantums and carries the woman off. His ionic form means that he is immortal, so her power means nothing to him. And he just knocks her out. And her effect on Mocky and Shellhead evaporates.Hawkeye has deduced somehow that Quantum is solar-powered. And a smoke arrow makes all his selves collapse.But as the team congratulate each other they are pressed to the ground. Iron Man realises the connection between their 3 foes, and who the source of the new attack must be. And Graviton confirms his theory as he arrives on a flying rock with Tigra on a leash unconscious at his feet. He and the others represent the 4 fundamental forces:- gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.


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Pride of the regiment
Ex-SHIELD Agent Mockingbird is unhappy about the negative news coverage the spy agency has been getting lately. Her contact says Nick Fury's in Los Angeles so she's going to ask him what's going on. She invites Hawkeye and Iron Man to join her. Tony Stark says he and Fury aren't best buds these days since Nick tried to take over Stark International, but on the other hand he was 1 of the founders of SHIELD. He thinks the Avengers' loss of priority clearance (Av#258 as mentioned last issue) will be a problem for Clint Barton but Bobbi says she can get her husband in.Wonder Man has just finished 300 laps of the pool. He declines to accompany them as he's due at the film studios. And Tigra is going with him. So it's just the 3 of them who turn up at the hairdresser front for the local SHIELD HQ. Bobbi pretends to be an heiress with disguised Clint and Tony as her bodyguards. Her friend Josayne ushers them through to the back.Josayne comments on Bobbi's short hairstyle which she says she adopted after her long hair got in the way fighting the Werewolf in #5. Clint's not so happy about it. (She has had it short since #6, but it seems to have grown a little ponytail since then.)All 3 remove their disguises to reveal their costumes underneath (even IM's armour!). They sit in reclining chairs and Josayne pushes the button which sends them down to the basement HQ. Where they are immediately shot at by SHIELD agents. A net arrow and some slick moves solves that problem.Nick Fury storms in. 1st he compliments his men on doing quite well against super-heroes. Then he bawls them out for not doing better. Iron Man complains about the welcome, but Fury complains about Tony Stark stopping supplying them with hi-tech weapons (when he got out of the arms business).Mocky reminds Nick of her history with SHIELD. How as Bobbi Morse she was a SHIELD scientist who Fury promoted to a field agent and sent to the Savage Land (Astonishing Tales #6-20, Ka-Zar #3-5 and Savage Tales #8). Then she quit SHIELD and went solo as Huntress to root out moles in the organisation in Marvel Super-Action #1, which she continued as Mockingbird in Marvel Team-Up #95. She was injured in that operation but alerted Fury to the problem. Then she continued solo until she met and married Hawkeye in his mini-series.Nick is still grateful for what she did, but she's out now and SHIELD's current problems are none of her business. Then Fury gets into a slanging match with Shellhead over Tony Stark. And his boys may sometimes break the rules but they're in a tough business. He doesn't condone their actions but he understands them.Our 3 leave by a different secret exit. But someone is watching them and makes a call from a phonebox.Meanwhile Simon Williams is playing the villain on the set of Arkon IV with Arnold Schwarzburger. Tigra rushes over to congratulate him on a good take, but so does an assistant named Christy Carson. Simon is getting comfortable about not hiding his ionic eyes. But Tigra isn't comfortable with competition, so she reappears on the arm of director Dino.In another meanwhile Henry Pym is researching Master Pandemonium in the LA records. They know he owns the defunct Anvil Studios so Hank is here to look up the registered owner. But he finds the relevant page has been recently burned without affecting the rest of the file, and he smells sulphur. He takes the ashes for analysis.Back to the main plot. Iron Man is flying alongside the Bartons' sky-cycle talking about stuff when a villain called Shockwave leaps on him and overloads his circuits. Clint and Bobbi follow the falling pair down until they too get leapt on by Razorfist and Zaran.The Red&Silver Avenger isn't faring well against his opponent. His system's mostly down and he's having to manually swing his fists, so slowly that they're easy to dodge. Shockwave's continual attacks stop him from manually resetting his system, until the villain fuses that control anyway. But IM 'reverses his polarity' so that Shockwave's own energy sends him flying. Then Stark grabs the villain by the throat. SW protests that prolonged contact will kill IM's armour completely, but Tony points out that his