West Coast Avengers #42 [Newsstand]

(March 1989)

One of Our Androids Is Missing! (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

Mike Machlan (credited)

Colors

Paul Becton (credited)

Letters

Bill Oakley (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

She wakes from an uneasy sleep, a sleep which brought her little rest.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Avengers West Coast: Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Mockingbird [Bobbi Morse] (cameo); Hank Pym; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Tigra [Greer Nelson]; Vision (flashback, origin); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
The Avengers: Black Panther [T'Challa] (flashback); Goliath [Hank Pym] (flashback); Hawkeye [Clint Barton] (flashback); Thor [Thor Odinson] (flashback); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (flashback)
Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (flashback); Invisible Woman [Susan Storm Richards] (flashback); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (flashback); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (flashback)
The Invaders: Bucky [James Buchanan Barnes] (flashback) (cameo); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (flashback) (cameo); Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (flashback, origin); Sub-Mariner [Namor] (flashback) (cameo); Toro [Thomas Raymond] (flashback) (cameo)
Immortus [Nathaniel Richards] (Other Earth - Earth-6311) (flashback); Nathaniel Richards (Other Earth - Earth-6311) (flashback); Ultron (flashback); Mad Thinker [as The Thinker (flashback)]; Professor Phineas Horton (flashback); Billy Maximoff; Tommy Maximoff; Ultron (fake)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Wanda wakes up to find the Vision missing. The compound is then attacked by a fake Ultron robot. Pym finds out someone is behind both the missing Vision, the attack and an attack on the Avengers' computers, wiping away all files related to the Vision.

Reprints

• in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #32
• in Titans (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #131 (10 décembre 1989)
• in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #98 (Marzo 1o. de 1990)
• in Avengers West Coast: Vision Quest (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005)
• in Avengers West Coast (Panini France, 2012 series) (octobre 2012)
• in Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) (2016)
• in Vingadores: A Busca pelo Visão (Panini Brasil, 2021 series) (2021)

Keywords

Avengers Compound; Los Angeles

Indexer Notes

Certain art and dialog freely adapted by Byrne from the works of Sal Buscema, Steve Englehart, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, George Tuska, and Carl Burgos.