Avengers Vol 1 248

Avengers Vol 1 #248 Published October, 1984 Editor-in-Chief James Shooter Cover Artist Al Milgrom Joe Sinnott "To Save the Eternals!" Writer Roger Stern Penciler Al Milgrom Inker Joe Sinnott Colourist Julianna Ferriter Letterer Diana Albers Editor Mark Gruenwald Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers #247 Avengers #249

Appearing in "To Save the Eternals!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Vision 
  • Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
  • Wasp
  • Captain Marvel
  • Starfox

Supporting Characters:

• Eternals
  • Uni-Mind
  •  Ikaris 
  •  Thena 
  •  Makkari 
  •  Sersi 
  • Valkin

Antagonists:

• Maelstrom (Main story and flashback) (Death)
•  Deathurge 

Other Characters:

•  Thing  (Only in flashback)
• Black Bolt (Only in flashback)
• Other Eternals
  •  Ajak 
  • Zarin
  •  Aginar

Locations:

• Olympia, Greece
• Maelstrom's lair

Items:

• Leech Manacles
• Power Siphon

Vehicles:

• Avenger's Quinjet
  
  

Synopsis for "To Save the Eternals!"

Maelstrom has captured the Uni-Mind in a beam intended to drain its raw mental energy for his own use, ultimately killing the Eternals. Having swiftly arrived by quinjet, the Vision attacks the villain, while the Scarlet Witch first frees, then disrupts the Uni-Mind. His ability to absorb kinetic energy, thus using his opponents' strength against them, enables Maelstrom to stand against the Avengers' combined might, but when the struggle begins to turn against him, he summons his ally, Deathurge, whose ebony spear passes through him, leaving him dead and cold. The immaterial Deathurge then easily escapes. In the wake of battle, most of the Eternals, acting on the Uni-Mind's decision, soon depart for space, while a comparative handful elect to remain on Earth.

Notes

• One of the many deaths of Maelstrom. Within the same issue, he would be revived in a clonal body, but left in stasis.
• The majority of Earth's Eternals form a Uni-Mind and decide to leave Earth to "find their destiny," taking the block made up of Deviants with them. Through unknown means, Ajak has separated from the Uni-Mind returned to Earth, but none of the other Eternals who are named as leaving (Valkin, Aginar and Zarin) have been mentioned or seen. In Eternals Volume 3 it was revealed that there were 100 Eternals on Earth. Presumably that means 100 remained or had returned between this point and the third Eternals series.

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