WASHINGTON STATE
Type: State, Unites States of America.
Environment: Washington state contains a wide variety of climates. The Pacific Ocean coast is usually rocky; sandy beaches exist but are not the norm. East of the coast is the heavily forested Coast Range in the south half of the state, and Puget Sound in the north half, and east of those are heavily farmed and settled valleys which hold most of the state's population (this area is occasionally referred to as the I-5 corridor). East of that are the Cascade mountains, and crossing those moves you from wet climates to the much drier inland northwest. The Columbia River has allowed this area to be heavily irrigated and farmed - major Washington state crops include wheat, hops, and apples.
Unique features of the state include Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, the high peaks of the Cascade Range (notably these mountains: Baker, Rainier, St. Helens, Adams). National Parks include the Olympics (rain forests and tall mountains), the North Cascades, and Mt. Rainier. The Columbia River is noted for the majestic waterfalls plummeting into it on the Oregon side as it cuts through the Cascades, and for its enormous dams. Washington is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Canada's British Columbia, Idaho, and Oregon.
Dominant Life Form: Humans.
Significant Inhabitants: Sunset Bain, Brother Nature, Tracy Burke, Cody Fleisher (Cadaver), Dr. Larrabee, Dr. Ramona Napier, Detective Plexico (all Seattle area); Eve Two Crows (Bellingham); ex-Senator Leon Warkovsky, Skyhawk
former: Carol Danvers, Danny Rand, Tony Stark (with support staff/aides Happy Hogan, Jocasta, Pepper Potts) (all Seattle area); Dr. Heisenberg, Jane (both Spokane area); Gary Saunders (deceased) .
Affiliations: Washington state has a resident team as per the 50 States Initiative: Earth Force. The only revealed member of Earth Force is Skyhawk, who was replaced for a time by a Skrull.
Significant Locations (View Larger Map) : Mount Saint Cloud, in the northern part of the state, is apparently an intermittenly active volcano near the town of Georgeville; West Holly Street Outreach Center, Bellingham.
Seattle area: Astrodyne Systems Plant, in Redmond; Baintronics corporate headquarters, located in Renton next to Boeing; SeaTac International airport, located 15 miles south of Seattle; Seattle Aerospace Center; the Space Needle; Stark House, on Evergreen Island in Lake Washington; Stark Solutions, a 39 floor office tower in downtown Seattle; the 30+ story Unocorp Building, located close to and just south of the Space Needle
former: A government base in the Okanogan forests became the mutant sanctuary town known as Mt. Haven until it was destroyed; a Rajaki ship used to be buried beneath a lake just north and east of Spokane, Washington; a now-destroyed probability research lab in Spokane.
First Marvel Appearance: Marvel Mystery Comics I#27 (January, 1942).
History:
(Iron Man III#24 (fb)) - A Rajaki spaceship crashed to Earth in the year 1808 in eastern Washington state (slightly north and east of what would become Spokane). An area fur trapper was transformed by the Rajaki into Golden-blade, while Sapper was the only Rajaki to survive with a physical form (many others survived in a comatose electronic form).
(Marvel Mystery Comics I#27) - During World War II, the Sub_Mariner visited Seattle; talking to dockworkers he discovered that fur smugglers were putting the legitimate workers out of business. Namor investigated, and in Thunder Cave, on the Anderson Archipelago, he found an artificial underground waterway through which Jasper Whifflegrass, a.k.a. the Fox, was smuggling furs in torpedoes from south-eastern Alaska to Washington state. Namor captured the Fox and his lieutenant, Red Larson, and turned both over to U.S. Customs. (Note: the location of Anderson Archipelago is never given, but given the area's geography, its likely somewhere in British Columbia).
(The 'Nam I#63) - PFC Anthony Sloan of the 5th Infantry was a 20 year old Spokane native who went section eight during the Vietnam War, and aided the North Vietnamese before being rescued.
(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition I#30) - John "Johnny" Horton (later Griffin) was born in Tacoma, WA.
(All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z#7) - Sharon Ventura (later Ms. Marvel) was born in Pullman, WA.
(Punisher II#12 (fb) - BTS) - Gary Saunders (later to grow to become a serial killer before being killed) was raised in Spokane, WA. He showed no signs of abnormality as a child. He later attended the University of Washington (in Seattle), majoring in law, serving as a Red Cross volunteer, and joining the chess and debate clubs. A popular student, he was eventually caught cheating and expelled. Several co-eds disappeared which Saunders was at UW, but no one associated him with those disappearances at the time. He apparently left the state not long after his expulsion.
(Strange Tales I#74) - Convicts Bull Drago and Hunk escaped from Northwestern State Prison during the middle of the night. Traveling by foot, dawn found them in a native American village where they decided to rest, planning on killing the witnesses later. The tribal chief woke their great spirit Totem, and the animated totem pole chased both Bull and Hunk back to the prison, tearing through the walls to get at them.
(Strange Tales I#75) - Leaving Bull and Hunk in shock, the Totem returned to the reservation and ran amok. The tribe hid in caves while the chief warned the mayor of a nearby town; the mayor laughed him off, but wasn't laughing after the Totem destroyed his house that night (leaving the mayor in shock and unable to speak). Realizing he had to stop the Totem hislef, the chief whipped up a mystic potion from an ancient recipe, and confronted the Totem as it menaced an office picnic on a bluff. The potion deanimated the Totem, which fell off the bluff and into a river, and the chief (injured, apparently mortally, by the Totem) prepared for his own imminent death.
(X-Men: First Class II#13) - Lava Men moved into the area around Mt. St. Helens, causing the volcano to smoke, and locals began reporting "bigfoot" sightings. Charles Xavier, his X-Men (Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, Marvel Girl) and the robotic X-50 and his creator Dr. Abel Stack flew to Mt. St. Helens, where FBI Agent Baker cued them into the Lava Men's activity. Investigating, the four X-Men were surrounded by Lava Men.
