Marvel: The Lost Generation #1

(February 2001)

It's Starting Again... (Table of Contents: 1)

First Line / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Roger Stern (plot, script); John Byrne (plot)

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

Al Milgrom

Colors

Glynis Oliver

Letters

Jack Morelli

Editing

Ralph Macchio

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Cassandra Locke (death); Yankee Clipper [Patrick Carney]; Pixie (in the 1980s and 22nd century); Ikaris (as Ike Harris); Mr. Justice [Tim Carney]; Robert William Paine (formerly Black Fox); Dr. St. Clair (in flashback); Dr. Mooney (in flashback); Captain America [William Burnside] (in flashback, in suspended animation); Bucky [Jack Monroe] (in flashback, in suspended animation); Jacob Scott [Velmax] (a Skrull, later known as Effigy); Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch, Thing] (all on front page of newspaper only); J. Jonah Jameson (mentioned); Sub-Mariner (mentioned); Doctor Alexander M. Locke (22nd century); Omega-20 (alias Eugene "Gene" Omega-20, a cyborg, 22nd century); Ambassador Zorn (a Skrull, 22nd century)

Synopsis

Patrick Carney (Yankee Clipper) discusses with Pixie and Ikaris the events of the last few decades. In 1955, he encountered a dying Cassandra Locke, who told him he must hide her recordings in the Apollo 11 lunar lander in 1969. Her last act was to leave him her damaged time-belt. In 1961, Patrick told his brother about the recordings. In November 1963, when he again encountered Cassandra, their time-belts interacted, sending him to the mid 1980s. In the late 22nd century, the evidence of Skrull violence against Earth gathered by Cassandra Locke 200 years earlier is presented at Pixie's trial.

Reprints

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

Keywords

Skrulls; time travel

Indexer Notes

The story sequence involving Yankee Clipper's conversation with Pixie and Ikaris takes place shortly after Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2, years after the First Line's final battle. The story sequence involving Yankee Clipper's encounter with his younger brother, Mr. Justice, takes place in the mid-1980s, at least a year before the First Line's final battle. The story sequence revealing the origin of the Yankee Clipper occurs in 1955.

Cassandra Locke's previous chronological appearance was in issue #3. Cassandra dies in this issue.

Yankee Clipper's first chronological appearance is in the flashback to 1955 in this issue. His next chronological appearances are in issues #2-4. His next chronological appearance after that is in the flashback to the mid-1980s in this issue. His final chronological appearance is in the scenes in this issue featuring him talking with Pixie and Ikaris, which occur shortly after Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2.