My entire life has been one mammoth game of grandiose design. Recently, I have been involved in a more minor game. My opponent in this game has been Shang-Chi ... my son. 
Appearing in ""Reflections in a Rippled Pool""
Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #1
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- three unnamed hitmen
Other Characters:
- unnamed landlord
- his wife
Locations:
Synopsis for ""Reflections in a Rippled Pool""
Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #1
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to a kung fu master, everything is a weapon
Shang-Chi tries to find an inexpensive place to stay in Miami. The proprietor of a skid row flophouse turns him down because he is an oriental. Back on the street, Shang-Chi meets a blind beggar, who suddenly falls to the ground, shot. A rooftop assassin accidentally hit him instead of Shang-Chi but takes aim again. Shang-Chi races to the building and up the stairs, pursued by two more hitmen. Instead of going directly to the roof, he climbs from a top-floor window. While the three hitmen wonder how they lost him, he attacks. Two fall quickly; the third dives to the neighboring roof and through a skylight, with Shang-Chi on his heels. The hitman takes a hostage: the same landlord who turned Shang-Chi away moments ago. Shang-Chi literally pulls the rug out from under the man. He expects no thanks, and he gets none. He only says, "My father ... does not wish me to settle into a lodging."
Appearing in ""The Ultroids Attack!""
Avengers #36
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Black Widow (Natasha)
- Quicksilver (Pietro) (Main story and recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda) (Main story and recap)
Antagonists:
- Ultrana (First appearance) (Impersonates Scarlet Witch) (Main story and flashback)
- Ixar (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Hans Geldoff (First appearance)
- Power Man (Erik Josten) (Mentioned)
- Swordsman (Mentioned)
- William Tell (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Colossus (Mentioned)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Mentioned)
- Robin Hood (Mentioned)
- Living Laser (Arthur Parks) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Ultroids (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Ants (Mentioned)
- Cows (Invoked)
- Sirians
- Androids (Mentioned)
- Rhinos (Referenced)
Locations:
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States
- Europe (Main story and flashback)
- Latin America (Mentioned)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Sirius (Mentioned)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Captain America's Shield
- Hawkeye's Bow and Trick Arrows
- Black Widow's Gauntlets
- Wings
- Absorbo-Net
Vehicles:
- Ixar's spacecraft (Main story and flashback)
- Jet
- Aero-Car
Synopsis for ""The Ultroids Attack!""
Avengers #36
(Story continues from last issue) Captain America is surprised to find the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Mansion. She relates that Quicksilver has been kidnapped by a UFO.
Elsewhere, Hawkeye nominates the Black Widow for membership, but Goliath objects on the grounds that the Avengers is not a "halfway house" for reformed criminals. A distress signal reaches the team. Despite Wanda's concern for her brother, Cap states that the Avengers must always concern themselves with innocent civilians first. Thus the Avengers (including the Scarlet Witch and the Black Widow) fly to the Balkans. There, they discover a huge computer named Ixar draining information from the village's Burgomeister, Hans Geldoff.
Ixar lured the Avengers to him in order to extract power use them to build the Ultroids. They also discover that the Scarlet Witch who accompanied them is a fake, she is in fact an Ultroid known as Ultrana.
Ultrana and the Ultroids attack the Avengers, capturing them all. They are to be subjected to Ixar's experiments. Since the Black Widow is not an Avenger, she is sent to be destroyed.
Appearing in "Umar Strikes!"
Strange Tales #151
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Lucifer (Mentioned)
- Baron Mordo (Karl Mordo) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Dormammu (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Eternity (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Ancient One (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Cyttorak (Invoked)
- Kaluu (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Seraphim (Invoked)
- Valtorr (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Faltine
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Humans
- Chaos Lords (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Abstract Entities (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Faltine Hybrids
Locations:
Items:
- Flames of Regency
- Lamp of Lucifer
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Spells
- Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Flames of the Faltine (Invoked)
- Rings of Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Crimson Bands of Cyttorak (Invoked)
- Shades of the Seraphim (Invoked)
- Vipers of Valtorr (Invoked)
- Pincers of Power (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Book of the Vishanti (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Orb of Agamotto
Synopsis for "Umar Strikes!"
Strange Tales #151
Umar has just returned from her banishment by Dormammu and has taken over the Dark Dimension. Wanting to catch up on events, she uses a magic lamp to view the recent past, to learn the fate of her brother at the hands of his mortal enemy Doctor Strange. She learns of Strange's origins and many clashes against Baron Mordo and her brother Dormammu. She also learns of her brothers defeat at the hands of Eternity, as well as Doctor Strange's recent victory of Kaluu.
Wishing to succeed where her brother failed, Umar banishes Clea to another realm in order to trick Doctor Strange into coming into battle. When Strange goes to rescue Clea he finds himself transported to strange universe, falling through it completely out of control.