(X-Men: First Class II#14) - With X-50, the four X-Men defeated the Lava Men and tracked them to a cavern. There, they drove off the Lava Men, sealing the cavern through a cave-in. X-50 was destroyed in the battle, but Marvel Girl rescued his neural engine and returned it to Dr. Stack.
(Captain America I#182) - The Cobra (Klaus Voorhees) and Viper (Madame Hydra), bearing the Serpent Crown, had fled from an offshore oil platform by helicopter and were holed in a decrepit apatment complex, surrounded by police. Nomad (Captain America in a short-lived second identity) attempted to help the police, but they instead confined him; he soon escaped and cfronted the pair inside. A tear gas grenade lit the apartment complex on fire; Nomad got the Cobra out while the house collapsed around Viper, and the Crown was washed into a drain.
(Marvel Team-Up I#84 (fb)) - The collapse of the decrepit tract house (revealed here to be one of the Cobra's hide-outs, and in Seattle) dropped Viper into a storm drain. Unable to find the Crown, she eventually emerged from the sewers and was found by Ishiro Tagara, cadre leader of the Japanese Red Army. Tagara soon smuggled Viper and himselfout of the state.
(Marvel Two-in-One I#66 - BTS (fb)) - Roxxon president Hugh Jones was in communion with the Serpent Crown, and ordered one of his employees to retrieve it and bring it to him.
(Godzilla I#2) - Godzilla, in pain after having been wounded by SHIELD lasers, emerged from the water into the docks immediately south of downtown Seattle, and began rampaging north along the waterfront. As Godzilla reached and flamed the Space Needle, SHIELD's "Godzilla Squad" created a forced blackout in Seattle by blowing up a Seattle City Light power station, and lured Godzilla away and into Puget Sound via bright flares (note: the image at the right is an exaggerated cover - Godzilla flamed the Space Needle, but certainly did not snap it in half!). They lured him across the Sound, across the Olympic Peninsula through unpopulated areas, and finally back out to sea, where he swam away.
(Marvel Team-Up I#121) - Magma (Jonathan Darque) claimed to have been responsible for causing an eruption of Mount St. Helens.
(Dazzler I#16) - Musician Bruce Harris played the Kingdome, and told his opening act, the Dazzler, that she was fired immediately before her last show. After her show, which garnered three encores, she went out to Danny's Diner with her then-boyfriend Ken Barnett, her band (Beefer, Hunch, ?),and her field manager Lance. Over the next ten hours, Dazzler and Ken touristed Seattle (Puget Sound, Space Needle, Monorail, Pioneer Square) before leaving via SeaTac. Also getting on the airport at SeaTac was the Enchantress, though she was in disguise.
(Alpha Flight I#43) - Mesmero was held at the Rainier Federal Correctional Facility in Yakima, WA. He escaped, resulting in the death of several guards and his doctor (Dr. Muramoto), and made his way north to Vancouver, BC. At the Sebastian Shaw owned top secret Interdefense facility in the Okanogan Range, FBI agent Billings and Project Manager Ms. Kelly launched new Mark VI stealth Sentinels into Canada after Mesmero, over the objections of designing engineer Carmody Whyte. Whyte called in Shaw, who threatened the pair with dire consequqneces if things go wrong, which they did when the Sentinels were publicly destroyed by Alpha Flight on Vancouver's Expo 87 grounds.
(Captain America I#336) - Brother Nature (a former forest ranger who had quit when government interests sold vast tracts of virgin land to logging companises)vacted as an ecological saboteur, bringing elements of the state's timber industry to a halt over six months though "natural" disaters such as earthquakes, windstorms, and floods. When TV reports caused a bar full of loggers to storm a local ranger station, Steve Rogers (the recently resigned Captain America) acted to stop the loggers before the could get out of the bar. A few hours later, Rogers' van was caught in an earthquake caused by Brother Nature; he opposed the eco-terrorist (battling animals apparently controlled by him), and when Nature asked his name, he called himself the Captain. Nature injured himself during their fight, and the damage their fight had done to the forest led him to surrender.
(Captain America I#337) - Rogers took Brother Nature to a medical facility for help. Meanwhile, Rogers' associates the Falcon, D-Man, Nomad, and Vagabond traced him to Washington; they rescued his van and awaited Rogers' return there. Reunited with him, they were traveling south when they heard a report of super-criminals in Las Vegas. As the Portland airport was less than an hour away they traveled there and then flew to Las Vegas.
(Daredevil I#258) - Samuel "Sam" Birulin was killed in bed in his Seattle home by Bengal. Sam's wife slept beside him through the killing; Sam was on the phone with fellow vet Willie Lincoln when he was killed.
(Marvel Comics Presents I#21/3) - When Chicago-based publisher Emmette Edison refused to return thousands of near-Seattle acres to farmers (allowing them to rent the land instead), his activist daughter Dixie faked her own kidnapping to force her father to return the land. Emmette hitred Paladin to recover his daughter, and the mercenary reunited the two in the Edisons' private Seattle penthouse, where Emmette revealed he'd only acted to protect the land from a corrupt Florida-based company seeking to use it as a toxic waste dump. Paladin subsequently derailed the Florida company's plans.
(Captain America Annual#9/1) - In the Washington Cascades, Mount Saint Cloud became volcanically active; Tony Stark's Project Persephone studied its lava. After a probe was damaged by the energy from a Terminii, Iron Man and the probe's crew (Dr. Rebecca Napier and Captain America) retired to the nearby town of Georgeville (near the lands of the Walakima tribe). The citizens of that town fell under Terminii control, but Captain America freed them.
(Iron Man Annual#11/1) - Sunset Bain opened the corporate headquarters of her Baintronics Inc. corporation in the Seattle area, next to a Boeing facility. Machine Man, Peter Spaulding, and Gears Garvin relocated to the Seattle area, where Machine Man was working on restoring Jocasta from her damaged head. They were attacked by a bearlike Terminii; Machine Man fled with Jocasta and was recovered by Iron Man near Baintronics (Sunset took Machine Man and Jocasta into custody and duplicated each, returning a fake Jocasta head to Machine Man; Baintronics' Dr. Larrabee intended to study them and create prototype humanoids). Iron Man and Machine Man defeated that Terminii, but other animal-like Terminii were sighted east and northeast of the Seattle area.
