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This article contains detailed information on Runaways, part of the Marvel universe. This story takes place in Los Angeles, California on Earth-616, set in the present day.

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[edit] Series.1

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[edit] Timeline

  • Our Story runaways #1 - #18
  1. The first seventeen issues take place over the span of two months.
  2. Issues 1-6, "Pride and Joy," take place in one night.
  3. Two or three days pass between isses 6 and 7.
  4. Issues 7-10, "Teenage Wasteland," take place in one night.
  5. Issues 11-12, "Lost and Found," take place not long after.
  6. An unspecified amount of time, not longer than a week, passes between issues 12 and 13.
  7. Issues 13-17, "The Good Die Young," take place on a single night.
  8. Three months pass between issues 17 and 18.


[edit] Issue #1-6 Pride and Joy

We meet the Runaways before thay see "The Rite of Blood." The shocked teens find strength in one another. Together, they run away & vow to turn the tables on their evil parents. They steal weapons and resources from their parents, and two learn they have special powers :

  1. Mystical Staff called The Staff of One.
  2. Futuristic Gauntlets called Fistigons.
  3. Lucy discovers her alien heritage.
  4. Molly discovers she is a Mutant.
  5. A genetically engineered Velociraptor named Old Lace, under Arsenic's telepathic control.
  6. The Abstract, a sacred text and history of "The Pride," & Mrs.Dean's decoder ring, required to read it.

The Runaways call the cops, but receive no help (partly because the cops think it's a crank call, partly because Alex's parents have agents in the LAPD). Sister Grimm and Alex Wilder kiss for the first time. "The Pride" frame their children for the murder of an innocent girl (who served as their most recent sacrifice) with the help of LAPD Lieutenant Flores. The Runaways are forced to retreat to a subterranean hideout nicknamed "The Hostel", that is a "missing mansion" swallowed up during an earthquake in the 1920s or 1930s. The Runaways, except Alex, pick new names to replace the ones their parents gave them. A note left at the Deans' house reveals that one of the Runaways is secretly loyal to the Pride.

[edit] Issue #7-10 Teenage Wasteland.

The Runaways are still in hiding. At a convenience store robbery, the Runaways meet the 1900's vampire named Topher. Sister Grimm (Nico Minoru) discovers cannot cast the same spell twice. Topher claims his evil parents forced him to aid them in the robbery, and the group takes him back to the Hostel. Topher's presence ignites tension between Alex, Sister Grimm, and Lucy in the Sky. Topher reveals himself as a vampire, and attempts to "turn" Sister Grimm. Alex rescues her. Sister Grimm and Alex Wilder fall in love. Topher dies after biting Lucy in the Sky, whose blood is infused with solar energy. The Pride track down and kill Topher's "parents" (actually his lackeys) and learn that their children have defeated Topher. They feel a modicum of pride.

[edit] Issue #11-12 Lost and Found.

The Runaways meet Marvel's original teen runaway crimefighters, Cloak and Dagger. They were sent by Lieutenant Flores, who told them Molly was kidnapped by Alex, Nico and Gertrude. He does so without the approval of the Pride. Upon learning of his actions, Catherine Wilder shoots Lt. Flores in the leg. Cloak and Dagger fight the Runaways. Alex, Talkback, Sister Grimm, and Lucy in the Sky are drawn into the Darkforce Dimension by Cloak. Molly rips the cloak off of Cloak, turning him back into an ordinary human. He and Dagger weren't aware this was possible. Cloak is restored, the four older Runaways are rescued, and the misunderstanding is cleared up.Cloak and Dagger promise to contact The Avengers to help the Runaways take down the Pride. The mole tips off the Pride, and they telepathically remove all memory of the Runaways from Cloak and Dagger. The Runaways, unaware of this, go out for tacos.

[edit] Issue #13-17 The Good Die Young

Alex deciphers The Abstract and the Runaways learn how their parents' villainous organization began. The Pride were formed under the auspices of the Gibborim, an ancient race of beings who wish to wipe the Earth clean of humanity and start again. The six members of the Pride who serve them best will rule the Edenic world to follow. When the Steins became pregnant, the parents decided to give up each of their spots in Paradise to their children. Tipped off by the mole, Lieutenant Flores and the LAPD storm the Hostel. It is destroyed, and the team barely escapes in the confusion. Mr. Wilder executes Flores for his incompetence. Molly Hayes and Karolina Dean's parents plot to betray the rest of the Pride and divide the Gibborim's reward between their two families. The "Rite of Thunder" is a ceremony where all 12 of The Pride take the spirit captured at the "Rite of Blood" & feed it to the Gibborim. This year's Rite will be the last necessary to enable the Gibborim to destroy humanity. The Runaways crash the party, thinking the Pride is "Without Weapons". Instead, they are attacked by a Golem. Talkback defeats the creature, but nearly dies; he is saved by Arsenic, who reveals a crush on him. During the confrontation with the Pride, Alex manipulates his teammates into defeat and reveals himself as the mole. He learned of both the Pride and the Deans' and Hayes' betrayal a year ago, and planned all this as a way to save his parents and rule paradise with Sister Grimm. The Runaways defeat Alex. Molly destroys the "Sacrificial Offering". The Gibborim destroy Alex, and the Pride's undersea lair collapses. The Runaways escape in a vessel called The Leapfrog, and are met on the beach by Captain America.

