SPACE PHANTOM

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Limbo) extratemporal (Space Phantom)

Occupation: Servant of Immortus; former Supreme Hydra, infiltrator, imposter, etc.

Group Membership: None; formerly Hydra

Affiliations: "Attila," Beetle (Abner Jenkins), Blizzard (Donnie Gill), "Paul Bunyan," Calculus (Jawaharal Patel), Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin), "Goliath," Grim Reaper (Eric Williams), Half-Face (Trung Tuan), Hydra, Immortus, Inoshiro Kondo, Rae LaCoste, "Merlin," Irina Tarasova, Tempus, Time-Keepers; presumably everyone involved in the Crossing serving Immortus in some way, including Apocryphus, Cybermancer (Suzi Endo) of Earth-9528, Deathhunt 9000, Dirge, Iron Man (Tony Stark), Machinesmith (Samuel Saxon), Neut, Space Phantoms (Anachronauts, Elder Cotati, Luna, Malachi, Mantis, Moonraker, some Priests of Pama, Tobias, Tuc, others), Strike Fireteams (including Strike Fireteam Decimal Four), VIRGIL

Enemies: Avengers (Black Panther/T'Challa, Black Knight/Dane Whitman, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Genis-Vell, Giant-Man/Ant-Man/Yellowjacket/Goliath/Hank Pym, Hawkeye/Clint Barton, Hercules, Hulk/Bruce Banner, Iron Man/Tony Stark, Quasar/Wendell Vaughn, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff, Sersi, She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters, Songbird/Melissa Gold, Thor/Odinson, Wasp/Janet Van Dyne), Bill, Deathlok (Michael Collins), Dire Wraiths, Firebird (Bonita Juarez), Firefall (Karas), Gravity (Greg Willis), the Hood (Parker Robbins), Rick Jones, Kraven the Hunter (Alyosha Kravinoff), Masters of Evil (Baron Zemo/Heinrich Zemo, Enchantress/Amora, Executioner/Skurge), Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin), Outlaws (Prowler/Hobie Brown, Puma/Thomas Firehart, Rocket Racer/Robert Farrell, Sandman/William Baker), Hank Pym, Rom, Stranger, Venom (MacDonald Gargan), Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Impersonated multiple beings over the years

Base of Operations: Limbo;
formerly claimed to be from the planet Phantus

First Appearance: Avengers I#2 (November, 1963)

Powers/Abilities: Space Phantom has taken on the form and powers of regular civilians, the Hulk, a wasp, Giant-Man, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Madame Hydra, a Hydra agent, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, the Biblical Goliath, a form of Hercules, and a storybook Merlin, a pigeon, Mantis, Sandman, Northstar, Xemnu. Space Phantom also transformed into a space-ship (claiming he travelled weeks at faster-than-light speed across space), a meteor (that did not burn upon atmospheric reentry) and a Synchro-Staff. Space Phantom has wielded a paralysis ray, a device that can erase memories in individuals or in the entire populace, an invisibility serum, a shrinking ray, a mesmerizing device, ultra-sonics, containment units,

Height: 6'6" (variable)
Weight: 215 lbs. (variable)
Eyes: Blue (variable)
Hair: Red (variable)




History:
(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - Limbo, a land outside time and space, operated by its own laws. "Limbo is large, and touches on all of forever, and from time to time, beings of all worlds, all eras---they wander in, or are taken prisoner---and one of the properties of Limbo is that if they stay long enough---trapped and hopeless in Immortus' dungeons---they will forget their former lives, and change. They become time-beings --- ghosts, long forgotten in the real worlds --- Space Phantoms."

(Thor I#282 (fb)) - When Immortus first took over Limbo, building a castle there, he created Tempus to act as his guardian, and he accepted the Space Phantom as his servant.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - While Immortus remained protected due to the machines of the Time-Keepers, the beings he served, the Space Phantoms became subject to Immortus' whims. He used his powers and technology to manipulate the Space Phantoms in his schemes, changing their forms and very memories in complex plots to keep the balance of time stable.

(Avengers I#2 (fb) - BTS/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - Immortus tasked one Space Phantom with breaking up the new Avengers' team, and he gave the Phantom false memories of being an alien sent to conquer Earth.

   Believing he was investigating the heroes of Earth to determine whether his alien race could conquer the planet, the Space Phantom spent months watching the Avengers, even learning the secret identity of Iron Man as Tony Stark.

(Avengers I#2) - Ready to face the Avengers in combat, to see if they could be defeated, the Space Phantom disguised himself as a space-ship and propelled himself toward Earth, and he spent weeks undergoing faster-than-light travel. Approaching Earth, he transformed himself into a meteor that would not burn while reentering the atmosphere, then he landed quietly in an alley in New York City. The Space Phantom took the form of a passing mortal (sending that man to Limbo) and then he easily walked into Avengers Mansion. Hulk investigated the Space Phantom, and ended up taking his place, adopting the Hulk's form and powers. "Hulk" caused a fight to break out among the Avengers, then he went to interact with civilians. "Hulk" smashed a sidewalk to stop the man whose form he'd taken from telling others. Hulk's ally Rick Jones approached, revealing Hulk's identity as Bruce Banner as he climbed on "Hulk's" back and told "Hulk" to jump away. Realizing that Jones suspected him, the Space Phantom chose to reveal himself to Jones, briefly releasing the Hulk from Limbo to show his power, but then he took on the Hulk's form again and jumped away. Seeing military men, including Bill, testing a Stark-designed multiple anti-missile missile gun, "Hulk" grabbed it and triggered the weapon to fire. "Hulk" attacked Iron Man, but he panicked when he received an electric charge, so Space Phantom abandoned the Hulk's form and took on the form of a wasp. When Giant-Man and the Wasp attacked, Space Phantom intimidated the Wasp in his wasp form, then he followed the Avengers back to their headquarters, unaware that Jones had warned the heroes about his true identity. Space Phantom took Giant-Man's form then grabbed the Wasp before fighting the Hulk, using a Stark-designed moon tractor in the fight. After taking Iron Man's form, the Space Phantom used the armor's transistor-powered jet stream against his foes until Wasp snipped the wires in his armor. When Thor used Mjolnir against him, "Iron Man" countered with a high-intensity magnetic repulsor, but Thor rusted "Iron Man's" armor with a rainstorm.

(Avengers I#267 - BTS) - Three Avengers from the future (Wasp, Black Knight, Hercules) landed in Limbo and saw the forms of the Hulk, Giant-Man, and Iron Man pass through when Space Phantom duplicated them.

(Avengers I#2) - The Space Phantom tried using his powers on Thor, but realized his powers only worked on mortals, which ended up sending Space Phantom to Limbo instead.

(Avengers I#268) - The Space Phantom landed back in Limbo, where time often had no meaning, and he ran into a group of Avengers from the future (Wasp, Black Knight, Hercules). Wasp began to demand information from the Space Phantom, but Kang the Conqueror blasted him to stop him from speaking.

(Journey into Mystery I#108 - BTS) - When Loki trapped Jane Foster in Limbo, the original Space Phantom escaped.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Hearing the intel from the Space Phantom, Immortus put together another plot to destroy the heroes.

(Avengers I#10 (fb) - BTS/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus had some of his Space Phantoms pose as real and fictional historical figures in a complicated plot against the Avengers.

