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Best Avengers stories in Volume 1 (+ SteveTony bonus) - Part 1: #001 - 221
I am re reading Avengers Volume 1 so I decided to do the same thing i did for Iron Man v1, and I wrote down the best/important storylines and issues in Avengers volume 1 :D (in my opinion, of course)
This is part 1, from the beginning to the new Avenger team in #221. I decided to start this list whie I was reading the Kree-Srull Wars so my memories of the first arcs are pretty vague regarding the Steve/Tony interactions and plot summaries. I will update this in the future, rereading the first issues.
I’ll add the bonus SteveTony elements if there are any (indicated with * to *** for the amount of SteveTony-ess)! Between the issues to read I will put a brief summary of what happened to understand the story better (they are between parenthesis and in italics).
#1 and #4: Classic issues with how the Avengers are born and the addition of Captain America to the team.
#16 - #28 (more or less) : Cap’s Kooky Quartet. Stories where Wanda, Cap, Clint and Pietro are the Avengers. Some insight in Steve Rogers’ (probable) depression, some fights to decide who is the team leader and in general some great stories!
Avengers Point One: This is a 2017 miniserie that takes place here.
#52: Black Panther joins the Avengers.
#57 - 58: Vision is born!
#63: Clint becomes Goliath.
#89 - 97*: The Kree-Skrull War. It has some nice panels of Iron Man and Cap close together and some nice art, but overall not extremely SteveTony. Still, the story is linear and amazing, and there’s also Carol Danvers in it! The Avengers in this storyline are Wanda, Clint, Pietro and Vision (with Wanda and Clint kidnapped by the Skrulls, which really shows the start of the Vision/Wanda romance), Captain Marvel, Steve, Tony, Thor and some Hank and Wasp.
#98 - 100: The amnesiac Hercules arc. Not a fundamental storyline, but definitely fun. A mysterious tune turnes humans into war thirsty beings, and the Avengers are hypnotised as well. Only Thor and Vision can stop them. Also, it explains where Clint ended up in the Kree-Skrull war, Hercules is back and Wanda admits she is in love with Vision. But no Steve and Tony interactions.
(The Vision and Wanda accept their love, Pietro contacts the Avengers and tells them he is in love with Crystal and is staying with the Inhumans because he can’t accept Wanda and Vision’s relationship; Clint leaves the Avengers because he doesn’t feel ‘super'hero enough and goes looking for Natasha after his love disappointment with Wanda. Nat is with Daredevil and Clint gets angry, so he refuses to help her rescue the Avengers. Nat leaves Darevil and joins the Avengers, feeling mixed feelings about Clint. T'Challa feels the pressure of his nation asking for its prince back.)
#112 - 114*: The Lion God arc (sort of, a issue 113 is a bit of a break from that). Black Panther has to fight against a rival Lion God, Nat ends up leaving the Avengers (so soon!), Wanda and Vision are attacked for their love, Mantis and the Swordman join the Avengers. This story arc has some very faint Iron Man & Cap moments. This has also a nice Tony Stark “I’ll go find Iron Man!” secret identity moment. ALSO, Tony winks at Blake, asking him to find Thor, and Blake realises Tony knows he is Thor, which means that Blake knows Iron Man is Tony Stark.
(The crossover Avengers versus Defenders happen here, and Wanda’s hatred for humans intensify. The Avengers defeat the band of the Zodiac and Cap is not among the Avengers as he has troubles in his own comic)
#123-124: The origin of Mantis and prequel of the Celestial Madonna arc.
(Cap returns to the Avengers)
#126*: The Avengers fight Klaw. Love triangle between Mantis Vision and Wanda, or so the Swordman and Wanda think. Cap wants to leave the shield and ends up leaving the Avengers again, as Black Panther does, Wanda starts to control her powers.
(The Avengers visits the Inhumans and they meet Agatha Harkness and they fight Ultron)
#128: Wanda and Agatha witches together and Wanda’s powers increase. Mantis tells the Swordman she doesn’t love him anymore and tries to kiss Vision.
#129 - Giant Size #2 - #130 - 132 - Giant Size #3 - #133 - 135 -Giant Size #4 *: The Celestial Madonna arc. Kang kidnaps the Avengers, knowing that one of the women is the prophetised Celestial Madonna, who will give birth to a powerful being (and he wants to be the father). This arc contains Kang’s backstory as well, Clint is back, Swordman dies, Moondragon appears and reveals her backstory, Steve Rogers returns as Nomad for a brief moment, Mantis finds out her destiny and marries a tree, the Avengers discover the orign of the Skull Kree war, Wanda and Vision get married after Vision sees his own true origin. What a wild ride! There are some nice scenes of Iron Man being delighted at seeing Cap as Nomad (only in #131, then Steve disappears again).
