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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published April 1999
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 4.50 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Tom Brevoort (Editor); Gregg Schigiel (Assistant Editor); Bob Harras (Editor-in-Chief)
Notes Back cover designed by John Roshell; 3-D rendering by Doug Rowell and Randee Z.

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel; Wasp; Marvel Boy; Human Robot; Immortus
Genre Superhero
Pencils Carlos Pacheco (signed)
Inks Jesus Merino (signed)
Colors Steve Oliff; Tony Kelly
Reprinted in Avengers Forever (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn]; in Avengers Forever (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]

22 page The Avengers story "Past Imperfect… Future Tense!"

Characters The Avengers [Captain America; Yellowjacket; Songbird; Hawkeye; Captain Marvel; Wasp; Giant Man]; Rick Jones; a future Avengers [Jocasta; Killraven; Crimson Dynamo; Thundra; Living Lightning; Black Panther]; the Skorpsmen; Killraven’s Freemen [Old Skull; M’shulla; Volcana Ash; Carmilla Frost] (cameos only) ; Kang; the 1950s Avengers [Venus; Marvel Boy; 3-D Man; Human Robot; Gorilla Man]; Reno Jones, the Black Rider; Kid Cassidy; Immortus
Synopsis Rick watches from the time ship as all three Avengers squads deal with their time anomalies. Using the Forever Crystal, Immortus destroys the 1950s Avengers timeline just as Wasp and Captain Marvel escape back to the ship.
Genre Superhero
Script Roger Stern (co-script); Kurt Busiek (plot)(co-script)
Pencils Carlos Pacheco
Inks Jesus Merino
Colors Steve Oliff; Graphic Color Works (separations)
Letters Richard Starkings; Albert Deschesne
Reprinted in Avengers Forever (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn]; in Avengers Forever (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]