Avengers, The (1963 series) #370

Kro of the Deviants is working in a subterranean level of the Pentagon when a flaming Sersi, missing her right arm, crashes through the ceiling. She relates how the Avengers received a distress call from Lemuria, home of the Deviants in the South Pacific. Black Widow and Vision needed to deal with the disbanding of the West Coast Avengers, leaving the others (Captain America, Crystal, Black Knight, Hercules, Sersi, and the visiting Giant-Man) to head out on the mission. They launched a Quinjet underwater and entered the city through a hidden portal. They were almost immediately spotted by Deviants led by Karygmax and a fight broke out which ended swiftly when the Avengers had brain mines clapped to their heads, sapping their wills. Karygmax noted that they needed the mixed blood of Crystal (an Inhuman), Cap (peak human), Hercules (Greek god), and Sersi (Elemental) for a special purpose. Black Knight and Giant-Man were sent to the arena. The priestess Varua was summoned to collect the blood but Sersi ripped off the brain mine and tried to escape. Karygmax fires a Dispersatron but missed, only disintegrating her right arm. Sersi fell though a well and into the ocean, eventually finding her way to Washington and Kro. She regenerates her arm and explains that she needs reinforcements and her own people consider her mad, victim of Mahd W’yry. So Kro consults the Delta network to recruit Deviant heroes….

In Lemuria, a man hurls his mutant baby into a fire pit over his wife’s objections. The winged Dragona swoops down, catches the baby and carries her off to be adopted by a loving father. Kro contacts her….

At a wrestling arena in New Jersey, Enigmo and Anabolus are engaged in a match. Enigmo has his head popped off, grows a tiny body, flips his opponent then reunites with his original body. Both contestants are disqualified but Kro arrives looking for Enigmo….

Karkas, Ransak, and Kingo Sunen are filming an action movie together when Sersi arrives to call the first two….

At the University of San Diego, twins Deborah and Donald Ritter are mentally linked so when Deb is attacked by a rapist, they merge into a gestalt called Tzabaoth and they are about to kill the rapist when Kro arrives to call them away….

In Peru, gangsters from a drug cartel terrorize a squatters camp and the Toro Rojo totem switches places with his playmate Tupac and the huge hero clobbers the baddies. Kro arrives to recruit him for the team….

Ereshkigal, Blackwulf, and Metabo are considered for the team but rejected.

Delta Force arrives in Lemuria. Kro dispatches Karkas, Ransak, Enigmo, and Toro to rescue the Avengers who have been sent to the arena while Kro, Sersi, Dragona, and Tzabaoth head to the sacrificial altar where they find the captives suspended in the air in an “unholy pentagram.” Cap reveals that Sersi was allowed to escape so that she would bring the Delta members back. And the blood from her severed arm was enough to use in the spell that resurrected Lord Ghaur….