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Issue: Avengers 27 Four against the Floodtide By Stan Lee, Don Heck and Frank Giacoia Line up: Captain America, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye. Villains: Attuma, the Beetle, the Collector So What happens? Hawkeye uses the teams memory inducer to remember how to work the computers but before he can find out where the others have gone he is attacked by the Beetle. Abe proves a little more effective than usual but still ends up wrapped up in Hawkeye's bolo arrow. He gets the Avengers location from the computers and sets off to find them. The other three are still fighting Attuma but are hampered by being underwater Wanda silently hopes that Clint will rescue them. Using a hex-bolt to break through into a drier part of Attuma's ship she sends gallons of water flooding out of the tank that they are in. Quicksilver manages to escape in the process but is shot out of the ship and left to drown in the ocean. Hawkeye has borrowed a flying submarine from the FF and on his way out to see notices shipping being endangered by rising tides. He rescues the floating Quicksilver and pilots the vessel underwater to find Attuma. He finds himself outgunned by two of Attuma's scout ships, trying to flee they run into a giant octupus which conveniently ignores them and catches the two Atlantean vessels. Back on Attuma's flagship everything has been repaired and Steve and Wanda are brought before Attuma. As Cap gets him to explain his plans Clint crashes the FF's sub through the wall of Attuma's base flooding it yet again. The two newcomers take down a squad of Atlanteans and provide a diversion for Cap and Wanda to escape, Cap quickly sabotages Attuma's flood controls and joins in the fight. After taking control of some of Attuma's weaponry and trashing the place the four Avengers jump in the FF's sub and escape. Attuma tries to use his flood weapon to sink their ship but Cap's sabotage causes it to destroy his own base instead. The team returns home to check on Hawkeye's prisoner but he has gone missing and a message arrives telling them the Wasp is in trouble. So it is any good?: I enjoyed it, Hawkeye gets to redeem himself and quicksilver and Wanda play a more active role than usual. While it is Cap that wins the day he does so off panel and lets the others shine. Lee forgets to include the Wasp in this story but it didn't really spoil my enjoyment of the story. It is a decent action story and the art is better than in the preceding issue. Little details like the size of Attuma's base and which bits have water seem to change slightly during the story but again it didn't spoil the fun. It would be the last outing for the Kooky quartet and while it isn't as strong as issues 17-24 it isn't a bad story. Avengers Facts: The Beetle starts his connection with the team in this issue, until now he had been a solo Human Torch and Spider-Man villain but this issue makes him into a lackey for another villain the role he would largely play from now on. While he isn't a match for Hawkeye he isn't quite the joke that he would later become, he puts up a decent fight and tears chunks out of the mansion. The Wasp was held captive by Attuma last issue but Lee seemed to forget her, according to the Avengers Index she escaped in the confusion. It would be a while before Attuma clashed with the Avengers again, in the time in between he would become Hawkeye's first opponent as a Defender. Are there any goofy moments? The fact that Hawkeye mentions that the giant Octopus should be in a Japanese monster movie doesn't change the fact that he is right. It is drawn about the size of Galactus' ship and looks more than a but out of place. Is it a landmark? It's the last Kooky Quartet story which makes it a minor landmark I guess Where can I read it? In the masterworks volume or Marvel Triple Action 21
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