West Coast Avengers Annual #1

This story is in chapters and the title of chapter 1 is used for the issue. Chapters 2-4 for the battles with Zodiac are called "Cardinal sins", "Fixed assets" and "Mutant meltdown".

The Baxter Building was destroyed in Fantastic Four #278, and the FF went to stay in Avengers Mansion. In FF#293 they moved into their new building Four Freedoms Plaza which will be completed in FF#299.

Black Panther is currently without a series. Since his last app in the Iron Man site (Annual #5) he was in the crowd scenes in Contest Of Champions and Hulk's pardoning in #278-279 and appeared on the Letterman Show with other reservists in Av#239. He joined Human Torch and Mr Fantastic for a backup tale in Marvel Team-Up Annual #7, and was with HT again and Spider-Man in SM&HT#4.

Since the recruiting drive in Av#221 and the obligatory COC app Black Widow has been in the Daredevil series between #187 and #222 (#187-190 by Frank Miller involving the Hand and the resurrection of Elektra). But she took time off between #201 and #207 for the Letterman app and MTU#140-141 (also with DD).

Since COC and Hulk#278-279 Falcon has been in many Captain America issues between #282 and #317 (including the Death Of Red Skull story #296-301). During that time he had his own 4-issue mini-series and showed up in Power-Man & Iron Fist #112-113 and #121/123/125 (all part of the Captain Hero story and ending with their last issue and the Marvel-death of IF).

Since Tony Stark took the Iron Man role back in #200 Rhodey has continued as a supporting character in that book where he recently redonned the armour in #211.

After Secret Wars II and his time as a frog Thor grew a beard for Th#367 to hide the facial scars he got in #361. But he's been Sigurd Jarlson since #341, just after SWI. He's here within #373 between the Justice Peace story and 1 involving X-Factor. In that gap he's also been with Cap and IM in Eternals vol 2 #12 and DD#233.

Vision & Scarlet Witch have recently finished their 2nd mini-series in which they set up house in suburbia and had their twin boys. Of course much more happened, including #10 where Quicksilver's break-up with Crystal happened. Since then they had 2 anthology apps. In Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #10 (in a sequel to Marvel Fanfare #58) they confronted the Leonia residents who had accused them of bringing supernatural threats to the town and showed that the threats were actually revenge for old witch trials there. And in MFan #32 they helped catch a slasher killer.

The truth about Scorpio has been revised several times. He tried to kill Nick Fury in NF, Agent of SHIELD #1 and #5 but himself died both times. In #5 he was revealed to be Nick's brother Jake who had taken the place of the 1 in #1. But the Marvel Handbook Book of the Dead later said that they were both JF and Scorpio's weapon the sentient Zodiac Key resurrected them each time. That Scorpio was part of a human crime cartel Zodiac, where he was replaced by another Scorpio.
However JF created an LMD Zodiac of his own as seen in Defenders #46-50, but with himself still as the human Scorpio. At the end JF committed suicide and the LMDs were destroyed, captured or escaped
Various escaped LMDs showed up in Def#63-64, She-Hulk #12 and IM#183.
But now here we have all 12 LMD Zodiac including a Scorpio. In WCA#26-28 we will be told that the Zodiac Key recreated JF as an LMD, and he recruited/rescued/recreated the rest.
However much later Secret Warriors will turn this account on its head. Apparently all these Scorpio's were an LMD copy of the real JF, who has meanwhile been underground infiltrating Hydra.

The earlier Gemini LMD in Defenders looked somewhat different to this 1 and had a different power - he could split into 2 beings, whereas the current 1 can double in size. But they both share the trait of being of 2 minds as to which side they're on.

We don't get any explanation why Zodiac is following Quicksilver. Nor for that matter why the Avengers take up Pietro's challenge. He doesn't actually threaten them with anything and the fights don't promise to clear their name. In fact nothing here explains how they clear their name - unless it's just that the witness backs out.

The 2003 Hawkeye mini-series will claim that he was working for the Keibler Circus when the Hulk was there. However there it will say that it was the Tidboldt circus run by Maynard Tidboldt the villainous Ringmaster. The Unofficial Appendix to the Marvel Handbook explains this by saying that Tidboldt had taken Keibler's Circus over and renamed it before the Hulk joined. But when Hawkeye exposed Ringmaster's crimes and got him arrested the Circus resumed its original name. And that happened before the Avengers tracked Hulk down in Av#1.

Quicksilver will return in FF#304 getting 'revenge' on Crystal's 1st love Human Torch. He'll be imprisoned by the FF until the Inhumans take him home in #306. In X-Factor Annual #2 it will turn out that his madness is due mind-manipulation by the evil Inhuman Maximus. But he'll still be out for revenge on V&SW in WCA#34-36.

As mentioned above Scorpio and the LMD Zodiac will return in AWC#26-28 where we'll find that this Scorpio is an LMD with Jake Fury's consciousness. They'll kill nearly all of the human Zodiac Cartel, but wind up in the Ankh Dimension where the Zodiac Key comes from and are shut down by alien physics.

H P Gyrich (along with Val Cooper from the Avengers Annual) will be in several issues of the John Walker/Captain America run in CA#333-350 as part of the CSA group running the replacement Cap. In a gap he'll pop in to #2 of the Nick Fury vs SHIELD limited series.

Black Knight and Hercules are in when Franklin Richards brings Power Pack home for a visit to Avengers Tower in PP#28. (Presumably FR's not yet moved in to the unfinished FF Plaza. He won't be seen there until FF#296.) Meanwhile CA fights Flag Smasher in #321-322 and BK and Herc are still at home when we 1st meet John Walker (as Super-Patriot) in CA#323. Then the whole team will reunite for Av#273-277 (with side trips to CA#324 and Amazing SM #283) when Zemo's Masters Of Evil attack, injuring Herc and Jarvis. (This run was reprinted in Marvel Premiere Classics #51 as Avengers: Under Siege.)

Hawkeye and IM will be in WCA HQ when Val Cooper asks them in IM#214 to help hunt down the renegade Spider-Woman (from the Av Annual part of this story). They refuse and IM helps SW against the Seekers who are out for the bounty on her head. Then WCA#14-15 concludes the Master Pandemonium storyline (for now). And the team aren't available to help the Av in #274 because they're in Indonesia.
Daimon Hellstrom and Hellcat, who were only mentioned here, will show up in WCA#14-16.

V&SW are also unavailable in Av#276 because they're away on holiday. They're not seen again until WCA#30.

Falcon will also be unavailable in Av#276 because he's got the flu. He'll join DD and Spidey in ASM#287-288 to fight Kingpin before returning as a semi-regular in Cap's series from #332.

And Thor will return to his own series picking up partway through #373. But after #374 he *will* be available to help in Av#276-277, paving the way for his return to the team to replace Herc.

James Rhodes will continue as a supporting character in the IM series sometimes, like IM#215-216, in his IM armour.

Black Widow will return sporadically to DD from #236, and also the DD/BW: Abattoir GN.

Black Panther will continue on the guest star trail for a while. Next stop also with DD in #245, and in FF#311-312 with Dr Doom.