Avengers Vol 1 684

Part of the Marvel Legacy event
Part of the Avengers: No Surrender storyline

Avengers #684

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Alternate Covers

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Release Date

March 14, 2018

Cover Date

May, 2018

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

C.B. Cebulski

Rating

T+ (13 and up)

Original Price

$4.99

Get the Hell away from them. Oh, yeah. You're in trouble now, you dad-gummed son of a gun... 'cause here comes the Iron Hulk. God bless America.

—Iron Hulk

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Appears in flashback and main story)
Avengers (Main story and recap)
- Thor (Jane Foster) (Main story and recap)
- [[Falcon (Sam Wilson)|Captain America]][[Category:Falcon (Sam Wilson)/Appearances]] (Main story and recap)
- Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne)
- Hercules (Main story and recap)
Avengers Unity Division (Main story and recap)
- Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy) (Main story and recap)
- Doctor Voodoo (Jericho Drumm) (Main story and recap)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)
- Rogue (Anna Marie) (Main story and recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
- Synapse (Emily Guerrero)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams)
U.S.Avengers
- Iron Hulk (Gen. Robert L. Maverick) (First appearance as Iron Hulk)
- Enigma (Aikku Jokinen)
- Dr. Toni Ho
- Citizen V (Bobby Da Costa)
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (Main story and recap)
Lightning (Miguel Santos) (Main story and recap)
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Main story and recap)

Supporting Characters:

Edwin Jarvis

Antagonists:

Hulk (Dr. Bruce Banner) (Main story and flashback)
Elders of the Universe (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Challenger
- Voyager ("Valerie Vector") (Appears in flashback and main story) (Origin revealed)
- Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) (Appears in flashback and main story)
Lethal Legion
- Mentacle (Apparent Death)
- Captain Glory (Gla-Ree)

Other Characters:

Rick Jones (Only in flashback)
Dear Lord / God (Invoked) (Appears in flashback and main story)
Ultron's bio-slave (Recap)
Major Glenn Talbot (Recap)
Doc Samson (Leonard Samson) (Recap)
Brotherhood of the Shield (Behind the scenes in recap)
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Recap)
Tony Stark (Recap)
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) (Recap)
Director Maria Hill (Recap)
Logan (Recap)
The Hand (Recap)
- Beast of the Hand (Recap)
Daniel Drumm (Mentioned) (Recap)
Hydra (Only in flashback)
- Arnim Zola (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Faustus (Johann Fennhoff) (Behind the scenes in flashback)
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Recap)
Squadron Sinister (Recap)
- Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (Recap)
- Whizzer (James Sanders) (Recap)
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (Recap)
Arabian Knight (Abdul Qamar) (Recap)
Darkstar (Laynia Pretovna) (Recap)
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (Recap)
She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Recap)
Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (Recap)
Founding Avengers (Recap)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Recap)
- Thor Odinson (Recap)
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Recap)
Unnamed alien "Avengers Fever" pathogen (Mentioned)
Squirrel Girl (Doreen Green) (Frozen)
Vision (Frozen)
Professor Arthur Vector (Single appearance)^[1] (Only in flashback)
Galactus (Mentioned)
Loki (Recap)
Lethal Legion
- Blood Brothers (Unconscious)
- Metal Master (Molyn) (Unconscious)

Races and Species:

Humans (Appears in flashback and main story)
Human-Kree Hybrids (Recap)
Mutants (Main story and recap)
Demons (Recap)
Cosmic Beings (Appears in flashback and main story)
Human-Otherworlder Hybrids (Recap)
Synthezoids
Frost Giants (Recap)
Asgardians (Recap)
Rigellians
Kree
Roclites
Astrans
Human-Inhuman Hybrids

Locations:

Below-Place (First appearance; unnamed)
Earth-616 / Prime Marvel Universe (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Earth (Appears in flashback and main story)
  - United States of America / Hydra Nation (Appears in flashback and main story)
    - New Mexico (Appears in flashback and main story)
      - Chihuahuan Desert (Recap)
        Los Diablos Missile Base (Recap)
      - Gamma Base (Recap)
    - New York (Appears in flashback and main story)
      - New York City (Appears in flashback and main story)
        Manhattan (Appears in flashback and main story)
        Upper East Side
        Lenox Hill
        Lenox Hill Hospital
        
