Appearing in "This Hostage Earth!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Mole Man ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Numerous unnamed Moloids (Main story and recap)
- Monk ⏵ (First appearance)
- ⏴ Red Ghost ⏵
Other Characters:
- Fantastic Four (Only in recap)
- Invisible Girl (Susan Storm) (Only in recap)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Only in recap)
- The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Only in recap)
- Miss Mayhew (First appearance)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- Teen Brigade (Mentioned)
- NYPD
- Super-Apes (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Ants
- Asgardians
- Moloids (Main story and recap)
- Tigers (Mentioned)
- Apes (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America
- Italy (Cameo)
- Pisa (Cameo)
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Cameo)
- Pisa (Cameo)
- Subterranea (Main story and recap)
- The Mole Man's Subterranean lair
- Moon, Earth Orbit (Mentioned)
- Heavens (Invoked)
Items:
- Giant-Man's Suit
- Wasp's Suit and Bio-Synthetic Wings
- Mjolnir
- Iron Man Armor MK II
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield
- Fantastic Four Uniforms (Only in recap)
- Mole Man's Atomic Gyroscope
- Moloids' portable battering devices
- Moloid tank
- Mole Man's stun gun
- Image Projector
- Transistorized fox-hole diggers
- Hyper-ionic rockets
Events:
- X-Mas (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "This Hostage Earth!"
Giant-Man believes something dangerous is happening beneath the earth, but none of the other Avengers believe him, so he heads underground himself to investigate. Shortly after, he is captured by Mole Man. More damage occurs and the Avengers discover Giant-Man was correct, so they invade Mole Man's underground base.
Meanwhile, the Red Ghost approaches the Mole Man and they make an alliance. The Wasp frees Giant-Man, and the team stops the Mole Man and Red Ghost's plans.
Notes
- Since the events of Tales of Suspense #61 occurred prior to Avengers #11, it stands to reason that all the heroes solo titles for this month all occur prior to the events of Avengers #11.
- Mole Man was last seen in Fantastic Four #31.
- Giant-Man references the Fantastic Four's battle with the Mole Man in Fantastic Four #22, where the Mole Man plotted to sink major cities into the center of the Earth and get revenge on the Fantastic Four following his original defeat at their hands back in Fantastic Four #1.
- Thor mentions Mole Man's apparent demise at the hand of the Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four #31. In that issue, the Avengers attempted to intervene in the Fantastic Four's attempt to stop him in this issue.
- The image projector the Wasp uses to try and find Giant-Man in this issue was last used in Avengers #3 when Iron Man was searching for the Hulk.
- The Red Ghost, who makes his appearance later in this issue, was last seen in Fantastic Four #29. He debuted in Fantastic Four #13 where he and his super-apes battled the Fantastic Four on the moon.
- Thor is next seen in Journey Into Mystery #113, where he attempts to reveal his identity as Don Blake to Jane Foster and battles the Grey Gargoyle.
- Iron Man is next seen battling the Mandarin (again) in Tales of Suspense #62.
- Captain America is next seen also in Tales of Suspense #62, preventing a jail break.
- Giant-Man and Wasp are next seen in Tales to Astonish #64 where they battle Attuma.
- The Mole Man and Red Ghost are next seen in Fantastic Four Annual #3 where they are manipulated by Dr. Doom to crash Reed Richards and Sue Storm's wedding.
- References: Fantastic Four #22, Fantastic Four #31, Avengers #3, and Fantastic Four #13
Trivia
- This issue includes a letter in the letters column from a 16-year-old George R. R. Martin, creator of the Game of Thrones book series.