''All-New Invaders'' was a reboot of the classic
comic book
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series ''
Invaders''
Publication history
The series was published by
Marvel Comics
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between 2014–15. It was created by
James Robinson, Mukesh Singh and
Steve Pugh
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He broke into the industry in ...
. It featured many of the original Invaders but also a Japanese heroine named Radiance (the granddaughter of
Golden Girl-Gwenny Lou Sabuki), who joined the team during the book's second arc, and
Iron Cross's daughter, who joined in issue #10. With issues 6 and 7, the series tied in with the
Original Sin
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storyline. The series also has many references to classic comic characters and teams, such as Kid Commandos,
Freedom's Five
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0–9 198
A A-Force
A-Next
A.I. Army
Because of his revelation that he is now a simulated A ...
and
Killraven
Killraven (Jonathan Raven) is a character (arts), fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a freedom fighter in several Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apoca ...
. In issues 14 & 15,
Sam Wilson (Falcon) replaces Steve Rogers on the team. The series was canceled after 15 issues.
Plot
The Kree Empire intends to conquer the universe using a weapon called the God's Whisper that will allow them to control any god-like creature. The Kree Supreme Intelligence sends Tanalth, the new leader of the Pursuer Corps, to Earth to capture
Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch) and
Namor
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in order to unlock the power of the God's Whisper. Hammond had faked his death and is living as a mechanic in a small rural
Illinois
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town. Tanalth destroys the town looking for Hammond, until
Captain America
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and
Winter Soldier come to help and drive Tanalth away. It was later revealed that during WWII the
Invaders faced off against
Hela
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, who was being controlled by the
Nazis
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who were using the God's Whisper. After the Invaders win the battle, they agree to break the weapon into five pieces and not share the locations with each other, then wipe their memories of the events. Somehow, the Kree found the locations and then kidnapped Namor. The Invaders recruit Aarkus (the
original Vision), then travel to Kree to save him but are quickly captured. The Kree Supreme Intelligence has no need for Bucky, so he has him killed. Aarkus is also captured and experimented on. The Kree Supreme Intelligence needs Hammond, Namor and Captain America to test the might of the God's Whisper, which is controlling the
Eternal
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* Immortality or eternal life
* God, the supreme being, creator deity, and principal object of faith in monotheism
Comics, film and television
* ...
Ikaris
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. Ikaris is powerless and is forced to fight the three. But unbeknownst to the Kree, Bucky faked his death and skulked away to free Aarkus, while everyone was distracted watching the fight between the three Invaders and Ikaris. As it turns out, Captain America had planned the capture of the team all along in order to get close enough to plant a virus into the Kree Supreme Intelligence, who then, because of the virus, allows the Invaders and their friends to leave. Ikaris leaves with Aarkus and takes the God's Whisper with him. Captain America convinces Hammond to come out of hiding and join SHIELD. Namor quips that this was the most fun he has had in a long time and suggests they team up again.
Hammond's first mission as a SHIELD agent is to quell a hostage situation caused by the original Invaders. Radiance, the granddaughter of
Golden Girl, attacked a SHIELD base because she wanted to know why the Invaders allowed the
atom bombs
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to be dropped on Japan. Hammond explained that they were busy preventing the military from using a Tsunami Bomb, which would have created more collateral damage. He even tells how Golden Girl led the Kid Commandos against the Invaders. In a panic, Radiance detonates a light bomb, but Hammond takes the blame for it since Radiance is continuing to honor her grandmother's legacy as a super hero.
During the debriefing of the hostage situation, Hammond is attacked by a
Deathlok
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. Hammond, Namor and Bucky track down arms dealer Kurt Dagmar, who has an army of Deathloks at his command because of a special hacking device he has used. During this time, Bucky finds an Inhuman named Clare Gruler, the daughter of the
Iron Cross
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, who melded with her father's armor when her Inhuman powers manifested. She is grateful to Namor, who cleared her father's name of any war crimes during the
Nuremberg Trials
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Between 1939 and 1945 ...
. Unfortunately, Hammond is struck by an AI scrambling beam and flies away in a mad rage. The team tracks him down and urges him to find his humanity and that he has a team that loves him. Hammond flies up into the stratosphere to reboot his hard drive, which had worked before, but he lost his powers and died. Namor promises to follow him and catch him this time.
In a flashback story,
Union Jack
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,
Spitfire
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and
Destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
read about when the
Freedom's Five
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0–9 198
A A-Force
A-Next
A.I. Army
Because of his revelation that he is now a simulated A ...
(who first appeared in ''Invaders'' #7
uly, 1976—who consisted of
Phantom Eagle
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The first character to use the name was teenaged Mickey Malone, a young aviator who appeared in the 1940s in Fawcett Comics publications depicting ...
, Sir Steel, Union Jack, Crimson Cavalier and
Orson Randall as Iron Fist (who replaced the Silver Squire)—battled aliens similar to those in
The War of the Worlds
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. They enlist the help of
Killraven
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to battles the aliens.
Toro is eventually freed from his Inhuman cocoon, so the Invaders go to Germany to assist Iron Cross in battling Neo-Nazis. They are interrupted by the Inhuman
Lash, who is attempting to recruit Iron Cross, Toro, and the Neo-Nazis leader, who had no idea he was an Inhuman. Medusa and the Inhuman Royal Court appear, so Lash leaves with the Neo-Nazi, who abandons the Nazi cause since he doesn't have pure Aryan blood. Toro agrees to join the Inhumans in Attillan and the rest of the Invaders agree to return to their home countries. Hammond then returns to Camp Hammond and adopts
Speedball's cat, Niels.
[''All-New Invaders'' Issue #15]
Collected editions
References
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