(Avengers I#10/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus pulled the Avengers to Limbo and had them each face off with one of the historical figures, with Thor fighting "Hercules" (see comments), but the Avengers soon triumphed. Enchantress tried reversing history, but this didn't affect Limbo.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus began changing his mind about the Avengers. Defying the Time-Keepers' wishes, he instead chose to let the Avengers survive, but he planned to shepherd their development, removing threats as needed.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Needing to manipulate the Vision into seeing himself as human, Immortus gave Space Phantom more false memories and sent him to ally with the Grim Reaper in a complex plot.

(Avengers I#107 (fb) - BTS/Avengers Forever I#6 (fb)) - The Space Phantom sought out the Grim Reaper and proposed an alliance. Wanting to help Grim Reaper achieve his goal of getting a human body for the Vision's mind, Space Phantom launched a complex plot against Captain America.

(Captain America I#113) - The Space Phantom briefly took on the form of Madame Hydra to get them to further Hydra's attack on Captain America and Rick Jones.

(Avengers I#107 (fb)) - When Madame Hydra appeared dead, the Space Phantom took on the form of the Supreme Hydra and pressed his attack on Captain America and Rick Jones, needing to test if Cap was the perfect physical specimen or not.

(Avengers I#106 (fb)) - Space Phantom, as the Supreme Hydra, led his forces against Cap and Jones. A little later, Cap and Jones cornered the Supreme Hydra.

(Avengers I#107 (fb)) - Testing Captain America and Jones, the Supreme Hydra had his forces (who he controlled with a mesmerizing device) use a serum that would briefly render them invisible, then a shrinking ray against the heroes. Unmasking as the Space Phantom, he captured the heroes in his paralysis ray. The Space Phantom announced his complex plot to transplant the Vision's mind in Captain America's body, and used his superior technology to make the world forget that Captain America was Steve Rogers. After erasing Cap and Jones' minds from events, the Space Phantom let them return to the Avengers. Weeks later, he contacted the Grim Reaper, ready to further his villainous plots.

(Avengers I#105 - BTS) - Space Phantom made a man disappear off the streets. The strange case made the news.

(Avengers I#106) - To lure in the Avengers (Hawkeye, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther), Space Phantom made a man disappear off the streets, then he replaced Hawkeye, Black Panther, and Iron Man one at a time, tricking the Avengers into fighting each other before they exposed him. After he slowed the Avengers with a paralysis ray, the Space Phantom revealed his ally: the Grim Reaper.

(Avengers I#107) - Although the Grim Reaper wanted to kill the captive Avengers, Space Phantom wanted to wait until they had all the heroes captive, and he already planned to betray the Grim Reaper.

(Avengers I#108) - The Grim Reaper convinced the Vision to join him, but the Space Phantom distrusted the Vision. The hero soon freed the Avengers, but the Space Phantom had gathered his Hydra forces to fight back. Grim Reaper turned against the Space Phantom, but Hydra held him and the Avengers off while Space Phantom activated ultra-sonics, defeating everyone but the Vision. Threatening the lives of the others, Space Phantom convinced Vision to enter a containment unit, then he boarded a ship to pursue the escaped Scarlet Witch. Space Phantom defeated Scarlet Witch, then stormed Avengers Mansion, where he knocked out Edwin Jarvis and Rick Jones before he gathered all the hostages together. Narrating about his plans to use their forms and powers, the Space Phantom ranted about how Thor would feel so guilty finding his friends dead. When Jones charged at the Space Phantom, the alien tried to change forms with Jones to send him to Limbo, but he inadvertently changed places with Captain Marvel (who was bonded with Jones) instead, and Space Phantom was trapped in Limbo again.

(Avengers I#133) - Immortus gave two Synchro-Staffs to the Avengers to guide them on visual tours of the pasts of Vision and Mantis, furthering his schemes against them. The Synchro-Staff spoke to them as it guided them through the histories.

(Avengers I#134) - The Synchro-Staffs continued guiding the Avengers through their complex histories, following Immortus' wishes.

(Avengers I#135 - BTS) - The Synchro-Staff showed Vision his own creation by Ultron-5.

(Giant-Size Avengers I#4) - At the order of Immortus, the Space Phantom switched places with Mantis, freeing her from captivity by Kang the Conqueror, and the Space Phantom remained captive instead.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus, needing to drain Thor's hammer of its time-travel capabilities, planted more memories into the Space Phantom, making him believe he was a member of a war-faring race on the brink of destruction.

(Thor I#281) - The Space Phantom drew Thor into Limbo, where his hammer Mjolnir had gotten lost as he attempted to travel back in time. Space Phantom claimed he was from an alien race that had mastered time travel and used it constantly to seek war, endlessly creating new alternate timelines as they messed with the space-time continuum. The Space Phantom claimed that he'd been trapped in Limbo and forced to serve Immortus, who demanded new beings in Limbo to study constantly. Space Phantom showed him his home planet, Phantus, and they passed through warring ships and dangerous weapons, and Thor boldly fought through the Space Phantom's race before the Space Phantom lured him into a trap, planning to use Thor's powers to shift Phantus back into the regular space-time continuum.

(Thor I#282) - Space Phantom realized that Thor was shifting from his god form to mortal form. Apologizing and saying that deception and deceit were the way of his people, the Space Phantom claimed he could help Thor find his hammer, and he led them to the edge of Phantus, to the castle of Immortus, where Thor sparred with Tempus briefly, soon defeating him. They then found Immortus, who was in possession of Thor's hammer. Immortus explained that he was the custodian of time for seven centuries. Space Phantom reminded Thor of his promise to help save Phantus, and Thor willingly sacrificed his hammer's time-travel capabilities to allow the planet to seemingly be saved. Immortus then returned Thor to Earth.

(Rom I#19 (fb) - BTS) - Space Phantom remained trapped in Limbo, hoping to find a mortal to replace. The Galadorian Firefall, known as Karas, became trapped in Limbo, and Space Phantom spent days engaging him in conversation. When Karas mentioned his home planet, Galador, was destroyed, the Space Phantom taunted Karas, stating he could send him back to the remains of his planet. He considered taking Karas' form, but wanted his companionship too much.

(Rom I#19) - After seeing Rom, another Galadorian, wandering through Limbo, Space Phantom continued to taunt Karas, then chose to send him away, taking his form while banishing him from Limbo to space. As Karas, the Space Phantom helped Rom defeat Dire Wraiths, then he tried convincing Rom to use his Neutralizer to free him from Limbo. When Dire Wraiths swarmed them again, the Space Phantom tried mastering Firefall's powers to escape Limbo, but he ended up bringing Firefall back, then he was exposed in his true form as Dire Wraiths overwhelmed him.

