Avengers Vol 4 9

Alternate Covers: Textless Solicited cover Avengers Vol 4 #9 Published Released March, 2011 January 26, 2011 Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada Cover Artist John Romita Jr. "To Infinity...!" Writer Brian Michael Bendis Penciler John Romita Jr. Inker Klaus Janson Colourist Dean White Letterer Cory Petit Editor Tom Brevoort Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers Vol 4 #8 Avengers Vol 4 #10

Appearing in "To Infinity...!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  • Iron Man (Tony Stark)
  • Thor
  • Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
  • Protector (Noh-Varr)
  • Wolverine (Logan)
  • Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
  • Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Supporting Characters:

• Secret Avengers
  • Commander Steve Rogers
  • War Machine (Jim Rhodes)
  • Valkyrie (Brunnhilde)
  • Moon Knight (Marc Spector)
  • Beast (Hank McCoy)
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
• New Avengers
  • Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse)
  • Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
  • Luke Cage
  • Thing (Ben Grimm)
  • Dr. Strange (Stephen Strange)
  • Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)
• Red Hulk (Thaddeus Ross)
• Illuminati
  • Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin)
  • Charles Xavier
  • Namor
  • Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)

Antagonists:

• Hood (Parker Robbins) (Main story and flashback)
• Madame Masque (Whitney Frost)

Other Characters:

• Ertzia (Only appearance)^[1]
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • O'Brien (First appearance)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Asgardians
• Kree-Cockroach Hybrids
• Mutants
• Human-Kree Hybrids
• Inhumans
• Atlantean-Human Hybrids

Locations:

• United States of America
  • New York
    • New York City
      • Ryker's Island, The Raft (Only in flashback)
  • Illinois
    • Chicago
• Himalayas

Items:

• Mjolnir
• Bleeding Edge Armor
• Hawkeye's Bow & Trick Arrows
• War Machine Armor
• Spider-Man's Web Shooters
• Power Gem
• Reality Gem
  
  

Synopsis for "To Infinity...!"

A month ago, while imprisoned in The Raft, Parker Robbins, aka the Hood, tries buying off the guards. The guards then tell him that he's being moved to a new prison, since he's got no more powers.

In the present, the Illuminati have been discovered by all the Avengers. Steve Rogers demands answers. Iron Man confesses to having formed the Illuminati since the end of the Kree/Skrull War. The Illuminati explains that they came together to prevent big catastrophes and that no one was to know. Rogers isn't particularly happy that someone he trusted went behind his back, more so that he formed a group that hid the Infinity Gems, of which the Hood now has two. Thor steps in to remind them they have a crisis at hand. Rogers agrees but tells Iron Man that once this is all over, he's out of the Avengers.

Three weeks ago, The Hood singles out one peculiar prisoner, Ertzia. He tries befriending him but is pushed off. He soon manages to get Ertzia to confess that he was an Inhuman ambassador from Black Bolt and has guarded one of the Infinity Gems. Some time later, one of the guards finally accepts a bribe. By the present, The Hood has located Madame Masque and uses the gems in his possession to heal her scarred face.

Solicit Synopsis

The Avengers team up with the incredible RED HULK as the Hood makes a crazy power move to bring the Infinity Gauntlet together once more. But the Hood has no idea the power he is toying with and who is coming to earth to challenge him for it. Another earth-shattering chapter of Avengers crazy by Bendis and Romita Jr! Plus: another illustrated chapter of the oral history of the Avengers!

Notes

• No credits listed in issue. Credits here adapted from last issue's.

• Also includes the fourteenth chapter of "Avengers Assemble: The Oral History of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes" by Brian Michael Bendis. Continues in New Avengers Vol 2 #9.

• This issue is reprinted in comics and books, see references for more info.^[2]

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