Comic Book: Avengers West Coast
What This Book is About:
Info, covers and comics index about the Avengers West Coast comic book.
Data Sheet:
Sep 1989 to Jan 1994
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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Plus: U.S. Agent (
John Walker), Doctor Pym (
Henry Pym), Living Lightning (
Miguel Santos).
Comics Index
Page: 1 of 2
Total Indexed Comics:
45
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
November 1989"Return of the hero"
Script: John ByrneA lot has happened since Iron Man left the team in West Coast Avengers #31. The run can be split into 2 parts as #32-41 finished Steve Englehart's tenure and in #42-49 John Byrne took over and radically changed direction. [...]
November 1989"?"
Script: John ByrneIron Man has returned to the Avengers West Coast and is now confronted by 4 of the current members - none of them completely happy to see him. Leader U.S. Agent is the most outspoken and states the facts as the world knows them. [...]
December 1989"Fragments of a greater darkness"
Script: John ByrneMaster Pandemonium has kidnapped Tommy and Billy Maximoff, the infant twin sons of Scarlet Witch and Vision. The Avengers West Coast have followed him and discovered that he has used them to replace his demon arms.He now claims that they are 2 of the 5 missing pieces of his soul. [...]
December 1989"The plan proceeds"
Script: John ByrneWhat's been happening before this in the Acts of Vengeance event?There's this mystery villain who we've not yet been told is Loki. [...]
January 1990"The troubled Earth"
Script: John ByrneLast issue this title entered Acts of Vengeance when someone in the cabal of villains organised by the man we still don't know is Loki tricked the U-Foes into attacking the Avengers West Coast. Then Dr. [...]
February 1990"The breaking strain"
Script: John ByrneThe Marvel Chronology Project has very little of Acts of Vengeance interest happening since last issue.Quasar #7 was not bannered but did follow a subplot of AoV concerning Spider-Man with the power of Captain Universe. [...]
March 1990"Darker than scarlet"
Script: John ByrneLast issue as Acts of Vengeance came to a close Magneto kidnapped Scarlet Witch who was in a self-induced coma because of all the traumatic things that happened to her over the last year of issues, and he took her in her house to the edge of space. [...]
April 1990"Family reunion"
Script: John ByrneLast issue Scarlet Witch reappeared without a conscience but with her father Magneto and seemingly no limit to what her hex+magic power can do. She captured Agatha Harkness, U.S. Agent, Wasp and Wonder Man and now holds them in a force field generated by her own power. Dr. [...]
May 1990"Why?"
Script: Fabian NiciezaWe open with the villain Vibro who had expected that the recent San Francisco earthquake would finally make people realise the dangers of building in quake zones. But it seems to be business as usual, and buildings are still being built without proper earthquake-proofing. [...]
July 1990"Personal magnetism"
Script: Roy ThomasIt's that day in Dallas with President Kennedy driving past the Texas School Book Depository. But Lee Harvey Oswald is killed before he can fire the fatal shot by cops who had a tip off. However Kennedy is still assassinated. Immortus muses that in this reality the Lone Gunman theory can't arise. [...]
August 1990"The Immortus imperative"
Script: Roy ThomasThe trials and tribulations of Scarlet Witch:- Wanda Maximoff lost her husband Vision when the android lost his human personality. She lost her twin 'children' when they turned out to be merely fragments of Mephisto. She was kidnapped and brainwashed to be 1 of the 7 Brides of Set. [...]
September 1990"The witching hour"
Script: Roy ThomasThe Avengers West Coast plus Quicksilver are in Limbo whose lord Immortus has kidnapped Scarlet Witch. Last issue we saw him hold them off with a Legion of the Unliving composed mainly of dead foes with special meaning for each of them, such as Wonder Man's brother Grim Reaper. [...]
October 1990"When lives the lightning"
Script: Roy ThomasMiguel Santos is the son of 1 of the terrorist Legion of the Living Lightning who debuted and were destroyed in Tales to Astonish (Hulk) #97-99. Now he's come to their derelict base to honour his father's death - he believes the group were trying to take over the US for its own good. [...]
January 1991"Tunnel vision"
Script: Roy ThomasIron Man and U.S. Agent have been asked by the Los Angeles authorities to intervene between an official helicopter spraying malathion and protesters. Shellhead disperses the spray with his repulsors while USA tries to get the crowd to disperse themselves. [...]
February 1991"Converging trajectories"
Script: Roy ThomasGrim Reaper stalks through the Los Angeles sewers remembering the taste of the lives he's taken since Nekra resurrected him as a zombie in #65. Her's was the 1st, and the mutant was sweet. The satanic cult members in the same issue were bitter and the homeless man last issue was weak. [...]
March 1991"California screaming"
Script: Roy ThomasThe issue opens with Iron Man, Quicksilver, Tigra, U.S. Agent and Wonder Man smashing their way into Ultron-13's secret base connected to an abandoned part of the under-construction LA Metro. [...]
April 1991"Grudge match"
Script: Roy ThomasThis issue is split between a fight between Hawkeye and U.S. Agent and flashbacks to the events that led up to it. It begins with the start of the fight, but I'm going to do all the flashbacks 1st to present the tale in order. [...]
May 1991"The Big One"
Script: Roy ThomasJulia Carpenter (Spider-Woman) has moved from Denver to Newport Beach, California. For reasons she herself doesn't understand she's put on her super-suit and gone walkabout on the roof of the Balboa Pavilion tonight. But she sees a boat coming into harbour suspiciously without lights. [...]
June 1991"... and die in infamy"
Script: Roy ThomasLast issue the Avengers West Coast invaded Dr. Demonicus' base, which they found deserted apart from a giant-size toddler called the Big One (well, he has a large number 1 on his top) left to defend it by causing mini-quakes with the energy of attacks directed at him. [...]
July 1991"Chaos and chrysanthemums"
Script: Roy ThomasIron Man, Tigra and Wasp have come to Tokyo to Hasanuma Electronics to ask what equipment they sold to Dr. Demonicus, probably under his real name Dr Douglas Birely. [...]
August 1991"Demonica rising"
Script: Roy ThomasTigra is trying to fly a quinjet from Kyoto to Sydney. Iron Man and Wasp are still back in Japan prisoners of Dr. Demonicus's men. She's patched up the knife wound she got last issue but the quinjet was hit by presumably hi-tech bullets during her escape and it sustained various damage. [...]
September 1991"Operation Overlords"
Script: Roy ThomasCybertooth, Irezumi, Jawbreaker and Kuroko raise the flag of the new state of Demonica on the island to the north of Hawaii that has just been created by Dr. Demonicus. The Avengers West Coast (Dr. Pym, Iron Man, Wasp and Wonder Man) watch from stasis tubes that deny them their powers. [...]
October 1991"Hostages to fortune"
Script: Roy ThomasA new theme park will soon be opening in Los Angeles - Sword & Sorcery World. And the Avengers West Coast have arranged to have the place to themselves and their guests the Fantastic Four tonight. [...]
November 1991"Make way for the Night Shift"
Script: Roy ThomasA circus artist high-dives into a small tank of water. But is then thrown out of the tank, followed by a monster. But it turns out they're both stuntmen working for a film 'The Demon That Devoured Hollywood'. [...]
December 1991"Hurray for Hollyweird"
Script: Roy ThomasDigger spots his weapon-of-choice a spade propped up in a pile of dirt. He uses it to escape from prison - whacking some guards and them pole-vaulting over the wall. [...]
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