West Coast Avengers #17 Outta Time!
Published:
February 10, 1987
Writer: Steve
Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom Cover Artist: Al Milgrom
The West Coast Avengers fly out to Albuquerque to try to
recruit Firebird as their sixth member. They leave Hank behind, not paying
enough attention to how despondent he's been.
Hank dwelling on what Whirlwind told him, starts to
contemplate suicide. During their flight to Albuquerque, Iron Man tells the
team about Hank back in the old days and how essential he was in forming the
Avengers and making the team up a permanent thing. When the team gets to Bonita's apartment, they
learn that she's been missing for over a month. In the process of searching for
more information around town, they're ambushed by a group of villains
apparently working for one called Dominus. The flying heat-generating Sunstroke
claims to be human, using powers of his own devising, but explains that his
cohorts Butte, Gila, and Cactus are merely artificial humanoids created by
Dominus.
The Avengers gain the upper hand, but as they do, a
mysterious force beam grabs the Desert Dwellers and whisks them away from the
battle. Iron Man tracks them to a base hidden in a mountain in the Arizona
desert and recognizes the uniform of the Desert Dwellers' boss inside as
belonging to the alien Lucifer.
Dominus explains that Lucifer was his predecessor and that
he won't fail in his inherited mission to enslave the world. To get the
Avengers out of the way, as soon as they enter his chamber Dominus activates
the Time Platform they stepped onto, a damaged version of Doctor Doom's device
he found in the desert that can only travel backwards in time. Dominus laughs
maniacally, confident that he has trapped the Avengers in the distant past.
Meanwhile, Hank Pym spends the day settling accounts and
preparing to kill himself. Just as he's holding the gun to his head, he's
interrupted by the sudden appearance of Bonita, now bearing the identity of La
Espirita, who brings him a message of hope from God.
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