I suppose this is an important issue because it brings the pre-Marvel Universe character Black Knight into modern mythology.
I’m not a fan of this character. Really not a fan.
He’s an inventor who genetically splices an eagle with a horse, and makes a laser-shooting lance. And he lives in a castle.
Maybe I do like this guy. I like the evil version. His nephew will become the heroic Black Knight that actually has links to days of yore. That’s the guy I dislike.
Wasp encounters him first as he’s robbing an armored truck.
Hank and Jan go after him, and he actually beats Giant-Man.
And Wasp saves Hank from falling to his death.
Finally, Wasp is shown as someone who actually contributes. in The Avengers, she’s a better character (not much better, but better), but in this issue she’s constantly a boy-crazy idiot who watches her crush defeat villains while complaining about how he won’t marry her.
The villain escapes in the end. And Hank gets a bizarre touch of soul…
…As he calls Wasp “Honeychile.”
WTF?
There’s also another Wasp back-up feature. She tells some kids a story about aliens. Every one of these back-ups has her telling stories to a group of kids. And the stories aren’t about her and Hank–they’re like Tales of the Watcher type stories. And they’re bad.
It’s so weird.
Stan and Dick Ayers (main tale); Stan (plot), with Larry Lieber (story and art) (Wasp back-up).