iv. ot ~ i é (a Aton So ee a i PA ei claire ae V 3 2 Suan ase al ANU Lo) 2 SANE Tee Hy os is J Le : i] 4 ) eae RON oc poeta Lina 5 i i MLLS! ea te ent)Senay AVE eERS BEGIN! | Now, As THE NEW'YoORK CITY I UNDERSTAND THE PENTAGON REQUESTED THIS RED ALERT MEETING THOR! DOYOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT? = opin, 2 STAN LEE (oye ANSWER To viCToR HUGO!) JACK KIRBY’ (ou ANSWER TO REMBRANDT!) few ous BD cK ORVERS (Oc ANSWER TO AUTOMATION!) Lettered By: SAM ROSEN (our ANSWER 1 ARTIE SIMEK!)ASSEMBLING IM PRONT OF THE LUXURIOUS TOWN HOUSE OF MILLIONAIRE AWTWOWY STH RK (WHOSE SECKET IDENTITY AS JRONW MAN IS NOT SUSPECTED EVEN BY His FELLOW AVEWGERS ), THE COLORFUL EAM GIES ONE FINAL WAVE To THE CHEERING CROWD, AND THEN... JWAS CHAIRMAN OF PERSONALLY, T THINK IT'S SILLY NOT TD HAVE A PERMANENT LEADER ¢ SILLY, PERNA BUT MORE DEMOCRATIC! ‘OUR INSTRUCTIONS ARE TO COMMUNICATE. WITH THE PUSH! GIVE, ‘em BOG f GIVE EM THEN WHAT ARE WE WA/TING Fo EVERY MOMENT “Ay BE VITALLY IMPORTANT! LETS GO INSIDE AND GET STARTED! WOLD IT! BE SURE You TURNED THE SCRAMBLE CONTROL THOR) WE (ANT THIS MEET MONITORED!VERY GOOD/THEN A SPUT-SECOND LATE RATHER THAN EXPLAINING THE EIN PROBLEM PERSONALLY, Ih GOING CONTACT Wi YOu A VIDEO TAPE OF LE EVENT WHICH D EARLIER "THis AFTER- NOON / PLEASE OBSERVE THIS FILM VERY CAREFULLY... WSUDCENLY, A STRANGE RAY SHONE UPON TT VAT EXACTLY 1400 HOURS TODAY A STRANGE U.FO® HE WAS SIGHTED OVER A LONELY WOODED AREA IN GROUND BELOW , AND WITHIN AN INSTANT. IT HAD. MIRGINIA # FORTUNATELY, ONE OF THE OBSERVERS LEVELLED THE WOODED AREA INTO A GLAGS ~ SMOOTH, MILE-SQUARE LANDING STRIP! ene E UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBTECT... EDITOR. "FOR FULLY AN HOUR. , WHILE NERVES WERE “THE MOMENT NEWS OF THIS STARTLING EVENT WAS y= | | STRAINED ALMOST TO THE BREAKING POINT, THERE RECEIVED IN WASHINGTON , A REGIMENT OF FULL ARMED, TANKC- SUPPORTED “TROOPS WAS DisPaTcHED| | WAS NO MOVEMENT...NO SIGN OF LIFE Fi {WHERE THEY SURROUNDED THE WITHIN “THE GIGANTIC SHIP...” AY a a ae Aiki Wl lh, wy i ly Wh y | — See i NiBUT THEN AFTER WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN CTERUITY OF WAITING, WE SAW WHAT YOU ARE OBSERVING NOW GN YOUR SCREEN / SOMETHING IS BEGINNING To COME OUT! THE NOZZLE OF YPE OF VIBRATION Ray“ ITTING ONE OF THE TANS! I's causing: THE TANK CREW TO ABANDON THEIR VEHICLE! Look How THE VENIGLE I SHAKING! "ONE BY ONE, THE FANTASTIC RAY STRUCK THE TANKS, CAUSING EACH ONE TO LITERALLY SHAKE ITSELF To AEFECTS THE SHIP, Of Tae Ray? AND THEN, SLOWLY. NOISELESSLy, A