2 crossover events for the price of 2
May 27, 2019
TONY STARK: IRON MAN #11 wraps up the eScape story in time for a late entry into War Of The Realms next issue. Jocasta and Amanda are quitting Stark Unlimited, and Amanda may be taking Andy Bhang with her. But Dr Shapiro the talking cat shows no sign of leaving.
In AVENGERS #19 Gorilla-Man narrates a tale which spans WOTR#1-3, and reveals him to be a traitor.
WOTR: Journey Into Mystery continues with #3 and lots of dead Marvel Western characters.
Meanwhile back in 1995-96 Shellhead dragged Avengers, Force Works and War Machine into the Crossing event. This was the 2nd big thing I wrote up (after Avengers Forever) for (the predecessors of) this site, before taking control of the Iron Man side of things.
Start with AVENGERS (1963) #390 and follow the links which will take you in sequence through to the end in Force Works #22. (At 2 points the route will split and then rejoin.)
Along the way James Rhodes gets a new alien armour, Force Works gains a new member Moonraker who everyone seems to think was always there, and Wasp gains a new insectile body. But most significantly Tony Stark is revealed to be under the control of the villain Kang, but dies heroically to prevent his scheme from succeeding. And the Avengers bring a teenage version of Tony from the past to take his place.
Even more significantly all of the above will sooner or later be discarded, reversed or proven a lie! And anyway most of the characters will disappear into the Heroes Reborn universe in a few months.
--RobFJ