Comic Book: Avengers Annual
Description:
A yearly special offering of Avengers action!
Data Sheet:
Sep 1967 to Jan 1994
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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Comics Index
Indexed Comics:
22
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
September 1967"The Monstrous Master Plan of the Mandarin"
Script: Roy ThomasTony Stark is demonstrating some riot-control equipment at a prison when Arthur Parks (the Living Laser from Avengers #34-35) makes a bid for freedom. Iron Man stops him, but Parks disappears. Iron Man thinks that looked like the Mandarin's teleportation method, but Mandarin's supposed to be dead. [...]
September 1968".. And Time, The Rushing River"
Script: Roy ThomasThe Avengers return to the present from their journey to the past (in
AVENGERS #56) and realize that no one in the street recognizes them. On
arriving at their headquarters they receive an even bigger shock--the
original Avengers--Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Giant-Man and Wasp--are already
there. [...]
September 1969"(multiple titles)"
Script: Reprints the following stories:“Captain America Joins…the Avengers!” from AVENGERS #4“The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull” from TALES OF SUSPENSE #66“Lest Tyranny Triumph!” from TALES OF SUSPENSE #67“The Sentinel and the Spy! [...]
January 1971"(multiple titles)"
Script: Reprints the following stories:“The Invasion of the Lava Men!” from AVENGERS #5“Masters of Evil! [...]
January 1972"(multiple titles)"
Script: Reprints the following stories:“Kang the Conqueror!” from AVENGERS #8“The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man! [...]
November 1976"No final victory"
Script: Gerry ConwayThis story continues from #153.The Avengers are in a wrecked lab in Avengers Mansion, standing over a fallen Golden Age Whizzer, when Scarlet Witch breaks through a wall with a bullet wound in her arm. She tells them that someone has found the Serpent Crown they lost in #149. [...]
November 1977"The final threat"
Script: Jim StarlinAdam Warlock discovers Gamora dying on a planetoid. She tells him that Thanos left her to die because she discovered he was planning stellar genocide - to destroy all the stars and hence all the people in the universe. Then she dies, and Warlock takes her into his Soul Gem. [...]
November 1978"Spectrums of deceit"
Script: Roger SliferIn Avengers Mansion Hank Pym has somewhat illadvisedly fashioned a large jewel for his wife Jan's birthday out of the fragments of Dr Spectrum's Power Prism (broken in Giant-Size Defenders #4). [...]
November 1979"Today the Avengers die"
Script: Bill MantloThe robot called Arsenal has repaired itself after its fight with the Avengers in Iron Man #114. Now its computer Mistress will send it against its foes again. We learn that the robot and computer were shut down for many years before Unicorn accidentally awoke them in IM#114. [...]
November 1981"By friends betrayed"
Script: Chris ClaremontIn San Francisco Spider-Woman saves a female who falls from the Golden Gate Bridge. She realises the woman is unconscious, so someone must have thrown her off the bridge. Her glider wings aren''t enough to keep them both aloft, and eventually she has to swim to get them both ashore. [...]
November 1982"In honor's name"
Script: J. M. DeMatteisThe being known as Nebulon has been judged by the High Tribunal of his race for his multiple crimes of interference with Earth (as seen in various issue of Defenders). He is now exiled to Earth, restricted to the humanoid body he assumed, and reduced to less than half of his celestial power. [...]
January 1984"Moonrise"
Script: Bill MantloThe Avengers (Thor, Captain America, She-Hulk, Wasp, Captain Marvel, Starfox) are summoned to a meeting of the United Nations Security Council and are surprised to find the Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Invisible Woman, Human Torch) there. [...]
November 1984"In Memory Yet Green"
Script: Roger SternThe Fixer breaks into Northwind Observatory only to face Captain America. Cap easily deflects all of Fixer’s weapons and punches him out….Agent Sikorski of the National Security Council meets with Cap and Vision via viewscreen at Avengers Mansion about the problem of Northwind Observatory. [...]
November 1985"Fifth Column"
Script: Roger SternStory continues from AVENGERS #260.A band of Skrull warriors led by Raksor attacks Klarr, the Skrull prison planet, and frees the notorious criminal Prince Dezan, who wears a metal mask to inhibit his shapeshifting powers. Many of the assault team are killed but Dezan is rescued…. [...]
October 1986"Betrayal"
Script: Danny FingerothThe issue opens with Hawkeye ranting because he struck out in the 1st annual East/West Coast Avengers baseball game. It''s being held in Kansas City Royals stadium, midway between the 2 coasts, to an audience of groundsmen. And it was all Clint Barton''s idea. [...]
July 1987"The Day Death Died!"
Script: Tom DeFalcoContinued from WEST COAST AVENGERS ANNUAL #2. [...]
November 1988"Prometheus Mutans"
Script: Walt SimonsonStory continues from SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #8.Prologue: In a secret lab, technicians are trying to recreate Jocasta. She clobbers everyone and makes a hasty telephone call to the Avengers before she is shut down…. [...]
November 1989"Avengers assembled"
Script: Michael HigginsWhat has happened in the previous Annuals of this crossover event?Silver Surfer An#2 - Surfer accidentally caused the Deviant Priest-Lord Ghaur to reintegrate from the cloud of gas he was left in at the end of Eternals (1985). [...]
September 1990"Beat Me In St. Louis... (Part 5 of The Terminus Factor)"
Script: Dann ThomasStory continued from AVENGERS WEST COAST ANNUAL #5.The gigantic Stage 5 Terminus is heading to the center of the North American continent, the better to drain all its energy at once. [...]
July 1999"Day of the remains"
Script: John Francis MooreThe frame for this issue is Edwin Jarvis writing someone a letter to keep them updated about the Avengers. He apologises for not having written for a while because the past few months have been unusually hectic. [...]
May 2000"The cat came back"
Script: Kurt BusiekLike Annuals of old this story is divided into Chapters. But unlike most of the old-time annuals this only contains 1 new story and no reprints.Chapter 1: ... and we're back. [...]
July 2001"The third man"
Script: Kurt BusiekThis Annual concentrates on Henry Pym, so it begins with a quick primer on his abilities. He discovered Pym Particles which enabled him to grow and shrink. (Later it was discovered that when he grows he takes mass from another dimension and when he shrinks he shunts excess mass there. [...]