Comic Book: Avengers (1998 series)

Avengers #50

March 2002
"Book of revelations"
Script: Kurt Busiek
This issue mainly ignores the ongoing Kang Dynasty War in favour of finishing the Triune Understanding plotline (simmering since #13, or possibly Triathlon's 1st app in #8).It begins with the 1st of many flashbacks narrated as if they were myths. The Trion were 3 beings supreme in their dimension. [...]

Avengers #51

April 2002
"Prisoners - a love story"
Script: Kurt Busiek
This issue focuses on Scarlet Witch and Wonder Man in a prison camp.Simon Williams is brought in 'cosmi-stocks' to the Los Angeles prison camp. He remembers what's happened since Washington was destroyed (#49) by a weapon that killed all the people while leaving the buildings mostly intact. [...]

Avengers #52

May 2002
"Counter Attack"
Script: Kurt Busiek
Kang has conquered the World but there are still pockets of resistance. We see a small group of survivors of an attacked rebel camp in Northern Montana fleeing towards what was the Canadian border before Kang unified the World under his rule. But they are found by some futuristic jet fighters. [...]

Avengers #53

June 2002
"The Last Castle"
Script: Kurt Busiek
Kang has conquered the World. Last issue saw a strike against him by the Avengers' Resistance. He was about to destroy them with the weapons on his orbiting Damocles Base when it was attacked by the huge black pyramid that Triathlon and others got control of by defeating the Triple-Evil in #50. [...]

Avengers #54

July 2002
"A Good Day to Die"
Script: Kurt Busiek
Last issue the assembled Avengers liberated the world from Kang The Conqueror and his son Marcus, the Scarlet Centurion. Kang sent Marcus back to the future to rule his empire in his stead, and he himself went down with his orbiting Damocles Base as it fell to Earth. [...]

Avengers #55

August 2002
"The Last Farewell"
Script: Kurt Busiek
This is an epilogue to the Kang Dynasty War that ran through #41-54.It's 3 weeks after the end of the War but there is a continuing vigil at a memorial to all those who died in the destruction of Washington DC (#49). [...]

Avengers #56

September 2002
"Lo, There Shall Come... an Accounting!"
Script: Kurt Busiek
Beast, Captain America, Iron Man, Jack Of Hearts, She-Hulk, Thor and US Agent are waiting to be interviewed by accountants from the Maria Stark Foundation which funds the Avengers. Edwin Jarvis ushers in chief accountant Maxwell Caton and new Foundation recruit Janice Imperato. [...]

Avengers #57

October 2002
"World trust part 1: New alliances"
Script: Geoff Johns
In Avengers Mansion Scarlet Witch wakes from a nightmare.In Washington DC Wasp and Yellowjacket admire the White House, rebuilt since the Kang Dynasty War. They've been discussing security protocols with Congress, who now complain about the 'security risks' they worked with during the War. [...]

Avengers #58

November 2002
"World trust part 2: Assembled"
Script: Geoff Johns
Most of the world's capital cities (and their political leaders) have been swallowed by dark vortexes. The remnant of the United Nations has asked the Avengers to lead the world in this crisis. [...]

Avengers #59

December 2002
"World trust part 3: Friends and enemies"
Script: Geoff Johns
In the last 2 issues most capital cities in the world have disappeared into dark vortices, in most cases along with their countries' government. The shrunken UN has asked the Avengers to lead the world out of chaos.Wasp and Yellowjacket were taken with Washington DC. [...]

Avengers #60

January 2003
"World trust part 4: Chaos & order"
Script: Geoff Johns
The Brotherhood Of The Ankh in the 13th Dimension have created a new Zodiac Key, and it has selected a new human to be Scorpio to wield it. He's used the Key to capture the In-Betweener and split him into Chaos and Order. The Brotherhood have kept the Chaos part, because that's what they like. [...]