(Iron Man Annual I#10/2) - Space Phantom hung out at a bar with several super-villains, including Half-Face, Irina Tarasova, Inoshiro Kondo, Beetle, Blizzard, Blacklash, Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin), and Rae LaCoste, and they all told stories of their former battles with Iron Man until the hero himself walked in and silenced them.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#170 (fb)) - The Young God Calculus, hiding his identity, freed Space Phantom from Limbo, and he agreed to serve the man.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#168 (fb) - BTS) - Space Phantom took the form of She-Hulk, banishing her to Limbo.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#168) - "She-Hulk" told Spider-Man she needed help with a mission, and she lured him to an abandoned building owned by Wilson Fisk, then took him deep underground. Spider-Man and "She-Hulk" worked together to pry open an ancient tomb. Spider-Man pried open a box, releasing a black cloud (actually a swarm of insects), then "She-Hulk" dropped the lid, trapping Spider-Man beneath. Later, Space Phantom released She-Hulk, then stayed in hiding by taking on the form of a pigeon. Finally back in his true form, Space Phantom reported in to his benefactor, who refused to tell him what the black cloud was. Space Phantom prepared to launch his own agenda.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#169 (fb) - BTS) - Space Phantom was ordered to stay away from Spider-Man.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#169) - Disobeying orders, Space Phantom took the form of Sandman, an ally that Spider-Man had called in alongside Rocket Racer, Puma, and Prowler, a team called the Outlaws. "Sandman" accompanied Rocket Racer to the public safety building, where Racer discovered a file they needed. "Sandman" tried to retrieve it, but Racer escaped. As Space Phantom shifted into his own form, he was confronted by the benefactor, and Space Phantom chose to quit their association and go out on his own.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#170 (fb) - BTS) - Space Phantom took the form of Spider-Man, then assembled the Outlaws again.

(Spectacular Spider-Man II#170) - "Spider-Man" had the Outlaws call in the Avengers (Captain America, Quasar, Sersi, She-Hulk, Thor), then he immediately attacked Cap, causing a fight to break out between the two groups. After releasing Spider-Man from Limbo, Space Phantom watched the battle from the shadows until Puma discovered and restrained him. Space Phantom explained what had happened and proposed an alliance with the heroes, but they imprisoned him. His secret benefactor, later revealed as Calculus, then banished Space Phantom back to Limbo.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - Immortus assembled several Space Phantoms and transformed them into strange versions of men and women the Avengers knew while transforming himself into Kang. It was all part of a convoluted plot to keep the Avengers from going to outer space and involve themselves in the Shi'ar/Kree war before Onslaught could decimate their ranks.

(Crossing Crossover) - The Space Phantom participated in Immortus' plot, but it is unknown who he posed as during this event. (see race's sub-profile for further information on the Space Phantoms' involvement; also see comments)

(Avengers Forever I#7) - On a mission in Limbo, the time-displaced Hawkeye grabbed the Synchro-Staff (secretly a disguised Space Phantom).

(Avengers Forever I#8) - When Hawkeye threatened to break the Synchro-Staff, the Space Phantom revealed his true form to the assembled time-displaced Avengers (Songbird, Genis-Vell, Goliath, Wasp, Captain America). Space Phantom agreed to tell them anything they wanted to know after realizing he was outside space-time and unable to use his powers. He told them the truth of his origins, laughing at the mortals and all the ways they had been deceived. He told them of Immortus' efforts to keep the Avengers, and all of humanity, on Earth to prevent them from meddling in the affairs of time or the universe. Space Phantom then explained how Immortus had been manipulating the Vision to marry the Scarlet Witch, so that she could not have children. Space Phantom recounted Immortus' further manipulations, involving the Avengers' activities in space, and how the Space Phantoms posed as Avengers allies during the events of the so-called Crossing. Soon, Immortus attacked, taking the Avengers captive.

(Beyond!#1) - "Spider-Man" was summoned with Gravity, Medusa, Firebird, Hank Pym, Wasp, Al Kraven, Hood, and Venom (Mac Gargan) to a reformed Battleworld, where the "Beyonder" (actually the Stranger) told them their greatest rewards would be theirs if they killed each other. In the ensuing conflict, Venom impaled "Spider-Man," seemingly killing him.

(Beyond!#2) - "Spider-Man" lay "dead" as the conflict continued, where they met Deathlok (Michael Collins).

(Beyond!#3) - Al Kraven and the Hood found "Spider-Man" in the woods and, not believing it was the real Spider-Man, the Hood tortured him, shooting him in the knee and forcing him to reveal he was the Space Phantom.

(Beyond!#4) - The Hood shot the Space Phantom in the knee again as the others reacted to the revelation. Escaping his restraints, the Space Phantom took the form of Xemnu the Titan, which he abandoned when the heroes savagely turned on him. Space Phantom then turned into Northstar, then sped away.

(Beyond!#5) - The heroes traveled to Limbo and found Northstar's form, then waited for Space Phantom to return. On Battleworld, "Northstar" battled Venom before Space Phantom willed himself back to Limbo, then they threatened Space Phantom with a knife, so he agreed to send them back to Battleworld. He briefly tried taking Deathlok's form, but Wasp threatened him, so Space Phantom simply returned to Limbo.

Comments: Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby & Paul Reinman.







Space Phantoms from other realities whose origins remain a mystery by Markus Raymond:

In the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#8 (August, 1983) the historical figures in Avengers I#10 (November, 1964) were identified as Dire Wraiths in Immortus' profile. While telling the time-displaced Avengers in Avengers Forever I#8 (July, 1999) about the events in Avengers I#10 the original Space Phantom revealed that Goliath, Hercules and Merlin were Space Phantoms, which included himself. In Avengers, Thor & Captain America: Official Index to the Marvel Universe#1 (June, 2010) this was confirmed and in addition assumed that the other historical figures were Space Phantoms as well. Due to the nature of Limbo though it is not impossible according to the index that these Space Phantoms were originally Dire Wraiths.
--Markus Raymond

In Thor I#282 (April, 1979) Immortus' first encounter with the Time-Keepers was placed after Avengers I#10 (November, 1964), but Avengers Forever I#8 switched this to before he ever went after the Avengers.
--Markus Raymond

The Crossing was retconned into a plot by Immortus that involved a number of Space Phantoms posing as characters close to the Avengers while Immortus posed as his earlier incarnation Kang. The retcon can be read about in Avengers Forever I#8 when the original Space Phantom revealed the truth. The pretty weird truth included Immortus using the Space Phantoms to not only pose as others, but also change their minds to a point they actually believed they were those beings.
--Markus Raymond

The Space Phantom as an individual or the whole race had several handbook profiles. The Space Phantom received profiles in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#10 (October, 1983), Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#12 (November, 1986), Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition#15 (1992). The race received profiles in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#7 (July, 1983), Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#15 (March, 1987), All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update#3 (September, 2007) and Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z HC#10 (2009).

This profile was completed 06/27/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary's celebratory event.

Profile by Chadman and Markus Raymond.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Space Phantom has no known connections to:

Space Phantoms

Known Members: Aside from the Space Phantom in the main profile numerous Space Phantoms posing as or impersonating others over the years included Anachronauts, Attila the Hun, Black Rider, Paul Bunyan, the Elder Cotati, Goliath, Hercules, Phineas Horton, Reno Jones, Kid Cassidy, Luna, Mantis, Merlin, Moonraker, Malachi, a few Priests of Pama, Synchro-Staffs, Tobias, Tuc and possibly many others (most likely all of Limbo's soldiers seen during the Crossing)

Type: Humanoid (variable)
Eyes: Two (variable)
Hair: Dark red or black (variable)
Fingers: Five (with opposable thumb) (variable)
Toes: Five (variable)
Skin color: Pink (variable)
Average Height: 6' (variable)

Powers/Abilities: Space Phantoms were fair-skinned humanoids with webbed hands and feet and pointed ears. Space Phantoms possess physical strength and durability comparable to an ordinary humans as long as they are in their normal form. Space Phantoms can transform themselves to mimic the appearance, properties and abilities of virtually any being or object. While a Space Phantom duplicates the physical form of a living being, the being duplicated is shunted to the trans-temporal realm of Limbo. While in Limbo, duplicated beings lie in a trance-like state, unaware of their surroundings or circumstances. When a Space Phantom ceases to imitate someone, the duplicated party returns to wherever they came from, usually with no memory of the event, often appearing in the same location where he or she first vanished.

