Avengers West Coast #55 [Direct]

(February 1990)

The Breaking Strain (Table of Contents: 1)

West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

John Byrne (credited)

Pencils

John Byrne (credited)

Inks

Paul Ryan (credited)

Colors

Bob Sharen (credited)

Letters

Bill Oakley (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

High above the golden coastline of southern California...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Avengers West Coast: Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mockingbird [Bobbi Morse]; Dr. Henry Pym; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] (Dark Scarlet Witch); U.S.Agent [Johnny Walker]; Vision; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]
The Avengers: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Thor [Eric Masterson]
Doctor Doom (robot); Ebony (cat); Agatha Harkness; Immortus [Nathaniel Richards] (Other Earth - Earth-6311); Kingpin [Wilson Fisk]; Loki; Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]; Mandarin [Gene Kahn]; Red Skull [Johann Shmidt]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]; Abraham Lincoln [Earth-9002]; John Wilkes Booth [Earth-9002]

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Magneto pulls the Avengers West Coast base into space to try and reach his comatose daughter. The Acts of Vengeance draws to a close as the Avengers figure out Loki is the mastermind behind the plot. Wizard escapes from Avengers headquarters and returns to his villainous allies but the Avengers follow his trail. While the rest of the bad guys go their separate ways, Thor battles Loki and puts a stop to his plans. The Wasp is the first one home from the ordeal and discovers that Wanda has gone mad and taken down U.S.Agent and Wonder Man.

Reprints

• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #141
• in Capitan America (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #79 [Italy]
• in Titans (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #145 (10 février 1991) [-1 page]
• in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #38 ([1993])
• in Capitão América (Editora Abril, 1979 series) #173 (Outubro 1993) [duas páginas cortadas]
• in Avengers West Coast: Darker than Scarlet (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
• in Acts of Vengeance Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) ([March 2011])
• in Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) (2016)
• in Acts of Vengeance: Avengers (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
• in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #19 - Acts of Vengeance (2023)

Keywords

Acts of Vengeance

Indexer Notes

Acts of Vengeance crossover tie-in.
Dark Scarlet Witch storyline and possible "No More Mutants" storyline setup.