Avengers #61

February 2003
"The Powers That Be!"
Script: Geoff Johns
At the end of last issue the UN made an offer to the Avengers. This issue we discover that the team has agreed to work for the UN, and now Avengers Mansion has been renamed Avengers Embassy and is no longer part of the USA. [...]

Avengers #62

February 2003
"Broken hearts"
Script: Geoff Johns
This issue concentrates on the problems of Ant-Man and Jack Of Hearts.Jack Hart exits from 1 of his daily 10-hour sessions in the Zero Room. [...]

Avengers #63

March 2003
"Standoff Part 3"
Script: Geoff Johns
Continued from IRON MAN (1998) #64.A cult has emerged to worship Thor now that he is Lord Of Asgard, and it is particularly popular in Slokovia, a country bordering Latveria. The ruling Junta has tried to wipe them out, with arms provided by Dr Doom. [...]

Avengers #64

April 2003
"Sight unseen"
Script: Geoff Johns
This issue solely concerns Falcon and Henry Peter Gyrich.In #61 Captain America asked Falcon to keep their UN liaison Henry Gyrich under surveillance. [...]

Avengers #65

May 2003
"Red zone part 1: Panic attack"
Script: Geoff Johns
A red mist descends on the Mount Rushmore Monument killing everyone it engulfs. David makes sure his wife Gail and young son Paul get away in their car. But as she drives away she sees blotches appearing on her skin. [...]

Avengers #66

June 2003
"Red zone part 2: Infections"
Script: Geoff Johns
Last issue a cloud of deadly red gas spread from Mount Rushmore and most of the Avengers went to investigate it and help with casualties. But Iron Man wasn't with them. [...]

Avengers #67

July 2003
"Red zone part 3: Unclassified"
Script: Geoff Johns
A lethal red cloud of flesh-eating bugs is spreading from Mount Rushmore. [...]

Avengers #68

August 2003
"Red zone part 4: The great escape"
Script: Geoff Johns
A red mist of a weaponised version of necrotising fasciitis has escaped from a US bio-weapons lab under Mount Rushmore. [...]

Avengers #69

September 2003
"Red zone part 5: The great escape"
Script: Geoff Johns
US Defence Secretary Dell Rusk turned out to be Red Skull and he was behind the creation of a mutated necrotising fasciitis bacteria which was released as a red 'gas' from a US biolab beneath Mount Rushmore. Last issue ended as he captured Falcon and Henry Peter Gyrich who'd been spying on him. [...]

Avengers #70

October 2003
"Red zone part 6: The great escape"
Script: Geoff Johns
Red Skull in his role as US Secretary Of Defence Dell Rusk has had created a mutated necrotising fasciitis bacteria which he caused to be released from a US biolab beneath Mount Rushmore. The Red Zone is threatening to engulf South Dakota but Avengers Scarlet Witch and Warbird are on the case. [...]

Avengers #71

November 2003
"Whirlwinds"
Script: Geoff Johns
Avengers Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne are on vacation in Las Vegas, and right now they're in the hotel room using their size-changing powers to spice up their sex life. They haven't checked their e-mail (or possibly switched on the news) for 3 days. [...]

Avengers #72

November 2003
"The search for She-Hulk part 1: Hiding"
Script: Geoff Johns
Jennifer Walters walks in to Bone, Idaho, a town recently trashed by her cousin the Hulk. [...]

Avengers #73

December 2003
"The search for She-Hulk part 2: Savage attack"
Script: Geoff Johns
She-Hulk was adversely affected by stuff during the Red Zone arc and went berserk and ran off (#68). Since then Jennifer Walters has been trying to keep from changing to her big green alter-ego while searching for her cousin Bruce Banner/Hulk for help. [...]

Avengers #74

January 2004
"The search for She-Hulk part 3: Sticks and stones"
Script: Geoff Johns
During the Red Zone arc She-Hulk's gamma radiation was depleted by Jack Of Hearts' radiation-absorbing physiology, and it turned her into a berserk version. [...]