Catch A Falling Hero 7 p.m. on a cool, clear weekday evening as the Silver Samurai, Boomerang, and their leader, the Viper, tune in the nightly television newscast with Walter Cronkite from SHIELD's Heli-Carrier. All the SHIELD agents, including Clay Quartermain, who is at the carrier's helm, are under the Viper's hypnotic control. As the Viper listens to the newscast, which announces the President's address to the nation later this evening before a joint session of Congress, she recalls the day long past when she and the Cobra, then members of the Serpent Squad, battled Nomad. When their building collapsed in flames, she plunged through the floor, and the Serpent Crown of Lemuria fell from her head. A falling brick knocked her out, and then the fires ignited a ruptured gas main and the house blew apart. She was protected by collapsing bricks and masonry that formed a cocoon around her while she was unconscious. Then she found a drainpipe, one of the Cobra's secret exits, and entered a sewer that carried her beyond the police lines around the house. She emerged from a manhole and started to walk away, weakened and disarmed. Then a van pulled up alongside, whose driver introduced himself as Ishiro Tagara, a cadre leader with the Japanese Red Army, a group that occasionally worked with HYDRA.
