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Comic Book: Avengers Spotlight

What This Book is About:
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:
Dates
Aug 1989 to Jan 1991
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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Hawkeye
Hawkeye

(Clint Barton)
U.S. Agent
U.S. Agent

(John Walker)
Loki
Loki

(Loki Laufeyson)
Plus: Lady Lotus (Lotus Newmark), Mad Dog (Robert Baxter), Brothers Grimm, Death Throws.

Comics Index

Total Indexed Comics: 20

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

Avengers Spotlight #21
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #21

August 1989
"I’ve Been in the Desert with an Orb with No Shame"
Script: Howard Mackie
Story 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #22
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #22

September 1989
"Grimm and Bear It"
Script: Howard Mackie
Hawkeye 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #23
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #23

October 1989
"Tooth & Nail and Hammer and Bullet and Chainsaw—!!"
Script: Howard Mackie
Hawkeye, 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #24
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #24

November 1989
"A Show of Hands"
Script: Howard Mackie
Escaping 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #25
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #25

November 1989
"Forewarned is Disarmed!"
Script: Howard Mackie
Hawkeye, 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #26
3.5 stars

Avengers Spotlight #26

December 1989
"Tales From the Vault—Acts of Vengeance Prologue"
Script: Dwayne McDuffie
The 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #27
3.5 stars

Avengers Spotlight #27

December 1989
"Hurting Inside"
Script: Howard Mackie
Boomerang 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #28
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #28

January 1990
"Denver Doubles"
Script: Howard Mackie
Hawkeye 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #29
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #29

February 1990
"What’s the Point?"
Script: Howard Mackie
Hawkeye is summoned to the hospital at the request of filmmaker Aaron “Dollar Bill” English, who was hoping for Daredevil. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #30
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #30

March 1990
"Bang"
Script: Steve Gerber
Clint 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #31
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #31

April 1990
"Hit and Run"
Script: Steve Geiger
Late 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #32
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #32

May 1990
"Terminizer!"
Script: Steve Gerber
Police 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #33
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #33

June 1990
"Circle-T Killings Continue"
Script: Steve Gerber
Hawkeye 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…. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #34
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #34

July 1990
"Ashes"
Script: Steve Gerber
The 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #35
3.5 stars

Avengers Spotlight #35

August 1990
"Call Me Whatshisname"
Script: Danny Fingeroth
Recovering 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #36
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #36

September 1990
"Bitter Pill"
Script: Steve Gerber
For 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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #37
3.5 stars

Avengers Spotlight #37

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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #38
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #38

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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #39
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #39

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. [...]
Avengers Spotlight #40
4 stars

Avengers Spotlight #40

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. [...]