Jerry Ordway

The United Underworld has all of Riverdale under their control and it's up to Batman, along with Archie and the Gang, to save their beloved hometown! It's going to come down to some ingenuity, a few high tech devices, and the showdown of the century right in the center of town!

"Mistaken Identity" Part 1 of 3. Guest-starring Photon and the Black Knight. The Doomsday Man hires the Wrecking Crew to capture Ms. Marvel (aka Carol Danvers)! However the Wrecker and his compatriots are not the smartest super-villains in the Marvel Universe! And they travel to New Orleans to apprehend the former Captain Marvel (aka Monica Rambeau) instead! After a brief clash with the belligerent crew, Monica alerts her former teammates! And amid the madness of Mardi Gras, the Avengers battle the Wrecking Crew in the Crescent City! Cameo appearances by Frank Rambeau, Jarvis, Warbird, and the Wasp. Avengers Lineup: Captain America, Firestar, Iron Man, Justice, Scarlet Witch, Thor, Vision, and Wonder Man. (Notes: Monica Rambeau changed her superhero name to Photon after the events of Avengers Unplugged #5. This three-part story was reprinted in 2005 in the hardcover: Avengers Assemble #2.)

"Mistaken Identity" Part 1 of 3. Guest-starring Photon and the Black Knight. The Doomsday Man hires the Wrecking Crew to capture Ms. Marvel (aka Carol Danvers)! However the Wrecker and his compatriots are not the smartest super-villains in the Marvel Universe! And they travel to New Orleans to apprehend the former Captain Marvel (aka Monica Rambeau) instead! After a brief clash with the belligerent crew, Monica alerts her former teammates! And amid the madness of Mardi Gras, the Avengers battle the Wrecking Crew in the Crescent City! Cameo appearances by Frank Rambeau, Jarvis, Warbird, and the Wasp. Avengers Lineup: Captain America, Firestar, Iron Man, Justice, Scarlet Witch, Thor, Vision, and Wonder Man. (Notes: Monica Rambeau changed her superhero name to Photon after the events of Avengers Unplugged #5. This three-part story was reprinted in 2005 in the hardcover: Avengers Assemble #2.)

"Cage of Freedom" Part 2 of 3. After the Wrecking Crew botched their mission last issue, the Doomsday Man kidnapped Carol Danvers himself! And now he's taken Warbird to his underground lair and dressed her in Ms. Marvel's original costume! That is rather odd! But that's how he remembers her from their first encounter years ago in Ms. Marvel (1977 1st series) #4. Luckily, Iron Man is able to trace the Doomsday Man to the Bronx, and a rescue party is quickly on the way! Giant-Man, Shell-Head, Justice, and the Wasp vs. the Doomsday Man for the life of Warbird! Meanwhile, the rest of the avengers journey to Polemachus to find Photon and the Wrecking Crew. But what they find instead is a catastrophe in the making on Arkon's homeworld! Cameo appearances by Kerwin Korman, Dr. Jane Foster, Jarvis, and Thundra. (Notes: Also this month the Avengers make a key appearance in Black Panther (3rd series) #8. This issue includes an 8-page insert previewing Spider-Woman (1999 3rd series) #1 and Generation X #53.)

"The Battle for Imperion City!" Part 3 of 3. On the interdimensional world of Polemachus, Earth's Mightiest Heroes lay it all on the line to save Monica Rambeau! The Grand Vizier has imprisoned Photon in an energy cage, and the Wrecking Crew is drawing power from her like a battery! But once the Avengers reach the imperial palace, the final battle explodes! The Wrecker, Bulldozer, Piledriver, and Thunderball vs. the Black Knight, Cap, Firestar, Wanda, Vision, Thor, Wonder Man, Arkon, and Thundra! The Wrecking Crew is headed for an overload! Cameo appearances by Jarvis, Iron Man, Justice, Giant-Man, Warbird, and the Wasp. (Note: The Avengers appear next in the Avengers Wizard Edition also known as Avengers #0.)

Collects Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #12-22, #0 and ANNUAL 1999. The European country of Slorenia is dead. Every man, woman and child, eliminated with the cold precision of a machine. And out of the flaming remnants of this tiny Baltic state comes a message from its murderer: Mankind's days are numbered...because Ultron has returned! He - or it - is one of the Avengers' oldest, most implacable foes, menacing humanity countless times. But never before has Ultron been this dangerous, this deadly. Now, he stands on the brink of committing global genocide, and rebuilding Earth in his own robotic image. Our only hope is a desperate U.N. strike on Slorenia, led by the Avengers themselves. But will it be in time? Will the strength and courage of Earth's Mightiest Heroes be enough in the face of such overwhelming evil? For the sake of the world, it will have to be! Plus: When you're an Avenger, you're one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes ? the first line of defense against the dangers no conventional foe could halt, the threats no ordinary man could withstand. Threats including Dominex, Lord Templar, Pagan and the Thunderbolts!

Collects Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #35-40, ANNUAL 2000, Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (2001), and Maximum Security (2000) #1-3 and Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (2000). The Avengers embark on international adventure against a nation-sized knight and a city of Hulks! Then, it's off to small-town Centerville to face Salem's Seven and the Sons of the Serpent! Plus: A major Marvel crossover! Avengers in space, and inquiries answered by the man who knows Earth's Mightiest Heroes best!

