Avengers West Coast
#56
[Newsstand]
(March 1990)
Marvel,
1989 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics
- Barcode
- 071486021001 03
- Editing
- Howard Mackie (editor); Len Kaminski (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
© 1990 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc.
This issue is a variant of Avengers West Coast (Marvel, 1989 series) #56 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Avengers West Coast (Marvel, 1989 series) #56 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
The Witch is Back! Darker than Scarlet...
West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Avengers West Coast: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Dr. Henry Pym; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]
Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #146 -
in Los Nuevos Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1987 series) #53 (junio 1991) -
in Avengers West Coast: Darker than Scarlet (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008) [recolored; new trade dress] which is reprinted -
in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection (Hachette Partworks, 2011 series) #214 - Avengers West Coast: Darker Than Scarlet... (January 2022) [new trade dress] - in Atlantis Attacks Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) (2016) [sans logo and text], (2016) [sans original logo and text], (2016)
- in Avengers West Coast Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #5 - Darker than Scarlet (2021) [recolored; new trade dress]
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![Cover Thumbnail for Avengers West Coast (Marvel, 1989 series) #56 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/918/w200/918924.jpg?1100155654977679512)
![Cover Thumbnail for Avengers West Coast (1989 series) #56 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/19/w100/19415.jpg?5895291519837994834)
![Cover Thumbnail for Avengers West Coast (1989 series) #56 [Mark Jewelers]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1412/w100/1412072.jpg?3333806734674594183)
Darker Than Scarlet
West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Avengers West Coast: Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Dr. Henry Pym; Tigra [Greer Nelson] (flashback); U.S.Agent [Johnny Walker]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]
Agatha Harkness; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Immortus [Nathaniel Richards]; Lockjaw; Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Ann Raymond; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Wanda has gone mad and holds the Avengers captive.
- Reprints
- in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #146
-
in Titans (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #146 (10 mars 1991) - in Los Nuevos Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1987 series) #53 (junio 1991)
-
in Capitão América (Editora Abril, 1979 series) #174 (Novembro 1993) - in Avengers West Coast: Darker than Scarlet (Marvel, 2008 series) (2008)
- in Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) (2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Dark Scarlet Witch storyline
Reunion
West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's no getting round it, Sersi.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Invaders: Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes] (cameo flashback); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo flashback); Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (cameo flashback); Sub-Mariner [Namor] (cameo flashback); Toro [Thomas Raymond] (cameo flashback)
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Sersi [Circe] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Captain America and the Human Torch meet for the first time since the Torch's revival.
- Reprints
- in Titans (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #146 (10 mars 1991)
- in Los Nuevos Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1987 series) #53 (junio 1991)
- in Grandes Heróis Marvel (Editora Abril, 1983 series) #42
- in Atlantis Attacks Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) (2016)
- in Atlantis Attacks: The Original Epic (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
And Now... Here's That Important Announcement...
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- John Byrne
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Humorous page featuring John Byrne as he explains a continuity gaffe.
West Coast-Lines
West Coast-Lines / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Craig William Williams, Raoul Dennis, Yosef Vdolyak and Harry (The Rat) Ronalds. Promo's for Avengers Spotlight #30 and Avengers #315, including miniature cover previews.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Witch is Back! Darker than Scarlet...
West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast -
1.
Darker Than Scarlet
West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast -
2.
Reunion
West Coast Avengers / Avengers West Coast -
3.
And Now... Here's That Important Announcement...
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4.
West Coast-Lines
West Coast-Lines
This issue was modified by
- Ruben Cortes
- Peter Croome
- Derek Reinhard
- Richard Thomson
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