Avengers Vol 1 684

Part of the Marvel Legacy event
Part of the Avengers: No Surrender storyline

Avengers #684

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Art by: Mark Brooks

Alternate Covers

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Art by: Mark Brooks

Art by: Skottie Young

Release Date

March 14, 2018

Cover Date

May, 2018

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

C.B. Cebulski

Rating

T+ (13 and up)

Original Price

$4.99

Get the Hell away from them. Oh, yeah. You're in trouble now, you dad-gummed son of a gun... 'cause here comes the Iron Hulk. God bless America.

—Iron Hulk

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Main story and flashback)
Avengers (Main story and recap)
- Thor (Jane Foster) (Main story and recap)
- Falcon (Sam Wilson) (Main story and as Captain America in recap)
- Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne)
- Hercules (Main story and recap)
Avengers Unity Division (Main story and recap)
- Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy) (Main story and recap)
- Doctor Voodoo (Jericho Drumm) (Main story and recap)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)
- Rogue (Anna Marie) (Main story and recap)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
- Synapse (Emily Guerrero)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams)
U.S.Avengers
- Iron Hulk (Gen. Robert L. Maverick) (First appearance as Iron Hulk)
- Enigma (Aikku Jokinen)
- Dr. Toni Ho
- Citizen V (Bobby Da Costa)
- Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (Main story and recap)
Lightning (Miguel Santos) (Main story and recap)
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Main story and recap)

Supporting Characters:

Edwin Jarvis

Antagonists:

Hulk (Dr. Bruce Banner) (Main story and flashback)
Elders of the Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Challenger
- Voyager ("Valerie Vector") (Main story and flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) (Main story and flashback)
Lethal Legion
- Mentacle (Apparent death)
- Captain Glory (Gla-Ree)

Other Characters:

Rick Jones (Only in flashback)
Dear Lord / God (Invoked) (Main story and flashback)
Ultron's bio-slave (Only in recap)
Major Glenn Talbot (Only in recap)
Doc Samson (Leonard Samson) (Only in recap)
Brotherhood of the Shield (Behind the scenes in recap)
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only in recap)
Tony Stark (Only in recap)
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) (Only in recap)
Director Maria Hill (Only in recap)
Logan (Only in recap)
The Hand (Only in recap)
- Beast of the Hand (Only in recap)
Daniel Drumm (Mentioned) (Only in recap)
Hydra (Only in flashback)
- Arnim Zola (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Faustus (Johann Fennhoff) (Behind the scenes in flashback)
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Only in recap)
Squadron Sinister (Only in recap)
- Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (Only in recap)
- Whizzer (James Sanders) (Only in recap)
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (Only in recap)
Arabian Knight (Abdul Qamar) (Only in recap)
Darkstar (Laynia Pretovna) (Only in recap)
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (Only in recap)
She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Only in recap)
Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (Only in recap)
Founding Avengers (Only in recap)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Only in recap)
- Thor Odinson (Only in recap)
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Only in recap)
Unnamed alien "Avengers Fever" pathogen (Mentioned)
Squirrel Girl (Doreen Green) (Frozen)
Vision (Frozen)
Professor Arthur Vector (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Galactus (Referenced)
Loki (Only in recap)
Lethal Legion
- Blood Brothers (Unconscious)
- Metal Master (Molyn) (Unconscious)

Races and Species:

Humans (Main story and flashback)
Human-Kree Hybrids (Only in recap)
Mutants (Main story and recap)
Demons (Only in recap)
Cosmic Beings (Main story and flashback)
Human-Otherworlder Hybrids (Only in recap)
Synthezoids
Frost Giants (Only in recap)
Asgardians (Only in recap)
Rigellians
Kree
Roclites
Astrans
Human-Inhuman Hybrids

Locations:

Below-Place (First appearance; unnamed)
Earth-616 / Prime Marvel Universe (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
  - United States of America / Hydra Nation (Main story and flashback)
    - New Mexico (Main story and flashback)
      - Chihuahuan Desert (Only in recap)
        Los Diablos Missile Base (Only in recap)
      - Gamma Base (Only in recap)
    - New York (Main story and flashback)
      - New York City (Main story and flashback)
        Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
        Upper East Side
        Lenox Hill
        Lenox Hill Hospital
        
        Midtown (Referenced)
        