LARGE EYLINGRICAL COGR LOWERED ITSELF FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE MOTIONLESS SHIP.../ GUN TRAINED ON IT! ANy= “We WERE PREPARED FOR ALMOST ANYTHING...ANO MET, THE SIGMT WHICH GREETED OUR EYES STILL. CAME AS A SHOCK IT WAS THE FIGURE OFA MUMAN. ALONE, SEEMINGLY UNARMED, ANO YET. SUPREMELY CONFIGENT / - We bi PUT AWAY YOuR LOISH WEAPONS! FEY Awe NO MOxE THAN 7iay= TO ME! T WILL HOT COMMUNICATE WITH UNRERLINGS ? SEND ME THE RULERS OF YOUR PRIMITIVE WORLD SO THAT, KANG, CAM TELL THEM MY DEMANDS.WITH THOSE WORDS, HE TURNED HIS BACK TO US AND IGNORED US AG THOUGH We WERE NOT THERE! WHILE DEBATING OUR NEXT COURSE OF ACTION. TWAS DECIDED TO CALL THE AVENGERS, INASMUCH AS THIS TYPE OF PROBLEM I= 20 HIGHLY UNUSUAL * ar THERE'S A JET WAITING FOR US Now! WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU \ ATJFK. AIRPORT! BID, GRIT WELLLEAVE Jeg LET'S CO%, (IMMEDIATELY! (ea SITTING IN SOME THE CONQUEROR ff SORT OF TRANS - ———_— PARENT ANTI § GRAY SEAT Sa ts THERE WE 57 NO NEEG FOR SUCH UNSEEMLY GPEED! HE SEEMS TO BE TIME MEANS NOTHING TO KANG, Werrtin THe Hour, A SPECIALLY GiGPATCHED Do-8 1S THUNDERING FOWARGS VIRGINIA WITH JHE WORLD'S MIGNTIEST TEAM ABOARD... ISWT THAT \IT MUST THE PLANE ) aE SOME- WHicH Ss) THING CARRYING £ MIGHTY Se) BT AVENGERS MAKE oA Tena — ] Cake hare = DISTURBING 7HE SEEMS TO HAVE NO FEAR OF OUR. Ce FING HIS COMIDENCE Power” Tk. Ber nes E/ soreap. tone UNDER une sity EAD cone WEARING! vio CALL YOURSELF KANG, COWRUEROR... STATE YOUR INESS HERE, BY GROER OF AVENGERS? ,— My BUSINESS? SOWQUEST, OF CouRsE/T CLAIM THIS ENTIRE PLANET AND ALL ITS LAND AREAS AS My FAINT Ne FOR YOU AVENGERS... T SHALL DEMONSTRATE HOw POWERLESS You ARE AGAINST KANG! AT THE MERE TOUCH OF ‘A BUTTON F SHALL RENDER YOU HELPLESS!ME CauseD The \ IT's LIKE BEING ) AnD, \ s7ap/p9| vou NO PRIMITIVE FLYING OBJECT ANTI-GRAV RAY | LIFTED By HUGE] Now, \NOTToucH| | HAVE THE Can STRIKE Me? BY SINAPLY FROM MIS SHIP | INVICIBLE: PLL. “THAT PRESUMPTION ) “TOUCHING ANOTHER BUTTON, 1 FONT US! ITs HANDS? 9“ eAsiy } auton] | "To WARN, SEND THAT SPEECING HAMMER STRONGER THAN KANG 2ff HARMLESSLY INTO Sure ay POWER JETS! a ae ie SmAce ty a =. ALLOWING IT 1G RE-ENTER YOUR OWN SPACE MEANWHILE , HOVERING INTHE Az, “OW MAN CONTINUUM AFTER ITNO LONGER POSES ATHREAT| | ADJUSTS HIS MAGNETIC REPULSERS HOPING TO tf ouaue RO TOMES WEAKEN THE ANTI- GRAY FIELD WITH AMAGHETIC @ HE EMPLOYS A SCIENCE AS yet) — ENERGY... {UNKNOWN TO (AODERN MAAN J THIS ANTI_GRAV 2, FIELD ENOUGH, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FLOAT