(Iron Man Annual#11/2) - News reports from Seattle's KSNN (anchored by Ron Winn, with onsite reporter Jennifer Kaylen) indicated that six had been killed and 45 injured in the Terminii Seattle-area rampage.
(Thor Annual#15/1) - The Terminii traveled south from the Seattle area to California's San Fernando Valley, but did very limited damage as they traveled.
(Avengers West Coast Annual#8) - Using a mind-controlled Spider-Woman (Carpenter) and USAgent, Ultron had a seismic bomb placed on Mt. St. Helens as part of a plot to activate a dozen Pacific Rim volcanoes simultaneously. Iron Mand and Raptor (Gary Wilton Jr.) intervened, causing the device to malfunction. Ultron and Alkhema traveled to Mt. St. Helens to investigate, and battled the restored western Avengers (also including Dr. Pym, Hawkeye, Living Lightning, Mockingbird, Scarlet Witch, Tigra, War Machine, Wasp). Alkhema betrayed Ultron and fled; Ultron was captured and the plot ended.
(Secret Defenders#16) - Cody Fleisher was hanging out with his friends (Frank and one other unidentified male) at a graveyard on the outskirts of Seattle when the sorceress Malachi appeared. She kissed Cody, taking his life-force into herself through the Moebius Stone, then set off to find the last fragment of the Moebius Stone, which was in a mausoleum in that graveyard. Dr. Druid teleported in with his "secret Avengers" (Cage, Deadpool, Shadowoman) and attacked her. Cody was restored to life as Cadaver by a spell cast by Agamotto. Malachi managed to obtain the final fragment and began unravelling time around her.
(Secret Defenders#17) - Under Malachi's spell, Seattle began undergoing off time effects - plants taking over, brick crumbling to dust (causing the collapse of buildings), people aging or de-aging incredibly fast. Suburb-dweller Charles McIntyre found himself aged 30 years; farmer Nate Spaulding watched his crops grow and wither over and over too fast to harvest. In the mausoleum, Deadpool killed Malachi, leading Strange to appear to claim her powers and the Moebius Stone. However, Dr. Druid used the stone's energies to destroy itself, restoring Seattle and leaving its citizens' memories of the events as little more than a confusing daydream. The Secret Defenders apparently departed soon thereafter, taking Cody Fleisher with them.
(Secret Defenders#20) - Cody Fleisher (Cadaver) was teleported back to Seattle by Dr. Druid at his own request. At his old school, James A Polk Memorial High School, Cadaver approached his close friend Frank Ventrella, but Frank fled in fear. Next, Cody went to visit his father at their home at 1414 Bonny Meadow Road, but his father suffered a heart attack when Cody told him who he was; Cody called an ambulance for him, then left.
(Secret Defenders#21) - Cadaver was summoned by Dr. Druid to journey to San Francisco; Druid apparently teleported Cadaver partway there as the trip only took a few hours. Since Cadaver stole a motorcycle and crashed through a toll booth, and there are no tollbooths in Seattle, we're assuming here that he was teleported before stealing the motorcycle).
(Blaze I#6) - The Quentin Carnival (which included, among others, Clara Menninger, Johnny Blaze, and Princess Python, traveled by road from El Paso, TX to Bellingham, WA. There, Blaze met with Eve Two Crows (a very modern and tech-friendly native American shaman / social worker) at the West Holly Street Outreach Center (which served primarily native Americans) in downtown Bellingham, on the waterfront. Eve had been tracing west coast Wendigo appearances over the last 20 years, which ranged from Northern California into British Columbia. Menninger evoked a vision of the Wendigo, and the next day Johnny traveled inland seeking it. The Wendigo, who Wyatt Wingfoot had told Blaze was a benign, peaceful woodland spirit, appeared from a portal near a low-mountain riverbank, bearing both of Blaze's children, Emma & Craig, plus a third missing child, Jesse Pinto. The demonic Baal emerged after and Blaze battled Baal before forcing him back into the portal. Blaze himself was injured in the fight, and the three children and the Wendigo followed Baal into the portal, leaving Blaze behind.
(Force Works I#22) - In California, immediately after Force Works decided to disband, their computer, Plato, reported a "magnitude two alert" in Washington State. Plate and Suzi Endo watched as Force Works (Century, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman/Carpenter, USAgent) and their pilot Fisher flew north towards Washington in their jet for what was apparently their last mission.
(Iron Man III#11 (fb) - BTS) - Tracy Burke moved to the Seattle area to become the editor of Tech Support magazine.
(Iron Man III#11 (fb) - BTS) - Seattle police fished a body out of Puget Sound; Tony Stark would later meet with Seattle police detective Plexico and identify the body as Whitney Frost (the second Frost corpse he'd seen in a few months).
(Iron Man III#5) - Seattle resident and vulcanologist Dr. Ramona Napier received a late night phone call from Tony Stark, seeking advice on dealing with a volcanic eruption.
(Iron Man III#11) - Tony Stark moved into his newly finished "smart house" on Evergreen Island in Lake Washington (abutting Seattle, WA). The property ("Stark House") included a helipad, boathouse, tennis courts, medical center, and state-of-the-art construction. Dr. Jane Foster briefly stayed there to care for Tony Stark; other guests of the time included James Rhodes, Natasha Romanoff, Happy Hogan, and Pepper Potts.
(Iron Man III#11) - Carol Danvers (Warbird) moved to Seattle to get away from the Avengers and become a writer. During a work meeting with editor Tracy Burke at a downtown Ivar's restaurant, she spotted Tony Stark outside and accused him of checking up on her.
(Iron Man III#11-12) - Sunset Bain sent Parnell Jacobs (as War Machine) to destroy the Redmond, WA Astrodyne Systems Plant. Iron Man and Warbird engaged War Machine, but he still destroyed the plant before fleeing.