(Tony meets Hank McCoy - and then Iron Man fights the Beast because of a misunderstanding/mind controlling villain)
#137: A cute domestic issue where Thor, Iron Man and Hawkeye (the only Avengers left) decide to look for new members. Moondragon accepts, Janet and Hank Pym come back, The Beast asks to join the Avengers. There’s also a nice scene with Vision and Wanda on a holiday.
(Hank is worried for Janet, who has been wounded in the previous issue and is in a coma, Hank has some troubles controlling his powers, The Beast cures him, Janet wakes up, Iron Man and Moondragon find out that Hawkeye disappeared, Wanda and Vision are back from their honeymoon)
#141**: Patsy Walker makes an appearance, Cap is back with the Avengers, Thor and Moondragon go looking for Hawkeye. Iron Man decides to help Cap with his enemies because ‘[…] that [SI dealing with that enemy before] and your smiling face are what kept me here’.
(Moondragon and Thor finds Hawkeye in the cowboy era and they defeat Kang once for all - sort of -, the other Avengers are still prisoners in Roxxon and Cap has a plan to escape)
#143 - 144**: Patsy Walker’s backstory! Tony helps Cap and Patsy and compliments Steve’s shield and abilities (and Cap literally made a plan knowing Iron Man would catch him), then they spend a good part of the issue telling to each others how much they missed each others and there are some hilarious panels as well. Patsy becomes Hellcat.
(At this point the story is interrupted for two issues of an extra story, because of editorial reasons. In this short story, assassins are after the Avengers, Hawkeye thinks about his friendship with Cap, Cap is seriously wounded and the end is much darker than usual Avengers stories of those years)
#147: The Avengers continue their Roxxon/Squadron Sinister adventure and escape the enemy, finding the Serpent mind-controllng crown as well. Wanda is affected by it by manages to break the spell (because of love!).
#148*-149: The fight continues. Thor and Moondragon join the other Avengers. The Avengers win, Thor and Hellcat save the day. End of the Roxxon arc.
#150-151*: These two issues introduce the new Avengers team and recap the beginning of the Avengers and how the team changed during the past issues. Thor decides to leave the Avengers because he feels like he is losing his purpose, so far away from the other gods. Thor names Iron Man chairman and the first thing Iron Man does is ask Cap if he is staying (the two have a moment here and Cap tells him that he is staying as the Avengers are his home). Vision, Wanda, Yellowjacket and Janet decide to stay as Avengers, Moondragon decides to leave the Avengers as well as she needs more freedom, Beast is officially accepted as an Avengers, Hellcat wants to be an Avenger but accepts Moondragon’s offer to go with her and train with her. Wonder Man is back!
#152*: At the end of #151, the new Avengers line up (Vision, Wanda, Cap, Iron Man, Beast, Yellowjacket and Wasp) meet Wonder Man, believed dead. After fighting an enemy, Wanda realizes she needs more time to study her powers and she leaves the Avengers. Some nice visual panels of Iron Man and Cap together.
(Wanda looks for the Serpent Crown, Wonder Man looked dead but he is not, The Laser is defeated, the Serpent Crown is thrown in the ocean, the Avengers meet Namor and Doom, and they fight against a statue of the Black Knight)
#158 - 159: The Graviton arc. Vision is still worried he is too mechanical to have human emotions and seeing Wonder Man helping Wanda reminds him that now there’s a flesh and human person with his brain. Wonder Man vs Vision. Iron Man suspends Vision, the Avengers fights against Graviton and Wonder Man helps them. Black Panther and Thor are back, Jarvis saves the day.
#160: Cap, Iron Man and Thor go away because of things to do, the remaining Avengers fight the Grim Reaper who traps them all in a trial to decide which one is the true one: Vision or Wonder Man. Wonder Man reveals that his molecular structure is different now, and he defeats the Grim Reaper.
#161 - 162: Hank has a crisis and believes the Avengers are impostors. Janet stops him and reveals that this has been a problem for a while, but of course Ultron is part of the cause. Jocasta is born, Vision is hurt.
(Janet works, with Tony’s help, to restore Hank’s memory. Natasha, Iceman and Hercules make an appearance.)
#164 - 166*: Count Nefaria wants to re-create Power Man. Tony and Beast study Wonder Man’s new molecular structure and find out he actually never died, simply transformed. Cap and the Avengers are trapped in debris of a crumbled building and Iron Man gets them out; Cap literally says that he has been waiting for him (even if he didn’t know where Iron Man was). Cap and Iron Man discuss in #165 because Iron Man should have been there with them, as chairman of the Avengers and pulls some sassy old man wisdom on him. Thor is back and Vision is awake from his coma thing.
