Avengers Vol 1 #133
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Appearing in "Yesterday and Beyond..."
Featured Characters:
- Avengers
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Frank)
(Main story and recap)
Vision
(Main story and recap)
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
Thor (Odinson)
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
Mantis
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
Ebony
- Lord (Invoked) (Main story and recap)
- Kang (Referenced)
- Legion of the Unliving (Referenced)
- Playboy Club (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
Moondragon
- Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) (Mentioned)
- Ultron-5 (Referenced)
- Human Torch (Recap)
- Sentinel Mk II (Recap)
- Phineas Thomas Horton (Recap)
- Anthony Sardo (Recap)
- Macrobots (Mentioned)
- Dormammu (Mentioned)
- Taurus (Cornelius van Lunt) (Mentioned)
- Libra (Gustav Brandt)
- Priests of Pama (Mentioned)
- Rama-Tut (Referenced)
- Cotati (Main story and flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Swordsman (Cotati)
- Cotati Elder (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed Cotati (Only in flashback) (Apparent death)
- Kree Empire (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed) (Continuity Error)
- Morag (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed Kree (Only in flashback)
- Skrull Empire (Only in flashback)
- Dorrek I (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Various unnamed Skrulls (Only in flashback)
- Odin (Invoked)
- The Watcher (Uatu) (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Referenced)
Races and species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Cats
- Synthezoids (Main story and recap)
- Asgardians
- Phantoms
- Sentinels (Recap)
- Kree (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Cotati (Main story and flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Skrulls (Only in flashback)
- Crows (Invoked)
- Gods (Referenced)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap) (November, 1939)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- Midtown (Main story and recap)
- Central Park (Recap)
- Brooklyn (Recap)
- Professor Horton's laboratory (Recap)
- Sardo's personal estate (Recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap) (November, 1939)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Vietnam
- Earth Orbit (Main story and flashback)
- Moon (Main story and flashback)
- Blue Area of the Moon (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Blue City (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Blue Area of the Moon (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Moon (Main story and flashback)
- United States (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Large Magellanic Cloud (Only in flashback)
- Andromeda Galaxy (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Tarnax IV, Tarnax (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Limbo (Main story and recap)
- Labyrinth of Limbo (Recap)
Items:
- Scarlet Witch's Suit
- Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows
- Iron Man Armor Model 3
- Mjolnir
- Synchro-Staffs
Vehicles:
- Skrull Saucers (Only in flashback)
Events:
- Kree-Skrull War (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Yesterday and Beyond..."
As the Scarlet Witch continues her magical training with 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, Moondragon is flying to Earth to answer the Avengers summons for Captain Marvel, and the hooded figure waiting in Vietnam 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, the Torch would break free and eventually become a renowned superhero during the 1940s. 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 alien 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 in a 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 visitors. The Avengers bore witness to the event that started the Kree/Skrull War.
Notes
- Details the construction of the Blue Area of the Moon and the origin of the Kree/Skrull conflict.
- As revealed in Avengers: Forever #8, the "synchro-staffs" employed in this issue are in actuality shape-shifting Space Phantoms in disguise.
- Email correspondence 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)."[citation needed]
- No letters page was published in this issue.
Continuity Notes
- All of the Kree are erroneously drawn with pink skin instead of possessing blue skin, even though the pink-skinned Kree wouldn't appear until much later after the Kree stopped evolving.[1]
- A 2019 retcon has since revealed that the pink-skinned Kree were actually created by experiments performed on the original blue-skinned Kree by the alien Progenitors sometime before the Skrulls first visited Hala in Kree Year Zero.[2]
See Also
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- 1975
- 1975, March
- Bronze-Age
- Avengers Vol 1
- Len Wein/Editor-in-Chief
- Eli Katz/Cover Artist
- Dave Cockrum/Cover Artist
- Steve Englehart/Writer
- Sal Buscema/Penciler
- Joe Staton/Inker
- Phil Rachelson/Colourist
- Tom Orzechowski/Letterer
- Avengers (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Wanda Maximoff (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Vision (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Anthony Stark (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Thor Odinson (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Clinton Barton (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Mantis (Brandt) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Agatha Harkness (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Nathaniel Richards (Immortus) (Earth-6311)/Appearances
- Ebony (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Yahweh (Earth-616)/Invocations
- Nathaniel Richards (Kang) (Earth-6311)/Mentions
- Legion of the Unliving (Kang) (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Heather Douglas (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Mar-Vell (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Ultron (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Human Torch (Android) (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Sentinel MK II/Minor Appearances
- Phineas Horton (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Anthony Sardo (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
- Macrobots (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Dormammu (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Cornelius van Lunt (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Gustav Brandt (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Priests of Pama (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Nathaniel Richards (Rama-Tut) (Earth-6311)/Mentions
- Cotati/Appearances
- Swordsman (Cotati) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Kree Empire/Appearances
- Morag (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Skrull Empire/Appearances
- Dorrek (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Uatu (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Fantastic Four (Earth-616)/Mentions
- Homo sapiens/Appearances
- Cats/Appearances
- Synthezoids/Appearances
- Asgardians/Appearances
- Phantoms/Appearances
- Sentinels/Minor Appearances
- Kree/Appearances
- Deviant Skrulls/Appearances
- Gods of Earth/Mentions
- Earth-616/Appearances
- Milky Way/Appearances
- Sol/Appearances
- Earth/Appearances
- United States of America/Appearances
- New York (State)/Appearances
- New York City/Appearances
- Manhattan/Appearances
- Fifth Avenue/Appearances
- Avengers Mansion/Appearances
- Central Park/Minor Appearances
- Brooklyn/Minor Appearances
- Professor Horton's laboratory/Minor Appearances
- Sardo's personal estate/Minor Appearances
- Vietnam/Appearances
- Ho Chi Minh City/Appearances
- Earth Orbit/Appearances
- Luna (Moon)/Appearances
- Blue Area of the Moon/Appearances
- Blue City/Appearances
- Large Magellanic Cloud/Appearances
- Pama/Appearances
- Hala (Planet)/Appearances
- Andromeda Galaxy/Mentions
- Tarnax IV/Mentions
- Limbo (Temporal)/Appearances
- Labyrinth of Limbo/Minor Appearances
- Scarlet Witch's Suit/Appearances
- Hawkeye's Suit/Appearances
- Hawkeye's Bow/Appearances
- Trick Arrows/Appearances
- Iron Man Armor Model 3/Appearances
- Mjolnir/Appearances
- Skrull Saucers/Appearances
- Kree-Skrull War/Mentions