Comic Book: Avengers (1963 series)
What This Book is About:
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:
Sep 1963 to Oct 1996
1963
N/A
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Comics Index
Page: 5 of 13
Total Indexed Comics:
308
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
June 1972"Whatever Gods There Be!"
Script: Roy ThomasAres, 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. [...]
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. [...]
August 1972"What to do till the Sentinels come"
Script: Roy ThomasThe 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. [...]
September 1972"The Sentinels are alive and well"
Script: Roy ThomasThe 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. [...]
October 1972"With a bang .. and a whimper"
Script: Roy ThomasIn #102 a Sentinel kidnapped Scarlet Witch, and last issue we learned that the Sentinels were causing solar flares. [...]
November 1972"In the beginning was the world within"
Script: Steve EnglehartIt'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. [...]
December 1972"A traitor stalks among us"
Script: Steve EnglehartLast 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. [...]
January 1973"The Master Plan of the Space Phantom"
Script: Steve EnglehartMost 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. [...]
February 1973"Check ... and mate"
Script: Steve EnglehartGrim Reaper and the Space Phantom have captured Black Panther, Hawkeye, Iron Man and Scarlet Witch as part of their plan to destroy the Avengers. [...]
March 1973"The measure of a man"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe 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. [...]
April 1973"... and now Magneto"
Script: Steve EnglehartCaptain 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. [...]
May 1973"With two beside them"
Script: Steve EnglehartLast 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. [...]
June 1973"The Lion God lives"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe 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. [...]
July 1973"Your young men shall slay visions"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe 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. [...]
August 1973"Night of the Swordsman"
Script: Steve EnglehartAfter 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. [...]
September 1973"Below us the battle"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe 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. [...]
October 1973"Betrayal!"
Script: Steve EnglehartThis 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. [...]
November 1973"Holocaust"
Script: Steve EnglehartThis 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. [...]
December 1973"To The Death!"
Script: Steve EnglehartThis 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. [...]
January 1974"Night of the Collector"
Script: Steve EnglehartThis 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. [...]
February 1974"Death-stars of the Zodiac"
Script: Steve EnglehartTaurus, 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. [...]
March 1974"Houses Divided Cannot Stand!"
Script: Steve EnglehartAtop 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. [...]
April 1974"Trapped in outer space"
Script: Steve EnglehartAvengers 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. [...]
May 1974"Vengeance in Viet Nam - or - An origin for Mantis"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe 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. [...]
June 1974"Beware the Star-Stalker"
Script: Steve EnglehartThe 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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