Avengers #3

2nd story:- The history continues from New Avengers #2. In the original #6 Stark made modifications to the original shield. Tales of Suspense #62 said that Cap took the modifications out because they spoiled his aim. Later retcons established the one-piece unbreakable nature of the original shield, so Tony couldn't have opened it up to make changes as shown in #6. (Except of course since then the shield *has* been broken a few times.) This issue says Tony produced a totally new shield in #6. Presumably Cap abandoned the new shield by ToS#62. I only remember Cap causing Zemo's hood to get glued on, as 1st described in #6. I don't know where the idea that Zemo did it to himself comes from, nor why it should be considered preferable. Hank Pym says he began thinking then about how to imprison villains like Enchantress or the Space Phantom from #2. I imagine this led to the Big House seen in a couple of issues of She-Hulk, where criminals are held in shrunk form. Or possibly the Negative Zone prison he helped set up in Civil War. The history continues in New Avengers #3.

This is part 3 of 6 of the Next Avengers story. At this time Apocalypse is believed dead as of X-Men #184. Why should tracking this Apocalypse's origin lead to the source of the time problems? When Iron Man says they're going to the apocalyptic future, is he specifically referring to the one Apocalypse came from? There have been many different Horsemen over the years. But I don't remember any being bonded to their steeds like these. Famine is obviously Scarlet Witch. Pestilence being Spider-Man was a reasonable guess. The other 2 are never identified, but it's fairly clear that Death is Wolverine. Comic Book DB claims War is Iron Man. But Wikipedia's identification of War as Red Hulk seems more believable. The Horseman names Death/Famine/Pestilence/War aren't actually quoted in the comic itself. It was established in his 1st Marvel Boy limited series that Noh-Varr is a Kree from an alternate universe enhanced with insect DNA. Spidey comments that there are too many insect heroes on this team, and he should have joined the new New Avengers. But he's already on that team as well as this one. Protector quickly rebuilds his device that Wonder Man destroyed last issue. But that was just a time viewer, and this copy's a time machine.