#167 - 168**: The beginning of the Korvac saga. Tony and Cap fight again about Tony being late. Tony is late (as Iron Man) because he was busy as Stark and this double identity thing is really stressing. Cap starts giving orders and Iron Man is baffled - after all he is the chairman. Later on he tells Thor that he is not troubled about it, because he was about to order the same and the panel feel more like it’s showing us a sad Iron Man, than a worried one, and he feels like Cap’s judgement of his leadership is getting personal. The original Guardians of the Galaxy make an appearance. Janet has her runway show.
#169*: Extra one shot volume. It’s not clear if it’s in the same timeline, but it’s not part of the Korvac saga. Cap and Iron Man are doing crosswords and they talk as if they never fought in the previous issues. Black Panther, Cap and Iron Man have an adventure. I’d also like to remember that Hawkeye is still in that weird western thing.
#170 - 171***: Even if still part of the Korvac saga, these two issues’ plot is all about Ultron. Ultron awakens Jocasta (believed non alive) and the Avengers follow her to the convent where Ultron is hiding. Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel) helps them. These two issues have the conclusion of the Steve & Tony fight and it is absolutely lovely. We find out that the reason why Steve was so angry was that he recently lost his serum and feels a bit useless, not as helpful as he used to be. Iron Man apologises for being such a bad (in Cap’s opinion) chairman and Steve feels all guilty and apologises as well. Iron Man almost tells him that he is Tony Stark, but Steve stops him to assure him that Iron Man can lead, and he will follow. Also, Steve calls Tony tin man, instead of the usual shellhead, when he is mad at him.
#172 - 177*: The plotty Korvac saga. In these issues, Hercules, Quicksilver and Natasha make an appearance, Hawkeye is back; the Avengers fight The Collector (who is destroyed by Korvac); the original Guardians of the Galaxy and Moondragon help the Avengers; Carol and Wonder Man flirt together. The Avengers got their priority status revoked because of security issues (poor Iron Man, what a time to be chairman of the Avengers) so instead of using the quinjet they all take a bus.
#181 - 182*: Scott Lang is introduced as one of Tony’s employee. The government keeps meddling in with the Avengers, dictating that they need seven members (and who they should be: Iron Man, Vision, Cap, Wanda, Beast, Wasp and Falcon who up until now has never been an Avengers). Wonder Man, finding himself out of the Avengers, decide to try acting. Jocasta is still an avenger because “machines don’t need government clearance”. A mysterious Roma shaman named Django Maximoff appears to kidnap Wanda and Pietro, believing they are his lost children. At the end, Wanda takes a leave of absence to investigate the matter along with Pietro and Maximoff.
#183 - 184: Not a necessary storyline, but two nice issues of Avengers against the Absorbing Man. The Avengers keep dealing with the government meddling with their missions.Now that Wanda is away, Carol Danvers joins the Avengers for the first time and Sam Wilson accepts to become an Avenger.
#185 - 187: The Chthon saga. Pietro and Wanda find out about their past. They meet Bova, who explains Pietro how she was created by the High Evolutionary and that she helped a pregnant woman named Magda, running away from her husband. Magda leaves her children with Bova, in Wundagore. The High Evolutionary gives the two children to Django Maximoff and his wife, as they recently lost their own children. Wanda is possessed by Chthon, a demon. Cap leads the Avengers to the rescue, but at the end, Django saves Wanda’s soul at the expense of his own life.
(Pietro returns to the Inhumans and Crystal tells him that they are soon going to have a child.)
Avengers Annual #9*: The Avengers fight the Arsenal, a killer robot created by Howard Stark (and a machine modelled after Maria Stark), alongside Thor and Hawkeye. Some nice scenes of Cap and Iron Man fighting together, Iron Man worrying about Steve and strongly believing in him at the same time. There are also some great and heartbreaking Tony moments in this issue.
(Wanda wants to extend her leave of absence but Gyrich - the government guy who controls the Avengers - feels that the Avengers can’t do as they want, and want to disband the Avengers. Hawkeye is still angry because he is not an Avengers anymore)
#190: Gyrich wants to end the governmental support to the Avengers so they all go to court, lawyers and all. Of course they ‘win’ the trial when an enemy attacks and Gyrich has to admit that the country still needs the Avengers. Daredevil is a guest star.
(The Avengers defeat the Gargoyle, the government decides to losen the hold over the Avengers. Later, Tony Stark and Wonder Man has to face a sudden villain named Inferno while they visit a factory Tony wants to add to his company. They call the Avengers and leave the not-really-villain go as the only thing he wanted was to get justice for criminals trying to kill him)
#194 - 196*: Falcon leaves the Avengers, Tony has trouble with alcohol and wants to let Cap be the chairman. Also, this issue has some nice domestic Avengers scenes.The Avengers help a man running away from a mental institution. Scott Lang appears as Ant-Man, helping the Avengers investigate this Solomon institution. There they have to face Taskmaster, Jocasta saves the day and she officially becomes an Avenger.
