Avengers (v3) #43

"Global Presence"

August 2001

The team battles numerous foes, and an undead army led by the Presence

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• page 1: That's Russian they're speaking, predictably enough. The third Russian super hero known as the Red Guardian was transformed into the being now known as Starlight in Defenders vol. 1 #53. Vanguard apparently died in StarBlast #3, and reappeared, none the worse for wear, in Daredevil #369.
• page 3: And now you know how he came back.
• page 6: Quicksilver was the leader of the Inhumans' militia for an extended time.
• page 8: Torg was first - and last - seen in Sub-Mariner #55 (1972).
• page 11: The Winter Guard are Russia's national super hero team, and have already fallen to the Presence's "salvation."
• page 18: In her early days, the Black Widow occasionally spied for the Chinese, and after she defected to the West, they tried - unsuccessfully - to brainwash her back into their service in Avengers vol. 1 #41-44.
• page 21: Firebird's inexplicable immunity to poison was displayed in West Coast Avengers Annual #2.

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