armoured hands will still be clamped around his throat, and the dead weight of his armour will be pressing down on the baddie. Who quickly switches off his own suit, and IM nuts him in the faceplate.Hawkeye's arrows cut Zaran's bo-staff to pieces, and a smoke arrow means he can't see where to throw his shurikens. So he attacks with a 3-section nunchaku. Zaran says the trio got info on their foes from Monsieur Khruul, who Clint remembers as a Vietnamese crime-lord in Av#123. He also says he's recently fought Captain America (CA#302), and Hawkeye wonders if Cap did better than he's doing. Which is pretty good as he whacks the martial artist with his bow.Mockingbird dodges attacks by Razorfist (who has blades instead of hands), and uses her battlestaves to block other blows. Then she joins the staves together into a telescoping pole and goes on the attack herself. But this is only a distraction until she whips his feet from under him with a sweeping boot. And then knocks RZ out with it after he claims that they are the advance wave for the Blood Tong of Hong Kong.As Tony Stark tries to get his armour working again Zaran grabs Shockwave and bundles him into a flying car (rather like the ones we've seen SHIELD use). Mockingbird is too slow to stop him, and he flies off repeating the Blood Tong stuff. And when Mocky turns round she finds Razorfist gone as well.As the trio fly off, with Iron Man hitching a ride on the sky-cycle, they fail to notice a piece of paper that fell out of Shockwave's armour. It says that SHIELD hired them to kill the heroes, and the Blood Tong was only a cover story.


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Tigra wants to get rid of the cat side of her personality. Last issue the West Coast Avengers went in search of the werewolf Jack Russell who was involved in her origin (Giant-Size Creatures #1) when the Cat People turned her into Tigra. But they also found Michael Morbius, who used to be the Living Vampire, who knows more about the Cat People and is willing to help.Now at the WCA Compound Morbius demonstrates a chant that he witnessed (Adventure Into Fear #21) sorcerer Daemond use to summon the cat-demon Balkatar who took MM to the Land Within where the Cat People dwell. But he figures they'll need to be at the Daemond Mansion to make it work. Wonder Man gets a call from his agent Mike with the offer of a role in a big movie so he leaves. And Iron Man is off recuperating from wounds the werewolf gave him last issue. So boss Hawkeye rings up Thing (who doesn't really want to join a team after splitting with the Fantastic Four) and persuades him to help them out again. And Mockingbird asks their guest Firebird to join in (and she would *really* like to be an Avenger).Clint Barton and his wife Bobbi take 1 sky-cycle while Ben Grimm and Greer Nelson take another and Bonita Juarez flies to the mansion under her own power. (Morbius was seemingly only here to teach them the spell.) They find a room with a pentacle on the floor and Hawkeye does the incantation. And Balkatar appears via a smoking brazier. Thing attacks the visitor and Firebird automatically uses her fire against something she senses is evil. Hawkeye nocks an arrow too but Greer announces herself as Tigra which makes the cat stop fighting. And he agrees to take them to his home.But we go to Hollywood where Simon Williams is introduced to a Director named Dino and Casting Director Christina Carson. Then he's attacked by a 'barbarian' with a real metal mace which Wondie shatters and then judo throws the attacker. Who unmasks as Arnold Schwarzburger and the film is Arkon IV. They want Simon to play the sympathetic villain.We also pop back to the Compound to see what its manager Henry Pym is doing. He's on another sky-cycle going to meet his 'son' Ultron-12. This version of Ultron claims to not want to kill him but to become his family. To this end he calls himself Ultron Mark Twelve, a more human name. He points out that the attempts of previous versions to create a son (Vision) or a wife (Jocasta) resulted in rejection. And now that Hank is divorced from Janet van Dyne he's lost a chance to father children. So now they only have each other. Hank is sceptical.Balkatar and the team materialise in the Land Within, an enclosed space lit by a glowsphere in the roof. Nothing grows there so the Cat People create their food scientifically. They are met by guards who are angry that Balkatar has brought Outworlders, until he introduces them to Tigra. They are brought before the king who orders the others imprisoned while he talks with the Were-Woman. At 1st the Avengers resists but then Hawkeye tells them to submit quietly while Tigra bargains.She tells the king that she has 2 conflicting souls, the human Greer Nelson and the Cat-People's legendary warrior Tigra. She was originally given abilities by Dr Joanne Tumolo and became the costumed Cat (in 4 issues of her own