Mighty Avengers #1
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"The Mighty Avengers" is the first issue of Marvel Comics' Mighty Avengers. Published on March 7, 2007, it features the most recent canonical appearance of Godzilla in a Marvel comic, albeit unlicensed.
Plot
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Appearances
Monsters
- Mole Man's monsters
Characters
- Carol Danvers / Ms. Marvel
- Tony Stark / Iron Man
- Simon Williams / Wonder Man
- Robert Reynolds / Sentry
- Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
- Ares
- Janet Van Dyne / Wasp
- Maria Hill
- Harvey Elder / Mole Man
- Ultron
Weapons, vehicles, and races
Gallery
Trivia
- Godzilla is not named in the issue and can only be spotted in one panel. The sole indication of his identity comes from 2009's Marvel Pets Handbook (later incorporated into Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #14 in 2010), which states that Godzilla once resided on Monster Island under the care of the Mole Man.[1][2] Though the handbook entry's author Madison Carter intended this as a reference to Mighty Avengers, he could not explicitly canonize the comic's monster as Godzilla for legal reasons.[3] A throwaway line from an earlier Marvel comic mentioning Godzilla in connection to Monster Island was used as a loophole to include the passage.[4]
- Though this issue is Godzilla's latest appearance in the main Marvel continuity, Earth-616, his latest appearance in the Multiverse overall was in the one-page parody comic "Licensed Contest of Champions" from 2014's Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration, featuring censored versions of he and several other characters Marvel no longer holds the rights to. On his personal website The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Marvel handbook writer Jeff Christiansen indicated that the comic's events legitimately occurred in its own universe, which he designated Earth-12318.[5]
- Godzilla last appeared in Earth-616 in The Thing #31 from 1986. Though he was then an unrecognizable mutant, he appears to have somehow returned to a form closer to his original appearance by this issue.
- However, Godzilla lacks his iconic dorsal fins. An early version of the panel published in Marvel Previews #41 showed the fins intact,[6] but they were removed in the final printing, possibly due to legal concerns.
- Coincidentally, an image of The Thing's eponymous Thing appears in this issue, among the headshots of the 50-State Initiative.
- Superheroes Iron Man, Black Widow, and the Wasp were all previously featured in Marvel's Godzilla comic series. The mythological Ares later appeared in IDW's Godzilla: Rage Across Time #2.
- Less than a month after this issue, the comic Irredeemable Ant-Man #7 revealed that the Eric O'Grady Ant-Man was present for the start of the Mighty Avengers' battle, secretly riding on Ms. Marvel at ant size.
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References
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