Avengers: The Initiative Vol 1 3

Part of the Initiative event
Avengers: The Initiative #3
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Art by: Jim Cheung
Cover Date	August, 2007
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Joe Quesada
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Country	USA

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

Appearing in "Bug Hunt"

Featured Characters:

• Initiative
  • Staff
    • Gauntlet
    • Henry Peter Gyrich
    • Justice (Vance Astrovik)
    •  War Machine (Commander Rhodes) 
    • "Yellowjacket (Dr. Hank Pym)"
  • Consultants/X-Men
    •  Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy)  (Joins Team)
    •  Dani Moonstar 

• • Trainees
    • Cloud 9
    • Hardball (Roger) (First name first revealed)
    • Komodo (Melati) (First appearance in human form; First name first revealed)
    • Trauma (Terrance Ward) (Assumed the forms of Beast (Hank McCoy) and Demon Bear)

Supporting Characters:

• Initiative
  • Staff
    •  Hellcat  (Joins from trainees to staff)
    •  Stingray  (Joins from trainees to staff)
    •  Thing (Commander Benjamin J. Grimm)  (Joins Team as Guest consultant)

• • Trainees
    • Bengal
    •  Gargoyle 
    • Earth-721 Hulkling
    • Rage
    • Scorpion
    • Slapstick
    •  Triathlon 

• • Mighty Avengers
    •  Black Widow 
    • Wonder Man

• • Red Team/"Scarlet Spiders" (First appearance)
    • Scarlet Spider (First appearance)
    • Scarlet Spider (First appearance)
    • Scarlet Spider (First appearance)
  • Tony Stark (Mentioned)
•  Spider-Man (Peter Parker) 
•  Dr. Curtis Connors  (Also mentioned as the Lizard)
• Senator Woodman (Unnamed)

Adversaries:

• Sinister Syndicate
  •  Boomerang (Fred Myers) 
  •  Hydro-Man (Morris Bench) 
  •  Shocker (Herman Schultz) 
• Hydra (Mentioned)

Other Characters:

• She-Hulk (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only)
• Gauntlet's "two-year-old" (Mentioned)
• Abomination (Mentioned)
• Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation (Mentioned)
• Beetle (Mentioned)
• Rhino (Mentioned)
• Speed Demon (Mentioned)
• Speedball (Mentioned)
• The President (Mentioned)
• Doc Ock (Mentioned)
• Sandman (Mentioned)
• Venom (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Washington, D.C.
• Connecticut
  • Stamford
    • Camp Hammond
      • Subbasement 9
      • Briefing Room 1 (First appearance)
    • Pub Master ...wordsman Pub (First appearance)
• New York State
  • New York City, Manhattan
    • Rooftop of Bailey's Auction House (First appearance)
• Negative Zone (Mentioned)
  • Prison 42 (Mentioned)

Items:

• Iron Spider Armor
• Gauntlet's gauntlet
• Jim Hammond (Statue)
• Super-Power Inhibiting Nanobots (S.P.I.N.)
• War Machine Armor
• Lizard-Formula (Mentioned)

Vehicles:

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Plane
• S.H.I.E.L.D. flying cycle (Init 002)

Synopsis for "Bug Hunt"

• Synopsis not yet written

Notes

• Part of the Initiative.
• Komodo's human form is first revealed.