Avengers Annual #2
. . . and Time, the Rushing River . . .
by Roy Thomas, Don Heck, and Werner Roth
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!
“. . . And Time, the Rushing River . .
.” by Roy Thomas, Don Heck,
and Werner Roth, in The Avengers Annual 2 (Marvel Comics, September 1968).