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:
Dates
Sep 1963 to Sep 1996
1963
N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Captain America
Captain America

(Steven Rogers)
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch

(Wanda Maximoff)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Anthony Stark)
The Avengers #1
The Avengers #1

(Sep 1963)

Comics Index

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Indexed Comics: 402

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The Avengers #100
3 stars

The Avengers #100

June 1972
"Whatever Gods There Be!"
Script: Roy Thomas
Ares, God of War, gains control of the legendary Ebony Blade, and with the help of the Enchantress, captures Hercules and sets out to conquer Olympus, Asgard and Earth. [...]
The Avengers #101
4 stars

The Avengers #101

July 1972
"Five Dooms to Save Tomorrow"
Script: Roy Thomas
The Avengers are supervising a chess match, financed by Tony Stark, between grandmaster Sporadnik and computer Nimrod. Sporadnik collapses during the match due to a rare Amazonian poison on one of his pawns, and is taken to hospital. Thor follows, changing to Dr Don Blake to treat the patient. [...]
The Avengers #102
4 stars

The Avengers #102

August 1972
"What to do till the Sentinels come"
Script: Roy Thomas
The android Vision meets with Grim Reaper, the man who calls them brothers because Vision's mind is derived from a recording of the brain of Reaper's brother Wonder Man, who died in #9. Reaper reveals that he has Wonder Man's preserved body. [...]
The Avengers #103
4 stars

The Avengers #103

September 1972
"The Sentinels are alive and well"
Script: Roy Thomas
The Avengers (Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Thor and Vision) are trying to figure out where the Sentinel might have taken Scarlet Witch last issue. But the Avengers and SHIELD databases come up empty. [...]
The Avengers #104
4 stars

The Avengers #104

October 1972
"With a bang .. and a whimper"
Script: Roy Thomas
In #102 a Sentinel kidnapped Scarlet Witch, and last issue we learned that the Sentinels were causing solar flares. [...]
The Avengers #105
4 stars

The Avengers #105

November 1972
"In the beginning was the world within"
Script: Steve Englehart
It's 10 days since Quicksilver vanished in the Sentinels' Australian base last issue. Scarlet Witch is distraught and apparently hasn't slept since then, continually trying to find some clue to the whereabouts of her brother, or evidence of other people disappearing. [...]
The Avengers #106
4 stars

The Avengers #106

December 1972
"A traitor stalks among us"
Script: Steve Englehart
Last issue Scarlet Witch led the Avengers on a wild goose chase to the Savage Land looking for her missing (since #104) brother Quicksilver. Now she's taken a group of them off following another possible clue. [...]
The Avengers #107
4 stars

The Avengers #107

January 1973
"The Master Plan of the Space Phantom"
Script: Steve Englehart
Most of the Avengers have been captured by the Space Phantom and the Grim Reaper. Captain America is slowly recovering his memories of a battle with Hydra, which had been erased by the Space Phantom. The Grim Reaper offers the Vision a chance to be human again, if he will help destroy the Avengers. [...]
The Avengers #108
4 stars

The Avengers #108

February 1973
"Check ... and mate"
Script: Steve Englehart
Grim Reaper and the Space Phantom have captured Black Panther, Hawkeye, Iron Man and Scarlet Witch as part of their plan to destroy the Avengers. [...]
The Avengers #109
3 stars

The Avengers #109

March 1973
"The measure of a man"
Script: Steve Englehart
The story opens soon after the end of last issue with Thor watching Hawkeye putting himself through a strenuous acrobatic archery exercise. The god knows that Clint Barton is trying to forget that Vision and Scarlet Witch have declared their love for each other, ending his own chances with Wanda. [...]
The Avengers #110
3.5 stars

The Avengers #110

April 1973
"... and now Magneto"
Script: Steve Englehart
Captain America, Scarlet Witch and Vision are watching Black Panther spar with Iron Man when Thor rushes in with good news. He leads them to the comms room where Scarlet Witch sees her long-lost brother Quicksilver waiting to talk to her via long-distance video call. [...]
The Avengers #111
3.5 stars

The Avengers #111

May 1973
"With two beside them"
Script: Steve Englehart
Last issue Magneto captured 4 X-Men (Cyclops, Iceman, Marvel Girl and Prof X) and 3 Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man and Scarlet Witch). He gloats to his mutate aide Piper that he has discovered how to use his magnetic power to control the iron in a person's blood. [...]
The Avengers #112
3 stars

The Avengers #112

June 1973
"The Lion God lives"
Script: Steve Englehart
The bulk of this issue follows directly from the previous one. But 1st we have a scene set 4 days before. Reporter Mr Umbala is brought into the presence of a real African Lion God. But he's not going to earn a Pulitzer Prize because he is sacrificed to the hungry god. [...]
The Avengers #113
3.5 stars

