Nick Fury returns, having assembled a team of heroes in secret (himself, Black Widow, Mockingbird, and Quake) to gather information about the impending Skrull invasion of Earth.
Captain America ponders the mystery of the Winter Soldier and enlists Nick Fury’s aid to find him when the Red Skull escapes from prison and massive robots – the Sleepers – arise as part of a contingency plan by the founder of HYDRA to destroy Washington, D.C.
A mysterious explosion seemingly kills Hank Pym in his college laboratory, but as the Avengers and their friends mourn the loss of their fallen comrade-in-arms, a fearless new vigilante calling himself Yellowjacket – endowed with the same powers and technology as Ant-Man/Giant-Man and Wasp – begins taking out the members of the Serpent Society.
