Avengers Vol 1 121

Avengers Vol 1 #121 March, 1974 Issue Details Pages 32 Original Price 20c US Editor-in-Chief Len Wein Cover Artist Ron Wilson John Romita Gaspar Saladino "Houses Divided Cannot Stand!" Writer Steve Englehart Penciler John Buscema Inker Don Heck Colourist Petra Goldberg Letterer John Costanza Editor Roy Thomas Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers #120 Avengers #122

Appearing in "Houses Divided Cannot Stand!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Iron Man (Tony Stark) 
  •  Vision 
  •  Thor 
  •  Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) 
  •  Mantis  (Main story and flashback)
  •  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
  •  Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne)  (Main story and flashback)
  •  Black Panther (T'Challa) 

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

• Zodiac Crime Cartel
  • Taurus (First revealed as a Cornelius van Lunt)
  • Ares (Grover Raymond)
  • Gemini (Joshua Link)
  • Aquarius (Darren Bentley)
  • Leo
  • Sagitarrius
  • Virgo
  • Capricorn
  • Libra (Gustav Brandt)
  • Pisces
  • Scorpio (Jacques LaPoint)
  • Cancer

Other Characters:

• Monsieur Khruul (First appearance)
  

Locations:

• New York City
  • World Trade Center
  • Avengers Mansion
• Vietnam (Only in flashback)
• New Jersey

Items:

• Mjolnir
• Iron Man Armor MK IV
• Captain America's Shield
• Captain America's Uniform
• Zodiac's Star Blazer (Destroyed)

Vehicles:

• Zodiac's Star Craft
• Avengers Quinjet
  
  

Synopsis for "Houses Divided Cannot Stand!"

Continued from last issue, the Avengers had traced the Zodiac and their star blaster/ship to the World Trade Center, where the two clashed, until the fight was stopped when Mantis was at risk of falling off the building to her death.

The sudden arrival of Captain America helps the Avengers turn the tide against the Zodiac who retreat, allowing the Vision to save Mantis from falling. Returning to Avengers Mansion, the Swordsman explains how he had met Mantis in Viet Nam after working under the servitude of crime boss Monsieur Khruul and becoming a drunken sot, and how Mantis gave him new purpose in life.

Black Panther rejoins the Avengers, and the group begins searching anew for the Zodiac cartel. Meanwhile, Zodiac members Aries and Tarus come to blows and Aries plans a coup for leadership of the Zodiac. To do so, he contacts Cornelius Van Lunt (unaware that Van Lunt is really his leader Taurus.)

When the dissenting Zodiac members meet with Van Lunt the meeting is crashed by the Avengers. Van Lunt then uses this as an opportunity to deal with the mutiny and kill the Avengers and springs his original trap: Shooting the warehouse into space, trapping all those inside in outer space. Story continued next issue...

Notes

• Captain America appears in this issue after page 6 of Captain America #171.

• This issue contains a letters page, Avengers Assemble!. Letters are published from Robert del Valle, Robert A. Brenner, and Ronald DeLong.

• This issue contains a Series "A" Marvel Value Stamp: #84 - Doctor Doom

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