Avengers Vol 1 172

	Published
	June, 1978
"Holocaust in New York Harbor!"
	Writer Jim Shooter; Penciler Sal Buscema; Inker Klaus Janson; Colourist Phil Rachelson; Letterer Gaspar Saladino; Denise Wohl; Editor Jim Shooter;

Hey, Avengers? Where's the cake and brass band, huh? Hawkeye's back!

-- Hawkeye

Appearing in "Holocaust in New York Harbor!"

Featured Characters:

Avengers
- Beast (Hank McCoy)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Joins team)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Joins team)
- Moondragon (Heather Douglas) (Joins team)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Joins team)
- Thor
- Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)
- Wasp (Janet van Dyne)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
- Vision
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams)
- Two-Gun Kid (Matt Hawk) (Joins team)

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Tyrak
Collector (Taneleer Tivan) (Cameo) (as shadow figure, only arm revealed)

Other Characters:

Ultron (Corpse)
Sister Jude (First appearance)

Races and Species:

Locations:

New York City
- Manhattan
  - Avengers Mansion
- New York Harbor

Items:

Vehicles:

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter
Quinjet

Synopsis for "Holocaust in New York Harbor!"

Hawkeye returns to Avengers Mansion to discover no one is home! Cautiously entering to look around, he leaves the door open. Henry Gyrich chooses that moment to stop by the mansion, and discovering the door open he quickly becomes aggravated.

At the convent, the Avengers stand over the fallen body of Ultron. Jocasta and Captain America disappear, with no explanation. Perplexed, they allow the nuns to escort them out, and return to Avenger Mansion. There they find Hawkeye and discover that he captured the 'intruder', Gyrich. Freed by Vision, Gyrich angrily denounces their security, and strips them of their Avenger's privileges.

Shortly after Gyrich leaves, Crystal calls to tell them that Pietro has vanished!^[1] Then in comes Jarvis, back from his jog, to tell the Avengers that the harbor is under attack by Tyrak. Iron Man divides the Avengers into task forces - sending Vision, Scarlet Witch, Wonder Man, Hawkeye, and Ms. Marvel to the harbor, Janet and Henry to the phones to call in any and all former Avengers they can get a hold of, and Thor and Beast to be a backup team. He heads to the lab to work on the disappearances.

Arriving in the harbor, the Avengers find Tyrak assaulting a ship. Wanda and Hawkeye get deposited on a Coast Guard Cutter ^[2]. The heroes beat Tyrak when Vision uses his solar beams to dehydrate him, but without their Avengers priority to let them run a Quinjet to pick up their defeated foe, they have nothing to do with him and wind up throwing him back into the ocean. Ms. Marvel leaves, and as the Avengers start walking home, Vision suddenly disappears.

Back at Avengers Mansion, Henry and Janet have managed to contact Black Panther, Hercules, Whizzer, and Captain Marvel. However, Beast has taken a Quinjet!^[3], and Thor is out in Jamaica Bay fighting the Living Monolith. ^[4] Meanwhile in the shadows, we see a cameo of the villain who has kidnaped several Avengers already.

Notes

Letters (story pages): Saladino (uncredited) page 1, Wohl pages 2-17.

This issue contains a letters page, Avengers Assemble". Letters are published from Gerald Speviel, Tim Lukeman, William Nutt, Michale Glover, Ken Rhodes, and Carl Faby.

As seen on page one, this issue is Story# C-798.

This issue is reprinted in comics and books, see references for more info.^[5]

Tyrak previously appeared in issue 156. He will appear next in issue 278.

Trivia

The Beast appears in this issue, then gets a phone call from Lorna Dane in Marvel Team-Up #69, and leaves to rescue the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #111. He would remain with the team through Uncanny X-Men #114, returning to the Avengers with issue #178.

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