Collects Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #12-22, #0 and ANNUAL 1999.

The European country of Slorenia is dead. Every man, woman and child, eliminated with the cold precision of a machine. And out of the flaming remnants of this tiny Baltic state comes a message from its murderer: Mankind's days are numbered...because Ultron has returned!

He - or it - is one of the Avengers' oldest, most implacable foes, menacing humanity countless times. But never before has Ultron been this dangerous, this deadly.

Now, he stands on the brink of committing global genocide, and rebuilding Earth in his own robotic image. Our only hope is a desperate U.N. strike on Slorenia, led by the Avengers themselves. But will it be in time? Will the strength and courage of Earth's Mightiest Heroes be enough in the face of such overwhelming evil? For the sake of the world, it will have to be! Plus: When you're an Avenger, you're one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes ? the first line of defense against the dangers no conventional foe could halt, the threats no ordinary man could withstand. Threats including Dominex, Lord Templar, Pagan and the Thunderbolts!

 Collects Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #35-40, ANNUAL 2000, Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (2001), and Maximum Security (2000) #1-3 and Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (2000).

The Avengers embark on international adventure against a nation-sized knight and a city of Hulks!

Then, it's off to small-town Centerville to face Salem's Seven and the Sons of the Serpent! Plus: A major Marvel crossover! Avengers in space, and inquiries answered by the man who knows Earth's Mightiest Heroes best!

1st printing. Collects Avengers (1998-2004 3rd Series) #1-23, #0 and #1 ROUGH CUT, Iron Man (1998-2004 3rd Series) #7, Captain America (1998-2002 3rd Series) #8, Quicksilver (1997-1998) #10, AVENGERS ANNUAL '98-'99, and Avengers Forever (1998) #1-12. The Avengers have always defended humanity against the forces of evil. When duty calls, these legendary champions answer, fighting valiantly for justice. But as the Avengers re-form in the wake of a life-changing event, they must face an array of foes like no other: Morgan Le Fay, the Squadron Supreme, the Kree, the Legion of the Unliving, the Thunderbolts, the Wrecking Crew...not to mention facing Kang and Immortus in the Destiny War! But when the merciless Ultron attacks, wiping out an entire nation in his hatred for mankind, the Avengers must live up to their name - if they can!

Collects Avengers (1998-2004 3rd Series) #24-56, #1 and ANNUAL 2000-2001, Thunderbolts (1997-2012 Marvel) #42-44, Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (2000), Maximum Security (2000) #1-3, and Avengers: The Ultron Imperative (2001). Fan-favorite creators Kurt Busiek and George Pérez craft a new era for Earth's Mightiest Heroes! The Avengers forge an uneasy alliance with the Thunderbolts to face Count Nefaria - but the true threat comes from the stars as Earth is declared a cosmic maximum-security prison for alien criminals! To save their planet, and contend with hordes of rampaging Hulks and the spawn of Ultron, the Avengers must rebuild their operation bigger and better than ever. But none of it will do any good when the time-spanning Kang the Conqueror wages war on the present day...and wins! Now, Captain America and a small band of rebels may be the world's only hope for freedom!

Collects Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (2000), Maximum Security (2000) #1-3, Captain America (1998-2002 3rd Series) #36, Thor (1998-2004 2nd Series) #30, The Uncanny X-Men #387, Bishop: The Last X-Man (1999) #15, Iron Man (1998-2004 3rd Series) #35, Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #35, Gambit (1999-2001 3rd Series) #23, X-Men (1991-2008 1st Series) #107 and X-Men Unlimited (1993-2003 1st Series) #29. Welcome to Earth: penal colony for the universe's deadliest villains! When the civilized alien races-influenced by the Supreme Intelligence and his newly evolved Kree tire of Earth's involvement in their affairs, they decide to make it their new prison planet! Featuring all the world's greatest heroes-including the Avengers, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four - against the most bizarre and deadly threats they can conceive of! And on the forefront of the villainous attack? Ronan the Accuser and Ego the Living Planet!

Red version of the regular cover. One copy given to dealers who RE-ORDERED 100 Chaos Effect books.

Strong, quick, agile, and flashy, Rebel's accustomed to admiration -- and to the orderliness of the privileged place he shares with his twin and superhero alter ego in Golden City. But order is about to erupt into unimaginable chaos and bone-crushing violence! Warmaker's on the scene, and Rebel has to face him all alone and prove, once and for all, whether he's a true hero or just another pretty face.

Strong, quick, agile, and flashy, Rebel's accustomed to admiration -- and to the orderliness of the privileged place he shares with his twin and superhero alter ego in Golden City. But order is about to erupt into unimaginable chaos and bone-crushing violence! Warmaker's on the scene, and Rebel has to face him all alone and prove, once and for all, whether he's a true hero or just another pretty face.

Strong, quick, agile, and flashy, Rebel's accustomed to admiration -- and to the orderliness of the privileged place he shares with his twin and superhero alter ego in Golden City. But order is about to erupt into unimaginable chaos and bone-crushing violence! Warmaker's on the scene, and Rebel has to face him all alone and prove, once and for all, whether he's a true hero or just another pretty face.