SAFELY BaAciS To THE GrouNe, —$— IF TCAN BwaInisH Oo. > But THe POWERFUL ANTI-GRAY FIELD CONTAINS ITS OWN PROTECTIVE DEVICES! BEFORE THE, AVENGERS CAN QUITE REACH THE GROUND, THE STRANGE RAY REVERSES ITSELF, CAUSING THEM TO MORE THAN DOUBLE THEIR. SPEED OF DESCENT’ LUCKY WE ORIFTED MOST LOOSEN U7 LET your BODIES GO (OF THE WAY DOWN! MY ARMOR PROTECTS ME 27M? POLL WITH THE IMPAGT WHEN BUT THE OTHERS SHOULD RECEIVE NO MORE —— you HIT THAN MINOR BRUISES!THEN AFTER THe AVENGERS THERES HWE REGROUPED THEMSELVES, | THE SHIP AHEAVLS GUARDED MOTORCADE WOW, Mr. ARRIVES ON THE SCENE -_ UNGER.“ EXPECTED/) BEFORE US!, FORM A SECRETARY! comport : ree —F AgeUNE THE = \ ‘UNDER t Seven | 1 5ee THE DISPERSE! LARGER |) AVENGERS TAKE YOUR, MAN 1 WAC, WAVE ARRIVED i POSITIONS’ AVENGERS / STAND Tis THE ALLOW USO CAUTION THANK You,;THOR! AND NOW, swe fy will Conpucr ) UNDER YOu, SIR! KANG possess: | KANG. _.O WHATEVER YOU AWE PROCEEDINGS FROM _/ SECRETARY TMs POINTONS G FROM THE ES POWERS WHICH SEERA TOTALLY AL/EN TO US/WE WALL ZEAARIN Ont * CALL YOURSELF... SUPPOSE You STATE four GuSINESS ANO EXPLAIN YOUR HOSTILE Acts? PEFENSE DEPARTMENT! NEED EXPLAIN NOTHING! AMO YET, YES, I WAS BORN INTHE YEAR 3,000) SHALL Tet YOu (AGRE ABOUT ME. WHERE T MASTERED 7/ME TRAVEL! YOu WILL REALIZE HOW HOPELESS IT T JOURNEY £0 To YOUR Fan PAST ATTEMPT TO DEFY ME! MY NAME MAY SOUND CALLING MYSELF PHARAOH STRANGE TG YOU BECAUSE IT IS NOT OF YauR. RAMA-TUT?e THEN TCAme TO CENTURY -ITIS FROM THE PAR FUTURES THIS CENTURY, WHERE TMET DR.DOOM*X... ¥ SEE FANTASTIC FOUR $19 .-ED.WEINAULY,, 1 PLANNED 7O RETURN TO MY OWN ‘CENTURY, THE YEAR 3,000! SO, T ADJUSTED THE MOLECULAR FWAE- DRIVE 12 THe PROPER ae "| bg MeuT, DUE ELECTRO-STATIC BrsTURBANGES INTHE RELATIVE TIME STREAM, MY VEHICLE SUFFERED A TEMPORARY A FAILURE WHICH CAUSED ME TO QVERSHOOT MY MARK ANC LAND THO HOUSAND. | SEARS. INTO THE FUTURE iN THE DESOLATE , MYSTERIOUS ERA OF THE YEAR 4.000% ®THE FORTIETH CENTURY IS BARBARIC SAVAGE WITH MEN CONSTANTLY AT WAR, FIGHTING WITH WEAPONS SO SCIENTIFICALLY ADVANCED THAT THEY CANNOT EVEN UNDERSTAND THEIR COMPOSITION, FOR THEY WERE MANUFACTURED CENTURIES EARLIER BY MORE INTELLIGENT HUMA WITH MY OWN, GREAT SCIENTIFIC TALENT, AN THE WEAPONS AND WIT WAS A SIMPLE MATTER FOR ME TO MUSTER THE BARBARIAN WARRIORS TO MY SIDE ,TO MAKE THEM MAY SERFS! WITHIN WEEKS 1 HAD CARVED OQUTAN SMPIRE FOR MYSELF...BUT IT WASA HOLLOW ONE # FOR T WAS MERELY RULER OF AUOYING WwoRLDS* ENOUGH / iis SIMPLE SPORT Ao Tone RMSE Me Pr Situ GO BACK IN TIME ONCE