Avengers Vol 1 43

Avengers Vol 1 #43 Published August, 1967 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist John Buscema George Bell Stan Goldberg Artie Simek "Color Him... the Red Guardian!" Writer Roy Thomas Penciler John Buscema Inker George Bell Letterer Jerry Feldman Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Avengers #42 Avengers #44

Appearing in "Color Him... the Red Guardian!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  •  Hawkeye 
  •  Quicksilver 
  •  Captain America (Steve Rogers) 
  •  Scarlet Witch 
  •  Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) 
  •  Goliath 

Supporting Characters:

•  Hercules 
•  Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) 

Antagonists:

• Bruiser Bates (Only appearance)^[1]
•  Colonel Ling 
• Red Guardian (Alexi Shostakov)  (First appearance)
• General Brushov  (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Zeus (Mentioned)
• Ebeneezer Wallaby (First appearance)
• Dragon Man (Mentioned)
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Odysseus (Mentioned)
• FBI (Mentioned)
• Dionysus (Mentioned)
• Prometheus (Mentioned)
• Apollo (Mentioned)
• The Hydra (First appearance; illusion)
• Thor (Mentioned)
• Pan (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Human-Olympian Hybrids
• Hydras (First appearance; illusion)

Locations:

• Earth
  • Asia
  • New York City
    • Manhattan
      • Avengers Mansion
      • Lower East Side
  • Poland
  • Finland
  • Hungary

Items:

• Hawkeye's Suit
• Bow and Trick Arrows
• Captain America's Uniform and Shield
• Wasp's Suit and Bio-Synthetic Wings
• Psychotron
• Visi-Projector

Vehicles:

• Aero-car
  
  

Synopsis for "Color Him... the Red Guardian!"

Quicksilver demonstrates his newfound ability to fly. and Captain America has to prove himself to a skeptical Hercules before he will take orders from him. Cap easily wins Hercules' admiration in a duel.

Sometime later, while most of the Avengers are away from the mansion, Hawkeye gets information about the Black Widow's whereabouts. Anxious to help her, Hawkeye cannot wait for his team mates to return. He sets out to rescue her immediately, with only Hercules in tow.

Meanwhile, Colonel Ling shows a general his newest asset: The Red Guardian. He has been trained and conditioned to be the equal of Captain America in every way but to stand for communism.

Hercules and Hawkeye invade Ling's base. Hercules is lured into the Psychotron. Hawkeye is captured by the Red Guardian, who is dramatically revealed to be the Black Widow's husband whom she thought was dead.

Back in the States, The Avengers learn about Hawkye's rescue mission and depart to rescue their compatriots.

Notes

• Feldman is credited as Jerry Mann.
• Quicksilver's ability to fly will be short-lived. It will be essentially forgotten about by later writers who never depict him flying after his next departure from the team (in issue #49).
• Credits:
  • Special Location: Unknown Machine
  • Stan Lee Elatedly Edits And Extols A Roy Thomas - John Buscema Powerhouse Piece de Resistance!
  • Inked By George Bell
  • Lettered By Jerry Mann
  • (And, If You Can Think Of A Better Place On This Page To Put Our Cavortin' Credits, Consider Yourself No-Prized!)
    

Trivia

• On Page 5, Panel 2, there is a Lord of the Rings references on a fight poster behind Hawkeye, where the combatants are Slammer Sauron and Freddy Frodo.

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