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Comic Book: Avengers Annual

What This Book is About:
A yearly special offering of Avengers action!

Data Sheet:
Dates
Sep 1967 to Jan 1994
N/A
1

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Captain America
Captain America

(Steve Rogers)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Tony Stark)
Thor
Thor

(Odinson)
Hawkeye
Hawkeye

(Clint Barton)
Wasp
Wasp

(Janet Van Dyne)
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch

(Wanda Maximoff)
She-Hulk
She-Hulk

(Jennifer Walters)

Comics Index

Total Indexed Comics: 21

Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.

Avengers Annual #1
3 stars

Avengers Annual #1

September 1967
"The Monstrous Master Plan of the Mandarin"
Script: Roy Thomas
Tony 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #2
3 stars

Avengers Annual #2

September 1968
".. And Time, The Rushing River"
Script: Roy Thomas
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #3
3 stars

Avengers Annual #3

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! [...]
Avengers Annual #4
3 stars

Avengers Annual #4

January 1971
"(multiple titles)"
Script:
Reprints the following stories:“The Invasion of the Lava Men!” from AVENGERS #5“Masters of Evil! [...]
Avengers Annual #5
3 stars

Avengers Annual #5

January 1972
"(multiple titles)"
Script:
Reprints the following stories:“Kang the Conqueror!” from AVENGERS #8“The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man! [...]
Avengers Annual #6
4 stars

Avengers Annual #6

November 1976
"No final victory"
Script: Gerry Conway
This 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #7
4.5 stars

Avengers Annual #7

November 1977
"The final threat"
Script: Jim Starlin
Adam 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #8
4.5 stars

Avengers Annual #8

November 1978
"Spectrums of deceit"
Script: Roger Slifer
In 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). [...]
Avengers Annual #9
4 stars

Avengers Annual #9

November 1979
"Today the Avengers die"
Script: Bill Mantlo
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #10
4.5 stars

Avengers Annual #10

November 1981
"By friends betrayed"
Script: Chris Claremont
In 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #11
4 stars

Avengers Annual #11

November 1982
"In honor's name"
Script: J. M. DeMatteis
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #12
5 stars

Avengers Annual #12

January 1984
"Moonrise"
Script: Bill Mantlo
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #13
4 stars

Avengers Annual #13

November 1984
"In Memory Yet Green"
Script: Roger Stern
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #14
4 stars

Avengers Annual #14

November 1985
"Fifth Column"
Script: Roger Stern
Story 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…. [...]
Avengers Annual #15
4 stars

Avengers Annual #15

October 1986
"Betrayal"
Script: Danny Fingeroth
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #16
4 stars

Avengers Annual #16

July 1987
"The Day Death Died!"
Script: Tom DeFalco
Continued from WEST COAST AVENGERS ANNUAL #2. [...]
Avengers Annual #18
3.5 stars

Avengers Annual #18

November 1989
"Avengers assembled"
Script: Michael Higgins
What 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). [...]
Avengers Annual #19
3.5 stars

Avengers Annual #19

September 1990
"Beat Me In St. Louis... (Part 5 of The Terminus Factor)"
Script: Dann Thomas
Story 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #1999
4.5 stars

Avengers Annual #1999

July 1999
"Day of the remains"
Script: John Francis Moore
The 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #2000
4.5 stars

Avengers Annual #2000

May 2000
"The cat came back"
Script: Kurt Busiek
Like 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. [...]
Avengers Annual #2001
4.5 stars

Avengers Annual #2001

July 2001
"The third man"
Script: Kurt Busiek
This 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. [...]