The adventures of the Avengers team on the West Coast continues!
The West Coast meets the Old West! Firebird finds herself in the middle of a fight between the Rangers and the Avengers - but will she become the sixth Whacko, or will the Thing? Menaces mount - including Master Pandemonium, Headlok, Griffin and Graviton - while Tigra and Hellcat team up against Tiger Shark! Meanwhile, Hank Pym battles his demons - but who will be his savior? Then, a time-warping terror leaves the West Coast Avengers trapped in the past! Hawkeye meets old friends Two-Gun Kid and Rawhide Kid, but another Western legend spells big trouble for Mockingbird! The sprawling space-time saga spreads to ancient Egypt as the Whackos travel ever further back in time - but what role will Moon Knight play? And will the team ever find its way home?
COLLECTING: West Coast Avengers (1985) 8-24, West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) 1, Avengers Annual (1967) 15
The adventures of the Avengers team on the West Coast continues!
The West Coast meets the Old West! Firebird finds herself in the middle of a fight between the Rangers and the Avengers - but will she become the sixth Whacko, or will the Thing? Menaces mount - including Master Pandemonium, Headlok, Griffin and Graviton - while Tigra and Hellcat team up against Tiger Shark! Meanwhile, Hank Pym battles his demons - but who will be his savior? Then, a time-warping terror leaves the West Coast Avengers trapped in the past! Hawkeye meets old friends Two-Gun Kid and Rawhide Kid, but another Western legend spells big trouble for Mockingbird! The sprawling space-time saga spreads to ancient Egypt as the Whackos travel ever further back in time - but what role will Moon Knight play? And will the team ever find its way home?
COLLECTING: West Coast Avengers (1985) 8-24, West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) 1, Avengers Annual (1967) 15
Steve Englehart's history-making contributions to the Marvel
Universe began with the Beast's solo feature in Amazing Adventures,
in which the eloquent X-Man first assumed furry form. As Avengers
writer, he masterminded such major events as "The
Avengers/Defenders War" (in both teams' titles) and "The Celestial
Madonna Saga." In Captain America, he identified and solved the
"mystery" of the 1950s Captain America (later revived by Ed
Brubaker), and gave the true Cap the alternate identity of Nomad.
Englehart's Dr. Strange storyline in Marvel Premiere established
the character as Sorcerer Supreme and covered the creation of the
universe itself. At DC, he helped revamp Batman, Green Lantern,
Superman and other major heroes for the 1970s. Back at Marvel, he
wrote the first few years of West Coast Avengers and Silver Surfer.
His published novels include Countdown to Flight, Hellstorm (part
of the TALON Force series), Majorca, The Point Man and, with wife
Terry Beach, books in the DNAgers young-adult series. Englehart has
also written TV episodes and designed video games.
From a start at short-lived Atlas/Seaboard, Danny Fingeroth moved
to Marvel to edit multiple Spider-Man titles; and write for
Avengers, Dazzler and What If? During the 1990s, he scripted all
fifty issues of Darkhawk, as well as Spider-Man's Deadly Foes and
Lethal Foes miniseries. Leaving Marvel in 1995, he became Virtual
Comics' editor in chief, and then Visionary Media's senior vice
president for creative production; he has also taught comic-book
writing courses at select universities. In the prose field, he has
written several nonfiction books about the comic-book field, as
well as children's books on noted actors.
Al Milgrom, A.K.A. "Editori-Al," is renowned as writer, editor,
penciler and inker - and held most of those positions on
Spectacular Spider-Man. He also contributed to SSM's sibling
Amazing Spider-Man. He pencilled West Coast Avengers for four years
and inked X-Factor for eight. His artwork has also appeared in
Avengers, Captain America, Thor and most X-titles, including the
classic Kitty Pryde and Wolverine. As editor, he oversaw Marvel's
Epic imprint and the sixty-issue run of Marvel Fanfare, where his
satirical self-portraits made his face as recognizable as any super
hero's mask. At DC, he co-created Firestorm the Nuclear Man with
Gerry Conway.
Formerly a regular artist on Solo Avengers, as well as West Coast,
Mark Bright is noted for working with writer Christopher Priest on
Falcon, Power Man and Iron Fist, Quantum and Woody and other
titles. He has also drawn Marvel's incarnation of G.I. Joe and
several DC flagship characters in Action Comics Weekly, Batman and
Green Lantern.
Steve Ditko (1927 - 2018) began his comics career in the
anthologies of the 1950s, where his unique style and perspective
quickly earned recognition and respect. Recruited to join Stan
Lee's Atlas Comics, later Marvel, in 1958, his nuances contrasted
well with Jack Kirby's bombast. In 1962, in the pages of Amazing
Fantasy, Ditko and Lee brought to life Peter Parker, the Amazing
Spider-Man, changing the industry forever. Leaving Marvel in 1966,
he drew Blue Beetle and Captain Atom for Charlton, Creeper and
Shade the Changing Man for DC, and his independent effort Mr. A.
Ditko returned to Marvel during the late 1970s and remained for
much of the 1980s, co-creating Speedball, Squirrel Girl and other
characters who would prove of unexpected importance in Marvel's
later years.
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