series). But then in GSCr#1 she was fatally injured by Hydra and to save her Tumolo revealed herself as a Cat-Person and together with others used science and magic to transform her into Tigra. Now she wants the cat-persona removed. He agrees but says he'll take her human-persona instead. She's not happy about that but the king tells Balkatar to look after her while he considers the situation.Balkatar tries to persuade her to take the king's offer and stay with them here just as Tigra. She feels her cat-side taking over and as usual she's attracted to the nearest male, him. He says that Balkatar is his title, responsible for answering the calls of otherworld Sorcerers. His real name is Grigar. But he also says that she is *a* Tigra, and explains the Cat People's history.The 1st Cat-People, Flavius and Helene, were created centuries ago by Outworld (ie Earth) sorcerer Ebrok from 2 housecats. He created more of them and they bred like cats until a cabal of other sorcerers grew worried and banished them to the Land Within, but with a geas that there should always be 1 Cat-Person taking the role of Balkatar to serve them. However Ebrok had kept Flavius and Helene safely hidden and they continued to assist him in his scientific experiments until another sorcerer discovered them and killed Ebrok. Flavius in anger released the Black Death, a result of their experiments, which spread throughout the world.The 2 Cat-People went further into hiding and attempted to find a cure for the Plague. But the sorcerers guild kept hunting them so the Cats summoned the Balkatar who was unable to help them because he was bound to the sorcerers. The 2 Cats then tried to create more Cat-People from cats but the sorcerers had prevented that from working. So instead they turned a female human into the 1st Tigra to kill all the sorcerers, freeing them to invent the Plague cure. This also freed the Balkatar to do as he wished, and he and the 1st Tigra bred a new race of Cat-People on Earth. 1 of their descendants was Dr Tumolo who invented a way to give a human, Greer Nelson, cat-like powers.Tigra is able to tell Grigar what happened after that. The High Evolutionary had learned how to turn animals into animal-people, 1 of which was a cat-person Tabur. In Marvel Premiere #42 he killed Dr Tumolo, and Tigra got revenge by devolving him back to a cat.Then the pair are called back to see the king who tells Tigra he has decided she can keep whichever persona she wants as long as she does a task for him, which is to kill their enemy Master Pandemonium (who is already the WCA's enemy via Firebird from #4). Tigra protests that Avengers don't kill.At that point her teammates arrive having got fed up of captivity. They fight their way to her through Cat-People but Tigra stops them with a lie by saying that the king has promised to do what she wants with no strings attached.


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The unified field theory
Last issue the West Coast Avengers (minus Tigra) defeated new villains Halflife and Quantum (and made Zzzax evaporate again). But Graviton interrupted their success with captive Tigra on a leash.Now everyone is on Graviton's flying mountain. Iron Man and Wonder Man are pressed to the ground by extreme gravity. Hawkeye and Mockingbird are trapped in a 'gravinet', and any attempt to escape will make them super-heavy too. Tigra is also constrained by gravity - the leash is just for show.It turns out Halflife and Quantum (and Zzzax) were working for Graviton, who now goes into an origin spiel and an explanation of the current situation.Frank Hall was a an ordinary lab worker who was single-handedly inventing a teleportation beam (ordinary?!). But it blew up and ported him into a nearby anti-gravity experiment. The result was his power over gravity. He initially kept his power secret but soon realised he was destined to rule over lesser men.In Av#158-159 he took the name and costume of Graviton and raised the 'research city' he worked in into the sky. The Avengers came after him but he defeated them. He offered to make a colleague Judy his 'queen', but she rejected him by leaping to her death. The Avengers then won (and butler Jarvis saved Judy).He faced the WCA in #2-4 of their initial mini-series and was defeated again. He now says that he easily escaped from the US Marshals. And after seeing Tigra then he now knows she is the 1 for him.It also seems that since then he has created this flying mountain base with a science lab and a cadre of costumed guards. He started thinking about the 4 fundamental forces of Physics:- gravity, the force of attraction between massive bodies; electromagnetism that holds an atom together; the strong force that holds an atomic nucleus together; the weak force of attraction between matter and antimatter.He used his power over gravity to imprint a message on all light waves leaving Earth asking for alien representatives of the