        Midtown (Mentioned)
        
        Queens (Main story and recap)
        Avengers Auxiliary Headquarters (Main story and recap)
    - Utah (Recap)
      - Outside Alpine (Recap)
    - Nevada (Appears in flashback and main story)
      - The Mount (Ruins in main story and flashback)
    - Michigan (Recap)
      - Detroit (Recap)
    - Texas
      - Laredo
  - Earth Orbit
    - Grandmaster's Cosmic Game Room
- Astral Plane (Recap)
- Hell (Invoked)
Earth-14831 (Recap)
- Planet Ultron (Recap)
  - Ultron's maintenance hub (Recap)

Items:

Green Door (First appearance; unnamed)
Gamma Bomb (Recap)
Captain America's Shield (Recap)
Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows (Appears in flashback and main story)
Gamma-enriched Vibranium arrow tips (Only in flashback)
Spider-Armor MK IV (Recap)
Web-Shooters (Behind the scenes in recap)
Mjolnir (Recap)
Captain Marvel's Suit (Recap)
Captain America's Uniform (Recap)
Falcon's Wings (Main story and recap)
X-Uniforms (Main story and recap)
Arnim Zola's Robotic Body (Only in flashback)
Soul Pyramoid
Captain Britain's Uniform (Recap)
Arabian Knight's Magic Scimitar (Recap)
Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Recap)
Daredevil's Suit and Billy Club (Recap)
Wasps' Suits and Bio-Synthetic Wings
Hulk Plug-In
Enigma Armor (Destruction)
Iron Patriot Armor Model 4 (Cameo)
"Blue Spots" (First full appearance)
Iron Man Armor Model 1 MK II (Recap)
Staff of Legba
Corvus Glaive's Glaive
Iron Patriot Armor Model 5

Vehicles:

Hydra Helicarrier (Only in flashback)
Quinjet

Synopsis for 1st story

Synopsis not yet written

Solicit Synopsis

NO SURRENDER Part 10

THE AVENGERS WEEKLY EPIC CONTINUES IN THIS OVERSIZED ISSUE!

Back from the dead! He cannot be reasoned with. He will not be stopped. Bruce Banner isn’t home right now. There is only THE IMMORTAL HULK.

Notes

Continuity Notes[]

The following issues, which depict the many deaths and/or returns of the Hulk, are referenced between pages 2 and 9:
- Pages 2-3: Incredible Hulk #1
- Page 4
  - Panel 1: Avengers: Ultron Forever #1
  - Panel 3: Tales to Astonish #69
  - Panel 5: Incredible Hulk #225
  - Panel 7: Incredible Hulk #367
  - Panel 9: Incredible Hulk #446
  - Panel 11: Indestructible Hulk #20
- Pages 5-6: Civil War II #3
- Pages 6-7: Uncanny Avengers (Vol. 3) #17
- Page 8: Secret Empire #5
- Page 9: Secret Empire #6
Pages 5-6 reveal Banner had given strict instructions to Hawkeye as to how he could use the gamma-enriched Vibranium arrow tips custom-built by him to kill the Hulk.
Pages 6-7 reveal Banner tried to tell Doctor Voodoo that the Hand had no control over the Hulk, but he couldn't be heard.

Chronology Notes[]

Events occur between the pages of this story that affect the chronology of the following characters:

Hulk
- [[|Star-Lord Annual Vol 1 1]]Page 8[[|-]]
- [[|Avengers Vol 1 682]]Page 10 forward[[|-]]

Publication Notes[]

A recount of the drawing process of this comic's main cover can be found in Mark Brook's Instagram account (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Even though it is said to be in Midtown, the Lenox Hill Hospital is actually located at the Upper East Side.

Trivia

Al Ewing's inspiration for a green door as the imagery for the Hulk's immortality came from the Frankie Vaughan cover of the song Green Door.^[2]

Links and References

References

↑ First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks
↑ Richards, Dave (March 14, 2018). Avengers: No Surrender Writers Talk Hulk’s Return & Voyager’s True Identity. CBR. Retrieved on March 19, 2018.

[Only_Appearance-1] First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks

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