(Iron Man III#12, 14) - Hannah Donleavy, from the Puget Sound Neighborhood Youth Program (PNYP), recruited Happy Hogan to speak with the children of the Beale St. Gym, which the Maria Stark Foundation was funding the rebuilding of.
(Iron Man III#15) - After arranging a date with Ramona Napier, Tony Stark attended a fund-raiser for the PNYP, meeting Hannah Donleavey and Bob Gallagher, head of the area's International Brotherhood of Electric Workers (IBEW). The meeting was interrupted when Nitro attacked and was defeated by Iron Man.
(Nova III#1 / New Warriors II#8 (fb)) - Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor) lied to the New Warriors, telling them that he was moving to Seattle to go to school and take an internship with Stark-Fujikawa (he'd later slip and refer to it as the Maria Stark Foundation). In actuality, he was tracking would-be Hand leader Junzo Muto, who was in turn stalking Danny Rand (Iron Fist) who was then in Seattle with Stark-Fujikawa.
(Iron Man III#16) - On a yacht in Puget Sound, Tony Stark announced Happy Hogan as the Maria Stark Foundation's Liaison for Local Affairs. At Asia House, a curios shop in Seattle's International District, musician Billy Yuan became fascinated by a dragon statue, and was controlled into stealing it, after which he began evolving into a dragon-form. Tony Stark interrupted a date with Ramona Napier to investigate, and the two fought in downtown Seattle until Yuan finally became Fin Fang Foom.
(Iron Man III#17) - Iron Man and Fin Fang Foom fought until the latter vanished, after which Happy Hogan briefly became a local celebrity for his rescue efforts in the rubble of the fights. Foom returned soon thereafter and attacked the downtown Providence Medical Center, but Iron Man eventually defeated him over the Sound with the help of a Navy ship.
(Iron Man III#18) - Fin Fang Foom was loaded onto a Navy aircraft carrier (its name started with Ta...). Later, Warbird and Iron Man battled Sapper and Golden-blade above a naval submarine (the USS Simon Savage) in Puget Sound until the duo escpaed.
(Iron Man III#19) - Tony Stark began working as a consultant for Baintronics. He discovered that Bain was controlling the robotic disembodied Jocasta, after which he (as Iron Man) and War Machine (Parnell Jacobs) became embroiled in an aerial fight above Baintronics.
(Iron Man III#20) - Iron Man defeated War Machine and collected Jocasta, who was then downloaded into Stark House. A body was dredged out of Puget Sound, and Detective Plexico identified it as a third Whitney Frost corpse.
(Iron Man III#21/1) - When a Washington state Roxxon refinery caught fire, Warbird and Iron Man rescued their workers and helped douse the fires.
(Iron Man III#23) - Far off the coast of Washington, west of Cape Shoalwater, the SS Joseph C Gillis, a Stark-Fujikawa research vessel, was powered by the remains of the robotic Ultimo. Sapper and Golden-blade attacked the ship, and were captured by Iron Man.
(Iron Man III#24) - Warbird attacked Iron Man at Stark House; she was knocked into a power substation which she drained, causing a short-lived blackout in half of the Seattle area. Warbird kicked Iron Man through the wing of Championair 619, and then she and Iron Man cooperated to barely get the jet to a safe lading at SeaTac. Meanwhile, Ultimo awoke; Sapper and Golden-blade rescued the Gillis' crew and joined Iron Man in trying to stop Ultimo, who had began marching across Washington state towards the Spokane area.
(Iron Man III#25) - Ultimo marched across Washington, making landfall at dawn near Raymond, Washington, and crossing I-5 just north of Centralia. Aided by military forces, Iron Man, Sapper, and Golden-blade attempted to slow/distract Ultron, with limited success; they soon began making plans at a Stark-Fujikawa complex (originally built for Howard Stark by Stark Industries) on the western edge of Spokane. Ms. Marvel awoke in Virginia Mason Hospital and soon joined the trio, who engaged Ultimo beside a squadron from Fairchild Air Force Base. They succeeded in shutting down Ultron just outside Spokane. The Rajaki ship (which had been located beneath a lake) was restored with Stark's aid and the Rajaki and Golden-blade left Earth.
(Iron Man: Bad Blood#1) - In the Puget Sound, Tony Stark's yacht was attacked by Spymaster's underlings, Pain, Blood, and Bonecrack, sinking an uninvolved ship. Iron Man captured most of the attackers, and Rhodes Recovery was contracted to salvage the ship. The remaining aggressor attacked Tony Stark and James Rhodes a day later on a forested highway between SeaTac Airport and Stark's home on Evergreen Island, but Stark defeated him. Stark also fired longtme associate Happy Hogan at Stark House.
(Iron Man: Bad Blood#2) - In labs deep below Stark House, Stark built disposable armor suits for later sale; that afternoon, at the downtown Happy Abs Athletic Club, Stark injured CEO Roland "Rolly" Kinison in a racquetball game. The next day, police located Spymaster's headquarters in a Seattle warehouse near the Sound, and Iron Man burst in on him. While the battle was covered by reporters from Channel 12 Action News (and other agencies), Spymaster fled in a flying vehicle. Iron Man knocked the vehicle into the Space Needle and the two fought there before falling from the Needle. Iron Man defeated Spymaster outside, though he did immense collateral damage to nearby buildings.
(Iron Man: Bad Blood#3) - Tony Stark donated the never-used Jupiter Landing Vehicle to the downtown Seattle Aerospace Center. A Center researcher had built the world's first Negative Energy Condenser, but one of Stark's employees (Earl) activated the JLV and used it to try to steal the Condenser. Iron Man stopped the thief, but the Condenser and the JLV were both seriously damaged in the fight.
(Iron Man: Bad Blood#4) - At Stark House, James Rhodes cured Tony Stark of an infection which had been making him aggressive, and Iron Man soon launched into space to confront the person responsible, Justin Hammer. A few days later, Stark had rehired Happy Hogan.
