OCT 29, 2026
KANG FATHERED TWENTY-THREE SONS, NAMED THEM ALL MARCUS — AND HAD EVERY ONE OF THEM PUT TO DEATH!
Some fathers keep baby pictures in the attic. Kang keeps the first twenty-two drafts of his heir in a morgue — and draft twenty-three joined them over a single lie.
Avengers Vol. 3 #38 (2001) first shows Marcus Kang, the 23rd son, at his father's side; across the Kang Dynasty saga (Avengers Vol. 3 #41–55, 2001–2002) he serves as the Scarlet Centurion, secretly aids Warbird, and is stabbed by Kang in #55 after lying about it — the verdict delivered beside the preserved bodies of the twenty-two Marcuses who failed before him.
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