West Coast Avengers 33 The Man in the Ant Hill!
Published: June 10th, 1988
Writer: Steve Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom
Cover Artist: Al Milgrom
While the rest of the West Coast Avengers, and an observing Wasp, are formalizing Moon Knight's membership, Henry Pym bursts into the room. He was "just having some fun" by trying to start an international incident hacking into the Soviet Union's computer systems (isn't that what got the Vision in trouble?) when he found out that his first wife, Maria is still alive.
With Khonshu now vested in the idea of him becoming an Avenger, Moon Knight wastes no time closing the deal on his membership, making the pitch that as a former mercenary he is used to fighting governments. So Pym casts the final vote to include him, and all of the West Coast Avengers agree to help Pym. The Wasp goes along as well, and there's basically a full retelling of her origin story while they are on the Quinjet.
When they arrive in Hungary, they meet the US Ambassador, but are quickly accosted by The People's Security Forces, which includes a whole lot of Communist Apes (aka the Beasts of Berlin). And also El Toro, Madam X, and other Communist villains from Henry Pym's early days as Ant-Man and Giant-Man.
Despite having valid visas, the Avengers are under arrest, so they are attacked by the Security Forces. Since (aside from the gorillas!) these guys were mostly normal humans, they have now taken to using poison to increase their chances against the Avengers. But the poison manages to take everyone out except for Wonder Man.
And also Pym and the Wasp, since Pym ran away from the fight to get into the country to start looking for Maria, and Jan followed him. He wants her to use her antennae to contact the insect world and get the ants to look for Maria.
Her connection with the ants is fuzzy, but she does get a hit and leads Pym to a prison that turns out to contain not Maria, but the Vision and the Scarlet Witch.
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