#9 MARK WAID • MIKE DEL MUNDO
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7 59606 08603 0 And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born--to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand!
WASP THOR CAPTAIN AMERICA VISION SPIDER-MAN HERCULES Nadia Pym Jane Foster Sam Wilson Peter Parker
Steve Rogers, A.K.A. Captain America, was secretly transformed into a Hydra agent by a sentient Cosmic Cube. After months of scheming and manipulation, he staged a surprise attack during a moment of crisis as a play to take over the United States. The world’s heroes arrived to stop him, but Captain America banished Thor to realms unknown and wielded her hammer to quell any resistance.
The country has fallen to Captain America…but where is Thor?
Writer Mark Waid Artist Mike del Mundo Color Artists Mike del Mundo with Marco D’Alfonso Letterer VC’s Travis Lanham Cover Alex Ross Variant Cover Jim Lee & Israel Silva Assistant Editor Alanna Smith Editor Tom Brevoort Editor in Chief Axel Alonso Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada President Dan Buckley Executive Producer Alan Fine
The Avengers created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
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still, we must eat. our children and their children must not go hungry, either. I try not to dwell on it. every moment has become a routine fight for survival. this was just another suncycle of the same.
then something... appeared in the furthermost field- quadrant.
many of us were alarmed mine works if enough to abandon I jostle it. our farm-stations.
questions were barked, but so few of us still have operational translation implants.
who...
...who are you? I’m a god. I...had my nonetheless, we doubts. couldn’t simply let this alien struggle alone in the viscous fields...
...not after she vocalized such a hurry! please! sense of urgency. I haven’t got my hammer!
hammer? a tool? a weapon? is you that a threat? no! don’t understand! without it, I’ll die here! if I’m...... I’m apart from it for too...
...too long... … what happens? in this dimension?
apparently nothing. back to farming, hecla! remember what the sages say! “never let your larder grow light!”
I’ll get by, lache.
that’s it? we’re not a a strange terribly curious alien lands people, as in their midst, a rule. I’ve always and they just wondered why go back to that is. work? my name is hecla. what’s yours?
“thor,” she replied.
she said she came here from a planet called “earth.” or “midgard.” she used both to hear her tell it, she names interchangeably. was a mighty warrior back home. a “god” (she claims) in the midst of battle...
...when a mysterious force swept her away and to our world. or “dimension.” she also used those terms interchangeably. it was confusing to me, but one thing was evident: