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Quote1 Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the ship is it's insignia. For inscribed in English on the hull are the words "Captain America." Quote2
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Synopsis for "Savage Time!"

As Jack Norriss tries to rekindle his romance with Valkyrie, the Earth is wracked by disasters caused by the temporal displacement caused by the Guardians' presence in the modern era. When a news report reveals that the Guardians' crashed starship has been found by the National Guard and news crews and that Vance Astro's younger self is in the ship with their crewmate Martinex, Doctor Strange casts a spell that teleports them and the starship to the grounds of the riding academy that is the headquarters of the Defenders.

While Martinex and Charlie-27 work on making their starship spaceworthy again, Major Astro (keeping his identity a secret from his younger self) tells young Vance, Nighthawk and Doctor Strange the history of "his" planet, including the major events that led to the Guardians' future: An invasion by Martians, followed by the overthrow of the Martians by Killraven and his Freemen, followed by a universal alliance, Vance Astro's revival in the 31st Century, and the later invasion by the Badoon which saw their rulership over the Earth.

Once the major has finished his tale, Doctor Strange casts a spell that erases young Vance's memories of what he's been told and sends him home. With the repairs completed, the Defenders agree to help the Guardians battle the Badoon rulers of Earth in the 31st century. Once they are all aboard, Strange casts another spell, one that transports them across space and time, placing them in orbit around the conquered Earth of the year 3015 A.D.

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  • Letters (story pages): Saladino (uncredited) page 1, Mantlo pages 2-18.
  • The story in this issue begins less than a few hours after the end of Giant-Size Defenders #5.
  • Doctor Strange theorizes that the reason why weather around the world has gone crazy is because Major Astro is present in the same time-era in which he exists as a child and that this has thoroughly disrupted the time-stream. This theory is inconsistent with other time travel stories set in the Marvel Universe and will be disproven in Marvel Two-In-One #69 when it is discovered that the weather disruptions are actually caused by psychic feedback between the identical mutant brains of the two versions of Vance Astro.
  • The Guardians' home-era is stated as being the year 3015 A.D.
  • Vance recollects major events in the history of Earth-691, from 1982 to 3015.
  • The infant Centaurian in the flashback does not have a tahlei.
  • Flashbacks to this story appeared in Paradise X #1.

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