#197**: Jocasta is accepted as an official Avenger. Carol and Wanda talk and Carol tells her that she doesn’t need children to feel fulfilled and Wanda agrees with her conclusion… later on, Carol faints and at the hospital she is shocked to find that she is pregant (gosh, this storyline is awful). Iron Man tells Cap that he is stepping down from being the chairman of the Avengers (and Cap is all worried that he somehow caused this decision).
(The Avengers fight a giant robot called the Red Ronin. Ms Marvel reveales to Wanda her secret identity. Hawkeye is called to fight Red Ronin, Nick Fury appears as well. Wanda and Vision agree that they don’t need children. Jocasta seems to have feelings for Vision. Red Ronin is defeated and the Avengers come back home to find Carol seven months pregnant just after two days since they lasy saw her. This is the infamous Carol story that everyone tries to forget and it’s honestly disconcerning that this story has been done for the iconic #200 issue and in the 80s. The only thing to know is that Carol leaves the Avengers In #201 Jarvis has his own private adventure)
#202**: Ultron is back. Tony finds out that he had been hypnothised and made to rebuild Ultron himself, without even remembering it. Tony builds a device that will track his own armor in case Ultron controls him again. Tony, controlled by Ultron, defeats Vision, Jocasta and Wanda. Luckily, Tony wakes up from Ultron’s control, and fights against Ultron, helped by the Wasp. When the Avengers arrive there’s a nice scene where Vision goes to his wife, all concerned, and Steve does the same with Iron Man.
#211: Cap, Iron Man and Thor decide that it’s time to change the Avengers line up. Cap calls a meeting and Moondragon uses her abilities to call different superheroes to the mansion and show their powers. Beast decides to leave the Avengers to be again a scientist, Tigra takes his place. Wanda and Vision decide to try living as ordinary people, so Yellowjacket comes back to the team. Jocasta runs away, hurt that the Avengers did not counted her in, even if later they notice her absence and realise they should have told her beforehand that they had decided to grant her the status as substitute avenger.
#213: Yellowjacket is under trial for having tried to attack an ex villain. He is so stressed that he is quite sharp and terrible with Jan (and has been in the previous issues as well), and with the Avengers, ending up building a robot to attack them so that he can be the hero and save the day. Later on, he hits Janet while she was trying to help/console him. At the trial, after the robot attacks and Janet defeats it, Hank is disonorably discharged for what he had done to Janet and to the Avengers.
#214*: Hank comes back to Janet but she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him and, thankfully, she wants a divorce. Later on, the Avengers fight a villain and Iron Man admires Cap’s resilience that put them all to shame.
#215 - 216***: This is the story where the Avengers find out Tony is Iron Man (Thor already knew). Also, #215 is the first time (as far as I know) Steve 'rides’ on Iron Man fliying, and the first apparition of Tony’s red thong. In general, I think these two issues are great for Tigra’s characte: she is a new Avenger and she is scared, but manages to do the right thing. The Molecule Man, who is more a parody of a villain than a villain, traps Thor, Cap, Iron Man and Silver Surfer, destroying Iron Man’s armor as well. Steve is quite pleased to see that Tony is Iron Man, and surprised when Tony and Don (who is Thor) refuse to back down from the fight just because they are simple humans. Later on, Cap worries about Tony and after the fight Tony wants to kil the villain as his power is too big and he could (and want to) destroy the whole world. Cap stops Tony… luckily, Tigra talked Molecule Man into giving himself up. At the end, Tigra leaves the Avengers.
#217: Janet becomes chairperson of the Avengers. Janet and Hank are divorced. Hank Pym is arrested because of a misunderstanding.
#218**: A man who is cursed to live forever turns into a fire villain. This is the issue where Steve and Tony spends their time saving each others by throwing each others against one and the other. First Cap uses his body to get Tony away from being crushed. Then Tony does the same to avoid seeing Cap burnt. I like to think that this updated closeness is a result of Cap knowing Iron Man’s identity.
(Moondragon and her father Drax the Destroyer need the Avengers help. Janet leads. Tony saves Cap at one point as well in #219. Moondragon manipulates Thor into sleeping with her (that is so creepy) and fighting his fellow Avengers. Thor brings Moondragon to face justice in Asgard)
#221**: At this point Janet, Thor, Cap and Iron Man are the only Avengers left, so they decide to call in new members. Janet would want more women, Cap wants someone who works well in a team, Tony some tech expert and Thor requires courage. Steve and Tony have the cutest telephone conversation (Steve asks Tony to call him Steve instead of Captain America). Cap and Tony recruit Hawkeye, Thor asks Spider-Man, Janet calls the Invisible Woman, Spider-woman, Dazzler, Natasha and She-Hulk. Hawkeye and She-Hulk are approved by the government and they become Avengers.
