Avengers Vol 1 393

Part of the 'Crossing' event Avengers Vol 1 #393 Published Released December, 1995 October 31, 1995 Issue Details Pages 48 Original Price $1.50 US $2.10 CAN Editor-in-Chief Mark Gruenwald Cover Artist Ed Benes Publisher Stan Lee President Gerard Calabrese "Dark Days Dawn" Writer Bob Harras Terry Kavanagh Ben Raab Penciler Mike Deodato Jr. Inker Tom Palmer Colourist Frank Lopez Malibu Color Letterer Bill Oakley Editor Ralph Macchio Matt Idelson Previous Issue Next Issue Iron Man #323 (Story) Avengers #392 (Title) Force Works #19 (Story) Avengers #394 (Title)

Appearing in "Dark Days Dawn"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) 
  •  Giant-Man (Hank Pym) 
  •  Janet van Dyne  (Apparent death)
  •  Hawkeye (Clint Barton) 
  •  Swordsman (Philip Javert) 
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) (Continuity Error)
  •  Crystal Maximoff 
  •  Vision 
  •  Hercules 

Supporting Characters:

•  Luna Maximoff 
•  Edwin Jarvis 
•  Tuc 
•  Masque (Bethany Cabe) 

Antagonists:

•  Mantis 
• Anachronauts
  •  Neut 
  •  Malachi 
  •  Tobias 
  • Several unnamed members
•  Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) 
•  Iron Man (Tony Stark) 
•  Unnamed woman 

Other Characters:

• Celestial Messiah (Referenced)
• Swordsman (Cotati) (Mentioned)
• God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
• Marilla (Mentioned) (Deceased)
• Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara) (Mentioned) (Deceased)

Races and Species:

• Space Phantoms
• Humans
• Cotati (Mentioned)
• Inhumans
• Synthezoids
• Olympians
• Human-Inhuman Hybrids

Locations:

• Chronopolis
• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • Long Island
        • Suffolk County
          • Southampton
            • Van Dyne Estate (Destruction)

Items:

• Kang Armor
• Quicksilver's Suit
• Giant-Man's Suit
• Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows
• Iron Man Armor Model 15
• Black Widow's Suit and Gauntlets (Continuity Error)
  
  

Synopsis for "Dark Days Dawn"

Kang is losing his future war and prepares to evacuate to the present. He is not happy with Mantis' capture of the Elder Cotati. He sends Malachi and Tobias to retrieve his operative Iron Man, whose identity as a traitor has been revealed.

In Wasp's estate, the Avengers face Iron Man in a bloody battle that leaves the Wasp mortally wounded. Teenaged Luna teleports Malachi and Tobias in the battle. They escape with Iron Man. Giant-Man makes a desperate attempt to save the Wasp's life and it results in her encasement in a cocoon. Tuc kidnaps the child Luna.

Masque crash-lands a plane into the estate, causing much damage. She was trying to reach them to warn that they should stop Iron Man. But she has arrived too late.

Notes

Continuity Notes

• Black Widow's appearance in this issue, as well as in Iron Man #323, is considered a continuity error, since she actually was with U.S. Agent and War Machine in Albuquerque, as shown in War Machine #21.

Publication Notes

• This issue is reprinted in other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]

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