Avengers Classic #10

The main story says Rick Jones is taken to 1760, the year George III came to the English throne and 5 years before the Stamp Act which triggered the Declaration of Independence. But by this time the Tower Of London was no longer a prison and I doubt it was guarded by men with spears.

The new backup relocates the tale to the 17th Century when a Queen is ruling. The intention is presumably Queen Elizabeth I who did last a few years into the Century. In which case the Tower as (partially) a prison with spear-wielding guards would make sense. Her predecessor and sister Mary I reigned in the previous Century. Mary II who co-ruled with her husband William III at the end of the Century doesn't fit the description of the place as Her Majesty's Fortress. And Anne who did rule alone is in the following Century. (And for those later rulers I think the place had already stopped holding prisoners.)

In the backup a 17th Century English soldier refers to Captain America as wearing the colours of their enemy the French. But the French only adopted red, white & blue for their flag after their Revolution in 1792. So this comment doesn't fit with the Elizabethan period (or even with 1760).

When it was used as a prison the Tower it was only for high-ranking prisoners immured for political reasons. As such they were well-accomodated and well-fed. Possibly because those who ordered them incarcerated knew that another turn of the wheel of fate could see *themselves* in there. So Luther, whoever he was, wouldn't have been dishevelled and dining on rat as his last meal. And he would have his head chopped off rather than be hanged.

The title 'Unrung' comes from the saying that you can't unring a bell once you've rung it. Of course this story shows that with time travel or Asgardian magic you *can* unring the bell. And the tale appropriately begins and ends with the (same) tolling of a bell.