Well, if my statements seem to conflict, it's because the stories themselves seem to conflict . . . if that's what your smileys are indicating?

Avengers 10 follows JiM96 by over a year ... so are there 2 Merlins?

But in SpM19 Stan Lee specifically writes that this is after Johnny's adventure in ST127. He didn't have to say anything but he specifically (again) alludes to that issue.

And in Avengers 10 Captain America is much more Bucky-obsessed than he is in ToS60, even though he's bitchin' out Zemo at the end of the story in ToS and certainly could have gone on a Bucky rant at that time.

Anarchy and Chaos are the natural state of the human race. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And Chaos must always ultimately triumph.