This Week’s Updates: Scourge, Black Widow, Avengers, Iron Man

A new story arc begins with CAPTAIN AMERICA #11 (look to the right) featuring not just the return of the murderous vigilante Scourge of the Underworld but the surprising reappearance of Diamondback!
BLACK WIDOW: DEADLY ORIGIN #3 and 4 have also been added here, completing the miniseries surveying the life and career of everyone’s favorite Soviet femme fatale turned Avenger.

Rob Johnson has sent us AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #3, continuing this year’s epic crossover event, as well as the current issue of IRON MAN (#516) wherein Cap has a guest appearance and AGE OF INNOCENCE which sort of wraps up "The Crossing" event from the 90s which Rob has been helpfully untangling for us; that’s here.

And Iron Fan T. Vernon contributes the Titanium Man epic from TALES OF SUSPENSE #69-71 to complete those issues from back in the day. Look here.

Next up: Cap and Hawkeye continue to duke it out with dinosaur symbiotes!

This Week’s Updates: Hawkeye, Avengers, Iron Man and the Crossing! Oh, yeah, there’s a Movie!

The first issue of Cap’s new team-up title has appeared, appropriately called CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HAWKEYE. It debuts with issue #629 (taking up the numbering from CAPTAIN AMERICA AND BUCKY) and gives us Cap and Hawkeye versus dinosaurs! Look here for details.

And as promised, we also have NEW AVENGERS #63 and 64, the last two issues of the first volume of this series, centering on the events of the Siege mega-event. With appropriate links to tie-in issues, those start here.

Iron Fan T. Vernon has added the Iron Man stories to TALES OF SUSPENSE #67 and 68 (here) and Avengers Aficionado Rob Johnson has gone above and beyond the call of duty by writing up what is maybe the most complicated of all Avengers story arcs, THE CROSSING! Cap appears in AVENGERS: TIMESLIDE, IRON MAN #325 and AVENGERS #395. Those can be found here but if you want the full write up on this epic, check out Rob’s Iron Man Library for all the issue synopses. Added bonus, the links between issues work over there!

There was something else… Oh right! A movie about the Avengers called THE AVENGERS opened in the USA over the weekend (they already got it everywhere else). Webmaster Julio has established a page for it so check out the review and synopsis as soon as we’ve given the American audience enough time to see it!

Marvel's The Avengers Movie Page

This Week’s Updates, Cap, Avengers, and X-Men

CAPTAIN AMERICA #10 finally arrived, a couple of weeks late. This finishes the "Powerless" story arc clearing the deck for something more interesting (we hope). That is sitting immediately to the right.

And we’ve added NEW AVENGERS #61-62, the first two parts of the first volume’s final epic, tying in to SIEGE. Steve and Bucky stand side-by-side again. That’s here.

Our Avengers Aficionado Rob Johnson has filled in the details on the current issue of Marvel’s latest ongoing epic, AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #2 and its tie-in AVENGERS (2010) #25. Those are here and here. Thanks, Rob!

Next week, I’ll try to put in CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HAWKEYE #629 (don’t let that number fool you, it’s the first issue of Cap’s rotating team-up title) and finish up the NEW AVENGERS saga. Till then, face front, Pilgrim!

This Week’s Updates: Winter Soldier, Suspenseful Tales, and Questionable Opinions

Again, CAPTAIN AMERICA #10 refused to appear and, like Cap, I was powerless to do anything about it. What’s up with the schedule these days? #5 was also late.

Anyway, what we have is WINTER SOLDIER #4 continuing Bucky’s confrontation with Doctor Doom and the Soviet sleeper agents he trained. That’s here.

Plus, Iron Fan T. Vernon has added the Iron Man stories to TALES OF SUSPENSE #64-66, completing those issues. Find that here.

And I’ve added my reviews and comments to Kevin Hollander’s synopses of CAPTAIN AMERICA (1998) #1-7 for what that’s worth. See that here.

Hope Cap #10 arrives this week.

This Week’s Updates: A Belated Anniversary and AVX

Cap’s 70th Anniversary was in March of 2011, so to honor the Man out of Time, we here present (13 months late) CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS 70th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL which was published in summer 2009! Go figure! And as an appropriate accompaniment, we also have CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #13 which actually was published 70 years ago this month in April 1942! In it Cap and Bucky battle the League of Unicorns and modern-day pirates! With tales of Headline Hunter, the Secret Stamp, and Stan Lee’s strangest creation—the Imp! Look here!

Meanwhile, the big Marvel event of 2012 is AVENGERS VS. X-MEN! The Phoenix Force is coming to Earth and the two superhero teams are divided by their reactions! Rob Johnson has provided the synopsis for issue #1 right here (it really started with #0 but Cap wasn’t in that issue so check the Iron Man Library for details).

Plus, IronFan T. Vernon has added the Iron Man stories to TALES OF SUSPENSE #62 and 63 so those are complete here.

And we can always use more contributors for Cap, Iron Man, and especially Thor. And you can even manage the Thor site if you want! Contact us if you’re interested!

This Week’s Updates: Cap and Spidey Together Again!

First up in a trio of Cap/Spidey teamings, there’s the latest issue of THE AVENGING SPIDER-MAN (#5), wherein the two heroes bond over nerd activities. Really. Look here.

And then in the classic MARVEL TEAM-UP #13 from the 70s, Spidey joins Cap in a mission against the dreaded Grey Gargoyle (the original stoner) at the behest of Nick Fury and SHIELD! That’s here!

And then and then, we have a more recent "all-ages" remake of that battle in MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN TEAM-UP #2. Same great plot, more child-oriented plotting and dialogue, all right here!

Plus over at the Iron Man Library, their Silver Age scribe T. Vernon is busy writing up the Iron Man stories in TALES OF SUSPENSE so those will be showing up under Recently Edited or Added Comics to the right as they appear!

This Week’s Updates: Cap, Bucky, and the Big Three (or Two-and-a-Half)

The story of elderly former Bucky Fred Davis concludes in the final issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA AND BUCKY #628, as Cap and the original Human Torch fight off the menace of Adam III with a timely (pun intended) assist from Fred. That can be found here.

And the full five issues of AVENGERS: PRIME can be found here. A Siege Aftermath special, the epic sends Iron Man, Thor, and Steve Rogers (Bucky Barnes is still Cap at this point) to rescue the Nine Worlds from the depredations of Hela, Goddess of Death. A lot of Asgardean action follows!