. . . and Time, the Rushing River . . .
After the
Scarlet Centurion waylays
the
Avengers on their way back from the 1940s, they find themselves in
an alternative 1968 where the five original Avengers stayed together
under the thumb of the Scarlet Centurion.
The story includes flashbacks and previously
unknown explanations of the team’s previous trip to the ’40s in Avengers #56, and at the end of the story, Goliath uses Dr. Doom’s Time Platform to
banish the Scarlet Centurion back to his time—and we think this is the only time travel
that actually appears in the story (apart from the flashbacks). We don’t know what
happens to the alternative 1968 (now known as Earth-689, but the
traveling Avengers return to the universe that we all knew and loved in the 1960s (a.k.a.
Earth-616), with their memory of the whole affair wiped by the Watcher.
— Michael Main
Time is like a river! Dam it up at any one point
. .
. and it has no choice but to flow elsewhere
. .
. along other, easier routes!