Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 1

Part of the Initiative event
Avengers: The Initiative #1
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Art by: Jim Cheung
Alternate Covers
1 - Variant 2 - Joined Textless Covers
Cover Date	June, 2007
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Joe Quesada
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Country	USA

1. "Happy Accidents"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Dan Slott
Penciler(s)	Stefano Caselli
Inker(s)	Stefano Caselli
Letterer(s)	Joe Caramagna
Editor(s)	Tom Brevoort

Appearing in "Happy Accidents"

Featured Characters:

• Initiative
  • Staff
    • Gauntlet/Sergeant (First full appearance)
    •  Justice (Vance Astrovik) 
    •  War Machine (James Rhodes) 
  • Trainees
    • Hardball (First full appearance) (Joins Team)
    • Cloud Nine (Abigail "Abby" B.) (First full appearance) (Joins Team)
    • MVP (Michael van Patrick)/"Captain America Jr." (First full appearance; Death) (Joins Team)
    • Trauma (First full appearance) (Joins Team) (Assumed the form of a giant spider)
    • Armory (First appearance) (Joins and leaves teams)
    • Komodo (First full appearance) (Joins Team)

Supporting Characters:

• Initiative
  • Staff
    • Secretary Henry Peter Gyrich/"Carrot Top"
    •  She-Hulk (Jen Walters) 
    • "Yellowjacket (Dr. Hank Pym)"
    • Baron von Blitzschlag (First full appearance)

• • Trainees
    •  Bengal (Duc No Tranh) 
    •  Constrictor (Frank Schlichting) 
    • Debrii (Deborah Fields)
    • Hellcat (Patsy Walker)
    • Earth-721 Hulkling (Teddy Altman) (Cameo)
    • Network (Val Martin)
    •  Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) 
    • Prodigy (Richard Gilmore) (Cameo)
    •  Rage (Elvin Haliday) 

• • • Rangers
      • Red Wolf (William Talltrees)
      • Texas Twister (Drew Daniels) (Cameo)

• • • Scorpion (Carmilla Black)
    •  Slapstick (Steven Harmon) 
    • Stature (Cassie Lang)
    •  Stingray (Walter Newell) 
    • Thor Girl (Tarene)
    •  Triathlon (Delroy Garrett) 
    • Ultragirl (Suzy Sherman)
    • Earth-721 Wiccan (Bill Kaplan) (Cameo)

• • Mighty Avengers
    •  Ares 
    •  Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) 
    •  Wasp (Janet van Dyne) 
    •  Wonder Man (Simon Williams) 
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Cape-Killers
  • Tony Stark (Mentioned)

Adversaries:

• Hydra
•  Ultimo 

Other Characters:

•  Doc Samson 
• US Army
  • "Desert Eagle" (Voice only)
• US Air Force
• Brian van Patrick (First appearance)
• Anti-Initiative protesters
• Dr. Abraham Erskine (Mentioned)
• New Warriors (Mentioned)
• Curt Connors (Mentioned)
• Thunderbolts (Mentioned)
• Masters of Evil (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Iraq
  • Baghdad
• United States of America
  • Illinois
    • Evanston
  • Kentucky
    • Liberty
      • Van Patrick Farm
  • California
    • San Francisco
  • Connecticut
    • Stamford
      • Camp Hammond
        • Observation Deck (First appearance)
        • Combat Simulator (First appearance)
        • Yellowjacket's Lab (First appearance)

Items:

• Tactigon (First appearance)
• Gauntlet's gauntlet (First appearance)
• War Machine Armor
• Combat-Bots
• Super-Soldier Serum (Mentioned)
• Lizard-Formula (Mentioned)

Vehicles:

• US Army Hummers
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Bus
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicopters

Events:

• Civil War (Mentioned)
• M-Day (Mentioned)
• World War II (Mentioned)

Synopsis for "Happy Accidents"

• Synopsis not yet written

See Also

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