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New Avengers (ES) Vol 1 17

Quote1  It's time I stopped hanging onto a world I've written myself out of. It's time I killed myself...  Quote2
—Henry Pym

Appearing in "Outta Time!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #17

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Synopsis for "Outta Time!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #17
The Avengers fly out to Albuquerque to try to recruit Firebird as their sixth member. They leave Hank behind, not paying enough attention to how suicidally despondent he's been. When the team gets to Bonita's apartment, they learn that she's been missing for over a month. In the process of searching for more information around town, they're ambushed by a group of villains apparently working for one called Dominus. The flying heat-generating Sunstroke claims to be human, using powers of his own devising, but explains that his cohorts Butte, Gila, and Cactus are merely artificial humanoids created by Dominus. The Avengers gain the upper hand, but as they do, a mysterious force beam grabs the Desert Dwellers and whisks them away from the battle. Iron Man tracks them to a base hidden in a mountain in the Arizona desert and recognizes the uniform of the Desert Dwellers' boss inside as belonging to the alien Lucifer. Dominus explains that Lucifer was his predecessor and that he won't fail in his inherited mission to enslave the world. To get the Avengers out of the way, as soon as they enter his chamber Dominus activates the Time Platform they stepped onto, a damaged version of Doctor Doom's device he found in the desert that can only travel backwards in time. Dominus laughs maniacally, confident that he has trapped the Avengers in the distant past. Meanwhile, Hank Pym spends the day settling accounts and preparing to kill himself. Just as he's holding the gun to his head, he's interrupted by the sudden appearance of Bonita, now bearing the identity of La Espirita, who brings him a message of hope from God.

Appearing in "The Pajusnaya Consignment!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #133

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  • The Fat Man
  • The Fat Man’s goons
  • Manslaughter
    (First appearance)
    (Shadow only)

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  • D.E.A. helicopter
  • a steamship

Synopsis for "The Pajusnaya Consignment!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Defenders #133
The Defenders headquarters must be decontaminated after their battle with a plant-like creature, so they decide to take a trip to San Francisco. Meanwhile, in Chinatown, a man named Martin is running for his life and seeks help from oriental expediters, Oliver Cutlass and Tai Fung a.k.a. “Typhoon.” Martin is shot, and Cutlass sees the killers escaping in a car, so he gets a taxi to follow them. After a chase, Cutlass tries to jump from the cab to the escaping car, only to be caught by Angel. Gargoyle follows the car, which smashes into a garage door and is destroyed. Cutlass believes the killers must have jumped out of the car before it was destroyed and are still at large. Cutlass also believes that Martin was killed over something called the “Pajusnaya Consignment”. Cutlass tries to call his partner, but she is not at their office, so he deduces where she must have gone. At a hotel, Typhoon visits a man named Swifty and tries to take him to safety when a group of assassins confronts them. The Defenders show up and make short work of the assassins, but Swifty is still killed during the battle. A policeman named Ozu shows up looking for answers from Cutlass and Typhoon, but they claim they don’t have time and Typhoon takes Ozu down. Cutlass, Typhoon, and the Defenders track the assassins to the waterfront. Cutlass and Typhoon demand answers and their leader explains that the “pajusnaya”—which is Russian caviar—was actually a cover for a shipment of cocaine. Martin and Swifty tried to change the drop off time so they could claim the shipment for themselves, which is why they were killed. The Defenders swiftly defeat the drug dealer and his assassins, but Cutlass finds a bullet with a microchip transmitter built in and believes there is someone else behind everything. They go to the Bay Bridge, where they find the ship with the pajusnaya shipment. The DEA shows up with Mr. Ozu and unwraps the shipment to reveal the cocaine. However, Cutlass reveals that the wrapper was actually computer tape that contains vital defense information that Ozu wanted to smuggle out of the country. Typhoon noticed that Ozu’s had a slight Mongolian accent, so she and Cutlass pegged him as a member of the Mongolian KGB. Cutlass tells the Defenders that they are pretty good for “amateurs” and perhaps he’ll work with them again someday. Angry over the Defenders' interference, the drug lord hires an assassin called Manslaughter to kill them.

Appearing in "Superioribus 15"

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  • Several companies sponsoring Superioribus:
    • Renol
    • Deltagrup
    • Caixa de Xile
    • Sin Ton Ni Son
    • Slips Plis
    • Papastratos, Inc.
      (as Patastra Inc.)
    • Relojería Joyería Mir

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Synopsis for "Superioribus 15"

Several companies honor Superioribus and gave him a new suit for his help. The suit is full of ads of the sponsors (Superioribus will never use this suit again).

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