Appearing in "A Blast From the Past"
Featured Characters:
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Hawkeye (Clint Barton) ⏵ (Joins) (Main story and flashback; appears as Goliath in flashback)
- ⏴ Vision ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Thor (Odinson) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Iron Man (Tony Stark) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Scarlet Witch (Wanda Frank) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Mantis / Celestial Madonna ⏵ (First appearance as Celestial Madonna) (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Swordsman ⏵ (Main story and flashback) (Death)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Kang the Conqueror ⏵ (Main story and flashback)
- Macrobots (Main story and recap) (Destruction)
Other Characters:
- Several criminals
- Sam
- NYPD
- Officer Keegan
- Unnamed other agent
- The Watcher (Behind the scenes)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- Butler Jarvis
- Carnival (Mentioned)
- Secretary of State (Henry Kissinger) (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Devil (Invoked)
- United Nations
- Numerous unnamed members
- Ravonna (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Blue Demons (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Shamaz (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Richard Nixon (Referenced) (Topical Reference)
- Chou En-Lai (Referenced) (Topical Reference)
- Marco Polo (Mentioned)
- Good Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Dr. Doom (Victor von Doom) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Scarlet Centurion (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Grandmaster (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Frank) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Goliath (Hank Pym) (Cameo; appears as Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket and Ant-Man in flashback)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- King Kull (Referenced)
- Immortus (Behind the scenes)
Races and species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Watchers (Behind the scenes)
- Synthezoids (Main story and recap)
- Asgardians (Main story and recap)
- Robots
- Gods (Referenced)
- Demons (Referenced)
- Insects (Mentioned)
- Crows (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Fifth Avenue (Main story and recap)
- Avengers Mansion (Main story and recap)
- Turtle Bay
- Fifth Avenue (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Soviet Union (Mentioned)
- Moscow (Mentioned)
- People's Republic (China) (Mentioned)
- Egypt (Only in flashback)
- Rama-Tut's Pyramid (Only in flashback)
- China
- Earth Orbit
- United States (Main story and recap)
- Sun (Behind the scenes) (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Heavens (Invoked) (Main story and recap)
- Asgard (Referenced)
- Hala, Pama, Kree Galaxy (Invoked)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Earth-6311 (Only in flashback)
- Earth-689 (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Hawkeye's Bow and Trick Arrows
- Cupie Doll (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Kang Armor (Main story and flashback)
- Mjolnir (Main story and recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 3 (Main story and recap)
- Swordsman's Sword (Main story and flashback)
- Doctor Doom's Armor (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Panther Habit (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
(Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Ant-Man's Suit and Helmet (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Bio-Synthetic Wings (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Captain America's Shield (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
Vehicles:
- Kang's Time-Ship (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for "A Blast From the Past"
Continuing from the events in Avengers #129...
Hawkeye has finished busting up some thieves when his attention is directed to the star shining above Avengers Mansion. Arriving there, he finds out from Jarvis that the Avengers are missing. Swordsman and Rama-Tut arrive and recruit Hawkeye to help them stop Kang from starting World War 3.
They travel back to Egypt and battle against three fellow Avengers (Thor, Iron Man & Vision) who have been captured and put inside Macrobots by Kang. During the battle, Rama-Tut reflects on his past: how he is a future version of Kang who grew tired of the constant conquest and resumed his Rama-Tut guise and ruled ancient Egypt again as a just ruler. However, he decided to change his destiny, so he was put into suspended animation by one of his medicine men to this point in history when his past self -- Kang -- would travel back in time seeking the Celestial Madonna.
Defeating the Macrobots and freeing the Avengers, they make an attack on Kang, and when Kang and Rama-Tut meet face to face, time goes wild and Mantis is revealed to be the Celestial Madonna. During the fight between Kang and Rama-Tut, the Swordsman jumps into the path of an energy weapon, sacrificing himself to save the others, and Kang and Rama-Tut are sent outside of time.
Following the climax of the battle, the Swordsman dies and the Avengers mourn the loss of their ally.
Appearing in "Prisoners of the Pharoah!"
Fantastic Four #19
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Rama-Tut (First appearance) (See chronology)
Other Characters:
- Mole Man (Harvey Elder) (Photo)
- Skrulls (Photo)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Photo)
- Puppet Master (Phillip Masters) (Photo)
- Yancy Street Gang (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Sol
- Earth
- North America
- Africa
- Lower Egypt (approximately 2960 BC)
- Earth
- Sol
- Earth-6311 (First appearance) (31st Century)
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Doctor Doom's Time Platform
- Ultra-Diode Ray (Only appearance; destruction)
- Optic Nerve Restorative (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Fantasti-Car MK II
- Pogo Plane MK I
- Rama-Tut's Time Ship (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Prisoners of the Pharoah!"
Fantastic Four #19
While studying an Egyptian exhibit, Reed Richards reads off a hieroglyph about a substance which apparently restored the blindness of a pharaoh during a mostly unrecorded era of the Egyptian empire. Telling Alicia of this discovery, the Fantastic Four decide to use Dr. Doom's time machine to travel into the past and retrieve this element in order to restore Alicia's vision.[Continuity 1]
There the FF are attacked by an Egyptian army that takes them, prisoner, when their powers fail them. Brought before their master, the Pharaoh known as Rama-Tut,[Continuity 2] the FF learn that he is a time traveler from the year 3000 who came to this time because his future was one without conflict and adventure and he had grown bored. He explains that upon arriving in Egyptian times.[Continuity 3] Upon his arrival, Rama-Tut lost his vision but soon restored it with a radioactive isotope from his ship and was able to conquer the area and rule. Hoping to entice the Fantastic Four to travel back in time, he planted the hieroglyph so that he could battle the historic figures.
Making Sue his "queen" and putting the other members of the Four into slavery, all seems lost until the Thing spontaneously returns to normal due to exposure to the Egyptian sun.[Continuity 4] Escaping, he is able to get a hold of Rama-Tut's Diode-Ray and free Sue, however, the radiation from the weapon returns him to his Thing-form. Freeing the others, the Fantastic Four lead up a rebellion to bust up Rama-Tut's kingdom.[Continuity 5] With no means of defending himself, Rama-Tut fled this era in his time ship, leaving the FF to find the isotope that could restore Alicia's vision. The Fantastic Four then use their Time-Platform to return to the present.[Continuity 6] However, upon traveling through Dr. Doom's time machine, Reed realizes that it won't transport radioactive substances, and so they return from their mission empty-handed.
Notes
- Captain America appears on the cover of this issue, but is not a part of the storyline. He appears only in a brief flashback.
- In this issue, artist Dave Cockrum portrays a cinematic "Flashback" when Kang and Rama-Tut create a "Time Rupture".
- This issue features a new cover image logo of the Vision which will be in use until Giant-Size Avengers #4. It's recycled Gil Kane and John Romita art from the cover of Avengers #128.
Trivia
- Former Avengers writer Kurt Busiek has repeatedly called Giant-Size Avengers Vol 1 2 the best Avengers issue ever written.[citation needed]
See Also
Links and References
References
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