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)
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Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Diablo (Esteban De Ablo)
- Taskmaster and his training compound staff
- Howard Medinnus
- Trainees (including Frankie)
- Kang
- Marcus Kang
Other Characters:
- Residents of Kalkhimithia (First appearance)
- Mr. DePinna
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned)
- Galactus (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Supreme Intelligence (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Alkhema (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Thanos (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Wizard (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Dormammu (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Red Skull (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Arkon (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Hydra (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Warlord Kro (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Baron Helmut Zemo (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Triune Understanding (Mentioned)
- Jonathan Tremont (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- High Evolutionary (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Crimson Cowl (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Exemplars (Mentioned)
- Bedlam (Olisa Kabaki) (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Attuma (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Mandarin (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Dr. Doom (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Maelstrom (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Apocalypse (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Magneto (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Mole Man (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Loki (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Living Monolith (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- M.O.D.O.K. (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- A.I.M. (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Klaw (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Hydra (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- Skrulls (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
- 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:
- Greece
- Kalkhimithia
- Florida
- New York City
- Slorenia
- Savage Land
- Genosha (Mentioned)
- Negative Zone (Mentioned)
- Avengers Deep-Space Monitoring Station (First appearance)
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
- Inside the Avengers Mansion, the team can be seen monitoring numerous threats including Galactus, Supreme Intelligence, Alkhema, Thanos, Wizard, Dormammu, Red Skull, Arkon, Hydra, Warlord Kro, Baron Zemo, Taskmaster, Triune Understanding, Hulk, High Evolutionary, Crimson Cowl, Kang, Exemplars, Attuma, Mandarin, Dr. Doom, Maelstrom, Apocalypse, Magneto, Mole Man, Loki, Living Monolith, M.O.D.O.K., A.I.M., and Klaw.
- 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 #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 publihsed 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
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- Images from Avengers Vol 3 38
Footnotes
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