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It's twin threats to time and space as campaigns by Kang and the Crown coincide! The Avengers fight the Set-serving Squadron Supreme in a clash between Earths and head for the nineteenth century to keep the West from getting wilder! Continuity questions continue as Kang and Immortus mix it up! plus: the menace of...President Nelson Rockefeller?! Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #141-144 and #147-149. No library descriptions found. |
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While all this is going on, a second team of Avengers is taking on the evil corporation Roxxon Oil who are using the other-dimensional Squadron Supreme and a pan-dimensional Serpent Crown to wreak all kinds of havoc. Included on this team are Iron Man, Cap, the Vision and Scarlet Witch, a newly recruited Beast and Patsy Walker, who adopts her Hellcat identity for the first time here - though exactly how she does so (pretty much tripping over the Cat's pre-Tigra costume in a warehouse and saying "I know, I'll become Hellcat") is probably the weakest bit of plotting here. The best thing here is the Avengers versus an expanded Squadron Supreme - originally devised as Marvel's alterniverse versions of Superman, Batman, the Flash and Green Lantern, Englehart now introduces spoofs of Hawkman, Aquaman, the Atom, Black Canary and Green Arrow (who for some reason has the worst Dick Van Dyke cod-British accent you'll ever read). They even have their own equivalent of the JLA satellite - Rocket Central. The story climaxes with a giant battle against Orka the human killer whale which also features one of those classic Perez shots of the whole team strapped into some funky machine designed to drain their powers before that hoary "we need to have a big line-up change" cliffhanger leads us into the following month's 150th anniversary issue... sadly not collected here.
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