AGAIN. Gack 15 Some Chkine CONTURY, Shehe engrn ts rarer aM Saeen SAND FILLE O wrt Coronas yOu 'suatt Buite me a wew, PoweR- J Putian serMISTER. YOURE AND SO, POSSESSING TWE GREATEST Goin 70 WAVE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF ALL TIME. ARMED WITH WEAPONS AGAINST WHICH YOU CAM RAVE NO DEFENSE PROCLAIM MYSELF KANG THE FIRST, RULER ‘OF JHE 207TH CENTURY! CAP IS. Branr! Hels AGTWATING THE CIRCUITS BY FLEXING HIS MUSCLES WITHIN THE SUIT! BE WATCH IT, BIG FELLA! MIS SUIT I BEGINNINES 70 Mera CONTAIN SOME SORT GF ELECTRIC IMPULSERS! YOU OVERGROWN CLOB!! YOU'LL SOON REGRET THIS! WE'VE RUN INTO. WELL, HERE'S WHERE We SLIP YOUR, WINGS A LITTLE, KANG! FOREWARNED, THE IE PROTECTIVE GARB WORM THAT WAS JUST A SAMPLE OF WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IF YOU CONTINUE. WITH YOUR PATHETIC ATTEMPTS TO INTERFERE WITH MAY RIGHTFUL le BUT, SUDDENLY. A_BLOW OF MIND-STAGGERING FORCE SHATTERS THE SMOOTH PLASTIC FIELD THAT KANG STANDS UPON AS 7#OR AGAIN ENTERS THE SCENES T HAVE HEARD ENOUGH LEYOU CANNGT SEND My TRUE! THE ENERGY ID IMPOSSIBLE 70 BUILD UP SO QuicKty’ -.- BUT THAT DOES NOT, MEAN I'M HELPLESS ONE OF THE MORE POTENT DEFENSES T HAVE BROUGHT FROM “THE FUTURE IS THIS. ANT — HAMMER INTO SUB Deal SPACE A SECOND TUME... BUT MY ENCHANTED MALLET Is WOT A PRODUCT OF THIS EARTH -+ ‘SO!THEN THAT ISTHE REASON TT RETURNED To YOU INSTEAD. OF BEING TRANSFORMED INTO TRAVE PROVEN IT CANNOT HARM MES NOTHINGNESS / WELL,NO MATTER!) WHILE KANG CONCENTRATES ‘ON THE OTHERS, TLL TUST DE-ACTWATE THE MAIN. POWER GOURCE HERE ON His HELMET. 7 BUT, ITS ALL SO DIFFERENT THAN 2OTH CENTURY CIRCUITS... CANT, QUITE UNDERSTAND IT? STUNNED SURPRISE... / ONE MOMENT A MINIATURE FEMALE. AND THE NEXT SECOND. THis Fito ACROSS THE FIELD, GYANT-AAAW MENTALLY TRIGGERS HIS CYBERNETIC ANTENNAE , CAUSING THE WASP To REVERT 1O HER NORMAL SIZE, AS KANG AAOMENTARILY LGOSENS HIS GRIP IN ATTACK! “THEN, A SPEEDING, SPINNING, SKIMMING CIRCULAR STEEL ai syGer gums {pont cive ) ive BEEN Tew HIM A CHAN. TO GET CLOSE EMPLOY ANY OTHER PROTECTIVE Devices! FER. SCREEN To DEFLECT may AVENGING HAMMER) WERE 100 LATE AT KANG'S SIGNAL, lis Sui rroece Cauonr us m goMe SORTOF ATTRACTOR RAY!? WE'RE BEING IRRESISTIBLY DRAWN RIGWT INTO THE BOvy OF THE SHIP! THIS MIGHT BE OUR Severrot TEST. BATTLING A MAN WITH ALL THE SCIENTIFIC Less To. STRUGGLE! 