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Title:
Avengers Spotlight
Synopsis:
”Denver doubles”
Avengers Spotlight #28
Issue(s): Avengers Spotlight #28 Cover Date: Jan 90
Hawkeye & Mockingbird Title: ”Denver doubles” Credits: Howard Mackie - Writer Al Milgrom - Penciler Don Heck - Inker
Wasp & Wonder Man Title: Credits: Dwayne McDuffie - Writer Dwayne Turner - Penciler Christopher Ivy - Inker
Evan Skolnick - Assistant Editor Gregory Wright - Managing Editor Mark Gruenwald - Editor
Review/plot: In Denver, Hawkeye and Mockingbird are wanted for a series of robberies.
The real Hawkeye gets pretty upset over this, and since, per Mockingbird, ”there’s nothing we can do about all the other craziness until Cap and the Avengers get to the bottom of it all”, the two of them fly to Denver to investigate. They’re nearly arrested by the local authorities upon arrival, but luckily another robbery is reported while they are talking to the police.
It turns out the fake Hawkeye and Mockingbird are really Angar the Screamer and Screaming Mimi.
Only Hawkeye can see them, though, due to his hearing problem. He uses some gas to stop them.
Of course they aren’t powerless even after that, but Hawkeye remains immune.
Hawkeye is able to stop them with his patented bolo arrow.
Afterwards, it’s explained that their combined powers created a unique ”Doppelganger Effect”. Hah.
Cute story.
I’ve labelled the second story a Wasp & Wonder Man story, but it’s really about the Mad Thinker. He had earlier been approached by Lackey Loki and invited to join the Acts of Vengeance cabal, to which he replied, ”I’ll think about it.”. ”Several weeks” later, Loki returns for an answer. By then, the Thinker has calculated everything out and decided it won’t work. He’s also figured out that the Lackey is Loki.
After Loki leaves, we also learn that he’s determined that the Super-powers Registration Act will cause a backlash that will effect him. So he’s determined to stop it. To act, he doesn’t transfer his consciousness into a robot body like we’ve seen him do in the past. Instead, he removes a lockpick hidden in his shoe, and physically escapes the prison he’s in (which otherwise seems empty, from the little we can see of it).
”Several weeks later”, again, Wonder Man and the Wasp are speakers at a demonstration against the SRA, when a giant calling himself Gargantua attacks.
A couple panels later, a footnote confirms for us that it’s really Leviathan, a super-hero experiment that has previously been manipulated by the Secret Empire a few times. You can really only feel sorry for the poor guy...
...and it turns out he’s being manipulated by a device in his ear, which the Wasp learns when she employs one of her favorite tricks.
The way the Wasp handles that is kind of mean. She disables the device and starts talking in his ear. But not just to tell him to stop and give up peacefully, which i’m sure he would have done. She has him bend down and stand still so that Wonder Man can punch him out.
Poor guy.
The attack helps bolster the anti-SRA case, which is exactly what the Mad Thinker intended. He says at the end that helping heroes isn’t something he wants to make a regular practice of, but that it’s ”pleasant to win one every so often”.
Quality Rating: C+ Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP have this between Avengers #312 and Avengers West Coast #54 for the Wasp and Wonder Man. That requires Wonder Man to give up his search for the U-Foes to fly to Washington, DC, but it’s already the case that the scene of him and Human Torch searching for the U-Foes in AWC #54 can’t be directly continued in #55. Both stories in this issue have Acts of Vengeance occurring over the course of ”weeks”, for what it’s worth.
References: N/A
Crossover: Acts of Vengeance
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
Inbound References (1): show
Characters Appearing: Angar the Screamer, Hawkeye, Leviathan (Gargantua), Loki, Mad Thinker, Mockingbird, Songbird (Screaming Mimi), Wasp, Wonder Man
Previous:
Amazing Spider-Man #328
Up:
Main
1990 / Box 28 / EiC: Tom DeFalco
Next:
Spectacular Spider-Man #160
https://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/avengers_spotlight_28.shtml
Issue(s): Avengers Spotlight #28 Cover Date: Jan 90
Hawkeye & Mockingbird Title: ”Denver doubles” Credits: Howard Mackie - Writer Al Milgrom - Penciler Don Heck - Inker
Wasp & Wonder Man Title: Credits: Dwayne McDuffie - Writer Dwayne Turner - Penciler Christopher Ivy - Inker
Evan Skolnick - Assistant Editor Gregory Wright - Managing Editor Mark Gruenwald - Editor
Review/plot: In Denver, Hawkeye and Mockingbird are wanted for a series of robberies.
