Avengers Vol 1 252

	Published
	February, 1985
"Deciding Factor!"
	Writer Roger Stern; Penciler Bob Hall; Inker Joe Sinnott; Colorist Christie Scheele; Letterer Jim Novak; Editor Mark Gruenwald; Howard Mackie;

Appearing in "Deciding Factor!"

Featured Characters:

Avengers

Supporting Characters:

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:

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

Vehicles:

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.

Avengers Vol 1 252

Appearing in "Deciding Factor!"

Synopsis for "Deciding Factor!"

Notes

Trivia

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