Avengers Vol 1 137

Avengers Vol 1 #137 Published July, 1975 Editor-in-Chief Marv Wolfman Cover Artist John Romita "We Do Seek Out New Avengers!" Writer Steve Englehart Penciler George Tuska Inker Vince Colletta Colourist Phil Rachelson Letterer Charlotte Jetter Editor Len Wein Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers #136 (Series) Giant-Size Avengers #4 (Story) Avengers #138

Appearing in "We Do Seek Out New Avengers!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Thor 
  •  Iron Man 
  •  Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)  (Joins team)
  •  Wasp  (Joins team)
  •  Vision 
  •  Scarlet Witch 
  •  Hawkeye 

Supporting Characters:

•  Beast 
•  Moondragon 

Antagonists:

•  "The Stranger" 

Other Characters:

• Edwin Jarvis
•  Agatha Harkness 
• Quicksilver
•  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
•  Black Panther (T'Challa) 
•  Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) 
•  Hercules 

Locations:

• New York City
  • Manhattan
    • Avengers Mansion
  • Queens
    • Shea Stadium
• French Polynesia
  • Rurutu
    

Items:

• Mjolnir
• Iron Man Armor MK V

Vehicles:

Synopsis for "We Do Seek Out New Avengers!"

With the death of the Swordsman, loss of Mantis from their ranks and the Vision and Scarlet Witch on a honeymoon to Rurutu, the Avengers place an open call asking for potential superheroes to join the Avengers, and that they will be at Shae Stadium seeking out recruits. Proposing to past members, the Avengers get full declines from everyone except for Yellowjacket and the Wasp. The Avengers also extend an invitation for membership to Moondragon who accepts the offer. A frustrated Hawkeye seeks to recruit the Black Knight into the Avengers ranks and seeks to use the time machine at the Avengers disposal in order to seek out the Knight.

Meanwhile, the Avengers wait for the recruits to show up at Shea Stadium and they are met by the Beast who offers to join the group as well. Their testing of the Beasts abilities is interrupted when they are attacked by the "Stranger" and a number of his alien machines, who has come seeking the location of the Scarlet Witch. During the fight, the Wasp is seriously injured, and the "Stranger" flees leaving the Avengers to rush the injured Wasp to a hospital...

Notes

• Rurutu was last visited by the Vision and Scarlet Witch in the Avengers/Defenders war (Avengers 116).

• Beast last appeared in Captain America #175 and before that in his own series: Amazing Adventures #11-17.

• This issue is reprinted in comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]

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