Thread:Nausiated/@comment-13892340-20150729171945/@comment-61022-20150729181734

It's presently ambiguous. Reading interviews from the writer, it was not intended to be -- to a certain degree -- in that the Destroyer's stories from the 40s all happened and he continued being a costumed hero from then on. The story is written as though the Destroyer was continuing on in his own title for the sixty years between his last appearance and that series being published.

During the last few runs of the Marvel Handbooks that featured an article on the Destroyer that I have don't mention it. I have the hardcover printing of which was published prior to Destroy Vol 3. I heard that the recent softcover editions have additional information printed on them, but I haven't been able to confirm it (otherwise I would have bought them to be honest) Marvel.com doesn't even have an entry for Kevin Marlow on their official Wiki (just a dead link)

There is also no reality index listing that would identify that the series takes place in an alternate reality either on Marvel's website or on the Unofficial Appendix to suggest it either.

I would suspect that there are two distinct possibilities in this case, either it did happen in the Earth-616 universe or it happened in Earth-200111 which is kind of the catch-all for MAX characters that are based on mainstream characters but have their own self-contained reality.

But that doesn't discount the fact that a lot of other MAX titles are part of Earth-616 continuity either (Alias Vol 1 being the most popular example). I'm going to have to read it myself, but if I were to make a judgement call, if there are references to the mainstream Marvel U in that series (Particularly Captain America or the Super-Soldier Serum) I'd suspect it's the mainstream Marvel since the MAX universe does not have Cap or the Super Soldier Serum so far as I know.