Red Ghost (Marvel Comics)

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Avengers Annual #2

. . . 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!
Five Avengers from 1968, led by Goliath and the Wasp, face off against the five
                Avengers as they were in early 1964, led by Giant Man and the Wasp.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Dear Reader


Could it be that when Heathcliff disappeared from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights in pain after overhearing Catherine’s marriage plans that he went to 21st-century New York City, where 17-year-old Flannery Fields would enlist him to help find her stray English teacher? —Michael Main
Here she was dancing at O’Kelleys while Miss Sweeney wandered the city in despair; here she was marveling at literary time travel as a true possibility, though literary time travel sounded so goofy and grandiose that it shamed her further.
The torso and hips of a teenaged schoolgirl in a white blouse and plaid skirt,
                clutching her books to her chest.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Debatable Time Travel