West Coast Avengers #41

This is the 2nd issue written by a fill-in scribe since Steve Englehart left the title. This issue is plotted by Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco and scripted by Ralph Macchio. Tom uses it to clear the decks for incoming writer John Byrne. He ends the Phantom Rider plotline, freeing Tigra and Mockingbird to return to the main team. He gets rid of Khonshu, freeing Moon Knight to start a new more Batman-like series. And he even throws in a crossover with the story he's been writing in Thor.

Moon Knight reunites with some of his old supporting cast when he has a tale in Marvel Super-Heroes v3 #1 and stars in MK: Divided We Fall 1-shot before starting his new series Marc Spector: MK.

Leir, Seth and Sif are here between Thor #399 and #400. Khonshu doesn't actually show up in Thor #400, nor in MK's series. But he does feature in the succeeding 4-issue MK mini-series.

Hellstorm's last app was when he and his wife Hellcat worked with the team in #14-16. The couple will appear next in a tale in Marvel Fanfare #59 when they visit Patsy Walker's home town. But then it's the Hellstorm: Prince Of Lies series where he goes bad and Patsy goes mad, dies and goes to Hell.

Carter Slade was invented by Dick Ayers as the original (Western) Ghost Rider in the 1st Marvel series of that name. After his comic ended he moved to feature in the 1970 Western Gunfighters anthology series. He next showed up in Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) #50-51, the 1st set in the Old West and the 2nd in the present day. In order to avoid confusion he was renamed Night Rider there.
(Actually Ayers created the char with a different civilian ID for Magazine Management in 1949 and had a successful run with it, including its own title, in the early 50's. Then Marvel forerunner Atlas reprinted those stories in the later 50's with the name changed to Phantom Rider.)
Carter died in WG#6 and Lincoln took over the role of GR in WG#7 but only for that issue. Lincoln then appeared in the Old West in Av#142-143 as Night Rider.
But Night Rider had unfortunate connotations so they're both here now as Phantom Rider.
Hamilton Slade possessed by Lincoln began in GR(JB)#56 then as part of the Rangers in Hulk #265. He was part of the crowd in Contest Of Champions #1 and then started his apps in this series with the Rangers in #8.

PR (Hamilton+Carter) will share a tale in Marvel Comics Presents #102 but then they'll seemingly split up.
PR (Hamilton) will have a few more apps starting with a rangers app in Amazing Spider-Man: Chaos In Calgary #4.
PR (Carter) will appear as a ghost in Xstatix: Dead Girl #2-5 and then more.
PR (Lincoln) will obviously escape from his banishment in 2011 to haunt Bobbi Morse again in the Hawkeye & Mockingbird mini-series, and the other 2 PRs will also be involved.

When John Byrne takes over next issue Tigra will be back with the main team without any explanation. But the Marvel Chronology Project gives her several apps before then, most of them with the team.
She's with Hawkeye, Wonder Man and Henry Pym (who Byrne also has already back with the WCA next issue) in Avengers #302-303 helping them against Super-Nova. The same 4 are on hand as Quasar joins the Avengers in his backup tale in Av Annual #18. Then she, Pym and Wonder Man are joined by Scarlet Witch to feature in Fantastic Four #333. Tigra will appear solo in Iron Man #243 bringing flowers to Tony Stark's hospital bedside.

Before all that Mockingbird secretly helps Hawkeye and Black Widow against AIM in Solo Av #14-16, and Hank Pym is in the last issue as we find that the woman with the artificially large brain in #36 wasn't really his 1st wife Marya Trovaya but a female version of MODOK called SODAM. (Thus editor-in-chief/writer Tom DeFalco removes *another* obstacle from Byrne's way allowing him to have Dr Pym back on the team.)
Bobbi Barton herself will reappear at the end of next issue as a reluctant ally of the WCA.