Avengers Masterworks Vol. 6
Hawkeye is part of the Avengers
Contains Avengers 51, 52, X-Men 45, Avengers 53-56, Avengers Annual #2, & 57-58
An Elder of the Universe, the Collector, has his sights set on the Avengers
He captures Giant-Man, Wasp, Thor, and Hawkeye and plans to capture Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Black Panther
Collector is defeated and flees
Black Panther is framed for the supposed murder of Hank Pym, Wasp, and Hawkeye
The perpetrator for Black Panther’s framing is Grim Reaper
They are still alive, only paralyzed by Reaper
He’s out for vengeance against the Avengers for his brother who was Wonder Man
Black Panther clears his name as he saves the 3 Avengers from Grim Reaper who flees
He is officially inaugurated into the Avengers
Refer to X-men Masterworks Vol. 5. The Avengers set out to find former members Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch to determine if they’re friend or foe now that they’ve allied with Magneto
They get into a misunderstanding and battle the X-men after which they defeat Magneto together
Jarvis joins the New Masters of Evil led by someone called the Crimson Cowl for a sum of money
The new team includes Melter, Radioactive Man, Black Knight, with new additions Ulysses Klaw and Whirlwind
Crimson Cowl reneges on his deal and knocks Jarvis out with gas
The current Black Knight is a benevolent man named Dane Whitman who is the nephew of Nathan Garrett who was in Zemo’s original team
The Masters of Evil, except Black Knight, attack Avengers Mansion
Crimson Cowl is revealed to be a robot and the true Crimson Cowl is revealed to Jarvis
The Master of Evil capture the Avengers and take them to the Crimson Cowl
Klaw attempts to destroy CC with his sonic gun which does nothing
CC plans to drop a hydrogen bomb over the Empire State Building
Cowl is the robot after all and had Jarvis under hypnosis
The robot’s name is Ultron-5
Jarvis survives an attempt on his life and tells Black Knight to save the Avengers trapped inside the hydrogen bomb
Black Knight helps the Avengers get free and take on the Masters of Evil
They are defeated and the hydrogen bomb is disarmed
Jarvis explains he sold out to save his ill mother and the Avengers forgive him for finding Black Knight to help them
Cap meets Hawkeye, Wasp, Giant-Man, and BP at Doom’s castle which is deserted and use his Time Platform
They travel back in time to when Cap and Bucky were on Zemo’s drone plane so Cap could truly determine if Bucky died
Being the one who sent them back in time while staying in the present, Wasp dozes off and accidentally presses a button that makes them transparent and tangible in the past
Zemo sees them but as quick they appear they disappear and Zemo is confused and history plays out as it should
The Avengers return to the present to find that history has changed
There are different versions of them who have replaced them and they (the replacements) are shocked to see the originals
The replacements consult a being known as The Scarlet Centurion about what to do with the originals
At the same time, the original Avengers use a computer known as a Herodotron which records historical data then uses narrative feedback to relay knowledge and recorded data
Through wearing a helmet, the original Captain America sees that Hulk never left after battling Space Phantom
Shows the first encounter where Scarlet Centurion appeared to the replacement Avengers
He tells them to deal with various super-powered heroes as he determines they are potential threats to society. That includes the Avengers who time travelled who shall appear in their future
The replacement Avengers became dictators
The original team splits up to find components needed for Doom’s Time Platform to travel through time again
The ‘other’ Avengers attack them but are defeated. Scarlet Centurion then confronts and attacks them
He reveals he orchestrated everything from mentally influencing Captain America to become obsessed about Bucky’s fate to having Wasp become drowsy and press the button that materialized the Avengers, to allowing the Avengers to detect the ‘other’ team and hypnotizing that team to become dictators
Hank Pym manages to get past SC activates the Time Platform
The Watcher appears to Captain America to tell him that SC is who Kang became between his time as Pharaoh Rama-Tut when he travelled to the past from 3000 and overshot to 4000 but first made a detour in the 20th century and became SC
Watcher also tells him that neither SC nor the Avengers shall remember what has transpired
All the Avengers remember is the journey they too back with Cap to WWII
A colorful being known as The Vision attacks Wasp and unexpectedly shuts down
All he knows is that he’s on a mission to kill the Avengers
He has super strength and can increase his mass and density as well as become intangible
He is an android created by Ultron-5
He is conflicted about attacking them and feels they should be allies and tells them he’ll take them to Ultron
Vision defeats Ultron alone who explodes into pieces
At an Avengers meeting where BP first meets Iron Man and Thor, Vision is also present desiring to become an Avenger
He is tested by Cap, Iron Man, and Thor and impresses each of them by demonstrating his strength and abilities
Vision digs into his memories to find out exactly what he is but Ultron gave him no name, only what he can do
Hank Pym recalls working on a synthezoid but can’t remember what happened to the project
Through his electronic memory banks, Hank remembers he created Ultron who turned on Hank and made him forget
Ultron used Wonder Man’s brain patterns and integrated them into Vision. As a synthezoid he is mentally human with synthetic organs
Vision is welcomed into the Avengers and sheds emotional tears