The Amazing Avengers Issue 7

“Patriotic Love” is the 7th issue and chapter of The Amazing Avengers.

Featured Characters

 * Captain America / Peter Parker
 * Captain Marvel / Mary Jane Watson

Supporting Characters

 * Black Panther / Felicia Parker-Reilly
 * Black Widow / Teresa Parker
 * Winter Soldier / Jack Parker
 * Mecha-Hulk / Amadeus Cho
 * Quasar / Gayle Watson / Phyla-Vell Neramani (first appearance as Gayle Watson)
 * Hulkling / Theodore "Teddy" Altman / Dorrek VIII
 * Star-Lord / Kevin Quill
 * Groot
 * Yon-Rogg
 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Tony Stark
 * Maria Hill
 * Henry "Hank" Pym
 * Commissioner George Stacy
 * Jefferson Davis
 * Dora Skirth (first appearance)
 * MAC / America Chavez (first appearance)
 * Betty Brant
 * Robbie Robinson
 * Sally Stark
 * Liz Allan
 * Steve Rogers
 * Anna Watson
 * Muneeba "Disha" Khan
 * Harry Osborn

Villains

 * Venom / Eddie Brock (first appearance as Venom; merges with Symbiote)
 * Crimson Spider / Flash Thompson
 * Life Foundation
 * Carlton Drake
 * Black Reaper / J. Jonah Jameson (final appearance) (single appearance as Black Reaper)

Other Characters

 * Miles Morales
 * Gwen Stacy
 * Kamala Khan
 * Amalia Chavez (single appearance) (flashback only, deceased)
 * Elena Chavez (single appearance) (flashback only, deceased)
 * Maria (single appearance) (gets and loses Symbiote) (dies)

Premise
Mary Jane Watson returns home with her siblings and crew after hearing news of a new Captain America protecting the citizens and stopping violence and cruelty in New York. Peter Parker also learns of the coming of Captain Marvel arriving to protect the citizens from crime and injustice and decides to great her. Of course this welcoming committee will become a reunion of lovers when Peter and Mary Jane learn of each other's past whereabouts. At the same time, Flash Thompson and Harry Osborn's relationships with their girlfriends Sally Avril and Liz Allan slowly go from bad to worse while Eddie Brock begins experience a new strange behavior after his last attempt to expose Life Foundation.

Plot
In a Oscorp Building, Peter and Liz were invited to join Harry Osborn's night dinner, on which Harry intends to set the best example for his father Norman and for Liz. Just then, Norman discreetly hears news of someone breaking into a lab where Oscorp scientists and Life Foundation engineers are working together on. Harry attempts to stop him from leaving, but they soon begin to argue over Harry's relationship with Liz, on which Norman tells Harry to do what he wants with her and then dump her fast, as he believes that she is only interested in money as his own wife was. A brokenhearted Liz overhears the whole conversation and decides to end her relationship with Harry. Peter then overhears Norman talking to a mysterious man about Liz and leaves.

Sometime later, Liz is walking home alone until she is ambushed by the man Norman was talking to: the Black Ripper, an enigmatic serial killer who previously assaulted and butchered prostitutes and homosexual women. Seeing Liz as a "golden digger", the Black Ripper attempts to kill her, but he is ambushed himself by Captain America and his sidekick Miss America Chavez (MAC), whose mothers were murdered by the Ripper years ago. Commissioner Stacy and his men were also there to set up an ambush and, through Redwing (who is broadcasting to all New York), Captain America announces the Black Ripper's ultimate downfall and reveals the Ripper's secret identity, J. Jonah Jameson, to the whole city on television, ending his former boss' career as Daily Bugle editor and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Mary Jane, who is arriving back to Earth with her crew, watches everything from a computer screen in Yon-Rogg's ship.

Next day, Peter overhears news of citizens being protected by Captain Marvel, who had just won the citizens' sympathy on the same way Peter did as Captain America. Meanwhile, Mary Jane is having a happy reunion with her aunt Anna and with Disha Khan before she overhears that Captain America is inviting Captain Marvel for a private meeting. As Captain Marvel, Mary Jane accepts and answers to the meeting. The two Captains meet at Liberty Island, Manhattan, where they voice amazement over each other's work. Just then, they recognize each other's identity as Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson respectively and the two happily embrace. Meanwhile, Osborn and Carlton Drake are with their scientists trying to figure out who destroyed their experiments and why. The silhouetted suspect caught on cameras appears to be Crimson Spider, although scientist Dora Skirth (who happens to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. spy) knows it was someone else and alerts Eddie Brock about it.

Elsewhere, Peter and Mary Jane continue discussing their previous experiences while working together to protect the citizens as Captain America and Captain Marvel respectively before having a reunion at Pym Industries. At night, they watch Sally Stark performing and winning first place at the National Rhythmic Ribbon Tournament. Though pleased with the results, Sally is still upset that Flash Thompson was not there to watch (as she noticed Liz sitting in what was planned to be Thompson's sit); meanwhile, Thompson is hosting a house party at his father's saloon and most likely did not remember his schedule with Sally and mistook his invitation (which feel in Liz's possession) for a "fan letter". Admitting she actually feels uncomfortable with Flash's behavior (from both the time he was at high school and his time in the saloon), Sally also feels unsure if she actually loves him... or (much to her embarrassment) Liz, to which Peter and Mary Jane cheer her up by expressing a loving support. Meanwhile, Brock is having a walk in streets with his camera full of images and evidences of Dr. Drake's crimes until he finds his fiancee Maria severely wounded. Just then, a Symbiote (a liquid-like alien parasite which can possess and control host bodies of other organic lifeforms) emerges from her and possesses Brock, to whom the organism shows him a vision of Maria being wounded by Crimson Spider in Thompson's saloon, before Maria dies in his arms. Filled with rage and deducing Thompson's connection with Crimson Spider, Brock and the Symbiote merge as a monstrous creature as they yell: "We... ARE VENOM!!!".

"To Be Continued..."