West Coast Avengers #21 Lost in Space-Time Part 5: Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven!
Published:
June 1st 1987
Writer: Steve
Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom Cover Artist: Joe Sinnott
In Egypt, 2940 BC, the evil Rama-Tut has shot the Avengers
with a paralyzing ray. Somehow, despite their costumes and varied appearances,
he can't tell the difference between them and Egyptians native to that time and
just accuses them of being rebel slaves. Confident they will die from his
weapon, he has them taken to a nearby temple for burial. The temple they arrive
at happens to be one dedicated to Khonshu. While they lie paralyzed on the
temple floor, the feverish Hawkeye has a vision in which he comes face-to-face
with Khonshu, who explains that he aims for vengeance against Rama-Tut and will
use the Avengers as his agents, that his hypnotic influence kept Rama from
recognizing them as non-natives.
Hawkeye pleads his case for some extra divine intervention.
He wants to return to his own time, but Khonshu's methods can't be too direct.
Instead, Khonshu agrees to help deliver a message to someone from their time
that can help. The Avengers come to and Hawkeye's fever breaks, his burns even
mysteriously healed. Clint voices his thanks to a nearby statue of Khonshu just
before the temple's blind priests enter the room to offer their help in their
god's mission against the Pharaoh.
In 1876, Mockingbird is starting to shake off the effects of
Phantom Rider's potion just as Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid catch up with their
trail. When Bobbi's alone, Two-Gun confronts her dressed as Hawkeye, hoping to
jostle her memories.
She fights him at
first, but one more look at the arrowhead necklace she's wearing brings it all
flooding back. She rides off with Rawhide and Two-Gun wanting to kill Phantom
Rider for what he did to her.
In 1776, Carlotta Valdez's funeral ends with her parents and
chaperone deciding to return to Mexico along with her bible. Seventy years
later, 1847, Ciudad, Corazon, a young Isabel Ramirez enters the local mission
wanting to read the bible on the altar. The padre forbids peasant hands from
touching it, but she sneaks a look anyway. When she finds the English note
inside, she's hit with a vision that prompts her to steal the bible back for
her own family.
And in the present day, Moon Knight is hit with a sudden
vision of Khonshu that drives him to have Frenchie fly him to California as
soon as possible.
At Avengers Compound, Hank and Espirita put the finishing
touches on a new robotic creation, Rover, a flying mini-vehicle with an AI of a
talking dog, a solution that Hank hopes will make up for his previous mistakes
in creating killer robots.
He also tests out his
new, more practical application for Pym Particles, shrinking and storing
inanimate objects like tools and weapons rather than hazardously to his own
body. With these new innovations, Hank Pym is ready to return to adventuring,
not as a costumed superhero, but as plainclothed Doctor Pym. He and Bonita
share a passionate kiss to celebrate his new lease on life.
And back in New Mexico, Dominus wonders if he's truly seen to the end of the Avengers.
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