- "I want to understand you... your world... everything! You are all so fascinating yet confusing at the same time."
- ―The Beyonder
| "Earth and Beyond!" | |
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| The Avengers | |
| Title: | "Earth and Beyond!" |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number: | 261 |
| Cover price: | .65 |
| Cover date: | November, 1985 |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Credits | |
| Chief: | Jim Shooter |
| Writers: | Roger Stern |
| Pencilers: | John Buscema |
| Inkers: | Tom Palmer |
| Cover artists: | John Buscema |
| Cover inker: | Tom Palmer |
| Colorists: | Max Scheele |
| Letterers: | Jim Novak |
| Assistants: | Howard Mackie |
| Editors: | Mark Gruenwald |
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"Earth and Beyond" is the title to the 261st issue of the first The Avengers ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written by Roger Stern with artwork by John Buscema and inks by Tom Palmer. It was colored by Max Scheele and lettered by Jim Novak. The story was edited by Mark Gruenwald with Howard Mackie as assistant editor. This issue shipped with a November, 1985 cover date and carries a cover price of .65 cents per copy.
Appearances[]
Featured characters
- Black Knight, Dane Whitman
- Captain America, Steve Rogers
- Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau
- Hercules
- Starfox, Eros
- Wasp, Janet van Dyne
Supporting characters
Villains
Minor characters
Organizations
Races
Locations
Items
Vehicles
Powers
- Energy projection
- Flight
- Immortality
- Invulnerability
- Size alteration
- Superhuman agility
- Superhuman strength
- Teleportation
- Winged flight
Miscellaneous
- Alien life forms
- Butler
- Flashback
- FTL travel
- General
- Imploding vehicle
- Severed limbs
- Smoking
- Space portal
- Space vessels
- Stabbings
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Avengers were created by writer Stan Lee and artists Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. They first appeared in The Avengers #1 in September, 1963.
- This issue is a "Secret Wars II" crossover. The related narrative from this issue continues in Secret Wars II #5.
- The incident that robbed the Skrulls of their shape-shifting abilities was the result of a hyperwave bombardment from an imperial power asteroid. This took place in Avengers Annual #14, which was released the same month as this issue.
- Edwin Jarvis appears in the main story as well as in flashback to meeting the Beyonder for the first time.
- The Beyonder appears in the main story as well as in flashback to arriving at Avengers Mansion.
- The Beyonder first encountered Captain America in Secret Wars II #1 and in Captain America #308.
- The Avengers previously assisted the staff at Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. in Avengers #237.
- Normally the curse of the Ebony Blade would take affect immediately after Dane Whitman accidentally stabs the Beyonder. However, the curse is activated by the drawing of blood. As the Beyonder is a cosmic being, he does not have a human bloodstream, and thus the injury cause no undue affects.
- The Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. facility is located at the peak of Mount Athena. This is located in the Adirondack Mountains, though this issue states that it is located in the Catskill Mountains.