Comic Book: Avengers Spotlight
Description:
Anthology title showcasing individual Avengers continues the numbering from SOLO AVENGERS. Most issues feature a story with Hawkeye and a second tale with another hero from the team; the formula varies toward the end. Of note for issue #26 being the start of the "Acts of Vengeance" crossover event.
Data Sheet:
Aug 1989 to Jan 1991
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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Plus: Lady Lotus (
Lotus Newmark).
Comics Index
Indexed Comics:
20
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
August 1989"I’ve Been in the Desert with an Orb with No Shame"
Script: Howard MackieStory
continued from SOLO AVENGERS #20.
Having
escaped from Plantman’s Dome of Life in the desert, Hawkeye and Orb are
fighting, the villain blaming Clint for their being trapped in the wasteland
with minimal food or water. Hawkeye punches some sense into Orb and they begin
walking. [...]
September 1989"Grimm and Bear It"
Script: Howard MackieHawkeye
arrives at his meeting with Mockingbird a little late, leaving his Sky-Cycle
parked outside. He is annoyed that she chose a marriage counselor so far away
from Avengers Compound while she is miffed that he insisted that they do this
in costume. Dr. [...]
October 1989"Tooth & Nail and Hammer and Bullet and Chainsaw—!!"
Script: Howard MackieHawkeye,
surrounded by Mad-Dog and Bobcat, gains a reprieve when the two villains start
fighting over him. Poisoned by Mad-Dog, Clint gets away, stopping the baddies
with a teargas arrow but he is unable to locate his Sky-Cycle and so must find
his own way out of the neighborhood. Dr. [...]
November 1989"A Show of Hands"
Script: Howard MackieEscaping
the Death Throws onto a rooftop, an unarmed Hawkeye comes face-to-face with his
archenemy Trick Shot, aiming an arrow at him. But Trick Shot turns out to be
there to help the hero, firing his arrows to disarm and immobilize Knicknack. [...]
November 1989"Forewarned is Disarmed!"
Script: Howard MackieHawkeye,
wounded and bowless, is trapped in the sewer by the main villain Crossfire and
the legion of bad guys he has recruited against the heroic archer with his
bounty on Clint’s arm: Mad-Dog, Bobcat, Death Throws, Bullet Biker,
Brothers Grimm, and Razor-Fist. [...]
December 1989"Tales From the Vault—Acts of Vengeance Prologue"
Script: Dwayne McDuffieThe
supervillain known as the Wizard is taken to the Vault, the maximum security
prison for superhuman criminals. Guardsman Frank Ensign is assigned to escort
him to his cell and explain the rules of the establishment. [...]
December 1989"Hurting Inside"
Script: Howard MackieBoomerang
bursts through a wall into the offices at Stark Enterprises, demanding (on
orders from his boss Justin Hammer) all surveillance tapes they have of the
Ghost in action. He severs the alarm, and is told that doing so automatically
summons Iron Man. [...]
January 1990"Denver Doubles"
Script: Howard MackieHawkeye
and Mockingbird apparently go on a crime spree in Denver, Colorado, robbing
banks and jewelry stores. When Hawkeye and Mockingbird back in Avengers Mansion
learn about this, they fly out to Denver to investigate—and are immediately
held by the police at the airport. [...]
February 1990"What’s the Point?"
Script: Howard MackieHawkeye
is summoned to the hospital at the request of filmmaker Aaron “Dollar Bill”
English, who was hoping for Daredevil. [...]
March 1990"Bang"
Script: Steve GerberClint
Barton and Bobbi Morse are part of a crowd leaving a theater, Clint complaining
how he doesn’t like violent movies. At an intersection, three gunmen in a
speeding car open fire on a crowd. [...]
April 1990"Hit and Run"
Script: Steve GeigerLate
one night in Avengers Compound, U.S. Agent discovers a stranger working on
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle. The Agent attacks him—and learns that it is Hawkeye,
testing out a disguise for his new mission against the city’s gangs. [...]
May 1990"Terminizer!"
Script: Steve GerberPolice
Detective Zamora updates Hawkeye and Mockingbird on the results of the latest
investigation. Hit-man Reynaldo Cortazar was killed by a mysterious gunman who
left a symbol, a T in a circle, at the scene. [...]
June 1990"Circle-T Killings Continue"
Script: Steve GerberHawkeye
is the chief suspect in the Terminizer killings and he is mad. Mockingbird
points out that the mystery killer likely has a grudge against the Stone Perfs
and is someone familiar with gang culture…. [...]
July 1990"Ashes"
Script: Steve GerberThe
Stone Perfs are gathered in a quarry, unaware that they have been lured into a
trap by Lotus Newmark; Hawkeye and Mockingbird are watching from above,
expecting the vigilante killer Terminizer to attack. When he doesn’t show, the
two Avengers go into action. [...]
August 1990"Call Me Whatshisname"
Script: Danny FingerothRecovering
from serious illness, Gilgamesh of the Eternals spends his days cleaning up the
debris from Olympia while his pal Sprite tries to get him to relax and enjoy
life for a change, even gaining the recognition for his heroism always denied
him. [...]
September 1990"Bitter Pill"
Script: Steve GerberFor
a month Hawkeye has been trying to track down who ordered the mass murder of
the Stone Perfs gang (issue #34). As we open, Hawkeye has caught several
members of the rival Mode Blanks torching the Perfs’ vacant clubhouse. [...]
October 1990"Interlude in a Peaceable Kingdom: Avengers Reborn Part One of Four"
Script: An
amnesiac Doctor Druid and Kang-Nebula are living in an earthly paradise where the
lion literally lies down with the lamb, content in the love but tormented by
nightmares of a different world. They decide to merge their minds to break
through to reality. [...]
November 1990"Curse of the Cat, People: Avengers Reborn Part 2 of 4"
Script: Sweet
old lady Abigail Verpoorten loves to feed the stray cats outside her home. [...]
December 1990"Cry Crusader!: Avengers Reborn Part 3 of 4"
Script: A
limousine carrying a lobbyist and his wife is lost in a bad section of
Washington, D.C. and is beset by a gang of robbers who drag the couple and
their chauffeur out into the street. [...]
January 1991"Re/Vision: Avengers Reborn Part 4 of 4"
Script: The
Vision, having been reconfigured in WEST COAST AVENGERS #43-45 and left inhuman
and colorless, puts himself through a systems check and learns that everything
is working well except one: he lacks a purpose. [...]