Avengers West Coast MAX Vol 1 3


 * Publication Date: March 2014


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Appearances
Clinton Barton (Earth 199916) John Walker (Earth 199916) Henry Peter Gyrich (Earth 199916)
 * Heroes:

NYPD
 * Villains:

SHIELD Helicarrier New York City
 * Locations:

Synopsis
The next possible superhuman agent for SHIELD's new black ops team is John Walker. A Gulf War veteran, Walker suffered a mental breakdown during the war; he believed he was the famous hero from WWII, Captain America, to the point where he has actually shown signs of super strength. After being discharged from the Army, Walker returned home to America, but still believed he was Captain America, fighting criminals and gangsters. Walker is currently in the mental institution Recovery of Happy Goodness in California. While new SHIELD agent Greer Grant aka Tigra gets acquainted with SHIELD and the Helicarrier, agent Clint Barton (now partially blind) sets out to find Walker with Henry Peter Gyrich and other agents.

Meanwhile, The Scourge of the Underworld (in disguise despite the large white skull tattoo over his face) arrives at an airport in Russia. He looks for a sign of the 'Red Skull', and finds a limo driver outside his limo holding a sign that simply says 'Four' (which was The Scourge's codename while the Scourge organization still existed).

In California, a SHIELD helicopter arrives at the Recovery of Happy Goodness center. When Clint and the other agents exit it, the people in the area run away, and so do the doctors and nurses in the recovery center, leaving the patients unattended. While Clint and the other agents enter the building and search for Walker, the other patients go ballistic and try to escape in a huge rioting frenzy.

The SHIELD agents try to calm them down, but to no avail. Then, John Walker appears from his room and attacks the rioting patient with a trashcan lid, believing the patients to be Nazis, shouting things like "For America!" and "Die, Nazi!" Eventually, Walker calms down the patient and walks over to the Clint and the agents. They explain they are with SHIELD, and they want him to join the team they are forming. And, Walker says "It will be an honor to fight alongside Sergeant Nick Fury again!"