Avengers Vol 1 684

Avengers #684

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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 (Main story and recap)
Major Glenn Talbot (Main story and recap)
Doc Samson (Leonard Samson) (Main story and recap)
Brotherhood of the Shield (Earth-616)
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap)
Tony Stark (Main story and recap)
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) (Main story and recap)
Director Maria Hill (Main story and recap)
Logan (Main story and recap)
The Hand (Main story and recap)
- Beast of the Hand (Main story and recap)
Daniel Drumm (Mentioned) (Main story and recap)
Hydra (Only in flashback)
- Arnim Zola (Only in flashback)
- Johann Fennhoff (Earth-616)
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Main story and recap)
Squadron Sinister (Main story and recap)
- Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (Main story and recap)
- Whizzer (James Sanders) (Main story and recap)
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (Main story and recap)
Arabian Knight (Abdul Qamar) (Main story and recap)
Darkstar (Laynia Pretovna) (Main story and recap)
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (Main story and recap)
She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Main story and recap)
Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (Main story and recap)
Founding Avengers (Main story and recap)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Main story and recap)
- Thor Odinson (Main story and recap)
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Main story and recap)
Unnamed alien "Avengers Fever" pathogen (Mentioned)
Doreen Green (Earth-616)
Vision (Earth-616)
Professor Arthur Vector (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Galactus (Referenced)
Loki (Main story and recap)
Lethal Legion
- Blood Brothers (Earth-616)
- Molyn (Earth-616)

Races and Species:

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

Locations:

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 (Main story and recap)
        Los Diablos Missile Base (Main story and recap)
      - Gamma Base (Main story and 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 (Main story and recap)
      - Outside Alpine (Main story and recap)
    - Nevada (Main story and flashback)
      - The Mount (Ruins in main story and flashback)
    - Michigan (Main story and recap)
      - Detroit (Main story and recap)
    - Texas
      - Laredo
  - Earth Orbit
    - Grandmaster's Cosmic Game Room
- Astral Plane (Main story and recap)
- Hell (Invoked)
Earth-14831 (Main story and recap)
- Planet Ultron (Main story and recap)
  - Ultron's maintenance hub (Main story and recap)

Items:

Gamma Bomb (Main story and recap)
Captain America's Shield (Main story and recap)
Hawkeye's Suit, Bow and Trick Arrows (Main story and flashback)
Gamma-enriched Vibranium arrow tips (Only in flashback)
Spider-Armor MK IV (Main story and recap)
Web-Shooters
Mjolnir (Main story and recap)
Captain Marvel's Suit (Main story and recap)
S.H.I.E.L.D. Uniform (Main story and recap)
Captain America's Uniform
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 (Main story and recap)
Arabian Knight's Magic Scimitar (Main story and recap)
Iron Fist's Suit (Main story and recap)
Sunfire's Suit (Main story and recap)
Iron Man Armor Model 4 (Main story and recap)
Daredevil's Suit and Billy Club (Main story and recap)
Wasps' Suits and Bio-Synthetic Wings
Hulk Plug-In
Enigma Armor (Destruction)
Iron Patriot Armor Model 4 (Cameo)
Quicksilver's Suit
"Blue Spots" (First full appearance)
Iron Man Armor Model 1 MK II (Main story and recap)
Scarlet Witch's Suit
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 (14 March 2018) Avengers: No Surrender Writers Talk Hulk’s Return & Voyager’s True Identity CBR.com. Retrieved on 19 March 2018.

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