New Avengers #37

The issues leading up to this 1 have been written as continuously linked and also connected to events in Mighty Avengers. This issue is also written with Annual #2 following immediately after it. But in the Annual Dr Strange is suffering from the events of World War Hulk so that has to happen earlier. So the Marvel Chronology Project had to fit the WWH event in somewhere and the best place is to put it between (the bulk of) this issue and the Annual. Because the Annual begins with Maria Hill commenting that Hood's gang have just escaped custody then they actually put WWH before Hood's jail break in the last few pages of this issue. This means he must have waited some time before executing the rescue, the more so because the MCP took the opportunity to shoehorn in more apps of the team, singly and together.

Hood and his gang don't make any apps in the gap and go straight from here to the Annual, except John King who won't be seen again until Secret Invasion #4 (with Hood a very few of his gang preparing to help fight the Skrulls). And Wizard manages to fit in an app with the Frightful Four in Fantastic Four #547-549.

I'll mention here what other chars do leading up to WWH.

Maria Hill shows up in MAv#11, Ms Marvel #15 and Iron Man: Director Of SHIELD #15 and #18. She's strangely never seen in WWH.

Our team are never seen all together before WWH. As you might expect Spider-Man and Wolverine fit a lot in but Dr Strange is equally well represented. At least Luke Cage and Maya Lopez get 1 app each but Iron Fist and Ronin don't get a look in at all. The MCP's global chronology threads help me sort it all out.

Spider-Man kicks off with Friendly Neighbourhood SM #17-23, the whole of its contribution to his Back In Black era. Then he guests in Blade #10.
Wolverine co-stars in Cable & Deadpool #43-44, the 1st 2 issues in which Cable is (Marvel-)dead and DP teams up with a succession of guests.
Then follows the closest we get to a NAv app as Logan joins Dr Strange, Luke Cage and Maya Lopez for cameos with the MAv and the Fantastic Four in New Warriors #2. Wolvie stays for a bigger role in #3.
Then Dr Strange gets busy. He's the co-star in C&DP#47, with lesser roles in #46 and 48. Then it's on to FF#550 where Invisible Woman and Mr Fantastic return to the team and their replacements Black Panther and Storm leave. He stays with them for their Annual #33 with Clan Destine and follows the Clan into the Daredevil Annual and the Wolverine Annual, which of course includes the title char.
Then Spidey makes 1 more app before WWH when he gets mixed up in Av: Initiative #3.
And then we're knocking on the door of WWH.