other 3 forces to join him. Quantum embodies the strong force. He came from an alien sun and took up residence in ours. Halflife exemplifies the weak force. Each touch takes half your remaining life away, and she wiped out her whole planet. Nobody turned up to symbolise electromagnetism so G resorted to Zzzax. But he never expected much from someone who could be defeated by Hawkeye (Hulk #166).Gravy sent his allies to distract the WCA while he captured Tigra last issue. He'd been watching her and noticed that she couldn't resist the attentions of men - this time there would be no rejection. Hawkeye suggests that the leash just signifies slavery, not attraction. But the villain kisses Tigra, and as usual she can't help but respond.Quantum can't speak Earthian but Graviton somehow understands him and vehemently turns down his request. (Maybe he wants a girl like Tigra.) Apparently the 3 of them have a deal to assist each other in their 'projects of evil'. They leave the WCA with guards, but Gravy still has Tigra on a leash.Mockingbird has a hidden radio with which she tries to contact the (East Coast) Avengers. But Graviton expected that and diverts the message into space.Meanwhile Henry Pym has taken up the search of occult bookshops started by Firebird in #5, looking for info on Master Pandemonium or the Darkhold book. A bookseller named Carstairs denies any knowledge, but Hank can tell he's lying. He leaves intending to get the WCA to investigate further. But Carstairs appears to be under the control of a female demon who fears Pym might actually be an agent of MP looking for her. So she follows him by walking through the ground beneath his feet.Graviton takes Tigra's leash off (and presumably his gravitational hold on her) to see what she will do. She can't escape because all exits are gravity-blocked. He's been watching her for a long time and 'knows' that the cat part of her wants to accept his 'love'. He also saw her talk with Balkatar, emissary of the Cat-People, in #9. He knows she needs to kill Pandemonium, and offers to do it for her. She responds by leaping to attack him, but with a wave of his hand she comes crashing down.He leaves her trapped in a gravity cage. Tigra's 2 souls war within her. The cat does want to accept his offer of a life of pleasure and ruling the world. But Greer Nelson rebels against it. She activates the amulet that gives her back her human body.A passing guard doesn't realise who she is and passes through the force-field hoping for a 'good time' with this bikini-clad woman. He explains that the guards have boxes that neutralise G's gravity effects. Greer fights him to get that box, but she's no match for his strength. However when they fall near the the cage wall with herself on top she forces her hands through the force-field. Her arms immediately become very heavy and drop to knock the man out.She strains to pull her arms free despite intense pain. Then she dons the man's uniform and all-important box and sets out the free the other Avengers. She finds Halflife and tells her that Quantum intends to kill her. Then she finds Quantum and tells him similar. (Apparently he can understand English even if he can't speak it.)Greer Nelson watches as the 2 meet and fight. As we saw last issue even if Graviton and Quantum can communicate the 2 aliens can't talk to each other. As Quantum multiplies his bodies Halflife rapidly ages them, but some of them get in punches. Then Graviton notices the battle and calls his guards to help stop it.2 remain to watch over the WCA. Greer, still disguised as 1 of them, manages to grab their boxes and they fall to the local gravity. She throws the boxes to Hawkeye and Mockingbird, which allows them to walk out of their cage. And they apply the boxes to Iron Man and Wonder Man so they can rise up from the ground.Graviton is now trying to pry the 2 aliens apart. Quantum is back to a single body, but the combined power is escalating beyond their ability to control it. Quantum is ejected from the mountain and Halflife runs away smoking. And the flying mountain shoots up towards space. Iron Man's jets aren't strong enough to push it back down.He gives up and grabs Bobbi and Clint to fly them off the rock. Wonder Man tries to do the same with Graviton and Greer but the villain won't accept help from his enemy. Then both flying heroes offer a lift to any guards who drop their weapons. They all do, and 2 overloaded heroes watch the mountain disappear upwards.Later the minions are delivered to jail. Hawkeye congratulates Greer, who says she'll turn back to Tigra to continue as an effective Avenger, but her human side will retain more control. But privately she's not so sure she can live up to that.And back at Avengers Compound the demoness has followed Pym home. But he puts finding Master Pandemonium on the back burner because the team now have to go to Kansas City. And he examines some baseball equipment.


