Marvel: The Lost Generation #7

(August 2000)

Highly Placed Sources (Table of Contents: 1)

First Line / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Roger Stern (scripter, co-plotter); John Byrne (co-plotter)

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

Al Milgrom

Colors

Glynis Oliver

Letters

Jim Novak; Jack Morelli

Editing

Ralph Macchio

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Cassandra Locke; The First Line [Katyusha; Pixie (in 1972 and the 22nd century); Knight Templar [Ian Fitzwilliam Dare]; Reflex; Vulcan; Oxbow; Mr. Justice; Effigy [Velmax] (as Jacob Scott and Deep Throat); Black Fox [Robert William Paine]]; Nocturne (villain); Red Skull (vampire imitator); Sub-Mariner (vampire imitator); Human Torch (vampire imitator); Captain America (vampire imitator); Bucky (vampire imitator); Yeti; the Inhumans; the Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing; Invisible Girl]; President Richard Nixon; Bob Woodward; Russell Sr. (later known as Flatiron); Russell Jr.; Joey; Rossalyn (soon-to-be wife of Knight Templar); Yankee Clipper (mentioned); Sub-Mariner [Namor] (in 1961); the Yellow Claw (in 1961); Doctor Alexander M. Locke (22nd century); Omega-20 (alias "Gene", a cyborg, 22nd century)

Synopsis

In June 1972, the First Line tracks their captured teammates to an abandoned warehouse in Cleveland. They fight Nocturne, and what appears to be the Red Skull and the Invaders. Meanwhile, President Nixon wants to use the First Line in a mission of domestic subversion, much against the protests of Jacob Scott (secretly Effigy) and the Black Fox. In order to stop Nixon, Effigy contacts Bob Woodward, a reporter at the Washington Post. Cassandra Locke has been thrown forward in time to the 1990s, where she witnesses Yeti's encounter with the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) and meets the Fantastic Four.

Reprints

• in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #2 (2018)

Keywords

Skrulls; time travel; Watergate

Indexer Notes

The story sequence featuring the First Line's battle against Nocturne, the Red Skull, and a team of phoney Invaders takes place in June 1972. Cassandra Locke's story sequence occurs more than two decades later, in events that were previously chronicled in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #99.

Cassandra Locke's previous chronological appearance was in issue #4, her next chronological appearance is in issue #3. Her log entry in this issue is 126-7-33.

Effigy is revealed to be "Deep Throat" in this story, the unnamed source that helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein publically reveal the secrets of the Nixon Administration. In 2005 in the real world, it was revealed that former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. Bob Woodward began meeting with Deep Throat in June 1972.

First appearance of Vulcan.

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