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This is part 1, from the beginning to the new Avenger team in #221. I decided to start this list whie I was reading the Kree-Srull Wars so my memories of the first arcs are pretty vague regarding the Steve/Tony interactions and plot summaries. I will update this in the future, rereading the first issues.
I’ll add the bonus SteveTony elements if there are any (indicated with * to *** for the amount of SteveTony-ess)! Between the issues to read I will put a brief summary of what happened to understand the story better (they are between parenthesis and in italics).
#1 and #4: Classic issues with how the Avengers are born and the addition of Captain America to the team.
#16 - #28 (more or less) : Cap’s Kooky Quartet. Stories where Wanda, Cap, Clint and Pietro are the Avengers. Some insight in Steve Rogers’ (probable) depression, some fights to decide who is the team leader and in general some great stories!
Avengers Point One: This is a 2017 miniserie that takes place here.
#52: Black Panther joins the Avengers.
#57 - 58: Vision is born!
#63: Clint becomes Goliath.
#89 - 97*: The Kree-Skrull War. It has some nice panels of Iron Man and Cap close together and some nice art, but overall not extremely SteveTony. Still, the story is linear and amazing, and there’s also Carol Danvers in it! The Avengers in this storyline are Wanda, Clint, Pietro and Vision (with Wanda and Clint kidnapped by the Skrulls, which really shows the start of the Vision/Wanda romance), Captain Marvel, Steve, Tony, Thor and some Hank and Wasp.
#98 - 100: The amnesiac Hercules arc. Not a fundamental storyline, but definitely fun. A mysterious tune turnes humans into war thirsty beings, and the Avengers are hypnotised as well. Only Thor and Vision can stop them. Also, it explains where Clint ended up in the Kree-Skrull war, Hercules is back and Wanda admits she is in love with Vision. But no Steve and Tony interactions.
(The Vision and Wanda accept their love, Pietro contacts the Avengers and tells them he is in love with Crystal and is staying with the Inhumans because he can’t accept Wanda and Vision’s relationship; Clint leaves the Avengers because he doesn’t feel ‘super'hero enough and goes looking for Natasha after his love disappointment with Wanda. Nat is with Daredevil and Clint gets angry, so he refuses to help her rescue the Avengers. Nat leaves Darevil and joins the Avengers, feeling mixed feelings about Clint. T'Challa feels the pressure of his nation asking for its prince back.)
#112 - 114*: The Lion God arc (sort of, a issue 113 is a bit of a break from that). Black Panther has to fight against a rival Lion God, Nat ends up leaving the Avengers (so soon!), Wanda and Vision are attacked for their love, Mantis and the Swordman join the Avengers. This story arc has some very faint Iron Man & Cap moments. This has also a nice Tony Stark “I’ll go find Iron Man!” secret identity moment. ALSO, Tony winks at Blake, asking him to find Thor, and Blake realises Tony knows he is Thor, which means that Blake knows Iron Man is Tony Stark.
(The crossover Avengers versus Defenders happen here, and Wanda’s hatred for humans intensify. The Avengers defeat the band of the Zodiac and Cap is not among the Avengers as he has troubles in his own comic)
#123-124: The origin of Mantis and prequel of the Celestial Madonna arc.
(Cap returns to the Avengers)
#126*: The Avengers fight Klaw. Love triangle between Mantis Vision and Wanda, or so the Swordman and Wanda think. Cap wants to leave the shield and ends up leaving the Avengers again, as Black Panther does, Wanda starts to control her powers.
(The Avengers visits the Inhumans and they meet Agatha Harkness and they fight Ultron)
#128: Wanda and Agatha witches together and Wanda’s powers increase. Mantis tells the Swordman she doesn’t love him anymore and tries to kiss Vision.
#129 - Giant Size #2 - #130 - 132 - Giant Size #3 - #133 - 135 -Giant Size #4 *: The Celestial Madonna arc. Kang kidnaps the Avengers, knowing that one of the women is the prophetised Celestial Madonna, who will give birth to a powerful being (and he wants to be the father). This arc contains Kang’s backstory as well, Clint is back, Swordman dies, Moondragon appears and reveals her backstory, Steve Rogers returns as Nomad for a brief moment, Mantis finds out her destiny and marries a tree, the Avengers discover the orign of the Skull Kree war, Wanda and Vision get married after Vision sees his own true origin. What a wild ride! There are some nice scenes of Iron Man being delighted at seeing Cap as Nomad (only in #131, then Steve disappears again).