The real Hawkeye gets pretty upset over this, and since, per Mockingbird, ”there’s nothing we can do about all the other craziness until Cap and the Avengers get to the bottom of it all”, the two of them fly to Denver to investigate. They’re nearly arrested by the local authorities upon arrival, but luckily another robbery is reported while they are talking to the police.
It turns out the fake Hawkeye and Mockingbird are really Angar the Screamer and Screaming Mimi.
Only Hawkeye can see them, though, due to his hearing problem. He uses some gas to stop them.
Of course they aren’t powerless even after that, but Hawkeye remains immune.
Hawkeye is able to stop them with his patented bolo arrow.
Afterwards, it’s explained that their combined powers created a unique ”Doppelganger Effect”. Hah.
Cute story.
I’ve labelled the second story a Wasp & Wonder Man story, but it’s really about the Mad Thinker. He had earlier been approached by Lackey Loki and invited to join the Acts of Vengeance cabal, to which he replied, ”I’ll think about it.”. ”Several weeks” later, Loki returns for an answer. By then, the Thinker has calculated everything out and decided it won’t work. He’s also figured out that the Lackey is Loki.
After Loki leaves, we also learn that he’s determined that the Super-powers Registration Act will cause a backlash that will effect him. So he’s determined to stop it. To act, he doesn’t transfer his consciousness into a robot body like we’ve seen him do in the past. Instead, he removes a lockpick hidden in his shoe, and physically escapes the prison he’s in (which otherwise seems empty, from the little we can see of it).
”Several weeks later”, again, Wonder Man and the Wasp are speakers at a demonstration against the SRA, when a giant calling himself Gargantua attacks.
A couple panels later, a footnote confirms for us that it’s really Leviathan, a super-hero experiment that has previously been manipulated by the Secret Empire a few times. You can really only feel sorry for the poor guy...
...and it turns out he’s being manipulated by a device in his ear, which the Wasp learns when she employs one of her favorite tricks.
The way the Wasp handles that is kind of mean. She disables the device and starts talking in his ear. But not just to tell him to stop and give up peacefully, which i’m sure he would have done. She has him bend down and stand still so that Wonder Man can punch him out.
Poor guy.
The attack helps bolster the anti-SRA case, which is exactly what the Mad Thinker intended. He says at the end that helping heroes isn’t something he wants to make a regular practice of, but that it’s ”pleasant to win one every so often”.
Quality Rating: C+ Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: The MCP have this between Avengers #312 and Avengers West Coast #54 for the Wasp and Wonder Man. That requires Wonder Man to give up his search for the U-Foes to fly to Washington, DC, but it’s already the case that the scene of him and Human Torch searching for the U-Foes in AWC #54 can’t be directly continued in #55. Both stories in this issue have Acts of Vengeance occurring over the course of ”weeks”, for what it’s worth.
References: N/A
Crossover: Acts of Vengeance
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
Inbound References (1): show
Characters Appearing: Angar the Screamer, Hawkeye, Leviathan (Gargantua), Loki, Mad Thinker, Mockingbird, Songbird (Screaming Mimi), Wasp, Wonder Man
Previous:
Amazing Spider-Man #328
Up:
Main
1990 / Box 28 / EiC: Tom DeFalco
Next:
Spectacular Spider-Man #160
https://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/avengers_spotlight_28.shtml
Cover Date:
Jan 1990
Publisher:
Marvel
Barcode:
071486026518
Issue Number:
28
Volume:
1
Month:
January
Year:
1990
Variant Number:
A
Printing:
1
Country:
Canada
Cover Price:
$1.25
Era:
Copper Age
Genre:
Action
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Language:
English
Type of Comic:
Magazine
Characters:
Avengers
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Date Added:
2018-07-02 22:18:17
Series:
Avengers Spotlight (1989-1991)
Story Arc:
Acts Of Vengeance
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$2.00
Automatic Estimated Date:
2026-01-09
Date Added:
2018-07-02 22:18:17
Created By:
Stan Lee & Don Heck
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Writer:
Howard Mackie
Dwayne McDuffie
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Artist:
Al Milgrom
Dwayne Turner
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Penciller:
Dwayne Turner
Al Milgrom
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Inker:
Christopher Ivy
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Colorist:
Paul Becton
Mike Rockwitz
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Cover Artist:
Al Milgrom
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Letterer:
Jack Morelli
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Editor:
Mark Gruenwald
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