(New Warriors II#8) - Hand ninjas working for Junzo Muto attacked Iron Fist (Danny Rand) in the parking garage at Seattle's Stark-Fujikawa branch (located in or next to the Pioneer Square district); Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor) came to Fist's aid. The nijas disappeared with Iron Fist and Thrasher called the New Warriors (Aegis, Bolt, Namorita, Nova, Speedball, Turbo) to come to Seattle and help him. Muto had taken Iron Fist into the tunnels of underground Seattle; the Warriors pursued him there but Muto scceeded in stealing Iron Fists's powers. The fight ended when the Warriors fled, breaking out of the underground in front of the Pioneer Building; they, Fist, and Thrasher departed for New York soon thereafter.
(Iron Man III#28) - Stark Solutions was revealed to have a Seattle-based office tower. Whiplash (Scarlotti) attached Iron Man over Stark House, and was apparently killed (his body dropped into the Pacific Ocean) by the Iron Man armor, which was becoming sentient.
(Iron Man III#29) - The sentient armor attacked Tony Stark, doing major damage to Stark House.
(Iron Man III#31 - BTS) - Stark House was repaired, but Tony Stark began spending more time in New York thereafter.
(Power Pack II#1) - Jim Power accepted a position teaching at the University of Washington, and he and his wife Margaret and their four children (Power Pack: Alex, Jack, Julie, Katie) moved to Bainbridge Island. Their next door neighbors, the Allens, had a son, Randy, of Julie's age. Power Pack were attacked at their new home by alien Snarks the night before their first day at their new schools.
(Power Pack II#2) - After driving off the Snarks, the Power children attanded their respective schools. At high school, Alex befriended Carmen Chavez and Quinten Shaw; in junior high, Julie was invited to a party at Randy Allen's where she met Steph and others before fleeing when Randy made a move on her. At home, Marg Power fainted and was taken to the Bainbridge Medical Center by her husband, and Snarks arrived on the Power lawn.
(Power Pack II#3) - Aided by the Kymellian Kofi and the renegade Snark Sobak, Power Pack defeated the Snarks, though their mother's art studio was destroyed. Afterwards, Power Pack left into space after the Snarks.
(Power Pack II#4) - Margaret was returned home for rest, despite being seriously ill. When Power Pack returned home, Julie told off Randy Allen, and the quartet decided to cease using their powers.
(USAgent II#1) - In Washington DC, Washington Senator Warkovsky met with SHIELD agent Kali Vries. Warkovsky, a key member of the Senate Approprations Comittee, had not lost an election in 12 years, and was now up for re-relection. Warkovsky had Vries appointed co-leader of the STARS team.
(USAgent II#2) - Warkovsky met in DC with Vries once more, telling her he intended her to lead STARS shortly; he then had to return to his home state of Washington for some last minute campaigning and the inauguration of a new federally funded convention center, which was hosting an international technology summit at which Warkovsky was the keynote speaker. Meanwhile, the USAgent traveled to Seattle, where he met with Curtis Jackson, the Power Broker, who planned to place everyone at the summit under the control of an alien life form (Jackson and Warkovsky were already under its control, and Jackson believed the USAgent to be so as well).
(USAgent II#3) - In Seattle, Captain America and Vries had followed the Agent and burst in on him; Jackson fled and met with Warkovsky. During Warkovsky's presentation at the Summit he had an apparent breakdown before being attacked by the USAgent. Captain America intervened and he and the Agent battled there in front of national TV cameras. The Agent exposed the alien controlling Warkovsky; the Power Broker was susbsequently arrested, the mother alien killed, and Warkovsky would go on to lose his re-election campaign.
(Civil War Files#1) - Former Senator Warkovsky first name was Leon; he was a Republican. Note: He was incorrectly attributed here as being from North Carolina.
(Rogue II#3) - Rogue arrived at SeaTac on United Flight 127 from Bangor, Maine. After visiting Pike's Place Market she took a ferry to Bainbridge Island; Cyclops had flown down from Alaska in an X-Men jet and met her to have a conversation, but an unidentified terrorist group placed a bomb (they called it the "hand of Justice") on the ferry to kill a state assemblyman traveling on it. Rogue and Cyclops stopped the terrorists and disarmed the bomb with the aid of a Seattle police department bomb squad agent named Lance, who was killed in the fight (Rogue gave Lance credit for disarming the bomb). The pair left Washington soon thereafter.
(Iron Man III#48) - Jocasta downloaded herself out of Stark House and into Antigone's body.
(Thunderbolts I#63) - Fugitives Hawkeye, Cottonmouth, Headlok, and Plantman traveled by car through Washington state, moving from Kalispell (MT) to Portland (OR), and then to Tacoma and Bellingham (both WA). In Bellingham, they stopped at Rogues Gallery Costumes (a criminal underground costuming shop), where Cottonmouth got a fake beard. They continued from there across the border to Vancouver, B.C.
(X-Treme X-Men I#28-30 (fb)) - Mt. Haven, WA was a small town in the Okanogan Forest, originally a government facility which studied mutants, among other things. It was completely self-contained, powered geothermally, only accessible through winding back roads, and is not on any map. It possess no land-line phones, and no cellular links or satellite dishes. A cybernetic organism which came to be known as Reverend Paul (adopting the identity of a young boy who'd died under government experiments) eventually kiled all the non-mutant population, and began forcing the mutant population to live peacefully as he wished them, under his nannite control.
(X-Treme X-Men I#25) - Reverend William Stryker was loaded onto a prison plane at SeaTac International Airport, bound east; he was soon freed by Lady Deathstrike.
(X-Treme X-Men I#26) - Lady Deathstrike's surveillance team outside Mt. Haven were killed by Reverand Paul's nannites.
(X-Treme X-Men I#27) - Shadowcat escaped from Reverend William Stryker, and found herself unconscious on Highway 20, just beyond the town of Twisp, WA. Havenite mutants rescued her, and brought her to Mt. Haven.
