Avengers Vol 1 Episode 1

Appearing in "The Coming of the Avengers!"

Featured Characters:

• Avengers (First appearance) and Origin
• Ant-Man
• Hulk
• Iron Man
• Thor
• Wasp

Supporting Characters:

• Teen Brigade
• Rick Jones

Villains:

• Loki

Other Characters:

• Fantastic Four
• Human Torch
• Invisible Woman
• Mister Fantastic
• Thing
• Odin

Locations:

• Asgard

Items:

• Ant-Man's Helmet
• Iron Man Armor MK II
• Mjolnir

Synopsis for "The Coming of the Avengers!"

Thor locks Loki up in a land that prevents his body from getting out but Loki gets out his soul. He then finds Thor only to find he is in his human form as Dr. Blake, but he feels that if he defeated Thor like this it would be a hollow victory, so he goes and finds the Hulk. He makes an illusion of dynamite near the Hulk on some train tracks. The Hulk thinks the dynamite is real and it is going to explode so he goes down and tries to grab the dynamite, but since there is none he goes through the illusion of the dynamite breaking the train tracks and going into a small hole. A train is coming so Hulk picks up the tracks and the train goes by. The train conductor saw the Hulk and thought he was trying to kill everyone on the train so the hunt for Hulk begins. Rick Jones sees the headline in the newspaper and so he tries to call the Fantastic Four through a radio signal. Loki wants Thor so he changes the radio wave signal to Thor. The message is also heard by Iron Man, the Wasp and Ant-Man. All the heroes go to the house of Rick Jones when Thor sees out from the window an illusion of the Hulk. Thor takes the bait and Thor is brought to Asgard. All the other heroes chase the Hulk to a circus, then they go to a tire factory. Thor finds Loki, defeats him and returns to Earth stopping fight between the team and Hulk. Loki tries to escape by becoming radioactive but Ant-Man traps him in a lead container. The team decides to join forces and become the Avengers, after the Wasp names the team.

Trivia

• Some people say that the Avengers was the second attempt to copy the Justice league. The first being the Fantastic Four. Stan Lee says that he got fan mail that loved the characters crossing over and that's how he got the idea.
• The Hulk's membership only lasted two issues. He will return as an ally in Avengers 100.
• This iconic cover has been homaged many times. Most recently it was recreated with Skrulls replacing the heroes on the cover of New Avengers 40.