Norm Breyfogle

"The Cat Came Back!" Guest-starring Hellcat and Moondragon. After the remarkable events of Thunderbolts Annual 2000, Patsy Walker is back among the living! And during a television interview about her dramatic return, she runs into her old friend Hedy Wolfe! Hedy is glad to see her and quickly invites Patsy to visit their hometown of Centerville! However when Patsy arrives in town, she feels threatened by her surroundings. So the former Hellcat makes a call to her old friends at Avengers Mansion! The presumptuous Moondragon intercepts the call and relays it to the Thunderbolts too. And shortly thereafter a combination of heroes flies into Centerville ready for anything! But does that include a showdown with the Sons of the Serpent and Salem's Seven? Wow, Centerville has never seen a fight like this! Get the popcorn ready! Origin of Patsy Walker. Cameo appearance by Nicholas Scratch. Flashback cameos by Buzz Baxter, Daimon Hellstrom, Deathurge, and the Beast. Avengers/Thunderbolts Lineup: Captain America, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Songbird. (Notes: Hellcat appears next in the first issue of the Hellcat (2000) limited series. This annual includes a full-page ad for Lone Star Comics. This story was reprinted in 2007 in the hardcover: Avengers Assemble #4.)

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) #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 (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!

When T'Challa falls to the one foe he's never beaten, Killmonger earns the right to become the new Black Panther! Now, only Everett K. Ross can save T'Challa's life - okay, Ross plus Moon Knight, Brother Voodoo and the Panther God! Still suffering, the deposed Wakandan leader finds himself caught in a cat trap with the Avengers and¿Deadpool?! Storm of the X-Men offers comfort as Wakanda finds itself on the verge of war with Lemuria and Atlantis - and Klaw, Malice and Man-Ape threaten to destroy the African Avenger once and for all! Plus: Ross spends a day in Mephisto's metaphorical shoes, and Captain America recounts his never-before-revealed wartime meeting with the former Black Panther, T'Chaka! Super heroics meet geopolitics as only Priest can mix them! Collecting BLACK PANTHER (1998) #18-35 and DEADPOOL (1997) #44

It's the catastrophic conclusion to "Sturm Und Drang: A Story Of Love And War!" With Wakanda on the brink of destruction?and the world on the edge of global conflict?the Black Panther battles to the death with his greatest enemy: Klaw, master of sound! Meanwhile, the fate of the world?and possibly the universe?rests on the narrow shoulders of... Everett K. Ross?!