Ultimate Comics: Avengers
The comic was drawn by a new artist roughly every six issues,[1] with Carlos Pacheco, Leinil Francis Yu, and Steve Dillon pencilling the first, second, and third story arcs, respectively.
"[3] During the first arc, the Avengers consisted of War Machine, Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Gregory Stark, Red Wasp, Nerd Hulk, the Spider, and Black Widow II.
At the end of the arc, Tyrone Cash, the Spider and Gregory Stark die, and Black Widow II is appointed as the new leader of the Avengers.
It is further revealed that shortly after his birth, the Red Skull was taken by government officials and raised at a secret facility where he, having inherited the abilities of his father, was trained to become a super soldier.
Fury suggests that Carol Danvers initiate "Project Avengers" and recruit a team of superhumans to find Captain America.
These "Avengers" include Black Widow/Monica Chang (Fury's ex-wife), Red Wasp, the former Insect Queen of the Liberators, War Machine, and an intelligent clone of the Hulk/Nerd Hulk.
The Red Skull explains to Fury that all he wanted to do with the Cosmic Cube was simply turn back time and lead a normal life, rather than the one he was given.
After this team is fully assembled, Nick Fury informs them that their current target is Ghost Rider, who has made a pact with the Satan in order to seek revenge on a biker gang.
The leader of the bikers, Michael Blackthorne, is the Vice-President, who made an executive order to the Avengers to stop the Ghost Rider from killing him.
Hawkeye punches him in the face, knocking out a molar in which a tracking implant was located, allowing him to escape twenty minutes later.
When super-humans start disappearing, Fury's black-ops team and the vampire hunter Blade discover it to be the work of a blood-sucking human species.
The vampires' goal is to turn the superhuman population into their own kind in order to take over the world, including Nerd Hulk, a new Daredevil, and Stick.
Their main focus point is the Triskelion due to its large population of super-humans and detained illegal superhuman experiments.
Soon after, Captain America uses Perun's hammer to teleport the Triskelion and its battlefield to Iran, where it's daytime; this successfully kills the vampires.
The New Ultimates, also having recently acquired Ant-Man and Black Widow, learn from Gregory Stark that New Prototype Super-Soldiers were stolen from one of his facilities.
The team manages to derail the train and witnesses one of the prototype Super-Soldiers, called the Mimic, emerge from his containment unit and, shortly afterward, die a painful death.
The team strikes and attempts to intercept the case containing Maximus; however, they are attacked by Tyrone Cash, the man responsible for the sale.
He asks a hired model, dressed as a sexy nurse for his enjoyment, to contact his secretary to ready his Iron Man armor.
Carol Danvers converses with Captain Britain, who is currently leading the task of transporting the Triskelion back to New York, when Nick Fury appears.
They are intercepted by Giant-Man and Black Widow while Captain America hunts down Nick Fury on the Queensborough Bridge and beats him almost to submission.
agents arrives at the bridge and, during the momentary confusion caused by Spider-Man's appearance, shoot and attempt to apprehend Fury.
War Machine then arrives and blows up the bridge, causing everyone but Spider-Man, who uses his ability to stick to surfaces, to fall into the water below.
Stark, in fact, was supplying the rebels of rogue states with smuggled Super-Soldiers in order to help the Pro-Democracy forces, thus fueling his ambitious agenda to put Triskelions all over the world.
Fury begins to transform, using the special pills he acquired from Tyrone Cash a few days prior, into a Hulk-type physique, thus protecting him from his wounds.
Nick Fury meets with Carol Danvers and informs her that, by order of the President of the United States, she is being forced to resign as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