The Avengers #113

July 1973
"Your young men shall slay visions"
Script: Steve Englehart
The Avengers are repairing the Statue of Liberty, damaged by Gog in the Ka-Zar story in Astonishing Tales #18. Vision saves Scarlet Witch from some falling masonry, and the public get their 1st sight of the 2 kissing. Soon it's all over the news. The public reaction is mostly favourable. [...]
The Avengers #114
4 stars

The Avengers #114

August 1973
"Night of the Swordsman"
Script: Steve Englehart
After last issue's attack by bigoted fanatics almost destroyed her love Vision, Scarlet Witch comes to realise how right her brother Quicksilver was that humans hate those who are different - be they mutants or androids. [...]
The Avengers #115
4 stars

The Avengers #115

September 1973
"Below us the battle"
Script: Steve Englehart
The Avengers arrive in England by quinjet only to be confronted by an agent of the British arm of SHIELD who don't want to let the criminal Swordsman in the country. But he reluctantly accepts the Avengers' assurances. [...]
The Avengers #116
3 stars

The Avengers #116

October 1973
"Betrayal!"
Script: Steve Englehart
This story follows on from DEFENDERS (1972) #8Doctor Strange has turned the Black Knight to stone, and Dormammu has convinced the Defenders that they need to locate assemble the six hidden pieces of the Evil Eye to restore him, unaware that Dormammu would use it to destroy the world. [...]
The Avengers #117
4 stars

The Avengers #117

November 1973
"Holocaust"
Script: Steve Englehart
This story follows on from DEFENDERS (1972) #9This issue of the Avengers/Defenders War comprises a 2 page preamble with the main title, and then chapter 7 Swordsman vs Valkyrie and chapter 8 Captain America vs Sub-Mariner. [...]
The Avengers #118
3 stars

The Avengers #118

December 1973
"To The Death!"
Script: Steve Englehart
This story follows on from DEFENDERS (1972) #10Dormammu uses the completed Evil Eye to merge his dimension with ours, mutating humans into rampaging monsters. As SHIELD and Earth's other heroes battle the monsters, the Avengers and the Defenders enter the Dark Dimension to defeat Dormammu and Loki. [...]
The Avengers #119
4 stars

The Avengers #119

January 1974
"Night of the Collector"
Script: Steve Englehart
This is an epilogue to the Avengers/Defenders War, continuing from DEFENDERS (1972) #11.The Avengers return from the Avengers/Defenders War with captive Loki who has lost his wits (last issue). Swordsman was wounded in #117, and Vision inexplicably froze when trapped in a quicksand last issue. [...]
The Avengers #120
3.5 stars

The Avengers #120

February 1974
"Death-stars of the Zodiac"
Script: Steve Englehart
Taurus, the new leader of Zodiac, comes to see Joshua Link in jail in his civilian guise and tells him he knows him to be Zodiac-member Gemini. Zodiac intend to kill every person in New York of star sign Gemini, as Link is. But 1st they'll free Joshua and protect him. [...]
The Avengers #121
3.5 stars

The Avengers #121

March 1974
"Houses Divided Cannot Stand!"
Script: Steve Englehart
Atop 1 of the Twin Towers Taurus of Zodiac holds the Avengers at bay by threatening an unconscious Mantis with the crippled but still dangerous giant Star-Blaster. Vision stalls for time by claiming that Mantis is only Swordsman's girlfriend, and so nothing to them. [...]
The Avengers #122
3.5 stars

The Avengers #122

April 1974
"Trapped in outer space"
Script: Steve Englehart
Avengers Black Panther, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Thor and Vision are trapped in a 'warehouse' with a large group of Zodiac members. The warehouse is actually a rocket taking them into space, sent there by Zodiac leader Taurus because this Zodiac faction were planning to rebel against him. [...]
The Avengers #123
4 stars

The Avengers #123

May 1974
"Vengeance in Viet Nam - or - An origin for Mantis"
Script: Steve Englehart
The Avengers (Black Panther, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Thor and Vision) had just captured Zodiac in their New York lair when 1 of the criminal cartel, Libra, claimed to be the father of their guest Mantis, which was why he betrayed his gang to save the heroes last issue. [...]
The Avengers #124
4 stars

The Avengers #124

June 1974
"Beware the Star-Stalker"
Script: Steve Englehart
The Avengers (Black Panther, Iron Man, Thor and Vision) along with Mantis and Libra have come to Viet Nam to look into Libra's claim to be Mantis' father. [...]

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