Kingsport was a town by the sea[1] in Massachusetts.[2]
History
20th century[]
Kingsport was home to an Terrible Old Man, who lived in Water St., and about whom the inhabitants of Kingsport said many thing. He was so old that no one knew about his youth, or even his name, and was known to pay his bills with Spanish coins minted two centuries ago. He was once spied upon by some of them, who saw him talking to bottles with lead weights in them (seemingly holding captured spirits or souls), who glowed as if they were answering him.
The robbers Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek, and Manuel Silva decided to rob the Old Man's ancient coins. All three were found dead, after having gazed into the yellow eyes of the Old Man, while the Old Man himself had three more bottles.[1]
At some point, an unnamed, "misbehaving", embalmer once lived in a shack in Kingsport, where he produced Griever's Swill, liquor infused with bone fragments stolen from the wrongly dead, described as "an elixir of deep grief" and the embalmer's "finest work" by Tiger Snake.
21st century[]
Ivan Kragoff went into hiding in a house of Kingsport after nearly dying. This experience attracted the hundred of apes that Kragoff had experimented upon, ghosts held on the mortal plane by the cosmic radiation forced upon them. Kingsport was attacked nightly by the ghost apes. Mayor Tom Sole took the matter to the State, but was dismissed and turned to the media, eventually leading the intervention of the Avengers Emergency Response Squad to intervene, dispatching Hawkeye, Captain America, Night Thrasher, and Hercules on site. Meanwhile Tiger Snake, Sidewinder, Asp, and Princess Python of the Serpent Society used the cover of the event to raid the derelict shack of the embalmer and acquire the jars of Griever's Swill from the as part of their plan to complete the Serpent's Tear. The Avengers eventually located Kragoff. Captain America came to an agreement with the apes, allowing them to enact their vengeance upon Kragoff, as long as they left him alive to be face mortal justice. Hercules then used the Adamantine of his Golden Mace to absorb the cosmic radiation, freeing the ghost apes.[2]
Alternate Realities[]
Earth-199999[]
As part of her massive bombing of the The Sacred Timeline, Sylvie targeted Kingsport, USA on the 8th of February 1999.[3]It is unknown whether it was Kingsport, New England (if it exist in this universe), or Kingsport, Tennessee.
Points of Interest
- Water St.
- The Old Man's house
- Amos and his wife's house
Residents
- The Old Man
- Amos and his wife
- Angelo Ricci
- Joe Czanek
- Manuel Silva
- Spanish Jack
- Matey
- Long Tom
- Scarface
- Bos'n Ellis
- Unnamed "misbehaving embalmer" (formerly)
- Tom Sole - Mayor
- Red Ghost (Ivan Kragoff) (formerly, in hiding)
Notes
- Kingsport is a fictional town in Massachusetts created by H.P. Lovecraft in his short story "The Terrible Old Man" (1921), adapted in Tower of Shadows #3 (January, 1970).
See Also
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tower of Shadows #3 ; The Terrible Old Man!
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Avengers Assemble (Vol. 3) #2
- ↑ Loki S1E02