Space Phantoms can also assume the forms of deceased or seemingly imaginary beings; in such cases, these Phantoms may be duplicating and displacing beings from other time periods or alternate realities, both of which can be accessed via the Phantoms' native Limbo realm. If so, it is unknown whether this results in beings from these other realities or time periods being shunted to Limbo.

When a Space Phantom duplicates someone's form, they also duplicate all of that form's capabilities, including any superhuman powers or exotic armaments. Space Phantoms can easily imitate multiple beings in rapid succession, switching forms in a matter of moments, and there seems to be no time limit on how long a Phantom can retain someone else's form. Phantoms cannot duplicate certain magically enhanced beings such as Thor (Odinson). When a Phantom tries to duplicate these types of beings, the Phantom himself is hurled back into Limbo instead. The same thing will happen if a Phantom tries to duplicate two people at once. Space Phantoms' powers are more limited while in their native Limbo, and accounts vary as to whether they can still duplicate others and displace them into Limbo while they themselves are in Limbo. A Space Phantom in disguise will sometimes revert to its true form when stunned or otherwise incapacitated. In such cases, the duplicated being may or may not rematerialize nearby as the Phantom reverts.

Space Phantoms occasionally take the shape of objects. Rather than duplicating existing objects, these forms usually seem to be crafted specifically to suit a special purpose — for instance, transforming into a meteor that will not burn up while entering a planetary atmosphere, or posing as a talking stick dubbed a "Synchro-staff" that conducts its wielder through guided tours of other time periods.

Space Phantoms are mentally programmed to serve the master of Limbo, Immortus. Since his schemes often require the Phantoms to disguise themselves as other beings, he sometimes mentally conditions the Phantoms to believe they are the beings they imitate during certain missions. In these cases, neither mind reading nor virtually any other form of interrogation could detect that a disguised Phantom was not who he appeared to be. A Space Phantom's default personality is usually slavishly loyal to Immortus, with little or no capacity for individualized ambitions, agendas or personal traits; however, at least one Phantom - the one that originally encountered the Avengers - has shown an occasional capacity for independent thought and resents the authority of Immortus.

Space Phantoms seem well versed in highly advanced technologies supplied by Immortus and his patrons, the Time-Keepers. Phantoms have employed exotic technology such as paralysis rays, antigravity fields, invisibility devices, shrinking rays, ultra-sonic shockwave projectors, illusion projectors and containment chambers whose energy fields react violently with atoms of any density. They have access to mind control technology, which can subtly influence or outright command the minds of others; this technology can also alter people's memories, either individually or on a larger scale, even altering the memories of an entire planetary population.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - Limbo, a land outside time and space, operated by its own laws. "Limbo is large, and touches on all of forever, and from time to time, beings of all worlds, all eras---they wander in, or are taken prisoner---and one of the properties of Limbo is that if they stay long enough---trapped and hopeless in Immortus' dungeons---they will forget their former lives, and change. They become time-beings --- ghosts, long forgotten in the real worlds --- Space Phantoms." While Immortus remained protected due to the machines of the Time-Keepers, the beings he served, the Space Phantoms became subject to Immortus' whims. He used his powers and technology to manipulate the Space Phantoms in his schemes, changing their forms and very memories in complex plots to keep the balance of time stable.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus, needing to drain Thor's hammer of its time-travel capabilities, planted more memories into the Space Phantom, making him believe he was a member of a war-faring race on the brink of destruction.

(Thor I#281) - The Space Phantom drew Thor into Limbo, where his hammer Mjolnir had gotten lost as he attempted to travel back in time. Space Phantom claimed he was from an alien race that had mastered time travel and used it constantly to seek war, endlessly creating new alternate timelines as they messed with the space-time continuum. The Space Phantom claimed that he'd been trapped in Limbo and forced to serve Immortus, who demanded new beings in Limbo to study constantly. Space Phantom showed him his home planet, Phantus, and they passed through warring ships and dangerous weapons, and Thor boldly fought through the Space Phantom's race before the Space Phantom lured him into a trap, planning to use Thor's powers to shift Phantus back into the regular space-time continuum.

(Thor I#282) - Space Phantom realized that Thor was shifting from his god form to mortal form. Apologizing and saying that deception and deceit were the way of his people, the Space Phantom claimed he could help Thor find his hammer, and he led them to the edge of Phantus, to the castle of Immortus, where Thor sparred with Tempus briefly, soon defeating him. They then found Immortus, who was in possession of Thor's hammer. Immortus explained that he was the custodian of time for seven centuries. Space Phantom reminded Thor of his promise to help save Phantus, and Thor willingly sacrificed his hammer's time-travel capabilities to allow the planet to seemingly be saved. Immortus then returned Thor to Earth.

(What If..? II#39) - Immortus, having siphoned off reality-altering nexus power from four timelines, evolved into a quantum wave, able to reorder the multiverse. His army consisting of Tempus, robots of Rama-Tut, Dire Wraiths and Space Phantoms faced a contingent of powered beings including Irondroid (Willie March) of Earth-90110, Doctor Doom of Earth-772, Thor of Earth-9260 and Wolverine of Earth-9250, who were sent by the Time Variance Authority in retaliation. The TVA's agents were in the process of winning the battle when Immortus reset events back to the start and Space Phantom destroyed the Irondroid. In the end the TVA defeated Immortus and returned their agents to their respective realities.

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - Immortus assembled several Space Phantoms and transformed them into strange versions of men and women the Avengers knew while transforming himself into Kang. It was all part of a convoluted plot to keep the Avengers from going to outer space and involve themselves in the Shi'ar/Kree war before Onslaught could decimate their ranks.

(Avengers I#391 (fb) - BTS) - Kang employed the Eternal Gilgamesh to train himself, the Anachronauts, Mantis, Malachi, Tobias and Neut, among others (presumably Moonraker and all the other Space Phantoms in need of fighting practice as well. While the Anachronauts, Mantis, Tobias and Malachi were Space Phantoms, the diminutive warrior Neut turned up many years later again and was apparently an extraterrestrial).

(Avengers I#390) - Lockjaw and Hercules encountered Tuc (a Space Phantom) in the woods at Tony Stark's Adirondacks house. They trusted him immediately and took him back to the house where Deathcry, Swordsman (Jarvert), Magdalene, Crystal, Quicksilver, Luna and Luna's nanny Marilla already waited for Hercules at a campfire. Tuc pulled Hercules, Deathcry, Marilla, Quicksilver and Crystal into a shadowy dimension (probably Limbo) and used his clairvoyance to cryptically warn them of their futures. When they were back in the real world Tuc was gone. That evening Tuc visited Luna and called her his big sister before warning her about the coming storm.

(Avengers I#391 (fb) - BTS) - Malachi and Tobias (Space Phantoms) ambushed Gilgamesh when he tried to escape Limbo to warn the Avengers of Mantis' (another Space Phantom) plans, but failed. Anachronauts (even more Space Phantoms) were sent after Gilgamesh to kill him.

(Avengers: The Crossing) - Yellowjacket was followed through time by the "alternate-future" teenage Luna (a Space Phantom). When they both arrived in Earth-616's present time, Luna warned Yellowjacket to leave before the divergent began, but Yellowjacket didn't understand what the girl was talking about and rang at Avengers Mansion's door. Tony Stark opened the door, and already aware of her passing through Earth-95411 and meeting with Luna (due to Immortus, I assume) he killed her and dragged her corpse into the house.

