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Comic Book: West Coast Avengers Vol.2

What This Book is About:
The Whackoes get upgraded to an ongoing title, mostly written by Steve Englehart before John Byrne takes over and then its title gets changed.

Data Sheet:
Dates
Oct 1985 to Jul 1989
N/A
2

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

Hawkeye
Hawkeye

(Clint Barton)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Tony Stark)
Tigra
Tigra

(Greer Nelson)
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch

(Wanda Maximoff)
Thing
Thing

(Ben Grimm)
Plus: Doctor Pym (Henry Pym).

Comics Index

Page: 2 of 2

Total Indexed Comics: 46

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

West Coast Avengers #26
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #26

November 1987
"What is Scorpio?"
Script: Steve Englehart
We begin with a meeting of the human Zodiac crime cartel. By convention Cancer chairs the meeting because that''s the current Zodiac sign. They''re worried about the L(ife)M(odel)D(ecoy) Zodiac, and Cancer gives them and us a rundown of their history. [...]
West Coast Avengers #27
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #27

December 1987
"Star struck"
Script: Steve Englehart
It''s a week after last issue''s fight with the LMD Zodiac and Hawkeye is walking from his 5th viewing of Simon Williams'' latest film Arkon IV to his parked skycycle. He wonders where the Zodiac gang have been hiding since then, oblivious to the fact that they''re creeping up all around him. [...]
West Coast Avengers #28
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #28

January 1988
"Double-crossed"
Script: Steve Englehart
6 West Coast Avengers, Iron Man and Wonder Man carrying 2 each, fly down and crash through the roof of the Denver Mint. They guessed which Mint the LMD Zodiac would attack - and they were right. As the battle commences IM tries to trap the Zodiac Key with a magnetic beam but Scorpio fends it off. [...]
West Coast Avengers #29
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #29

February 1988
"Dead run"
Script: Steve Englehart
Taurus, the only surviving member of the human Zodiac cartel, is trying to rebuild the criminal empire. He''s meeting with Shroud in a Los Angeles warehouse to offer him the job of Pisces, and he can continue to operate in California. [...]
West Coast Avengers #30
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #30

March 1988
"None so blind"
Script: Al Milgrom
Simon Williams is visiting his ''brother'' Vision and wife Scarlet Witch and their very young children Billy and Tommy in Leonia, New Jersey. (The android Vision''s mind was based on Simon''s brain patterns. [...]
West Coast Avengers #31
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #31

April 1988
"The Friday night frights"
Script: Steve Englehart
The Phantom Rider rides his white horse through the driving rain up Spirit Peak. He presses a secret button on his belt and machinery opens the door of his secret cave. Inside he greets the haggard Texas Twister. [...]
West Coast Avengers #32
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #32

May 1988
"Buried monsters"
Script: Steve Englehart
Wasp flies into the West Coast Avengers Compound insect-sized and finds Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Tigra and Wonder Man dejected after having to sack Iron Man (in IM#229 due to his actions in Armour Wars). She's here to offer condolences and help. [...]
West Coast Avengers #33
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #33

June 1988
"The man in the ant hill"
Script: Steve Ellis
The West Coast Avengers convene to make Moon Knight a full member. Team leader Hawkeye proposes him not just because of his 'rescue' of Clint Barton's wife Mockingbird last issue. The other members have their own reasons for agreeing:- Tigra because she's Marc Spector's girlfriend. [...]
West Coast Avengers #34
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #34

July 1988
"Prisoners of the slave-world"
Script: Steve Englehart
The West Coast Avengers have gone to Communist Hungary because of a rumour that Henry Pym's 1st wife Maria Trovaya is still alive there. They were met by a gang of his obscure old enemies the Beasts Of Berlin, El Toro, Madame X and some Soviet spies from his 1st adventure as Ant-Man. [...]
West Coast Avengers #35
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #35