(Tony meets Hank McCoy - and then Iron Man fights the Beast because of a misunderstanding/mind controlling villain)
#137: A cute domestic issue where Thor, Iron Man and Hawkeye (the only Avengers left) decide to look for new members. Moondragon accepts, Janet and Hank Pym come back, The Beast asks to join the Avengers. There’s also a nice scene with Vision and Wanda on a holiday.
(Hank is worried for Janet, who has been wounded in the previous issue and is in a coma, Hank has some troubles controlling his powers, The Beast cures him, Janet wakes up, Iron Man and Moondragon find out that Hawkeye disappeared, Wanda and Vision are back from their honeymoon)
#141**: Patsy Walker makes an appearance, Cap is back with the Avengers, Thor and Moondragon go looking for Hawkeye. Iron Man decides to help Cap with his enemies because ‘[…] that [SI dealing with that enemy before] and your smiling face are what kept me here’.
(Moondragon and Thor finds Hawkeye in the cowboy era and they defeat Kang once for all - sort of -, the other Avengers are still prisoners in Roxxon and Cap has a plan to escape)
#143 - 144**: Patsy Walker’s backstory! Tony helps Cap and Patsy and compliments Steve’s shield and abilities (and Cap literally made a plan knowing Iron Man would catch him), then they spend a good part of the issue telling to each others how much they missed each others and there are some hilarious panels as well. Patsy becomes Hellcat.
(At this point the story is interrupted for two issues of an extra story, because of editorial reasons. In this short story, assassins are after the Avengers, Hawkeye thinks about his friendship with Cap, Cap is seriously wounded and the end is much darker than usual Avengers stories of those years)
#147: The Avengers continue their Roxxon/Squadron Sinister adventure and escape the enemy, finding the Serpent mind-controllng crown as well. Wanda is affected by it by manages to break the spell (because of love!).
#148*-149: The fight continues. Thor and Moondragon join the other Avengers. The Avengers win, Thor and Hellcat save the day. End of the Roxxon arc.
#150-151*: These two issues introduce the new Avengers team and recap the beginning of the Avengers and how the team changed during the past issues. Thor decides to leave the Avengers because he feels like he is losing his purpose, so far away from the other gods. Thor names Iron Man chairman and the first thing Iron Man does is ask Cap if he is staying (the two have a moment here and Cap tells him that he is staying as the Avengers are his home). Vision, Wanda, Yellowjacket and Janet decide to stay as Avengers, Moondragon decides to leave the Avengers as well as she needs more freedom, Beast is officially accepted as an Avengers, Hellcat wants to be an Avenger but accepts Moondragon’s offer to go with her and train with her. Wonder Man is back!
#152*: At the end of #151, the new Avengers line up (Vision, Wanda, Cap, Iron Man, Beast, Yellowjacket and Wasp) meet Wonder Man, believed dead. After fighting an enemy, Wanda realizes she needs more time to study her powers and she leaves the Avengers. Some nice visual panels of Iron Man and Cap together.
(Wanda looks for the Serpent Crown, Wonder Man looked dead but he is not, The Laser is defeated, the Serpent Crown is thrown in the ocean, the Avengers meet Namor and Doom, and they fight against a statue of the Black Knight)
#158 - 159: The Graviton arc. Vision is still worried he is too mechanical to have human emotions and seeing Wonder Man helping Wanda reminds him that now there’s a flesh and human person with his brain. Wonder Man vs Vision. Iron Man suspends Vision, the Avengers fights against Graviton and Wonder Man helps them. Black Panther and Thor are back, Jarvis saves the day.
#160: Cap, Iron Man and Thor go away because of things to do, the remaining Avengers fight the Grim Reaper who traps them all in a trial to decide which one is the true one: Vision or Wonder Man. Wonder Man reveals that his molecular structure is different now, and he defeats the Grim Reaper.
#161 - 162: Hank has a crisis and believes the Avengers are impostors. Janet stops him and reveals that this has been a problem for a while, but of course Ultron is part of the cause. Jocasta is born, Vision is hurt.
(Janet works, with Tony’s help, to restore Hank’s memory. Natasha, Iceman and Hercules make an appearance.)
#164 - 166*: Count Nefaria wants to re-create Power Man. Tony and Beast study Wonder Man’s new molecular structure and find out he actually never died, simply transformed. Cap and the Avengers are trapped in debris of a crumbled building and Iron Man gets them out; Cap literally says that he has been waiting for him (even if he didn’t know where Iron Man was). Cap and Iron Man discuss in #165 because Iron Man should have been there with them, as chairman of the Avengers and pulls some sassy old man wisdom on him. Thor is back and Vision is awake from his coma thing.
