After battling the Hulk and his disappearance in New York. The Avengers disband to return to their personal lives. However this break is a short one as the Lava Men have finally decided to invade the surface world!

Placement Notes
There are several major chronology problems with this issues placement that are unresolvable. To keep from breaking this issue up into page by page / panel by panel chronology, as other sites do, we placed this issue directly after Fantastic Four (v1) #26. However the actual pace of events is much more complex.The beginning of this issue immediately follows from Fantastic Four #26. The middle of the issue is interspaced with events in Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense And the remainder of the issue immediately proceeds into Avengers (v1) #6 with a short stop back into Tales of SuspenseThe Marvel Saga and the Chronology Project both solve this problem by splitting Avengers #5 into multiple parts. Here is how they handle it.Immediately after the end of the Hulk's battle against the Avengers and the Fantastic Four (Fantastic Four #25-26), the Avengers return to their mansion and look over the damage done during the fight there with the Hulk (opening of Avengers #5).Shortly afterwards, Iron Man meets the Black Widow and the second Crimson Dynamo (Tales of Suspense #52), and Giant-Man and the Wasp travel to a Latin American country to deal with the dictator called El Toro (Tales to Astonish #54)...... Giant-Man and the Wasp again combat the Human Top (Tales to Astonish #55)...... and then Giant-Man and the Wasp have their encounters with the criminal called the Magician (Tales to Astonish #56).Next the Black Widow returns to plague Iron Man once again (Tales of Suspense #53).The Avengers then battle the Lava Men (Avengers #5), and immediately afterwards return to New York to fight the Masters of Evil (Avengers #6). (During the journey to New York, Iron Man dons his new helmet.)...... Then Iron Man has his first rematch with the Mandarin (Tales of Suspense #54-55).