When word of Ronan’s foiled plot is leaked, the government begins an investigation into a possible Kree invasion and a panicked public demands that the Avengers surrender Captain Marvel to the authorities. Carol Danvers arrives, and convinces Marvel to go into hiding with her, easily evading SHIELD surveillance craft by departing in a much faster Quinjet. The Avengers are summoned to court to answer to the Alien Activities Commission and its chairman, H. Warren Craddock, who accuses the heroes of collaborating with the Kree. Having a vision of Marvel walking into an ambush Rick Jones dashes out of the courtroom. The Avengers return to their mansion to find it ransacked by protestors. Moments later Captain America, Iron Man and Thor arrive and disband the team, claiming the Avengers acted irresponsibly in sheltering Marvel.
Disguised as Carol Danvers, Super-Skrull leads Marvel into a trap at an upstate farmhouse (d1). Protestors ransack Avengers Mansion (d2).
Five of the eight comic book characters Rick Jones recalls are from non-Marvel/Timely Golden Age comics: Better Publications (Fighting Yank), Centaur Publications (Fantom of the Fair), Hillman Publications (Heap), Holyoke Publications (Cat-Man) and Prize Publications (Green Lama); most of them have no known Earth-616 counterparts, though ANOH #4, ’06 confirms the Heap has one, and Fighting Yank’s costume closely resembles Spirit of ’76, introduced by Roy Thomas in Inv #14, ’77. Avengers’ Mansion is revealed to be outside local and federal jurisdiction. The upstate New York farmhouse seen here is revealed as a disguised Skrull spaceship next issue. The next issue reveals that Skrulls were impersonating Danvers, Thor, Captain America and Iron Man here.