1S SAVE ‘OUR STRENGTH THIS 1S DISASTROUS 17 IN SOME INEXPLICABLE WAS? THE EFFECT OF THE CHEMICAL, REACTION HAS Causeo ME TO REVERT TO wi MORTAL IDENTITY OOM, DR. DON BLAKE AGAIN’?ANP, THAT SAME ELECTRO-CHEMI- CAL REACTION HAS AFFECTED. GIANT -AHAN AS WELL ZIN AN ADJACENT CUBICLE HE LES. UNABLE TO MOVE, REDUCED To NORMAL SIZE... TIM HELPLESS. BUY I HOPE THE OFWERS ARE FA BETTER /THEYVE GOT To BE! GEVICES —" AMY WHILE (OM ALAN DESPERATELY] ‘STRUGGLES FOR BREATH ASHIS INSURED HEART > AFFECTED BY “TRE PARALYSIS RAY THAT SLOWS THE ACTION OF Mis BUILT-1m, TRANS|STOR- POWERED CHEST (GETTING HARDER AND HARCER 7 BREATHE / HAVE TO BREAK Ano. THE FOURTH CUBICLE, CAPTAIN AMERICA LIES } MONONLESS ,THE VERY WEIGHT Or nis OWN STEEL SHIELD PRESSING DOWN AGAINST HM WITH DNREDIEVED PRESSURE Due TO THE NEVER-ENDING ONLY THE WASP AND | RICK JONES ARE Smuts! saw BANG, You HAVE Gone 700) WHat 7 DIDO THE FARTEVEN AMAN FROM | AVEMSERS/ NOW HE FUTURE CANNOT BE galery LEAVE...OF YOU PERIAITTED 10 MENACE Sau ‘UR NATION OR OUR GO, AND TAKE THIS ULTIMATUM TO ALL THE RULERS| OF ‘THE EARTH ! T GIVE THEM 24 HOURS TO ‘Capita Are fo ME (ORT SMALL DESTROY THEM, WITHOUT HESTIATIONS ye "you must BE MAD? you'Re Oncy SME MAW. OBLITERATE THE Moon?’ NO-..1T'S TOO BIG A PECIGION FOR ME TO MAKE! I MUST RETURN TO WASHINGTON IMAAMEDIATELY, AND CONFER WITH THE WaV/TE HOUSE? KEEP KANG UNDER (GUARD UNTIL T RETURN ! SAY THE WoRD, SIR, AND WE'LL BLAST Mis SHIP. WITH EVERY MEANWHILE, A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY, AT THE EDGE OF THE CLEARING TIM WITH YOU ALL THE WAY, WE WERE LUCKy TO \ WASP! BUT WE CANT DO ESCAPE KANG'S TT ALONE! WE NEEDA NOTICE, BUT We've PLANS GOT TO FREE THE OTHER AVENGERS!(MINUTES LATER. THE DESPERATE DUO MAKE A MEANWHILE, THROUGHOUT THE EARTH ITE INCREDIBLE NEWS ABOUT KAWG IS FLASHED... DRAMATIC DECISION - SHEN |S AGREED? rut RETURN TO AVENGERS HEACQUARTERS AND SCE IF ICAN FIND ANY SPECIAL WEAPORS THAT MIGHT DEFEAT KANG! op AND Fie GET my TEEN BRIGADE TO HELP 2Ae Witt my PLAN fo FREE THE AVENGERS / yy Pe AS (AT THE UNITED NATIONS , THE DELEGATES FROM EVERY, POWER ON EARTH FIND THEMSELVES VOTING IN ACCORD WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. THEN IT IS AGREED TWAT WE FORGET. VES. PAST DIFFERENCES AND UNITE AGAINST. KANG, THE COMMON ENEMY 72° ANO THEN, BEFORE THE WAITING TROOPS CAN STOP THEM -- THE TROOPS SEE us! THEYRE CALLING ON US Fe WALT / BUT WENE Gor ir MADE NOW... THEY'D NEVER FIRE ON A WENE GOT To WAIT TR RAN FOR OUR CHANCE, THEN faeate* WAS ABLE OR RICK'S ‘SIGNAL! THIS iS our First Serine sei, AMERICA TAUGHT us! PECTING AN ATTACK /AMD; THE TEEN BRIGADE'S DESPERATE GAMBLE SUCCEEDS! UNWILLING TO INJURE THE INNOCENT YOUTHS , THE TROOPS HOLD THEIR FIRE UNTIL COME NO CLOSER! WE REALIZE EARTH Who ARE YOu? HAST A CWANCE PONT WASTE A MINUTE, 4OU GUYS TWENE GOTTA FIND THE AVENGERS: GIT! BRING ME THE CYLINDER ROM THE NEAR WALL? REAAEMABER ..