Avengers #5: Review

Future Vision is the being at the end of time who was the 1st entry in #1's look-ahead to the coming year of this comic.

The current Avengers include 4 characters (Cap, Spidey, Thor and Wasp) who currently share their super-ids with other characters. Now Vizh has (temporarily at least) joined that club with future-Vision. Hercules is the only stand-alone hero left!
And then we get duplicates from the past!

When exactly does the original team come from? Hulk is a member so it must be between Av#1 and #2 because he quits at the end of #2. #1½ has been later inserted between them during which Henry Pym shows them his transformation from Ant-Man to Giant-Man, so the the team must be plucked from between #1½ and #2. But none of this is possible because in all 3 of those issues Iron Man is in his bulky yellow armour. He doesn't make an Avengers appearance in the slim red & gold until #3 after Hulk has gone.
Sam-Cap says "Avengers Assemble" and Vision tells him he's just he's just given the original team their catch phrase. Possibly true because they aren't recorded using it until #10.
Hulk went through lots of changes in eg colour and intelligence in his very early period. At this stage he was reasonably intelligent, which continues through his strip in Tales To Astonish. The childlike "Hulk smash" version doesn't surface until sometime in his own restarted series.

There's also a problem finding an Avengers with *exactly* the lineup of the 2nd team from the past. It is obviously meant to be from somewhen in 1985-88. Black Knight and Captain Marvel were there basically the whole time. Captain America left after #285 and Annual #16 to become the Captain. Sub-Mariner did 2 stints #262-272 and #282-293. She-Hulk just did #278-297. So the overlap is #282-285 + WCA An#2/Av An#16. But to use the position we have to ignore the fact that Dr Druid and Thor were also on the team at this time.
I'm going to say the Avengers *were* taken from this period, and Druid and Thor just happened not to be there. #282-285 is 1 long story with Namor rejoining during #282. So I place this time-jaunt between that tale and the Annuals crossover.

Note that the Avengers here aren't *exactly* the same set as last issue in 2 ways. 1st they forgot to include Jan-Wasp in the original Avengers. 2nd they *did* include another Thor from the 80's. This would have made things even more interesting.
Also that Thor is wearing the Simonson armour. And coincidentally (or not?) he was still wearing that in Av#282-285 but had abandoned it by the time of the Annuals.

Young science-whiz Wasp (Nadia Pym) asks why simultaneity matters, and is satisfied by an irrelevant answer from future-Vision. I would have expected something along the lines of ensuring that Kang didn't get any early warning to enable him to react. It doesn't make an scientific sense (to our 21st century science) but it would make comics-sense and corresponds to what happened last issue.
But that would be simultaneity from Kang's point-of-view which, given the team have a time machine, surely doesn't have to mean simultaneity from *their* POV. The same team could have attacked all the places in whatever way would be simultaneous for the tether, instead of needing to recruit extras.
But then nearly everything about superhero comics is scientific nonsense anyway so I should just stop quibbling. And the multiple versions of the team from different times makes the story more interesting.

Last issue Kang mentioned the future tech he was storing in pyramids in Ancient Egypt. (2948 BC ties in with the reign of Rama Tut I.) He didn't mention 73rd Century time-mining. And the 41st Century is where he wound up after Egypt and 1st became Kang the Conqueror. And from there menaced the Avengers - his pose on the last page is a copy of 1 in the 1st app of 'Kang' in #8 of the original series.