Avengers #42 (457) [Direct Edition]
(July 2001)

Marvel, 1998 Series
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Volume
3
Price
2.25 USD; 3.50 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2001-05-30
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel Comics [entire top banner]
Barcode
759606044580 04211
Editing
Marc Sumerak (assistant editor); Tom Brevoort (editor); Joe Quesada (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alan Davis
Inks
Mark Farmer
Colors
Tom Smith
Letters
Richard Starkings; Comicraft; Jason Levine

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Avengers [Wonder Man; Scarlet Witch; Vision; Wasp; Goliath [Hank Pym]; Thor; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Triathlon; Quicksilver]; Kang
Reprints

No More Tomorrows (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Kurt Busiek
Pencils
Alan Davis
Inks
Mark Farmer
Colors
Tom Smith
Letters
Richard Starkings; Comicraft; Jason Levine

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Avengers [Thor; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Firebird; Quicksilver; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Vision; Goliath [Hank Pym]; Warbird [Carol Danvers]; Wasp; Triathlon]; Kang; Scarlet Centurion; Attuma (Cameo); Presence; Winter Guard [Darkstar; Vanguard; Steel Guardian]; Thing (Cameo; future image); Mr. Fantastic (Cameo; future image); Spider-Man (Cameo; future image; mask only); Killraven (cameo; future image); Thundra (cameo; future image); Black Panther (cameo; future image); Chton (cameo; future image); Magneto (cameo; future image); Sunfire (cameo; future image); Toad (cameo; future image); Mystique (cameo; future image); Badoon (cameo; future image); Deviants (cameo);
Synopsis
Kang addresses the members of the United Nations, and the Avengers. After detailing to them the many possible ways that Earth could be destroyed in the coming years, he states that he will save the Earth, but will first conquer it himself.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

One of the future images that Kang shows, with Killraven, Thundra and Black Panther was seen in the Avengers Forever storyline.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Marc Sumerak
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Sanjay Shah, Jaco de Vries, Mark Staff Brandl, Tremayne Miller, Ian Sedensky, Augie De Blieck Jr.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Avengers
  2. 1. No More Tomorrows
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Ralf Haring
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Derek Reinhard