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Outta time
Henry Pym and Tigra have returned from their stay in San Francisco with Daimon and Patsy Hellstrom (Hellstorm and Hellcat) last issue. Now the West Coast Avengers are going to Albuquerque, New Mexico to recruit Firebird as their 6th member. In #4-10 Hawkeye ignored her interest in joining in favour of trying to persuade Thing to become a member. Clint Barton hopes she can forgive him for that. Bonita Juarez left to consider her role in life - God's plan for her as she put it. Hopefully she's sorted herself out by now. But Tigra still doesn't like her - citing her 'holier-than-thou' attitude.Before they leave Clint gives Hank Pym 1 more chance to give up being site manager for the WCA Compound and return to superheroing, but HP is still adamant that he's done with that life. No-one notices how down he is.After watching the quinjet leave Hank closes the hanger door. He makes sure everything is secure and in working order. He thinks back to last issue when Whirlwind taunted him for giving up his superhero identity - all 4 of them. He doesn't specifically think about Tigra ending their relationship last issue too, or his failed marriage to Wasp. But he considers that he's made a mess of his life. Now no-one needs him so it's time to kill himself.Hank calls the ground staff together and tells their leader Joachin that he's made a plan for the development of the grounds that they should consult if he's unavailable. Then he retires to his office and writes farewell letters to each team member, and to all the other Avengers past and present. All except 1.Oblivious to this Hawkeye joyfully pilots the quinjet across the southwestern desert, and over the town where they fought Quicksilver and Zodiac in a circus (Annual #1). This makes Iron Man recall the adventure there in Avengers #1. Henry Pym as Ant-Man sent ants to undermine the ground beneath Hulk then. And at the end of the tale it was Hank who proposed they form a permanent team. But Tigra confirms he's serious about not wanting to be a hero again. As they land at Albuquerque airport Hawkeye expresses annoyance at a dismissive comment Wonder Man makes about the ex-Avenger. (And a later insensitive comment to Tigra makes Tony Stark muse that Simon Williams' new self-confidence is going too far.)The team cause a stir as they walk through the city. Tigra suggests they buy civilian clothes so they don't draw attention to Bonita when they find her. She gets Clint to buy her clothing because she doesn't have pockets for money in her bikini. They change in an alley. (What happens to Shellhead's armour?)As they head towards Firebird's address they don't notice a cactus watching them.After getting lost 3 times they arrive at the apartment building. The manager tells them she's not been here for 40 days, and he wants his rent. Tigra gets Clint to pay again. (What, Tony's so rich he doesn't carry money?) Next they try the Social Services Office where she works, but they haven't heard from her either. Then they go see Father Ramirez who Bonita mentioned, but she's stopped attending church too. But he saw someone in the darkened chapel 1 night 40 days ago who looked like her in a strange costume. She was praying for guidance until all the candles in front of her flared up brilliantly.Later the WCA are back in costume and wondering what to do next when they are are suddenly attacked by 4 superbeings:- Butte, Cactus (the 1 who was watching them), Gila and Sunstroke. Wonder Man shields Hawkeye and Mockingbird from Cactus' projectile spines. Gila's tail manages to flip Iron Man out of the battle for a while. Tigra's claws are useless against Butte's rocky substance.WM smashes 1 of Cactus' 'arms' off but it instantly grows back. MB tells Simon to fight someone more suitable, and uses her battlestaves to bat aside the next stream of spines. Hawkeye fires a stink arrow at Gila because gila monsters have sensitive noses. And Tigra jumps on him as more suitable for scratching.Meanwhile Sunstroke has been hovering overhead explaining who they are. He says Dominus created the other 3, but he himself existed beforehand. He uses his power of the Sun's heat against the returning Iron Man. But since Master Pandemonium attacked him with (magic) fire (#4) the Armoured Avenger has coated his armour so that it reflects the heat and light back at the sender. Sunstroke says that this only increases his power, but cocky Wonder Man takes over the fight.IM sees Butte and Gila trying to grab athletic Tigra and decides to show WM what power really is. He grabs both villains and smashes them together. But Sunstroke's emissions have no effect on Simon Williams' ionic body. And he shreds the bad guy's glider wings sending the baddie plummeting to the ground. Meanwhile Hawkeye has Cactus entangled by a net arrow.But suddenly the villains are picked up by a forcefield and dragged away at speed. Only Iron Man can nearly keep up with them. He radios back to the others that he will track them by infrared, and the team should follow in