Appearing in "Eve of Destruction!"
Featured Characters:
- Avengers (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Vision 🢒
- 🢐 Captain America (Steve Rogers) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Iron Man (Tony Stark) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- 🢐 Beast (Hank McCoy) 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams)
Supporting Characters:
- Shadow Lord (Main story and flashback) (Death)
- Rachel Palmer
- 🢐 Jocasta 🢒 (Main story and recap)
- Edwin Jarvis
Antagonists:
- Berserker (Main story and flashback) (Origin revealed)
Other Characters:
- Italian Army
- Earth-Lords (Main story and flashback)
- Sumerians (Only in flashback)
- Alexander the Great (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed aliens (Only in flashback)
- Roman Empire (Only in flashback)
- Mr. Bertolini (Only in recap)
- Sid Sterling (Name only)
- Merriwether T. Fenniwell
- Julius Caesar (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants
- Synthezoids
- Robots
- Unidentified alien species (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Italy (Main story and flashback)
- Mount Vesuvius (Main story and flashback)
- St. Giovanna's Cathedral (Destruction)
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shadow World (Main story and flashback)
- Sumer (Only in flashback)
- United States of America
- Italy (Main story and flashback)
- Aturak IV (Mentioned)
Items:
- Iron Man Armor Model 4
- Captain America's Uniform and Captain America's Shield
- Bio-Synthetic Wings
- Berserker's weapons
- Cerellian Power Sword
- Daggers from the Arkossian System
- Armor from Aturak IV
Vehicles:
- Avenger's Quinjet
- Berserker's chariot
Synopsis for "Eve of Destruction!"
After last rites are observed for the fallen Shadow Lord, Rachel Palmer reveals to the Avengers the origin of his ancient enemy, the Berserker, an immortal warrior who lives only to kill. Meanwhile, released from his long imprisonment under the lava of Mt. Vesuvius, the Berserker single-handedly defeats whole regiments of Italian army troops. When the Avengers attack, their opponent, armed with a blazing power sword and driving a fiery chariot drawn by flying robotic horses, batters his way through the heroes' ranks, abducting Rachel and appropriating the gemstone necklace given her by the Shadow Lord. In a rematch, he succeeds in defeating the entire team until Wonder Man deduces that the Shadow Lord's jewels are the means of access to the Shadow Realm of his millennia-long exile. Activating the gemstones precisely at sunset causes the Berserker to vanish into that twilight world, whereupon the Wasp's sting destroys the jewelry, trapping him there forever.
Notes
This issue contains an advert for Hostess Fruit Pies featuring The Thing Vs. some unnamed aliens.