August 1988
"The voice of Doom"
Script: Steve Englehart
Mockingbird awakens on a bed next to husband Hawkeye in a palatial room, but there's a boy-size armoured and masked figure watching them who announces himself as Dr Doom. While she tries to wake Clint Barton, Doom reminds her how the West Coast Avengers quinjet invaded Latveria. [...]
West Coast Avengers #36
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #36

September 1988
"Return of the Ant-Man"
Script: Steve Englehart
In #33 Henry Pym seemingly found evidence that his 1st wife Maria Trovaya was still alive in Communist Hungary. The West Coast Avengers went to Bratislava and were confronted by an array of his old Ant-Man Communist foes. They also found Scarlet Witch and Vision in a prison there. [...]
West Coast Avengers #37
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #37

October 1988
"Avengers disassemble"
Script: Steve Englehart
The West Coast Avengers and hangers-on have returned from their Hungarian/Latverian adventure of the last 4 issues, and married couple Hawkeye and Mockingbird (still with her arm in a sling from last issue) are still arguing. Clint Barton tells Bobbi Barton she's fired and she says she quits. [...]
West Coast Avengers #38
3 stars

West Coast Avengers #38

November 1988
"Redemption"
Script: D.G. Chichester
This issue is mainly a flashback to an untold adventure, with a few surrounding panels connecting to the current situation. [...]
West Coast Avengers #39
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #39

December 1988
"Upset"
Script: Steve Englehart
The West Coast Avengers Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Vision and Wonder Man with their guest Mantis are returning by quinjet from their adventure in Wakanda and the Antarctic Savage Land (WCA Annual #3) when pilot Hawkeye almost ditches them in the ocean. [...]
West Coast Avengers #40
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #40

January 1989
"And now the ... Night Shift"
Script: Mark Gruenwald
Mockingbird is doing a night patrol when she sees a Frankenstein Monster lookalike with a shovel burying 3 men neck deep in a road. While he waits for a passing car to run over them he starts to tell them a tale but Bobbi Barton interrupts him. [...]
West Coast Avengers #41
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #41

February 1989
"When ghosts can die, even gods must fear"
Script: Ralph Macchio
This story begins with a battle in Asgard. Sif stands alongside lightning-lord Leir of the Celtic pantheon against a horde of the Egyptian death-god Seth's armoured warriors (as part of a story that will climax in Thor #400) as Seth and his General Cheops look on. [...]
West Coast Avengers #42
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #42

March 1989
"One of our androids is missing"
Script: John Byrne
Wanda Maximoff wakes up in the West Coast Avengers' Compound guest house to find her husband Vision not at her side. Worried she dresses as Scarlet Witch and checks on their twin baby boys before going out to find him. Instead she finds Hawkeye practising archery from a whirligig platform. [...]
West Coast Avengers #43
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #43

April 1989
"Vision quest"
Script: John Byrne
Last issue a fake Ultron attacked the West Coast Avengers Compound while Vision disappeared and a virus wiped all references to him from the WCA mainframe (and from the East Coast Avengers, the Fantastic Four, SHIELD, the Pentagon and elsewhere). [...]
West Coast Avengers #44
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #44

May 1989
"Better a widow ..."
Script: John Byrne
Last issue the West Coast Avengers tracked down the secret organisation that had abducted the Vision. But when Mockingbird and Scarlet Witch broke into the central lab Wanda Maximoff was horrified to discover that her android husband had been disassembled. [...]
West Coast Avengers #45
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #45

June 1989
"New faces"
Script: John Byrne
At the end of last issue a Captain America knock-off was imposed by the Government on the West Coast Avengers as their new leader. We know him as previously the Government's replacement in the role of CA who now has a new uniform and name U.S. Agent. [...]
West Coast Avengers #46
4 stars

West Coast Avengers #46

July 1989
"Franchise"
Script: John Byrne
A bank is being robbed in Milwaukee and hostages have been taken. A red & blue-clad hero descends from the ceiling on lines and attacks the 2 thieves with jokes and acrobatic moves but it's not Spider-Man. He has a white vertical rectangle on his chest with 'Mr' written in the top. [...]