the quinjet. The trail leads to a cave entrance - a cave in which he can detect electronic machinery.The quinjet arrives and Iron Man leads the way inside. His chestbeam highlights the 4 villains, but then lights come on and reveal Dominus. Tony Stark recognises the costume as belonging to an alien called Lucifer (IM#20). Dominus says Lucifer was his predecessor, and he will succeed where the other failed - to conquer the world.He found Sunstroke in the desert and created the other 3 minions. He sent them to spy on the local heroes the Rangers, including Firebird, in case they were a threat. But he has found Dr Doom's time machine and uses it to send the WCA into the past. After they've gone he gloats that the machine is damaged and can only travel backwards in time, so the WCA are stuck in the past.Henry Pym couldn't just write a letter to his ex-wife Jan. He calls her up at Avengers Mansion where Wasp explains that they are still clearing up after the Masters Of Evil invaded (Av#273-277). She warns him that some of the villains escaped, but he informs her that Tigra and Hellcat already dealt with Tiger Shark and Whirlwind (last issue). Jan wants to hear all about Patsy and her new husband Daimon but Hank wants to talk about themselves.He commends her on how she's built herself up to become chairperson of the (East Coast) Avengers, even as he was destroying his own life. He doesn't blame her at all for divorcing him. Jan says she wishes they could have made it work, and Hank says that's the best thing he could have heard - a fitting ending. Worried Wasp wants to talk to Clint but Henry tells her they're all away. With a final "Goodbye. I love you." he switches off.With everything now done to his satisfaction Hank retires to his bungalow. He takes a gun and prepares to blow his brains out. But he's interrupted by Bonita Juarez in a new costume and with a new codename. Firebird is now La Espirita and she brings him hope from God.


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Master Pandemonium
Last issue ended with Thing getting a flat tire outside West Coast Avengers HQ, and Hawkeye having an idea.Now we see Ben Grimm absolutely refusing to join the team, and Clint Barton telling him to sleep on it. He quit the Fantastic Four in FF#277 and his own #23 and now he''s a wrestler. He gives them free tickets to his match tonight in Los Angeles against the Blond Blaster, and leaves saying "No" in as many ways as he can think of. Hawkeye interprets that as he needs a bit of persuading.Outside he surveys his 3-wheel, 3-seater motorbike. He went into the Compound to use the phone to call for roadside assistance but now decides to carry the bike to a garage himself. But no sooner has he picked it up than he throws it aside to go help a flaming figure falling from the sky. He assumes it''s the Human Torch (who stole his girlfriend Alicia Masters) but discovers it''s a young costumed female when he catches her.Ben takes the unconscious woman to the WCA, not noticing a bird with very long legs watching him from a tree. Mockingbird uses her SHIELD medical emergency training to check her over. Thing leaves again asking to be kept informed about the girl, just to satisfy his curiosity. As he exits Henry Pym gets another dead line phone call like last issue.Outside Ben finds he bent the bike when he dropped it. But Iron Man says they can bend it back into shape together. (I don''t know if they succeed.) Inside Clint thinks Thing is hooked. He''s always been a team player so he''s bound to want to join.Wonder Man is wandering the main building thinking about facing the fact that he embezzled money from his company before he became an Avenger. But then Tigra playfully leaps on him. They became friends during the WCA mini-series, talking about their pasts. But last issue she realised thinking is overrated - following her cat instincts is much better. Now she suggests they become more than friends - despite cosying up to Hank Pym in #1. But Simon Williams has to take a rain check because he has an appointment to keep.The falling girl has woken up and Hawkeye calls a meeting (but WM has gone). Tigra feels an instant antipathy towards her, which she expresses to herself as disliking the yellow and red costume which like Mockingbird''s doesn''t reveal enough. The young woman tells them her name is Bonita Juarez, codename Firebird, a social worker from Albuquerque. She relates her story.She is from a poor Mexican family who came to the US to better themselves. Bonita earned a college degree and started work. 1 night in the New Mexico desert she was hit by fire from the heavens which didn''t kill her but gave her the power of flight and shooting fireballs which she used to stop a robbery - earning the title Firebird.She made herself a costume. 