(X-Treme X-Men I#28-29) - Kitty Pryde faced off against Reverend Stryker in Mt. Haven, while Wolverine and Cannonball fought Lady Deathstrike there and three other X-Men (Storm, Sage, Bishop) fought controlled townspeople.
(X-Treme X-Men I#30) - Reverend Paul's nannites were withdrawn from Mt. Haven's population, killing those who'd been there for a long period of time. Shadowcat buried Reverend Stryker and Reverend Paul together, confining them underground together to work out their differences. The survivors were evacuated, and Bishop detonated the town's thermal plant, destroying the town, after which the government claimed a volcanic eruption had buried "an uninhabited valley."
(Amazing Fantasy II#14 (fb)) - Vegas visited his twin sister Jane in Spokane, WA, where she was working with Dr. Heisenberg on a "probability generator" designed to alter luck. Vegas' girlfriend, Rose Red betrayed them to the Suicide King. With his minions, the Renegades, the King shot up the lab, destroying it in an explosion which left three burnt bodies. Believing his sister among the dead, Vegas (who had gained luck-altering powers in the explosion) left Spokane thereafter.
(Sentry II#2 - BTS) - The Wendigo was detected moving towards the Seattle suburb of Bellevue. The Sentry apparently intercepted it.
(Civil War: Frontline I#11) - Within four days of the end of the "civil war," Skyhawk was assigned to Washington state as part of the Fifty-State Initiative.
(Ms. Marvel II#15) - AIM scientists in Seattle had a G-TAC Scrambler (a device capable of opening dimensional holes) in Seattle (their headquarteres was lcoated twelve floors above ground in a downtown office building with a view of the Space Needle). Agent Sean Madigan ran a complex scheme which resulted in Ms. Marvel and her Lightning Storm (including Wonder Man) teleporting in on a Wednesday afternoon, as well as rival AIM forces belonging to MODOK and Monica Rappacini. While Ms. Marvel burst out of the building and into the sky bearing away a fake bomb, MODOK took mental control of Wonder Man.
(Ms. Marvel II#16) - Womnder Man and Ms. Marvel battled over Seattle; he knocked her into the Space Needle, and then back into the city's streets, where she broke the mental control by kissing Wonder Man (a kidd recorded on a bystander's cameraphone and later used as propadanda against her). While Lightning Force Agent Sum battled an AIM-evolved ape-being, Madigan and MODOK escaped while Rappacini was captured and held over Seattle in Lightning Storm's mini-helicarrier. The Helicarrier and Lightning Force soon left in pursuit of MODOK and Madigan.
(Sub-Mariner II#2) - Sanitation worker Marv encountered a three-person (Arath, Kamar, Krakos) Seattle "sleeper cell" (in actuality they were simply political terrorists and not a sleeper cell) in the city's sewers, and was killed by them. The three waited for the propitious moment to act against the city.
(Sub-Mariner II#3) - In New York state, Namor visited Professor Xavier, who used Cerebro to detect all Atlanteans in the continental United States, revealing the Seattle "sleeper cell" to Namor. In Seattle, the trio disguised themselves as garbage men and installed their completed extractor (killing one man who try to interfere), and went to the top of the Space Needle to observe its effect.
(Sub-Mariner II#4) - In Seattle, the extractor was activated in the Unocorp Building (a 30+ story office complex), and the building's occupants (including one named John) all began suffocating as the device pulled oxygen from their air. Namor flew to the building to destroy the device, and was attacked by the "sleeper cell."
(Sub-Mariner II#5) - Namor fought the trio, impaling Arath on the spire atop the Space Needle and capturing Kamar (Krakos' fate is unclear). Namor destroyed the extractor and departed with Kamar.
(Thunderbolts: Breaking Point) - The Thunderbolts (Moonstone, Penance, Radioactive Man, Songbird, Swordsman/Strucker, Venom) attacked Brother Nature in an old-growth Washington state forest. When Radioactive Man claimed that his containment suit had ruptured and that unless Nature surrendered, giving the Thunderbolts time to help him, the entire forest would be irradiated. Brother Nature surrendered, though he reacted angrily to Songbird's request that he register with the government as a superhuman.
(Avengers: The Initiative I#19) - At the Washington Initiative team (Earth Force)'s headquarters, Jocasta and the Skrull Kill Krew's Dice attempted to confront Skyhawk, who was revealed as a Skrull, but human Skrull sympathizers preevented them and Skyhawk successfully activated a beacon intended to trigger a doomsday weapon. The weapon's firing was later prevented elsewhere; though not shown here the Skrull Skyhawk was almost certainly removed from Earth Force.
Comments:
I firmly expect that some appearances of this state have been missed - if you know of any, please contact us! Thanks to Rob London for pointing out the Griffin's hometown as Tacoma.
In putting together a map, some value judgments were made as frequently no actual placement is given for fictional places. As an example, Mount Saint Cloud and the nearby town of Georgeville do not really exist (though there is a George, Washington, it is nothing like Georgeville). Since Saint Cloud was a live volcano, and since the destruction of the town of Mt. Haven was covered up by reports of volcanic activity, Mount Saint Cloud was placed near the location given for Mt. Haven on the map. Since the details on a Google Map can be viewed down to the block level, take them with a grain of salt (i.e. treat them as approximations). In most cases, clicking on the map entry will provide you with what is actually known about that location.
As its never appeared since, and as two top secret government facilities in the Okanogans seems a stretch, and as both stories deal with machine intelligences (Sentinels and Reverend Paul), I'm theorizing on the map that Interdefense was closed down/minimized after the "Sentinels invade Canada" fiasco, and this is the secret facility that Reverend Paul took over and remade into Mt. Haven - however, this is unconfirmed speculation.
