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Ms. Marvel joins the Avengers as a replacement for the Scarlet Witch during her leave of absence, Steve Rogers persuades his old friend Sam Wilson to join the team, and Clint Barton sees Wanda and Pietro off to Europe. Elsewhere, at a New Jersey landfill site, Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man, reassembles himself after his most recent defeat. Intending to escape to South America, Creel breaks into a clothing store, where he steals some cash and a pair of slacks and kidnaps a female clerk. However, when he chances to stop for refreshment at the same pierside bar as the plainclothes Hawkeye, the archer engages him in battle until the other Avengers can arrive. Evading the heroes, Creel and his captive manage to board a ship, where the Absorbing Man's power enables him to take on the properties of the craft's turbines and grow to gigantic size.