A new world has opened for me, and I am aware of much more than your cloistered intellect could hope to know! 
Appearing in ""Times That Bind""
Featured Characters:
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
- Mantis / Celestial Madonna (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Thor (Odinson) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Iron Man (Tony Stark) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Vision 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Scarlet Witch (Wanda Frank) 🢒
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Immortus (Main story and recap)
- Kang the Conqueror (Referenced)
- Skrull Empire (Only in recap)
- Dorrek I (Only in recap)
- Unnamed Skrull (Only in recap)
- Kree Empire (Only in flashback)
- Morag (Only in recap)
- Numerous unnamed Kree (Only in flashback)
- Kree Military (Only in flashback)
- Yon-Burr (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Supreme Intelligence (Only in flashback)
- Cotati (Main story and flashback)
- Numerous unnamed Cotati (Only in flashback) (Revealed to be alive)
- Swordsman (Cotati) (Cameo) (Identity revealed)
- Priests of Pama (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (Only in flashback)
- Toro (Only in recap)
- U.S.S.R. (Mentioned) (Only in recap)
- U.S. Air Force (Only in recap)
- Stark Industries (Mentioned)
- Star-Stalker (Only in flashback)
- Rama-Tut (Mentioned)
- Kronos (Invoked)
- The Watcher (Behind the scenes)
- Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) (Mentioned)
- Mad Thinker (Only in recap)
- Professor Phineas T. Horton (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Fantastic Four (Only in recap)
- Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in recap)
- Invisible Girl (Susan Storm) (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in recap)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in recap)
- Lockjaw (Only in recap)
- Wyatt Wingfoot (Only in recap)
- Quasimodo (Only in recap)
- Ultron (Only in flashback)
- Libra (Cameo)
Races and species:
- Space Phantoms
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Asgardians (Main story and recap)
- Synthezoids (Main story and flashback)
- Skrulls (Only in recap)
- Cotati (Main story and flashback)
- Kree (Only in flashback)
- Mutants (Only in recap)
- Cyborgs (Only in flashback)
- Non-Human Mutants Vorms (Only in flashback) (Unnamed)
- Gods (Mentioned)
- Watchers (Behind the scenes)
- Inhuman Dogs (Only in recap)
- Robots (Only in flashback)
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 flashback)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Nevada (Only in recap)
- Yucca Flat (Only in recap)
- Mad Thinker's laboratory (Only in flashback)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- Earth Orbit (Only in recap)
- Moon (Only in recap)
- Blue Area of the Moon (Only in recap)
- Blue City (Only in recap)
- Blue Area of the Moon (Only in recap)
- Moon (Only in recap)
- Vietnam (Main story and flashback)
- Temple of Priests of Pama (Main story and flashback)
- United States (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Large Magellanic Cloud (Only in flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Limbo (Only in recap)
Items:
- Synchro-Staffs
- Mjolnir
- Iron Man Armor Model 3
- Hawkeye's Suit, Hawkeye's Bow and Trick Arrows (Main story and recap)
- Solution X-R (Only in recap)
- Fantastic Four Uniforms (Only in recap)
- Swordsman's Sword (Cameo)
Vehicles:
- Skrull Saucers (Only in recap)
- Moondragon's Spaceship
Events:
- Thanos War (Referenced)
Synopsis for ""Times That Bind""
Continuing from last issue... Mantis, Thor, Iron Man, and Hawkeye continue to learn the early history of the Kree and Cotati races. They witness how the Cotati survived the genocide created by the Kree and how a pacifist sect of the Kree called the Priests of Pama were formed and would eventually care for the now immobile Cotati.
Elsewhere, the Vision continues to see the history of the original Human Torch. Eventually, a nuclear bomb explosion gives the Torch a death sentence and so, after one last mission with his partner Toro, he ventures out to a desert where his flame finally burns out of control consuming his android body.
Back on Earth, Moondragon has arrived at Avengers Mansion, answering a call for help from Captain Marvel. Upon her arrival, she learns that the other Avengers were last seen in Vietnam. She tries to enlist the Scarlet Witch's help to find them, however the Witch instead battles her to a standstill, before returning to her room to continue her magical studies.
Back in the past, Vision sees the Mad Thinker's recent discovery of the original Human Torch's body. The villain is able to repair it and uses it as a weapon against his foes the Fantastic Four, putting the android Human Torch up against his successor, the young Johnny Storm. The battle sees the defeat of the Mad Thinker and the Human Torch android, which is left behind in the Thinker's lab and presumed dead.
The other Avengers learn of the Priests' exile from Hala, their discovery of the creature known as Star Stalker, and how they used their knowledge of how to defeat the Stalker to appeal to the Kree Supreme Intelligence. The Priests are allowed to travel the universe and create colonies on planets likely to be targeted by the Star Stalker. The priests collect the Cotati of Hala and transplant them to the different worlds.
After this final revelation is made the Avengers are returned to Vietnam where they are informed by Libra and the specter of Swordsman that the coming of the Celestial Madonna is nearly at hand.
Notes
- Courtesy of Immortus' Synchro-Staffs, this issue is mostly told as a Flashback tale. As revealed in Avengers: Forever #8, the "synchro-staffs" employed in this issue are in actuality shape-shifting Space Phantoms in disguise.
- No letters page was published in this issue.
