Avengers, The (1963 series) #360

The Vision is captured by the Gatherers; suspended in a glass sphere, he is introduced to Proctor and a red-and-green Vision from a parallel world and told that his double will soon be taking his place among the Avengers. Vision recalls the events that led to his capture. He was working with their guest, Philip Javert, the alternate world’s Swordsman, when Javert had one of his recurring headaches. Crystal came in to give Vision a letter he had received and she tended to Javert’s pain. Vision told Crystal to inform Black Widow he would not be at the team’s executive session that evening, pleading urgent business. Vision flew out to a Long Island beach house where he met Laura Lipton and, despite his reminders that he has no emotions, he found himself kissing her. And then he was captured by the Gatherers, Laura having been impersonated by Tabula. And now Proctor has the two Visions hooked up to a device which will swap their consciousnesses. Vision asks why Proctor is attacking the Avengers. The villain responds that there are many reasons, all involving Sersi, his former wife….

Sersi is now relaxing by Warrior Falls in Wakanda when she hears an intruder. She turns in an instant and fires her eyebeams at him only to discover it’s Dane “Black Knight” Whitman, come to see if she is all right. She reveals her feelings about having killed the villain Anskar on Polemachus—that she felt compelled to do it and she thinks she is going insane….

In a Manhattan police station, Detective Joe MacNamara and Coroner Tomas Delgado are investigating the murders of six men, when analysis shows traces of unstable molecules on that latest victim so MacNamara and Delgado head out to interview Reed Richards, creator of the material….

At the Mansion, Crystal (in a new outfit) and Hercules discuss Sersi’s killing of Anskar and recalling that Dane killed the Kree Supreme Intelligence….

Meanwhile, Dane and Sersi are flying across the ocean in a Quinjet when she suddenly tells Dane to get out….

Proctor brings the anti-Vision through a portal to the roof of Avengers Mansion, rebuking him for his insolent attitude and ordering him to kill the Swordsman quickly before he remembers too much of his time with the Gatherers. A Quinjet arrives as within Herc and Crystal are helping Black Widow separate the quarrelling Lockjaw and Karia, Arkon’s dinosaur steed which he had left in their safekeeping. And then the Quinjet crashes through the roof and explodes. Then Dane is hurled out of the ship by Sersi who is in a violent rage….

At the Gatherers citadel, Vision finds he cannot materialize through the glass tube he is imprisoned in. Cassandra informs him that the Gatherers are survivors of timelines now dead and lost because of the Avengers and they seek to ensure it does not happen again….

Sersi is firing eye blasts at her friends, saying she doesn’t want them to see her like this. She blasts Hercules and accuses Crystal of hating her, Javert is awoken by an alarm in his room so he dons his Swordsman gear and rushes to the scene. (Anti-)Vision suddenly appears and tries to subdue her but he does it by violently inserting his hand through her brain so that the others plead with him to stop before he kills her. It takes a threat from Dane with a drawn laser-sword to make Vision release her. And then Captain America arrives….

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Overviews

Writer: Bob Harras.Penciler: Hector Collazo. Inker: Suzanne Gaffney. Colorist: Gina Going. Letterer: Rick Parker.

Synopsis

Synopsis: Black Widow is grateful for Captain America’s agreeing to return to the Avengers; she brings him up to speed by showing him the files on Black Knight, Sersi, Crystal, Coal Tiger, Swordsman, Magdalene, Sloth, and Cassandra, and they wonder if any of this fits with the Watcher’s warning in issue #357.