  The next day teenage Luna failed to fully cross over into Earth-616's present time and still out of sync with Earth's temporal patterns encountered Hercules, warning him of the twins and their victim Gilgamesh ("the oldest among the Avengers" as she said). She disappeared and feared Hercules wouldn't even remember what she had told him because she had never achieved synchronicity with his time. As soon as she was gone Hercules couldn't remember a thing.

  Later a group of Anachronauts (not that anybody knew the identity of these green-suited warriors yet, but they were Anachronauts...not the original group, but a bunch of Space Phantoms posing as a large group of interchangeable warriors) attacked Gilgamesh, who was cowering on Avengers Mansion's roof. The Avengers came to his aid and Quicksilver brought the aged Eternal (an aging Eternal???) to safety while the others kept fighting the Anachronauts. Getting their green-garbed buttocks kicked the Anachronauts fled. Teenage Luna tried to cross over to present time again, but once again failed, screwing up her last chance to save Marilla. Later that night Tony killed Marilla when she discovered him in front of the temportal in the sub-basement, which had been opened by him.

(Iron Man I#320) - In Vietnam three Space Phantoms, who had been transformed into Priests of Pama, searched for the Temple of Agaphaur and couldn't find it as it was gone (I'm pretty sure Immortus just implanted them with wrong directions). Teenage Luna, another Space Phantom, appeared to Tony Stark after he blacked out, warning him that others were coming and how sorry she was that she couldn't stop him.

(Force Works#16) - Moonraker (Slade Truman aka. Gustav Brandt aka. Libra aka. a damn brainwashed Space Phantom) trained with his lover Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter) leading to an awkward situation with Fisher Todd, who had a crush on Julia. Julia's daughter Rachel met Moonraker for the first time (it actually was the first time) and didn't know who he was, but Scarlet Witch told her that he was her mother's boyfriend. Rachel was surprised because unlike the others she couldn't remember seeing him before.

(Avengers I#391) - Tuc lured Swordsman (Jarvert) into the forest near the Adirondack house he lived in with Magdalene. A Priest of Pama was present and told Swordsman to ask the other Avengers who was mourning for Agaphaur. After Neut attacked him Gilgamesh warned the Avengers with his last words of "her" (Space Phantom Mantis) and the twins (Space Phantoms Malachi and Tobias).

(Iron Man I#321) - Tony Stark called Moonraker at the Works to tell him he wanted to introduce someone to Force Works (it was evil, alternate future Cybermancer, a counterpart of Suzi Endo).

(Force Works#17) - In Vietnam a Priest of Pama jumped through a temportal, ran into a child named Kim and...they both disappeared again, removing any trace and memory of Kim and the Priest. Everyone criticized Iron Man's decision to make Cybermancer the newest member of Force Works, including Moonraker, who mourned that it took him two months to get approved (not really). Meanwhile the Vietnamese Kim appeared in a wood outside time (actually the time-displaced, deleted from the timestream Vietnam) and was found by Apocryphus and the Anachronauts, who were after specimens like Kim, people mutated by Kang's chronal weapon. At the Works Rachel saw Moonraker freak out (he had flashbacks to Gustav Brandt's life when his wife Lua died...poor Space Phantom really believed in his programming). Iron Man and Scarlet Witch rushed to the Chaos Vault when Plato told them Moonraker had collapsed. When they arrived there Moonraker told them that Vietnam had disappeared from the map and nobody knew what he was talking about (Vietwhat?), but because the computer showed a Code Red crisis at the coast of Cambodia Scarlet Witch led a team, including Spider-Woman, Fisher and Moonraker, into action. At the coast of Cambodia they entered a weird energy cloud and crashed.

(Iron Man I#322) - Tony visited his parents' grave and teenage Luna appeared and awakened his awareness to the "truth" behind Kang's corruption and Tony blacked out again.

(Avengers I#392) - At the Adirondacks home Swordsman encountered the Elder Cotati (in his Swordsman form; actually another damn Space Phantom). Vision soon arrived to aid the Swordsmen against Malachi and Tobias, who were teleported in by teenage Luna. Tony once again blacked out and came to his senses in a white room where Mantis told him he had to kill Luna (the child) because she had seen him kill Yellowjacket (DeMara). Tony cried because he didn't want to kill the little girl. At the Adirondacks Tuc wanted to help Vision, Swordsman and the Elder Cotati, but a Priest of Pama held him back because it wasn't Tuc's time yet to do something. Tobias and Malachi had their enemies beaten when teenage Luna told them they had to return home immediately because she couldn't maintain the temportal any longer. Malachi took his brother and the Elder Cotati and rushed through teenage Luna's temportal back home to Limbo in front of Kang's steward and two guards (most likely more Space Phantoms). Mantis welcomed them and her hated former consort Elder Cotati (actually only the original Mantis and Elder Cotati were together, but the Space Phantoms thought they were them.....poor creatures!).

(Force Works#18) - Scarlet Witch, Fisher, Moonraker and Spider-Woman survived their crash and started an expedition in Vietnam. Apocryphus and his Anachronauts watched them. Somewhere else (presumably the Arctic Bunker) Stark asked his masters (presumably Mantis) to deploy a sanction team to take out Black Widow and her allies before they found proof for his involvement in faking evidence against Hawkeye. Strike Team Decimal Four (probably more Space Phantoms) was sent out to deal with them. Moonraker and his team found the Temple of Agaphaur and Moonraker remembered his former life as Mantis' father Gustav Brandt aka. Libra (he is not Libra.....he is still just a brainwashed Space Phantom). When Apocryphus and the Anachronauts attacked them Moonraker wasn't much help at first. Fisher ran into Kim and saw him mutating and attacking two Anachronauts. Moonraker finally came to his senses, knocked out Apocryphus and put the other Anachronauts to flight.

(War Machine I#21) - Deathunt 9000 and Strike Team Decimal Four (possibly Space Phantoms) arrived nearby the Mesa Viento Airstrip and assaulted Black Widow, USAgent and Hawkeye. War Machine saved his friends after returning from reconnaissance. Deathunt 9000 opened a temportal to flee before War Machine could interrogate him.

(Iron Man I#323) - Mantis laughed in Limbo when the Avengers found out that Iron Man (Tony Stark) was the murderer in their midst.

(Avengers I#393) - Kang returned to Limbo with his Border Patrol (probably more Space Phantoms) and brought bad news (their beautiful land was threatened by someone, who wasn't there actually). Kang wasn't happy (Going by the retcon he probably had a good laugh dealing with the brainwashed Space Phantoms because he is Immortus.) with Mantis' actions against Elder Cotati and then sent Malachi and Tobias to Earth-616 to retrieve their operative Iron Man, who had been revealed as the traitor amongst the Avengers. On Earth at Van Dyne's estate Iron Man flipped out and attacked all Avengers present. He nearly slew the Wasp with a repulsor blast through the chest, but before Giant-Man could take him out in retaliation teenage Luna and the twins appeared and opened a temportal for Iron Man to escape. Tuc appeared, knocked out Crystal and Quicksilver (his "parents"...at least he believed them to be his parents) and abducted Luna (his "sister," same deal as with his parents) to bring her to a safer time and place.

