Comics:Avengers Vol 1 133

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"Yesterday and Beyond..."

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Avengers Vol 1 #133
March, 1974

Editor-in-Chief

Len Wein

Cover Artists

Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum

Writers

Steve Englehart

Pencilers

Sal Buscema, Joe Staton

Colourists

Phil Rachelson

Letterers

Tom Orzechowski

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Avengers #134

Appearing in "Yesterday and Beyond..."

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  • Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
  • Vision
  • Iron Man (Tony Stark)
  • Thor
  • Mantis
  • Hawkeye (Clint Barton)

Supporting Characters:

• Agatha Harkness
• Immortus

Villains:

Other Characters:

• Moondragon
• Cotati Elder
• Libra (Gustav Brandt)
• Morag (first appearance, flashback)
• Dorrek (first appearance, flashback)
• Cotati (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Kree (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Skrulls (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Phineas Thomas Horton (Earth-616) (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Human Torch (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Sardo (Appears in flashback and main story)

Locations:

• Avengers Mansion
• Limbo (Temporal)
• Vietnam
  • Saigon
• Hala (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Blue Area of the Moon (Appears in flashback and main story)

Items:

• Iron Man Armor MK III
• Mjolnir
• Hawkeye's Bow
• Synchro-Staffs

Vehicles:

Moon

III

Synopsis for "Yesterday and Beyond..."

As the Scarlet Witch continues her training of magic under the guidance of Agatha Harkness, the Avengers are just finishing their adventure in Limbo. There, Immortus has offered to reveal the mysterious pasts of both the Vision and Mantis. Sending the Vision through time on his own to learn his own origins, and the rest of the Avengers with Mantis to learn of her past.
While in the present, Moon Dragon is flying to Earth to answer the Avengers summons for Captain Marvel, and the hooded figure waiting in Viet Nam with the spectral Swordsman is revealed to be the Zodiac member Libra.
The Vision travels back in time to the year 1939 and learns that he is the original Human Torch, an android invented by scientist Phineas T. Horton who hoped to build an android to make a fast buck, however when the android proved to burst into flames when exposed to air, it was locked away. However, it the Torch would break free and eventually become a reknown super-hero during the 1940's. The Vision learns of the Torch's capture in a pool by the criminal known as Sardo.
Meanwhile, the other Avengers are sent back millions of years, and view early life on the home planet of the Kree, known as Hala where there were two alein races, the Kree and the plant like Cotati that lived there. When the Skrulls came to Hala seeking partnership from the dominant race, they put the Kree and the Cotati to test to see which race was more worthy to share the Skrulls technology. When the Cotati won, the Kree murdered all the Cotati they could find and the Skrull visiters. The Avengers bore witness to the event that started the Kree/Skrull war.

Notes

• Details construction of the Blue Area of the Moon and the origin of the Kree/Skrull conflict.
• Email correspondance with Paty Cockrum and the late Dave Cockrum confirms that he inked this cover. Paty responded to this editor in 2004, "I showed Dave the scans and he definitely remembers inking 133 (Avengers 133)."

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Avengers Vol 1 133 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Avengers series

Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

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