- T CAN SEE YOUR EVERY MOVEMENT’, “THAT a U ARE WIGE BEYOND YOUR YEARS/you you SHALL BECOME My FIRST PERSONAL EARTH SERVANTS £ Burt, BEFORE THE TEEN-AGERS CAN FIND ANY SIGH OF THEIR QUARRY ; A COMMANDING VOICE RINGS OUT.WE AWOW WHAT WE'VE DONE! WE'VE GIVEN RICK ] we Cony Five THEM, MORE TO SEARCH FOR THE AVENGERS ¢ — BEFORE KANG REALIZE ae Flop [pers cade \ Sitar welte oP 40. Have Sr Wee COOKED. ode tess SOMEWHERE! THOSE TWO LIGHTS KEEP FLASHING ON AND OFF...ITMUST MEAN SOMETHING! Quer! = Wes SOMETHING S OFF, ANO THE PARALYSIS. RAY BEHIND THE DOORS FADES INTO OBLIVION! THE RAY HAS VANISHED! LM FREE TO MOVE AGAIN! IF ONLY IT ISN'T Foo LATEA MICRO- SECOND LATER.THE EXWAUSTED, SLENDER DE: a 1S CED BY. MOST DRAMA Bur riene wit we | [Within seconpe tHe iS ARE FREE IS — AND READY FOR ACTION... EXCEPT FOR #2ON MAN, WHO IS STILL INA WEAKENED CONDITION, -” CUE To THE STRAIN HIS INJURED HEART HAS BEEN "TO FIND THE, UNGER.-- pny AVENGERS! OTHER AVENGE: a Ea We Ml ve aed & = WHLE MILES Away, INTHE WELL- STOCKED LAg OF BIOCHEMIST HENRY PYM , BETTER KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS G/ANT- MAN <.- AHH I THIN THis |S WHAT, HANK NEEDS! BEFORE AAW ULTIMATUM EXPIRES /.HAN HAD RECEI VEO THE BASIC PLAN FOR THIS POWER RAY FROM TONY STAR. THE WEAPONS — DESIGNING GENIUS... AND MR. HIGH POCKETS HIM— SELF SPENT WEEKS MODIFYING IT TO MEET HIS OWN GPECIFICATION WASP, UM GOING To NEED BUT, IN ORDER TO YY BACK WITH TT AS THE \ HELP. 17'S TOO HEAVY FOR, NETO MANAGE ALONE? AND $0, REDUCING HERSELF To WASP-SIZE,THE GORGEOUS ADVENTURES SUMMONS ANT MANS ELYING ANTS , USING THE CYBERNETIC COMMUNI~ CATOR THAT ALWAYS REMAINS AT THE” READY” IN HIS LABS ANO THEN... THANKS FOR THE ASSIST LITTLE FRiENoe!now GO ~~ AND DON'T B SPARE THE WING POWERS NOW THAT We REALIZE HOW PANGEROUS KANG REALLY Ig HE SHALL Nor. Take us ey su PRISE A SECOND i WITH fav TRANSISTORS NOW WORKING AT FULL CAPACITY, AGAIN , MA? STRENGTH 1S. Wi | ONCE MORE REACH BENIND MES THE SOUND OF RUNNING FEET! THE AVENGERS TARE FREE... ATTACKING AGAIN / ot. i A i) | nce Behiwe x “tl Grou. NOUR ATTACK! MY PROTECTIVE SHIELD CAN BE, CREATED. NSTANTA: MeOUSEYS, HOUGH YOUR POWER IS avr YOU AVENGERS HAVE NO MORE SOME, CHANCE AGAINGT “Mgr THAN © HANDFUL OF MUSCULAR CAVE — MEN WOULD HAVE AGAINST A REMEMBER, MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS SEPARATE MMiv KNOWLEDGE FROM YOURS! TO: Mé, YoU ARE LIKE BUMBLING CHILDREN, TRYING "To BREAK OUT OF YOUR PLAYPEN /“OUR USELESS STRENGTH POES NOT IMPRESS AAG? ALTHOUGH 9OU MAY NEED NO PROTECTION, MY FORCE SHIELD CAN WITHSTAND AWY ATTACK. EVEN SHAT OF YOUR. MUCH” WAUNTED HAMMER! BY ASGARD/IF HE TRULY CAN Resist My HAMMER, WilaT POWER ON EARTH EXISTS TO PEFEAT HIM?? foo POWERFUL BLOW [Gis So7my most Gr Tanic roORce Wile SURROUNDS HE INCREDIBLE SHIELD CANNOT PENETRATE TMs CYL I “2 EARTHS AND NOW, THE TIME HAS COME! may PATIENCE 1S AT AN ENDS ONCE 1 RELEASE WE CONTENTS GF EVEN IF IT y INDER , ALL OF, HALL BE Bur, AT THAT VERY INSTANT, A SMALL FLYING FEMALE FIGURE CRIES OUT TO GIANT-MAN -- THOR! YOU MUSTNT STOP NOW! KEEP POUND - ING ON HIS FORCE SWIELOL 7, BoeSn''T SHATTER, Tr Avay DISTRACT pA LONG ENOUGH IE THE CAPSULE INSIDE THIS RAY CAN PENETRATE ANY PART OF THAT. SHIELD, WE'LL STILL HAVE A CHANCE! SO. BE 1TH T'LL CONTINUE THE ATTACK SO LONG AS BREATH REMAINS, WITHIN MESBUT, THE A ANP THE EYE, AND THE HEART OF THE MASKED, MANY- SIZED ADVENTU! TRUE S CIANT: IT WAS A SPECIAL ACID-BASE SOLVENT, WHICH TWAT WAS THE WILE ROT AND DECAY ANY FABRIC, ANY TYPE OF IDEAS HIS MOST 4 WIRING One INSULATION! Port Kaneis Sur is E, BECOMING ALL HYTTED..-1T WILL BE USELESS TO Hin! EQUIPPED WITH THE (OST SENCITIVE BIOMIC- POWERED ICM AS THIS INVISIBLE PROTECTIVE FROM MY SHIP? ALL T NEED D WITH THE WAVE OF“THEN, BEFORE THE MENACE FROM THE FUTURE CAN GATHER HIS. WITS, GIANT- MAN'S SPECIAL SOLVENT Youve: DESTROYED, THEM ALLS [Divercre IN FLIGHT, TWe LETHAL Nis HURLED SKy- SP EXPLODES: 4 ANG THEN, WIT MEMBERS OF Rick Jones TEEN) BRIGADE AT THEI SIDE, THE MIGHTIEST FIGHTING TEAM ON EARTH CLOSES IN ON THE MAN CALLED ine F INTHE WORLO OF THE FUTURE, 5 LRMUNE 3 RADIATION... nN iD oe,T Dispose oF you. Al THE WORLE SHALL ND THEN,WEVER! NO MATTER HOW POTENT SOUR RAGIATION May BE. /ay" URL HAMMER CAN ADSORG PERHAPS F CAN OVERTAKE WIAA, WITH May JETS! 1" HA MEL He. RISING J ESCAPE! 'S USELESS! WHERE WE = FLED NONE OF Us CAN FOLlows, NOONE CAN say.micK! BUT, Owe THING IS EERTAM. HE KNOWS NOW THAT HE ASAT UNBEATABLE HE KNOWS iF HE RETURNS, THE AVENGERS, Will BE WAITING? 1S IN JEOPARD SACRIFICE ...1O PERISH, IF NEED BE NG AS THE MOTHER FL FORCES OF EVIL PARE To CHALLENGE JUSTICE... Ti ‘20 THAT Lt HE AVE Best Ani TIME AVENGERS WILL BE WAITING S” "THUS HAS IT EVER BEEN. .-THUS WILL IT EVER BE! SO LONG AS MANKIND iy SO LONG [ANET, EARTH, MAY BE MENACED ERS WILL STAND. . READY TO FIGHT. TO IO MOPE SMALL EVER LIVE IN THE MBAGT= OF SO LONG AS THE \ Nextissue Awd PROBLEM CONFRONTS