True Believers: What If the Avengers Had Fought Evil During the 1950s? #1

(December 2018)

What If... the Avengers Had Been Formed During the 1950's? (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 33 pages (report information)

Script

Don Glut (credited); Roy Thomas (credited) (concept)

Pencils

Alan Kupperberg (credited) (breakdowns); Bill Black (credited) (finishes)

Inks

Bill Black (credited)

Colors

Carl Gafford (credited)

Letters

Tom Orzechowski (credited)

Genre

historical; superhero

Characters

the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hercules (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; the Vision]; the Avengers [the 3-D Man; Gorilla-Man; the Human Robot; Jimmy Woo (F.B.I. agent); Marvel Boy; Venus]; the Black Dragons (motorcycle gang); the Cold Warrior; Desi Arnaz; Electro (Russian villain); Elvis Presley; Fritz von Voltzmann; the Great Video; Jann of the Jungle; Lucille Ball; Namora; Nikita Kruschev; President Dwight Eisenhower; Professor Matthew Grayson (Marvel Boy's father, flashback); Richard Nixon; Skrulls (flashback); Skull-Face (demon); Suwan; the Watcher; the Yellow Claw

Synopsis

Heroes of the 1950s form their own Avengers team.

Reprints

• from What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #9 (June 1978)

Keywords

Africa; Chinatown; crystal ball; golf; San Francisco; Washington DC

Indexer Notes

Set primarily in San Francisco, Africa and Washington in the 1950s. The story may have happened in Marvel continuity.