[edit] Issue #18 Eighteen

After issue 17, the following events have taken place. All members of The Pride were presumably killed. The Runaways were split up:

  1. Karolina Dean was sent to a foster family and seeing a psychologist.
  2. Gertrude Yorkes was sent to boarding school, but she wasn't allowed to keep Old Lace.
  3. Chase Stein was supposed to go live with his aunt, but the address of her house was actually a PO Box for Chase's Playboy Subscription. Instead, Chase went on a hunt for Old Lace.
  4. Molly Hayes was picked up by a local branch of X-Corp.
  5. Nico Minoru was sent to Father Flanagan's orphanage and seeing a psychologist.

Three months pass and Karolina organizes a reunion, and the team heads off to an Avengers storage complex to spring Old Lace. After succeeding, the kids decide to stay together rather than return to their new lives in the Leapfrog.

[edit] Series.2

[edit] Issue #1 - 6 True Believers

[edit] Issue 1

The five Runaways are now superheroes fighing B-class supervillains in Los Angeles, which has been overrun by them since the death of the Pride. We meet the bizarre support group Excelsior, composed of former teenage super heroes. A shadowy figure calls Excelsior and says he will pay them if they find the Runaways. The new Hostel for the Runaways is beneath the La Brea Tar Pits and is an old lair of The Pride's. A Gertrude Yorkes from twenty years into the future shows up and tells the team that Victor Mancha will one day kill all the heroes on Earth. Before she dies, she tells them to kill him now before he becomes too powerful.

[edit] Issue 2

Excelsior looks at the Runaways and the one million dollars an anoymous donor promised to give for getting the runaways safely off the streets. Phil Urich likes the idea of starting up more branches of Excelsior to make it a national network to help fellow teenage superheroes to adjust to mundane lives and dissuade other super-powered teenagers from becoming heroes, starting with The Runaways. The Runaways are thinking about what the Gertrude Yorkes from twenty years into the future said, and through a magical flashback Sister Grimm sees the last few moments of her life and sees the truth. Later, the Runaways meet Victor Mancha, who now has super powers, and after fighting Victor meet Excelsior.

[edit] Issue 3

Excelsior tells the Runaways that they are here to help. The Runaways said Victor Mancha is a murderer, Chase Stein now uses the Leapfrog's lasers {in which he discovers} to fighting Excelsior. The Runaways were bringing Victor to the Hostel, when a blast from Darkhawk's amulet forces the Leapfrog to crashland into a Movie Studio. Victor said Old Lace is not "Velociraptor" but a "Deinonychus" and his dad is dead. Excelsior & Runaways faces each other, when Nico cast a spell that destroys Turbo's wrist Fans, knocking her unconscious. The fight starts as follows:

  • Chamber vs. Molly Hayes
  • Ricochet vs. Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Lightspeed vs. Karolina Dean
  • Darkhawk vs. Nico Minoru

Later however, Darkhawk and Turbo started fighting with each other {with Ricochet ending the situation}, allowing the Runaways to take off; leaving Excelsior feeling defeated. Victor Mancha's mother calls a man who is his father.

[edit] Issue 4

The Runaways return to their hideout, and begin research on who Victor's father could be. Based on his powers, they guess Magneto or Electro, based on Gert's description of the father(the greatest evil in the universe), they guess Galactus or the Red Skull. Excelsior's mysterious benefactor chides the team and asks them how far are you prepared to go. Victor's mother, worried about her son, has contacted his father. Suddenly, the mother is kidnapped by the father, who demands that Victor show himself. Victor's father is Doctor Doom

[edit] Issue 5

Worried about Victor Mancha's mother, the team are eager to help Victor, despite his protests. Excelsior, who are now down a man since Darkhawk has left, are directed to a warehouse where they find an aeroplane for them to use. Meanwhile, Doctor Doom chides Victor's mother for her lack of parenting skill, when Victor comes in and swears alleigence to him. The Runaways sneak in and begin untying Victor's mother. Enraged, Doom takes on the Runaways, and is only beaten when Chase cannabilizes a laser from the Leapfrog. Flush from their apparent victory, the team is aghast when 'Doom is revealed as just a Doombot, and Victor's real father steps out of a doorway - Ultron, kills Victor's mother. Using some deep conditioning, he corrupts Victor, whose eyes turn red to mark the change

[edit] Issue 6

Scheduled shipping date in July 27, 2005

[edit] Reprints

Digests are manga-sized comic book collections or one oversized hardcover:

[edit] Series.1

  • Vol. 1: Pride & Joy (#1-6)
  • Vol. 2: Teenage Wasteland (#7-12)
  • Vol. 3: The Good Die Young (#13-18)

[edit] Series.2

  • Vol.1: True Believers (#1-6)