In the 1998 J. Steven York novel Generation X: Crossroads, Generation X (Chamber, Jubilee, Husk, M, Skin, Synch) and their teachers (Banshee, White Queen) flew into Sea-Tac airport near Seattle on a Frost Enterprises jet and defeated a group of World Federalists terrorists at the airport. After purchasing two Winnebagos (which were then temporarily stored at a Frost Enterprises branch office in Bellevue, WA), the group attended a meeting of the group MONSTER (Mutants Only Need Sympathy Tolerance and Equal Rights) at Western Pacific University, where they met several of that school's mutant students: Chill (Peter B. DeMulder), Dog Pound (Willy Gillis), Recall (Scooter McCloud). The next day, Generation X and the MONSTER students both began a cross country drive (heading east on I-90). ---As this is a novel it is not included in the "official" history above, but a Generation X cross-country trip was mentioned in their entry in Marvel Legacy: the 1990s. That is likely a reference to this book.
I've found a story in Marvel Comics Presents #54-61 represented online as ending in Seattle. However, the story starts in the Carolinas involves a long drive north along the coast, until at the end they're moving towards Canada. Clearly Seattle could be problematic, and the answer is that the tower in the last issues which made someone think they're in Seattle is not the Space Needle but rather Toronto's CN Tower. The end of this story takes place in Toronto, not Seattle, and as such is not included here.
At the end of the 1998 Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual, Haywire was in California (Marin County) , planning to go off exploring the Pacific Northwest. When he next shows up again in Avengers: Celestial Quest #1 (2001), he's in Alaska (144 degrees west longitude). Given that that's well away from Washington state, this is all the mention Haywire gets here...
Given Julie's ages at the end of the original Power Pack series, her age here (she's in junior high school, which would normally be 7th or 8th grade, but with an unusual school arrangement it could be 9th or 10th), and then her age in the Runaways series and in the subsequent Loners miniseries, well, there are some timing questions in there. Those are for someone else to address, however!
In the New Universe (Earth-148611), Overtime (Lindsey Falmon) was born on December 2nd, 1970 in Snoqualmie, WA. In Psi-Force#7, the teens traveled to Seattle, Washington, where they stayed at Mona Freemont's Sanctuary home located there, and in Psi-Force#18, Lindsey met Wayne Tucker when he came to Seattle to stay at her stepfather's hotel.
In the Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295), the Sugar Man was in charge of the Seattle Core, a slave camp that helped power North America.
In the Ultraverse (Earth-93060), Firearm tracked Jeffrey Bradley down in Firearm#7 and found him at the top of the Seattle Space Needle with his daughter; he ended up battling Bradley's wife Dana there.
Profile by Mark O'English.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Washington state has no connections to:
Ramona Napier
Ramona was born in Iowa into an Air Force family which moved around a lot. Her grandmother idolized Captain America. Ramona earned a PhD, became a vulcanologist, and settled in Seattle.
Ramona was hired by Stark to create and pilot Persephone-1, a probe which investigated the newly active volcano Mount Saint Cloud (in Washington state). With Captain America beside her, she entered the volcano but the probe was struck by a Terminus and lost control; Iron Man rescued the pair of them. They retired to the nearby town of Georgeville, but the populace (and Iron Man) fell under that Terminus' control and went berserk. Under Captain America's directives, Ramona piloted them both in a helicopter onto a nearby peak; Iron Man attaked the copter but she successfully landed it, and Captain America soon restored Iron Man and the others.
Months later, Ramona received a late night phone call from Tony Stark, who as Iron Man was attempting to divert a volcano on Isla Suerte, and helped him to divert the volcano. When Stark moved to Seattle not long after, she went on a date with him at the Space Needle restaurant. When reports of a "large creature ramapaging through the Pike Place district" came on TV, Stark left to investigate, only to return an hour later, apologize, and send Ramona home in a cab.
--Captain America Annual #9 (Iron Man III#5, 15-17
Detective Plexico
Mr. Plexico is a Seattle-based police detective. He consulted with Tony Stark to have him ID the body of Whitney Frost. However, Stark revealed that the body was the second corpse of Frost that he'd seen, and a few weeks later Plexico had Stark identify a third when it was dredged out of Puget Sound only a few yards from where the second was found.
--Iron Man III#11 (Iron Man III#20-21
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Godzilla I#2, cover (Godzilla)
Rogue II#3, p2, pan2 (Pikes Place Market)
Civil War: Frontline I#11, p15, pan 1 (Skyhawk)
Iron Man III#16, p9, pan 3 (Napier)
Iron Man III#20, p22, pan 5 (Plexico)
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Marvel Mystery Comics I#27 (1942) - Bill Everett (writer, art)
Strange Tales I#74-75 (April-June 1960) - Stan Lee (writer), Steve Ditko (art)
Captain America I#182 (February 1975) - Steve Englehart (writer), Frank Robbins (pencils), Joe Giella (inks), Len Wein (editor)
Godzilla I#2 (September 1977) - Doug Moensch (writer), Herb Trimpe (pencils), Frank Giacoia & Gene Tuska (inks), Archie Goodwin (editor)
Marvel Team-Up I#84 (August 1979) - Chris Claremont (writer), Sal Buscema (pencils), Steve Leialoha (inks), Allen Milgrom (editor)
Marvel Two-in-One I#66 (August 1980) - Mark Gruenwald & Ralph Macchio (writers), Jerry Bingham (pencils), Gene Day (inks), Jim Salicrup (editor)
Marvel Team-Up I#121 (October, 1981) - Herb Trimpe & David Michelenie (writers), Herb Trimpe (pencils), Mike Esposito (inks), Tom DeFalco (editor)
Dazzler I#16 (June 1982) - Danny Fingeroth (writer), Frank Springer (pencils), Vince Colletta (inks), Jim Shooter (editor)
Alpha Flight I#43 (February 1987) - Bill Mantlo (writer), Dave Ross (pencils), Whilce Portacio (inks), Carl Potts (editor)
Captain America I#336-337 (December 1987 - January 1988) - Mark Gruenwald (writer), Tom Morgan (pencils), Dave Hunt (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Daredevil I#258 (September 1988) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Ron Lim (pencils), Jim Sanders III (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Punisher II#12 (October, 1988) - Mike Baron (writer), Whilce Portacio (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Carl Potts (editor)
