Avengers Vol 1 252

Avengers Vol 1 #252 Published February, 1985 Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter Cover Artist Bob Hall Joe Sinnott "Deciding Factor!" Writer Roger Stern Penciler Bob Hall Inker Joe Sinnott Colourist Christie Scheele Letterer Jim Novak Editor Mark Gruenwald Howard Mackie Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers #251 Avengers #253

Appearing in "Deciding Factor!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  • Vision
  • Starfox (Eros)
  •  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
  • Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
  • Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau)
  •  Hercules 

Supporting Characters:

• Edwin Jarvis
•  Dane Whitman 

Antagonists:

•  Blood Brothers 

Other Characters:

•  Doc Samson (Leonard Samson)  (Main story and recap)
• Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Recap)
• Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Mentioned)
• Unnamed firefighters
• Unnamed police
• Unnamed civilians
• Charlie
• Thanos (Mentioned)
• Death (Mentioned)
• West Coast Avengers (Mentioned)
• Abigail Jarvis (Mentioned)
• United States Army
  • Colonel Farnam
• Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Mentioned)
• Chronos (Invoked)
• Lord (Yahweh) (Invoked)

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story and recap)
• Synthezoids
• Titanians
• Mutants (Named only)
• Human-Olympian Hybrids
• Monkeys (Mentioned)
• Roclites

Locations:

• Solar System (Main story and recap)
  • Earth (Main story and recap)
    • United States of America (Main story and recap)
      • New York (Main story and recap)
        • New York City
          • Manhattan
            • Midtown
              • Fifth Avenue
                • Avengers Mansion
          • Hudson River (Referenced)
        • Montauk Point State Park, East Hampton (Mentioned)
      • Chicago, Illinois (Mentioned)
      • New Jersey
        • Bergen County
          • Leonia
            • Scarlet Witch and Vision's home (Destruction)
      • Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
      • Arizona
        • Former base of Thanos
    • Caribbean, Atlantic Ocean (Mentioned)
    • Pacific Ocean (Mentioned)
  • Titan, Saturn (Mentioned)
  • Pluto (Mentioned)
  • Near Jupiter
• Paradise (Mentioned)

Items:

• Scarlet Witch's Suit
• Captain America's Uniform and Shield
• Vision's Encephalatron Command Chair (Main story and recap)
• Captain Marvel's Suit
• Avengers Identicard
• Ebony Blade

Vehicles:

• Avenger's Quinjet
• Sanctuary
  
  

Synopsis for "Deciding Factor!"

After an anti-mutant group burns down the New Jersey home of the Vision and the Scarlet Witch, the android Avenger overcomes his indecision and prepares to implement his plan for world control, but he first must lure his teammates away so that they cannot interfere. He sends Captain Marvel to inspect Thanos's starship, abandoned beyond the orbit of Pluto, while the other Avengers are dispatched to join an army unit studying the technology of the mad Titanian's desert base. When a teleport device there causes the inhumanly strong Blood Brothers to materialize, Captain America, the Scarlet Witch, and Starfox manage to keep them busy until they are dispatched by Hercules. Back at Avengers Mansion, meanwhile, former member Dane Whitman arrives unexpectedly and is taken captive by security devices to become the sole witness to the Vision's machinations.

Notes

• Vision offers Doc Samson membership in the Avengers, but he declines.
• Incited by anti-mutant hysteria, Scarlet Witch and Vision's Leonia, New Jersey home is burned down.
• After he sees his home burned down, Vision decides its time to take over the world, for its own protection. He sends the remaining Avengers on two different missions, with the majority going to a former base of Thanos' in the southwest, and Captain Marvel being sent to Thanos' Sanctuary starship.
  

Trivia

• This is the "infamous" issue where Hercules loses his skirt in battle. This results in him changing costumes, utilizing his first costume with pants.

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Recommended Reading

• Avengers #238 (Vision first connects with ISAAC)
• Avengers #243 (Vision begins laying the groundwork for his takeover)
• Avengers #253 (Vision takes over the world's computers)

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