#167 - 168**: The beginning of the Korvac saga. Tony and Cap fight again about Tony being late. Tony is late (as Iron Man) because he was busy as Stark and this double identity thing is really stressing. Cap starts giving orders and Iron Man is baffled - after all he is the chairman. Later on he tells Thor that he is not troubled about it, because he was about to order the same and the panel feel more like it’s showing us a sad Iron Man, than a worried one, and he feels like Cap’s judgement of his leadership is getting personal. The original Guardians of the Galaxy make an appearance. Janet has her runway show.
#169*: Extra one shot volume. It’s not clear if it’s in the same timeline, but it’s not part of the Korvac saga. Cap and Iron Man are doing crosswords and they talk as if they never fought in the previous issues. Black Panther, Cap and Iron Man have an adventure. I’d also like to remember that Hawkeye is still in that weird western thing.
#170 - 171***: Even if still part of the Korvac saga, these two issues’ plot is all about Ultron. Ultron awakens Jocasta (believed non alive) and the Avengers follow her to the convent where Ultron is hiding. Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel) helps them. These two issues have the conclusion of the Steve & Tony fight and it is absolutely lovely. We find out that the reason why Steve was so angry was that he recently lost his serum and feels a bit useless, not as helpful as he used to be. Iron Man apologises for being such a bad (in Cap’s opinion) chairman and Steve feels all guilty and apologises as well. Iron Man almost tells him that he is Tony Stark, but Steve stops him to assure him that Iron Man can lead, and he will follow. Also, Steve calls Tony tin man, instead of the usual shellhead, when he is mad at him.
#172 - 177*: The plotty Korvac saga. In these issues, Hercules, Quicksilver and Natasha make an appearance, Hawkeye is back; the Avengers fight The Collector (who is destroyed by Korvac); the original Guardians of the Galaxy and Moondragon help the Avengers; Carol and Wonder Man flirt together. The Avengers got their priority status revoked because of security issues (poor Iron Man, what a time to be chairman of the Avengers) so instead of using the quinjet they all take a bus.
#181 - 182*: Scott Lang is introduced as one of Tony’s employee. The government keeps meddling in with the Avengers, dictating that they need seven members (and who they should be: Iron Man, Vision, Cap, Wanda, Beast, Wasp and Falcon who up until now has never been an Avengers). Wonder Man, finding himself out of the Avengers, decide to try acting. Jocasta is still an avenger because “machines don’t need government clearance”. A mysterious Roma shaman named Django Maximoff appears to kidnap Wanda and Pietro, believing they are his lost children. At the end, Wanda takes a leave of absence to investigate the matter along with Pietro and Maximoff.
#183 - 184: Not a necessary storyline, but two nice issues of Avengers against the Absorbing Man. The Avengers keep dealing with the government meddling with their missions.Now that Wanda is away, Carol Danvers joins the Avengers for the first time and Sam Wilson accepts to become an Avenger.
#185 - 187: The Chthon saga. Pietro and Wanda find out about their past. They meet Bova, who explains Pietro how she was created by the High Evolutionary and that she helped a pregnant woman named Magda, running away from her husband. Magda leaves her children with Bova, in Wundagore. The High Evolutionary gives the two children to Django Maximoff and his wife, as they recently lost their own children. Wanda is possessed by Chthon, a demon. Cap leads the Avengers to the rescue, but at the end, Django saves Wanda’s soul at the expense of his own life.
(Pietro returns to the Inhumans and Crystal tells him that they are soon going to have a child.)
Avengers Annual #9*: The Avengers fight the Arsenal, a killer robot created by Howard Stark (and a machine modelled after Maria Stark), alongside Thor and Hawkeye. Some nice scenes of Cap and Iron Man fighting together, Iron Man worrying about Steve and strongly believing in him at the same time. There are also some great and heartbreaking Tony moments in this issue.
(Wanda wants to extend her leave of absence but Gyrich - the government guy who controls the Avengers - feels that the Avengers can’t do as they want, and want to disband the Avengers. Hawkeye is still angry because he is not an Avengers anymore)
#190: Gyrich wants to end the governmental support to the Avengers so they all go to court, lawyers and all. Of course they ‘win’ the trial when an enemy attacks and Gyrich has to admit that the country still needs the Avengers. Daredevil is a guest star.
(The Avengers defeat the Gargoyle, the government decides to losen the hold over the Avengers. Later, Tony Stark and Wonder Man has to face a sudden villain named Inferno while they visit a factory Tony wants to add to his company. They call the Avengers and leave the not-really-villain go as the only thing he wanted was to get justice for criminals trying to kill him)
#194 - 196*: Falcon leaves the Avengers, Tony has trouble with alcohol and wants to let Cap be the chairman. Also, this issue has some nice domestic Avengers scenes.The Avengers help a man running away from a mental institution. Scott Lang appears as Ant-Man, helping the Avengers investigate this Solomon institution. There they have to face Taskmaster, Jocasta saves the day and she officially becomes an Avenger.
