Mighty Avengers #6

No Official Index follows Mr Fantastic's appearances or the Mighty Avengers issues, but the Marvel Continuity Project behind the OI says Reed appears here between Fantastic Four #546 and #547. But he's away on a 2nd honeymoon with Invisible Woman on Titan in the issues spanning those 2 (as he was when SHIELD tried to contact him in #4). The MCP Calendar has to suggest that he popped back to Earth for 1 reason or another. Reed and Sue Richards went to Titan in FF#544 and will return in the storyline in #547-550 (after MAv#1-11). Meanwhile Black Panther and Storm take their place in the FF in #544-546, BP#27-34 and some guest apps, including some after MAv#11. There are also some appearances of 1 or both of the Richards in this issue and the mini-series Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel, Sub-Mariner: Revolution and Penance: Relentless (this last also including Human Torch and Thing) (which other internal evidence places in that order). A problem arises because the last 2 series also include Dr Doom. It is difficult to place these 2 joint MF/IW/DD apps. Dr Doom will be imprisoned by SHIELD in MAv#11 where he'll stay until Secret Invasion, with a documented escape and recapture in FF#557-562 (with no space for other adventures within). MCP currently has Revolution and Relentless between FF#550 and #557 with the assumption that Doom there is a Doombot or he has another (undocumented) escape and recapture - neither of which they actually like. But if they are moved to between FF#544 and #547 then Reed and Sue are away. (And between MAv#11 and FF#547 all 3 players are unavailable.) (And #544 is supposed to happen immediately after Civil War, with no room for eg the 8 days of Revolution in between.)

I have proposed a solution to MCP which involves extending Reed's visit to Earth this issue and including Sue in it. Then the 3 limited series (including A:LBM) can be put before MAv#1-11. In FF#544-546 and BP#27-24 King Solomon's Frogs took the alternate FF hopping through space, dimensions and timelines. I suggest the unpredictable artefacts took them for a jaunt through time as well (which is within their capabilities), so that they arrived back long after they set out. The Baxter Building alerted Reed and Sue that their friends had been missing for a while, so they came home to investigate, and meanwhile made the relevant appearances. The alt-FF returned between Revolution and Relentless, and BP and Storm took the opportunity to check up on their kingdom of Wakanda, which is why the original FF are together for Relentless. After this issue Reed and Sue return to Titan, and the alt-FF continue to have adventures after MAv#11. The 1st of which has Storm revisiting the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #487-491 while Reed and Sue are away, HT and Thing are alone in the Baxter Building, and BP is (still?) absent (in Wakanda?). The MCP are still considering this.

The New Avengers discovered that the current Elektra was a Skrull when they killed her in NAv#31. In NAv#32 Spider-Woman took the body from the rest of her team against their will to bring it to Tony Stark. This is the 1st indication of the Secret Invasion. Spider-Woman is also a Skrull replacement, their Queen Veranke. In NAv#42 we will understand that the Skrulls want to sow distrust among superhumans. In fact in #16 we will be told that Skrull Pagon was sent as Elektra to take over the Hand specifically in order to provoke some superhero(es) to kill her, thereby exposing the Skrull infiltration and starting the spread of paranoia. This has already begun within the NAv, and now Veranke is presumably bringing Pagon's body to Tony Stark to infect the MAv as well. The Ultron in the helicarrier's computers will strike in the Avengers/Invaders limited series. But before that we'll see that the consciousness from the female body here escapes into space and will play a major role in the Annihilation Conquest Event.