Ghaur and Llyra admire the completion of the new Serpent Crown, then order Attuma and his warlords to launch the Atlantean assault against the surface world. The Avengers watch from Avengers Island as the Atlanteans attack four key American military installations. The Crown activates, causing feelings of sickness in all of its previous surviving wearers, including a mysterious armored figure. Captain America summons the West Coast Avengers and nearly all of their previous members, who split into four squads, one for each of the attack sites. Mr. Fantastic’s squad (Black Panther, She-Hulk and Invisible Woman) successfully route Lord Arno, Orka, and their forces at the Shoreham nuclear plant. Wonder Man’s team (Sersi, Hulk and Scarlet Witch) fi ght Tyrak’s forces at Langley AFB, but the battle is won by Moondragon and Rick Jones’ mental assault on the Atlanteans. During the battle, the Witch passes out, and Ghaur takes the opportunity to mark her as a bride of Set. At Ft. Hamilton, Thor’s team (Dr. Pym, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Wasp and Tigra) easily route U-Man’s troops, all of whom Dr. Pym shrinks to inch-high size. Captain America’s squad (Captain Marvel, Vision, Mockingbird and Iron Man) drive back the Atlanteans besieging Cape Canaveral, but their fl eeing adversaries are slaughtered by a tentacled sea creature. Krang watches his troops’ deaths in shock, but is attacked by the armored figure, who viciously beats him unconscious. Attuma fumes at his army’s defeat, but is more enraged that Ghaur and Llyra ordered such a foolhardy assault. Though the Avengers still vow to investigate the rash of strange occurrences preceding the invasion, they nevertheless celebrate their victory.
Chapter 8 of the “Atlantis Attacks” event running through Marvel’s 1989 annuals. This issue debuted the fi rst published appearance of a new Avengers roster that included Sersi, who actually joined the team after this story in Av #314, ’90, and the original Human Torch, who instead joined the West Coast team in AWC #50, ’89. Sersi and the Human Torch’s presences on Avengers Island are explained in AWC #56/2, ’90. The armored man is revealed as Namor in FF Ann #22, ’89. Tigra’s presence in the main story is retroactively discounted in an announcement printed in AWC #56, ’90, by AWC writer John Byrne, due to the main story’s chronological placement during the period in which she had deevolved into a feral state. She-Hulk quits the team shortly after Atlantis Attacks concludes.