#197**: Jocasta is accepted as an official Avenger. Carol and Wanda talk and Carol tells her that she doesn’t need children to feel fulfilled and Wanda agrees with her conclusion… later on, Carol faints and at the hospital she is shocked to find that she is pregant (gosh, this storyline is awful). Iron Man tells Cap that he is stepping down from being the chairman of the Avengers (and Cap is all worried that he somehow caused this decision).
(The Avengers fight a giant robot called the Red Ronin. Ms Marvel reveales to Wanda her secret identity. Hawkeye is called to fight Red Ronin, Nick Fury appears as well. Wanda and Vision agree that they don’t need children. Jocasta seems to have feelings for Vision. Red Ronin is defeated and the Avengers come back home to find Carol seven months pregnant just after two days since they lasy saw her. This is the infamous Carol story that everyone tries to forget and it’s honestly disconcerning that this story has been done for the iconic #200 issue and in the 80s. The only thing to know is that Carol leaves the Avengers In #201 Jarvis has his own private adventure)
#202**: Ultron is back. Tony finds out that he had been hypnothised and made to rebuild Ultron himself, without even remembering it. Tony builds a device that will track his own armor in case Ultron controls him again. Tony, controlled by Ultron, defeats Vision, Jocasta and Wanda. Luckily, Tony wakes up from Ultron’s control, and fights against Ultron, helped by the Wasp. When the Avengers arrive there’s a nice scene where Vision goes to his wife, all concerned, and Steve does the same with Iron Man.
#211: Cap, Iron Man and Thor decide that it’s time to change the Avengers line up. Cap calls a meeting and Moondragon uses her abilities to call different superheroes to the mansion and show their powers. Beast decides to leave the Avengers to be again a scientist, Tigra takes his place. Wanda and Vision decide to try living as ordinary people, so Yellowjacket comes back to the team. Jocasta runs away, hurt that the Avengers did not counted her in, even if later they notice her absence and realise they should have told her beforehand that they had decided to grant her the status as substitute avenger.
#213: Yellowjacket is under trial for having tried to attack an ex villain. He is so stressed that he is quite sharp and terrible with Jan (and has been in the previous issues as well), and with the Avengers, ending up building a robot to attack them so that he can be the hero and save the day. Later on, he hits Janet while she was trying to help/console him. At the trial, after the robot attacks and Janet defeats it, Hank is disonorably discharged for what he had done to Janet and to the Avengers.
#214*: Hank comes back to Janet but she doesn’t want to have anything to do with him and, thankfully, she wants a divorce. Later on, the Avengers fight a villain and Iron Man admires Cap’s resilience that put them all to shame.
#215 - 216***: This is the story where the Avengers find out Tony is Iron Man (Thor already knew). Also, #215 is the first time (as far as I know) Steve 'rides’ on Iron Man fliying, and the first apparition of Tony’s red thong. In general, I think these two issues are great for Tigra’s characte: she is a new Avenger and she is scared, but manages to do the right thing. The Molecule Man, who is more a parody of a villain than a villain, traps Thor, Cap, Iron Man and Silver Surfer, destroying Iron Man’s armor as well. Steve is quite pleased to see that Tony is Iron Man, and surprised when Tony and Don (who is Thor) refuse to back down from the fight just because they are simple humans. Later on, Cap worries about Tony and after the fight Tony wants to kil the villain as his power is too big and he could (and want to) destroy the whole world. Cap stops Tony… luckily, Tigra talked Molecule Man into giving himself up. At the end, Tigra leaves the Avengers.
#217: Janet becomes chairperson of the Avengers. Janet and Hank are divorced. Hank Pym is arrested because of a misunderstanding.
#218**: A man who is cursed to live forever turns into a fire villain. This is the issue where Steve and Tony spends their time saving each others by throwing each others against one and the other. First Cap uses his body to get Tony away from being crushed. Then Tony does the same to avoid seeing Cap burnt. I like to think that this updated closeness is a result of Cap knowing Iron Man’s identity.
(Moondragon and her father Drax the Destroyer need the Avengers help. Janet leads. Tony saves Cap at one point as well in #219. Moondragon manipulates Thor into sleeping with her (that is so creepy) and fighting his fellow Avengers. Thor brings Moondragon to face justice in Asgard)
#221**: At this point Janet, Thor, Cap and Iron Man are the only Avengers left, so they decide to call in new members. Janet would want more women, Cap wants someone who works well in a team, Tony some tech expert and Thor requires courage. Steve and Tony have the cutest telephone conversation (Steve asks Tony to call him Steve instead of Captain America). Cap and Tony recruit Hawkeye, Thor asks Spider-Man, Janet calls the Invisible Woman, Spider-woman, Dazzler, Natasha and She-Hulk. Hawkeye and She-Hulk are approved by the government and they become Avengers.
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