(Force Works#19) - In Limbo a shocked Iron Man looked at his hand and told Kang, surrounded by Anachronauts, Mantis and Neut, that the Avengers knew he was the murderer. Kang blamed Mantis for this because she wanted revenge on the Avengers (Immortus really played his part as Kang well...not). Kang then told Stark that they had to secure the temportal beachhead on Earth-616 within days and not years like they had originally planned. Stark needed a temportal to the Works immediately to start working on it. In Vietnam Moonraker explained his origin and Kang's plans to Scarlet Witch and Spider-Woman (it included all the BS he was implanted with). The latter was angry at Moonraker for playing games with her. When Fisher brought Kim to the group Moonraker explained that Kim was one of the few people hyper-evolved by the chronographic effect (other humans would just die according to Moonraker....I call bullshit on this revelation). Moonraker asked for an Anachronaut's Temporal Activator to timeport them back to Earth and told the others they should leave Kim behind for now.

(War Machine I#22) - Moonraker's team returned to the Works. Century teleported Black Widow and Moonraker to the other Avengers while War Machine and the remaining members of Force Works stayed at the Works to confront the sub-basement's artificial intelligence Virgil and stop it from activating Stark's chronographic weapon.

(Iron Man I#324) - In Southampton Century, Black Widow and Moonraker met with the other Avengers and Masque.

   Century later teleported Crystal, Moonraker and Vision to Stark's Arctic Bunker to attack him, but they failed to infiltrate the bunker and were instead nearly slain by its defensive systems. While teleporting back to Southampton, Moonraker was abducted by teenage Luna from the teleportation corridor and brought to Limbo. Mantis, at Kang's side, had another good laugh when Moonraker (her supposed father) was chained to a wall. She then closed the door to his cell.

(Avengers I#394) - In Limbo Moonraker was tortured and Mantis liked it (because she hated her daddy...not her real one, but the one playing the part...whatever). Teenage Luna saved Moonraker and escaped with him to Earth. Neut, Malachi, Tobias and some soldiers (all Space Phantoms besides Neut) failed to stop them, angering Mantis. Teenage Luna appeared with Moonraker in front of the Avengers, to everyone's delight until Neut appeared as well to take her and Moonraker down. Teenage Luna sacrificed her life to save her "parents" Crystal and Quicksilver from a deadly blast fired by Neut. Before dying she told them to travel back into the past and that further info was in Hercules' mind. Wasp defeated Neut and Masque suggested doing what teenage Luna had told them to do.

(Avengers: Timeslide) - The Avengers attacked Avengers Mansion to get to the temportal in its sub-basement, but Anachronauts led by Malachi and Tobias held them back. When they finally broke through the Anachronauts' ranks after glimpsing Yellowjacket (DeMara) for a second Hercules ripped the door open and Century guided Jarvis, Captain America, Vision and Black Widow with Parallax to the right point in time to Earth-96020 where Cap, Widow and Jarvis arrived right in front of a younger Edwin Jarvis though they suffered from temporal amnesia and couldn't remember why they came to this time period. Tobias got through time as well and attempted his best to stop Earth-616's heroes. Tobias soon kidnapped Howard and Maria Stark and escaped with them despite the Avengers' interference. Teen Tony used his watch to trace his mother's amulet (it was created by Tony with a holographic picture of him inside it) and joined the Avengers to safe his parents. Headed to Latveria, where Tobias tried to return to Earth-616 through Doom's Time Platform, Tobias viciously fought Doom's army. When the Avengers and Teen Tony arrived, their battle with Tobias led to the deaths of Tony's parents. Malachi appeared out of nowhere and took his brother Tobias back to Limbo. Teen Tony willingly joined the Avengers to help them stop Malachi and Tobias and assisted by Dr. Doom himself the Avengers returned to their timeline and reality.

(Iron Man I#325) - In the Arctic Bunker Stark brooded while Mantis told Malachi more about her (fake) history. Meanwhile Kang and Tobias had combat training against Anachronauts. Mantis suddenly left to take the temportal to Tony's bunker to comfort him. Later Iron Man was temportaled away after nearly killing his younger self from Earth-96020 while "Kang," his "family" (Mantis, Malachi and Tobias) and the Anachronauts arrived for the final battle against the Avengers at the Arctic Bunker.

(Avengers I#395) - While the Avengers and several allies had their big battle against Kang and his forces (possibly all Space Phantoms) the Arctic Bunker transformed into Kang's chronographic beachhead. They fought Kang's forces while Kang primed his temporal transposer for activation. In Limbo Iron Man freed Elder Cotati from prison and they joined forces against the guards (possibly even more Space Phantoms). While Kang, surrounded by a gigantic hard-light construct, fought the Avengers, Iron Man and Elder Cotati took a temportal back to the Arctic Bunker. Arriving there they saw the Avengers failing to stop Kang's temporal transposer, which they accidentally fed with more energy. Iron Man decided to sacrifice himself to stop Kang by reflecting the transposer's energies to destroy the device with its own powers. Iron Man's plan worked and Kang and Mantis teleported away spouting threats about how this reality wasn't save any longer (it was a big hoax, nothing ever happened). The citadel faded and suddenly the Avengers were back in the Temple of Agaphaur (don't ask me how they got there). Iron Man was dead, Elder Cotati was dead and Tuc returned Luna to her parents.

(Avengers I#397) - The still injured Moonraker remained in Avengers Mansion's med-lab.

(Avengers I#398 - BTS) - Thor and Scarlet Witch took Moonraker to Tony Stark's former rustic retreat...and then he was gone and forgotten about.

(Avengers Forever I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus sent Space Phantoms to different eras to find time-displaced Avengers, who had escaped him when he destroyed Chronopolis.

(Avengers Forever I#5) - Three ended up in 1873 and posed as deceased gunslingers only to be exposed by Hawkeye.

   Two Space Phantoms were sent to circa 1959 of Earth-9904 and posed as FBI agents. They confronted the Avengers (3-D Man, Gorilla-Man, Human Robot, Marvel Boy, Venus), who had just been dealing with the time-displaced heroes Wasp and Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell). The two alleged FBI agents revealed that it was known that Nixon had been replaced by a Skrull, but that the situation would be dealt with. The Avengers should not interfere, but then Captain Marvel recognized the FBI agents as Space Phantoms and exposed them by hitting them with an energy blast. The Avengers attacked the Space Phantoms, but Rick Jones contacted Wasp and Captain Marvel to urge them to get out immediately. Immortus exposed Nixon as a Skrull imposter, then used the Forever Crystal to wipe out Earth-9904. Wasp and Captain Marvel barely escaped.

(Avengers Forever I#6) - The Space Phantoms in 1873 remained bound in a cave.

(Avengers Forever I#6 - BTS) - Songbird was replaced by one of them and the Space Phantom suggested stealing a Chronosphere from Kang, who was attacking Tombstone at the time.

(Avengers Forever I#6) - Songbird led the Hawkeye and Yellowjacket to a Chronosphere in Kang's ship, but was exposed and the three Avengers escaped once again.

