Comic Book: Avengers West Coast

Avengers West Coast #47

August 1989
"With friends like these"
Script: John Byrne
Black Panther is visiting the West Coast Avengers Compound to work with Dr Pym installing some new Wakandan computer equipment. Scarlet Witch bursts in hysterically begging them to help her husband Vision. [...]

Avengers West Coast #48

September 1989
"This ancient evil"
Script: John Byrne
We begin with the earliest history of life on Earth as a proto-cell divides into 2. But then 1 of the pair devours the other and the result is different. And from this cell follows all cells in living things. [...]

Avengers West Coast #49

October 1989
"Baptism of fire"
Script: John Byrne
In #42-44 worried world governments authorised the dismantling of the Vision and the wiping of his backup memories. The West Coast Avengers were allowed to rebuild him but he has no emotions, even concerning his wife Scarlet Witch and their 2 little boys. [...]

Avengers West Coast #50

November 1989
"Return of the hero"
Script: John Byrne
A 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #51

November 1989
"?"
Script: John Byrne
Iron 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #52

December 1989
"Fragments of a greater darkness"
Script: John Byrne
Master 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #53

December 1989
"The plan proceeds"
Script: John Byrne
What'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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #54

January 1990
"The troubled Earth"
Script: John Byrne
Last 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #55

February 1990
"The breaking strain"
Script: John Byrne
The 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #56

March 1990
"Darker than scarlet"
Script: John Byrne
Last 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #57

April 1990
"Family reunion"
Script: John Byrne
Last 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #58

May 1990
"Why?"
Script: Fabian Nicieza
We 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #59

June 1990
"Get smart"
Script: Danny Fingeroth
A tidal wave hits a small section of San Remo California and laughs as it scatters the guards of an armoured van outside a bank, seeps inside and pressurises its way violently out carrying with it many money bags. [...]

Avengers West Coast #60

July 1990
"Personal magnetism"
Script: Roy Thomas
It'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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #61

August 1990
"The Immortus imperative"
Script: Roy Thomas
The 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #62

September 1990
"The witching hour"
Script: Roy Thomas
The 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #63

October 1990
"When lives the lightning"
Script: Roy Thomas
Miguel 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #64

November 1990
"Show and tell"
Script: Terry Kavanagh
In Avengers Mansion Captain America is sent a video of Rick Jones asking for help as he's abducted by a monster. Rick used to be Cap's partner (back in Avengers # 1-16 and CA#110-114) so he's determined to save him. [...]

Avengers West Coast #65

December 1990
"Whatsoever a man soweth ..."
Script: Roy Thomas
Simon Williams (Wonder Man) stands over the grave of his brother Eric and reminisces about their past. As a kid Eric was always the risk taker while Simon played it safe. Simon took over the family munitions business when their dad died while Eric turned to gambling and later joined the mob. [...]

Avengers West Coast #66

January 1991
"Tunnel vision"
Script: Roy Thomas
Iron 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #67

February 1991
"Converging trajectories"
Script: Roy Thomas
Grim 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #68

March 1991
"California screaming"
Script: Roy Thomas
The 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #69

April 1991
"Grudge match"
Script: Roy Thomas
This 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #70

May 1991
"The Big One"
Script: Roy Thomas
Julia 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. [...]

Avengers West Coast #71

June 1991
"... and die in infamy"
Script: Roy Thomas
Last 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. [...]