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 Why should father want tounlock the doors of the unknown—probe backward through time? Beyond the beyond!
