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Avengers #3 Tile [by Jonnie] & Plot Synopsis [by Brother Todd]

Avengers #3:


Not bad for cranking it out at 6:00am before going to work.
Well, not good either.

Addendum -

Brother Todd emailed me today regarding the plotline of Avengers #3 and some notes on the state of his personal copy of that issue.

I am reproducing it here FYI:

The Avengers are sitting around, and they decide they should go look for the Hulk, because they should keep an eye on him and try to steer him toward being a good guy. Iron Man suddenly reveals his new invention which can project a ghostlike image of himself anywhere, and with it he can carry on conversations. So he sends this ghost form around to look for the Hulk. He checks with all the other super heroes to see if they’ve seen him, so we have cameo appearances of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Spider-man. Ice Man is still in his snowy form. It’s pretty neat. Hulk was less than a year old at this point, I think. Pretty much, everybody brushes Iron Man off because they’re busy with their own affairs. Before giving up, Thor says, “let’s check with young Rick Jones!” So they contact him on HAM radio, and Rick Jones goes and finds the Hulk in the desert. The Avengers go off to get him, each taking their own transports. Ant Man and wasp ride on a commercial jet. Iron Man and Thor fly on their own. When they get to the desert, they find the Hulk and have a massive fight, I guess probably the first time the Avengers fought the Hulk. It’s a pretty good fight.

Hulk goes into hiding at the end of the fight. He hides in the back of a gravel truck that dumps in the ocean and he swims under water for days “like a whale” to escape. Out on the sea, he meets the Sub-mariner, who is piloting a high tech submarine. Sub-mariner is portrayed sort of like a generic Dr. Doom, very technological. So, Hulk and Sub-mariner, after fighting a little bit, agree that they both hate humanity, so they should team up to destroy humans. So they go to Gibralter, and hide out in some abandoned World War II tunnels (this was only 19 years after the end of the War). Hulk and Subby are plotting to trick each other the whole time.

The Avengers get a call on their radio from the Sub-mariner and Hulk. They challenge the Avengers to a fight! So the Avengers get in their experimental submarine and head to Gibralter. And they have a big fight. Iron Man is on the verge of death again and again. His armor was pretty rickety and malfunctioned a lot in those days. Hulk tried to pull Thor’s hammer out of his hand, but couldn’t do it – not even pulling with both hands. IN the middle of the fight, Hulk turns back into “Bob Banner.” This was a mistake I guess by Stan Lee. He forgot Hulk’s real identity’s name! Or was he known as Robert Bruce Banner for a while? I forget. Anyway, so Banner runs off, and the Avengers defeat Sub-mariner.

There is no letters page. The final panel has a caption that promises a big surprise in the next issue. And that big surprise turns out to be – Captain America’s revival.

The book is in decent shape, for the price, I guess. The ad said there was a 1” chunk missing from the back cover, but it was more like 3 to 4 inches. It’s a big chunk, but it’s the back cover. The front cover is pretty nice to look at, no real creases across the front, but there is a lot of spine wear. But still, the cover is attached at both staples. The center fold is loose at one staple, but all the paper is in pretty nice condition. Due to the size of the chunk, it would grade as Fair/Good, but I paid the price of a Good copy. But I suppose it’s ok, because the cover looks almost Very Good in appearance.

It’s in a frame hanging up in the living room right now.

Avengers Assemble!

Belle's VCR

Since Belle could not watch Martha Stewart: Apprentice tonight, I agreed to be her eyes and ears:

Martha Stewart: Apprentice, Week 3 - Synopsis

Tonight's episode began with Matchstick (the "Creative" team) talking amongst themselves about how much they hate Dawn and want her to go home.

When they watched Dawn & Jim return to the suite, both having survived last week's conference room firing; one team member commented, "I want to throw up".

Jim's wife had a baby girl and informed Jim about it via cellphone.

In the morning, Martha called the teams directly from her horse stable. She asked the team, "Just waking up? I've been up for HOURS" (as if she had been personally shovelling horseshit for 5 hours).

This week's task was to design, bake, and sell a wedding cake at a "Wedding Expo".
Martha mentioned the wedding industry brings in $72 billion per year and generously allowed the teams to thumb through back issues of Martha Stewart - Weddings magazines for ideas.

Matchstick team leader Shawn (the short-haired newscaster girl) was so confident, she told George Wannabe, "If we don't win this one, you can fire me personally".
George Wannabe seemed really concerned about the comment and confided to the camera that Shawn was "boisterous".

Over at Primarius (the "Corporate" team), team leader Howie went off on his team when they complained that he sent them to an Asian wedding store. "That's Bullshit!!!! blah-blah-blah-blah!!!!!"
["Bullshit" was censored by the network, but you could read his lips].

None of them had ever seen him that way before and were glad when he calmed down and began hugging people instead of screaming at them.

Primarius was working late into the evening and were all exhausted when they got a surprise visit from Martha's daughter, Alexis.
Primarius claims that the visit from Alexis, "lifted our spirits" because they enjoyed asking her questions about what it was like being Martha's daughter.

The next morning, Matchstick loved their cake so much that they were practically screaming with glee. Shawn totally hated it though. She hated everything about it, but mostly that it had a bow on it. She sulked all through the Wedding Expo and throughout the rest of the show.

There was a disgusting clip of Jim and David talking in the bathroom, strategizing in their underwear while David was trimming his facial hair - not pretty at all.

When all was said and done, Primarius (the "Corporate" team) sold 5 cakes while Matchstick (the "Creative" team) sold ZERO.

Martha asked Alexis to bring her back a piece of each team's cake so she could personally sample them.

After sampling the cakes, Martha commented, "It tastes homemade and that's what you want to go for in a cake".
As soon as she said this, Jim nodded excessively with fake enthusiasm, very unconvincingly. If he was trying to communicate that he felt exactly the same way, that's not how it came off.

Martha shook her head at Matchstick for losing all 3 weeks in a row and commented that the Corporate group is "demolishing the Creative group".

Primarius' reward for winning was to have desert with Donald Trump and his wife.
Martha called Trump on his cellphone during desert and Trump told her, "You have a real attractive group of winners here".

Then Trump asked if any of them would like to work for him (implying "instead of martha") and they all yelled, "YES!" except for one girl who got a really sour expression on her face.

The conference room scene was advertised as "A Conference Room Twist" and it really was. After the usual nonsense, everyone was sent back to the suite except the 3 who were singled out. Martha and George Wannabe decided that everyone should be called back into the boardroom though. Their reasoning was that it wasn't the cake's fault nobody bought it and they wanted to fire one of the sales staff. I think the secret reason was because they wanted to fire Shawn for being boisterous.

They asked Shawn why she said they could fire her if Matchstick lost and Shawn said that in the TV business where she works as a newscaster, everybody always says "Fake it 'til you make it" when they can't remember their lines.

Martha countered with, "I've been on TV for 12 years and I've NEVER said, 'Fake it 'til you make it'!!"

She fired Shawn for saying "Fake it 'til you make it" and for being boisterous.
She still hasn't developed a catch phrase when she fires people (she probably didn't want to pay Donald to say, "You're Fired" since he copyrighted it). Tonight she said, "I wish you well, but I have to say goodbye". Then she rolled her eyes when the team left the conference room.

Snippet from her goodbye letter to Shawn - "At Martha Stewart Living, everything we do has to be beautiful on the inside and out, just like the wedding cake".

George Wannabe was as annoying as ever. I will never respect him.

The previews for next week look even better than this week's "A Conference Room Twist".
The phrase for next week is, "One Team Won't Even Finish"!!!

I bet it's Matchstick again.