To assist the master villains, Loki engineers a jailbreak at the Vault.

Loki also approaches Namor, but he rejects the offer stating he is not a villain anymore.

Loki also attempts to recruit Apocalypse, Cobra, and the Mad Thinker, but they all decline. The supervillain team consists of Doctor Doom, the Kingpin, Magneto, the Mandarin, the Red Skull, and the Wizard. Loki does this to strike back at his adopted brother Thor, and due to his bitterness that he inadvertently caused the formation of the Avengers. Ī thematic sequel, Acts of Evil, was published in 2019, the 30th anniversary of Acts of Vengeance.Ī mysterious stranger (the Asgardian god Loki in disguise) coerces a group of master supervillains to join forces in a conspiracy to destroy the superhero team the Avengers. A humorous parody with the character the Impossible Man features in the title Silver Surfer. An epilogue features in Cloak and Dagger Web of Spider-Man and in an Avengers Annual. Major tie-ins included The Amazing Spider-Man Īmong other Spider-Man titles, Uncanny X-Men and the second Damage Control limited series. The core titles of the crossover include Avengers Avengers Spotlight Avengers West Coast Captain America Iron Man Quasar Thor and Fantastic Four.

Promotional materials teased the idea of a wide array of super-villains facing heroes they had never met, or were not part of the heroes' regular rogues gallery. This company-wide fall crossover was centered on the Avengers and Fantastic Four after three consecutive fall crossovers were built around the X-Men and related mutant teams. ' Acts of Vengeance' is a comic book crossover storyline that ran through several titles published by Marvel Comics from December 1989 to February 1990.

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