Avengers, The (1963 series) #331

Rage, backed by She-Hulk, Vision, Black Widow and Quasar, stands in the street outside Granny Staples’ home in Brooklyn and challenges Ngh the Unspeakable to fight. Ngh and his monstrous minions find this amusing as a bunch of neighbors gather to see what is going on. Ngh threatens Granny and brings out L.D. 50 and his hoods, showing that their brush with evil is transforming them into monsters, suggesting the same will be done to Granny. She-Hulk vows to send them back to the Dimension of Exile; Ngh utters the classic comeback, “You and what army?” And then the Tetrarchs of Entropy materialize in the sky…but Ngh is not intimidated. He notes that the Tetrarchs are not as powerful as they claim while Ngh, powerless in exile, grows in strength the longer he is on Earth. Then he orders his minions to attack and a melee breaks out in the street. The Avengers note that the monsters are bigger and stronger now, feeding off of Ngh’s power….

At Avengers HQ, Captain America is monitoring the situation with the Support Team (John Jameson, Peggy Carter, Michael O’Brien, Fabian Stankowicz) hard at work. Cap contacts Doctor Strange who informs him that he has no knowledge of the Tetrarchs of Entropy, suggesting they may not be as formidable as they seem….

Back at the battle, Ngh easily clobbers the serpentine Hafga, boasting that the source of his power is the little minds of humans that are impressed by his power in an endless cycle. Quasar asks why the Tetrarchs don’t just zap the bad guys back to Exile? Yod responds with threats, accidentally revealing their plan to double cross the Avengers….

Meanwhile, Thor and Sersi are in the Dimension of Exile where they discover a giant megalith; Thor cracks it open, freeing Ahh, an elderly woman who has been trapped for ten thousand years by the Tetrarchs….

Ngh knocks Rage for a loop then confronts three humans, asking if they are impressed with his power; to overcome their fear, he gives them each a huge bag of money—and their evil natures take over, slowly morphing them into monsters. And Ngh tells Rage that’s what he will do to Granny. But Rage isn’t buying it, knowing that there is no evil in her to manipulate. Then Thor and Sersi arrive with Ahh who explains that just as Ngh is the focal point for evil, she is the focal point for good, transforming the three people with the sacks of money human again. She transforms into a giant shining woman to match Ngh’s size and reminds him of something he forgot: that they are two sides to the same being, divided for an experiment; they merge to create a huge wizard-like character who removes the Tetrarchs’ power to move between dimensions. Ngh’s minions, now restored to their original species, ask the wizard what is to become of them. But the wizard doesn’t care and takes off for other worlds to rescue entire civilizations. Quasar then contains the Tetrarchs in a huge sphere and hurls it back into the Dimension of Exiles, through a portal opened by Sersi and Thor. L.D. 50 approaches the former minions and asks them to join his gang. Granny Staples chews out Rage for dressing like a hoodlum and wearing a mask. A news cameraman spots this and wants to film it but the anchor tells him Thor and Sersi would be more interesting. And so she interviews Thor who tells her that opening a dimensional portal is hard to explain and her viewers wouldn’t be interested in the mechanics…

…but Doctor Doom, watching on television, would….