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Appearing in "Check -- And Mate!"
Featured Characters:
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
Vision
Captain America (Steve Rogers)
(Main story and recap)
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
(Main story and recap)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Main story and recap)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Main story and recap)
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
(Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Grim Reaper (Eric Williams)
(Main story and recap)
Supreme Hydra (Space Phantom)
(Main story and recap)
- Hydra
- Immortus (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (Corpse)
- Ant-Man (Hank Pym) (Mentioned)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Mentioned)
- Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Mentioned)
- Edwin Jarvis
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids
- Phantoms (Main story and recap)
- Lions (Mentioned)
- Cats (Mentioned)
- Mice (Mentioned)
- Pigeons (Mentioned)
- Gods (Referenced)
- Kree
- Asgardians
Locations:
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- Lower East Side (Main story and recap)
- Midtown
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Negative Zone (Behind the scenes)
- Limbo
Items:
- Grim Reaper's Scythe (Main story and recap)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Main story and recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 3 (Main story and recap)
- Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows (Main story and recap)
- Panther Habit (Main story and recap)
- Scarlet Witch's Suit (Main story and recap)
- Hydra Uniforms
- Captain Marvel's Suit and Nega-Bands
- Mjolnir
Vehicles:
- Space Phantom's Spacecraft
Synopsis for "Check -- And Mate!"
Continuing from last issue... The Grim Reaper has asked the Vision to join them in destroying the Avengers in order to give the Vision a human body by transferring his mind into Captain America. After the Space Phantom checks out their new "ally", the Vision goads the Grim Reaper into anger by suggesting that the Reaper is merely one of the Phantom's lackey's. This gives Captain America (Who has been spying on them) the chance to attack. The Vision explains to Captain America that he was tricking the Reaper into believing the Vision had joined their cause in an attempt to free his captured comrades. The two Avengers then free their friends and soon find themselves confronted by the Grim Reaper, Space Phantom, and an army of Hydra soldiers.
When the Phantom tries to kill the Vision, the Reaper attempts to stop him, and soon a battle erupts between Hydra and the Avengers. The Avengers are soon felled by one of the Phantom's weapons, except for the Scarlet Witch who escaped to summon Thor, and the Vision who was immune to the sonic attack. However, the Phantom get the Vision to surrender and allow himself to be imprisoned when he threatens to kill the Grim Reaper. The Phantom then chases after the Scarlet Witch so she cannot rouse Thor, and she is quickly captured.
Phantom then arrives at the Avengers Mansion and attacks Jarvis and Rick Jones, the only two present at that time, and takes them both back to his hideout. There, Rick comes around and the Space Phantom reveals that he will assume Rick's form for some sick satisfaction when he pushes the button that will execute the Avengers. Just as the Phantom is making his transformation (which would shunt Rick off into Limbo) Rick clashes his Nega-Bands together becoming Captain Marvel.
Marvel then frees the Avengers and they all make short work of the Hydra army. Marvel explains to the others that when Rick clashed the Nega-Bands, the Space Phantom's powers attempted to become two people at once and that proved to be too much and so the Phantom was transported to Limbo, while Rick was transported to the Negative Zone as usual. The Avengers allow the Grim Reaper to go free and all the Avengers return home, where the Scarlet Witch and Vision reconcile their feelings for one another.
Notes
- As seen on page one, this issue is Story#1172-Z.
- This issue contains a letters page, Avengers Assemble. Letters are published from Rick Keefe, "Daredevil, San Francisco, CA", R. Benitez, and Paul Hyman.
- Ant-Man and Wasp's apparent demise, mentioned by the Grim Reaper on page 2, happened in Marvel Feature #6.
See Also
Footnotes
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- Comics
- 1973
- 1973, February
- Bronze-Age
- Avengers Vol 1
- Roy Thomas/Editor-in-Chief
- Rich Buckler/Cover Artist
- Joe Sinnott/Cover Artist
- Steve Englehart/Writer
- Don Heck/Penciler
- Dave Cockrum/Inker
- Joe Sinnott/Inker
- Petra Scotese/Colourist
- John Costanza/Letterer
- Roy Thomas/Editor
- Vision (Earth-616)/Quotes
- Wanda Maximoff (Earth-616)/Quotes
- Avengers (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Vision (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Steven Rogers (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Anthony Stark (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Clinton Barton (Earth-616)/Appearances
- T'Challa (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Wanda Maximoff (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Richard Jones (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Mar-Vell (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Thor Odinson (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Eric Williams (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Space Phantom (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Hydra (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Nathaniel Richards (Immortus) (Earth-6311)/Minor Appearances
- Simon Williams (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Henry Pym (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Janet Van Dyne (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Yahweh (Earth-616)/Invocations
- Pietro Maximoff (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Edwin Jarvis (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Homo sapiens/Appearances
- Synthezoids/Appearances
- Phantoms/Appearances
- Lions/Mentions
- Cats/Mentions
- Mice/Mentions
- Pigeons/Mentions
- Gods of Earth/Mentions
- Kree/Appearances
- Asgardians/Appearances
- United States of America/Appearances
- New York (State)/Appearances
- New York City/Appearances
- Manhattan/Appearances
- Lower East Side/Appearances
- Fifth Avenue/Appearances
- Avengers Mansion/Appearances
- Negative Zone/Minor Appearances
- Limbo (Temporal)/Appearances
- Grim Reaper's Scythe/Appearances
- Captain America's Uniform/Appearances
- Captain America's Shield/Appearances
- Iron Man Armor Model 3/Appearances
- Hawkeye's Suit/Appearances
- Hawkeye's Bow/Appearances
- Trick Arrows/Appearances
- Panther Habit/Appearances
- Scarlet Witch's Suit/Appearances
- Hydra Uniforms/Appearances
- Captain Marvel's Suit/Appearances
- Nega-Bands/Appearances
- Mjolnir/Appearances