Appearing in "Even Avengers Can Die!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Teen Brigade
- ⏴ Rick Jones ⏵
- Various unnamed members
- Dr. Hjarmal Svenson (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Numerous unnamed Kallusians (First appearance) (Origin revealed) (Main story and flashback)
- Ogor (First appearance)
- Yirbek Armada (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Donald Blake (Referenced)
- Henry
- Ant-Man's Ants (Behind the scenes)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- ⏴ Watcher ⏵
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Asgardians
- Kallusians (First appearance) (Origin revealed) (Main story and flashback)
- Ants (Behind the scenes)
- Insects (Mentioned)
- Yirbek (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America
- Europe
- Arctic Circle (Main story and flashback)
- North Pole (Main story and flashback)
- Kallu Base (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- North Pole (Main story and flashback)
- South Pole (Mentioned)
- China, Asia (Mentioned)
- Earth Orbit
- Pluto (Cameo)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Sector 18-G (Mentioned)
- Solar System (Main story and flashback)
- Asgard (Referenced)
- Andromeda Galaxy (Only in flashback)
- Milky Way (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Giant-Man's Suit
- Wasp's Suit
- Mjolnir
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield
- Iron Man Armor MK II
- Uru (Mentioned)
- Geiger-counter missile
- Kallusians' ice-guns
- Kallusian matter displacer
Vehicles:
- Avengers' plane
Synopsis for "Even Avengers Can Die!"
The Avengers rush the dying Wasp to the emergency room but there is nothing any of the doctors can do for the Wasp. The only man who may be able to save her is a Dr. Svenson. Thor finds him as quickly as he can only to find out he is an alien impostor. The alien dies when exposed to the atmosphere of Earth because its mask was removed. Giant-Man uses his ants to search all over the world but to no avail, so he concludes that wherever he is there are no ants. This leaves the north and south poles. Heading to the north pole they find an alien base, where Dr. Svenson is being held. The aliens are found to be Kallusians, and they are hiding from other aliens who will destroy them. They are soon discovered and have to flee. Dr. Svenson is brought back to America and operates successfully on the Wasp. No one knows whether the Kallusians survived or not.
Notes
- Plot by Lee, script by Laiken and Lieber.
- This issue credits Paul Laiken as a writer. The letters page reveals that this name is a pseudonym for Larry Ivie.
- Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man, Wasp, Rick Jones, and Captain America were all last seen in Avengers #13.
- The Wasp was fatally injured by one of Count Nefaria's henchmen last issue.
- The Teen Brigade were last seen in Avengers #13.
- This is the first appearance of the Kallusians and the alien race that drove them from their planet. Their fate following their appearance in Avengers Vol 1 14 remains to be revealed, however there is an entry for them in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition Vol 1 15.
- There is a cameo appearance of Uatu the Watcher, he was last seen in Fantastic Four #20 where he aided the Fantastic Four against the Molecule Man. He'll next appear in Strange Tales #134 where he aids the Human Torch and the Thing against Kang the Conqueror.
- Iron Man is next seen in Tales of Suspense #63 where he battles the Phantom.
- Also in Tales of Suspense #63, Captain America's origin is re-told.
- Giant-Man and Wasp appear in Tales to Astonish #65, where Giant Man gets a new costume.
- Thor is next seen in Journey Into Mystery #114 where he battles the Absorbing Man.
- Giant-Man kills a Kallusian in this issue by removing his mask, which supplied the alien with the special type of oxygen he needed to survive.
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