--Avengers I#2 (Avengers Forever I#8 (fb), Avengers I#10, Thor I#281-282, What If..? II#39, Avengers I#390, [Avengers I#391 (fb)], Avengers: The Crossing, Iron Man I#320, Force Works#16, Avengers I#391, Force Works#17, Iron Man I#322, Avengers I#392, Force Works#18, Iron Man I#323, Avengers I#393, Force Works#19, War Machine I#22, Iron Man I#324, Avengers I#394, Avengers: Timeslide, Iron Man I#325, Avengers I#395, 397, [398]

Note: All information about the Phantoms race from their profiles in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#7 and Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#15, including their government (militaristic, ruled by generals), level of technology (advanced weaponry, highly developed means of time travel, relatively primitive spacecraft with no warp drive) and cultural traits (bellicose, self-centered, value dishonesty) are nothing but lies.

Phantus

The planet that was a lie!

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus, needing to drain Thor's hammer of its time-travel capabilities, planted more memories into the Space Phantom, making him believe he was a member of a war-faring race on the brink of destruction.

(Thor I#281) - The Space Phantom drew Thor into Limbo, where his hammer Mjolnir had gotten lost as he attempted to travel back in time. Space Phantom claimed he was from an alien race that had mastered time travel and used it constantly to seek war, endlessly creating new alternate timelines as they messed with the space-time continuum. The Space Phantom claimed that he'd been trapped in Limbo and forced to serve Immortus, who demanded new beings in Limbo to study constantly. Space Phantom showed him his home planet Phantus, which had partially been shifted to Limbo, and they passed through warring ships and dangerous weapons, and Thor boldly fought through the Space Phantom's race before the Space Phantom lured him into a trap, planning to use Thor's powers to shift Phantus back into the regular space-time continuum.

(Thor I#282) - Space Phantom realized that Thor was shifting from his god form to mortal form. Apologizing and saying that deception and deceit were the way of his people, the Space Phantom claimed he could help Thor find his hammer, and he led them to the edge of Phantus, to the castle of Immortus, where Thor sparred with Tempus briefly, soon defeating him. They then found Immortus, who was in possession of Thor's hammer. Immortus explained that he was the custodian of time for seven centuries. Space Phantom reminded Thor of his promise to help save Phantus, and Thor willingly sacrificed his hammer's time-travel capabilities to allow the planet to seemingly be saved. Immortus then returned Thor to Earth.

--Thor I#281 ([Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)], Thor I#281-282

Note: In the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#7 and Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#15 claimed that Phantus was a planet in the Phalbo star system in the Milky Way Galaxy. According to the Phantoms profile the planet was populated by 2.8 billion Phantoms. This was all lies!

"Attila the Hun" "Paul Bunyan" "Goliath" "Merlin"

(Avengers I#10 (fb) - BTS/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus had some of his Space Phantoms pose as real and fictional historical figures in a complicated plot against the Avengers.

(Avengers I#10/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb) - BTS) - One Space Phantom posed as Paul Bunyan to intimidate Executioner of the Masters of Evil. Later, Immortus had another pose as Attila the Hun to take Rick Jones captive. Immortus pulled the Avengers to Limbo and had them each face off with one of the historical figures, with Giant-Man and Wasp fighting "Goliath," Iron Man fighting "Merlin," and Thor fighting "Hercules," but the Avengers soon triumphed. Enchantress tried reversing history, but this didn't affect Limbo.

--Avengers I#10 ([Avengers I#10 (fb)/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)], Avengers I#10/[Avengers Forever I8 (fb)]

"Black Rider, Reno Jones & Kid Cassidy"

(Avengers Forever I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Immortus sent three Space Phantoms to 1873 to find the time-displaced Avengers.

(Avengers Forever I#5) - They posed as legendary gunslingers Black Rider, Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy and confronted Hawkeye, Songbird and Yellowjacket in the desert near Tombstone. Hawkeye quickly made peace with the gunslingers, who claimed at the campfire at night that they were called to Tombstone by a message from Two-Gun Kid. They had far too much information about the situation in Tombstone even though they had not been there and Hawkeye eventually revealed that Kid Cassidy had already been dead in 1873. The time-displaced heroes overpowered the gunslingers, who shifted to their true Space Phantom forms and revealed that they had only been in this time period to find the three Avengers for Immortus. Bound by Songbird's sound constructs the Space Phantoms remained the Avengers' captives.

(Avengers Forever I#6) - Songbird kept the Space Phantoms bound with her sound constructs inside a cave while Hawkeye and Yellowjacket discussed what to do next.

(Avengers Forever I#6 - BTS) - One of the Space Phantom replaced Songbird while she was in the cave. The fake Songbird then met up with Hawkeye and Yellowjacket outside the cave, and suggested to go to Tombstone and get back their stolen Chronosphere.

(Avengers Forever I#6) - Following Songbird's directions they invaded Kang's ship. Hawkeye was surprised how much Songbird knew about Kang's ship and Yellowjacket attacked her when she uncharacteristically nice to him. Hawkeye got into a scuffle with Yellowjacket, who knocked Songbird to the ground with an electrical blast to reveal that she was actually a Space Phantom. The true Songbird returned from Limbo as soon as the Space Phantom hit the ground. The Space Phantom was scared for his life because of his orders to bring the Avengers to Immortus, but they escaped.

--Avengers Forever I#5 (Avengers: Forever I#5-6, [6], 6

"Phineas Horton"

(Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - When Scarlet Witch and Vision managed to have children anyway, Immortus sent a Space Phantom to pose as Phineas Horton, instructing him to tell Wanda that the Vision was not his handiwork.

(West Coast Avengers II#44 (fb) - BTS) - The Vigilance found "Phineas Horton," who claimed that the Avengers' Vision was not the Human Torch. They put him in a cell at their complex in Los Angeles and planned to eventually not only reveal that "Horton" was still alive, but also make it public what "Horton" had told them about the Vision.

(West Coast Avengers II#43 - BTS) - The Wasp discovered "Horton" in his cell at the Vigilance's base in Los Angeles, California.

(West Coast Avengers II#44) - Wasp freed "Horton" and brought him to the lab were the Vision had been taken apart. Pym, Wonder Man and Scarlet Witch were already there and rather surprised by "Horton" still being alive. Cameron Brock of the Vigilance revealed that it was his plan to eventually reveal "Horton" to the public and let him tell the truth about the Vision. Pym assumed that Vision could've been mistaken about Horton's death and accepted the fact. He then listened to "Horton" explain, even though he was still a bit confused, that he was sure the robot spread out in front of them was not his Human Torch. An hour later "Horton" was taken to a hospital. Scarlet Witch didn't know why "Horton" told them that the Vision was not the Human Torch, but Pym began to question what they had thought to be the truth about the Vision for years.

(West Coast Avengers II#47) - Pym, Wasp and Wonder Man went to the Grosvenor Memorial Hospital in Seattle, Washington in search of the Scarlet Witch because they were sure she would bring the Vision to his creator "Phineas Horton," but they were wrong.

(Avengers West Coast I#48/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)) - "Horton," in the hospital, gave the Wasp, Wonder Man, and Hank Pym a lecture about how the Human Torch and the Vision couldn't possibly be related, and he claimed that Immortus had lied to them in the past.

--Avengers West Coast I#44 (Avengers Forever I#8 (fb), [Avengers West Coast I#44 (fb)], [43], 44, 47, 48/Avengers Forever I#8 (fb)

Bill

(Avengers I#2) - Bill and other military men were prepared to test a new Stark-designed "multiple anti-missile gun" when the "Hulk," secretly a transformed Space Phantom, grabbed the device and caused the missiles to fire.

