Comic Book: The Avengers (1963 series)
Description:
Earth's mightiest heroes--Thor, Iron Man, Wasp, Giant Man, and the newly-revived Captain America--came together as the Avengers to battle threats that no one of them could handle alone. Soon joined by Hawkeye, the Scarlet Witch, the Vision, She-Hulk, the Beast and many, many, many others, the name of the Avengers would pass into legend as the greatest hero team ever (at least for Marvel).
Data Sheet:
Sep 1963 to Sep 1996
1963
N/A
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Comics Index
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Indexed Comics:
402
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May 1970"The Blaze of Battle ... the Flames of Love"
Script: Roy Thomas
Captain America and the Avengers are trying to use a machine to pierce the dimensional barrier between their world and that of Arkon, to rescue Scarlet Witch and some scientists, and to prevent Arkon from igniting a nuclear holocaust on Earth to provide power for his own world. [...]
June 1970"Heroes for Hire"
Script: Roy Thomas
Tony Stark comes to the Avengers and tells them he is fighting a takeover bid for Stark Industries by a businessman named Cornelius Van Lunt. He needs all the money he can get, including the back rent he hasn't charged them for the Mansion. The Avengers agree to raise the money to pay him. [...]
July 1970"The Man-Ape Always Strikes Twice"
Script: Roy Thomas
An urgent note supposedly from Black Panther has brought Captain America to the roof of Avengers Mansion, where he is attacked by Panther's foe Man-Ape, who actually sent the message. [...]
August 1970"Lo, the Lethal Legion"
Script: Roy Thomas
Last issue Black Panther was captured by his enemy Man-Ape. But before that the villain deliberately attacked Captain America. This makes the Avengers and Captain America think Man-Ape wasn't working alone. So they have called in Iron Man and Thor as reinforcements. [...]
September 1970"The Coming of Red Wolf"
Script: Roy Thomas
Vision is wandering the streets in his human disguise when he see a Native American (in traditional garb and a wolf's-head headdress) and a wolf attacking a man. Vision intervenes and renders Red Wolf unconscious by materialising a fist in his chest. [...]
October 1970"When Dies a Legend"
Script: Roy Thomas
The Avengers split into the teams reluctantly agreed on last issue. Black Panther goes to protect his schoolchildren from the lure of crime. Captain America, Iron Man, Quicksilver and Thor go to confront the major threat of Zodiac. [...]
November 1970"Hostage"
Script: Roy Thomas
Zodiac's army takes over Manhattan Island and surrounds it with a force field. Zodiac's leader Aries demands 1 billion dollars ransom. He says that the Fantastic Four are out of town, and he has captured the only four Avengers present:- Captain America, Iron Man, Quicksilver and Thor. [...]
December 1970"Come on in, the revolution's fine"
Script: Roy ThomasWasp is back in Avengers Mansion for a visit from Alaska (where she and husband Yellowjacket went in #75) but she finds the Meeting Room occupied only by Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Medusa of the Inhumans and an unknown char named Valkyrie who call themselves the Liberators. [...]
January 1971"The Sword and the Sorceress"
Script: Roy Thomas
One night Scarlet Witch has a nightmare. She sees Black Knight trying to get rid of his Ebony Blade in the Well at the Center of Time. But the sword won't let him do it. [...]
February 1971"The World is Not for Burning"
Script: Roy Thomas
On Arkon's world, Thor uses his hammer to return the Avengers and their mansion to where they came from. Black Knight goes back to Stonehenge. Thor and Black Panther find themselves back in New York with the mansion. [...]
March 1971"Brain-Child to the Dark Tower Came"
Script: Roy Thomas
Goliath, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Vision are on an alternate Earth with Nighthawk of this Earth's hero group the Squadron Supreme. They are flying to Atomic City to stop other members of the Squadron from launching a sun probe. [...]
April 1971"Look Homeward, Avenger"
Script: Roy Thomas
The current Avengers Black Panther, Goliath, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Vision are relaxing with Iron Man and Thor after the Squadron Supreme story of the last 2 issues. Panther tells them of his origin.
T'Challa's father was T'Chaka chief of the Wakandas. [...]
May 1971"The Summons of Psyklop"
Script: Roy ThomasThe Hulk is trapped by an electric snare devised by Mr. Fantastic, Professor X and Tony Stark as a means of containing him. [...]
June 1971"The only good alien ..."
Script: Roy ThomasThis issue opens in the middle of the action with Captain Marvel on the run in Miami pursued by Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Vision. The Avengers claim they must capture him for his own good but volatile Pietro starts a fight so the other 2 have to join in. [...]
July 1971"Judgment day"
Script: Roy ThomasLast issue Captain Marvel escaped from the Negative Zone but suffered a build-up of radiation that might kill him and might even destroy the world. [...]
August 1971"Take one giant step ... backward"
Script: Roy ThomasLast issue Kree Sentry 459 kidnapped Captain Marvel, and the Avengers (Goliath, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Vision) plus Rick Jones went to Alaska to investigate some trouble reported by Wasp whose husband Yellowjacket had disappeared into a mysterious jungle area in the Arctic ice. [...]
September 1971"All things must end"
Script: Roy ThomasIt's a few days since last issue (during which our core quartet cameoed in Amazing Adventures (Inhumans) #8 but left Thor to deal with the problem of a fake Black Bolt) and the team is relaxing when Jarvis shows them a disturbing newspaper article. [...]
November 1971"This Beachhead Earth"
Script: Roy Thomas
Last issue ended with Captain America, Iron Man and Thor appearing to disband the current Avengers, who were accused of collaborating with the Kree (because of their alliance with Captain Marvel).
But appearances can be deceptive. [...]
December 1971"More Than Inhuman"
Script: Roy Thomas
Last issue Super-Skrull abducted Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch and the Kree Captain Marvel in his flying saucer. Captain America, Goliath, Iron Man, Thor and Rick Jones are left with 3 Skrull captives, who had been disguised as cows, and then as the male members of the Fantastic Four. [...]
January 1972"Something Inhuman This Way Comes"
Script: Roy Thomas
Last issue Triton the amphibian Inhuman arrived at Avengers Mansion to find the Avengers under attack by SHIELD Mandroids, under the direction of H. [...]
February 1972"The Andromeda Swarm"
Script: Roy Thomas
Nick Fury lends Captain America, Goliath, Iron Man, Thor and Vision a SHIELD spaceship, despite the Avengers being wanted men because of H Warren Craddock's Alien Activities Commission. They intend to go rescue Captain Marvel, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, kidnapped by the Skrulls in #93. [...]
March 1972"Godhood's End"
Script: Neal Adams
Rick Jones is in the Negative Zone facing Annihilus. He also has visions of the far-flung protagonists of the previous issues. [...]
April 1972"Let Slip the Dogs of War"
Script: Roy Thomas
It's a week since the end of the Kree/Skrull war, and the Avengers, this issue led by Vision, are worried about the missing Clint Barton. He abandoned the source of his Goliath power in #94, but in #96 went to stop a Skrull spaceship from blowing up the Earth. [...]
May 1972"Whom the Gods Would Destroy ... They First Make Mad"
Script: Roy Thomas
At the end of last issue Clint Barton returned in his old identity as Hawkeye (but in a new costume), accompanied by Hercules amnesiac but spouting a prophecy that last issue's villain Ares would enslave Earth and Asgard. The Avengers now fail to restore Herc's memory. [...]
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