Avengers Vol 1 233

Avengers Vol 1 #233 July, 1983 Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter Cover Artists John Byrne Joe Sinnott Publisher Marvel Comics "The Annihilation Gambit!" Writers Roger Stern John Byrne Pencilers John Byrne Inkers Joe Sinnott Colourists Christie Scheele Letterers Jim Novak Editors Mark Gruenwald Michael Carlin Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers #232 Avengers #234

Appearing in "The Annihilation Gambit!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
  •  Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) 
  • Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
  •  She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) 
  •  Starfox 
  •  Thor /Donald Blake
  •  Wasp (Janet van Dyne) 

Supporting Characters:

• Alicia Masters
•  Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) 
•  Vision 
• Fantastic Four
  •  Human Torch (Johnny Storm) 
  •  Invisible Girl (Susan Richards) 
  •  Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) 
• Franklin Richards

Adversaries:

•  Annihilus 

Other Characters:

• Bernie Rosenthal
• Cross Technological Enterprises
  • Jorge Latham (First appearance)
• Female paramedic

Locations:

• New York
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • Broadway
      • Avengers Mansion
      • Baxter Building
    • Brooklyn Heights
      • 569 Leaman Place
  • Long Island
    • Long Island City
      • Cross Technological Enterprises Headquarters
• Earth Orbit
• Moon
• Sun

Items:

• Captain America's Shield
• Mjolnir
• Trick Arrows

Vehicles:

• Avenger's Quinjet
• Starcore-One
  
  

Synopsis for "The Annihilation Gambit!"

The invisible barrier which surrounds the Baxter Building is the work of the Fantastic Four's nemesis, Annihilus, who has escaped from the Negative Zone and trapped the foursome therein. Having lost the Cosmic Control Rod which sustained his immortality, the mad villain has decided that if he must die, so must all living things. He has therefore generated a "null-field," within which a positive-energy field grows; when the two meet, Earth's universe and the Negative Zone will merge and be destroyed. The Avengers assemble, but fail to breach the field or slow its inexorable growth. The Vision and the Scarlet Witch arrive to help, but when the android steps through the barrier, he is instantly deactivated. Fortunately, Starfox recognizes what Annihilus is attempting, and a plan is conceived. Captain Marvel flashes into space in light form and merges with a beam from the sun-orbiting Starcore satellite, becoming a gamma-ray laser which succeeds in neutralizing the null-field. Entering the Baxter Building, the Avengers find the Fantastic Four, who have returned from the Negative Zone.

Notes

• Continued from Fantastic Four #256 (July 1983).
• Plot by Stern and Byrne, script by Stern.
• Vision sustains injury due to Annihilus' null-field, becoming incapacitated.
• Thor is forcibly turned into his Donald Blake alter ego when Mjolnir is trapped on the other side of the null-field.
  

Trivia

• Hawkeye's leg is in a cast thanks to an earlier injury.

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