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New Avengers (2010 series) #9

Apr 2011
on-sale: Feb 9, 2011
Brian Michael Bendis | Mike Deodato

New Avengers (2010 series) #9 cover

Story Name:

Fury from the past

Synopsis

New Avengers (2010 series) #9 synopsis by Rob Johnson
Rating: 4 stars
This story has 2 separate strands.

The 1st opens in the city of Bayamo in Cuba in 1959. 2 men in an open-top car are searching the streets because the driver believes he's seen Nick Fury but the other 1 doesn't believe it. Then they do see the target looking like he's just been waiting for them.  They stop abruptly, Fury runs off and the passenger jumps out and gives chase. After a while he shoots at him but misses, then he gives up the chase because he's winded. The car pulls up, the passenger gets back in and they restart the chase, but only after a bus has got in the way. They catch up to Fury eventually, but he tosses a couple of live grenades into their laps. They leap out to escape. The passenger doesn't make it but the driver tries to crawl to his gun until Fury stamps on his wrist.

Nick has been joined by Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones. Fury addresses the man as a Kraut and accuses him of war crimes. The German protests that the war ended years ago. Then he tries the "I was only following orders" excuse. Then finally defiantly declares that the Reich will rise again. Then they shoot him.

In the present the New Avengers (Dr Strange, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man, Thing and Wolverine) are on a rooftop stakeout of a closed-down store called Things N Things in Barrington, Rhode Island. They alert Mockingbird undercover as a waitress in the next door coffee shop when 3 big trucks arrive and overly-muscled men (and women) start moving large metal equipment in. Then a car draws up and a statuesque female gets out who their liaison Victoria Hand had pre-identified as Dr Deirdre Wentworth who goes by the super-id Superia. She immediately starts bossing the minions around.

Dr Strange sends his astral self inside to see what they're doing and then reports back that it's as predicted. Superia has hired ex-Agents of Norman Osborn's HAMMER (replacing SHIELD) and they're setting up a high-tech base. Logan wants to get proactive. He'll cause a distraction while the others steal the trucks before they're unloaded. Cage and Ben Grimm agree but the others (except Bobbi Morse listening in) think they need to wait for them to do something actually illegal.

Thing takes it upon himself to demonstrate their bad intentions by leaping down into the building (smashing through the roof). Those outside immediately rush in with guns. Spidey, Strange and Wolvie join Thing while Danny Rand, Jessica and Luke head for the trucks. Danny admits that he doesn't have a driving license, because as an inhabitant of New York and K'un Lun (and head of a corporation) he's never needed 1. He and Jess find keys left in their vehicles but Luke has to call on the hot-wiring skills of his youth, but in the end just picks his truck up and carries it away.

Inside there's a lot of shooting which doesn't bother Thing, and Spider-Man and Wolverine just dodge. DrS has his own defences, plus he casts the illusion of a monster which scares some of the foes away. Mockingbird joins in by taking down fleeing enemies with flying kicks and such. Then she gets distracted by a Spidey joke ... and she gets shot in the stomach.

Back in 1959 Cuba Nick Fury's drinking alone in a cantina when he's approached by his superior Gen'l Hill (in civvies) who says the President wants him to stop hunting Nazis and help him with some project called the Avengers Initiative.


Characters
Good (or All)
DOCTORSTRANGE
DUMDUM
IRONFIST
JESSICAJONES
LUKECAGE
MOCKINGBIRD
MSMARVEL
NAV
FURY
SPIDERMAN
THING
WOLVERINE
Plus: Gabe Jones (Gabriel Jones), Superia (Deidre Wentworth).


Story #2

Avengers Assemble - the oral history of the Earth's mightiest heroes Chapter 13 part 4

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis. Penciler/Inker: .

Synopsis

By ?
Rating: 0 stars
This is the end of the Kree/Skrull War. Part 3 in Avengers #9 dwelt on #92 where the team testified before the Alien Activities Commission and got disbanded (by Skrulls masquerading as Captain America, Iron Man and Thor). This issue will cover the whole of #93-97.

The real Cap, IM and Thor brought in Dr Pym as Ant-Man to save Vision's life from within his synthezoid body while Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were taken with Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers to the Skrull's Andromeda Galaxy. The government sent Mandroids against the Avengers. (Via the involvement of the Kree-created Inhumans) Rick Jones got kidnapped to the Kree capital planet. This turned out to be the Supreme Intelligence's masterplan as he caused Rick to generate old Timely heroes from his mind which miraculously ended the war. When they all got home the leader of the Alien Activities Commission turned out to be a Skrull.

Avengers #10 doesn't have an instalment of this story so the next bit will be in our #11.

Characters
Good (or All)
ANTMAN
AVENGERS
CAP
CAPTAINMARVEL
IRONMAN
QUICKSILVER
RICKJONES
SCARLETWITCH
THOR
VISION
Plus: Carol Danvers.

Enemies
SUPRINTEL
Plus: Mandroids.



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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Mike Deodato
Mike Deodato
Rain Beredo
Mike Deodato (Cover Penciler)
Mike Deodato (Cover Inker)
Rain Beredo (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Joe Caramagna.
Editor: Tom Brevoort. Editor-in-chief: Joe Quesada.



Review / Commentaries

New Avengers (2010 series) #9 Review by (January 11, 2025)
The cover is totally misleading in that Nick Fury never takes aim at the Avengers. In fact the Fury and Avengers in this issue aren't even in the same century. But I like it!

Howard Chaykin pencils and inks the 1959 pages with Edgar Delgado on colours, while Mike Deodato and Rain Beredo handle the New Avengers.

Nick Fury's app here in 1959 follows his Korean War adventure in Sgt Fury Annual #1 where he got promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. And working for the CIA in 1955 in the Captain America Theatre Of War: America 1st 1-shot (also drawn by Howard Chaykin, and starring the 1950's Cap).
Dum-Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones havn't been seen since the Annual.
Nick and Dum-Dum will continue into next issue's 1959 adventure, but Gabe will skip that and and join Dum-Dum in a 1 panel app in International Iron Man #6 which leads into the circumstances of Tony Stark's birth.

This is Gen'l Hill's only app and he isn't known to be any relation to the later Maria Hill.

Superia and her Femizon army occupied many issues of Captain America between #387 and #414. Then she returned across #431-441 and Avengers #388 with Diamondback and Free Spirit. She's supposedly been dead since then.

A lot happened to the team members before this issue. In my Comments on #8 I took them up to and through Avengers #7-12. Now I'll say what happened after that.
Mockingbird, Spider-Man and Wolverine featured in various issues of the Klaws Of The Panther mini-series starring Black Panther (Shuri) vs Klaw and AIM in the Savage Land.
Wo then had 2 tales in his own #1000, and did X-related business in Uncanny X-Force #5-9, X-Men: Legacy #244, the Age Of X (involving XM:L#245-246, New Mutants (2009) #24 & XM:L#248) an then NM#25.
Meanwhile SM did his bit in Avenging SM #12-13 with Deadpool.
Then Victoria Hand popped up with Commander Steve Rogers in NM3#26-27.
Wo visited Namor: The 1st Mutant #11, had his own meeting with Deadpool in the W/DP: Decoy 1-shot and joined some other Avengers in Skaar: King Of The Savage Land #5.
Luke Cage has a bit part in Secret Avengers #10.
MB co-starred with Black Widow and Hawkeye in the Widowmaker mini-series.
Finally Thing (along with Mr Fantastic) did stuff in Warriors Three #2.

Story 2:-

In the subsequent book of the Oral History this section is renamed Chapter 15 part 2.

It has an illustration by Mike Mayhew and Andy Troy.

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