Appearing in "Battle Atop Big Ben!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Doctor Louis Kort (Mentioned)
- Reed Richards (Mentioned)
- Deathlok (Luther Manning) (Mentioned)
- Metropolitan Police Service
- IRA (Mentioned)
- Webhead (Peter Parker) (Mentioned)
- High Evolutionary (Only in recap)
- Sherlock Holmes (Mentioned)
- Petunia Grimm (Mentioned)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Nick Fury (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Charles Dickens (Mentioned)
- Queen's Guard
- Galactus (Galan) (Mentioned)
- Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Mentioned)
- Devil (Referenced)
- Beefeaters
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Rhinoceroses (Mentioned)
- Chickens (Mentioned)
- Mutants (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- Havana (Mentioned)
- United Kingdom
- London
- Charles Dickens' house (Charles Dickens Museum, see Notes)
- Thing's hotel
- Westminster
- Piccadilly Circus
- Westminster Abbey (First appearance)
- Westminster Abbey library
- New Scotland Yard
- Haymarket (Referenced)
- National Gallery (Mentioned)
- Palace of Westminster
- Hydra London Headquarters (Referenced) (Destroyed)
- Hydra Research Base (First appearance)
- Tower of London
- Tower Bridge
- River Thames
- Stonehenge (Mentioned)
- London
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States (Mentioned)
- Yancy Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States (Mentioned)
- Transia (Only in recap)
- Wundagore Mountain (Only in recap)
- Citadel of Science (Only in recap)
- Wundagore Mountain (Only in recap)
- United States (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Atlantic Ocean (Mentioned)
- Heaven (Mentioned)
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
- Crown Jewels
- Dr. Kort's serum
- Genetic Accelerator (Only in recap)
- Laser torch
- Map
- Scepter
- Silver plate
- Spider-Woman's Suit
Vehicles:
- Boat
Synopsis for "Battle Atop Big Ben!"
Ben and Alicia are still in London enjoying the sights when Ben hears an explosion. Investigating, he finds two crooks who are blasting open the secret locations of map plates which would lead to a long lost treasure. As the Thing tries to round them up, he is attacked by the newly revived Spider-Woman, who is once more loyal to Hydra. She has come to terminate Ben, however, at the last moment, she chokes and is later forced to flee. Returning to Hydra headquarters she angers her superiors but promises to kill Ben Grimm next time.
Later, while sight-seeing, Ben and Alicia are once more attacked by Spider-Woman, who kidnaps Alicia and flies off. Ben chases after her but runs amok of the same crooks trying to uncover yet another piece of their treasure map. Ben fights through them and picks up his trail on Spider-Woman, which takes him to Big Ben, where the two battle it out. Although Ben has superior strength, he's no match for Spider-Woman's speed and venom blasts. However before a victor can be made, the two crooks -- also at Big Ben to find another part of the map, capitalize on the battle to try and eliminate Ben, and so they detonate a bomb which knocks both Thing and Spider-Woman into the Thames River.
Notes
- * Chauncy and Trevor look for parts of their treasure in "Charles Dickens' house". Charles Dickens' London home (1837-1839) was in 48 Doughty Street and became the Charles Dickens Museum in 1925.
===Continuity Notes===
- Spider-Woman recounts her origins and her ties to Hydra, which were first depicted in Marvel Spotlight #32 those origins were expanded upon in Spider-Woman #37 as well as Spider-Woman: Origin #1–5.