Marvel Comics Presents I#21/3 (June 1989) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Ron Wilson (pencils), Dan Adkins (inks), Terry Kavanaugh (editor)
Captain America Annual #9/1 (1990) - Roy & Dan Thomas (writer), Jim Valentino (pencils), Sam De La Rosa (inks), Ralph Macchio editor)
Iron Man Annual #11/1 (1990) - Roy & Dan Thomas (writer), Tom Morgan (pencils), Randy Emberlin (inks), Howard Mackie (editor)
Iron Man Annual #11/2 (1990) - Evan Skolnick (writer), Richard Howell (pencils), David Day (inks), Howard Mackie (editor)
Thor Annual#15/1 (1990) - Roy & Dann Thomas (writers), Herb Trimpe (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
The 'Nam I#1 (December 1991) - Chuck Dixon (writer), Wayne Vansant (pencils), Kim DeMulder (inks), Don Daley (editor)
Avengers West Coast Annual#8 (1993) - Roy Thomas (writer), John Czop, Vince Russell (pencils), Maria Beccari, Fred Fredricks (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition I#30 (January 1993) - Tom Brevoort (editor)
Secret Defenders#16-17 (June-July 1994) - Tom Brevoort & Mike Kanterovich (writer), Jerry Decaire (pencils), Tony DeZuniga (inks), Craig Anderson (editor)
Secret Defenders#20-21 (October-November 1994) - Tom Brevoort & Mike Kanterovich (writer), Bill Wiley (pencils), Tony DeZuniga (inks), Craig Anderson (editor)
Blaze I#6 (January, 1995) - Larry Hama (writer), Henry Martinez (pencils), Bud LaRosa (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Force Works I#22 (April, 1996) - Dan Abnetts & Andy Lanning (writer), Andrew Wildman (pencils), Rey Garcia (inks), Nel Yomtov (editor)
Iron Man III#5 (June 1998) - Kurt Busiek (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Parsons & Cannon (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#11(December 1998) - Kurt Busiek (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Strucker & Cannon (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#12 (January 1999) - Kurt Busiek (writer), Patrick Zircher (pencils), Larry Mahlstedt (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#14 (March 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Sean Chen (pencils), Strucker & Cannon (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#15 (April 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Sean Chen, Salvadro Larroca, Terry Shoemaker (pencils), Cannon, Morales, Strucker (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#16 (May 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Patrick Zircher, Anthony Willians (pencils), Lanning, Mahlstedt, Koblish (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Nova III#1 (May 1999) - Erik Larsen (writer), Joe Bennett (pencils), Armando Durruthy (inks), Ruben Diaz (editor)
Iron Man III#17-19 (June-August 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Sean Chen (pencils), Strucker & Cannon (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#20 (September 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Patrick Zircher, Sean Chen (pencils), Dehlperdang, Hunter, Mahlstedt, Strucker (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#21/1 (October 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Mark Bagley (pencils), Eric Cannon (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#23 (December 1999) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Sean Chen (pencils), Dan Panosian (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#24 (January 2000) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Sean Chen (pencils), Hunter, Hillsman, Nelson (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#25 (February 2000) - Kurt Busiek/Roger Stern (writers), Sean Chen (pencils), Layton, Hunter (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
New Warriors II#8 (May 2000) - Jay Faerber (writer), Jamal Igle (pencils), Walden Wong (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#28 (May 2000) - Joe Quesada (writer), Sean Chen, Alitha Martinez (pencils), Rob Hunter, Rodney Ramos (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#29 (June 2000) - Joe Quesada (writer), Alitha Martinez (pencils), Rob Hunter (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Man III#31 (August 2000) - Joe Quesada, Frank Tieri (writers), Alitha Martinez (pencils), Rob Hunter (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Power Pack II#1-4 (August-November 2000) - SC Bury (writer), Colleen Doran (pencils), Terry Austin (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Iron Man: Bad Blood#1-4 (September-December 2000) - David Michelenie & Bob Layton (writer), Bob Layton (art), Bobbie Chase (editor)
USAgent II#1-3 (August-October 2001) - Jerry Ordway (writer, pencils), Karl Kesel (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Rogue II#3 (November 2001) Fiona Avery (writer), Aaron Lopresti (pencils), Randy Emberlin (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Iron Man III#48 (January 2002) - Frank Tieri (writer), Omar Dogon (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Thunderbolts I#63 (March 2002) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Patrick Zircher (penciler), Al Vey (inker), Tom Brevoort (editor)
X-Treme X-Men I#25-30 (July-December 2003) - Chris Claremont (writer), Igor Kordey (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Mike Raicht (editor)
Amazing Fantasy II#14/1 (December 2005) - Karl Kesel (writer), Carmine DiGiandomenico (pencils), Robert Campanella (inks), Nicole Wiley & Mark Paniccia (editor)
Sentry II#2 (December 2005) - Paul Jenkins (writer), John Romita Jr (pencils), Mark Morales (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Civil War Files#1 (2006) - Anthony Flamini (writer), Jeff Youngquist (editor)
Civil War: Frontline I#11 (April 2007) - Paul Jenkins (writer), Ramon Bachs (pencils), John Lucas (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Ms. Marvel II#15-16 (July-August 2007) - Brian Reed (writer), Aaron Lopresti (pencils), Matt Ryan (inks), Bill Rosemann (editor)
Sub-Mariner II#2-5 (September-December 2007) - Matt Cherniss & Peter Johnson (writer), Paul Briones (art), Warren Simons (editor)
Thunderbolts: Breaking Point (January, 2008) - Christos N Gage (writer), Brian Denham (art), Molly Lazer (editor)
X-Men: First Class II#13-14 (August-September 2008) - Jeff Parker (writer), Roger Cruz (art), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Avengers: The Initiative I#19 (January 2009) - Dan Slott and Christos Gage (writers), Harvey Tolibao and Bong Dazo (art), Tom Brevoort (editor)
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