The Avengers (Vol.5) Prime
Avengers 10 Variant Edition

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Avengers #10 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 1135863011
Owner: AlphaPrimeIan

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: The Avengers (Vol.5) Prime
Date Added: 12/26/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Synopsis: "Validator"

The opening page has Agent Maria Hill (who I believe is currently acting Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and another agent retrieving something from a corpse. I only mention this as the majority of the story is told in flashback, 8 hours prior to this point.

An Avengers team has been called by Department H of Canada to aid in the quarantined zone of one of the Origin bombs (the evolution one for those keeping score from Avengers (Vol. 5) #9). A month ago the Canadians sent in Omega Flight to assess the site and their record logs show how they all got wiped out; apart from Validator whose last message was to destroy the site and not to go there as this place is death. Hence Department H summoning the Avengers as it seems they are quite happy to risk a team of Americans! (Well Americans plus a Canadian and an Australian.) That and they couldn’t get back into the site as it closed up after Omega Flight entered. Basically, they need Manifold’s powers to get them back in and after a lot of political gesturing, how this is still a Canadian issue and the Avengers are merely guests, they go to the site along with Agent Michaud from Department H. (This chap is the corpse from the opening page so we already know this mission is going to turn out just fine for him!)

Inside the zone they discover a ruined city with overgrown flora and some weird looking fauna flying around. Bruce Banner makes contact with some of the locals (yellow imp like creatures, presumably evolved from the Origin bomb) who take them to Validator. She too has been evolved as she now speaks Builders’ code and reveals that Agent Michaud is her father. It fades to black, and the Avengers are now outside of the zone, about to be picked up by a Quinjet. They saw something, something no one should know, so much so that Agent Michaud takes his own life – bringing us back to the first page of the issue.

Later: S.H.I.E.L.D. and Department H are comparing notes as to what they have managed to piece together as what went on inside the zone. The Avengers claim they can’t remember much, but Department H have retrieved the video implant from Agent Michaud and have discovered 327 hours of footage (the mission itself was just under an hour). The footage shows each team member over a number of years: different Smashers, Hulk becoming Maestro, Falcon evolving into a bird-like form and some costume changes for Wolverine, Manifold and Captain America. It ended with Validator hugging her father, but as it was only a video feed they couldn’t hear what she told him. We cut to the Avengers returning home. Smasher and Manifold want to talk about what happened, but Wolverine cuts them off. What happened was a secret so important that Agent Michaud took his own life to protect it. The reader gets to see Agent Michaud's last moments with his daughter, when Validator tells him that within the zone something has been made, something bigger then they could imagine and she must protect it: The system is now online…

Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Mike Deodato
Cover Artist: Daniel Acuña

*50 Years Of Avengers*

Released: April 24, 2013
  
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