1 day a call from Rick Jones to the Avengers in Hulk #265 didn''t get through but was picked up by Firebird plus Night Rider, Red Wolf, Shooting Star and Texas Twister. They helped defeat the Corruptor and formed a team called the Rangers, but they haven''t got together often.Tigra opines that Bonita is playing for sympathy. The others hush her and ask how their visitor she came to fall out of the sky today.Firebird says she was awoken in bed this morning by a large long-legged bird that smashed through her window. She reflexively flew into the sky, projecting the huge bird of fire that happens when she hasn''t used her power for a while. And met a hovering man who called himself Master Pandemonium who demanded to know if she was 1 of the 5.To her senses he seemed evil so she attacked him with flame, but he absorbed it. He pointed out that his name means ''abode of all demons'', and demons don''t fear fire. The big bird attacked her for its master, speaking jumbled sentences. MP called it Azmodeus and asked it if she was 1 of the 5. Azmodeus said not.Disappointed Pandemonium and the bird headed back towards Los Angeles but Firebird chased after them. MP turned and sent 2 demons from his arms to fight her, and she noticed that now the sleeves of his costume hung empty. Then the demons hurled her from the sky to lie unconscious in the desert. When she awoke again she flew here to tell the WCA what had happened, but the strain must have caused her to black out overhead.Tigra''s fur is bristling and she angrily storms out when the other Avengers asks Bonita to stay and offer to help against the villain. She knows that it''s a cat reaction to resent a stranger entering her territory, but she can''t fight it.Meanwhile Hank gets another of the mystery phone calls. But this time the caller reveals himself as Ultron-12 who the team recently fought in the crossover with the Vision & Scarlet Witch limited series. The robot says he''ll keep in touch with his ''father''. With usual comics/soap opera logic Pym decides not to tell the Avengers in case they throw him out as too much trouble.In another meanwhile Wonder Man is on a recording for the Johnny Carson Show. He''s supposed to be talking about his careers as an Avenger and a Hollywood stuntman. But Simon Williams wants to make an announcement. The world knew he was convicted of embezzlement, but when he became Wonder Man and his brother Eric became the villain Grim Reaper he let the world assume that Eric was really the guilty party. But now he wants to confess that it really was him wot dun it.Simon leaves the studio with a load off his shoulders. He''s prepared to accept whatever the consequences after the show is broadcast. But he spots the Coliseum where Thing is practising for tonight''s bout. He pops in to say hello and sees Master Pandemonium and Azmodeus attacking Thing and asking him if he''s 1 of the 5 - because Firebird seemed to flee to him.WM missed the whole of Firebird''s story but he somehow knows the villain''s name  and that he''s connected. So he rings HQ to call the team in. Leaving Pym to watch over the base and Firebird they head out - Clint and Bobbi on their sky-cycle, Shellhead carrying Tigra.Because they didn''t hear Bonita''s story Wondy and Thing are surprised when Pandemonium sheds his arms as demons. Ben throws his demon away with a wrestling move but then Azmodeus attacks him and his claws actually pierce Thing''s rocky skin. MP now figures that Grimm also isn''t 1 of the 5 he seeks. But Ben and Simon must die because they''ve seen him.At this point the WCA arrive. Remember that Tigra missed the 2nd part of Firebird''s tale, so she too is surprised to see the villain with no arms and suggests that Bonita must be a wimp to have been beaten by him.The Master''s response is to magically cause a building to imitate the Tower of Pisa. IM, Thing and WM divert to holding it up leaving the 3 weaker members of the team to face the villain as he recalls his arms. Then Panda Bear (as Thing called him) reveals his next trick. He pulls aside the sash across his middle to uncover a 5-pointed hole in his body - out of which streams a horde of demons called the Rakasha.The 3 deal with the demons with skill and teamwork. But there''s something suspiciously like relief in MP''s eyes as he tries to flee, until Hawkeye tags him with a tear-gas arrow. With the building now stable the stronger 3 rejoin the fight. Thing grabs Pandy''s legs - and they too come loose as demons and attack him. The villain then sends his arm-demons out again against Wonder Man.The large Azmodeus bird swoops down to carry its now-limbless master off on its back. Iron Man tries to stop them but Pandemonium breathes magic fire at him which starts to melt his armour. Toughing it out Shellhead reaches into the hole in Pandy''s stomach - and is surprised when his hand goes right through the body causing no ill effect. MP calls his 4 demon limbs back, and on their way they knock IM aside.The restored villain and his bird escape. Thing still insists that he''s not joining the Whackos as he now calls the WCA. Tigra is now determined to get Pandemonium, but not for Firebird''s sake. And in his lair MP says he can''t carry on like this even to save his body and soul. And Azmodeus, now smoking a fat cigar, retorts in his jumbled way "Don''t laugh make me".