The Avengers Annual #22

BLOOD WRAITH

An invasion by 6th century marauders interrupts a peaceful evening at Avengers Mansion! Out of the blue medieval warriors attack Crystal, Hercules, and the Vision! What do these men from the Middle Ages want? Only the most important object from their time…the Black Knight’s ebony blade! But the bloodthirsty blade is not to be found at the Avengers headquarters! It’s at Whitman Manor near the nation’s capital! Once Sersi and the Black Widow repel the invaders in New York, the Avengers rush to Washington D.C. to protect the dangerous artifact! However another pair of 6th century robbers are already there! When the menacing duo subdues Victoria Bentley and Seth Dolan, the Black Knight’s squire has no choice but to brandish the ebony blade himself! And in that split second the Bloodwraith is born! Can Earth’s Mightiest Heroes contain the savage Bloodwraith? Or will the cursed ebony blade begin a new rampage in the 20th century?

A GAMBLE WITH TIME

The Anachronauts were training and facing each other in mock combat. Then Sir Raston's Ebony Blade began to glow and lost its solidity. Terminatrix determined that this was a result of a temporal anomaly which had caused the Blade to never be created. The erasing of the Blade from history had far reaching consequences and threatened Chronopolis itself. The Anachronauts time traveled back to the days of Camelot to undo the anomaly. They found that the Incinerators, a robotic race, had also time traveled back to Camelot and captured the Starstone which was destined to provide the material from which the Blade would be forged. With the help of fellow time traveler Justin Alphonse Gamble, the Anachronauts defeated the Incinerators and retrieved the Starstone. Gamble made sure that the Stone would pass to the hands of Merlin who would create the Blade.