Avengers Vol 3 38

Avengers Vol 3 #38
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Art by: Alan Davis
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Art by: Alan Davis
Release Date	January 31, 2001
Cover Date	March, 2001
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Joe Quesada

1. "Above and Beyond"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Kurt Busiek
Penciler(s)	Alan Davis
Inker(s)	Mark Farmer
Colorist(s)	Tom Smith
Letterer(s)	John Gaushell Richard Starkings Albert Deschesne
Editor(s)	Tom Brevoort

 And so I have come. Just do not ask of me to be nice to reporters. 

—Thor

Appearing in "Above and Beyond"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers
  • 🢐 Black Knight (Dane Whitman) 🢒
  • 🢐 Captain America (Steve Rogers) 🢒(Rejoins)
  • 🢐 Firebird (Bonita Juarez) 🢒
  • 🢐 Goliath (Hank Pym) 🢒
  • 🢐 Living Lightning (Miguel Santos) 🢒
  • 🢐 Photon (Monica Rambeau) 🢒
  • 🢐 Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) 🢒
  • 🢐 Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) 🢒
  • 🢐 Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) 🢒
  • 🢐 Thor 🢒
  • 🢐 Triathlon (Delroy Garrett Jr.) 🢒
  • 🢐 Vision 🢒
  • 🢐 Warbird (Carol Danvers) 🢒
  • 🢐 Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) 🢒
  • 🢐 Wonder Man (Simon Williams) 🢒
  • Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Supporting Characters:

• Edwin Jarvis
• Hank Pym impostor
• Duane Freeman

Antagonists:

• Diablo (Esteban De Ablo)
• Taskmaster and his training compound staff
  • Howard Medinnus
  • Trainees (including Frankie)
• Kang
• Marcus Kang

Other Characters:

• 🢐 Jack of Hearts (Jonathan Hart) 🢒 (Cameo)
• Residents of Kalkhimithia (First appearance)
• Halliwell DePinna
• S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned)
• Galactus (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Supreme Intelligence (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Alkhema (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Thanos (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Wizard (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Dormammu (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Red Skull (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Arkon (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Hydra (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Warlord Kro (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Baron Helmut Zemo (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Triune Understanding (Mentioned)
  • Jonathan Tremont (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• High Evolutionary (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Crimson Cowl (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Exemplars (Mentioned)
  • Bedlam (Olisa Kabaki) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Attuma (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Mandarin (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Dr. Doom (Victor von Doom) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Maelstrom (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Magneto (Magnus) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Mole Man (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Loki (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Living Monolith (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• M.O.D.O.K. (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• A.I.M. (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Klaw (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Hydra (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Skrulls (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
• Bloodwraithe (Mentioned)
• Reed Richards (Mentioned)
• Ego The Living Planet (Mentioned)
• Starfox (Eros) (Mentioned)
• Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) (Mentioned)
• Hercules (Mentioned)
• Falcon (Sam Wilson) (Mentioned)
• Beast (Henry McCoy) (Mentioned)

Locations:

• Earth
  • Europe
    • Greece
      • Kalkhimithia
    • Slorenia
  • United States
    • Florida
      • Everglades
    • New York
      • New York City
        • Manhattan
          • Midtown
            • Fifth Avenue
              • Avengers Mansion
        • Hudson River
  • Antarctica
    • Savage Land
  • Genosha (Mentioned)
• Negative Zone (Mentioned)
• Avengers Deep-Space Monitoring Station (First appearance)
• Costa Salvador (Mentioned)

Items:

• Captain America's Shield
• Shield of Night
• Sword of Light
• Ebony Blade (Mentioned)
• Iron Man Armor Model 4
• Mjolnir
• Quantum Bands
• Gamma Dust

Vehicles:

• Quinjet
• Damocles Base (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Above and Beyond"

The Avengers launch into a new offensive against the known super criminal element under a new direction from Wasp and Captain America against the Taskmaster. The Vision and Warbird go out on a date. Yellowjacket has kidnaped the real Pym and taken his place among the Avengers. Meanwhile, Diablo has put into motion his latest schemes and has transformed the population of a small Greek town into Hulk-like creatures.

Notes

• In this issue Iron Man uses roller wheels attached to the back of his armor. This innovation has not been used since Tales of Suspense Vol 1 44 with the Iron Man Armor Model 1 model. It has not been listed in future nomenclatures or "Iron Manuals". Apparently, the Model 1 innovation was placed on this Model 4 armor.
• This issue contains a letters page, Avengers Assemble. Letters are published from David Morgan, Narridor Singh Bagra, Matt Valenti, Dennis Kokke, Don Rogers, and John Cooney.

Trivia

• Howard Medinnus may be an homage to David Medinnus the curator of the Captain America homage page The Star Spangled Site. David Medinnus and Avengers writer Kurt Busiek were in contact with each other at this time. Other noted internet fans ("Jarvis Heads") of the Avengers were also randomly noted by Kurt Busiek during his time as writer on this title.

See Also

• 5 image(s) from Avengers Vol 3 38
• 4 reprint(s) of Avengers Vol 3 38

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