Comic Book: West Coast Avengers (1985 series)
Description:
The Whackoes get upgraded to an ongoing title, mostly written by Steve Englehart before John Byrne takes over and then its title gets changed.
Data Sheet:
Oct 1985 to Jul 1989
1985
N/A
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
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Indexed Comics:
46
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November 1987"What is Scorpio?"
Script: Steve EnglehartWe begin with a meeting of the human Zodiac crime cartel. By convention Cancer chairs the meeting because that''s the current Zodiac sign. They''re worried about the L(ife)M(odel)D(ecoy) Zodiac, and Cancer gives them and us a rundown of their history. [...]
December 1987"Star struck"
Script: Steve EnglehartIt''s a week after last issue''s fight with the LMD Zodiac and Hawkeye is walking from his 5th viewing of Simon Williams'' latest film Arkon IV to his parked skycycle. He wonders where the Zodiac gang have been hiding since then, oblivious to the fact that they''re creeping up all around him. [...]
January 1988"Double-crossed"
Script: Steve Englehart6 West Coast Avengers, Iron Man and Wonder Man carrying 2 each, fly down and crash through the roof of the Denver Mint. They guessed which Mint the LMD Zodiac would attack - and they were right. As the battle commences IM tries to trap the Zodiac Key with a magnetic beam but Scorpio fends it off. [...]
February 1988"Dead run"
Script: Steve EnglehartTaurus, the only surviving member of the human Zodiac cartel, is trying to rebuild the criminal empire. He''s meeting with Shroud in a Los Angeles warehouse to offer him the job of Pisces, and he can continue to operate in California. [...]
March 1988"None so blind"
Script: Al MilgromSimon Williams is visiting his ''brother'' Vision and wife Scarlet Witch and their very young children Billy and Tommy in Leonia, New Jersey. (The android Vision''s mind was based on Simon''s brain patterns. [...]
April 1988"The Friday night frights"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe Phantom Rider rides his white horse through the driving rain up Spirit Peak. He presses a secret button on his belt and machinery opens the door of his secret cave. Inside he greets the haggard Texas Twister. [...]
May 1988"Buried monsters"
Script: Steve EnglehartWasp flies into the West Coast Avengers Compound insect-sized and finds Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Tigra and Wonder Man dejected after having to sack Iron Man (in IM#229 due to his actions in Armour Wars). She's here to offer condolences and help. [...]
June 1988"The man in the ant hill"
Script: Steve EllisThe West Coast Avengers convene to make Moon Knight a full member. Team leader Hawkeye proposes him not just because of his 'rescue' of Clint Barton's wife Mockingbird last issue. The other members have their own reasons for agreeing:- Tigra because she's Marc Spector's girlfriend. [...]
July 1988"Prisoners of the slave-world"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe West Coast Avengers have gone to Communist Hungary because of a rumour that Henry Pym's 1st wife Maria Trovaya is still alive there. They were met by a gang of his obscure old enemies the Beasts Of Berlin, El Toro, Madame X and some Soviet spies from his 1st adventure as Ant-Man. [...]
August 1988"The voice of Doom"
Script: Steve EnglehartMockingbird awakens on a bed next to husband Hawkeye in a palatial room, but there's a boy-size armoured and masked figure watching them who announces himself as Dr Doom. While she tries to wake Clint Barton, Doom reminds her how the West Coast Avengers quinjet invaded Latveria. [...]
September 1988"Return of the Ant-Man"
Script: Steve EnglehartIn #33 Henry Pym seemingly found evidence that his 1st wife Maria Trovaya was still alive in Communist Hungary. The West Coast Avengers went to Bratislava and were confronted by an array of his old Ant-Man Communist foes. They also found Scarlet Witch and Vision in a prison there. [...]
October 1988"Avengers disassemble"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe West Coast Avengers and hangers-on have returned from their Hungarian/Latverian adventure of the last 4 issues, and married couple Hawkeye and Mockingbird (still with her arm in a sling from last issue) are still arguing. Clint Barton tells Bobbi Barton she's fired and she says she quits. [...]
November 1988"Redemption"
Script: D.G. ChichesterThis issue is mainly a flashback to an untold adventure, with a few surrounding panels connecting to the current situation. [...]
December 1988"Upset"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe West Coast Avengers Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Vision and Wonder Man with their guest Mantis are returning by quinjet from their adventure in Wakanda and the Antarctic Savage Land (WCA Annual #3) when pilot Hawkeye almost ditches them in the ocean. [...]
January 1989"And now the ... Night Shift"
Script: Mark GruenwaldMockingbird is doing a night patrol when she sees a Frankenstein Monster lookalike with a shovel burying 3 men neck deep in a road. While he waits for a passing car to run over them he starts to tell them a tale but Bobbi Barton interrupts him. [...]
February 1989"When ghosts can die, even gods must fear"
Script: Ralph MacchioThis story begins with a battle in Asgard. Sif stands alongside lightning-lord Leir of the Celtic pantheon against a horde of the Egyptian death-god Seth's armoured warriors (as part of a story that will climax in Thor #400) as Seth and his General Cheops look on. [...]
March 1989"One of our androids is missing"
Script: John ByrneWanda Maximoff wakes up in the West Coast Avengers' Compound guest house to find her husband Vision not at her side. Worried she dresses as Scarlet Witch and checks on their twin baby boys before going out to find him. Instead she finds Hawkeye practising archery from a whirligig platform. [...]
April 1989"Vision quest"
Script: John ByrneLast issue a fake Ultron attacked the West Coast Avengers Compound while Vision disappeared and a virus wiped all references to him from the WCA mainframe (and from the East Coast Avengers, the Fantastic Four, SHIELD, the Pentagon and elsewhere). [...]
May 1989"Better a widow ..."
Script: John ByrneLast issue the West Coast Avengers tracked down the secret organisation that had abducted the Vision. But when Mockingbird and Scarlet Witch broke into the central lab Wanda Maximoff was horrified to discover that her android husband had been disassembled. [...]
June 1989"New faces"
Script: John ByrneAt the end of last issue a Captain America knock-off was imposed by the Government on the West Coast Avengers as their new leader. We know him as previously the Government's replacement in the role of CA who now has a new uniform and name U.S. Agent. [...]
July 1989"Franchise"
Script: John ByrneA bank is being robbed in Milwaukee and hostages have been taken. A red & blue-clad hero descends from the ceiling on lines and attacks the 2 thieves with jokes and acrobatic moves but it's not Spider-Man. He has a white vertical rectangle on his chest with 'Mr' written in the top. [...]
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