        Queens (Main story and recap)
        Avengers Auxiliary Headquarters (Main story and recap)
    - Utah (Only in recap)
      - Outside Alpine (Only in recap)
    - Nevada (Main story and flashback)
      - The Mount (Ruins in main story and flashback)
    - Michigan (Only in recap)
      - Detroit (Only in recap)
    - Texas
      - Laredo
  - Earth Orbit
    - Grandmaster's Cosmic Game Room
- Astral Plane (Only in recap)
- Hell (Invoked)
Earth-14831 (Only in recap)
- Planet Ultron (Only in recap)
  - Ultron's maintenance hub (Only in recap)

Items:

Green Door (First appearance; unnamed)
Gamma Bomb (Only in recap)
Captain America's Shield (Only in recap)
Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows (Main story and flashback)
Gamma-enriched Vibranium arrow tips (Only in flashback)
Spider-Armor MK IV (Only in recap)
Web-Shooters (Behind the scenes in recap)
Mjolnir (Only in recap)
Captain Marvel's Suit (Only in recap)
Captain America's Uniform (Only in recap)
Falcon's Wings (Main story and recap)
X-Uniforms (Main story and recap)
Arnim Zola's Robotic Body (Only in flashback)
Soul Pyramoid
Captain Britain's Uniform (Only in recap)
Arabian Knight's Magic Scimitar (Only in recap)
Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Only in recap)
Daredevil's Suit and Billy Club (Only in recap)
Wasps' Suits and Bio-Synthetic Wings
Hulk Plug-In
Enigma Armor (Destruction)
Iron Patriot Armor Model 4 (Cameo)
"Blue Spots" (First full appearance)
Iron Man Armor Model 1 MK II (Only in recap)
Staff of Legba
Corvus Glaive's Glaive
Iron Patriot Armor Model 5

Vehicles:

Hydra Helicarrier (Only in flashback)
Quinjets

Synopsis for 1st story

Synopsis not yet written

Solicit Synopsis

NO SURRENDER Part 10

THE AVENGERS WEEKLY EPIC CONTINUES IN THIS OVERSIZED ISSUE!

Back from the dead! He cannot be reasoned with. He will not be stopped. Bruce Banner isn’t home right now. There is only THE IMMORTAL HULK.

Notes

Continuity Notes[]

The following issues, which depict the many deaths and/or returns of the Hulk, are referenced between pages 2 and 9:
- Pages 2-3: Incredible Hulk #1
- Page 4
  - Panel 1: Avengers: Ultron Forever #1
  - Panel 3: Tales to Astonish #69
  - Panel 5: Incredible Hulk #225
  - Panel 7: Incredible Hulk #367
  - Panel 9: Incredible Hulk #446
  - Panel 11: Indestructible Hulk #20
- Pages 5-6: Civil War II #3
- Pages 6-7: Uncanny Avengers (Vol. 3) #17
- Page 8: Secret Empire #5
- Page 9: Secret Empire #6
Pages 5-6 reveal Banner had given strict instructions to Hawkeye as to how he could use the gamma-enriched Vibranium arrow tips custom-built by him to kill the Hulk.
Pages 6-7 reveal Banner tried to tell Doctor Voodoo that the Hand had no control over the Hulk, but he couldn't be heard.

Chronology Notes[]

Events occur between the pages of this story that affect the chronology of the following characters:

Hulk
- ⏴ Page 8 ⏵
- ⏴ Page 10 forward ⏵

Publication Notes[]

A recount of the drawing process of this comic's main cover can be found in Mark Brook's Instagram account (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Even though it is said to be in Midtown, the Lenox Hill Hospital is actually located at the Upper East Side.

Trivia

Al Ewing's inspiration for a green door as the imagery for the Hulk's immortality came from the Frankie Vaughan cover of the song Green Door.^[1]

Links and References

References

↑ Richards, Dave (March 14, 2018) Avengers: No Surrender Writers Talk Hulk’s Return & Voyager’s True Identity CBR. Retrieved on March 19, 2018.

[Richards,_Dave_(March_14,_2018)_https//wwwcbrcom/avengers-no-surrender-waid-ewing-zub-hulk-return-voyager-identity/_Avengers_No_Surrender_Writers_Talk_Hulk’s_Return_&_Voyager’s_True_Identity_''CBR''_Retrieved_on_March_19,_2018-1] Richards, Dave (March 14, 2018) Avengers: No Surrender Writers Talk Hulk’s Return & Voyager’s True Identity CBR. Retrieved on March 19, 2018.

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