#space phantom

Avengers #106 (Englehart/Buckler & Tuska, Dec 1972). While the Vision broods over his inability to love, Steve receives visions of missions with Rick which never happened. The remaining Avengers seek Pietro, but discover instead a long-forgotten foe.

Avengers #108 (Englehart/Heck & et al, Feb 1973). The Vision and Captain America concoct a convoluted plan to defeat the Space Phantom and the Grim Reaper. There’s been an almost delirious amount of retconning lately, and it’s an interesting device for the moment — discovering new plots and relationships between the panel margins…

Avengers #107 (Englehart/Starlin & et al, Jan 1973). The Space Phantom and the Grim Reaper conspire to transplant the Vision’s synthezoid brain into Captain America’s body. I truly doubt Vision’s really gonna go through with it, but the suggestion that his lovesick misery might conceivably drive him to it is pretty neat.