--Avengers I#2

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Captain America I#113, p17, pan3 ("Madame Hydra")
Avengers I#106, p6, pan4 (Hydra agent)
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Thor I#281, p4, pan2 (purple costume)
Rom I#19, p13, pan5 ("Firefall")
Spectacular Spider-Man II#168, p3, pan4 ("She-Hulk")
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Avengers I#10, p4, pan7 ("Paul Bunyan")
Avengers I#10, p10, pan5 ("Goliath")
Avengers I#10, p12, pan3 ("Merlin")
Avengers Forever I#8, p15, pan2 ("Black Rider & Gunhawks")
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Appearances:
Avengers I#2 (November, 1963) - Stan Lee (writer), Jack Kirby (penciler), Paul Reinman (inker), Stan Lee (editor)
Journey into Mystery I#106 (July, 1964) - Stan Lee (writer/editor), Jack Kirby (penciler), Chic Stone (inker)
Avengers I#10 (November, 1964) - Stan Lee (writer), Don Heck (penciler), Dick Ayers (inker), Stan Lee (Editor)
Captain America I#113 (May, 1969) - Jim Steranko (plot/pencils), Stan Lee (dialogue/editor), Tom Palmer (inks)
Avengers I#105 (November, 1972) - Steve Englehart (writer), John Buscmea (penciler), Jim Mooney (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Avengers I#106 (December, 1972) - Steve Englehart (writer), Rich Buckler, George Tuska (pencilers), Dave Cockrum (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Avengers I#107 (January, 1973) - Steve Englehart (writer), Jim Starlin, George Tuska (pencilers), Dave Cockrum (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Avengers I#108 (February, 1973) - Steve Englehart (writer), Don Heck (penciler), Dave Cockrum, Joe Sinnott (inkers), Roy Thomas (editor)
Avengers I#133-134 (March-April, 1975) - Steve Englehart (writer), Sal Buscema (penciler), Joe Staton (inker), Len Wein (editor)
Avengers I#135 (May, 1975) - Steve Englehart (writer), George Tuska (penciler), Frank Chiaramonte (inker), Len Wein (editor)
Giant-Size Avengers I#4 (June, 1975) - Steven Englehart (writer), Don Heck (penciler), John Tartaglione (inker), Len Wein (editor)
Thor I#281 (March, 1979) - Mark Gruenwald, Ralph Macchio, Peter Gillis, Mike Catron (writers), Keith Pollard (penciler), PAblo Marcos (inker), Roy Thomas (editor)
Thor I#282 (April, 1979) - Mark Gruenwald, Ralph Macchio (writers), Keith Pollard (penciler), Pablo Marcos (inker), Jim Shooter (editor)
Rom#19 (June, 1981) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Sal Buscema (artist), Al Milgrom (editor)
Rom#20 (July, 1981) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Sal Buscema (penciler), Joe Sinnott (inker), Al Milgrom (editor)
Avengers I#267-268 (May-June, 1986) - Roger Stern (writer), John Buscema (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker), Mark Gruenwald (editor)
West Coast Avengers II#43-44 (April-May, 1989) - John Byrne (writer/penciler), Mike Machlan (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
West Coast Avengers II#47 (August, 1989) - John Byrne (writer/penciler), Mike Machlan (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Avengers West Coast I#48 (September, 1989) - John Byrne (writer/penciler), Mike Machlan (inker), Howard Mackie (editor)
Iron Man Annual I#10/2 (August, 1989) - David Wohl (writer), Jackson Guice, Gene Colan, John Byrne, Keith Pollard, Bob Layton (artists), Tom DeFalco (editor)
Spectacular Spider-Man II#168-170 (September-October, 1990) - Gerry Conway (writer), Sal Buscema (artist), Jim Salicrup (editor)
What If..? II#39 (July, 1992) - Roy Thomas & Jean-Marc Lofficier (writers), Gavin Curtis (pencils), Ian Akin & Don Hudson (inks), Craig Anderson (editor)
Avengers I#390 (September, 1995) - Bob Harras (story/script), Terry Kavanagh (story), Mike Deodato (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avengers: The Crossing (September, 1995) - Bob Harras & Terry Kavanagh (writers), Mike Deodato (artist), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Iron Man I#320 (September, 1995) - Terry Kavanagh (writer), Heitor Oliveira & Adriana Melo (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Force Works#16 (October, 1995) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Jim Cheung (pencils), Rey Garcia (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Avengers I#391 (October, 1995) - Bob Harras (story/script), Terry Kavanagh (story), Mike Deodato (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Force Works#17 (November, 1995) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Jim Cheung (pencils), Rey Garcia (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Iron Man I#322 (November, 1995) - Terry Kavanagh (writer), Jimmy Cheung & Heitor Oliveira (pencils), Mark McKenna & Hector Collazo (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Avengers I#392 (November, 1995) - Bob Harras & Terry Kavanagh (writers), M.C. Wyman (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Force Works#18 (December, 1995) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Yancey Labat (pencils), Rey Garcia (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
War Machine I#21 (December, 1995) - Dan Abnett (writer), Fred Haynes & Sandu Florea (pencils), Grene, Palmiotti & Florea (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Iron Man I#323 (December, 1995) - Terry Kavanagh (plot), Dan Abnett (writer), Heitor Oliveira, Jimmy Cheung & Yancey Labat (pencils), Rey Garcia & Mark McKenna (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Avengers I#393 (December, 1995) - Bob Harras, Terry Kavanagh & Ben Raab (writers), Mike Deodato (pencilers), Tom Palmer (inker), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Force Works#19 (January, 1996) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Heitor Oliveira (pencils), Glass House Graphics & Rey Garcia (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
War Machine I#22 (January, 1996) - Dan Abnett (writer), Fred Haynes & Yancey Labat (pencils), Johnny Greene & Jim Palmiotti (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Iron Man I#324 (January, 1996) - Terry Kavanagh (plot), Dan Abnett (writer), Jim Calafiore & Marc Bright (pencils), P.L. Palmiotti, Moncuse, Cariello & DeLaRosa (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Avengers I#394 (January, 1996) - Bob Harras (plot), Terry Kavanagh (plot), Ben Raab (writer), Mike Deodato (penciler), Tom Palmer (inker), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avengers: Timeslide (February, 1996) - Bob Harras & Terry Kavanagh (story), Bob Harras (script), Roger Cruz, Luke Ross, Fabio LagunaFrank Toscana, Manny Clark & Oclair Albhert (pencils), Scott Koblish & Rene Micheletti (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Iron Man I#325 (February, 1996) - Terry Kavanagh (plot), Dan Abnett (writer), Jim Calafiore & Hector Collazo (pencils), Marc McKenna, P.L. Palmiotti, Ralph Cabrera & Hector Collazo (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Avengers I#395 (February, 1996) - Bob Harras & Terry Kavanagh (story), Terry Kavanagh (script), Mike Deodato (pencils), Emir Ribeiro & Mike Deodato (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avengers I#397 (April, 1996) - Terry Kavanagh & Howard Mackie (writers), Mike Deodato (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Avengers I#398 (May, 1996) - Terry Kavanagh & Ben Raab (writers), Mike Deodato (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Mark Gruenwald (editor)
Avengers Forever I#5-8 (April-July, 1999) - Kurt Busiek (plot/script), Roger Stern (plot), Carlos Pacheco (penciler), Jesús Merino (inker), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Beyond!#1-5 (September, 2006-January, 2007) - Dwayne McDuffie (writer), Scott Kolins (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)

First Posted: 09/23/2021
Last updated: 09/22/2021

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